I have reached end game in guild wars 2 so here is my final review
#guildwars2 #gw2
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I have reached end game in guild wars 2 so here is my final review
#guildwars2 #gw2
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This was more fair than i was anticipating.
Good review overall, would be great but you didn't shit in transmutatiom charges /s.
About W2. Actually its not a bug. Its just that the wall behind you closes and camera cant go behind it. So it's not a bug!
I adore this game, it's for sure my choice of MMO and I completely agree with you on the story bs, the no checkpoints and the jank, causing you to restart instances, I've wasted so many hours to that bullshit. The past few expansions have been dipping on the story, super light and very weak.
But I disagree about the MTX, this is hands down the best value for money MMO and consumer friendly (for sure not perfect, i.e. the build templates). I was able to enjoy the game for months without buying EoD (Just couldn't afford it at that time, not because I didn't want it.) There's still plenty to do, you don't need the new stuff, unless you're into PvP then you could say with the specs, but the strongarming is very fair compared to what other games do.
yeah LFG sucks. Wish it could be more like a server browser that focuses on getting people grouped up, like in the private server Warhammer RoR. That group finder is great.
I play this game for convenience, I can pick it up, play whenever I want, always stuff to do and the build craft is awesome.
Living world seasons are sold in a pack on the gem store and apply a 15% discount when purchased in a bundle. Whereas the hero panel is individual episodes so you pay full price.
Raiding is different but Preachlfw from WoW played them and said he really enjoyed them and some of their encounters were really great however the ups and downs in difficulty as he progressed through the various wings caused some awkwardness throughout his clear of the raids because some where easier and harder than expected, it was a really randomized difficulty scale.
Polish is one thing the game has been neglected for years but hoping the new release model will be able to produce better polished features. We will truly see the outcome of the new release structure in expansion 5.
ALSO I LIKE GREEN BAR FILLING
on w2 first boos the camera zoom because the tunnel behind you colapse when you start the boss forcing the camera to go to the edge of the rumble/ edge of the boss arena, this is not a bug , it does not happen if your camera is angled differently.
Did you do any PvP? Curious what your thoughts were on that. Thanks for the vid
Great review, I think you hit all the most important bits!
As someone who only ever really does open world stuff this really does feel like the most rewarding MMO, but like you said, some of the bugs and monetization decisions can be grating. I'm also an altoholic, and going through the story instances multiple times is…not always fun…
I need to try WvW though. I hear you can get lots of transmutation charges from that. I'm a PvP coward across all games, but I think I could maybe make for a decent zergling.
Man I can't even get angry at u those r the things i also hate. A very good review 👍.
As soon as you said the camera get pulled. I didn't like the sound of that..
The living world store thing, is pretty shit and I had no clue about it, but it seems more like a mistake than intentionally malicious.
17:08, it's not a bug. It's your camera angle. When the boss starts, there's a "wall" that spawns which blocks you in, and your camera won't allow you to view through walls. That's why your camera angle seems zoomed in. If you turn it 180 degree and fight, you won't have that problem
Personally have never ran into those story bugs you mentioned
Have you tried Strikes?
I have played through the stories multiple times over the years. I did not have any bugs. Someone is doing something they shouldn't be doing to break the stories. The open world does have some bugs for sure but it is rare.
Sadly GW2s every new xpac just gets worse and worse 🙁
I agree on all wot you say. Open World and WvWvW are soooo good and fun. One if not the most enjoyable content i have had in GW2 wos playing trou achievement 'Retourne to' (i belive its named). Just before End of Dragons relised it wos deleyed fue times and thay gave us this achievement with great reward {[(LEGY AMULET)]} . Its play trou whole GW2 story while doing bunch of achievements on each mup and story step. Lots of players where doing it and wos really cool exp…definitlly recomending for all.
It opened the Legendary jurney for me. 🕊🐣🕊
I played GW2 like a maniac when it was released and stopped just before the 1st expansion came out. A few months ago, I returned to check out what was new and immediately thought it looked like a trashy Ragnarok Online private server lol. Personally not a fan of the non-subscription model as it inevitably leads to MTX/excessive visual customization to fund the project. Then again, I thought v1.0 of FF14 was amazing and accept I'm in the minority who genuinely prefers older style games.
I have to admit that I haven't followed your whole journey but from some of the phrases and behaviors seen in this video I feel like I didn't quite understand what a horizontal progression is for you @mmosky. I ask because a lot of the feelings I hear expressed don't seem in line some times with what the game proposes.
9:05 to be clear, you don’t have to back all the way out or repeat anything. you just have to leave the story instance and reenter (relog on the character). It's not a workaround that players found, it's just using the existing checkpoint system that devs implemented
in other words, you could go there right now and continue from that last room
I played gw2 for six years as my main mmo, from 2012 to 2018, found my passion in raiding and (self-made) challenges. CM, speedruns, low-man clears, in the last few years I was even in a 'seller guild' where we did raid clears with 7-8 of our own people and carried 2-3 deadweights through the content in exchange for gold. I moved to ffxiv more or less when gw2 started phasing out raids (there was more than a year when nothing new was coming out, we just did the same 5 raid wings every week and my group was beyond burnt out). I have returned briefly when they released the last two wings, played the story on and off up to End of Dragons and by that point I was just so spoiled on Shb storytelling that the EoD story felt shallow and empty.
So, as a 'hardcore' raider who doesn't have the schedule to hold down a static anymore and does his raiding primarily in PF, I'm now coming up on my sixth year in ffxiv and I don't see myself ever going back. There are a lot of things I love in gw2 and even more things I wish I could love as much as I want to, but ultimately they are mismanaged or fall short in ways that I can't enjoy anymore.
This is going to be anecdotal, from EU and about 5 years out of date, but I'm glad you found a way to dip into gw2's raids with a helpful group (I heard things improved a lot once the community moved to discord) because it used to be the most rancid, horrible black hole of a community I have ever encountered and I have cleared DSR in party finder. Having all those wings concurrently and the incentive to keep clearing them all every week – for the gold, for the rare skins, to constantly gear out other classes – fostered an insane level of toxic min-maxing in the group finder, because the weekly clear still easily took up to 3 hours even with optimal dps and no breaks.
To even get into a group you had to prove that you have already done the content, with two separate tokens – at least 150-200 LIs OR a full legendary armor set to prove that you were an experienced raider and the boss-specific 'kill proofs' which were these rarely used materials for like guild hall statues OR titles from the CMs – and even if you managed to get into the group you still needed to have 2-4 fully geared meta-compatible characters and god forbid you stumbled in your rotation because someone would keep an eye on the dps meter and kick you if you if you didn't perform high enough.
I remember clearing the last wing the week it came out, but not having luck with the kill proof. The last boss dropped between one and three tokens at the time and I only got one – and every week 2 group demanded at least two, because it was 'harder to fake it' that way (there was this complicated 'test of authenticity' where they demanded that you split and merge stacks as you were instructed and had to ping the items really quickly).
I think that was the moment where gw2's 'hardcore' content died for me once and for all. All of that toxicity, all those hoops to jump through and for what? Something that was maybe as complex as a slightly higher end EX (my go to comparison is on release Seat of Sacrifice EX, I don't think any of gw2's raids get any harder than that even at a CM level). I occasionally check in with my friends still playing to see what they are doing with strikes, but honestly? Nothing I have heard made me even a little tempted to go back. Especially with that whole ass shitshow around Cerus CM recently.
I usually don't comment, but I just wanted to say I appreciate the review. GW2 is definitely a good game in a lot of respects, but it has plenty of downsides as well. While I personally have rarely run into any bugs, it is true that many others do, and it is a major pain point in the community. I have played almost all of the major MMOs, and somehow GW2 is the one that works the best for me. Your ending is also very accurate. If you like horizontal progression, this is one of the absolute best MMOs for you. Here's to hoping they keep getting better with time!
Gw2👏👍🔥
GW2 is a dead game, graphics is ugly and outdated, the endgame is just gold grind, and fashion is you just make your toon an ugly bright shiney gross mess.
Bro with all respect but if filling a green bar for story quest in GW2 is nothing compare to FF14 story from 1-60 i just finish it and is the worse story by far compare to any other MMO super boring, slow and repetitive in paper u are saving the world but in gameplay u just running around doing the same thing for 60lvs.