Guild Wars 2

That is wonderful, very nice job.

Hmmm, a lot to noodle over. Thank you kindly all for your thoughts and opinions.

I did have a question on an excerpt of Lauree’s statement:

Lauree Akhtar.3205:

Crafting will always give you better gear than drops

Could someone explain what that means?

Is that because you can craft Ascended/Legendary which is always better then dropped exotics?
or
Do crafted items of the say, exotic rarity, have better stats then a similar dropped exotic?

Ahh, ok that makes sense now thanks

So I just opened my 3rd utility skill #9 but there is only one skill unlocked so far and it is already slotted in #7.

What good is skill 8 & 9 if there is nothing to put in there? Seems silly to unlock and just have it blank.

So from what I am hearing, the highest tier of stuff I may want for some reason, but really don’t need. I just looked up Ascended and from what I can tell it is about 5% better than the exotic stuff that I can get as drops or on the Trading Post, is that right? Is 5% a lot when you are top leveled?

I get that later in the game I may be missing out on some high end things, but crafting just seemed repetitive and kind of boring to me, not to mention expensive for us casual gamers.

As for the Legendary weapons, I have been to a few of those Group Boss events and it seems that everyone already has Legendary weapons. I was told the only difference is changing the stats and the pretty sparkles. I can see how changing stats is nice but the pretty stuff looks kind of boring when everyone has them. I counted 6 people with the black swords, 4 with the white ones and 3 people shooting unicorns.

It just seems like I am missing the boat about some key thing about crafting.

I have just recently gotten this account and am currently a L15 Guardian.
I am really only interested in Open World Player vs Environment.
Now I may make another character or two in the future but I am generally just looking for casual game play.

So with that said, is there any real reason why I would need to do crafting?
Is there any advantage to my basic game play style that would be to my advantage as opposed to just buying the stuff I need?

Thanks in advance for any responses.