Guild Wars 2

IndigoSundown.5419:

Aeonblade.8709:

Oh my god yes, a thousand times yes. I have said it before and will say it again, the design decisions patch after patch have left me scratching my head. What are they even trying to do?!

I hope they’re buying time to allow them to program and implement stuff that’s more permanent, more fun and more involved. GW2 did not have as many time sinks in it at launch as other MMO’s tend to. All MMO’s use time sinks to keep players interested while they work on the next iteration. GW2’s time sinks just happen to be coming in patches rather than at launch.

The hinted-at “rewards” pass looks promising, but we’ll see.

I’d settle for fewer patches with higher quality content, but I wonder how those who want to spend a lot of time in game would tolerate a longer wait for something new.

I don’t know about others, but I would rather wait 3-6 months for a large quality patch than get a few hours of temporary stuff every month. I’m sure many many people prefer the monthly method, but some of us veterans need something with some meat on the bone, so to speak.

For a fun even fight I would like a classic T2 match up between TC/DB/FA.

If we get another bag farm roll fest, just give us Mags again, their tears sustain me

Insignya.8625:

I’ll summarize – every month for the past half year you’ve been putting up content which has been decreasing in quality. These updates provide about 3 hours of gameplay, yet you superficially extend that to another month or so. You’re making story bits that are so dry they might as well not exist (except the Molten Facility, that was awesome) and then add excessive amounts of grinding and the next shiny RNG chest, excuse me, coffer as it’s referred to nowadays. As a result you please no one but a small portion of the populace who are living off of chocolate bunnies and liquid dreams, while leaving the majority wondering what you were aiming for. It’s confusing to explain even because your design ideas don’t make any sense.

Oh my god yes, a thousand times yes. I have said it before and will say it again, the design decisions patch after patch have left me scratching my head. What are they even trying to do?!

Mungrul.9358:

I’m calling it now:
Those wonderful new weapons will be locked in RNG boxes, the Aetherblade Caches.

Of course, god forbid we get what we pay for with the game.

WTB more specific patch notes, PST.

But I’m pretty excited for the balance patch. Can’t say anything else on that list sounds remotely interesting.

emikochan.8504:

All mmo forums are a hive of scum and villainy, I’ve played like 10 of them, always the same. The Fallen Earth one was probably the best, which if I remember correctly was one of the smaller games I played.

Just like any situation, the more people involved the lower the collective iq :p

I dunno about that. Any sub based game that requires you to have a sub to access the forums is usually better. (WoW obviously bucks against that, the games forums are bad.)

For instance, before Rift went F2P, those were easily the best and most constructive MMO forums I ever had the pleasure of using. So much optimism and so little flaming and whining. Even now the forums there have way less whining than most other games, but the F2P move has increased the whining exponentially of course.

A lot of people must of been waiting to try it because last night I had a 15 minute queue to get on haha. The forums of course will get worse now, because we have the freeloader hipster MMO crowd to deal with now. The good thing is the way their cash shop is set up makes me feel so much better about the way the game is headed. Very well thought out.

Back on topic: I think some MMO forums really do have constructive communities, and there is no reason GW2 cannot be one of them if we make an effort to do so.

Healix.5819:

As long as it would give a better reward than doing something else, provide an easier way of getting something or give achievement points, people would complain that they’re being “forced” to grind them. People that like to 100% everything would probably also complain due to the grind.

Hearts (and scouts) were originally added to the game because they found that the typical MMO player was quickly lost due to the lack of quests and clear direction. All zones were originally like Orr and Southsun when it came to hearts. For future zones/expansions, they may drop hearts altogether, but probably not, at least for major expansion zones.

I wasn’t talking about getting Exotics or Precursors or anything. I was thinking more along the lines of some T6 mats or something non game breaking. Hey, 2 birds with one stone, PvE content to do for those of us who are bored with the game, and a reliable way to farm T6 mats for those of us tired of paying real money for them.

Yay for win/win scenarios!

For people who refuse to move on to another game but have already exhausted all the content this game has to offer.

Achievement points will always be, and have always been, crutch content of the highest order. You can thank console gamers for making this debacle of “content”.

Vayne.8563:

Don’t get your hopes up.

Gonna have to agree with Vayne on this one as amazing as it is.

Beldin.5498:

Aeonblade.8709:

Here’s an idea: Heart Tiers, 3 tiers of heart rewards Gold>Platinum>Diamond. Increasing rewards for each tier. Only gold is required for map completion, other tiers take much much longer to fill, but can reward with some nice items.

I already see the new posts in the forums where people cry that Anet “forces” them to grind

To which I respond to all the people whining with “That’s why only the first tier is required for map completion, no one is forcing you to do anything.” Boy wouldn’t that just turn the tables on them?

I just want a reason to PvE again other than the daily. This would actually give me something to do beyond WvW, at least for a week or two.

I hope so. This forum desperately needs basic functions like an ignore feature and more than 100 PMs at a time.

As for the community, the GW2 community has a lot of room to improve honestly, I hope with time they will become more accepting of others.

Yes, GW2 offers an enjoyable WvW experience, and Rift offers an enjoyable PvE experience. If the two games were combined, I would probably crap my pants in joy.

killcannon.2576:

Not even 400 people…..this is a survey? Come back when you have a few thousand.

Ah, hail brother, FEAR THE SWARM.

Essence Snow.3194:

Geotherma.2395:

Essence Snow.3194:

Thx for supporting RNG chests so we will be sure to get more in the future…………………………

Anytime Enjoyed every drop I got lol And since I have the money for the “optional” content it produces, I have no regrets My 4 fused tickets outfit my Charr and Asura well, 10 characters left to outfit with cool skins not from TP.

Hmm odd how things change………

Oh man, someone can just close this thread. It’s over. I changed my mind, leave it open, he’s bragging about his IRL money, let’s watch the slow descent into madness. /popcorn.

Kind of, but not really. I usually play a Paladin/Shadowknight type class. Some sort of tank hybrid. The Guardian is a bad replacement for a Knight class.

As for roles…well…classes don’t really have roles in this game. This game really doesn’t provide enough classes or differences between the classes for me, but I can completely understand this as it’s MUCH easier to balance

A very good read, very informative. This proves what a lot of us have been saying for months on these forums.

I think I hear a mob coming though, I swear I saw a pitchfork crest over the hill…

Here’s an idea: Heart Tiers, 3 tiers of heart rewards Gold>Platinum>Diamond. Increasing rewards for each tier. Only gold is required for map completion, other tiers take much much longer to fill, but can reward with some nice items.

Oh wait that’s PQs from Warhammer which everyone hated, nevermind, I’ll slink out of here before I get attacked for having a thought.

Heck I’d probably PvE again though!

What you guys are just now figuring out the end game and entire point of GW2 is to press F? Sheesh, I thought this was common knowledge right now!

What happened guys? You used to be so pleasant and fun. Now the bitterness. Why Mags why?

Zepidel.5349:

Aeonblade.8709:

Zepidel.5349:

Log in and chop down 5 trees, salvage some junk i had to go get off low level mobs, maybe do a boring easy dungeon, and talk to the laurel vendor. I then receive my anet issued 1 laurel per day. Then Proceed to find a group for fractals a dungeon I have run 9001 times so I can have a shot at a ring and my anet issued 1 pristine relic per day. Look down at my keyboard and think well guess i have no reason to be online anymore till tomorrow, but hey in 2 months ill have a piece of jewelry that is 5% better than the one that took me 5 minutes to get.

This is the endgame in GW2… doing dailies. Who would of thought a company could take one of the worst things introduced in world of warcraft and build a game around it.

Are they ever going to make this game interesting past leveling up and exploring?

Incoming legion of fanboys to tell you this game isn’t for you and you are playing it wrong.

To answer your question: Maybe, but we the players have to keep being vocal about how displeased most of us are with the end game.

Maybe if this was RIFT or AION etc… This game IS the sequel to Guild Wars, how can a game claim to be sequel yet emulate nothing but lore from the original? I would of been happy with them re creating GW1 on this engine and adding an expansion worth of content on top of that. They would of had to have done 1/4th the work and would have 4x the game they have now.

You may be right about that. The problem is even with us telling them what’s wrong, only a fraction of the people getting tired or fed up with the broken aspects of the game actually tell them why they are quitting. Most people just quit, and it really doesn’t do any good if Anet doesn’t know why they left.

Yea…the fact that all these MMO’s come out lately with so much voice acting is a bit of a mystery to me. As far as I know most of the people I play with and my RL friends that play MMO’s mostly listen to music while playing, or have TS/Vent/Mum open.

I’m sure there are exceptions out there, but my volume has been turned off since about level 7.

Zepidel.5349:

Log in and chop down 5 trees, salvage some junk i had to go get off low level mobs, maybe do a boring easy dungeon, and talk to the laurel vendor. I then receive my anet issued 1 laurel per day. Then Proceed to find a group for fractals a dungeon I have run 9001 times so I can have a shot at a ring and my anet issued 1 pristine relic per day. Look down at my keyboard and think well guess i have no reason to be online anymore till tomorrow, but hey in 2 months ill have a piece of jewelry that is 5% better than the one that took me 5 minutes to get.

This is the endgame in GW2… doing dailies. Who would of thought a company could take one of the worst things introduced in world of warcraft and build a game around it.

Are they ever going to make this game interesting past leveling up and exploring?

Incoming legion of fanboys to tell you this game isn’t for you and you are playing it wrong.

To answer your question: Maybe, but we the players have to keep being vocal about how displeased most of us are with the end game.

Mirta.5029:

Vayne.8563:

Eventually they’ll be able to…who knows what the next generation will bring…or the one after.

well both Xbox one and Playstation 4 decided to put hardware worse than my laptop bought at 2010. They’re far from handling MMOs.

Yes and two of the biggest next gen MMO’s coming out for PS4 and Xbox One proves you wrong honestly. Both of those new consoles are better than my 4 year old desktop by leaps and bounds, and it runs GW2 on medium settings.

I think you underestimating the hardware Sony and Microsoft are putting into their new consoles.

Conncept.7638:

Castaliea.3156:

Conncept.7638:

Charr

Because… well everything. They have some pretty cool visuals with the steampunk aesthetic, but everything about them (including that) is ill-fitting when their lore is taken in to account.

Their lore?
Doesn’t their lore describe a battle hungry race turning away from all false gods towards the end of the last GW and instead to machines of war? What part of Charr lore is against them being what they are?

Yeah, what their lore doesn’t explain is why? Why did any of that happen?! And the biggest question, why didn’t they ever turn back? The Charr have had a SINGLE major victory in their entire history, and then, they go and abandon the power that won them that victory… for women’s rights, which admittedly wasn’t even remotely important for most of them? That’s seriously the only explanation for why they split from the flame legion, and it was obviously only placed there to explain how charr females could be PCs. Their is still no explanation for why they didn’t return to the flame legion, especially considering they have had no success fighting anybody else but the flame legion themselves since. Why have they never been tempted to turn back?

The Charr as an entire race are complete and utter failures, a laughing stock. Their entire cultures is based on self-importance and boastfulness yet they have never accomplished anything worth boasting about without the coddling of otherworldly powers. They beat on Ebonhawk for almost 200 years, a single city of inferior technology and numbers, and never even came close to breaching it!

Their culture makes no sense in light of the story under which it is supposed to have developed. Those things which have happened to them and the circumstances under which they have been put would not have inspired anybody to become what the Charr have become.

+1, the Charr make no sense from a lore stand point for sure. But honestly the Sylvari story is even worse. “Hay guys were here now lols. Trees and stuff!” Great.

Jski.6180:

Capes are meh they are just simply overused in EVERY game mmorpgs are some of the worst. I want to see new ideal for back items.

I can count on one hand the number of triple A mmo’s with capes. I’d like to see this magical every game.

Gyrfalcon.1054:

Been meaning to post in here for a while now.
Gos after the fireworks show with her new Dragon helm in first two. Last pic is her normal look.

Head: Named Headpiece/Dragon Skin
Shoulder: Arah
Top: CoE
Bottom: Whispers
Gloves: Named
Boots: CoF

Weapon: Volcanus

That really looks amazing, and I’m a big sucker for Volcanus

Sharing my newest update to my outfit on my guardian Took a while to find the right color of purple to go with the Asuran T3 cultural sword and still look ok with the Magma Gauntlets I love so much.

Tuluum.9638:

Jemmi.6058:

IMO Elitist is to Elite as Racist is to Race

Basically Elite = High level of skill
Elitist = Being prejudice vs others based on level of skill

Just as Race = Cultural and geographical origins
Racist = Being prejudice vs others based on race

I think that sums it up better than I could have hoped to do myself. At least, for one perspective context on the matter. Good analogy.

I agree. I wish I had the same gift of words and analogy some of you here at the forums have.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

If I wanted to play an ugly character I’d look in the mirror.

Come on now, just because you can’t see the beauty/handsomeness in yourself doesn’t mean it’s not there. I’m sure you are exaggerating

Karizee.8076:

Aeonblade.8709:

kRiza krimos.1637:

AndrewSX.3794:

Depends what will be actually released in upcoming 6 months.

So far the competitors are so bad that Gw2, even with all its flaws, it’s prolly best option on the market atm.
(imo).

But yeah, just let WildStar or Archeage get out and things will change, and fast.

Just two names soon to be sent into oblivion like so many before them…

Until recently we had wow-killers jumping around every corner. Recently every new game that is announced will be better than GW2, sounds familiar? Has world given up on killing wow finnaly?

Um not to burst your bubble, but this game is a small niche like every other game that isn’t WoW. It sucks, but it’s the truth. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that there aren’t 3 million people logging into this game, even if they bought it… Maybe 1/3rd of that actually play.

A cool mill is a lot better than most other MMO’s though! And I have never heard of anyone mention “a gw2 killer” because there is no need too, it’s not big enough to want to kill, no matter how much we want to it to grow and succeed’

Basically my point is, every company is still looking for the WoW killer. GW2 has come the closest so far in even beginning to dream of the same level of success. I use the term success loosely because I hate what WoW has become.

MoP was in the $5 discount bin a month after they released it and subscriptions in the west are down by half from the launch of this last expac. News from China is dire with Age of Wushu picking up 20 million subs and even their CEO told shareholders they will be losing more by the end of the year.

GW2 will be launching in China soon. Right now I think more people in the west play GW2 than play WoW.

Until they release figures, which companies don’t do anymore because god forbid we be informed how a freaking video game is doing, all we can do is speculate.

You may be right though about WoW’s popularity waning with westerners, I just don’t think they are playing GW2.

I think the question is, when WoW finally does bite the bullet, will it be before Titan comes out? If so, where will the 8 million people go? We live in exciting times my friends, I think we are on the cusp of another “Golden Age” of MMOs.

Stormcrow.7513:

What Trollface said but in addition the terrible performance with 0 optimizations in 9 months.

What those other guys said, plus a lack of content to do. Some people enjoy living story. The rest of us would like a big boy update please!

tolunart.2095:

Vayne.8563:

Then you have games like Guild Wars 2, which I enjoy, but still uses RNG in lock boxes, and arbitrary achievements and temporary content to keep people logging in.

Of them all, Guild Wars 2 is the best solution for me and my style of play…but it’s far from perfect.

I have to say that even pay-to-play MMOs are among the cheapest forms of entertainment, hour for dollar. Consider other games that cost like $60 and you spend a rainy weekend or two playing them, reach the end of the game and either play everything over again on harder mode or set it aside and buy another. Cable/satellite tv with the premium packages can run over $100 a month, my Rift sub was $100 a year.

And, yes, sometimes the free games kind of push you towards pay content, but if you just log in once in a while to relax and aren’t a “gotta keep up with the Jones family next door” type person you don’t ever have to spend a penny on them.

And for an absurdly low price they throw new content at you on a semi-regular basis, other games might get two or three downloadable updates which combined cost as much as another game.

I’d say it’s a pretty good deal, all things considered.

Well said sir, it is a great deal. I have always looked at MMO subs as the best form of entertainment. 50 cents a day for unlimited entertainment, or go see a movie for $20…hmm…choices…. :P

kRiza krimos.1637:

AndrewSX.3794:

Depends what will be actually released in upcoming 6 months.

So far the competitors are so bad that Gw2, even with all its flaws, it’s prolly best option on the market atm.
(imo).

But yeah, just let WildStar or Archeage get out and things will change, and fast.

Just two names soon to be sent into oblivion like so many before them…

Until recently we had wow-killers jumping around every corner. Recently every new game that is announced will be better than GW2, sounds familiar? Has world given up on killing wow finnaly?

Um not to burst your bubble, but this game is a small niche like every other game that isn’t WoW. It sucks, but it’s the truth. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that there aren’t 3 million people logging into this game, even if they bought it… Maybe 1/3rd of that actually play.

A cool mill is a lot better than most other MMO’s though! And I have never heard of anyone mention “a gw2 killer” because there is no need too, it’s not big enough to want to kill, no matter how much we want to it to grow and succeed’

Basically my point is, every company is still looking for the WoW killer. GW2 has come the closest so far in even beginning to dream of the same level of success. I use the term success loosely because I hate what WoW has become.

Somehow warning people of a scam website is infractable. It was probably the worth it’s weight part.

Avoid mmorpg.com. Website does reviews and top lists based on who pays the most. Case in point, half the games on that list are P2W and have been blasted by nearly everyone that has tried them. It’s just whoever pays the most over at mmorpg.com sadly.

There just is not enough high level content for a veteran MMO player. Bad players and super casuals will love it, but there will be a void for anyone who has played MMO’s for years. Playing 2 hours a day on average I exhausted this game for me in about 3weeks-1month, and have been hitting WvW since.

Raids and dungeons are not how you fill that void. But temporary content that takes a few hours or days to complete isn’t the answer for that void either.

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

Who you callin’ ugly?

Sorry Mr. Charr sir, but that is one hideous mug. :p

If you want to truly prove which game is the best, vote in the MMORPG of the year awards, don’t read articles from a site that blatantly reviews games on a per paycheck basis.

Yes. Capes have been around in MMO’s since infancy and should of became a standard feature. Any game that does not have them is not complete IMHO. It won’t happen because of the Charr however, don’t get your hopes up. Sadly a small contingent of the player base cries every time a piece of armor clips, so we have that to prevent it from ever happening.

They did add those hilarious looking banner things apparently a few patches ago, but I have yet to see a single one in use.

Ask anyone playing a Charr. Hint: Yes

Draknar.5748:

You will have people complaining about being forced to farm 500+ of something to get what they want.

I hate to say it but I have to agree with Anet with the way they are handling these skins. If you put them on the gemstore then the item loses its exclusivity. I mean honestly, if you got one from RNG, you will feel so much more awesome about that item knowing how difficult it is for literally everyone else to get it than if you got it from RNG but know people can just buy them on the store anyway. It’s like those armor sets that are on the gem store. I bought that heavy armor set thinking it looked awesome. Then I saw tons of people with the same set and I felt like I had completely wasted all of my money. I banked the set and haven’t worn it since.

When I see anyone with the weapons you get from RNG I think to myself “daaang, lucky kittenhole!” I think that’s the response Anet wants for these skins.

But who knows, maybe they will make them available on store so that everyone and their cousin has one.

There is no such thing as exclusivity on a game that has sold 3 million copies. Sorry, every other person has a legendary or the newest skins. I don’t even see the SAB skins anymore and it’s only been 2 months. Putting them up for direct purchase really wouldn’t effect how many people you see with them after a month or so.

Korrigan.4837:

Tuluum.9638:

I would strongly suggest though, to those who really are looking for challenge and not emotional ROI, that this can be created for yourself in a myriad of ways.

Good point.

For instance, I made it to 80 on a character with 0 deaths, and also without using the auction house, any crafting (crafting gives easy XP, would be “cheating”), or any crafted item, only self reliant using drops and karma items. The idea came from a guildie based on “Iron Man”.
That’s an interesting challenge. Try it. If you die, you must delete the character and start over at level 1.

I do an Iron Man challenge on Pokemon (yes I still play those games and have since the originals even though I’m older now heh) 3 Pokemon only, if one faints he is dead forever and you have to release it and get another Pokemon. If all them get knocked out, you die and restart from the beginning.

May try this on GW2, might be fun!

Some of the Living Story stuff is…oh who am I kidding it’s pretty bad. Flame and Frost was ok. Southsun was miserable. So far Dragon Bash has been buggy, but ok. Not too enthused about having farm 100k candy as it’s just another grind unless you buy them, but the wings are cool enough to warrant it I guess.

Flame and Frost dungeon was really the only part of any of the LS stuff I have enjoyed.

Most of the LS content is able to be finished in a few hours, then it’s back to WvW for me again. If you don’t like WvW I would still say give the game another shot, but don’t expect it to be much different from March.

This game just isn’t made for people who do a lot of PvE content. Read content, not exploration again on a third character or smacking pinatas.

Zindrix.1750:

marnick.4305:

Zindrix.1750:

Zelyhn.8069:

Castaliea.3156:

Zelyhn.8069:

Are you all seriously assuming that I shout about my skill level in LA ? Even if I said I don’t? You people are what is wrong: you jump on the assumptions that I am an elitist, an arrogant person etc. In fact I can understand: you may have had such bad experiences with people like who you think I am in the past that as soon as you see something that could be a sign of their presence you jump in for the kill.

Maybe that explains my problems.

ProxyDamage has put it in words for you:
The key word is “statement of fact”

ProxyDamage.9826:

lordkrall.7241:

Because someone that is actually good have no need to shout about being good?

What if it is relevant to the conversation? What if it merely a statement, part of a discussion? You’re right that most good players don’t usually mention they’re good, but sometimes it’s relevant, at which point it’s merely a statement of fact. And why do you care? If you don’t believe it to be true, why does it upset you? I doubt you go around the street correcting everyone who says something you believe to be untrue, especially if it’s not an objectively easy answer.

This entire comment is again, completely different than the original situation.
Now it’s “part of a existing conversation” instead of just a randomly self proclaimed statement of fact? God why can’t this post die. The story keep changing, the arguments are completely irrelevant… god just let it end.

A statement of fact, whether it is part of a discussion or not, is just a statement of fact.
Nothing has changed in this topic, well maybe the way everybody interprets what I say, but then again it is interpretation so you know…

We can close the subject. I got my answer: people cannot bear a simple statement of fact. People ask for humility that is morally unnecessary because they cannot bear the fact that people can be better. This has been stated several times in this discussion. People interpret statements, they are biased. People are inconfident and often frustrated about their skill level.

Didn’t there used to be a German leader in the past who thought this way?

That’s not a valid argument. You just invoked Godwin’s law and therefor lost the discussion.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Too bad I don’t believe in Godwin’s Law.

LOL did you actually read that link? It’s actually amusing because I think it’s trying to be serious. What a crock. Some dude trying to sound smart because he lost an argument on the internet is what it says for you TL;DR people.

loquacious.2915:

Dear god, please let Dragonbrand roll SOR tonight. Sophtspoken has no idea what a zerg really is.

If Blackgate beat DB by 250k, SOR will beat them by 400k.

You do know there is a cap for each map right? And that BG filled them most of the week because it was a free win. So that’s kind of silly, either way we fight a server with 3-4 capped maps. Just pointing that out

Also I’d like to apologize for Sopht. He in no way represents the majority attitude of our server.

Mist Y.5214:

It’s not that I’m against the idea of more weapons – I actually really enjoy the idea on the whip thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Weapon-Type-Whip/first#post2067009
But most of those in the list don’t seem like great additions.

JubeiTM.5763:

Mist Y.5214:

To be honest I’d class most of those in the list as the type of thing I’d expect to pick up as an environmental weapon, and a couple are just specific types of weapons that already exist.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/All-new-weapon-possibilities/2213609/quote
Even the Great Axe as two handed weapon? Every RPG had it sofar. It is slower that the Great Sword attack but has potentially more damage.

http://i30.tinypic.com/10ic51h.jpg

GW1 didn’t have it =P Apart from warrior (who already has too many weapons), I can’t imagine another profession using a great axe.

Ranger would obviously have a GA skill set, and probably either Necro or Ele for a 3rd class.

Heck I would be happy if each class had more than 1 combo that was the “best”. If you aren’t GS/Staff guardian, you are gimping yourself. I have tried so many builds, and most of them are laughable compared to that combo.

Nuage.5230:

Okay, I am about to head to [the video game store] to snag 2 Gem Cards. I am stuck between gearing my Guard, my “main,” my first 80, or using the gold from those gems to level my Thief to 80….

MY ONLY issue with the Guard is they seem to be EVERYWHERE. I haven’t done much dungeoning, so in “end game” are people pretty much like gtfo to Guards? My reluctance with the Guard is more of a social one, if that makes sense.

To someone experienced with both classes which do you prefer and why.

Guardian, I am obviously biased though. I hardly see guardians compared to ele’s/wars/thf so I dunno, maybe your server has a different class spread.

Lot’s of hard work I would love to reward but refuse to until I can buy what I want.

Blissified.8369:

Right now all the cool skins are simply who has a lot of money or whos lucky.
Gw1 had rewards for doing hard hard tasks.

Gw2’s rewards are mianly cosmetic skins which you get from buying gems.
In a way gw2 is going pay 2 win just without stats.

GW2 has always been p2w without stats. They don’t have a sub fee, you are going to have P2W elements in the store. That’s the trade off. $15 a month for everything, or a random amount each month based off if you want it or not.

Honestly, it’s about the same game it was 10 months ago. Most of the content that was added was removed shortly thereafter in an attempt to make the world seem like it is “alive”.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates

Check that out to see what all Anet have giveth, and taketh.

As far as population LA never really has an overflow anymore unless you are on the big 3. I haven’t seen an overflow in a long time in LA. WvW population is decently stable and it’s pretty much your only option at the moment for end game after map completion. There are fractals, but those get boring pretty fast I think for most people, and there are still no hard mode dungeons or guild content (beyond the guild missions which aren’t very exciting and small guilds can’t participate)

Take heart! It’s not all bad, as I said WvW has had some big updates recently, and you can actually kind of get gear in WvW now. It’s still a huge difference between PvE rewards and PvP, (PvE is far more rewarding). Also there is a balancing patch coming up that we are hopeful will fix the problems with broken and useless classes and builds.

Hope you enjoy the game! Honestly you should just play if it’s fun, and when you get bored again move on

This game has definitely lost it’s way. But that is not to say there isn’t hope. I’m not saying stick around forever hoping things get better, but maybe, just maybe, with the bug/balance patch coming, and the general uproar about how many people hate the temporary content, we may see some meaty updates coming out soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if the LS idea was put on the back burner or scrapped soon, and if we can get them do that there is hope the actual game will get some love.

Then we can add something tangible and permanent, like an expansion pack, after bug fixes.

I don’t want freaking pinatas. I want my class to function the way it’s supposed to and to have trait swapping and multiple builds. I want more than Berserker and Knight’s gear to be good. There is no reason to keep ignoring the glaring balance problems of the game in favor of freaking pinatas and fireworks. I think they may realize this soon.