Guild Wars 2

hi, this is my message to ncsoft /anet..

i cant play your game anymore.. period..

its not because of your dungeon nerf, or your soft nerf of fractals.. or the so called challenging group content.. “raids”

but simply put.. you turned your back on the core community of long time gamers, my online friends..

you didnt listen to your player base.. the foundation of this community

you went the casual player route..

casual players dont have guild mates years old, they dont have dungeons, fractal or pvp friends..

they dont create large and small guilds unless they can commit large amounts of there time to it, and without the content to keep these people interested .. this game is doomed..

instead you created mind numbing map spam.. over and over predicable and boring gaming, with a few carrots thrown in..

you created more (dailies) x10, you time gated everything..

and you lied.. this is a very bad expansion..

maybe its just me?

but i feel like i just got ripped off.

regards a sad owner of both an eu and na account..

rip gw2

yup i agree.. once i have done my boring kitten d ez pz dailies.. theres no point in running fractals anymore.. leaving me with nothing to do.. i liked doing dungeons and fractals.. hours of fun now fractals are very impersonal and repetitive.. getting no sense of challenge or fun out of them anymore.. hell i found myself sort of half dozing off while fighting some of the high level damage sponges they call bosses..

its like they have tunnel vision.. we must cater to the casual login for an hour a day player base.. while the core player base gets the finger :P

yup, its swamp, swamp and more swamp :P.. really easy to do dailies.. what has anet done to my game!

very sad now.. will keep an eye on things for the next couple of months, but im already looking at other games now (tera looks promising).. this one has destroyed all the content that i loved doing.

thats a very good idea must say it hurt a little salvaging an accessory and not getting the annoyingly new dark ball material.. had to salvage an alts weapon in the end

hahaha.. funny.. umm i never got an ascended drop in a fractal, had a couple from the daily fractals though.. also got a gold spear from the do 3 | 50+ fracts chest..

i used to farm 40 for a while though.. gave me insane numbers of exotics.. one run i had 5 exotics and as many rares from 6 runs..

but i think they fixed that.. last time i got 1 from 10 runs

as for farming higher levels.. say 77 83 swamp man or 99 molten duo bosses..
i have found the drops to be.. well terrible :P lucky to get a rare to drop
i guess the devs are still working out the loot tables..

farming 99 can be quite fun if only the reward reflected the challenge better…

yes i cant make sense of it.. there’s a lot less guild chat once all the hype and newness has worn off.. nobody forming groups, as i said whats the point right?

mostly just questions about gear

so how do the not so casual player base feel about the direction ncsoft / anet has taken?

since when does an expansion take content away while adding nothing to take its place?

ahem, not sure how to say this exactly, but im finding myself with very little content to do now?

was i excited to hear fractals were getting some love, absolutely!..

so i have completed ever single fractal from 1-100.. now what?

the new fractal daily system has made pugging a soul less, boring experience, only the fast easy fracts are being run, nobody talks much.. if at all.

the traditional hi, heya, howdy.. etc has more or less died..
i thought this expansion was about creating a more involved online community?

doesn’t feel like it.. why bother when your only going to be teamed up for 1o minutes..

i used to run 50’s regularly and it was fun.. you had to be highly skilled and have the right group composition to handle the randomized situations..

once you were done everyone congratulated and wished u gl for the loot and they meant it!.. as everyone contributed.

and it felt like u earned that ascended chest!

now its a quick 56 60 and 67, wham bam you get a gold weapon or ascended chest..

it takes me an hour or so to complete all the fractal dailies.. and then its finished for the day.. now what do i do? grind the new hot maps.. omg its so boring.. how can u make friends while doing that mind numbing stuff?

no point in working on my dungeoneer achievement either. good bye dungeon friends

maybe some wvw or pvp? sry not my cup of tea.

maybe the new raids will fill the void.. umm time gated to once a week!???

look i know that maybe im not your typical gw2 player, i liked doing dungeons and fractals and that was about it for me.. but it consumed a lot of my time :P

in short it was alot of fun.

but now i find myself with very little to do.. the “new content” is very repetitive.. the new masteries system is merely a silver wastes, dry tops styled map xp grind in order to unlock yet more extremely repetitive “dynamic!” map grind..

is this what gw2 is now? a quick map check for a commander tag then join the zerg?

i was willing to say farewell to my beloved dungeon runs, i embraced fractals with excited expectations, only to find that has also become a mind numbingly repetitive AND IMPERSONAL experience.

the only silver lining is my parents get to see alot more of me than they used to :P

aaah, smart xD that social awkwardness instability is a real killer

the next group i am in will be doing it that way

ty so much Aldarn

will let u know how well we do

had a third go at it today, and yet again group failure at the twin seals, how did you get past this?..

i run guard and i feel utterly useless, i have tried knights,nomads, clerics and zerks of course

my sheild of the avenger does nothing it seems, wall of reflection.. no effect, i run sheild mace, spam blocks, use sanctuary..

i make a hammer run for the seal and they destroy me, even when i do manage to scamper away, i drag the entire mob back to my struggling team mates..

and yes i do know stealth is key.. but honestly why is that the only way to do this?

without some serious co-ordination and a must have class, this seems undoable to me

help me see the light!

my current level is 94 which is cliffside.. insanely spastic btw, but as others have stated i would never go back and do that one again, as the rewards for high level fractals suck.. i have farmed different levels, and the lower levels are far more rewarding, sometimes i get 2 account bound exotics doing an ez pz 40 i lose count of the rares i get, then i farm level 83 swamp man.. and i get absolutely nothing, and i dont even get a rare on the extreme high levels, the loot system is totally broken.. devs plz.. thats the entire reason im waiting half an hour to form a group.. everybody knows “at this time” that the loot system is broken at high 60-100 levels

plz fix or fractals will die

just salvage 20 odd ascended rings.. no balls of dark matter, just the stabilizing matrices .. so yeah haven’t been keen to try my luck with ascended armor and weapons yet, but its certainly looking like you will have to, in order to craft the legendary back piece

thank you all for your feed back

so everybody has traded in there zerks for a shovel o.O how depressing :P

alrighty gonna join a fractual / dungeon guild..

i do feel better now though, ty gw2 world

thanks for confirming my observations, i would love to hear from a moderator or somebody who has solid information as to why, lfg numbers have dropped so dramatically?

has anet separated the pool of people according to home server?
because i don’t think huge numbers of people just disappear on the eve of a long awaited expansion

which btw i have pre-ordered

somebody please shine some light on this..
i love dungeon runs, but the quality and quantity of people have shifted in a big way

Running dungeons is part of my daily routine, (ascolon, COF, COE, CM, SE,) and others if i get time..

up to a couple of weeks ago, i never had trouble LFG finding a group…

now hardly anyone seems to be advertising.. i think i read about anet changing the servers or something?

got a sneaky suspicion that mega server isn’t in effect anymore?

really sucks now o.O when i do get a group, i have to hand hold them through the easy dungeons, or wipe entirely because we don’t have enough dps to survive the harder dungeons

forgetting my little whinge above, i would like to know?

has anybody else noticed that all the lfg dungeons are empty? at pretty much any time of the day..

exactly the same issue here, defeat all arena opponents, then guy at the end doesnt have the dialogue i need to finish the instance cant leave arena either.. my char is a mesmer