Rukia.4802

I think GW3 is a great idea if they take issues from GW2 into consideration and made a better more mature game with a more fluid engine. GW2 had too many niche ideas and never found its rythm. ANet seem to have an identity crisis and the game was all over the place since launch. Consistency is important. The story in 2 was horrendous and makes GW1 look like oscar winning material. Maybe this time they can add battlegrounds and GvG since its clearly never happening in 2, though with the toxic spammy combat system none of that would work anyway and ANet are obviously aware of that. Combat and class design restricted the pvp to 1 functional instanced mode since release which is essentially unheard of in the MMO world. GW2 failed in many area's, and as I understand it they even stopped making dungeons and raids. So what does this game have that others don't? The ability to endlessly farm events in large groups with terrible visual clutter? There isn't much reason to play GW2 today compared to when there was much less competition in 2012. My guess is most people playing this game have been here since day 1 and won't let it go and its probably not making a lot of money hence the talks of a third installment. GW2 will never see a resurgance, because nobody cares like they do FF14, ESO, and WoW. ANet could have made a titan, but they wanted to be special. And the crimes commited against GW1 will never been forgiven 😝

There was always screen tearing without vsync, in fact I don't think I've played a game without it enabled since I can remember. What's wrong with using vsync? It matches frames to your screens refresh rate. I have a $2000 rig and have issues with GW2 since dx11/eod that's just how games are sometimes they are terribly optimized and the players have to be beta testers. I've noticed the most difference in eod zones. Gw2 and MMOs in general are usually more cpu bound than gpu, most modern gpu can run pretty much anything. In WoW I have massive stutters in the new zones while dragon riding and there's no realistic setup that can fix unoptimized content. ESO at least has always been extremely well optimized , though server performance is another story . Sometimes I do like playing my PS5 and knowing a game is most likely to just WORK. 6950xt with a i7 12700f Maybe I should have bought a $800 CPU as well 🤣 PC gaming is just a pita. I know players with worse rigs than me that have less issues not everyone is gonna have the same performance that's just the way it goes unfortunately.

Anything without a buttcape/buttflap/genitalflap/genitalcape/whateverdumbassaddition is fine by me. Less is more, ANet..

I was merely acknowleding the OP, calm down. I already can afk in the middle of the map though.. on skyscale like I said. If the game is designed around active gameplay then why did I have to rp walk through 9000 lines of dialogue in the story? Check mate my brother in Christ.

The thief changes are great, coming from one that hasn't played in about a year. Deadeye D/D power with rifle on swap using the updated shadow arts is really good for open world & general questing. Dancing daggers does a fine job of aoe tagging and also happens to be your main spammable to build malice for backstabs, I feel like this skill is far more accurate than it used to be too. Swap the shadow arts out for crit strikes and its very good in strike/raid/fractal as well. I can finally drop Daredevil staff which I had been using literally since HoT. Dual daggers will forever be the OG and best thief fantasy, it deserved a good power variant. I'm not a fan of rifle thematically, but now that its fluid and easier to use its a powerful range option. I feel like aoe on rifle doesn't fit and some people want to have everything on a single weapon set so thats basically a 1st world problem kinda thing. I wouldn't be opposed to pistols (yuck) getting ricochet on unload only, that way its kinda the aoe range damage option. Shortbow can remain the boring 1 spam utility weapon it always has been.

GW2 really isn't a game where you can stop and smell the roses. I will agree that you can't really appreciate an expansion zone so lower mob density would be nice. If you stop in a random spot anywhere in xpac , likely you will die unless you fight or run. I always fly up and hover my skyscale if I need to afk a sec or whatever cuz I know I'll be dead when I get back otherwise. Its pretty ridiculous but I'm used to it by now of course as we all are, god forbid we look at the scenery for 2 seconds without being attacked.

Gotta admit EoD took it to astronomic levels of giga cringe and staring at my phone during missions isn't exactly well designed gameplay. I liked the end fight, but that's literally it. The twilight books and twitter are readily available if I want terrible writing and woke propaganda, next expansion can we just please play a game.

Anet was not woke during GW1 I played it for many years. Let's not pretend anet is [b]somewhat[/b] left leaning now, we've all seen their employees tweets and their writing lol. Many of them hate men , especially Caucasian. I have never seen someone irl introduce themselves by gender or sexual preference because most people have actual personalities. The game is clearly drawing from real world influence so at least put miniscule amount of effort to making it realistic and digestible without killing me with cringe. When you're in an environment that encourages you to "Express" yourself I'm sure it's hard not to, but it's rather annoying. What you're saying is basically anyone not left leaning doesn't belong in playing GW2. Well that's fine.. financial reports will speak for themselves. I've read a lot on the topic outside of GW2 forums because you have to walk on pins and needles around here not to get banned for wrong thinking which is why most ppl here will probably agree with you, since most of us normies have been banned. I believe the general consensus is gameplay good, story bad. This whole forum is an echo chamber , it'll be interesting to see if they double down or abandon the wokeness. If they want the game to be an exclusive liberal paradise then that's their prerogative but that's not what the game was advertised as. I don't care if you are a gender or gay or whatever why does the world need to know? Why the need for approval from random strangers on the internet . Imagine not caring about left vs right and just wanting a game to be a game. I dont fight for this country to only have 1 side be allowed to speak. I struggled for 15 years with alcoholism for what I went through. All I see is endless support for lgbt these days, I think youre gonna be ok without turning all games into gender studies. Your gender or sexuality is literally the last thing I'm ever going to bother thinking about, until I have no choice when it's being forced into everything. Maybe if you loved and accepted yourself more, you wouldn't need everyone else's approval. Anet is behind the curve though.. they gotta remove genders all together like blizzard did or they're bigots 🤣 In the end though , it's all just first world problems, enough to make me laugh as long as I don't play the game . ESO does a better job of lgbt. Every once in a while I'll have to safe a dudes husband or a chicks wife. No big deal. Pretty low key and good writing, very human and relatable, even if I'm not gay. But relationships in general are mostly ignored for the big baddies and world ending catastrophes!

Yup

They didn't put any effort into it. I figured they would do something cool with fishing like copy zelda or something but nah you just follow a bar back and forth randomly. I actually prefer the average cast and wait version than this.

I don't think GW2 ever had a real peak but HoT pvp was definitely the most enjoyable and was still alive back then so I guess I go with HoT, though for pve I think it only got worse in open world. That whole xpac was just annoying af to travel though. They've continued the trend as well... every zone has 9000 elevations and horrendous layout.

AP has been borked since the beginning, unless you've played this game since day 1 and nolifed every single AP on temporary content then you'll be behind forever.

I think its fairly accurate, pretty often team mates would begin to afk after they get owned, I get the logic of what's the point if there's no chance to win. Can't count how many times I've alt+f4'd through some real kittenous metas. I won't even bother afking I'll just go play another game LOL.

The saddest part is they are conforming to a minority and eventually once people are fed up with it they'll have nothing but enemies as they keep crossing lines and making people uncomfortable, not even children are off limits to them.

Bingo. Cantha was my fav campaign , but I refunded EOD because its trash writing and it was a stain on the good memory of GW. I just wish games could go back to being fun instead of pushing political agendas. Funny how its always the left that force it in your face, like a kitten jehovas witness at your door, yet rightwing are the evil ones that just wanna be left alone and have some sense of normalcy.. crazy. Imagine seeing politics day in and day out in real life, people talking about it at work, the news shoving it in your face , only to have the same crap in the games you play. I feel like in the last 10 years everyone has become so brainwashed they are obsessed with extreme progressivism and become fervently political to the point that their self worth is defined by mainstream idealisms and no one has any thoughts of their own. How exhausting, and what a miserable existence. Its become a religion in itself. Anyone got a time machine so we can fastforward past all this insanity? Oh well the nukes will probably have dropped by then lol.