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Increase of grind. Lack of new content.

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This game is dead, nothing new since last time I logged in. The ride was fun at the beginning but now I think I prefer poking my eyeballs with a rusty fork rather than farming another cosmetic.

You don’t even farm cosmetics anymore. All of the good ones are in the gemshop!

GW2 combat is broken

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It sounds insanely boring to play as a dedicated healer or tank.

I mean I can understand that a healing/tanking fighter would be an idea, but just sitting back and timing heals?

I honestly prefer the concept of everyone having to take the responsibility for healing and support.

Healing power is still a joke in this game and that needs to change though.

You’ve never healed challenging content, where not only are you expected to heal adequately, you’re also expected to contribute damage while carrying out the mechanics of the fight.

Besides, some people enjoy support roles. In some games, they can be complex enough to stand alone. Not here though.

GW2 combat is broken

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Its broken for him cause cant get over the so called TRINITY! Gw2 was successful getting rid of this crap and it is working like intended.

lol Yeah, GW2’s combat has so much depth.
My videos and guide pretty much explains and shows that clearly.

The problem is, you get players that come from other games like WoW and they expect it to play like it. GW2 is a game for people who want a different kind of game, not the same thing with different skin and title.

Its for people who want something New.

You mean a kind of game where there is only one way to gear and combat is reduced to stacking? When the only role is DPS, your profession is irrelevant. The highest DPS is taken, which is why warriors are so popular.

GW2 combat is broken

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Guild Wars 2 combat in a nutshell:

-everyone is dps so gear berserker
-stack
-hit dodge once in a while to avoid damage. Good luck seeing through particle spam
-rez people who are downed. Dying is okay because you can rez an infinite number of times

Super Gear Grind?

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I’m confused… I used to play Everquest, and that was a grind. In fact, pretty much all of the game play I can remember in EQ was grinding, aside from the quest here and there.

I’ve also played Aion. That was a super grind for gear. I have 400 hours on it on steam from a year or 2 just to get a full set of level 30 armor when the max level was 50 or something like that at the time.

GW 2? I haven’t noticed any grind. In fact, I’d say it’s the least grindy MMO I’ve ever played in my life. The worst grinding I’ve experienced is dungeons to get exotic gear from there… which is just as good stat-wise as bought gear for relatively cheap so meh.

again, people just don’t care if any other game was less or more grindy.
there souldn’t be any grind AT ALL, dungeon or skin or anything, according to advertising they sold the game with.
but, ok, let’s try to accept it.

but, BiS grind no. it’s totally out of gw2 goals.
don’t care if gw1 was grinding. or if other mmo need even more hours to get it.
just excuses for people who like it.

It staggering how wrong you are. It really is. What do you expect, instant level 80 and a gift locker with all the available armor in it for the choosing? Really?

Look, it’s really simple. You need time sinks in an MMO to keep people busy, give them more things to do. If everything can be completed instantly people will quickly grow bored once they’ve instantly done it all and be demanding more. Content consumption would be so much faster than content development that the game would simply die from boredom.

Now, you speak oddly of how they advertised the game. They’re actually living completely up to expectations, with no gear treadmill (the endless grind) out there causing us to toss our gear every couple months and grind fresh for a new set. Ascended gear taking time to get is not the type of ‘grind’ that was being referred to. It was the required archaic treadmill concept that is the bane of far too many games these days. You’re no longer forced onto the gear grind treadmill. If you want to get ascended gear, great! Go for it! If not, no content will be cut off from you for choosing not to do so.

Sure. But these aren’t particularly fun time sinks.

Tequatl event and queue mechanics

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All of this effort for a very low chance at a decent reward. Why should anyone do this fight?

Increase of grind. Lack of new content.

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Or maybe Maplestory, to remind yourself what grinding is. Because there’s no grind in GW2. At all. Seriously. People who say there’s any kind of grind in gw2 is deluded.

Theres no grind in a game like WoW then either, is there? You dont need BiS raid gear for any part of the game other than raiding. Much like GW2 where you don’t need ascended gear for anything other than fractals. Am i right?

What? If you play naturally for 1 or 2 months you’ll naturally get the mats to craft a piece of ascended gear. If you “grind” for it (i.e. do a few dungeons and buy the mats), you can get an entire set in that time period. Not quite sure how that constitutes a grind. It’s about the same amount of time it takes to level a character up to max level from scratch, without crafting or doing champ trains.

I don’t even do fractals so I don’t know how much ascended gear helps there.

In WoW, you need BiS gear to do anything, whether it’s PvP, raiding or just general PvE. Otherwise you fall behind everyone else and can’t compete for mobs and resource nodes. That’s not the case in gw2. The only things that slightly resemble grinding in gw2 are dungeon farming and champ training. Both are highly optional.

Also, try playing Maplestory for a month, then tell me GW2 has grind. Seriously. That game has decent action based combat, but oh my god the grind!

Not true for WoW. Please stop lying.

71 tequatl kills and no drops

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Could have had a full suit of raid gear in WoW with the amount of times you spent killing him…

More like full Raid gear and decked out in full pvp gear as well. And the encounters would have been more challenging and fun.

edit: And probably had a couple rare mounts drop, and be able to outfit alts with other drops, and made a substantial amount of gold, and got some crafting mats, and etc,etc,etc.

This is spot on. Time spent within GW2 isn’t rewarding, when considering the atrocious drop rates and the extreme grind. The skins aren’t that amazing.

I always have something to do in WoW. Always. Here in GW2, I log on, linger in Lion’s Arch for 15 minutes and then just log off. Nothing is interesting or challenging enough.

The dailies absolutely killed the game for me.

Super Gear Grind?

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That’s because you’re doing it wrong.

Well… not doing it wrong… looking at it wrong. Combat in GW2 isn’t about what you can put out for damage (at least from a WvW perspective). There are also factors that involve damage reduction or prevention as well. That 14% perceived advantage can be negated with a single dodge for example timed well. When you look beyond the “perfect example against a dummy just standing there”, the reality is that even that 14% doesn’t mean squat in the grand scheme of things.

Getting real tired of the dishonest argumentation where people try to attach a zero value to a non zero advantage. You can’t dodge everything, of course. Want to try again?

Super Gear Grind?

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I just gotta laugh over people talking about endless raid grinds in WoW. You can only complete them once per week and I spend about 4-5 hours doing so because it’s real, permanent content and it’s actually fun. How long would it take me to gear one character in GW2 if I only spent 4-5 hrs a week in game?

0 weeks.

You’d have enough money saved from leveling to buy multiple sets of level 80 exotics.

What if I want to do high level fractals? Or serious WvW. You need ascended.

Super Gear Grind?

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I just gotta laugh over people talking about endless raid grinds in WoW. You can only complete them once per week and I spend about 4-5 hours doing so because it’s real, permanent content and it’s actually fun. How long would it take me to gear one character in GW2 if I only spent 4-5 hrs a week in game?

Wildstar - NCsoft's next project...

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Won’t play it because NCsoft. Already had one terrible experience with one of their games.

You never know what you had till you lose it

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I also agree with Latinkuro about the addon statement. I played WoW for years and used tons of addons which all seemed to be too good to be true. Well, you surely can understand the frustration when suddenly addons won’t get supported anymore and WoW brings the next big update.

And seriously, if you played WoW with fully configured keys (and you need more keys in WoW than you have fingers on 3 hands) and then go back to the standard settings… no way!!

All of the major addons get updated within a few days after a patch release.

You never know what you had till you lose it

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I went from WoW to Rift and then to GW2 and now I occasionally play a little Rift (now that it’s f2p) just to remind myself why I left it.

Combat in Rift is reduced to compiling all your skills in order of cooldowns, write a macro putting these in order from highest to lowest (one for ranged & one for melee) and assigning these to 1-3 keys. Walk up to an enemy mob, stand rooted (no reason to move unless out of a rare AoE) and start clicking your macro and wait until they are dead.

The combat in GW2 by comparison is so much more dynamic and skill based that I find myself spending hours just running around killing the same mobs over and over. Not to farm, not as part of any daily or gear ‘grind’, just because I love the dance that the GW2 combat system affords.

I also don’t understand how attaining things like ascended gear can be considered a grind in GW2. In WoW the only grind I decided to do was to get the mount I wanted. This could only be done by staying in one location, killing a specific group of mobs on a small hill…over and over and over and over….ad nauseum. I might as well have been playing the same level of PacMan for days on end. After days of this I finally got my mount, carpel tunnel, and a vow to never do a grind again.

By contrast look at what is considered a ‘grind’ in GW2 to get ascended materials. You can do temple events in Orr, jumping puzzles or mini dungeons, WvW, hunt down Champs, go to lower level zones and do some casual gathering, slay dragons or other world bosses, do dungeons or fractals…in other words playing the game. If one doesn’t enjoy doing any of those things and consider them a tedious grind then I find it hard to think they enjoy the game at all.

For me GW2 far outshines all other mmo’s on every level, and even most games in general. So much so that all it takes is a few minutes of stale mindless gameplay of other games to having me running and dodge-rolling back to GW2.

And what mount was that?

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Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.

WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.

Yes, you are. While you can’t cast everything while moving, you can cast some things and you certainly aren’t rooted in one place for a duration of the fight.

It’s more like evolving rather than desperately playing catch up, while GW2 devolved by introducing an obvious, flat out gigantic grind with the introduction of ascended gear.

Warlock 2.5 sec rooted Shadow Bolt fillers and 3 sec rooted Chaos Bolts ftl.

I went back and watched our Heroic kill of Deathwing and it was just awful, sitting there, rocking back and forth casting shadowbolt fillers. Ugh, never again.

Cataclysm ended over a year ago. You obviously don’t even play any more, like most of the others here, and therefore have no idea what you’re talking about.

I will say this, however. Roleplaying a zergling and spamming 1 doesn’t sound like much fun.

Just looked it up on WoWhead, buddy. Nothing has changed, those spells root you like a turret making for the most BORING combat mechanics ever created.

The spec that casts chaos bolt, doesn’t have access to shadow bolt. And each spec has the ability to cast their main spell while moving, if they so choose. Stop being dishonest.

What makes the combat here so great? Dodge? I tried this game and found it to be awful. What strategy is there? What optimization? You just run up and spam your tiny number of buttons because it doesn’t matter. And dodge once in a while, randomly, because you can’t see past the particle spam.

Solo PvE isn’t a challenge, in dungeons you pull to a wall and stack, and in WvW/world champ farming, you roleplay a zergling and spam 1.

Because plugging in macros and boss mods make a game challenging?

WoW is such a borefest spreadsheet game, it got completely ridiculous when we could predict down to the hour when we would take a boss down because a tank got a shield drop or a healer got a trinket. It’s no wonder they lost 3 million subs since GW2 launched.

And yet only a small percentage of people manage to complete heroic raids.

Your oversimplification is dishonest.

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Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.

WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.

Yes, you are. While you can’t cast everything while moving, you can cast some things and you certainly aren’t rooted in one place for a duration of the fight.

It’s more like evolving rather than desperately playing catch up, while GW2 devolved by introducing an obvious, flat out gigantic grind with the introduction of ascended gear.

Warlock 2.5 sec rooted Shadow Bolt fillers and 3 sec rooted Chaos Bolts ftl.

I went back and watched our Heroic kill of Deathwing and it was just awful, sitting there, rocking back and forth casting shadowbolt fillers. Ugh, never again.

Cataclysm ended over a year ago. You obviously don’t even play any more, like most of the others here, and therefore have no idea what you’re talking about.

I will say this, however. Roleplaying a zergling and spamming 1 doesn’t sound like much fun.

Just looked it up on WoWhead, buddy. Nothing has changed, those spells root you like a turret making for the most BORING combat mechanics ever created.

The spec that casts chaos bolt, doesn’t have access to shadow bolt. And each spec has the ability to cast their main spell while moving, if they so choose. Stop being dishonest.

What makes the combat here so great? Dodge? I tried this game and found it to be awful. What strategy is there? What optimization? You just run up and spam your tiny number of buttons because it doesn’t matter. And dodge once in a while, randomly, because you can’t see past the particle spam.

Solo PvE isn’t a challenge, in dungeons you pull to a wall and stack, and in WvW/world champ farming, you roleplay a zergling and spam 1.

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Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.

WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.

Yes, you are. While you can’t cast everything while moving, you can cast some things and you certainly aren’t rooted in one place for a duration of the fight.

It’s more like evolving rather than desperately playing catch up, while GW2 devolved by introducing an obvious, flat out gigantic grind with the introduction of ascended gear.

Warlock 2.5 sec rooted Shadow Bolt fillers and 3 sec rooted Chaos Bolts ftl.

I went back and watched our Heroic kill of Deathwing and it was just awful, sitting there, rocking back and forth casting shadowbolt fillers. Ugh, never again.

Cataclysm ended over a year ago. You obviously don’t even play any more, like most of the others here, and therefore have no idea what you’re talking about.

I will say this, however. Roleplaying a zergling and spamming 1 doesn’t sound like much fun.

You never know what you had till you lose it

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Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.

WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.

Yes, you are. While you can’t cast everything while moving, you can cast some things and you certainly aren’t rooted in one place for a duration of the fight.

It’s more like evolving rather than desperately playing catch up, while GW2 devolved by introducing an obvious, flat out gigantic grind with the introduction of ascended gear.

You never know what you had till you lose it

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Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

Super Gear Grind?

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When I reached max level in WoW, I was running the latest content within 3 days. Minimal grind and I didn’t have to spend a boatload of money to level my crafting stuff in order to do this. And I enjoy running raids.

It sure beats running around in GW2 and roleplaying a zergling, spamming 1. What is there to do here other than running champ trains, running in a zerg in WvW (assuming you’re on a balanced tier, otherwise don’t bother), completing the sloppy “Living Story” content or grinding 10,000 silk?

LOL, all of the “horizontal progression” is in the gem store.

Question about classes?

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Just play a warrior. Easy-peasy and does top damage.

PVE Thief who wants to return. UNBALANCED

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Anet promised us we could play however we wanted. I want to go healway thief with only a mainhand pistol and out-DPS everyone else, but I can’t. Anet has broken its promise and my heart for the last time. Q.Q

Cool story bro.
Tell me again how much PVE you play with thief.

PVE needs to be balanced in General. I don’t mean to single out one class like I said, it’s just what I have the most experience with.

Seperate PVE from WvW, and balance the classes already. Simply stated.

My advice? Don’t waste your time.

While I like the thief class concept, the execution was poor. Why bother when a warrior can do everything better? They’ve had over a year and class balance is still atrocious.

Let`s speculate

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Listen. Two months from now will be about a year and a half from release. A year and a half after GW1 release, we already had Factions and Nightfall. That’s two new continents, four new classes, two new skillsets for all classes, new PvP modes, two entirely new stories, multiple elite dungeons, and bunches of other things. At near the same point in GW2 we’ve got…Southsun? Fractals? Temporary content? Did you guys set the bar too high last time or what?

In two months we’d better be sailing ships into Cantha. Zhaitan is dead; the path is open. Let’s go already.

Don,t remind me. How did a dev so based like Anet that was so dynamic back in the first year and half of Guild Wars 1, into a dev of a game that don’t feel like moving forward at all, with all it’s temporary content, with most of it’s new weapons and armors being cash shop only, with still no light at the end of the balance tunnel.

The game right now is centered around RNG, farming, zergfest, dailies and the cash shop with no fun allowed to a disgusting level.

I think the problem is that when gw2 launched Nexon took over 15% of NCsoft and Anet hired a former Nexon employee with no experience or passion whatsoever in the GW franchise and appointed him/her to a high level monetary/design position which probably caused a big shift in the dev team and some original gw2 devs to leave.
I think Anet was originally intending to deliver GW1 style expansions every 6 months or so which would have contained a lot of deep permanent content but the whole Nexon fiasco caused them to switch focus to temporary events every 2 weeks.
Sad what happened to a game with so much potential, I just hope Nexon will not have the power to influence Wildstar or Blade & Soul in any way.

Thats something i didnt know and is pretty shocking

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-08-nexon-acquires-15-percent-stake-in-ncsoft
“Nexon acquires 15% stake in NCsoft”

http://my.mmosite.com/2221790/blog/item/guild_wars_2_team_hires_nexon_employee_as_cash_shop_manager_changes_already_apparent.html
“Guild Wars 2 team hires Nexon employee as cash shop manager, changes already apparent”

Ooohhh, so they put a FTP games company in charge over the cash shop? ok i just lost every hope i had

Yup. Time to move on.

Anyone else simply bored?

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Taking a break as of today, can’t even motivate myself to log for dailies – the time gating (especially for ascended rings etc) and ascended in general being untradable killed off the fun elements of the game for me and turned it into alt hell…20+ days of logging in every day just to be able to craft one ring,,I HAD 18 lvl 80’s in exotics, deleted 10 of them as I realised I would never be able to kit them out, then ascended armors come in.

Considering I have 4 builds just for one of my toons I’ve yet to kit him out with a full set of ascended armor, he’s still missing all ascended trinkets and the only way I’d just trinkets is through laurels, which is just stupid when they make the trinkets untradable.

The runs I have tried in fractals always break down after 2 or 3 out of the total needed to advance a level or secure decent loot, and jump puzzles have never been my thing.

Maybe when they realise what a balls up they have made and make the kitten stuff tradable they might get some players back.

B-B-B-But you don’t need ascended gear! You can do all of the available content in exotics!

Unless of course you like WvW. Then enjoy getting stomped by ascended players who have a 10%+ damage advantage over you. But hey, you can still do WvW in exotics! Nothing is stopping you!

tequatl empty all the time

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Why, if the revamped Teq dropped decent rewards then you wouldn’t be logging on everyday to grind out your ascended! Did you think you get to play how you want?

No, you get to play the way ANet wants you play. And you’ll like it!

Few questions from new player.

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Keep in mind, OP, that the world that you’re experiencing now, is what you can expect at 80. Your gear will be better, but you will still be scaled down to the appropriate level for a specific zone. Nothing is really different at 80, except that you will be pigeon-holed into a specific gear set up, and one of a few cookie cutter builds in order to maximize your effectiveness.

Begone troll. OP the game is whatever you choose to make it. Grumpy here is talking about a specific subset of the player base. Coming from WoW you’ll know the type when you see it.

You will be scaled but as you level up you will also unlock skills to pump up your power level a little vs a true level x. There are lots of helpful people in game, just ask around a bit.

Nah, not really. I tried a variety of builds for both my thief and mesmer, as well as different gear setups. Only one or two builds standout for each, and I chose to use what is most effective. I don’t even bother trying anything else out because this game has very poor build variety.

Why would you knowingly handicap yourself?

tequatl empty all the time

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You know, I gave this revamped event more than enough chances. But I simply refuse to sit in Sparkfly Fen for an hour to an hour and a half in order to avoid being placed into overflow with 15 people.

And avoiding overflow is absolutely no guarantee of success.

Few questions from new player.

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Keep in mind, OP, that the world that you’re experiencing now, is what you can expect at 80. Your gear will be better, but you will still be scaled down to the appropriate level for a specific zone. Nothing is really different at 80, except that you will be pigeon-holed into a specific gear set up, and one of a few cookie cutter builds in order to maximize your effectiveness.

Let`s speculate

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Well this was a buzzkill. I just started playing GW2, and even though I’m late to the party, I’m loving it! How can people hate on it this much? I pretty much despise WoW so I’m not sure how people are saying they might go back to WoW, the least interactive, least immersive, most gear based, calculator combat ever invented. The combat, the questing system, are all far better here in my rookie humble opinion.
I’ll admit that I never really got into GW1, but from my limited experience with it, it was entirely instanced right? No open world filled with other players, if you left town at all it was an instance. Anyways, I like this much better.

Hearts are disguised as the most grindiest quests.

Hearts are disguised as the grindiest quests?

Here is a quest in a normal MMO:

1. Go to this area.
2. Talk to this npc.
3. Pick up the quest.
4. Go kill 15 boars.
5. Return to the npc.
6. Pick up new quest.

Here is a quest in GWII:

1. Be in this area.
2. There are 3-5 objectives, you can do whichever of them you want to. Or mix and match.
3. Go about your day.

How on earth is that a grindy quest?

The only “innovative” thing with the heart system is that it lets you pick your poison. Choices boil down to collect, kill, or some combination of both. And this, at the cost of having any sort of overarching story for a specific zone.

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What burns me up the most is their silence treatment behavior it’s the complete opposite from before launch. We used to get a lot of articles about development and now they behave like I could tell you but you are on a no need to know basis or I could tell you but I’d have to kill you. Then they wonder why we have no faith in them.
I want to hear a confirm of an expansion, new zones or elder dragon 2 is coming before the end of June or at the latest August, and gem support for 2014 has already fallen to 0% opposite quite a hundred dollars in 2013 and that is a direct result of poor armor and weapon looks being added to the store only and none for merchant sales.
GW1-100% dedication to player base, GW 2 dedicated to the store only after all this is a business first and we are here simply to be milked.

So yeah let’s speculate we’re getting the 4 last episodes of that Silvary adult child putting up a tantrum. Not even a hint at a content interview for 2014. I speculate to become an EX player by August’s end.
P.S: No MMORPG can survive without an expansion not even if it’s replaced by by-weekly updates.

Honestly, I’m surprised that they haven’t explored the fact that the human gods are gone. Would’ve been fun to learn more about that in game, but instead we get Rita Repulsa, uh…I mean “Scarlet”.

Let`s speculate

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Well this was a buzzkill. I just started playing GW2, and even though I’m late to the party, I’m loving it! How can people hate on it this much? I pretty much despise WoW so I’m not sure how people are saying they might go back to WoW, the least interactive, least immersive, most gear based, calculator combat ever invented. The combat, the questing system, are all far better here in my rookie humble opinion.
I’ll admit that I never really got into GW1, but from my limited experience with it, it was entirely instanced right? No open world filled with other players, if you left town at all it was an instance. Anyways, I like this much better.

I find that most people base their opinion of WoW and what it was several years ago but it’s different now. At least there, I get a story. It’s not the best story, admittedly, but it’s better than the incoherent mishmash that it is here. Hearts are disguised as the most grindiest quests. And the combat here? Come on. It’s 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 and randomly dodge once in a while because you can’t see tells due to particle effect spam.

Look, I’m disappointed with the game too but it doesn’t help your case to misrepresent other games. I gave GW2 a shot. They’ve had about a year and a half to fix things but chose to take it in a different location. I saw the writing on the wall and moved on.

Time Gating - Problem Solved!

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I already dreaded logging in because of the dailies. The time gated crafting just snuffed out any desire left to log in.

Being rewarded for being evil

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1. Fix the issue where the dungeon ends if the party leader is kicked.
2. Implement a “kick timer” and require at least 3 people to confirm a kick. That way, if you abuse your kick privileges you’ll get timer that will cap out at 3-4 hrs. So people who kick randoms every dungeon run in order to bring in friends or guildies will very quickly face a four hour timer between kicks. The timer will start to go down if you abstain from kicking. The lesson here is : stop abusing it.

People who get kicked often, for ya know, playing an unapproved class in a dungeon will gain kick immunity after suffering through several kicks for daring to play the “wrong” class. Maybe this way, people who have the audacity to play something like a necromancer or an engineer will get to use the LFG tool and actually complete dungeons.

AP Needs to be private

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They don’t measure skill. The measure your ability and patience for completing a list full of tedious chores.

What Guild Wars 2 is doing right.

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In the other MMO I play, the quests advance the story and there is a unique story in every zone. Here, it’s a random mishmash of events and NPCs which don’t make any cohesive sense. You’re just doing little chores for the handful of people scattered throughout the area.

What’s the overarching theme of Queensdale, after you become the “Hero of Shaemoor” in the first 5 minutes of play? Choo-choo-champ train?

Hearts are just really grindy quests in disguise, and many DE’s are just escort quests. There is really nothing new here, except for a shockingly bad, bare bones story.

Will these PC specs support ultra settings?

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GW2 doesn’t play nicely with AMD processors.

You need to improve teamwork in this game.

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Improve teamwork? It’s already amazing !

Relax, become one with zerg. Your thoughts with their thoughts. Your auto-attacks with their auto-attacks. What could be more cooperative than 20 people working in auto-harmony?

Mesmer or Thief?

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I have both, and I find Mesmers to be a lot more fun.

New Legendaries to compete with ESO?

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How about no?

When I first heard about legendary weapons, I wondered about what possible cool and challenging activities I’ll have to complete in order to get one. You know, because it’s a “legendary” weapon.

Then I found out that it’s a gigantic and expensive GRIND. Though I do suppose there is one challenging activity associated with these weapons. You need legendary patience when using the mystic toilet.

Bought Guild Wars 2 18 December 2013

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You’re still getting some of the best gaming value for your dollar:

- No sub fee
– Constantly updated content
– Everything in the cash shop can be bought with in game currency instead of cash

1. Right, no sub fee
2. Living Story content is mostly temporary.
3. Tell him how much gold he would need to farm in order to buy an 800 gem item.

Done with fractals...

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Well, you get what you pay for

GW2 is a Casual gamer's dream

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Really? I never had a problem and found the community way more tolerable than the GW2 dungeoning community. Open Raid is not illegal btw and it lets you list requirements. Don’t like them? Then don’t join.

Also if they are heroic geared there is no reason for them to be in Flex unless they are helping a friend out.

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Heh, what pressure? I decided to take a more relaxed approach with this expansion and just stuck with lfr and whatever else I found fun. Haven’t felt pressured otherwise. I do feel pressure in this game though, mainly feeling forced to log in and rush through temporary content in order to experience it all and collect my AP.

I wanted to be able to play with my guild mates, so I had to ‘catch up.’ There was no way around playing that catch up, and they didn’t enjoy ‘coming down’ to my level because they’d already done it. It offered no challenge.

GW2 doesn’t create the same feeling for me. I don’t have to ‘catch up’ (in gear) to access content. Hell, if I want to run my sorry lvl 20 toon to Orr, I can…although it might result in some expensive repairs. If I want to take that lvl 20 through CM with a guild group, I can. Nothing is barred to me because my gear rating wasn’t ‘xyz’, like it was in WoW.

Additionally, going back to lower level areas can still be enjoyable, since we’re not one shoting everything. Admitted, downscaling does still need some work, more so now with the addition of ascended gear.

Flex raids through Open Raid. Problem solved.

No content is barred to you as you get to see all of it if you use their catch up mechanic. I was ready in a day or two.

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Also, yes GW2 has a pretty steep gear grind. I was able to gear myself out much faster in WoW than I am in GW2. But GW2 doesn’t pressure me nearly as much as WoW did to get the gear. Yea, it would be nice and really helpful to have full ascended, but at the end of the day, the game leaves it up to you, and doesn’t restrict you from anything but Fractals. GW2 is more casual friendly than almost any game out there, sans the ascended gear tier.

See, I had the exact opposite experience when it came to being geared in WoW. Additionally, there really weren’t as many options available for looks, at least to me. Several that I ended up interested in for transmuting purposes where no longer available or people did not bother doing that content. Complete and utter nightmare. I did definitely feel the gear pressure, which ruined my play. Always working for something that negates all the time I put in previously…because I couldn’t play the game otherwise… yeah, no thanks.

While GW2 does have the ascended bullkitten, I feel no pressure to obtain it. Oh, I;m sure I will eventually, but it’s not like I locked out of anything even if I never do. This I like immensely. Hopefully, they will take the suggestions and opinions in the CDI to heart and give us additional means of acquisition (outside of crafting, like via karma or dungeons), which will make a lot of people happy.

In all honesty, the only real reason it takes so little time to gear up in WoW now is because of the Looking for Raid feature. Works just like a dungeon queue, and get free epics. But the pressure to move beyond LFR into Heroic mode and get better loot got old fast. I think most people are tired of the treadmills. If it had been the WoW of Cata, sure it would have taken a lot longer.

Heh, what pressure? I decided to take a more relaxed approach with this expansion and just stuck with lfr and whatever else I found fun. Haven’t felt pressured otherwise. I do feel pressure in this game though, mainly feeling forced to log in and rush through temporary content in order to experience it all and collect my AP.

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What’s wrong with Pandaria? I certainly have more fun there than I ever did here.

I have access to all the content and I can complete higher difficulties if I so desire.

GW2 is a Casual gamer's dream

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I don’t get the reasoning over subs. I pay for internet and cable subs and they are both significantly more than a measly $15 a month. Yet, I don’t feel compelled to use both of them 24/7 in order to get my money’s worth or else risk feeling like I’m “missing out”.

You pay for access and quality service. Maybe if everyone here in GW2 paid $5 or $10 a month, we’d get something better than Scarlet and temporary content.

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I can’t tell you what to do, but I was incredibly bored at 80. Ascended gear is a massive grind and very expensive…and that’s after you level your crafting to 500 which is a trial in itself. Combat is incredibly shallow, consisting of mostly zergplay and auto attacking. In dungeons you get to skip all the trash mobs and mindlessly mash your buttons on cool down on boss fights while dodging once in a while.

The temporary content is mostly poor storytelling latched onto an AP grindfest. I stopped bothering with it a long time ago because I didn’t like that feeling of log on now or miss out forever.

Basically this is supposed to be a horizontal progression game but it doesn’t have the content to support that kind of play. Gemshop items don’t count.

Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto

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manifestos are the things of the past….

Sadly so is Guildwars 2 it seems, especially with 2014 just around the corner..

I’m not saying this in malice, i feel their manifesto was the right direction and listening to the “end gamers” back then was misdirection.

One of which has had repercussions to this day..

See this is particularly the kind of comment this forum doesn’t need. You don’t know how healthy the game is. You don’t know how many people are actually enjoying it. But you say that the game will be a thing of the past, with no evidence whatsoever.

This is not a post that’s helpful or constructive. It is, in fact, just a future prediction based on the fact that some people don’t like this game. Well some people don’t like WoW, but they seem to be doing okay.

It’s so easy to make comments like this, but they’re usually based on people assuming that more people share their opinion than is actually the case.

WoW is shedding players pretty quickly. What is sad though? Their fix is to copy game mechanics from GW2 which the players don’t want in that game. Timeless Isle is a bit of a joke. And they plan to produce their next expansion around those ideas. smh.

Starting to think there is just one big water cooler that all mmo devs drink out of.

Such as? What’s wrong with Timeless Isle? It allows new players or players who’ve come back after a significant break from the game (like me) to experience the current raid content.

Sigh. When they decided to start being “nice” to all the casual weekenders, and instituted the lfr system, and the lfg system, and welfare epics is when the game started shedding players.

There’s a timeline some poster made up over on their forums. It’s pretty telling that when WoW started being casual friendly was when their sub numbers tanked.

The moral here is that instead of chasing players, just design a quality game and stay true to your design philosophy….whatever that may be.

WoW started being “casual friendly” during Lich King and subs were at an all time high.

And? They didn’t remove anything. They added tools and ways for more people to see the content. You know, those things called raids that the vast majority of people never even set foot in during Burning Crusade. Raids, which they spend significant resources in order to create.

By the way, WoW, a 9 year old game, has more active players than this one does.

lol, all you have to do is look at sub numbers historically. The more casual friendly? the worse the numbers. And they continue to go down that road, it boggles.

Lich was BIG, and it was good content (most of it) and they were riding the wave of TBC. They didn’t add much during Lich that was overtly casual, although they did dumb down the instances and started homogenizing the classes. As the whine grew, and the devs added more and more casual friendly content, they lost their core player base.

I don’t have to defend the statement. It speaks for itself. The more casual friendly WoW has become, the fewer players it has. Of course the casuals would blame it on something else.

Maybe they’re leaving because it’s a 9 year old game that they’ve spent a lot of time on, and now that there are other options they want to try them out? It’s pretty simplistic to say sub numbers are dropping because it got “more casual” where there could be a variety of reasons as to why subs are dropping.

Also, much of what made vanilla and burning crusade “hardcore” was just pointless difficulty and time gating. There’s the challenge that comes with defeating a well designed encounter with functioning classes, and then there’s the “challenge” that comes with defeating an encounter because you stacked the right classes (and pigeon holed the weaker ones into a singular role) and spent a couple of weeks grinding mats so you could craft the resist armor needed to trivialize said encounter.

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manifestos are the things of the past….

Sadly so is Guildwars 2 it seems, especially with 2014 just around the corner..

I’m not saying this in malice, i feel their manifesto was the right direction and listening to the “end gamers” back then was misdirection.

One of which has had repercussions to this day..

See this is particularly the kind of comment this forum doesn’t need. You don’t know how healthy the game is. You don’t know how many people are actually enjoying it. But you say that the game will be a thing of the past, with no evidence whatsoever.

This is not a post that’s helpful or constructive. It is, in fact, just a future prediction based on the fact that some people don’t like this game. Well some people don’t like WoW, but they seem to be doing okay.

It’s so easy to make comments like this, but they’re usually based on people assuming that more people share their opinion than is actually the case.

WoW is shedding players pretty quickly. What is sad though? Their fix is to copy game mechanics from GW2 which the players don’t want in that game. Timeless Isle is a bit of a joke. And they plan to produce their next expansion around those ideas. smh.

Starting to think there is just one big water cooler that all mmo devs drink out of.

Such as? What’s wrong with Timeless Isle? It allows new players or players who’ve come back after a significant break from the game (like me) to experience the current raid content.

Sigh. When they decided to start being “nice” to all the casual weekenders, and instituted the lfr system, and the lfg system, and welfare epics is when the game started shedding players.

There’s a timeline some poster made up over on their forums. It’s pretty telling that when WoW started being casual friendly was when their sub numbers tanked.

The moral here is that instead of chasing players, just design a quality game and stay true to your design philosophy….whatever that may be.

WoW started being “casual friendly” during Lich King and subs were at an all time high.

And? They didn’t remove anything. They added tools and ways for more people to see the content. You know, those things called raids that the vast majority of people never even set foot in during Burning Crusade. Raids, which they spend significant resources in order to create.

By the way, WoW, a 9 year old game, has more active players than this one does.

Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto

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manifestos are the things of the past….

Sadly so is Guildwars 2 it seems, especially with 2014 just around the corner..

I’m not saying this in malice, i feel their manifesto was the right direction and listening to the “end gamers” back then was misdirection.

One of which has had repercussions to this day..

See this is particularly the kind of comment this forum doesn’t need. You don’t know how healthy the game is. You don’t know how many people are actually enjoying it. But you say that the game will be a thing of the past, with no evidence whatsoever.

This is not a post that’s helpful or constructive. It is, in fact, just a future prediction based on the fact that some people don’t like this game. Well some people don’t like WoW, but they seem to be doing okay.

It’s so easy to make comments like this, but they’re usually based on people assuming that more people share their opinion than is actually the case.

WoW is shedding players pretty quickly. What is sad though? Their fix is to copy game mechanics from GW2 which the players don’t want in that game. Timeless Isle is a bit of a joke. And they plan to produce their next expansion around those ideas. smh.

Starting to think there is just one big water cooler that all mmo devs drink out of.

Such as? What’s wrong with Timeless Isle? It allows new players or players who’ve come back after a significant break from the game (like me) to experience the current raid content.