Ignore people saying that the game's bad lol.

[❤︎Alice❤]

(Wall of text incoming!)

I've been reading through a bunch of the discussions and I just thought it'd be easier to post one myself saying to ignore the people saying hurtful things about the game like "the story's bad" or like "it's hard to make money" or "you can't play it if you're an oceanic player due to lag"? It's just people posting random slander against the game for some reason. I have a super old character (or I guess, characters) and I love playing with them. And like someone who's just started playing the game isn't going to need to make a ton of gold anyway, they'd be fighting low level enemies and stuff for ages and will be slowly getting more and more money from stuff to buy themselves better armor and weapons. You can make easy money too selling mystic coins from login bonuses (you'll have to not have a free account though if you want login bonuses lol) or just by harvesting stuff and fighting world bosses/doing events.

I'm an oceanic player too and I don't remember having lag. I think I play in Seafarer's Rest? but yeah and I have a COMPLETELY LIKE I can't stress it enough, potato laptop that always needs charging and I can still run the game too! Also like people have mentioned that you need to spend gems (which are a currency that you can buy with real money or like if you have a bunch of gold then you can exchange gold for gems) to unlock chapters of stories but that's not for your main character's story, your own story is free of course lol. Just like, the Living World? ones require gems. And they're not like super expensive, like maybe if you wanted to buy them all at once then it'll be a bit but like I wouldn't recommend doing that since like if you were to buy one chapter, then you should probably focus on finishing that first so you know what's going on and then there's also your personal story for your character (which you should maybe prioritise? Unless you get Path of Fire. That's awesome but you might not know who's who if you do get it and jump into that first, also I think you need to be level 80 to start it anyway now that I think about it lol. Same with the Heart of Thorns dlc), and like you can do holiday events and everything to keep yourself busy (Halloween is awesome, I love that so much), and like there's bosses that are always spawning in throughout the worlds which are really fun (I love the Claw of Jormag and Tequatl), like you know, normal MMO stuff. The game's certainly not boring. I LOOOVEEEEE hunting bandit bosses too in hopes of fighting the Bandit Executioner. That's the most fun thing ever. I've never grown tired of that ever and I keep like a collection of the completed bounty notices too lol. The music that plays when you fight the executioner is the best too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnn4gVO5f14 Idk why people are freaking out about spending money too in the first place, like even for a free game. I'm sure everyone here has spent like hundreds of dollars on videogame skins and like 80 dollar games in the past lmao. Also I think if you buy the Path of Fire DLC, it comes with the Heart of Thorns one now too? At least last time I checked so that's cool!

Anyway yeah I doubt a lot of actually NEW people are reading this (at least right now?) who have never ever played gw2 lol but if anyone is, the game is super fun and completely amazing and you'll love it. I started playing when I was really little and I still play it and it's so fun and the music goes so hard and is also really beautiful too at times. Also despite how people are in the steam discussions, the community is super friendly and welcoming too, I've been invited to guilds and people help each other with events and stuff and if noone's nearby, you can always do like a Looking for Group thing? in like this search bar at the top. Same with if you wanna do a particular dungeon or anything really, like even just explore the world or whatever or to do PvP or WvW. You get tons of stuff and random achievements through PvP now that I think about it, that's good for easy money? Idk much about WvW.

Also for anyone interested, you don't have to fight tooth and nail to get your own house like in FFXIV, you get like a whole neighbourhood that you can fill with stuff to harvest and cats and toys and things like that for free. Idk if we can go to the home instances for different races? I haven't been to mine in a while.

Also Charr is the best race lol.

[LoliNoxTan]

I'm still bitter about the Searing. DEATH TO ALL CHARR!

[❤︎Alice❤]

Автор сообщения: Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan

I'm still bitter about the Searing. DEATH TO ALL CHARR!

OK BUT LIKE WHAT ABOUT THE FOEFIRE!???!?!?!?!?!??????? IMAGINE CAUSING A HUUUUUUUUUGE GIANT EXPLOSION BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT'D WIN YOU A WAR, BUT ALL IT DOES IS TURN YOU AND YOUR MEN INTO ANGRY GHOSTS AND YOU END UP LOSING YOUR LAND TO THE ENEMY TEAM! AND THEN THEY BUILD ALL OVER IT!

This post was made by the four-eared cat gang.

I remember when I first heard about the Foefire, I literally thought it was so funny. Even though like, it was some super IMPORTANT AND LIKE SERIOUS THING IDK. I have a mini of the king that did it? I forgot his name.

Also I just remembered another world boss that I love fighting too, uhhh that pirate lady? That spawns at the same time as Tequatl. If you're not making terrible, awkward pirate jokes while you're carrying the powdered kegs to the front gates at the start of the event, you're totally missing out tbh. If anything, the only thing about that event that I'm ehh about is how she like kinda teleports around the ship and stuff. Also the great Jungle wurm is fun since it dies in like three seconds since everyone just swarms it and it has like idk the least amount of hp probably?

[LoliNoxTan]

Joking. The Charr were pawns in causing The Searing

I'm just getting flashback to the LDoA title

[SinisterSlay]

Is it bad that the discussions here make me want to keep steam community toxicity out of gw2?

[LoliNoxTan]

Автор сообщения: SinisterSlay

Is it bad that the discussions here make me want to keep steam community toxicity out of gw2?

Nope. Everyone knows that the Steam forums are worse than Reddit

[Tiberius]

The guy who complained abt lags also managed to finish legendary armor 🤷‍♂️

I think the real lag happens in wvw. Sadly no mmo could handle skill lag in large pvp battle.

But yea gw2 kinda spoil the mmo genre for me. There are so many QoL features that make other mmos feel ancient in comparison.

Core gw2 maps have so many memorable events: the cow racing event, meatoberfest. It feels more peaceful than the newer maps

[❤︎Alice❤]

Автор сообщения: Tiberius

Core gw2 maps have so many memorable events: the cow racing event, meatoberfest. It feels more peaceful than the newer maps

Yeah imo Heart of Thorns is like "VINES! WINDING PATHWAYS! FALLING EVERYWHERE! Not being able to go to certain places because you don't have the right Gliding mastery or you need to finish an event! Big timed map events (I MEAN A LOT OF THE TIME you do those with coordinated people, like the people that help organise Triple Trouble? in the main map, but still. Big shoutouts to those people btw. And the Istan farmers.)" Also being like "Ok I'll just go to this place and unlock this Waypoint or whatever." but then you go there and realise that it's like completely underground or something or really high up in the air and the only way to get to it is like, backtracking heaps lol.

PATH OF FIRE IS FUN! But like, only when you're not after Mounts I guess? Then it might be annoying. Also that one mission in the PoF story where like, you had to kill enemies or else they might sound an alarm or whatever to call for reinforcements? I HAD TO ASK FOR HELP TO FINISH THAT! Like people came and helped which was great, but gosh it was a pain lol. And that one mission where you have to shut down portals and you're disguised as some high ranking soldier guy and you can order like, mummies or whatever to attack? I had trouble with that at first too. The final boss fight of PoF was amazing and became an inside joke with me and a friend though so I loved that. I've replayed it a bunch of times, it's so much fun to do. Especially since you can do it with other people!

[Tatsuya Hiroki]

and since the game is free to download, its not like you need to immediately lay down cash to see what the game is about

[Tiberius]

There're also things like these

https://youtu.be/oSXWsQniYOk

I also love how the chain events play out; i dont need to talk to npc to start or finish a quest/event. Everything feels so dynamic, compared to other mmo

The voice acting for non important npc is so well done. This one really strikes me the most

https://youtu.be/GyL82rY45Mc

[Rimentez]

I was thinking about going back to FFXIV to catch up on story but SE refuses to put Shadowbringers on sale during Lunar Sale and the current SE store sale for steam players.

With that, I went back to GW2 instead last month and glad I did for many reasons! Got to finish crafting my first ascended gear set for my main, finish LS4 story as well as obtaining the beetle and skyscale. Bought some neat stuff during March sale, still waiting for Icebrood Saga(LS5) to go on sale, maybe next week hopefully.

GW2 made me remembered how much I like the squad system for PvE content. You just hop in instantly with 30-50 players to do whatever meta or stuff they are currently doing and they won't judge how you play. Also glad that it doesn't have a daily "queue for dungeon" you must do to get nice things, it just not my thing anymore, I prefer doing meta in a open world PvE content with a lot of players in a squad.

I am excited for EoD!

Автор сообщения: Tiberius

The guy who complained abt lags also managed to finish legendary armor 🤷‍♂️

Dang, that some dedication that guy got. After getting my ascended gear and the skyscale, I concluded that I won't bother with Legendary, just way too much work. Ascended stuff is enough for me already lol.

[Angoril]

Автор сообщения: Altair Arcturus

After getting my ascended gear and the skyscale, I concluded that I won't bother with Legendary, just way too much work. Ascended stuff is enough for me already lol.

When it comes to stats you will be missing on nothing by staying with ascended as legendary doesn't increase those. What legendary offers is the ability to change stats and runes/sigils on the fly. They should be a better value when ArenaNet releases the legendary armory as that will allow you to equip a set or weapon on multiple characters at the same time.

[Darugdawg]

well in the end you cant just ignore criticisms. its not healthy

[LoliNoxTan]

Автор сообщения: PEFTOK

well in the end you cant just ignore criticisms. its not healthy

You can ignore them from people who clearly have no idea what the hell they're talking about. Some complaints on this Forum are valid but a lot of negative threads here are spreading misinformation

[❤︎Alice❤]

Автор сообщения: Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan

Автор сообщения: PEFTOK

well in the end you cant just ignore criticisms. its not healthy

a lot of negative threads here are spreading misinformation

Literally.

[Darugdawg]

Автор сообщения: Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan

Автор сообщения: PEFTOK

well in the end you cant just ignore criticisms. its not healthy

You can ignore them from people who clearly have no idea what the hell they're talking about. Some complaints on this Forum are valid but a lot of negative threads here are spreading misinformation

lets be real and stop pretending. game forums outside steam became draconian years ago. "misinformation" is a term often now used to censor criticisms esp in social media. i love the game but it doesnt mean ill start simping for em. and btw im a new player so i just encountered the stop light mechanics so dont tell me im too late to talk about it since i genuinely found it funny