I just logged into Guild Wars 2 for the first time in around 2-3 years. I feel completely lost. A lot has changed since my last visit.
I have a max lever character that I, at the time, had cleared all content with and focused mostly on WvW.
I don't even know where to start. Is my best bet to start over with a new character to get a feel for the game and what has changed? Is it even worth wasting time on the game?
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no expansion? fuck off
>WvW
not on blackgate? fuck off
Just continue where you left off. It'll be fine.
>Is it even worth wasting time on the game?
Not really
i sincerely hate this game but i enjoyed my playthrough of the new expac
it's miles ahead of heart of thorns and the mounts add a ton of fun to the game
most of the new classes are fun as well
firebrand made my favourite class actually fun to play again
>Is it even worth wasting time on the game?
It gets living world updates every 2-3 months. That is questionable story, a new map, a new legendary weapon to craft, and either a new raid wing and/or fractal island. There's still lots of people playing all leveled zones doing the meta events and just cruising around. sPvP has automated tournaments with benefits/loot for winning and quarterly ranked tournaments. The latest update added new sinks to fractals, some fractal reworks, and a new fractal.
WvW is horribly neglected and the community often jabs at the developers to get that shit back in order. As I understand it, there are guilds moving to the lower tiers of WvW to stay out of tier 1 so even the lower tiers have some activity going on.
Balance wise it's beginning to look okay. Professions can be fitting into different roles (DPS, support, etc) in both PvE and PvP. Balancing still needs a lot of work though but they've reworked how certain skills work, the trait system, and a bunch of other things.
>firebrand
>tfw can alternate between good condi DPS and healslutting/tanking
>dragonhunter is still good for power DPS
guardian is the perfect class
>have to grind to reach somewhat challenging fractals
Fuck this game.
>craft ascended armor or buy it from some NPC
>buy AR
and the new living story area has dervish and paragon NPCs with unique animations and skills
possibly foreshadowing but knowing ANET it's just a "go fuck yourself" move by the devs
And you still need gold for it.
to be fair i wouldn't want to see dervish charr
but paragon, yes. we need paragon hymns/anthems back
just add spears as land weapons
>This is still the best MMO on the market five years later
Fucking hell. Crowfall and Camelot Unchained are still nowhere near finished and the rest of the market is either F2P garbage or casualised to the point of no recognition. Someone get me off this ride already.
i earned some of my ascended gear from achievements tho and gold is easy to get, you literally make money crafting the daily ascended mats every day even if you buy all of the mats required to finish them
you can buy trinkets with laurels, pls
POST RATS
>gw2g is gone forever
POST CATS
>implying it's bad
See
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destroy all bubsy charr
Jugg stopped his autismposting
You can make a /gw2g/ now
How's the new Spellbreaker spec for Warriors?
>tfw no more GW1
Truly an immense loss.
Lethal in PvP but power warrior isn't favored in PvE so their berserker spec is still meta as banner slaves with condi
So PvE and PvP are both covered with each spec now? Sounds good
it is still there
so useless it's not even used in the easiest PVE content
their only usefulness is in PVP and it's because they have reliable 'resistance' boon that makes condi do no dmg for X seconds
aka useless with the new necro spec putting 300 stacks of every condi on you in 1 second
Let's be honest, man. We all got bored of that game a long time ago. We just can't let it go because what that game really needed was a proper sequel which improved on the formula it set out and we ended up with a different game entirely. There isn't anything we can do about it, so we just have to accept things the way they are.
Don't kid yourself, it's dead. If only a few thousands "veterans" still log in a few hours a week, it's not alive at all.
ANet fucked up big time. We've lost the best PvP MMORPG. The saddest part is that GvG could have become huge in e-sports because of the competitive nature of the game and, in turn, revitalized the game.
Youre whats wrong with the charr community
pve is great
pvp is awful
if you love pvp stay away from this shitfest.
I'd say no, if you have friends then maybe.
The PoF story is better than HoT and exploring the new areas is not a pain in the ass.
Most of the time, pugs only accept you in fractals/raids if you are meta enough.
The Living Story gets updated every 2-3 months, that's not bad.
And last, but not least, the microtransaction system is pretty shit, even though most of the things are just cosmetic items. You have random lootboxes, gatcha-style unlockables, overpriced new mount skins. But whales buy shit always, so you don't have to worry about the game shutting down.
Community made GvGs in GW2 were very fun too but A-Net actively refused to give any official support to it and shilled their sPvP esport garbage killing all game modes in the process.
I know, I know. The problem is that nothing filled that void, there is no other game with identical gameplay features and mechanics. There is no other online game with "half-instanced" play, with story expansions AND amazing PvP.
It's been almost 13 years now and nothing came out ot it.
Droks run 4/6 5k/e need 2 more PST
Does it still have content behind a paywall?
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Yes.
>be weaver
>have to unlock the enigma code and press 5 million buttons to do the same damage anyone else does in 1 auto attack
hmmmm..
it's super easy now, all the ascended jewelery is cheap and easy to acquire and can get you close to T4.
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I envy you, I can't stand playing the game anymore since they made engi into a baby mode class.
Deimos CM 500Li+KP+title +chrono +bannerslut
literally same shit, you can take off your nostalgia glasses now
Sure, but with only trinkets you would need materials dropped from fractals to unlock slots which require grinding. Honestly there's no worse system than agony resistance .
o-oh fuck
You can't really skip ahead anyway so you get mats while leveling your fractals.
And the grind doesn't stop at T4, the goal is different but the fractals are the same.
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kek
Tell me again why nobody says anything about asuraposters and their pedo tendencies but everyone blows up when they see furry stuff
fuck off furry
fuck off pedo
Complaining is just giving them attention, see /gw2g/.
Asura aren't pedo
>A lot has changed
no
It's true though, from pre-HoT to now, it's a completely different game.
Players were clueless, PvE and WvW had no direction and were generally a mess, dungeons felt like they were designed for another game, fractal rng was abused, classes were completely unbalanced in every game mode, open world had zero strategy or organization involved except for two events.
thatshaman.com
So, where is Kralk going next?
Can I claim the new living story without buying PoF? I haven't got around to buying the expansion yet and I don't want to miss out on the living story later.
>Can I claim the new living story without buying PoF
nope
All I know is Tyria is kind of fucked.
it's the same game just a few of the old faggit devs left to make way for even more faggit devs who are fucking terrible at copy/pasting code.
don't try to pretend it's anything different.
So you basically described the current state of the game? ok
>all gods gone
>dhuum active again
>Menzies probably active too
>we just keep making dragons more powerful
whens gw3
haha xD
we had a shot at gw3, but going to tell you the truth. the mounts(skins) just injected at least 2+years into a directx 9, cpu bound, 5 yr old game. it's a good thing tho, none of the current devs have the skill for gw3.
I just logged in and it said Daybreak has been saved permanently to your account until you buy PoF and redeem it. So there's no rush.
You forgot SINGLE CORE cpu bound.
>directx 9, cpu bound
These fuckers keep saying that it's to keep compatibility to the max, in a world where fucking Vulkan API exists.
>Doing first mission of new living story season
>Game's running at 25-30 fps because of the fires and destruction, even on a Core I5 7600k and a GTX 1070
That,s shit's fucked.
Endgame is shit. Only a handfl of challanging content and stupid trains over and over again. Have fun soloing content if you are one of the lucky people who enjoy support roles more than the backfuck retarded dps schlong contest "who is gonna attack the mobs first andprobably die" """"gameplay"""" jesu what a shitshow of a game. The world looks nice, fashion is dope, combat against soem of the endbosses is really top notch but its like 6% phenomenal ideas and content against 80% full of shit. Cant stand this shit after 2k hours
not that it really matters or that gw2guru is even relevant anymore but...one more day.