Guild Wars 2

Straylight.7529:

xerties.7389:

Malistaire.5287:

Sorry but the new player experience is awful. I hate being gated on abilities and part of the leveling fun was being involved in the story every few levels. Now I’m grinding to get to the next wall of content. It’s just terrible and boring.

are you actually a new player?

How do you notice gated abilities and the story changes?

He’s not claiming that he’s a new player. Sounds to me like a vetaran upset about not being able to escape the NPE.

Ah I see

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Ok, created a new character: warrior.

First, because you can only use the first two skills after the starter area, please give the warrior an axe. The second skill of a sword is useless if you don’t have the rest.

Starter area: boring. No need to do anything, the NPC’s will kill it, just leave on auto attack, move from your pc and come back after 5 minutes. It’ll be done. No need for more work as you don’t get anything out of it anyway, not even weapon unlocks.

Leveling: horribly slow due to the very slow killing speed of the sword. It got a bit better when I finally got an axe, but it’s simply not fun. What the game now is saying: you better do the hearts because any other way simply won’t give you enough XP before you fall asleep from boredom. When I finished my lvl5 heart, I still wasn’t lvl6 so underleveled for the next area. And gaining XP with simple killing is soooooooo slow (due to a very slow killing speed because, well, you’d guess, no weapon skills but 1 and 2). I did catch two or three events.

I gave up and tried again. This time with a ranger.

Hey, you can actually change the weapon a character starts with! So you gave the ranger the most useless weapon for a starter: the longbow. Every starter won’t read the text that says you should go at a distance before you get the most damage. Besides, a starter will mostly be solo and as non-ranged foes will always move towards the player, you’ll be attacking foes at melee range with a longbow. Yep, very instructive… Especially as you cannot guide your pet around or even name it (because a new player might be confused at giving his pet a name?).

I loved the leveling process, from lvl1 to 70 (the last 10 levels I always found a bit boring, at that point I usually wanted it to be done :p). Right now, I’m bored out of my mind…

I started a new warrior too – my experience was that it was a heck of a lot of fun – he is now 22 which is my highest character in GW2. Loved the changes – perhaps they arent designed for alts in mind.

That is the only issue I see – giving alts an option to have their skills at the start and allowing the new players a more gradual introduction

Malistaire.5287:

Sorry but the new player experience is awful. I hate being gated on abilities and part of the leveling fun was being involved in the story every few levels. Now I’m grinding to get to the next wall of content. It’s just terrible and boring.

are you actually a new player?

How do you notice gated abilities and the story changes?

theerrantventure.9185:

I tried GW2 at launch. I loved everything about the game. The art, the sound, the dynamic combat, the personal story, all of it. I drifted away after getting to level 80 due to real life obligations. I took a break from all MMOs and games.

As a 30 year old with a full time job, and a wife and toddler at home, I find GW2 to be a refreshing MMO to come back to. I can devote the last hour or two of my busy days, after the chores are done and the kid is in bed, to adventuring in game. I don’t feel pressured to grind my alts to 80 just to be part of some gear treadmill.

The new leveling features are great! Having just come back to GW2 they add a refreshing experience to my leveling. The new leveling splash screens and rewards list give me a sense of accomplishment. I didn’t used to get than previously when leveling. Heck, there were times when I didn’t even notice that I leveled under the old system.

I’ve also started PvP for the first time in any MMO. I’ve found an active WvW guild and it’s AMAZING. I’ve hated PvP in every MMO I’ve tried (EQ, WoW, Rift, the list goes on.) I love that I can run with a huge group to PvP or I can branch off and capture resources and solo players on my own terms.

I’ve very glad to have come back into the community. I know lots of folks are upset by recent updates and that’s fine. Everyone can have their own feelings. That’s the great thing about GW2, there’s no messy subscription to cancel or worry about. If you don’t like where the game is now, take a break, try something else out.

I guarantee you’ll be back. We’ll keep the lights on for ya.

Sounds very similar to me (except I got a necro to 40 in the old system) I’m really rating these changes!

Swoo.5079:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Testing was done predominantly in the west focused on players who played guild wars 2 today, people who played gw2 at launch and left, people who heavily play other MMORPG’s, and people who heavily play RPG’s. We did all of this testing ourselves in the west, I’ll just kill right now that this is a system developed for China. It’s a system developed for the global game, period, because retaining new users at early levels wasn’t just a china problem we needed to solve, it’s a problem in the west too.

God who the heck are those players?

I just want all the goodies/tools/options from the get go.

Well I am for a start – that describes me exactly and from my point of view the patch has been fantastic

Shrug – I’m loving these changes playing through as a new warrior. The game seems clearer and there is a lot less overwhelm as a new player.

Only thing that I would like is a toggle for map completion as the direction arrow wouldnt suggest leaving a map until its complete.

Still a lot of things that could be clarified but overall IMHO this is the best