"3 Reasons why Players and Creators QUIT GW2" by  

Hey Mukluk! I was excited to see your takes on this video outside of what you had already stated in a comment a few days ago. I honestly cant thank you enough for considering this worthy of sharing with your audience. I have only started creating content back in October of 2023 and got a sneak behind the monetization aspect only a few months ago. The content creators i mentioned in my video were actually the creators i watch! You are the largest NA streamer/creator in the space so its hard to mention content creators without you! I wish you nothing but continued growth and a full pantry of ramen! Thanks again and i hope you find my next ASMR-i mean video, just as interesting.

I am currently on a break from the game (launch vet here) and the reason why I leave from time to time is because I know I'll always be welcomed back when I return. Love this game.

Chat made a good comment to the SOTO story. The Wayfinder feels like a bystander. Just getting talked at and sent places. As the commander, you and the gang were working at it together. And well. You as the commander made the final calls.

I'm a casual player. been playing for nearly 12 years. 3 years ago I started doing leggies. and... I'm not nearly as far along as many. but I play for my fun. sometimes I just walk through the areas. I'm also not the gamer most people are talking about. I still dumb about alac builds and whether or not I have a tanky DPS or a DPS with padding. There are days I just want to kill Risen. and other days when I want to learn more. anyway going back to my 200th death on the damn race to get Ravenwood completed.

I've been bouncing on and off GW2 since launch, and quite honestly the one thing that always makes me pause is that first look at my inventory after a long time away - just makes the game feel like a chore

There is ONE feature i want them to do soooo badly but they will never add: LET ME SORT MY CHARACTERS IN THE SELECTION SCREEN! I want to sort them by so many things but they just switch around like crazy after just logging in for a sec. PLS ANET!

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I'll admit that every time I come back to the game looking for stuff to do, I see content valued by 'gold per hour' metrics, then I get less interested.

Soto has kinda sucked. My static and guild memebers have quite or are on break. The only redeeming thing about soto is the wizards vault and the new weapons. I can do without everything else.

I've got about 7k hours on GW2 since launch. I loved the game but haven't touched it since May of 2023 or so (Thanks Zelda, then BG3, respectively). My disappointments with the game may mirror some of these points, but I'll try to use my own words here: --- GW2's content is like a gigantic puddle. It's wide, with many options, but not very deep. ------ Additionally, it almost exclusively revolves around combat. Now, I *like* GW2 combat, and it took me forever to get to grips with this, but it really should strive to do more. --- Content is too slow to come out and too short for the amount of time it takes for the studio to have produced it. Whether it's within their capabilities with their workflow or not, I've seen it all. I've been through all the droughts. I had enough. I'll play SotO when I'm good and ready and it is good and fully released. --- The Game forces you to make your own objectives due to a lack of options, rather than a lack of how fun it is to do something. --- It lacks RPG elements. This means narrative. This means ways to interact with the class fantasy of each profession. This means other objectives for systems that include but are not limited to combat. I understand not every game can be everything to everyone, but the lack of agency is palpable. --- GW2's ability to do side content is severely limited by the achievements tab. --- The GW2 community is in fact, quite resistant to even incremental changes in difficulty or rewardability. See the Dragon's End fiasco from 2022. And I'm speaking as someone who has done raids, but not completed a single set of Leg Armor from raids. I thought Dragon's End was super good. But I was a part of the community that was in the minority, but blown away by the devs guts to even try to release DE in the state it was in at launch. I'm happy to have completed it before the nerfs, even if I had nothing to show for it, per se. There are probably more things, but this is my short list. And I can still love the game, despite this.

Yeah I'm totally checked out on SotO, it is uncomparable to the masterpiece that was PoF or HoT. I've stopped keeping up with the story content because I know I will run through it within 30 minutes gaining no satisfaction or intrigue whatsoever. SotO isn't it for me, but I've always had WvW to keep me busy.

The era of LW3, PoF, and LW4 will always be the golden era of GW2. The only way it will be outdone is from years of setting up a content cadence where we get a new map or expansion every three months, keeping it up through those years. Still don't know how they managed to do all that with even less staff than they have now.

There is a reason why Guild wars 2 hasn't blown up like other MMO's like WoW or FF14 or Lost Ark. The marketing for the game sucks and Anet as a company have been making bad decisions again and again.

I played gw2 religiously for years. But lack of content, inconsistencies and gemstore items receiving more news articles than actual game information made me not want to return.

I remember i thought i would never make legendary or raid when i started. I am now all three raid suits and trinket most my untamed gear i like that may not be top dps is legendary all 8 sigils and 7 runes. And i still like to raid because found chill people to go with. I am autistic and learning disabled so i use to be scared now im more relaxed in raids.

I have been playing Guild Wars 2 for about 4 years now. The non-pay to win style and friendly community is what got me to stay. The only hump I had to get over was what to do after 80. I was privileged to having a friend who was a vet. He got me into the level 80 content and I was hooked. Downloading Arcdps and Tacco also got me hooked because I knew how I was performing which boosted confidence in LFG.

It's not even "So Much Content" it's "So many directions that are actually GOOD!? Wtf. DO I do!?!?" There's SO MANY ways to play this game differently that are actually fun. Which is GREAT. But ANet has 0 systems that are good at filtering people into the maybe 1/5 Main Directions, and sending them on their way. The new player handbook-achievements are annoying and don't actually reward you for reading or doing them. So these detract from inducting people more past just the intro. Imo. *May be a Hot Take but: If The ANet Devs who designed these systems, played their game outside of using their dev design tools to blast through them, they'd know that and be able to DESIGN BETTER SYSTEMS.* This extends to Specialization Design / Updates / Balance as well imo. (*cough Deadeye, Bladesworn, etc.) But none of them seem to in 2024.

Something that's been echoed a few times in the comments is that GW2 is very forgiving of you taking breaks- I've never "quit" GW2, I simply just explore other things for a while, because I know when I come back, I'll be welcomed back. By both the game and the community. I continue to watch content creators (well, mostly Mukluk lol) in the mean time and I never feel this pressing urge like I have to justify my time in the game. It's fun when I'm there, and when I want to do something else, I can. It's genuinely one of my favourite things about the game and something I mention when getting friends into it.

I totally agree with you on the niceness (can we say that ?) of the GW2 community. I have rarely had bad experiences aside from the odd angry player shouting in the map chat and those jerks who block chests in auric basin (remember kids, aviator box is good, Black Lion merchant is bad, so don't be naughty !). I remember players following me while we were doing a jumpin puzzle (I won't name the jumping puzzle in Ember Bay because I don't want to trigger people's PTSD), and some of us were jumping back to help players that were stuck behind. Plus, as you said, it is rare that someone doesn't get an answer to a question they ask in the map chat. And how often have we seen people sprinting towards a hero point that they have already done at the other side of the map just to help someone who's struggling with it ? Some of the "help" that we provide each other might be motivated by the fact that it gives us something in return (XP, some loot or simply some entertainment while we grow old in front of the wall in Tangled Depths) but overall, GW2's community is great !

Honestly, for me, SoTo killed it! I was so excited about the trailer and the fact that they got Zoja and a freaking mursaat and a seer back, and then I played it. Uhhh…so bad. Looking back I would not pay 5 bucks for soto. I stoped playing after I played the story and then went back to wow!

18:20 Thief axe is perfect example of bad weapon. -Insane dps ON GOLEM. -Feels clunky like hell to use -Forced teleport on axe 3 -The projectiles outright bug on some encounters Basically its neither fun nor balanced.

I think a lot of veteran GW2 players grossly underestimate how bad some aspects of GW2 look when you are coming from other big MMORPGs as a new player. I know Anet has to make money, every company does, but having to deal with bagspace hell or paying 5 dollars per bag - per character is a pretty dismal experience.

Once you understand horizontal progression. You start liking vertical progression less. With horizontal you can pick WHATEVER, and it will be useful and help you progress. The difficult part is you have to set a goal yourself. No handholding. Farm gold? Build an item? Finish a collection? Etc. But you have to choose.

When you zoom out and see the brand scar stretch across the map from the Elonian desert to Ascalon 😮

About the horizonal progression. I've came back to the game this January after quitting in 2012 (xd pc exploded) and sunk 400 hours into it now. I had some degree of understanding back from 2012 that the progression is horizontal, and coming back to the game I set my expectations that learning game mechanics, currency exchange, what metas are worth doing etc as the actual progression in the game and this approach made things so enjoyable for me that I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.

Why can’t Anet give Raids and Strikes a level system like Fractals? Four tiers of difficulty for all of them would work for 99.999% of the players. And it would encourage players to improve their skills so they could work their way up through the difficulty levels. Maybe add the Challenge Mode on top of the fourth level to make a total of five levels. This would be great for all of the players, because having more levels of difficulty would allow Anet to justify making more higher level content that would help retain some of the try hard veteran players.

I agree that the LFG UI is trash, it doesn't even show what elite specs the players are running only shows the class icon. For group leaders there should be a way to limit what classes/elite specializations can even join so if you're looking for a quickheal you'll at least get someone that could be running it instead of a HAM or spec that can't heal at all.

Oh now for my serious response. I quit making vids/guides because it became too much work and I never made it to 500 subs, admittedly my fault because I refuse to do social media so it got no promotion. Same thing with Twitch. I realized all of what this vid was talking about and coupled that with my aversion to ever making a social media account, and realized I have other things I want to do more with my time. BTW, I appreciate all your help whenever it was that I asked questions, and that assistance isn't wasted, it may come in handy when I start my Doctor WHO channel in earnest, whenever I get around to it. What I'm actually spending most of my time with now, aside from still playing about 30 hours a week, is writing my novel, which has a greater chance of doing something for me long term than streaming was, for me at least. Only 80 pages in so far, so we'll see. Fingers crossed. I'm having fun though, which is what making guides had stopped being: fun.

I feel content in GW2, atleast of late, has aimed at either beeing completly fool proof / young children can clear it. OR Super hard where 99% of the player base can't clear it. And this leaves a huge gap inbetween, for people who are looking for a challange, a fun challange one could say, to enjoy with their friends, but get bored TOO quickly with the fool proof stuff, but also aren't interested in tryhard grind training 1 sigle thing for weeks/months, and not even getting to do it with all their friends as basically some of those or them selves will never get good enough. A perfect challange should aim for something like 40% of people Actully good enough to clear it, but leaving room for perhaps carrying 1-2 people underpreforming. Thus with some time invested to learn/getting better more might clear it or getting lucky with a friendly group, eventually 80-90% of players can clear it if they really want to with time! Then you can have like a hardmode ontop of that beeing really hard if they wish, where only 90-95% or so might clear it, but thats like a bonus, and not what most are looking for, kinda says so itself by the numbers, 95% might only clear it, meaning it's aimed for 5% of the player base at best. Meanwhile the fool proof content everyone can clear too easy, basically 85-99% of the player base clear it week one, that content fast become super boring content that no one wants to engage with, and just bad design besides if it's open world story driven, thats fine that all can clear, but instanced content by it self should give players something to aim for.

Personally I hate how they don't seem to care about updating old content (core classes' skills vfx as an example) and instead just push for stuff that makes them the most money. Also the lack of "Ultimate" abilities per say really takes away from the hype you get when in combat compared to other MMOs

17:52 yeah Joko was a great villain, because he was from the original GW The other villain who could have been more than he was , was Caudecus , but we already know how that ended. 😅

I think that one of the issues that new players experience is the amount of story they have to do to get caught up. Generally they'll start skipping stuff, like going to PoF asap to get mounts. This doesn't help them with being engaged with the story as when they would do it in the right order. And they might have friends playing the most recent content and then they still have weeks or months of things to do until they're caught up. So on the one hand they have lots of content but on the other hand they probably will want to rush through it and skip around a lot and all of it becomes a bit disjointed. They might never feel as connected to this game as you would wish for them to be.

Hey off topic but what is that DPS/ Healing counter on the left of your mini map? Where can I get it?

Hmmm... So in the last 3 weeks I brought 2 of my friends to GW2, after XX years of World of Warcraft. And after a few days they are still excited. We're finally playing together again and it's fun to show you the game... People will always be leaving and coming back, that's part of being an MMO player. But even if I take a break for a year or months, I will always come back to GW2 because it has everything you could imagine ;)

I started playing again in December and the stopped in January. I'm just not sure why. Something is missing but I can't quite put my finger on what. It's just that I suddenly find myself not sure what to do.

is there any way to acquire a general story of the world outside of the game. Like a book that tell the story of the world of tyria since the first game tto the last expansion.

A small correction. The Raids were designed with Ascended in mind at the start. There is a direct quote from the designers during HoT that they said they expect people to have ascended gear already and not being able to be done outside statics. But they underestimated how powerful the builds the playerbase made with the elite specs plus all the powercreep over the years. So these initial designs goals are irrelevant now.

Non guide/lore videos that are insanely popular. Pint comes to mind. He basically makes videos about epic adventures in MMOs. Story time stuff. I dunno.

How do you even find fashion contest? I'd like to see one in game

Is it possible to enjoy GW2 solo? I tried getting into the game now I'm realizing anything that's actually challenging or worth defeating requires a group. I feel I should move on as this is a MMO not. Single player experience. Any thoughts?

you know what feature i need added? being able to link achievements for quick finding, or better, add a right button "watch on wiki"

He's absolutely right that there just isn't much here for creators. Only seems like guides/builds are some of the biggest content to farm for gw2 creators. You can only do so many of these... IMO Anet needs to add player-generated content. This sort of thing is what kept Skyrim alive through 10 launches on various Samsung smart kitchen appliances. Home decoration that doesn't cost an arm and a leg like a guild hall. A Roller Beetle/griffon track builder and track browser outside of just inviting people to your guild. A free camera and effects like green screen built into a use-anywhere jade drone camera. Maybe some way to interact with your streamers game like spawning a mini-boss into a fractal or other instanced pve with the viewers name on it, or even spawn in one of their characters, IDK. Skyrim mods are proof that players would love to make content for their favorite game. IMO this would give the game a fresh breath of life as well as endless content for creators who want to review their viewers creations. I also agree that this new form of expansion release is DUMB. Every time I talk about it, I'm hit like a truck with cult-like retribution of the overall community, anywhere I go... "But it's cheap" . "But we get steady content"... The content has been super short, and super small. 1/3 of a map per quarter? maybe an hour worth of story? half that if you remove the "Complete events to progress story" green bar... This community doesn't take criticism of the game we all love, well. Well Anet already have your money, their financial incentive to make something good is now gone. A whole lot of content got pumped into the gem store though, like that greatsword that looks cooler than some legendries... IMO they need to address the reasons that old expansions were so slow to release, and maybe find a way to make things more modular for the design team to build quickly with. They already re-use a lot of the character bone rigs and animations. At this point though, I think most of their dev team is working on the 'untitled Unreal Engine project' that they're still hiring people for. So I doubt we'll see any changes to their new process anytime soon. PS. @ NOXXIE! Can we get a compilation of "WEIRD THINKING SOUNDS" 46:18

One of the things that bothers me a lot in GW2, and I like the game, is the amount of stuff that fills up your inventory real fast, and makes you have to constantly manage inventory or just buy bank/materials space. Sometimes I want to play but just can't be bothered to spend 15 minutes figuring out what is trash and what isn't.

Quit about 2 years ago, I do miss the game. But At the time nothing new came out. EoD was like half a year away. So I thought I'd return after the expansion got released, but it never got my attention since then. I miss the community the most, I loved everyone of them

For me I have to have faith in the developers, after all it's hard to party on a ship if you know it's the Titanic. I love GW2 but Anet is... astonishing.

"Guild Wars 2 is a budget friendly mmo" *shows google search that lists every large MMO with that search term as proof*

11:46 quite the burn LOL. I'd like to add that shadow bebe

I agree with the CM comments you made. I'm far from an expert fighter capable of doing CM modes and I think it's ok to have things that are not for everyone. it's a chalenge for a reason, and it doesn't give you anything that gives you an advantage over other players on the rest of the game. it really is just a game mode for try hards to have fun and I think that is good. I play gw for almost 8 years, and I keep hearing some people complain everything is very easy (even things that are way too hard for me and a lot of the player base). you can't please everyone with just one level of dificulty, we don't all have the same definition of fun, so please, do give them things that motivate them to try harder, they deserve to have fun. I'm ok with never doing those things. Just a quick note about the story in Soto, I agree it's not up to par with season 4 (neither is the playability). But I do like the base idea for the story, I just don't think it's well executed. I do like the fish out of water story, I like that we are stripped of our army, I like that we don't have our friends to solve everything for us (coff Taimy), I like we're in a world we know nothing about and where we're no longer the top dog that knows and solves everything. Those ideas I think are great, they needed to shake things up and take away everything that was familiar after 10 years of dragons, so we can build anew. I don't think they executed that well though...

Randomly got suggested this video, I played at launch and for a while after, but left just around the first living world, before there was any appreciable "endgame" PVE content. If someone was starting in 2024 what's it like now, especially for a solo player? are there old dungeon/raids that are able to be cleared solo or is everything scaled?

Honestly, I quit playing for various reasons. None of them really represented in the video. My first reason is because I just did not have any friends or make any friends and playing solo for a few years became rather stale, I did try to make friends, but I do think in this day and age of gaming it's hard to make friends because many people are in already well established cliques and it's unbelievably tough to get into these cliques without feeling like you are there to fill out the roster so the "main characters" can do content. Secondly is endgame, I tried A LOT to get into raiding and it felt like a brick wall, I think I climbed halfway up this brick wall before getting very tired of doing the same raid over and over again with various degrees of group disbanding after a single fail. In short, I spent most of my time trying to play the game than playing the game. Thirdly is also endgame but it's the PvP aspect. PvP is...hard and frustrating, not to my taste but other games have done better PvP. WvW on paper is *fun, but in practice is absolutely boring, it might as well be called zerg v zerg. very few do small groups... but thats not the norm to WvW, I played a lot of WvW, it was just nauseatingly boring.

I discovered you recently off of the “12 minutes a day gets you rich” video and have gone back to it several times for reference. Started a quest for all home nodes thanks to that and the referenced video from that one!

Settled swampletics was one of the most popular video series in the mmorpg sphere because it brought storytelling, twists and basically told the heroes journy through his gameplay, i wish more people would do stuff like that.

The music videos by Beyond Repair are also a pretty cool type of video. Edit: I have stat infusions on my Condi Virtuoso. That's it so far.

@MuklukRU-vid do you play in EU servers

The green bars...i just finished the last chapter of soto yesterday and omg it's only green bars after green bars after green bars 😭

now considering gw3 is announced it makes it sooo much harder for me now

I love the game, I love my mesmer. I stick with one profession most of the time, don't like playing alts a lot. The thing that kills the game for me is the need to stack. Like seriously I hate it to the core. Plus well every profession can do everything there's a lack in uniqueness. So yeah. Hiatus for now.

Full infusions is still +90 stat. It ain't much, but it could maybe squeeze out another 500~1000 dps depending on class and build. So a full group of fully infused players could equate to at least 3000~6000 extra dps in your group, counting only the 6 dps out of 10 roles.

Just to clarify, Does the pantry gets orange chicken too?

27:45 "Put your dishes away." I feel called out cuz I'm eating dinner right now.

It's true that SotO offers very little compared to a non mini expansion. I have grinded all 3 obdian armor so it's kept me busy. Every update there's something that's geared towards me. But for people who already have full legendary armor from raids and don't care for skins, there isn't much they can do with this expansion. It almost offers nothing else maybe beside "some" story and new weapons-which aren't really interesting. It felt like they were added into the epxac so it feels like one, but these weapons are uninteresting which don't hold up to the standard to that of say, PoF. Relics are just some reinvention. Could be cool but so far it's flat and boring. The metas's replayability heavily weighs towards "needing it for legendary" more than "this is fun I'm gonna keep doing it", which is something I look for since Dragon Stand. As much of an open world expansion, while the metas are impressive to look at, it's very boring game play wise. They all have the potential to be mechanically interesting and fun, but Anet didn't go the extra mile to push the open world content up another notch. That is the most disappointing part. I think the thing I get most value out of, might just be the combat launch and updrate mastery. One update left and I don't think that will wow me. It's 7/10. It's $25 I am willing to pay for more things to do. But I am convinced they are incapable of making good quality content anymore.

im on a short break from the game, soto didn't catch me as much, eod didn't either and its been a really long streak of playing just for playing and I got tired. but it took me a year to do pof story and I ended up loving it so... don't know. I will come back to the game but not sure when

About twice a year, usually during a holiday event, I go on my "Cronocation." So when attend my usual guild events I don't play my main boon crono but some memey build. It greatly refreshes me. Little breaks may cost in the short term, but promote growth in the long term. Like "Prevention" instead of "Curing" it's very hard to measure.

Yup, my 1st big memory is fighting shadow behemoth in queensdale with 100 people, it was amazing

Speaking as someone who actually did clear half of naxx40 when it released, the re-release was very different from the 40 man raid, or at least felt different enough so as to be not just 1 to 1 recycled content.

I feel like some of the points made in the video would apply to any game. Just about any game can give you the "now what" feeling and start feeling boring after a while, that isn't something specific to GW2 or even something specific to horizontal progression. I've felt the burn out in tons of games, the game's design has nothing to do with it. Sometimes you just get bored and want to do something else. The difference is I keep coming back to GW2, while there are dozens of other games that I've never gone back to after putting them down for the first time. I also think that GW2 is a game that is made for people that have a lot of patience. The crazy amount of collections, the fact that all the content from the beginning to current is still 'relevant' in some way, and a story line that has only gotten longer as time goes on means that people with zero patience that skip story and try to grind out to 'end game' asap are going to just end up lost in GW2. I think people who start up the game and try to rush to the 'end' only to end up saying 'wtf is this' and quitting are doing so at their own fault. GW2 is made to be a journey, if you don't have the time or patience for that journey, then it probably isn't for you.

I am not playing new CM not because I don't want to but because I don't have time for organized static group. I want to enter the game make a group and start fighting the boss when I have time. Not planning one run for a month for 10 people to have free time together. If it was the same level of difficulty but single player content I would play it. Making group for it is a pain.

As a WvW player since launch, I quit in 2022 and said I would be back when alliances drop...

I love discussion vids like this as a newer player, because it gives some insight on how a vet player views the game in comparison (I end up in the same boat with ff14, my views are a lot different from the people who joined in Shadowbringers or later, when looking at it as someone there at start of Heavensward). Idk GW2 became my main MMO last year. I've been progressing chronologically through the expansions and living worlds... like VERY slowly because I will sometimes just do daily events in an area I take a liking to for a month or two LMAO. Slow and steady is my way, I guess. I've been told it's a good way to approach this game, at least.

I watched the video last night. I'm glad you uploaded a response.

If you want to see some cool content for the MMO scene, I suggest something like Settled and his Swampletics series. The grind he did was insane.

Oh god, I can completely relate to your point from 47:50. I have spent nearly 2 months working on a video about chronomancer rotation back in the day, only for it to get gutted days before I was about to release it. The pVirt video I made afterwards was almost purely out of spite.

Great video muk! I agree with the whole making content for 1% of the player base is make 0 content b/c if you are spending hours to make something you want as many people as possible to see what you worked on. I do want challenging content but not only 1% of players or less will see it content.

Gotta say, it sometimes feels like Gw2 community is on life support of so few unsung heroes and content creators who are endlessly passionate about the game or work pretty much out of goodness of their hearts for several years. Then again reality may often be even more harsh in other MMOs. I still miss Dulfy's cosmetic showcases but being content creator is almost always a thankless effort. Thank you for keeping up with the game up until now and for however long you're able to support us and all the other future gamers out there.

I walked away because I really only play MMORPGs for raid type content. Once I had raided enough to get all 3 sets of armor, and the ring, and then **still** had >100 LI that I can't even use, the rewards were gone. There is nothing left for me in raids, which means there is nothing left for me in GW2. Great game, tons of fun, and I met a lot of good people. But after 4000hrs, I have seen everything this game has to offer me. It was worth every penny, and I don't regret buying/playing it. I might come back someday, just to see how the story ends. But the days of me playing 8+hrs a day are over.

Muk, you continue to be a light in the hatoraide-echochamber that RU-vid is unfortunately starting to favor. 😄 Imo. Like most, Silhouette isn't 100% wrong here. GW2 Has always been a very "create your own content / play with your friends" game and it's AMAZING for that. If ANet were smart(er) they'd support the systems that encourage these trends more. Like more Guild-Oriented tools or making the LFG not suck. But he's quite clearly just playing the clickbait game. Not that I can talk lol Still awesome job Muk, thanks for reframing this in probably the most balanced take I've seen. And asking Creators before you do React' Videos is amazing man. Cudos.

I HATE the green bars. It just signals time gating and the lack of freedom when it comes down to the things you can do on that particular map. Especially when certain parts of them map are not even available until a whole meta event is done and then you can access them for like 15 minutes because fck you… like… why…?

The guild wars 2 player base is the nicest with the exception of the sPvP Lobby.

Id love to play but single dad life is higher priority. Problem with raids is the amount of networking required to get one going. Or people wont take on new players. Also theres no replay ability for raids once you complete them for the week.

@31:35. GW2 was my main MMO from 2012 - 2020, switched over to FFXIV in the middle of pandemic, GW2 is my 2nd favorite community after FFXIV. Still play GW2 every now and then but it's no longer my main but I still love GW2.

The last part of the video seemed like a strange complaint since so few make content for GW2 and his complaint about Cerus and other instance fights was that almost no one is going to ever beat it. Almost no one is trying to make money with Gw2 content. One of the real issues that I experience over the past 10 years that made me take breaks was inventory. There was a time where I didn't know what I could or could not throw out or get rid of so my inventory actually kept me from playing the game. Now I know what you can get rid of or salvage and it's not as big of an issue. But there were a few years where I felt paralyzed and didn't know what to do. They have also given us some free bag slots recently which helped too. Also wanted to give a shout out to AyinMaiden and TiffyMissWiffy for their content and videos. Without them I would not have been able to get my Heart of Thorn mastery points or completed most jumping puzzles and other random achievements.

As someone who got back into GW2 a little over a year ago and is just now dipping his toes into raiding, I probably wouldn't have started with any instanced group content if I didn't have friends who dragged me in. The game does a really bad job at showing you what things you can do at max level. You always need to look things up on the wiki or watch videos on the topic to get an idea of how to get gear. I've sometimes spent my whole gaming time in an evening just reading through stuff on my 2nd monitor - which has also lead to me just closing down everything.

I have to agree that purchasing living worlds separate from expansions were a huge detractor. Bought 3 accounts for my brothers, but they end up stop playing after landing in HoT without a clue who Dragon's Watch were.

I played GW2 for ove 4000 hours back in 2020, but since then I just couldn't get back into it. I feel like whenever I boot up GW2 I don't know what to do, so I play a bit of PvP, get borred and unistall. They need to add the adventure sugestions system from WoW.

Agree with number 2, especially for casual gamers like me. If you take a break and come back, they usually have added so much more currency items and content that puts you so far behind, almost too many maps many of the old ones get abandoned by player base. Not enough in the classes, with my ADD get bored easily with same build /toon and in many cases, especially open world, there is generally one main effective build to play. With the other builds fighting takes too long and frustrating, so realistically your options are limited.

the thing is though. Guide videos are so much more search-able. There's so many times I have a random question while i play the game and ill go look it up on youtube, since i would rather have it shown to me/explained in that format rather than long text...idk that if i search ''gw2 meme video'' ill get the same successful results, especially since a meme video can be titled anything. tbh it never even occurred to me to do that. i think that happens naturally as you watch more content about x topic u get more and more niche content. for example, ive began to get more recommendations of your videos on my home page that i just click on cus im familiar with your channel from your guides and im curious to see what you would have to say.

when talking about difficulty.. for those who played gw1 and remember the Thunderhead Keep mission where u had to defend the fort against an insane influx of Mursaat. that mission failed all the time if you had an uncoordinated group. and to me, that was part of the thrill. I don't feel like everything has to be too easy. Or when people first started doing Beacon's Perch runs where u had to pay a ferry fee only to pray the dude actually makes it. That took knowledge and skill to become consistent at it, and I love that niche aspect of video games.

Even though I am in a guild, what gets me is the game is pretty much solo. You join guilds and no one talks ever, no one wants to help do things unless you do WvW. Sure you can do meta's but it really is the silent pug group. GW2 is a large solo game. I remember in WoW and FFXIV people talk, they hang out and when doing things together they get on discord and hang out, laugh and have a good time. That just does not happen in GW2. The game is amazing and if I had to chose one thing that would really get new players to walk away is the total lack of explaining what to do. The "do whatever you want." is actually confusing to many people. The inability to make gold easy also gets a lot of people. I ran my first fractal and afterwards deemed I would never do it again. They power ran it, explained nothing and it is where I learned that there is no trinity. So I was left to heal myself, run from a boss who decided I needed to go, even though I saw myself as dps he felt I was a tank. I died over 22 times in the dungeon, fell from jumping areas, cause I suck at jp's, and had a group literally laughing at me and making fun of me. That was 2 years ago, never did another one and I probably wont. No one runs dungeons and raids. Just a lot of interesting content ruined or ignored does not help.

To be fair, when SoTO first came out, Teapot gave the impression that he was less than happy. I don't know if he's since changed his mind.

I have a level 80 of each profession. All original elite specializations unlocked. Now I quit for creative reasons, professions are fixed with one armour weight. I would like to play a tanky elementalist with heavy armour and a hammer. Would also like to try a Guardian with light armour and sceptres and staffs... a GW1 Monk basically. Cant do either one atm. Would be awesome 😊

I feel like some other games like ffxiv has very popular playthrough videos, and also people running hard content without it being a guide and such. When I started playing gw2 I tried to find that kind of content on youtube and found very few haha I did not look for playthrough video here though cuz I dont think it translates that well.

With Cerus getting a Medium mode, I'd love to see Dagda get a propery Hard mode. Watching world first and seeing those kind of races are a lot of fun. While I may not be in the .01% that clears it, I still get content out of the CM. I joined a HT training run recently and half the people had never done a strike but it was in the Training tab so they hopped in. I ended up being the only one who had cleared it (ONCE btw) so I gave instruction as best I could and we one (5 attempts seriously). That's so cool to me. Love to do that with a Cerus Medium or whatever else they come out with. Adding a third difficulty overall I'd believe is a positive. I could be wrong though as splitting the community has issues as well. The biggest issue with this patch wasn't that CM was hard but that everything else was light. Weapons are cool but without traits to support them they can fall flat. Story is fine but 1/3 of a story gets too much filler stuck in between. I love SoTO and I think the content cadence is overall at a good pace. It's just the depth of that content that needs to be adjusted. Hopefully that's something they continue to learn from and improve moving forward.

I'm pretty sure Cerus difficulty was a mistake, when it came out it had a bug. By the time the bug was fixed 2 things had happened, 2 teams had already beaten it's intended HP and there was huge community and even extra-community hype over the race to beat it. If they had just went with the bug fix it would have negated this race instantaneously, so they upped the HP to be higher than the DPS either team had put out to that point, allowing to the race to conclude. I'm pretty sure what we will see on the 19th is the boss as it was originally planned.

I feel like Gw2 could use a LFG remake with a matchmaker similar to other MMOs so you can queue up to do Dungeons, raid, fractals etc and the game will sort out making the party and teleport you there. I feel like this would give people more access to things to do at "endgame"

For me, PoF story,events,maps,mounts etc gonna always be best content in gw2.

I think the too much content, too little content issue can be handled with bonus weeks. Every time ArenaNet hands us a bonus week with not even that many tangible rewards, the majority still comes together to complete them, and it's amazing. Having a bonus week every few weeks for different content would probably be huge. Dungeon week, Fractal week, Heart of Thorns meta week, End of Dragons meta week, Path of Fire bounties week, Silverwastes week, Raid week, World Bosses week ETC. Just something to nudge the entire playerbase in the same direction. This would also allow players to complete otherwise low populated content, such as bounties for achievements.

I am going on my 3rd hiatus because i am unsatisfied with the last SoTo patch. Mediocre story, no cuscenes, boring story no exiting PVE content (Temple of febe tbo is boring, the most fun i had was HTCM. I dont have the same feeling with febe). No new fractal etc.... I miss and wish we get pve content at the quality of LWs3 / PoF era.

I find I tend to run into alot of moments where I just feel overwhelmed.. currently it is because of the materials I need. I've hit a point where I finished one of my goals (making a gen 3 legendary weapon) and my other goals I am really really stuck on. I want to make the legendary weapons from the astral thingy, but I need alot of might/magic thingo's. I want to finish my medium envoy armour... but im missing the might/magic thingo's. I then figured "okay well I should start obsidian armour to" and it is a lot more might/magic thingo's..... and forced wvw for the gifts. Basically my main goals right now need the magic/might thingo's which I have no idea how to obtain at a decent pace, and wvw. I hate wvw. If someone does know how to get those might/magic thingo's please let me know! I have the scavenger jade bot things on my main's and I know to do strikes as much as I can for the eternal ice, but other than that I am really really stuck at this wall of needing materials that seem to be required for literally everything.

Always enjoy your videos. Thanks

I just started GW2 last week, and I'm super addicted already, but I've spent a majority of my time in Super Adventure Box, like 40 hours in just SAB lol and I don't see myself quitting GW2 anytime soon. I just wish SAB wasn't limited time, cause I'm never gonna get all the tribulations done in time. I am really enjoying exploring these early maps and getting map completion. I will say as a newbie that it doesn't feel new player friendly, cause you get so much stuff thrown at you and a lot of it isn't explained/explained well. That's okay though, I will learn with time. Been watching yours and Laranity videos, thanks for the content!