Guild Wars 2

Going to have to agree. The PvE in this game is a joke. Im level 50 and have done AC story/explore and CM story/explore.

AC story while hard isnt impossibly so. AC explore likewise, smart play will get you through without any major issues. Still, very unforgiving and hard. Had already done CM story a few times previously so figured lets try CM explore and see what unique challenges the Anet team could throw at me.

CM explore just reeks of lazy design. An entire hallway filled with spike traps that cant be negated or disabled without basically just zerging the bomber and snipers? Really? A room filled with 18 linked enemies that all aggro if you get too close to them (10 of which are silver elites) where as it was explained to me the goal of the room is to jump up on rocks and exploit the terrain to simply go around them.

Are you really telling me that your level design for this instance is to basically AVOID combat or mindlessly zerg rush mobs?

Can someone tell me if the rest of the explorable instances are like this? Not really hard per se, just cheap and uninspired design. You have your moments of cool mechanics in the game, like where you need to bounce back missiles being shot at you in the dungeons of CM Explore. Ok yes, thats cool. But hop on this rock, now run along the side of this wall and over onto the railing of this ramp, ok now lets avoid this entire room is NOT fun. Nor is it really giving me a lot of hope for the future of this game.

Your overworld gameplay and pvp is spot on. Did you guys in the rush to polish pvp and the overall leveling experience simply forget to craft a solid pve game? Was this just phoned in or what?

edit

I started playing about a little over a week or two ago, as others have already said. Getting a group for a dungeon is becoming increasingly harder and harder. Im on a very high pop server and I can already tell a marked decrease in the number of players loitering outside of instances looking to do runs.

Guys, something is wrong with your game. Fix it.