Guild Wars 2

Well, I can admit that GW2 has a lot of top-gear grinding but not in comparison with SW:TOR. I can understend how one can love SW:TOR because he loves Star Wars universe. But to love SW:TOR as a game? To say that SW:TOR has less grind then something? Look, so far the only game that has more grinding then SW:TOR was Lineage 2. To those of you who haven’t played SW:TOR combat mechanics, abilities and talent trees was stripped from WoW and not from modern WoW but from 2005 WoW. Even so they did it wrong so combat was clunky and stiff just like they say “stand and press buttons and watch animations” though such words is mostly false for majority of the games, for SW:TOR in particular these words are true. Levelling in SW:TOR is also grindy. I remember one particular quest where I shoud go and kill 15 mobs they were standing in groups of three with one other mob that I didn’t need to kill. After that I was sent to blow some crates that was guarded by the those mobs I just killed and they have respawned already. After that I was sent to kill mobs that was in groups with previouse ones. Such quests aren’t exception they are rule for SW:TOR. And WAR is dead because besides WvW he has nothing to offer. Aion was dead right after birth. Tera has great visuals but they forgot add gameplay in their game. WoW is still great game but I had too much of it.

Zedex.3814:

What do you guys think about Vistas? Are they an absolute important part of the game?

Though I sometimes enjoy the view, most of the time I just like to find them and the way to them. I like exploration in general so the fact that I’m actually rewarded for exploring vistas, points of interest, etc is just icing on the cake.

GW2 isn’t just greate MMO it’s a great game, great RPG. I was just exploring, searching for vistas, doing quests (without backtracking). I ran through centaurus camp to small town and there were npcs gathering forces to attack centaurus camp. So I joined them with lots of players from same location. We successfuly overtaken tha camp and I was about to continue exploration but attack forces was going to attack another camp. So we drove centaurus from all of their camps to their fortress. We defended from counter attacks we fight their champion centaurus. And finally we attacked their fortress it was hard fight but then centaurus mages started to summon huge earth elemental we fought them and that elemental then we were attacked by huge swarm of centaurus. And finally there was their mighty boss-like shaman that was almost oneshotting everyone. During this long assault we were healing each other, reviving each other because we knew that with loss of one fighter we were getting weaker. We were using catapults and other stuff to defend captured camps, we were capturing points and burning centaurus buildings, stealing their resources and each of us was revarded for completing every objective accordingly. I’m playing warrior but that doesn’t mean that I was forced to attack hard-hitting bosses in melee. When my defence abilities were on CD I was just switching to my rifle and effectively attack enemies from distance. My bullets gained additional properties from AoE effects that was applied by other players. And all this happend in area fr 35-45 level range. I’ve gained three levels there despite the fact that I was already 75 level but still those fights were challenging for me and rewards were plenty. I’ve expirienced nothing like this in any other mmorpg. I wasn’t levelling, I wasn’t grinding, I wasn’t doing busy work. I was playing epic game and having huge amounts of fun despite my level, gear or location.