Sadly some need a gear treadmill...
GW2 is so fun
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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A friend tried to get me into gw2. I played for a while and my general sentiment was that there was a lot of stuff I could do, but no reason to do any of them. I don't remember much about the game, only that I described it like that to him.
The only reason you should have to play a game is to be entertained. Everything else is second.
I mean that's pretty much every MMO nowadays.
Gw2 is simply amazing
My friends can't handle no vertical progression for some reason unfortunately. But this game was recommended to me by a friend that played it occasionally before path of fire and I play it since
This was my wife when I introduced the game to her ❤️
I actually had an opposite reaction - I'm a f2p player and it started really strong. I loved the initial story and how you could have choices (be it how you want to do the story or dialogue choices based on your character's personality), the world and how it had actual personality through the whole meta event system and heart tasks, crafting, loads of free content - it was great.
However, after reaching level 80, getting personal story finished, crafting exotic armor and weapons I was pretty much out of things to do. I tried PvP and WvW but didn't particularly enjoy them, though Fractals were quite interesting but got basically completely ruined when me and my duo hit a wall and experienced players were just running through everything with me having to play constant catch up and bosses melting in under a minute.
Now I just occasionally log in to do dailies, maybe do some fractals too to work on some ascended gear (money for 500 crafting + the ascended rings) - that's pretty much it.
I guess that's just how F2P goes in games where most content is P2P.
GW2 has actually had remarkably little powercreep compared to other games, but even so, there's still enough that players without a glider, mounts, elite specs, etc will struggle to keep up.
I wish there was a way for players to reduce their own power in OW in exchange for slightly increased rewards, even if those rewards were account bound. Most players would go for this (I think) and it would reduce how much stuff gets obliterated in seconds without making players feel like they got nerfed.
The drawback of game being based on horizontal progression is that at this point when you reach level 80 you have to find your own goals, if that's getting ascended gear, leveling and learning new classes, farming gold, unlocking skins or something else.
Maybe getting the living story and expansions would be a good next step since it adds more story content and open world maps to play through, as well as more friendly instanced content in form of strike missions and eventually raids (once you're ready to tackle them).
And yeah fractals are fun but people tend to speedrun them a lot since most people are experienced with them. Try clarifying in your LFG that you want to learn and practice instead of speedrun.
My friends talked me into playing it but I only lasted a day. Any time I asked how to get anything cool the answer was always like "just play through the entire 3rd expansion"
It wasn't fun running behind a bunch of people on mounts I wouldn't be able to get for several weeks
Don't you get a Raptor mount at level 10 when you have bought any of the existing expansions, i. e. HoT, PoF or EoD?
right now yes, maybe he played before that change
Yep, before August 2nd 2022, but it must have been such a horrible experience that it was still haunting him/her more than a year later. 😏
It really keeps me up at night. I definitely wasn't reminded of it when I saw a post in All saying the opposite of my experience was true
You should give it another try 😉
I mean, you could literally get a raptor in less than an hour of gameplay...
Unless you're talking Warclaw in WvW, in which case yeah that sucks but then again so does all the rest of WvW. And it'd have nothing to do with the 3rd expansion.
If you didn't like it that's fine, but there's no need to make up nonsense.
I also wonder why you're here, too, if you only played for a day, didn't like it, and quit. Not saying you shouldn't be here, just puzzled as to why you'd spend your time here, that's all.
People browse all, that's how I found this.
Also just because you can get a mount easily now doesn't mean you could when they played.
I couldn't get a mount easily last time I played without just spending money. That was a couple years ago but the game has been out for a long time.