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The best and only good ''MMO''.

Longasc, on 15 May 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:

This gets to the heart of the matter, as I am perceiving it. If I want to play outdoors PvE events, well then, I'm just a farmer, and everyone knows farmers just wreck the game.

I know I'm supposed to run fractals or other dungeons or WvW over and over...that's legit, and it's what I'm supposed to do, and that's not farming.

Hmm.

Bloggi, I play it on my Engi...the more the merrier, before the change...but within my observations, you're right about the scaling, especially now it seems easier to deal with the champ wraiths with two or three people who can watch one another and tag-team the beast. When one pops out to heal, the other goes in to fight.

But I'll gladly wear the shameful mantle and admit, sometimes I just want a place where you can kind of zone and fight and listen to some good music, without being utterly involved at 100% mentally. Sometimes I just want to play for fun, but not have it be a waste of time rewards-wise. Does this make me a terribad person? I hope not...I don't think I'm the only one

NuclearDonut, on 10 May 2013 - 12:43 AM, said:

You can work around this with invisible bags/safeboxes, but I agree it's pretty lame.

The concept of holding any guild member accountable for mandatory attendance in a video game is absurd.

Fox Reeveheart, on 18 April 2013 - 02:17 PM, said:

Umm...how can I put this delicately...

You're not nearly as eloquent as you think you are.  I'm not saying that playing through the GW2 story will fix your grammatical and rhetorical shortcomings, but you may not want to be so averse to any continuing education.  Even if you were perfectly eloquent and adept in literary composition, there's always a good reason to seek higher learning.

lol, if we had hammer-wielding Rangers it would be the return of bunny thumpers! Linnea would lead the charge.

NuclearDonut, on 17 March 2013 - 05:15 AM, said:

Wait,, so it is more of a grind doing things you would be doing anyway than it is to run the very same dungeon over and over and over and over and over and over again?

On topic: I doubt it. 5g is nothing in the grand scheme of things, and they ought not to have given access and then been unplesent. That's just asking for it.

I reeeeeaaallly doubt you'd get banned for this.

Personal story

Not group story. The clue is in the title. Having played the whole story through solo, as designed. The sudden requirement for a 5 person dungeon is just plain stupid.

I too have never done the final. Initially because of wtf now I need 4 others!!! but then because I watched a youtube vid of that dungeon, after that I have absolutely zero intention of bothering. I hated (and I really mean hated in it's most violent context) the whole Orr design and story line, and then it ends with one of the lamest game design lows of any game all-time. Rushed, lazy, stupid anti-climax. ANet's worst moment by far.

The need to redesign that last stoy, lose the dungeon, make it solo, and let us fight the goddamned dragon rather that that bs.

I don't know about others, but I personally get pretty tired of people coming onto the forums and asking us to "convince" them that they should play/not stop paying/come back to GW2.  If you gave up the game at lvl 50, its obviously because you didn't enjoy it.  It means very little to those of us that are still playing and still enjoying the game, other than that the game isn't for everyone... a fact of which we were already well aware.  

The OP lists his perceived flaws with the game, which amount to how its different from most other MMOs he likes.  So what?  The game is designed to be different.  There are dozens (maybe hundreds?) of carbon copy MMOs out there that are all equally good/bad to suit your tastes.  If you want to play WoW, go play WoW... don't ask or expect GW2 to be WoW so that you can have the same experience with better graphics.  If Korean grind machines are your thing, you find one and grind til your eyes bleed... those of us that play GW2 do so because we enjoy it and maybe because we DON'T WANT it to be like those other MMOs.  Sure, GW2 isn't perfect... it has some serious design flaws, buggy content and occasional mismanagement, but we play the game because we find it fun.  There's nothing more to say here OP... best to move on.

AKGeo, on 06 March 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

Sigh... such is life in 2013 when one is entitled to proper compensation and a meaningful feeling of accomplishment for farming in a video game.  If you don't find that a bit ridiculous, then I guess I certainly can't explain it, and I'll just leave it at that.

Anyone miss the days of going to playing an area is GW1 and hoping to get a storm bow, or a celestial skin or a chaos axe?

What about the icy dragon sword that only dropped in the imp caves?

Yes, I know that there are weapons that only drop in fractals, and if you farm a dungeon a million times, you get enough tokens to get some awesome armor - but what about doing some events in a area with the small hope of getting that perfect rare drop that only drops in a few places?

I miss that.

I think it is a way they could get players in to under-inhabited areas.

EDIT. PLEASE READ:

I am referring to specific skins of rare quality that would make them highly desirable being dropped in specific areas - not as chest rewards by specific bosses.

The idea would be that even though you may have a very small chance of getting said item, it would be enough to make people re-look at an under-populated area as a place to play and explore by adding the very rare change of getting a highly desirable drop in the form of a weapon or even a piece of armor.

El Duderino, on 06 March 2013 - 07:25 PM, said:

I just found the place where Malchor killed himself in the Malchor's Leap area of Orr last night.  My guildie asked me where I was in the game and I told him that I had just jumped from where Malchor himself died, but I lived.  He said, "who is Malchor?".  I told him that Malchor was the official sculptor for the 6 gods of Tyria and was the only human to see thier "true" faces.  The information overwhelmed his mind and drove him to commit suicide.

The guildie responded, "how do you know all these cool things about this game?", I said the NPC here at Malchor's Memorial just told me that...lol.
I know players who skipped the entire game just to kill Zhaitan and have not been in the game since, it's really senseless to buy an MMO if you don't like to explore the world and experience the lore.  GW2 is a role playing game, if people would just try a tiny bit to "play the role" they would get way more out of it than just a dungeon run to get this piece of armor.  I feel sorry for people who miss out on it since we all paid the same price for the game.

GW1 had a combat system that emphasized managing bars: health bars for healing, skill activation bars for interruption, (your own) energy bar.

GW2 is much more about watching what happens in the game instead of the GUI.

I prefer GW2, but is it better? Hard to answer, seems like an apples - oranges thing.