Guild Wars 2

Well, I have just started playing and while I do thoroughly enjoy GW2 and will probably keep playing, there are some things I do wish it had.

1. The holy trinity. I actually like this. I’m not really clear on what their idea was when they decided to eliminate this, as I’m not one to read up on a lot of stuff, but I assume it is either to eliminate searching for group members, which doesn’t make sense to me because I have never ever had a problem finding people to fill roles in any MMO I’ve ever played, or because they don’t really want people to be limited to their role, which also wouldn’t be a problem if you are able to have two skill loadouts. Without the trinity PvP seems to be a giant zergfest and everyone just doing their own thing, same for dungeons.

2. Post 80 content. While I myself haven’t yet experienced it, so I won’t really consider this a fair judgement, I have seen my friends play it and and talked to many about it. I’m fine with the whole everyone has equal gear at the end idea, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have progression through dungeons and or raids. I think they should implement something like bosses dropping rare armor or weapon skins. They wouldn’t have better stats or anything, but would give people a reason to do dungeons more than once. They could also add items that give you spells and abilities cool looking effects. There are ways to add progression and endgame content without making it stat gear based, but as I said I haven’t experienced it so I will wait to make a final judgement.

3. Leveling. This may just be me, but leveling, while extremely amazing compared to any other MMO out there, still feels like a grind at times for me, because, for an example even if I complete every dynamic event and heart for level 20-21, I still haven’t gained enough experience to be able to do the next group of hearts without constantly dying. Enemy spawn rates also seem extremely off for some areas. I remember trying to get this one skill point in this one room with 4-5 mobs in it. I would kill 3 then the first 2 I killed would respawn right behind me, and no matter what I did, I kept dying. Eventually I just came back way over leveled and got it, but still.

Overall though I really enjoy this game. It’s different and unique.