Guild Wars 2

… on purpose or is it just me?

I just started over my Sylvari character this afternoon. I hadn’t played it in a long time so I thought I’d give it a whirl with a reset. Since then I’ve been unable to use two weapons at once, spoon fed a 2nd ability, and restricted from learning abilities through progress rather than level. Not saying I don’t like this patch, I’m just saying it’s terrible. I have a Char thief that is now locked into dual wielding daggers without the option to finish unlocking my 5 slot skill.

Honestly, how did these changes ever make it onto live servers? I can tolerate the 10 lvl story gaps but minimizing the gameplay to a point that I feel hindered is ridiculous. I’m honestly considering never making a character past my 2 over lvl 20 so I since I won’t feel like I’m play the trial version of a game. I kind of don’t even want to play GW2 at this point if the changes stay…sucks too because I love this game.

I’m be completely honest, I love GW2. I never played the first one, though I wish I had purely from a story aspect. I LOVE the story portion of good games, esp. mmos. The previous system, though a mite overwhelming for a semi-noob mmo player, was actually one of the things that kept me playing. I would finish a story line and then go grind my way to the new story marker. I’m the kind of player that roams and wanders a lot anyways, often many lvls higher than my story line because I keep going for every vista and POI.

This recent change really annoys me. I shouldn’t have to “earn” my missions. They’re my story and if I want to go in under-leveled and risked getting ko’d that’s my prerogative; honestly I enjoy the challenge. I am really disappointed in you guys for this drastic change. I have a number of lower level characters and now I’m not sure I want to bother playing them without the constant flow of engaging story material.

All-in-all I am very disappointed and may not bother raising my other 3 characters since I would have to roam and grind 10 levels just to get my next chapter. Just stupid.