Why does EVERYONE Simp for Guild Wars 2? | First Impressions by Roze | Mukluk Reacts 

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Bold for Roze to assume that charr being more animalistic is turn off for furries.

"Getting side-tracked is mandatory" is the best descriptor of the game I have heard.

Why no reviewers mention that GW2 literally almost never goes offline and maintenance and updates are done in the background. I personally dont know any other mmo that has such server design.

Love how casual this game is. Took a 6 year break and all my gear, weapons, items, etc still relevant and rocking it. Just had to learn how the expansions worked.

I wish they had kept with the psychological horror aspect of Jormag. It felt like we lost a lot going from "Battling the Psyche of our minds" to "Charr War go Brr"

I love GW2 because the game feels like an adventure (art style, music, lively maps), not a grind or race to get the best gear. Legendaries are just a long term goal to sink your currencies into and it's a quality of life upgrade. Set a goal for a leggy, and play literally everything and anything to finish it... The game respects my time and wallet. Buying shop items is just a way for me to appreciate the developers. Think of it as a donate button since the game doesn't have a sub fee. If GW3 has a sub fee, I would pay it in a heart beat because if GW3 is anything like GW2, it will be AMAZING.

His take on the cash-shop is off. First, MMOs are expensive to run and they have to be paid for in some way. GW2 probably has the cheapest expansions on the market. The shop is not selling any power and you can change gold into diamonds. You can buy out the cash-shop without investing a single reallife-dime. I am playing for a bit over a year now and have all the character slots, bag slots and other convenience items I need without swiping one time. There is no "dark side" about the shop. If a game has to be financed via ingame shop, GW2 has the single best implementation I have seen so far.

Feels very refreshing to see this through veteran eyes, that take all these little things for granted he picked up. Makes me appreciate GW2 a lot more, for what it is.

lol! I love that the first answer on reddit he gets is not only from someone I know, but also roasting him big time :'D

i feel like the cash shop take comes from like wow-style mentality where your power and prestige comes from excessive grind/play time - which is probably why the idea of a cash shop that doesnt actually increase your power but does help reduce time is still considered a big bad. ive seen ppl argue that reducing time spent (especially recently with the hero point scrolls boy did ppl throw a fit even tho there are literally lvl 80 boosts in the game that jumps u straight to max lvl and various exp boosters) is somehow pay to win. that doesnt really make sense to me because at end of the day there is only one max lvl n one type of best gear and the numbers dont change. spend 100 hrs or 10 hrs, spend 100 dollars or 0 dollars, the end power lvl is still the same - except the person who played 100hrs prob gonna do more dmg and play better than someone who spent 10 hrs and 100 bucks anyway. also gw2 lvling is so fast compared to so many other mmos that are grindsville unless u buy boosters. and as a busy adult myself, i honestly dont mind/care if some ppl are too busy to be able to play longer and so want to go with gemstore to save time. for me playing longer isnt grinding, im just playing n enjoying the game. but im not gonna demand that everyone else must spend same amount of time as me in order to get to end game. thats ridiculous. for the record i played for 2 years without spending more than whats needed to buy the expacs - bought all my bank tabs n bagslot expansions and the 3 salvage kits by buying gems with gold (i used to park my alts at the elderwoid farm, now im parked at flax farm XD). nowadays i buy gems with real money purely cuz i think anet deserves it. also, i just cant stand subscriptions - works out to be like 150-180/year and its like theyre holding my acct as hostage. i bought the game, and now i must pay hostage fee to play it or get access to it. >.> many ppl are ok with it sure, but its not really for me. 😂

I've mentioned this before, which is what's addressed here around the 12:55 mark. The game early on is too easy and can be misleading for some. When you start to get into the last few zones of Tyria, Straights, Malchor's and Cursed Shore, the difficulty increases quite a bit, and that's not including HoT and the other expansions. Hard to argue with Anet's approach though, it obviously worked. I've watched this guy's videos before, always entertaining.

Fun watch 😂 The hoodie is the elite knight set from dark souls!

Open up those dwarven doors!

with gems to gold, you can buy gen1 and gen3 legendary weapons. so you can in fact buy the best weapons in the game through the cash shop

Had missed out on this video of Roze, but goddamn, that was impressive and this truly deserved a react response! Hilarious and to (and sometimes besides) the point! :D

Gw2 is a great game man, best combat of any of the popular RPG imo, none of the stand and push a button wait for it to channel bs, and works way smoother than whatever games use the comboing skill system (FF still feels slow compared to GW2) idk man I played for a while took a long time away after skyscale, came back a few weeks ago and I’m stuck to the screen. Only RPG that I’ve done that for was OSRS. Fantastic game, with well deserved criticism. The OGs know what’s wrong and multiple ways to fix it but for what the game is, it’s great.

This was hilarious. I gotta head to his channel and give his video a like because this was just 30 minutes of me smiling away. It's always nice to see new people try our game and enjoy it.

This video by Roze is my favorite GW2 impressions video of all time. The guy is hilarious!

Idk if he was actually having a repeating crashing issue or not, but this can happen if you are using an audio interface that Guild Wars 2 doesn’t like-you will crash at every pre-rendered cutscene. It took me YEARS to figure this out. Now any time I want to do fractals or storyline, I have to unplug my Behringer interface and plug my headphones into the built-in computer jack. Idk what interface is safe if I ever wanted to stream said content….

regarding the store, as a recent player (6 month just cleared all expact and living world story) there is a big issue with the amount of loot you get and the necessity to upgrade AT LEAST the bank. We loot way to much random stuff that's my only BIG issue, rest is fine

I still praise mounts from GW2, and has of yet, found an MMO, or a game with mounts as smooth as there is in GW2

26:16 - i was a player back in Guild Wars 1 launch, and tbh they didnt break out at that time. It was DPS, healer, tank etc back then. I just now tried GW2 for the first time, and you are spot on.

This is one of the videos I regularly go back and watch if I have a bad time, he's just so damn funny

I have a stack of trading post express things in my bank from back when i got them for free at the start of the game (11 years ago), I have never used them.....but I have not deleted them, I'm an MMO player, they might be useful someday....

when a group of full legendary gear in full decorative infusions on users come into view you might as well reach for a welder's mach- it looks like a walking ongoing fire in fireworks factory

28:30 I mean yeah thats true for Legendary Armor and Legendary Trinkets but those aren't any better than ascended gear in terms of stats, just more convinient. So really yeah if you spend money you can just buy yourself a Level 80 Boost. Buy Gold and with that gold boost your crafts to 500 and craft yourself a set of legendary armor and weapons. You do have to work for the trinkets though. To my knowledge you cannot craft ascended trinkets unless they added that in the meantime and I missed it.

My biggest gripe with the cash shop (and honestly the launcher for the same reason) is the absolute chaotic shitfest that it is. They make a lot of design choices which work in, like, promo art, but go to shit in a relatively small window. The text is fairly small as well, and there's a lot of stuff in the window at the same time, so it's hard to focus your eyes on something. There's a similar problem with cosmetic stuff and miniatures. And when I log in I get assaulted with so much stuff to buy I'm actually less likely to buy anything because of the sheer volume. I think they could take some notes from the ESO design here, because it really works in this regard, despite the store being widely criticised (mainly because of how much and how quickly new shit is added there in comparison to the game (while they argue they can't increase the amount of slots in player housing or design new mobs instead of reskinning everything because it would make the download sizes too large+the convenience stuff nobody needs like in gw)

His Leveling Video is also great.

Always nice to see and hear fellow South African's enjoy the best MMO of all time

You CAN get the best gear in the game by throwing money at it. Legendary weapons can be bought from the trading post and for the rest you can do with ascended items that have the same maximum stats and these can be crafted with materials you buy with the route Credit Card > Gems > Gold > crafting mats.

I've never seen a video make use of red flags so proudly. If the video was a house, the flags were practically the curtains and the carpet.

Always wondered what was the least popular race-profession, awesome vid

Roze u made it! U are famous!I love that guy his gw2 video made me laugh so much. I found him when he was only few hundred subs

your wrong, you can drop 100$ and buy level 500 crafting and the materials to craft ascended gear

I'm a noob as heck I started playing. Bought an expansion and boosted my Character, Restarted with an Elemantalist I'm level 42 the normal way and I'm having a pretty good time can't wait to get to the expansion content and actually understand the game better

16:20 It isn't just a hoodie. I'm pretty sure this is Oscar's of Astora armor print (Dark Souls 1)!

Getting sidetracked during my first weeks in GW2, was a magical experience that I sorely miss as a veteran 🥲

31:40 I think it's a free to play account that tries to join with a paid account... I think I had this error when I tried to join a free account with my paid accounts both ways around, so no matter who started the dungeon instance.

Holy shit, his opinions about GW2 aside, that dude is hilarious. Kinda giving me Yahtzee Croshaw/Zero Punctuation vibes, instant sub from me too.

I would absolutely stay for a hurricane Megatron.

its so amazing to me cuz i had no idea this guy was "someone" when i watched him on twitch on his "first time playing gw2" and gave him some tips and stuff... now i see this and i feel like i made a difference XD.

The only thing he didnt get right is the Shop but apart from that he got right everything else, all the reason i stayd on gw2 are there.

28:20 well that's half true you can buy gen 1 leggy weps, and with gold you can speed up the process of getting leggy runes / sigils / gear or you can fairly quickly buy your crafting stats and buy / craft your ascended gears which are equally good. Just still takes more time, but the gold will save a lot of time aswell

Hi, long time GW2 playere here. About the funneling money into the game, in general I agree with you and I think the cash shop in GW2 is not even close to the most aggressively p2w shops in other games, but converting gems into gold makes crafting some Legendaries trouble-free. So it is easier to craft BiS gear with money, but at the end of the day, the BiS gear in GW2 adds only convenience, not character's power. My 2 cents. Happy Super Aventure Box everybody. Have a good day!👋

Never heard of this guy but love his humor. To backup what mukluk is saying about the og devs, they were mmo gamers and they had 1 rule, 'we don't want to be like wow.' They made intentional decisions to stray from what other MMO's at the time were doing. A lot of us play testers back then were used to other games and as a wow hater I loved it. Others didn't. That's why it never really took off back then and to be honest GW2 vanilla sucks in comparison to what they added after HoT and PoF. Also WvW is STILL the #1 pvevp game mode in the world. No other MMO has been able to match it

Barely 6 min into the video and I'm loving the roasting....so far. LOL

10 years ago greatsword of night and day still best mmo weapon I’ve seen

This is late and maybe nobody reads this, but we're out of beer is basically the norn apocalypse. The rest of tyria was lucky we got salty with the neighboorhood and didn't start up the old raiding machine and try to find some human churches and maybe a lone island nation that can't mobilize fast enough to handle the longboats.

Decades ago, in the film and theater industry, it was often said that comedy is the lowest form of entertainment. And then, reaction videos arrived.

Ahh yes, Ascalonian crypts. Followed by Caudecus' villa

you can absolutely buy legendary weapons with rl money which are the best in slot

I guess the AC error was just that he wasn’t level 30

That video got uploaded around the time I first started playing GW2 and its the second GW2 related video I ever watched. 😂 I wouldn't be surprised if that video single handedly got a chunk of people trying out GW2. Roze did god's work with that one.

They need to add the Floridian class.

one exception: every gen 1 legendary weapon, the gen 3 legendary weapons. ya, that's a pretty big 1 exception. not that i really have problems with that.

As a man who runs full signets on warrior, don’t you judge my reasonings.

"What filter does he see the world through?" 4chan

On the topic of p2w: If GW2 is all about progressing your account and the shop includes items to progress your account, isn't the shop then for people who want to progress their account p2w? The GW2 p2w is just a different p2w compared to other mmo's, where gear is seen as p2w as that's the progression in those games. Wondering what others think about this thought?

Personally one of the things that didn't make me want to try GW2 was that it didn't have the holy trinity (tank/dps/healer). For me it's one of the most important things to have in a rpg (even singleplayer ones is for me nice to have those options).

As an ascolonian, I think he got that pretty spot on

I want that hoodie too....

You can still buy everything from the store with gold.... and gold is really easy to make endgame

the main reason why people simp for gw 2 is because the actual people that are supposed to simp that is the marketing team doesnt so others do and try to market it themselves.

this guy put so much effort into this video lmao

No exaggerations. Pure facts.

Visual clutter is the main reason I could never get into GW2. Still rocking it in original GW.

As much as I love Guild Wars 2 there are absolutely Pay to Win elements. As long as the LFG is flooded with developer-allowed raid selling you can severely shortcut the process of getting legendary gear by buying gems and converting them to gold.

Wait, new players get the mount at lvl 10?? To me the best change from WoW is the ability for anyone to harvest resources (no profession) and that everyone can farm the same node. Oh and I was pretty salty when I found out the Winterspring Frostsaber skin didn't require the epic grind it used to when I played.

Visual cluster are a fact tho, one of the main reason I get bored fast as soon as I do group content, mechanic arent hard, reading what the f** is happening because of all bad and overwhelming visual is. For the "p2w" part, well 'forced convenience' you could said, bank and bag slot come in mind immediately. Same for infinite tool, anyone loving gathering will end up buying those and last infinite salvaging kit, especially the copper one. You can argue it's not that much, for some people that a lot of money.

once in the pvp lobby. someone ask if he could get help by some one gets downed by a bot and he can try to revive you. he wanted to test how he can help with is spells and if its worth. i did it. i helped him and let mit down by a bot. then someove showed up and wrote quote: hahahha you noob you get downed by a bot. i was never in pvp lobby again

Through which filter does Roze watch the world? Through the fun one.

You can pay for legendary weapons. Cash to gems to gold to buy them on the trading post. So you can pay for top weapons.

31:33 soo I expect what it was.. is because of the 11 year old engine that some graphics cards are incompatible with playing in full screen (or maybe it was borderless full screen? I forget which) flawlessly when 'story' elements try to play during the base game dungeon and personal story cutscenes. To fix it, all you have to do is swap the game out of the full screen (or borderless full screen) into the other mode and poof that crash never happens again.

Nice video by Oscat of Astora 🍻

More muk reacting to videos please

Got it, putting 200€ into this bad boy to OWN everyone else on PVP !!

i have guildwars2 for about 9 years now but i rarely played it back in the day, i got to lvl 80 and then stoped playing it, now after 8 years i came back and after 2weeks of playing the game i probably spent more than 200 bucks already for convenience and style gear from the store... xD i thought about buying a legendary with buying the 8k gems but turned out, the gem to gold change rate is ass and i accidentaly took the gold to gem rate as reference, rip money 😂

10:15 Muk, the reason for the mustache could be the IRL version of what he called the statue ("Stalin") having a mustache. But I digress, I don't speak charr, what do I know.

The problem with GW the first one and the next one is that actually requires a little brain to play and enjoy, which is rare? I am so tired to point out the obvious for so many years since 2007. Yet i login almost every day ahahaha

Very true about the lack of danger :P

Yeah how much they try to talk negative about GW2 it will always be the best MMO ever, period!

I would have to say the game definitely has some, even serious, issues and some bad and weak areas but "pay2win" shop and error pop ups and crashes are not one of them.

GW2 also has no health and mana potion.

0:26 It's too bad you can't sit like that and watch the video at the same time like it was a Big TV.. lol

i don't know about "simping." Guild Wars 2 is a pretty good game. in my opinion they need to update all the world areas and maybe actually interlink them all. Retaining the same graphic quality would be nice too. But from my experience it's kinda like Magic The Gathering right now, great game managed by terrible people. As long as it makes them money they're basically just keeping it on "Life Support." But it's never going to be improved. i'm amazed they updated the log in reward system.

... I run all signets on my Guardian DH in open world. lol I like it, even though it sucks. I never die though! Can't solo shit however past elites.

Frankly, on the point of P2W, it is. Let's not beat around the bush. You buy gold and then proceed to buy all materials needed to improve your crafting profession and then just buy the Ascended materials to craft your Ascended gear. It's not straight up buy gear off the auction house, but it's still paying to win. That being the case, I'd like to say this: It is most definitely not required. You can still play the game 2 hours a day and obtain top tier gear in less than a month. P2W is not a problem in GW2. If I wanted something changed imo, it'd be getting rid of the inventory problem. Honestly, it's a little greedy on their part to keep it in. I mean, you buy all content except the core game, you have cosmetics in shop... just leave it there. It's kinda a turnoff for new players. Imagine dumping in like 150$ for expansions and have inventory issues four hours into the game.

The oil baron can buy leggy weapons though.

I love this video so much

Given the way co op and PvP work, its not even pay to win on any level. If you could pay to even get the best gear, your either making co op for EVERYONE in the event easier, or your in PvP and it doesn't matter anyway.

@Muk, Bro is South African, we see the world through a whole other set of filters :D

Sorry Muk but these days I feel like Frodo when Bilbo says, "in his heart, he's still in love with the Shire." And with Dawntrail on the horizon I foresee FFXIV eating a lot of game time still. That said though I did buy Guild Wars 2 for the very points you mentioned. It's a great game but I'm still in love with Eorzae.🥰

Roze videos are 100% subscribe to that dude

25:18 - the fact that this got censored has me laughing harder than when I first saw it on stream.

It kind of hurts, but after these videos and people's response to Return To HoT, gw2 has kind of... slid. "They didn't have to, but they did" doesn't really describe ANYTHING post-PoF, not mounts, not enemies, not events, not animations, not the cooking or crafting system, not exploration, not character development. "Feeling like the world and lore is enmeshed in the game experience" has been replaced by veteran-pandering, and even then, not satisfyingly. Fishing is like "they didn't have to, and I wish they didn't." Other than strikes, there's really not much in the way of fun repeatable content, when compared to HoT. It's stopped feeling like "an MMO made by people who love MMOs" and has started feeling like it's just a paycheck enabler. At least the core content still exists, so we can have people like this guy try it out and be just as wow'd by the premise as ever. We could be FFXIV, and hate our early game experience.

Please tell us where to get the hoodie!

Well ive been taking a break since 2022 and was playing eso. I think its time to switch again

I forgot how great this was.

This made me laugh so hard. This content is great!