Guild Wars 2

It’s really just kinda ridiculous how anyone could worry about a game being “grindy” when the grind is self-imposed. You want the gear skins? You can get them – by grinding. You won’t be any worse off than some other guy that got his exotic gear some other way.

Maybe this is more of an issue with the fact that exotic gear (the power plateau) is too hard to obtain. People feel obligated to grind the dungeons so that they can get the exotic gear because other ways to get it are too hard? Maybe. The point is that if you have all exotic gear, there is absolutely NO reason why you should subject yourself to something that you consider “grindy”. You don’t have to. Why anyone would feel as though they have any business making suggestions – or much less DEMANDS – on what the dungeons should be like is just absurd.

This argument could really go either way with a fight of this size. On the one hand, it’s not very enjoyable to just sit and mash the “shoot” button on a turret to take down the boss, and on the other it’s not very realistic or epic to just wail away on a dragons toenail until it dies. I personally think that there hasn’t been such an enormous fight like this truly done justice. That’s not to say I didn’t like the dungeon, in fact I thought that it was worth going through the whole dungeon just to see that mind-blowingly incredible model that they made for Zhaitan. They could have just let him fly around while we watched him tear up the coast of Orr and I would have been satisfied with that. The fight, however, was certainly lackluster – there’s no arguing that. I loved the dungeon to death and had a good time, but probably won’t do it again because the fight wasn’t really that engaging. I’m really just looking forward to the kinds of fights that they will develop in future dungeons as they refine exactly what they want boss fights to be like in this game.

There’s a lot of grandiosity to the fight, but to really utilize it properly is another story. I’m excited to see more.

Meanwhile the same day as the update the most I’ve seen any of these former karma-sold cooking mats go for is 15c. Discuss.