Guild Wars 2

tigirius.9014:

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Things I miss from other games that made them casual friendly:

1. taming/care and feeding of pet companions – WoW/ AoC – In AoC and WoW they had certain animals that were babies when tamed and had special quests to help them grow up turning them into mounts. (now I know they don’t want to add mounts but what if this were used for Rangers instead of the instatame system it would be miles more fun). There was also an unspoken competition amongst hunters in WoW where players sought out and tamed rare pets with rare pet skins. That was the fun part of being a hunter in WoW! For a time there were pet buff foods that cooks could make to help give pets boons during combat, I miss pet food.

Things that are casual but that I didn’t participate in:

1. guild halls – Age of Conan – I was in guilds who had them but never made things or gathered resources to make the guild halls because they already had it and didn’t ask anything of me. Occasionally we had to defend the keeps from enemy guilds in a WvW style setting.

These are things that make a game casual friendly, it’s not simply the aspect of being able to put down a game and come back without having to regrind gear to continue playing where you left off, it’s the activities the fill the spaces between playing PVE PVP WVW or major evens like in the living story or meta boss fights.

Feel free to add anything I missed.

Ok GW2 might be a bit grindy for your tastes, but for you to mention AoC as a casual game just implys that you have no idea what you are talking about. The guild cities that were built required thousands of mats and each building had 3 stages to go through. It is a ridiculous grind to build one. Took guilds months to get a full city built and alot stopped at just upgrading their keeps. The pets that you could raise to be mounts required an insane amount of rep grind to get to the max reputation before you could purchase the cub and then grind some more to raise it up. If memory serves(and I could be wrong), that rep grind required you to grind dungeons otherwise you wouldn’t get there. Sounds waaaaaaaaaaaay more casual then GW2 to me. PvP in AoC is another grind, that they seem to finally(4 years after they made the grind happen) starting to fix, at the moment if you as a fresh 80 were to log in a PvP you would be destroyed until you grinded your tier 1 pvp set or purchased it with money from their cash shop, but if you purchase the armor you would still have to grind your alternate advancement points to have an even playing field. Please, I beg you never try to make GW2 like AoC.

I really don’t understand this line of thinking. If you want the better loot join a bigger guild, it really is that simple. If your need for the better loot is more then your need to be in a guild with your friends, that is a you problem not a game problem. I am in a relatively small guild(it’s just me if your wandering, created it so I would stop getting random guild invites), and am currently working on leveling all the classes before I join a more permanant home. I can do all the content in the game, with the exception of guild missions and I am fine with it. I can do all the content in this game without top end loot as well. This self imposed need for shinies is once again a you problem not a game problem. Play the game, have fun, get the gear when you can and most of all relax. No matter what arena net does someone will always have better stuff then you. Deal with it and just have a good time.

I have much the same feeling. I have had the game for about 2 weeks now and it has been awesome all the way through. I have a few minor complaints but they are nothing game breaking. Also, alot of the gripes on the forums seem directly contradicting to my actual game experience. Same as you though, I reserve the right to complain when I hit 80 but the leveling experience is great.

eXs.6210:

That is very much how much I had at that level… thing about it is, and you’ll see this… the rewards don’t scale much at all… higher level hearts give like 2.5 silver… not much more than mid level hearts… blue items of higher level are sold for the same 30-50 copper… green items went up to 1.1 silver… instead of lower greens being 70-80 copper… big jump… not… also I don’t know if you have bought your level 60 training book… get ready to spend 2 gold on that when you hit 60… that will leave you with an impressive 50 silver!!!

Ok but now you are changing the argument. If by your first statement, you spent the minimal amount you could on leveling then you should have had way more gold then you said you did when you hit 80. I know that I will be down to 50 silver and I am fine with that. I have been frivilous with my cash while leveling, but I have also enjoyed it. If I went with bargain gear and walked everywhere, as you stated you did, I would probably have at least 5 gold and probably a lot more. So, my conclusion, is you either spent more money than originally stated while leveling or you are making a false argument and probably both.

eXs.6210:

I spent 3+ months leveling my first character to 80… I played a ranged rifle warrior (aka easy mode)… I barely died, I barely even used waypoints, I didn’t buy mats to level up my crafting, I didn’t buy expensive items at lower levels (played predominately with green cheap gear)… then I got to 80… all I could afford was one exotic berserker rifle… I didn’t even have enough to buy myself a set of green lvl80 gear… I had to sell some stuff off in order to afford even green gear… 2 weeks since hitting 80 and I have something like 2.5 gold… I will be able to afford an exotic bow in only 2 more weeks… if I don’t die or use waypoints… this is awful…

I don’t know what your doing wrong but you are doing something very wrong if this is true. I just got the game 2 weeks ago, I waypoint all over the place hop skip and jump across maps, every 10 levels I buy a new set of gear(not top knotch but really good gear), I am about to hit level 60 and I have 2.5 gold, for the first 30 levels I didn’t even mess with selling stuff on the TP I just vendored everything. Now I use the Instant sell function on the trade post so I definetly am not maximizing profit by any means. The more I think about it the more I think you made a lot of that up. I was up to 4 gold at one point, and all I do is play the game nothing special. I complete hearts do dynamic events and 100% complete every zone I go to. I just don’t see how the above scenario is possible.

/boggle