Guild Wars 2

I do feel much of the new “additions” or changes are negative in scope. I don’t mind hard, but dungeons now do not allow for entering based on difficulty. Your greater rewards would make complete sense if such an election were possible —-- but not now. All this change will do is further divide the players into those elitists who only will group with other elitists. I believe dungeons will suffer from a lack of participation, as these changes will have a negative effect on players of a level close to that advertised as the level of the quest. I mean really, the game has little or no crowd control (or very short duration) and very long cooldowns on heals. Yet, an itzy bitzy spider one shots you? Thankfully, most packs are tethered to some degree and don’t follow you to eternity. I’ve nothing against the elitist variety as they will always appear in an MMO at some point in time — it would be nice if there could be different levels of the same dungeon so they could play by themselves.

There are times when the designers are from a different planet, or might not really be in touch with the game they designed. I’ve played many MMOs and GW2 dungeons are the most out-of-sync of any game I’ve ever played. They are nowhere near the level noted for the quest, not even close. I don’t mind “hard”, in fact, I enjoy the challenge…but the dungeons are so unbalanced, they are not really fun to do. This new change is quite frankly, following right in the footsteps of equally insidious designs. In most fights, it is also virtually impossible to rez anyone due to how long it takes (another mentioned that in their post), and the amount of AoE damage spewed forth by the encounter. I can only think that the game designers are thinking of some other game than the one we have to play, or are just flat out of touch. Tis a sad day in MMOville due to that.