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Tuco

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Every onec in a while I'll check in GW2's profession balance to see if elementalist / weaver is still unpopular (and ostensibly underpowered) to see if I want to play again.

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I'll also check the forums to see what kind of whining is going on...


Nope. Maybe next year!
 

Skinner

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Think i’ve been out of GW2 for 2? 3? years now? Whenever End of Dragons released. Great game with by far the worst “competitive” balancing I’ve ever seen by any serious AAA game. Of course this wouldn’t have been a problem if ANet didn’t cave to the “we want hard content/raids” minority but it is what it is.
 

Grim1

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GW2 is getting a lot of streamers and players lately. More than the usual expansion surge. Some from New World obviously, but there is more to it than that.

Bunch of videos like the ones below on youtube the last couple of weeks. Kind of weird, since although GW2 has always been popular, it rarely gets any notice (like here).



I jumped in a few weeks ago. Haven't played since End of Dragons. 3 new expansions since then. Working through the Secrets of the Obscure expansion on one of my toons - it's focused on the Skyscale mount. 2 more expansion to get to.
 
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I always enjoy GW2 when I hop in. It's been a long time since I last played, maybe its time to check this out again.
 
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Mahes

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This is the game I am playing now. I am waiting for the Black Friday deals on the older expansions I missed. It has always been a pretty solid game.
 
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I love this game, but every single time I get in and play it, I run into the same problem, over and over again. I just can't get along with the "community" at all, way to woke for me to handle.
 

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I love this game, but every single time I get in and play it, I run into the same problem, over and over again. I just can't get along with the "community" at all, way to woke for me to handle.
What? I've played this game off and on since the start and never once have I interacted with community past calling them retards.
 
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I love this game, but every single time I get in and play it, I run into the same problem, over and over again. I just can't get along with the "community" at all, way to woke for me to handle.
I think GW2 is the best single-player MMO. I just do my own thing and pretty much ignore everyone around me.
 
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Caeden

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I enjoy the gameplay and exploration, but the dialogue was very juvenile on the main story imo. Plus as mentioned the community is woke fucking trash. I sorta tagged with a couple people loosely associated with my wow guild and it was just fucking commies and sad sacks everywhere in the guilds. I think I ended up 5/5 for being g-kicked along with my other wow buddy that played. We stopped after heart of thorns. So it’s been a minute.
 
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I enjoy the gameplay and exploration, but the dialogue was very juvenile on the main story imo. Plus as mentioned the community is woke fucking trash. I sorta tagged with a couple people loosely associated with my wow guild and it was just fucking commies and sad sacks everywhere in the guilds. I think I ended up 5/5 for being g-kicked along with my other wow buddy that played. We stopped after heart of thorns. So it’s been a minute.

It only gets more woke from there, including a lesbian wedding you cannot skip.
 

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Yeah the community has been filtered through a gauntlet of mediocre woke quests. Hard to keep playing unless you want to inject wokeism into your veins.
 
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Grim1

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I don't pay attention to the players in the open world, no need to. Everyone works together and gets the events done. And in WvW I don't see the woke stuff, just an endless argument about whatever is the day's political idiocy. And that has always been there, like every other mmo.

As for the story, all mmos have shit stories, except maybe FFXIV. And to be honest, it isn't that FFXIV's story is so great, but compared to the rest of the mmo story garbage, it seems good.

I don't play GW2 or any other game for the story. Imho, GW2 has the best combat outside of Black Desert. GW2 is the only game that has an active RvR (WvW) that isn't totally fucked by management. And the gear treadmill that other mmos force you to do is such an old, tired and greedy mechanic it makes my eyes bleed. GW2 is skill based, not gear based pvp. And that alone makes it better than all the rest.

GW2 respects the player, and isn't P2W. The woke shit is there, just like every other fucking game out now. If people can't ignore that then they probably shouldn't be playing games at all.
 
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Zindan

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GW1 Reforged coming out in December. Basically a HD remaster with some tweaks to make it work controllers and Steam Deck.
 

Caeden

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I don't pay attention to the players in the open world, no need to. Everyone works together and gets the events done. And in WvW I don't see the woke stuff, just an endless argument about whatever is the day's political idiocy. And that has always been there, like every other mmo.

As for the story, all mmos have shit stories, except maybe FFXIV. And to be honest, it isn't that FFXIV's story is so great, but compared to the rest of the mmo story garbage, it seems good.

I don't play GW2 or any other game for the story. Imho, GW2 has the best combat outside of Black Desert. GW2 is the only game that has an active RvR (WvW) that isn't totally fucked by management. And the gear treadmill that other mmos force you to do is such an old, tired and greedy mechanic it makes my eyes bleed. GW2 is skill based, not gear based pvp. And that alone makes it better than all the rest.

GW2 respects the player, and isn't P2W. The woke shit is there, just like every other fucking game out now. If people can't ignore that then they probably shouldn't be playing games at all.
All fair. I actually didn’t see much woke in the original expansion story. And I think you can just space bar it.

My problem was trying to join a guild. Yuck.
 

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Downloaded and fired this up yesterday. I haven't played since I poop socked it at release. I stopped before they even tracked WVW kills. Got tired of fighting hordes of invisible enemies. Remember that?

I have zero expansion packs. I would guess some amount of expansion packs is required for valid builds... can anyone point me in the right direction?

My most geared characters are Necromancer and and Guardian. I also have a level 69 Engineer, and a 54 Hunter. I took my Warrior from level 7 to 23 yesterday...and a Mesmer sitting at 11.
 

Mahes

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You want Path of Fire which I believe gets bundled with Thorns. That has most of all the mounts. Come back in 2 months+ when you are done with both of those. The Dragon is akin to doing an Epic Quest minus the need for an actual raid force. Also, just a thought, they might do Black Friday Deals on older expansions, so you might want to wait a bit.
 
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rhinohelix

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I say this Constantly and everywhere: Launch GW2 is my favorite MMO of all time: The Graphics, the characters, the starting cities and backstories, the public quests, every tier of leveling, every area of the world, it was chefs kiss amazing and great. I had three played all the way through level 80's, a couple more level 60's, the only one I didn't have at least leveled into teens was a thief, who I had at 10. I collected almost all the dyes, worked on a couple of epic weapons or their equivalent and generally reveled and basked in the game and the world.

Then came Path of Fire and I didn't recognize the game any longer. It was like a wholly different team had taken over, and very little about the game that I had loved survived into the expansion era. It was still the same game but somehow different, with different approaches to everything. Obviously lots of people still enjoy it, the Living Story had lots of fans but something for me was lost that I couldn't recover. I keep coming back to it from time to time; I am pretty sure it is downloaded and patched on this PC now, for instance, but I can't find a way back in. I keep hoping someone will open a Classic server for it but that never seems to happen.
 
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I say this Constantly and everywhere: Launch GW2 is my favorite MMO of all time: The Graphics, the characters, the starting cities and backstories, the public quests, every tier of leveling, every area of the world, it was chefs kiss amazing and great. I had three played all the way through level 80's, a couple more level 60's, the only one I didn't have at least leveled into teens was a thief, who I had at 10. I collected almost all the dyes, worked on a couple of epic weapons or their equivalent and generally reveled and basked in the game and the world.

Then came Path of Fire and I didn't recognize the game any longer. It was like a wholly different team had taken over, and very little about the game that I had loved survived into the expansion era. It was still the same game but somehow different, with different approaches to everything. Obviously lots of people still enjoy it, the Living Story had lots of fans but something for me was lost that I couldn't recover. I keep coming back to it from time to time; I am pretty sure it is downloaded and patched on this PC now, for instance, but I can't find a way back in. I keep hoping someone will open a Classic server for it but that never seems to happen.
Launch GW2 was pretty damned good. Expansions turned me off, and I was never able to get back into the game. Too many systems, too much shit tacked on, no way of finding out WTF did what after a long absence. Aimless bloat killed the game for me.
 
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your_mum

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me and friend returned after playing launch, never made it to max level back then. but its been fun for casual dad mmo

yea there's a lot of shit to do and to know but you dont have to though and taking it slowly, by just doing the expos in order (story quests eh, but the masteries and side stuff yea) has been fun.

get ascended gear and weapons from wizard vault by doing weekly and dailys... get ascended amulet from laurels, get ascended rings from fractals, get ascended accesories/back pack from LW3/4 (a small expo)... and you'll basically be done in terms of a equipment build... its fun getting to this point... afterwards its masteries/expos if you want a non base-game ability build... at that point you'd work on agony for fractals and be fine in raids/wvw/pvp even without specific gear towards that... then just do all the random qol shit afterwards... really not "that" many systems for a 10 year old game