Guild Wars 2 Biggest Weakness

IndigoIce posted...

In my opinion, it's people who bring about about WoW and being sarcastic to TC when the TC's intent was just to share it's weakness are the trolls.

Why are you talking about yourself in the third person? XD

Anyways, to address a few of your points:

1) Wrong. As others said, a level 80 player does a lot better fighting in a level 30 dungeon then a level 30 player. One of the big things that gives people an incentive to level is Traits. Traits boost your character's effectiveness by a massive margin. Even in terms of raw DPS from your auto attacks. Go into an sPvP match and attack a dummy without traits, then with full traits. You'll notice a huge difference (unless you build something stupid). And there's also other bonuses that boost your potential by a large amount. For example" On my Mesmer, my damage potential skyrocketed at level 40. Why? Because I got access to the 2nd tier Traits (20 points), and was able to get the trait that lets projectiles bounce an extra time. Now, one extra bounce doesn't sound like a big deal, but when you're a Condition Mesmer, that extra bounce means you're hitting an enemy twice per attack, which means you have two chances to inflict an extra stack of bleeding, or a stack of burning.

Another draw to leveling is the Weapons and Armor unlocked at higher levels. Everyone's biggest complaint with the game is "ohhh, armor and weapons all look the same QQ", which isn't true. Only the really basic stuff looks the same. As you level (unlocking more dungeons, gaining more karma, and gaining more gold), you get access to weapons and armor that look amazing. It's not really that big a deal to some people (they aren't going to level to 80 just to look nice if they don't like the game), but imo, the variety of weapons and armor at higher levels is another huge incentive to level.

I could go on and on, but I don't wanna run out of space.

2) I do agree with this. One of my biggest complaints about the crafting system is the lack of incentive to do it, apart from crafting Legendary weapons. There's no point leveling a crafting system to make your own gear, because all of the weapons are pretty much the same stat wise. There's no diversity apart from how the weapon looks, which can be changed with a Transmutation stone anyways. I'd really like to see a revamped Crafting system. In other MMOs that have crafting, whenever you make something, you have a chance to get random stat bonuses, or you can put random stats on the items, which makes it more beneficial to craft instead of buy. GW doesn't have that at all, which is sad. There's a lot of potential for the crafting system, but sadly they didn't go all out.

3) I believe the biggest draw for having a guild in ANY game is the social aspect of it. Obviously, most people join guilds to get carried through the game, do Dungeons or PvP, and overall they just leech. But for some, guilds are a way to connect with people, socialize, and just have fun playing a game together. There are also added benefits to being in a guild. More members = more influence (My guild just started recruitment, we got 10 or so new members and gained 200 influence within the first few hours. Imagine what 500 people can do lol), which means more guild benefits. There's the obvious benefits, such as increased XP/Karma/Drop banners, there's the WvW benefits (I forget what they are), and there's a bunch of other benefits to guilds. Imo, you should find a guild to make your home, you'll enjoy the Guild system a lot more if you're an active member of the guild, instead of someone who just hops to a random guild to get what they want, then moves on (the limit on guilds is 4 btw).

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4) A PK system would ruin this game. If you have a level 80, fully geared character fighting a level 5 character, it's not hard to tell who's going to win. Traits and Weapon/Armor stats play a large role in someone's PvP potential, regardless if the game scales them down or not. And we all know that there would be a large amount of people who gain pleasure by inflicting pain on others, AKA ganking them in low level zones, preventing them from playing/enjoying the game, and overall being a major ass hat.

However, I would love to see some sort of PK system introduced into the game, but only in an Instanced map. They shouldn't allow it in normal zones, instead they should do it like they do sPvP and WvW. A giant, FFA style map would be a hell of a lot of fun if done correctly. People might argue that sPvP and WvW are fine enough for PvP, and they're correct to an extent. But another PvP option, that's just every man for himself in a battle royal would be soooo much fun. It also creates a lot of possibilities for PvP in general. For example, we don't have any way to reliably PvP against mass amounts of people within the same server as us (WvW is server v server, and sPvP has a 5 man per team limit). It would be really cool to see something like that, but I doubt we ever will. Their biggest selling point is the WvW system, and if they had another option for mass PvP, the WvW population would die out pretty quickly (compared to what it is now, lots of people would keep WvWing).

5) Can't really comment on this, as I've never played an MMO that had a raid system (I've played a few that did, but I never played long enough to try it out), and I've only successfully ran one dungeon. I think a mass dungeon, that had a 30+ man cap would be a lot of fun, even though it would be insanely difficult (you have 30 people in one place, the mobs would have to be stronger then champions, and that's just the normal ones lol). Maybe in the future we'll see something like this, but for now, World bosses and Dungeons are enough for me.

Imo, one of the biggest benefits to playing this game is the fact that you don't have to play 10 hours a day to get enjoyment out of it. There's nothing that's forcing you to play, you aren't held hostage by a subscription fee, so you can play whenever you want to. I could quit this game right now, come back in 10 months, and continue like I never left. I am a bit addicted to it, so I do play fairly often, but I don't feel like I have to play for 12 hours a day to keep up with everyone else, or to get the full enjoyment out of the game. For the past week or so, I've been playing a lot of TL2, and I don't feel like I've missed out on anything GW related. It's not like "Oh crap, I went a week without no lifing, my sub renews next week, so much wasted time". It's like "Man, TL2 is a lot of fun, I'll play it for 5 hours or so, then log on GW to do my dailies and maybe gain a level or two".

Well, that's my take on things.
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