Dispelling The 11 BIGGEST MISCONCEPTIONS About Guild Wars 2! 

After playing LoL for 5 years, I got emotional when I asked for help in map chat bout stuff and 5 players answered me, one whispered me. And 2 mailed me items without me asking. It’s amazing after being bullied everyday in a game like LoL to see a community like this. Proud to be a member.

"the reports of GW2's death of have been greatly exaggerated" I believe you meant to say "The rumours of GW2's immortality have been drastically... *understated* "

gw 2 was the game i thought i would never like, but after 1 day of trying it out, it's just fits 100% what u want from a mmo. hard to explain it just feels better.

Guild Wars 2 is the mmo, where you can come back after year and you still feels like you are coming home. Quality goes up, story goes on, people aren't toxic (only a bit in pvp) and you will find something to do at least for few months again. Just details like character birth days rewards are nice touch.

I've never had a negative experience in GW2. But one thing that will always remind me that it has one of the best communities out there, was when I purchased a guild hall expedition. None of my friends play it, and I dont really have any in-game, so actually claiming the guild hall was virtually impossible for me to do solo. I was a little embarrased that I bought a guild hall even though I had no active players in my guild so it took me a long time to ask for help. As soon as I did, the leader of a large guild whispered me and asked what time I was avaliable, and shortly after we had arranged a time for myself and a group of his own guild members to claim it. We got it on our first try and everyone was wonderful to play with. I tipped them afterwards even though they never asked for any kind of compensation, and its stuck with me ever since that all these random people would take time out of their day to help someone that they might never even see again, just because they wanted to.

Person with 3k hours logged in primarily doing Fractals & Raids: "wow this game has no content & no endgame, what the fuck are new players supposed to do? also it's way too easy" Person with 3k hours spent just running around & doing meta events, exploring, collecting: "im not sure i can clear T3 fractals but let's try? i can heal if it helps" My experience with the game is that for every person that can farm T4/CM dailies, there are 5000 that still struggle to time dodges properly and shouldn't be using Zerker gear. The game is far from easy; we've just played its hard content too much.

The marketing of the game is pretty much non existent. This is why people haven't heard about the game, and if they have they think its dead because they've stopped hearing about it years ago.

I purchased the game at released but didn't play much. Recently I started playing and omg it's one of the best MMORPG out there.

Playing other MMO's made me realise how much i love Guild Wars 2 just for not punching me in the Shlong for trying to have fun.

One additional note regarding the Black Lion Chests: there is something of a mercy system in place. You get BL statuettes with every chest. Save up enough and you can eventually trade them to a BL merchant for the item from the chests you want when it comes up in the rotation. It still sucks but not as bad as most other lootbox systems.

To this day I can't believe how many people refuse to try gw2. It's hands down the best feeling combat mmo I've ever experienced. FF14 has a longstanding franchise behind it so it makes sense that it is so popular, but I think more people that would like a game that is a better middle ground between that and WoW would love gw2. It's so good, can't wait for the new expansion!

I've just started playing this game and i love the fact that you are free to choose if you want to give up your life for it or not, and you can fully enjoy the game both ways! It has the potential to appeal to so many different people and you can clearly see it by the number of players you find at any time. Plus the community has been great so far. I truly believe it is a fantastic game and this is demonstrated by the fact that it is very well populated without having great marketing exposure: the game markets itself.

I think you skipped over probably the most important part about the "not an mmo" is that there is no server gating. Barring continents, whichever servers you join you are always going to play with your friends. Something the vast majority of mmo's are still struggling with today. For me games that lock you into one server are not really mmo's since there is nothing massive about them.

Once yo reach max level, all the game becomes end game. It can be as casual or hard core as you want. Amazing game.

I've only started actively playing about a week or two ago and I'm honestly loving it. Some of these preconceptions and general lack of advertising made it hard for me to pick it up again. But I'm very glad I did. Exploration and world bosses have always been one of my favourite parts in MMOs and GW2 nails that part. I seriously hope they start advertising more/better with the coming expansion because I think that GW2 deserves a much better treatment in that area.

MightTeapot, I heard you saying in a stream that if you play the game for the rewards then you truly don't like the game. I play GW2 because of the combat loop, environments, and cool events. Rewards are 2nd for me. Slowly working towards my 3rd legendary and working on PvP legendary trinket and backpiece. SOOO MUCH TO DO. It's crazy and I love it. I recently fell in love with PvP after not playing it since 2015. Been a player since beta (took a break here and there) and also played GW1. WvW is next on my list to dive deep into... Guardian is my main for PvE and fractals. DPS and healbrand builds.

As a basically full time minion master. Playing groups is for chumps. I love when new players come over and think I'm like an entire group running around lmao

Gw2 best mmo, started January this year and today I'm making my first legendary pieces, I have 1k+ hours and it's the best game I've played in my life (coming out of steam where I have 500+ games and 5k plus hours there)

I think you did a great job with this video. I was expecting it to be good, but this surpasses those expectations. Ive always had a hard time explaining the idea of p2w in gw2, but I think how you have formatted it is exceptional.

I swear this man has such aggressive-positive energy and i love it, plus its one of the reasons i came back to the game a few months ago. Keep up the great work!

Great video, I really hope that Gw2 gets more exposure with the expac. Has so much potential.

Should be mentioned that every "skin", wether it be for weapon, armor or mounts. Can be dyed with an insane amount of different dyes, you get from in-game

Iv played a fair few MMOs. I swear about 90% of the ones Iv played Iv heard "GaMe Is DeAd" in chat atleast once. While in the middle of a bustling city hub to XD. IDK, my idea of a dead game is one were the servers have been shut down (shrug). GW2 happens to be on of the more active MMOs Iv played. It even 'felt' more active than WoW when I played a few years ago, as an example. I always see fair few people running around on every map in GW2. WoWs areas felt mostly empty and it was a pleasant surprise to see someone around. (May also have been the server I was on to). Also GW2s community is by far one of least toxic I have come across. I think GW2 is one of the more underestimated/underrated MMOs Iv played and in my opinion arguably the best mount system Iv come across.

I love the game and GW2 community. They are so kind and you will see “thankyou” word everywhere you go.

Videos like these really point out how many of the gw2 exclusive features I've taken for granted as standard mmo features. Like does wow and ff really not have collections, achievements and world bosses?

Thanks for championing the exposure of our game and community Mighty! On another note, grabbed the X-Pac with your link. Hope it worked, didn't see any notification so I did it a second time to be sure o clicked the right link :)

Gw2 is easy mode if you want to be mediocre and actually pretty hard if you actually want to be good. And compared to WoW as that's what i played before, Gw2 requires more skill because you actually need to pay attention.

"The base difficutly of the story is so easy that some of it absolutely unfaillable" good to know considering that once I started the very 1st exp I went from feeling strong to wet tissue paper and I still do in all the expansion zones.... >.>

After Blizzard and WoW have maliciously put me through the wringer many times trying to squeeze a few more pennies out of me, I will never EVER complain about GW2's gem store. The prices are fair and Anet isn't holding my account hostage with a sub fee _just to play the game._ After finally burning the bridge with WoW recently I tallied up how much they've gotten from me over the years from expansions and sub fees to character transfers, race changes, etc and they have milked me for over $3,500 I am NEVER going to get back and that doesn't even include the cash shop like mounts and pets because any I had ever obtained were gifts. GW2 may have its own version of the cash shop but it will never bleed you like WoW did especially if you have self control to not frivolously spend. You might buy a couple mount skins, some dye, a glider or two, etc but that is all perfectly reasonable.

I've been only playing pvp and WvW for the last few years, just this month I started playing the pve story and I'm in love with it and its given me so much more to do

My fave mmorpg by far. Took me ages to realise this. Having levelled without boosting or anything and having multiple L80s as a casual-ish player. The content is there. It’s fun. No need to gem-shop anything at all. It’s different to other mmorpg formats. Where I feel the game shines most is being part of an active community focused guild. I feel you’ll learn a lot about the game and have more fun than most other mmorpgs can offer. I feel that you can’t out level or out gear something and you always get rewards of some sort for whatever you do. This is huge. Especially when composited with so much of what you do on one character being available or unlocked on other characters too.

I’d never even considered playing GW2 until twitch prime decided “psst bro you want a 50% off coupon on the standard edition plus a level 80 boost? Yeah I thought you did” and so here I am Edit: no I haven’t used the boost, it’s just sitting in my inventory until I’m confident to use it, I’m grateful for the ability to “test run” the boosted character before accepting it entirely For what little I’ve played I’m definitely enjoying it, but I know I’ve barely scratched the surface considering how many tabs upon tabs of things there are So this was a good video to see for a newcomer like me

I'm not the biggest fan of your streams, but I enjoy all your videos of this format, great explanation and clarification of gw2 state, great video overall

I've been playing New World, but I keep thinking about GW2. So far in about 4 hours of New World's starter zone, I got an aggro train of wolves dumped on me, I had another player jump in and skin an animal I just killed before I could skin it, and I've had to compete over resource nodes (iron). Those incidents and the horrid cesspool that New World global chat really make me want to be in Tyria. And the names selections also tell you a lot about the player base.

31:40 Man, I had totally forgot that message! Great stuff! Nuanced and fair dissection, great video as always!

"There is no grinding" *looks at my skyscale progression* To be fair tho there is so much stuff I tend to get distracted lol

guild wars 2 is the only game ive consistently played and come back to everytime , its the one mmo that offers so much more then just the mmo experience

This is a very well made and helpful video, especially for someone who hasn't played the game since pre-HoT.

I just started 2 weeks ago. I’ve never played GW2 before. I’m a veteran of Wow playing off and on since vanilla 2005, hardcore raider back then. I’ve played ff14 off and on for about 3 years. I main a reaper and do some savage content. That being said. I play berserker in GW2. Warrior felt like, well… a warrior. Having a great sword is exactly what I wanted. I’ve enjoyed the mounts not all just being skins, but actual functionality. All the different mounts have different physics you feel when riding, and that is just so cool. I’ve done some fractals - really love how the actual “instance” as I’ll call it is a giant puzzle. Unlike the before mentioned MMO’s where the dungeons are linear, trash pull, trash pull,boss,trash pull, trash pull,boss. GW2 really added something amazing by making puzzles inside the fractal. So fun to solve. Last night I did my first hero train in HoT. It was a lot of fun running through each map with 40 people on all different kind of mounts, portalling all around for us newbs, hopping in people’s 2 seated turtle mounts to keep up, and just obliterating some of the elites in each zone. It actually reminded me of chest runs in New World, which early on was some fun content. All and all, I really enjoy the game so far. World bosses spawning in my newb zone when I was level 12, and me being able to help although I died 5-6 times, but still got loot was a massive hook for me in this game.

As a WoW veteran my self for 17 years, i bought the game and every expansion every since but didn't touch it that much. Like i made a class went into the game got to level 2 and just stopped, idk why i did that but my mind was still on a WoW tunnel vision for so long. After what we see now happening at blizzard itself and the game for me it was enough i wanted to try other mmo's for once and stopped my sub with all the shit we saw at blizzard the game isn't fun anymore. So yeah i'm currently in a much happier state than i was before! Also the community is very welcoming in game as well!

I started this recently after trying to find a MMO to get into. I played and played until finally.....I remembered this gem. I am so glad to be back. This is the best MMO on the market for me!

The last three points were the funniest misconception of this game that I have ever seen lmao

Very thorough video, good stuff!

GW2 is highly underrated. I admit quitting 2 years in, only to come back on the 6th year of the game though. Back then, there was just something that was missing, and a big portion of the player population shared the same sentiment. I was surprised that it felt completely different when I came back. Now, 9 years in, a lot of changes have happened, and it's now more enjoyable than ever. I do, however, feel like the game can be confused as to what it really wants to be. It can be all over the place at times, a bit chaotic (I do like the underlying chaos though). I guess they want to appeal to a big audience, and they want the game to market itself (We all know how terrible they marketed this game). But, best believe that this is such a valuable game with limitless possibilities. And what makes it better is the fact that it's sooooo easy to get into. I highly recommend GW2 to everyone. It really is a gem. Nevermind the shitty advertising. Just play it already!

It's an MMO but it's not an MMORPG. It's a MMOARPG. All classes are hybrids being able to damage, tank and heal. There are a limited amount of buttons at once on the screen and you have to play them much faster. Your skills also completely vary depending on your build and weapon so you get completely different play styles instead of a few core spells changing. Since there are no healers that need to be kept busy, the game relies on evasion of damage such as the standard running out of red circle but also evading attacks by dodging or jumping, watching the movement of enemies and using the terrain to climb on it or hide behind it.

Whoever said "no progression, no grinding" has no idea about Vision. lmao

This video was so well done I immediately subbed. I've not seen any of MightyTeapot's other vids. After this though, I am sure they are going to be good.

I recently came back to GW2 and surprised that were are quiet a lot of new players playing in the starting zones which was surprising to see for an old game that doesn't get talked about alot but also really nice to see.

while this is validating for current Gw2 players - people are stuck in their ways. They want antiquated MMO systems similar to WoW. This is why FF14 is the current trend. Its WoW with catgirls. GW2 is built different and its a game people have to discover on their own. They want to be guided and follow a treadmill. People complain about raids and gear grind, but they're addicted to it because its simple and linear progression. They don't understand that GW2 is as fun as you make it.

"There is no grinding" killed me... Just the collections bruh.... The jumping puzzles bruh... The legendaries bruh!!!!!!!

The real endgame in Gw2 is becoming an expert at jumping puzzles.

This is great video, I got a Level 80 Elementalist back in feirst year of release, and did some world PvE endgame stuff, but having been away for quite some time, I just got a new Ranger to level 40 after about a month of playing, and really getting back into it.

A Fluid combat system,amazing lore,Fashion wars,jumping puzzles, ability to convert in-game gold to gems,Palawa Joko and not to mention the collections and legendaries speaks volumes about GW2 as a great game with so much things to do!

the game is still revolutionary till this day.. the dynamic open world.. the hearts, the platforming jumping puzzles.. i can't believe no other game copied it, instead all copied WOW.. i wish FFXIV had its open world system.. and yes im sick and tired of people saying the same BS about this game over and over thinking everything should be WOW.. that being said theres like a billion currencies in this game and is quite confusing to me

Brilliant video. Congratulations! Your contributions to Guild Wars 2 as a whole are immeasurably positive. You're underrated mr. MightyTeapot.

And don't forget that Black Lion keys can be somewhat easily gained by completing maps and playing the main storyline and sometimes even through drops. These give you Black Lion Stattuettes that you can use to unlock many of the Gemstore-only skins...

Great video, now they might just further step up their marketing game (as in - move past the starting line...) and who knows how the game will look like in a year from now! :)

360p gamers

Easily one of the most engaging MMO's Out there.. I've played everything from WoW to SWOTOR and played MUD's way back when. GW2 has one of the best blends of actions, difficulty, story, progression of any game let alone MMO. If it wasn't for titles like the Witcher and playing games with my son ( like Minecraft ) and nerdy endeavours (like KSP) It would be only game I play outside of race sims.

Good video Teapot. I would like to emphasize 2 things that you said. 1) You can not outgear or outscale hard content in gw2. If you can not beat it, you need to improve and practice more. 2) in WoW cache shop you can buy items only for real money, in GW2 you can buy them by playing the game, the difference is huge.

GW2 is definitely one of the best mmos of all time. Amazing variety, amazing mechanics, amazing art and much more!

Well "technically" every skin and item is 100% available ingame, because of the fact that you can change ingame gold for gems. So just play your favorite gamemode until you have the gold, change it into gems and buy your heckin overpriced mount skin... That is actually my favorite thing about guild wars. If you have the time and dedication you can get absolutely everything without paying a single dollar. And i have absolutetely no idea who ever came up with the idea that the game is "pay to win" It only ever had cosmetics and such things in the gem shop since release and that never changed.

amazing video! thanks a lot man :D love the content

For the gem store skins: you can get them in the game, I have gotten some through random drops of keys and black lion chest where I got a guarantied wardrobe unlock.

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Well done!! Finely crafted, I can see the level of work put into this and I appreciate it, we need to leech all those disgruntled FF & WoW players over here for a more .... Gruntled experience! :)

As a new player this video was awesome. A lot of nice looking footage you used too it looks like such a great game. It shows you it's down to the company that runs the MMO whether it's successful, make the business model player friendly enough and invest enough profit back into the game and you're good to go!

Nice video, with some salient points. GW2 was always the game I'd play for a while, love every minute, and then just, stop. The beauty of the game though is that it's always there waiting for you, and nothing that you've done up to that point will be invalidated. It's also a really great companion game to another mmo due to the B2P model. What's really gotten me to stick with the game though, was getting, finally, into a decent guild for WvW. The game mode is incredibly addicting, and while some of the rewards are pretty stale, the beauty of open field pvp combat is that no night is exactly the same.

WoW cost $15 x12 for a year = $180. One of my favorite things about GW2 is the gem shop. If I spend $15/month in the gem shop I get BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL mount skins or fancy QOL items. For example, you can buy this thing that will summon your friend to you, no matter where you are. I love spending money in the gem shop as a way to support the game. With WoW for $15 I get nothing

I really appreciate this video primarily because its not just your own opinion you actually provided hard numbers on some of the more important questions and that is as unbias as one can ask for these days.

This is a great video. I loved the list and explanations you put together!

I think its worth noting on the obtainability of items, is that you can get the items to unlock random cosmetics from the black lion chests, which you can quasi farm. 1 a week for little effort, more with a more significant time investment.

Strikes being introduced from the start of the xpac is not evidence of the dedication on anet in that pve direction, it is evidence of anet's inability to consistently produce quality group-pve activities. Dungeons have been dead for years, fractals only got the sunqua peak (from which only the last boss on CM is enjoyable) as a teaser for asian-themed expansion, raids are considered as too heavy an investment for the production team, so they went on with itty bitty strikes (a few and hard modes of them) as an excuse so as to not be stuck with the same old no-endgame "slander". Honestly I enjoy the game and will get the xpac to be able to play with my friends, but if it wasn't for the peer pressure, I wouldn't hurry to buy it untill they released some decent instanced content. Btw MTeapot do you know if this is just the latest or the last expansion of GW2?

I don't have most of the QOL items that you list purchased from the gem store and honestly, I think my QOL is fine. Sure, things could be a bit more convenient but I never find anything overly inconvenient, iykwim. So just to say, that you can get away with spending a lot less that $120 on QOL items and still have a great time and not really miss them. I wouldn't want the idea that if you don't spend $120 then the game will be annoyingly inconvenient to play, to put ppl off playing the game, cause I don't believe that is the case. Also, you can often get those QOL items on sale if you are patient, so you can amass them over time for less than $120

You structured this video very well! Nice work

Thank you, this video is really useful and honestly makes me happy. You saved a lot of time for a lot of people. I admire you

I think an easy win would be them finding a way to add to your home instance characters relevant to where you are in the story and have unique dialogue to comment on where you are in the story. It would make new players so much more vested in going all of the content, I don't think there's really enough carrots to encourage people to play multiple playthroughs as different characters, and that would allow them to bypass the other route which would be far cooler, but unrealistic, which is revisiting the alignment feature that they abandoned, re-recording lots of lines to make the dialogue difference feel more like Star Wars Old Republic. They really do need to figure out a better way to reduce the barrier into crafting, that system isn't easy to adopt, specifically to reduce the barrier to endgame crafting I started playing WoW again after years of not playing any online games, got bored and ended my subscription (news stuff happened soon after). Tried Star Wars the Old Republic, The questing experience felt so good, but it scratched more of a single player game itch, came back to guild wars 2 after not playing for 7 years, and I just genuinely love the combat, build crafting, and the general openness to hop into different game modes. I went through all of the expansions in sequential order (stopped at South Sun), unlocking each mount has felt amazing and completely changed how enjoyable it is to level alts, but the outdated systems really stick out. Old broken dialogue lines that still exist in core, or getting stuck in an animation during the last leg of a quest that you need to start over. I hate achievements as quests, that interface does not make it a smooth experience. And the moment anything requires me to look up a wiki that I truly know shouldn't need one, that there should be a better cleaner in-game solution because every time you push someone out of your product they're more likely to not go back, and that's anything to do with crafting towards a big goal item. I really don't know how they could make end game crafting easier, but I do know it's not enjoyable to try to figure out. Whoever's idea it was for downstates is a genius, all that does is encourage the player base to be more thoughtful in helping out other players, and it's just reinforced with map wide meta events, and their rewards. I really believe this is a core part of reinforcing the genuine good nature of the players that I usually experience. They should also half gem store prices, I do view it as purchasing artwork, but the price scaling is not correct. Each expansion should have a decent amount of gems spread across achievements, just enough to buy a couple of cosmetic items at least. Long time that would probably drive more purchases and greater financial gain than what they have today, Gem Store is definitely a bit of a milk fest if you want the convenience benefits. PS: I deleted all the boosts I got, painstakingly writing the stupid item names in that stupid confirm delete box because I already had six characters. But it's the only way I can properly learn the classes and have fun in that process, I know for me jumping towards the end and needing to sift through all those skills and abilities at once would have made me stop playing the game pretty fast.

This vid gave me the motivation to play again

I was just finishing up an achievement to get my precursor shield in the fractals, I decided to go T1 as I thought... had enough of T4s for a while. 1 person obviously was new but he was so scared of admitting he was new he didn't say anything. I helped him out after the run to understand how to run fractals. The importance of agony resistance for example, how to farm the infusions etc... poor guy was surprised I took the time to guide him. I'm proud to be part of the community that's welcoming to help

Most of the people I see calling GW2 a dead game are my teammates in WvW matchs, despite them showing up every day

Quality content 😍

Nothing to see here, just chiming in by for some algorithm pump! also, 360p gang

My character recently celebrated her 1 year aniversary, complete with a birthday gift from the game, and i can't say enough how much i enjoy playing Guild Wars 2. I started playing it mostly because of the graphics and story and quickly fell in love with the game. I tried out all the classes by now, but stuck with the mesmer i started with, because she suits me the most. I'm really grateful my friend decided to introduce this game to me, because he's been right about me "possibly liking it" :D

I think you forgot about Black Lion Chests in your "ingame"/"instorage" comparition. There is something like Guaranteed Armor Unlocks, Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlocks, Guaranteed Weapon Unlocks. They have at this moment 89 outfits skins, 11 mail carriers skins, 36 finishers, 46 gliders skins, 109 backpack skins, and lots of more availabled. BLC can be obtined in game and BLC keys can be even farm from story so everything in those chest CAN be obteined outside of gem store. I think this change your statistics a bit.

I never understood the there is no endgame moaning. To me GW2 has the best endgame there is and always has had nothing feels mandatory when i get my character to 80 and after that i can do whatever the hell i want. GW2 has always felt like it respects my time.

God I hope asmongold watches this!!

This was soooo helpful for me man Finally have my first gaming pc otw and I used to play on a shitty laptop at lowest settings when GW2 first released! Still had a ton of fun! I think I'm ready to come back 😌

Your style of explanation is super clear and nicely crafted storytelling, awesome job!

it's also honestly a great game to take a break from. I very often stop playing for 6 months at a time, come back and my gear and what I've worked towards so far is all still 100% valid, so it never feels like I'm missing out on anything. On top of that, like teapot said, endgame is whatever you make it to be, sometimes I do fractals, sometimes for months on end I just do open world events. Although I will say that the raids seem a bit "gatekeep-y" by the community and I wish it was a bit easier to get into without committing to a raiding guild. They have been out for so long that seems you either have to subject to bad groups or have people ask for hundreds of proof of kill of a certain boss

I wish my friends gave GW2 a try but they don't want to "learn" this game because it's been out for so long already and veteran players have huge advantage over newbies.

Ty for making this video. I have shared this link so people I know can have a good look at it. You are so much better explaining what GW2 is about and much better than i am. Ty again

casual player here with some hours clocked in WvW. love the different options one has at "end game". like exploring and, maybe, crafting? go for it and take in the beautiful scenery while you're at it (and world bosses)! want to do fractals/raids? there are folks that can help you learn the mechanics of each fractal and raid boss! want to beat the crap out of other players? boy, do you have options! want the best gear ever? well, have fun with that grind! (still working on parts for Aurora...) like jumping around and seeing how far you can go to get a chest of loot at the top of an area (or a clock tower during October)? jumping puzzles, my friends!

It is in bad quality most likely because the video is freshly uploaded and it takes a bit for the full HD to load

WICKED

Well done on this video!!

Extremely well made video explaining what gw2 is. :] I'm glad more mmo vets from other games are finally giving it some attention and sharing with others how cool it is. It really is a diamond in the rough.

I find it a tad funny that this video capitalizes on improvements on the game released within the last year but lacked for the last 7 or so years. The game lacking these until recently is probably also another contributing factor as to why it might not have caught on as well, or at least even SPAWNED the sentiments from a frustrated and unsatisfied playerbase. Equipment Templates and Legendary Armory come to mind in particular, and it fails to mention that these are only things we RECENTLY enjoy after so long of not having. Competitive modes like PvP and WvW in particular had no helpful improvements for a long time that a whole slew of players left GW2 for greener pastures. They were outright neglecting those modes, late at implementing helpful stuff for half a year at a time, not devoting resources to it (just a yes from designers and not actually playtesting their stuff for competitive) or accidentally destroying those modes (warclaw). There was even a time on the announcement of Icebrood Saga that they joked about what features were being brought to competitive, and the interviewed devs remained silent. That was a time my guild leader and so many of their friends pretty much left, never looked back and never regretted leaving. But then again, this video not mentioning that might not necessarily be a bad thing. With the fall of Blizzard and WoW in particular, the new players suddenly flooding into all other MMOs or even regular multiplayer games have not experienced the lack of features we used to suffer from. So we take it all as a now, with older players simply having a bad story to tell the new, or returning, generation. Anet better net let these new players go like how they neglected their old, leaving players. Otherwise IT WILL be a dead game. I don't envy the backlogs though, but I guess that's just a great reason to play to clear them. ;)

PERFECT EXPLINATION!! I currently play Adventure Quest 3D , my community sent me to your video!! THANK YOU FOR THIS!!

One thing to note about perm gathering tools, you can get them over time from Black Lion chests for free, as you can buy three different skin versions of unlimited tools with the statuettes.

The time of false truths is over. Now is the time of light. The winds of change are blowing!