i’m having such a fun time playing GW2, it’s the only other mmo i’ve like besides wow. the story is great and you don’t even have to pay for a sub. the combat takes some getting used to but i enjoy it much more than ffxiv.
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I really enjoyed GW2 for about 3 years. I stopped playing about 3 years ago (a little after path of fire was released)
It’s really a good game I enjoyed the combat, open world exploration and the very interesting classes (or professions as they call it)
But I’m more of a vertical end game kind of guy and GW2 doesn’t provide me with that.
At the time I think 150 fractals were the highest? I cleared all of those and then found myself gold farming in the silver wastes and then one day I said to myself “I actually don’t like this end game at all”
So then I came back to wow.
Glad you’re enjoying it though it’s a good game to pick up after some time of not playing it and pick up where you left off
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I can see that! I’m more of a casual player so my end game is collecting armor appearances and mount skins and just having fun with friends. It does seem really easy to pick up after time off, are you considering the new expansion?
I think once New World comes out it will be the next big thing, it would be interesting to watch to see if FF14 still lands on top. Animal Crossing New Horizons was the biggest when it first came out.
I never tried Guild Wars, but I enjoy MMO’s with faction division. I’ll look it up on Twitch check it out of curiosity.
I was going to download and play it again the other day, but it was going to make me jump through some hoops to recover my account. And so I gave up. I was then going to download and play ESO again, but same thing. So I’m playing Morrowind again! Gonna mod the hell out of it, make it look a little less uggo.
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Never heard of New World, I’ll check that out.
GW2 playable races are all united against a greater foe, its not like wow with horde vs alliance. I like that we all can be friends, but I’m a hippy (and so is my big charr)
Boo! Sorry you’re having a hard time with your accounts. I’ve never played Morrowind but I’ve see video memes and to me it’s ugliness is part of it’s charm. Maybe I’ll try to play that today too!
I tried it and didn’t care for it.
There’s a lot of good and bad in gw2. I think the biggest issue for me was not being able to get into the end game content.
There’s definitely still charm to its ugliness. But honestly the gameplay is the real barrier for most people. The combat really is awful. Even back in the day it was awful. But I encourage anyone to try and push through because the story really is incredible. One of the best video game experiences of my life. It was by far the game I’d sunk the most time into until WoW came along. I’m just really hoping I can get sucked into is again like I did 18 years ago!
I’m enjoying it and this is my second time around after many years absence, but this time around I’ll actually make it to level cap and enjoy collections and the like. I’m very casual as well so GW2 fits my style and I really enjoy the questing and events that pop up all over the maps as I quest. WoW will always be my home mmo but GW2 makes for a very good filler for me
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I try picking it up but I just get too confused on how to make gold or play the game from an objective standpoint…I just don’t fully understand what to do or where to go.
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I remember buying that game the day it released, hard copy, playing it for 2 hours… then turning it off.
Really disliked it.
GW2 is a really solid game. The action combat is pretty decent, the combos are neat, classes are all designed well, visuals/races/music/etc are all good.
The story is hit or miss for me. The base game’s story was okayish, but was the most anticlimactic experience I’ve sat through in my life. I understand they were going for more of a cinematic experience at the end instead of a gameplay-oriented experience, but honestly “and then the airship won” felt bad, period. One of the bits in Orr before that point felt more impactful than that.
But Heart of Thorns? That entire experience was fantastic, and the gameplay of the final encounter wasn’t lacking at all. It nailed both halves that expansion and it’s what I always recommend people play through if they like the game enough to spend money on it.
PoF was inbetween. It followed HoT’s designs more, but it just felt like a worse version of it the entire time, story-wise. Almost more like a WoW story. A lot more generic, over-the-top “kill the god” ending, idk, just wasn’t my thing, but wasn’t particularly bad either.
And the meta of combat is where I really take issue with the game. If you don’t play seriously, whatever, that’s fine, you can ignore it. But if you want to play well, the meta is… stack group buffs to max nonstop forever, mostly via abilities that hit like a 5-yard area around you. So the entire meta is “stack inside your friends, always, or you’re bad” and it sucks. Not to mention it cuts down “viable” build options since not everything is built around spamming boons.
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This is true…story wise. WvW pvp says otherwise and not only that, WvW supports different playstyles; massive zerg groups, solo, and small party.
And their regular PvP is excellent too.
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I played beta and just dont get why everyone likes New World. I dont like the combat, crafting or linear questing.
Is it maybe PvP?
My graphics card is old and the game looks “old” for me as well but I dont think thats a reason Im not seeing potential in that game.
I tried - its just too different from things i loved in gw1
it felt very grindy with out some of the things that wow incorporates like cinema clips and voice acting - its mostly just nothing but an endless string of reading quests, and locked down and limiting character features that left me wanting gw1 mechanics, such as having 100 skills and having to pick skills to work together; or necromancer seems less interesting because you can’t make a nice little minion master army like in gw1. yes the story and pve is much better - but everything else that made gw1 great imo is missing in gw2.
Basically it couldn’t hold my attention and i got bored after a couple weeks, ended up coming back to wow after 10 years. even after 5 years in there on eso. I keep trying other mmorpgs, best ones i’ve found are wow, gw1 for pvp, and eso until you get burnt out that the devs dgaf and just roll out expansions while never fixing the game and pile on the loot box cash cow. BDO is insanely grindy, Blessed has no heals/healers - feels disappointing experience to me. i’ve yet to try FFO though.
I def enjoy the pvp and combat more then ffxiv but I haven’t gotten that into it.
Tbh I have plenty of time so I’m planning on lvling all ffxiv jobs to 80 and doing all the expansions and then I’ll try out lvling one char in guild wars to max to test it out.
Funny, I thought I would just replace one mmo with another but WoW took up soooooo much time with endless chores that when I stopped I could play so many different games and keep up with two mmos that actually respect your time.
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I play and love GW2 because it’s honestly a solid well budgeted MMO with a completely different MMO philosophy. So it’s a really great place to go if you’re in the mood for something truly different. Appropriate world scaling so all old zones stay relevant while you level, and being able to enjoy leveling through exploration etc is a really nice change of pace. Plus knowing your gear matters throughout the years instead of needing to always reach the latest expansion is cool, not having to know that since you didn’t play since Path of Fire (Legion for example) everything you earned is still great to use in Shadowlands (End of Dragons).
Plus underwater combat and boat mounts incoming! Sweeeet!
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It’s by Amazon it does seem kind of strange when I watch it on Twitch. I do want to play a game that matches WoW’s raiding scale and FF14 does not match it. Plus FF14 has bright neon colors that is hard to see anything.
It’s PvP but it’s optional.
No, I tried that game a year or so ago. It was alright but It’s just another lesser game. It’s taste Is going to have loyal fans sure. But I think FF does big cat people better. And I think WoW has more options than either.