Guild Wars 2

Kyven.7514:

Far Shiverpeaks? So EU? Hit me up in game tomorrow, I can always take my low level alts around the map by guesting, I don’t mind at all. As a matter of fact, I have a level 20 sylvari who could do with some levels.

Just double checked. Its stormbluff. The NA one. Thanks for the offer though.

Thanks guys. I am in the shiverbluff(???) server. Something like that. Said it was high pop.

Also, I am part of a guild already. They are great guys, and they do a lot of stuff. No doubt about that. But they are focused on the higher end stuff. I don’t want to ask them to come down to the starting area so they can kill slugs for 400xp. Its a waste of time for them and wouldn’t make me feel good asking.

Sucks to hear about Sylvari being low pop areas. I chose them because they looked cool, heh. And no, I haven’t been to lions arch. I frankly don’t even know how to get there, nor what I would do if I did. I still have to finish my solo missions first anyways. Going to have to go to Metrica Province and do the heart missions over there to progress.

I went into WvW, but was isntantly overwhelmed. Plus like someone said, upscaled people probably just get schooled anyways.

So yeah, bought this game about 4 days ago. I started a Sylvari Ranger and I am at level 19. Explored all of Caledon and did a few missions.

I noticed that the whole time, I was playing by myself…..

This is not the Guild Wars I remember.

I’m doing missions by myself, I’m in the town by myself, I am running in this world by myself.

1. I am running around in this Sylvari town. There is literally no other players there. Ok, this is a bad start for me so far, but ok.

2. I run outside into Caledon. Looks like its full of life! But its not. There are just NPC’s everywhere. Do a few heart missions by myself. One person joins me in a heart mission, feels awesome playing with someone else. We finish it. He runs off in some direction and is gone again. I am alone once more.

3. Ok, I know GW had dungeons, and groups of players there waiting to do dungeons. I can play with someone there! I loved those in GW!

Ok, this mission is by myself. And another by myself, and another, and another, and another. Ok, now it wants me to be level 22 for this new mission. I’m only level 19. Ohh God, I’m going to have to go around grinding some more, aren’t I? Please no more heart missions. I can’t take anymore of this dead world.

So yeah, maybe it gets better later on, but I am level 19 right now, and it is killing me. I’m trying to power through the instanced missions so I can get to areas with some semblance of life, but it is becoming evidently clear that I am doing the missions much faster than they want me too, with the next one asking me to be level 22. Arena Net wants me to explore the world before moving on, which on launch day was probably AMAZING. People everywhere, doing missions, etc. But a year later? All these areas are ghost towns. I could literally pull my Ethernet out and the game would feel exactly the same to me.

And where are those dungeons from GW1? Do they exist at all? Because so far its just been one solo mission after another.

I WANT to love this game. I love the combat, I love the world they have crafted, but I am finding it harder and harder each day to start this game up. Like right now, I am going to have to obviously grind some levels to continue on, and explore regions that, frankly, I don’t want to anymore. I’m tired of exploring regions where there is nobody else.

Does it get better for someone like me later on? I am on the Sylvari missions where I returned from Orr in the mirror world.

Anyways, thanks guys.