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How is this game these days, worth getting into? A lot of the expansions are dirt cheap for Summer Sale
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Probably too much things to do on one go since the game is been going on for 10 years.
Maybe play the free campaign first before thinking of expansions and you'll see if it's even for you while doing that- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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normally I agree with this but the mounts are just so fricking fun in this game that I recommend going for the expansions.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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The base game is a terrible representation of the game. The QoL improvements all the expansions provide are good reason to go straight into Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Really cool comfy game, worth the time
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Is it an outf*t or at least an actual change of the underwear?
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Found it funny how they went for amorphic clothes only to backtrack and release bikini
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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They're desperate for cash, hence why they promised raids, housing and spears in the same expansion after categorically refusing to implement any of them for a decade.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It pisses me off they held out all of these for year simply because the SJW in Washington are really that spiteful, and it require a massive layoff by Ncsoft and a gun at there head, my Ncsoft again, to get any thing done. These are all too little, too late for me.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It's good and the community is nice and helpful. But yeah it must feel absolutely overwhelming to a new player right now.
That said if you play if for free and enjoy you first few days you'll regret not buying the expansions that aren't on sale very often. It's not just new maps and stories, it's new classe specializations, mounts, new mechanics, etc.The next expansion that'll release in august will add player housing and there's a lot of hype around it. It might be a really good time to get into GW2.
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2 weeks ago
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Very comfy casual MMO. If you're looking for lot's of instanced content like raids and a big community around them you may be disappointed. The game's specialty so to speak is basically big world bosses and "meta-events". The maps are overall really nice, fun to explore. Lots of jumping puzzle, great mounts, a good amount of build variety and agency. No subscription and no gear treadmill, if you want to take a break you can come back at literally any time and get right into actually playing the game. You can level up literally just by checking out vistas, points of interest and general map exploration (ie it's pretty good at rewarding you for playing however you want).
All that said.. The playerbase is seriously moronic and kinda unbelievably bad at the game. The expansion/"living world" split of content is kind of annoying and will cost quite a bit to purchase it all (living world can be bought with gold though), and the game really pushes you to buy a lot of character and account upgrades to be comfortable (inventory slots, bank expansions, infinite salvage and gathering tools, etc). All that stuff (and skins etc) can also be bought with gold too though./thread
It's the only MMO I've played where the rewards and progression respect the time I've put into the game 1:1. It's good enough for it to be in my long "rotation" of games.. - Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>But yeah it must feel absolutely overwhelming to a new player right now
i dont see why it would. you make a character and start. it has natural progression like any other game
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Very comfy casual MMO. If you're looking for lot's of instanced content like raids and a big community around them you may be disappointed. The game's specialty so to speak is basically big world bosses and "meta-events". The maps are overall really nice, fun to explore. Lots of jumping puzzle, great mounts, a good amount of build variety and agency. No subscription and no gear treadmill, if you want to take a break you can come back at literally any time and get right into actually playing the game. You can level up literally just by checking out vistas, points of interest and general map exploration (ie it's pretty good at rewarding you for playing however you want).
All that said.. The playerbase is seriously moronic and kinda unbelievably bad at the game. The expansion/"living world" split of content is kind of annoying and will cost quite a bit to purchase it all (living world can be bought with gold though), and the game really pushes you to buy a lot of character and account upgrades to be comfortable (inventory slots, bank expansions, infinite salvage and gathering tools, etc). All that stuff (and skins etc) can also be bought with gold too though. - Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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As a returning player who quite before the release of PoF. It's pretty tedious. A lot of maps are dead unless the map meta event is going on which makes getting collections done a pain. In GW2 it's less grinding one spot or boss and more about doing chores all over the world.It is incredibly time gated and daily heavy.
With that being said. It might be the only MMO on the market that respects your time. Getting geared at level 80 is easy enough you can get several characters going for cheap. Ascended gear has only gotten easier to get and Legendary gear ( QoL gear) is becoming more common for casual players.
Story is complete and utter sh*t.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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you know very well how's it's doing. it's not. it's a dying game that has been on a downwards spiral since the third expansion. GW3 is a few years away, so just wait for that.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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The best time I had with this game was grinding HoT meta maps. I had a real blast with the final map in the season one living story, too, but even though I'd been playing the game on and off before then, that was the first time I was playing regularly, so I had no idea what the frick was going on in the story, and why Lion's Arch was under attack. But yeah, HoT was the peak of the game and it was downhill from there.
>GW2
Imagine having faith in current Arenanet. I wouldn't even trust them to remake GW1. - Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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it's a 12 year old game. considering that, it's doing fairly well with ongoing active development. if you don't like what you see in GW2 then you're kind of a moron for thinking GW3 will be better.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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sh*t game full of boomer troons
there's no endgame or content worth doing except for WvW
if you're a casual moron who loves jumping puzzles and pretending to be a woman then it's for you- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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since its free id say yes, play it. the game 100% respects your time, you can play it for 15min or 10 hours and always have something to do but never feel forced to do any of it which is great
many people mention gearing is easy, thats because GW2 doesnt have linear progression and that is something they said since launch they want to avoid, which is great, since you arent cucked by RNG and mindless grinding, you get to 80 and you can play the game pretty much like everyone else, if you want linear progression you can do Fractals, which is a 5man dungeon content with hard modes
there are also raids and new one is coming with the xpack, there are also strike missions which are also 10man content somewhere between dungeons and raids in terms of difficulty(not counting the hardmodes/CMs)
also morons are saying maps are dead which is absolutely not true, especially on EU
if you are a braindead moron that constantly needs to be told what to do and where to go and what to farm, go play WoW. GW2 is a fun social game, what mmorpgs should be, not some minmaxing autism, that constantly requires you to wait for devs to release new content, plus all content in GW2 is viable at any level as wellkys projecting troony
It's boring. There's no sense of gear progression because you can buy the best set of equipment for dirt cheap as soon as you reach max level. From that point all you do is spend ten hours a day grinding out what is effectively reputation just so you have access to basic game features that expansion zones are built around.
The amusing part is that the most efficient way(meaning the way 90% of the playerbase does it) is by following trains around where you'll have players bypassing obstacles for you with teleports. Meaning that you'll have zero sense of accomplishment or progression because you spent the past few weeks skipping all the roadblocks you're grinding to be able to skip. It's a wonderful system.
kys braindead themepark zoomie
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It's the only MMO I've played where the rewards and progression respect the time I've put into the game 1:1. It's good enough for it to be in my long "rotation" of games..this
as an MMO it is pretty bad and dead, but if you just play through the content as a mostly solo game, you have an easy 50-100 hours of decent content for cheap. Worth it as long as you're okay with it not being WoW/XIV tier of an MMO
idk where you morons are playing, but on EU every zone is fricking full
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>kys projecting troony
Not him but Black person you have literally several troons INGAME.https://i.imgur.com/pkhXd8b.png
How is this game these days, worth getting into? A lot of the expansions are dirt cheap for Summer Sale
Guild Wars 2 shills are completely fricking shameless and will lie through their teeth to get you to play their garbage game.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>free
It's not>muh gems
Not an excuse to get the limited time living story, or how the bikini sale destroy the gold to gem ratio- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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base game is literally free moron
and im the first to say frick bikinis- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Base game is a demo and limited. Even FF14 has more content in their game than gw2
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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FF14 demo I mean
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Not him but base game isn't worth wiping your butthole with. It's an MMO, you dumb black troony, it lives on updates. Current year base game is not even worth calling a trial version.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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except gw2 isnt a traditional mmo and you can absolutely have a good time playing while you learn the game hom*osexual
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
No you can't, because the game's sh*t
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
Shill rhetoric from a filthy troony. I actually played your trash, you can't convince me of your hohwash.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>no counterargument
>just buzzwords
Concession accepted. GW2 is sh*t.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It's boring. There's no sense of gear progression because you can buy the best set of equipment for dirt cheap as soon as you reach max level. From that point all you do is spend ten hours a day grinding out what is effectively reputation just so you have access to basic game features that expansion zones are built around.
The amusing part is that the most efficient way(meaning the way 90% of the playerbase does it) is by following trains around where you'll have players bypassing obstacles for you with teleports. Meaning that you'll have zero sense of accomplishment or progression because you spent the past few weeks skipping all the roadblocks you're grinding to be able to skip. It's a wonderful system.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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you didn't beat it
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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is it still possible to play gw1? can i play it like a singleplayer game?
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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yeah and if you go mesmer meta you can melt through everything
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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I know people talk sh*t about playing mmos for the story but I at least need an appealing world if I'm going to be spending 1000s of hours in it, and the world of GW2 is not appealing at all.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It got worse with every second past level 30. Mounts were good in PoF until they added the dragon, everyrhing else is atrocious. 10k hours here, don't be like me, lads, it doesn't get better.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It's a shame that the skyscale invalidated most things but I think the beetle is great.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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The beetle is great, I lucked out and met a lad ingame who shelled out immense money for racing medallions so my primary income became doing beetle races like a baller and selling them to him, probably the best time I had in the game when I had actual income and not just bits and pieces from PvP and WvW boxes. The beetle still does not justify playing this horrendous game.
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2 weeks ago
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I distinctly remember the Skyscale map being the one I gave up on the game. That's when it really hit me like a slap to the face that the content of the game was just going to the new map, and grinding for the new map currency to buy whatever it was they were trying to sell you. I think I checked out the first update of the Icebrood saga, but when I say I checked it out extremely briefly I mean it. I just didn't care about the game anymore, and I haven't touched it since.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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That was a good time to quit, actually. You saw the writing on the wall just in time. I kept trudging through foolishly giving it the benefit of the doubt all the way through Icebrood and until the Marionette got added back. Then I got banned for 2 weeks for saying how pathetic it was that they literally FLATtened her breasts and ass and that the responsible dev can go frick herself, and I realized that there is nothing left. Waaaaay too long, but I managed to reach that epiphany finally.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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as an MMO it is pretty bad and dead, but if you just play through the content as a mostly solo game, you have an easy 50-100 hours of decent content for cheap. Worth it as long as you're okay with it not being WoW/XIV tier of an MMO
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2 weeks ago
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Honestly the most fun leveling of any MMO I've played. I quickly lose steam at max level though. Not sure if I am moronic but there's so much sh*t to do at max level that I became overwhelmed. I wanted to run some dungeons but nobody was playing them and I just feel like I'm floating around wtihout any direction.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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you have to realize GW2 is not a traditional MMO so dungeons serve little purpose since they arent really used for gearing, you should focus on fractals, strike missions or maybe even raids, get gold, craft ascended or legendary gear and just enjoy the content the game has, you aren't supposed to chase items or depend on rng
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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I bought the first xpac and put in about 60 hours, it's good fun despite the fact that the game does so many things wrong
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>kys projecting troony
Not him but Black person you have literally several troons INGAME.
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Guild Wars 2 shills are completely fricking shameless and will lie through their teeth to get you to play their garbage game.If you are the [target audience] then yes, this game is literally made for you and only you.
the game does have trannies, xhe/xherz and other woke moronation sadly
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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This can't be real
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Nah it's real and there's a lot of sh*t like that. I still like and play GW2 a lot but damn the writing for the story, characters and events is like if reddit was a video game.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>the writing for the story, characters and events is like if reddit was a video game
Lmao, if at least it were that. it's like Tumblr was video game!- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It's resetera if it was a videogame at this point. Tumblr doesn't even hold a candle to its spiteful derangement.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Things have only gotten worse, from both a game design perspective and a writing perspective. EoD and SotO are outright embarrassing, even just compared to the rest of the game
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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I've seen EoD where it's beat up one guy and the lesbian wedding.
Whats there in SotO?- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>these literal demons from literal hell invading our world and trying to kill us are just misguided 🙁
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
Yes, then instead of killing all the demons and giving Satan's power to an idiot, you just give control of hell to Satan's sister
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
That sounds like some dumb sh*t but is it really reason to hate the whole thing?
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
The story is hilariously anemic with basically half the runtime being "do zone events or something, frick off," that's really the only thing that actually happens
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2 weeks ago
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I mean EoD also has the empowered genius woman with the stay at home house husband and all the gay free willy sh*t going on with the player character and dragons.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Yoga and even more talk about feeling, emotions and can't remember if it was EoD or SotO where you literally have to defeat anxiety.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>can't remember if it was EoD or SotO where you literally have to defeat anxiety.
they do the "Commander needs to go to therapy" plot twice lmao - Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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I love how we went from Jessica Price's "Just make the commander into the protagonist of Twilight" to fricking yoga and double dates with trannies and psychotherapy. Who could have though that someone like Price was the best writing this game has seen since level 10 and 20 personal story (which was never good either).
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2 weeks ago
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>Whats there in SotO?
Absolutely nothing, and they're charging you 25 bucks for it.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Don't play through Steam if possible. This goes for any game that requires an account, especially MMOs.
Your game account will be linked to your Steam profile and you will pay extra to make up for the Steam tax.
Get GW2 straight from ArenaNet.- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>Don't play through Steam if possible.
Guess I won't be playing at all then. Oh well- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Don't play through Steam if possible. This goes for any game that requires an account, especially MMOs.
Your game account will be linked to your Steam profile and you will pay extra to make up for the Steam tax.
Get GW2 straight from ArenaNet.i play through steam and have zero issues lol
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Terrible and only getting worse
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Stellar map design and environmental storytelling, cool class/subclass identity with free respec anytime and anywhere, decent fashion options and an open world PvP mode that's pretty unique.
On the other hand...
Story is Marvel-tier and the devs prioritise it over everything else, lots of QoL missing even compared to the first game, combat could be cool but most PvE content is extremely dull, including instanced.
Also the monetisation model is deliberately obtuse to get money from you: once you buy an expansion, you have to buy the second half of it separately (called "living world") but you can actually unlock it via the in-game currency by simply playing the game, maybe farming a bit here and there.My advice is to get the first expansion since it's a 2-pack and includes the second one as well (Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire). This way, for about 7.50 bucks you get
>raids
>ninth class (revenant)
>two subclasses for every class
>gliding + six mounts
>nine maps, of which three are good and five are pretty
If you like it enough, you can keep playing and get the living world stuff that will give you
>strikes (shorter raids)
>two more mounts
>a way to unlock several legendary weapons and accessories
>15 more maps, including two very good farming onesDisclaimer: I hopped off with the last expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, because it was a rip-off, but it's pretty much a requirement if you're invested in the game since it adds some lucrative prizes to the game's battle pass.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>beat up the bigot
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Only reason I'd think to play it in current year is to try and pull a girlfriend(male).
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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the game has gone downhill since hall of chains dropped, people only play it to grind materials, craft legendaries and sit in lions arch with 30 glowing items making noise and being obnoxious
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Dont bother, I made the mistake during spring sale and returned to the game after years long break.
The base game is good for just chilling, exploration and doing random events. There are also still people doing events at all levels so its not too bad in that sense.
Expansions will make you go through instanced singleplayer dogsh*t content to progress - and they never learned from those mistakes. Most of it is horribly written and annoying.If you really want to try it Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire are okay enough to explore (not counting the story sh*t). Never ever buy anything more than that, especially the asian themed expansion.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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It feels like a "play with your imaginary girlfriend" kind of game.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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The expansions feel like a entirely different game compared to vanilla and dont be fooled by secrets of the obscure and Janthir wilds, they arent really expansions they are just living story being sold as one.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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All I see I this thread is don't buy EoD
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Don't waste your time with it at all. The economy is utterly fricked, the only real endgame goal is grinding for legendaries, combat is largely braindead outside of a few classes that do ten times the work for the same output as a class that literally just autoattacks, endgame content is either braindead, dead as frick, or stupidly elitist (which loops back to being dead as frick), and 99% of players will be in obnoxiously ostentatious cash shop gear
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2 weeks ago
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>99% of players will be in obnoxiously ostentatious cash shop gear
No!!!!! Not the cash shop gear in a game where your 10 y/o gear is still relevant today.- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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The aesthetics of the game are fricked beyond repair because of the ugly cash shop gear, was the main point there
- Anonymous
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>The aesthetics of the game are fricked beyond repair because of the ugly cash shop gear, was the main point there
I don't know if there is a game or two that is similar that doesn't have that issue unfortunately.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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tbh End of Dragons isn't all that bad. The maps are sh*t, the content is braindead with one exception, the story looks like a parody (even if you ignore the obvious sh*t like "beat up the bigot" and "your mostly friendly agender engineer") and the fashion is mediocre at best, but you do get to play with nine new elite specs, you get a jade bot that boosts your drop rates/movement and doesn't clutter the screen, you get two novelty mounts for up to five people and there's a fishing minigame that's not complete garbage. It's a good pick up for $15, at least.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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>it's complete sh*t but there's fishing
you can't be this moronic- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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More like
>it's complete sh*t but there's classes to unlock and some meme sh*t to do like sailing and fishing so it's at least a decent buy when on sale
Also, fishing is exponentially less braindead than anything introduced in SotO.- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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If at least fishing would feel enjoyable like in real life. In games it's tedious.
- Anonymous
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WvW and to an extent the instanced pvp are the only good parts of the game.
PvE content has been so heavily farmed out by skinner boxed spastics that its overwhelming for anyone getting into it, and it only really amounts to optimizing farming for specific aesthetic choices. I thought it was funny once to join a "progression group" that would go through all the raid content at a learning pace, but it amounted to basically a newbie larp. Just watch the videos we post in discord and do your rotation, its super easy :). PvE in mmo's is not fun anymore because people dont see it as an actual challenge 9/10 it isn't a challenge, they just see it as a the time cost for the rewards associated with the content and do their absolute best to optimize the fun out of it.- Anonymous
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A problem I see with trying to figure out a boss from scratch instead of looking at guides is you have to have a pureblooded 100% newbie group for all of them to have fun. I remember going into wing 4 with a fresh group and after we beat the frozen turd we got to the chess field and I had to bounce because they wanted to figure the mechanics out themselves and I only had enough time to try if I already explained it to them. It's not really particulalry engaging to watch others learn the things you know.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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Post Asuras, hom*osexuals.
- Anonymous
2 weeks ago
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I played this but I've never got past lvl20-30 stage
I don't know why because It's better and more fluid than most of the MMOs I've played
Graphics are great, art style is cool, sounds is ok, exploration is cool, quests seem alright but there's just something that keeps me from playing it seriously. I don't know what it is.
I've tried 3 different toons, with different classes but it's always the same - Anonymous
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I have 2k+ hours played over 7 years, it has some of the best open world pve (in my opinion) and THE best mount system of any mmo.
Its both casual and hardcore and you don't feel punished if you don't grind, with the exception of the mounts, you definitely want all of them and the griffon and skyscale are grindy.
That being said, there isn't a huge end game gear progression like others mentioned, ascended gear will get you through everything and crafting legendaries can be very time consuming and is more for convenience and fashion than raw power.
I say try it out, get a character to 80 and do some end game, if you enjoy that then get at least path of fire for mounts.