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it's weird because on launch engi, rangers and even necros weren't liked at all for group content. anet solved those issues to were they're amazing to play. i'm not sure why they couldn't figure out something for ele to make it worth while to master. rip my main ele. i still like doing map completion with my ele to see the pretty animations.

What can i do with full berserker ? I did a meta build but only do 30 k DPS on golem

GW2 nowadays is just a minimum viable product , the game had potential years ago . And you're correct , GW2 is just their piggybank that fund rando asshat projects . The game is a good looking ( subjective ofc ) nothing burger .

I'm sorry but are you really criticizing the devs for a healthy work life balance that avoids crunch? Should they also start harassing women like Blizzard did to be a successful developer or include other shitty practices? This point immediately killed all my will to criticize the other points you're wrong on. Should have kept this video in your little echochamber...

As someone with lots of KP. KP is easily the most toxic aspect of the game. You need to get experience in order to get experience. 😂

I'm watching this video 5 months late, but I love elementalist powers, I mean you can use the power of Air, Earth, Water and Fire.. that's huge. But I hate to see it's a lot complicated that I can't use it properly, cause I play other games instead of focus on just one game, so I can't get good at it soon enough. I picked these classes cause I like the theme of them and I'm happy about it: Warrior (I like play with rage and wildness), Thief (Fast and classic), Ranger (I just love pets), Necromancer (Dark magic powers and zombies), Mesmer (A nice challenge for me, also create illlusion and trick enemy)

Spot on. Weirdly perhaps, your video makes me feel a little vindicated for all the flack I got on the forums for agreeing with this new model being just a battle pass when they announced SotO... but we live in the age of meta-marketing - everything is narrative and discourse really - substance and "content" are relativized to a corner so remote and so dark, nobody remembers to think about it anymore, or almost nobody. Also - and incidentally - your voice fits the topic of the video very well. It gave it an intangibly valuable tone of decadence and disillusion.

expect nothing and you will not be disappointed. while I long for the full expacks of the past, I accept the smaller scale and have fun for awhile before waiting for the dripfeed to build up

They are now stuck into their own greedy philosophy: to favorize rewards over content (to farm the same small maps events 50 times instead of exploring and be amaze by new stuff).... and people won't follow if they'll switch back. In GW1 we was talking hours about thrilling new stuff discovered and mysteries... meanwhile in GW2 we talk about statistics, dps, gold/hr, fashion war. If not being of my guildies (TINY), I'd play something else. Anet's new game being around the corner (maybe a soon-to-be-botched GW3), I real hesitate to invest/loose more time and money on GW2. Anet lost my trust.

Expansions and patches getting ridiculously smaller... as even GW2 crew are also part time working on these secret side projects. Butchering GW2 as they do don't let us believe that the fate of these new games will be any different. Pretty sure that GW2 was Anet's last "true" mmo... GW3 will be an Asian'like open world soloable game, no pvp, no wvw, no fractals, no dungeons (as these been ignored/avoided during the last decade in GW2).

I dont need to see full video, knew that you into lies of P where its action combat that can customize the blade edge and having to tell white lie to make P's heart more human, to see you are a decent Samaritan

Everyday.... "CMs+T4 ETC" Me *guardian main*: Any The pt leader: HB Me: ok :_)

I mean, if you constantly have to assure to everyone that the game isn’t dying, that usually is not a good sign. GW2 feels like it stagnated after PoF and has been slowly leaking players ever since

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Bloodborne and Overwatch 2 had an interesting idea ... make the game Free to Play but sell the Stories just like GW2 Living Worlds...

can i still do this build without spear? i dont have janthir wilds atm. and what would i replace it with if i were to do it

Balance commentary is always hard to get behind because live service games always have some state of weird balance. I played League from 2010 to 2017, and believe me, I've seen some stupid shit. Tea time spent a lot of time talking about balance because there was a few content droughts throughout PoF and IBS. So naturally, when you spend a lot of time thinking about a game with nothing new happening it, you start to think about the details. I say all that mostly to acknowledge that balance is ALWAYS going to be a conversation piece for any live service game. I'm not trying to discredit the state of current balance either, I'm not touching PvP til SA Thief and Willbender basically get deleted from the game. Virt needs either a range or damage adjustment, hell, the whole game could use reworks across the board. Fuck it, remove Alacrity and Quickness entirely, see what happens.

oh Sil, Sil... you have no idea how much you push me to make a rambling video about the game and a few of its topics :D At this point they just became opinions, because there is 0% chance to cause any changes with anyone saying anything anymore. Game has its ups and downs, I love the game and always will, but it sure has a lot of frustrating problems around it. Maybe I will step over that boundary finally to speak my mind... maybe. Good thoughtful video, keep it up!

I have quit the game back in 2014 because it never improved on its PvP/WvW, because the status back then was that new dungeons (5 man) would never be added (idk if that changed in the meantime), and because they never learned to create aesthetic, or in absence of that at least a high amount of, armor sets (look at how many armors GW1 got. And remember, every class got like 10 new ones per x-pac, and there were 10 classes). Looking at the GW2 wiki, the armor stuff has never been fixed and in fact got 10 times worse, and at least regarding the female designs there is now also never again a possibility that this will happen with current ANet.

This game does NOT suck, it's just withering like a pretty flower once lush.

Is it better to spend gold on exotic armor or to grind out bladed gear? I feel it gives you time in a zone to get used to the flow of meta-events and gives you drops as you work towards a secondary currency. I thought it was a low-barrier-to-entry way to get customizable gear?

I gave my old account to my niece and now I have an account with functionally no magic find, unlocks, or gear. It seems that most of these methods are a year in my future but I write this before I follow the link to your other video. As a returning player, thank you for reminding me the more things change...

Thanks a lot for making it free to see for the poor :D

your advocation of crunch immediately makes me discredit your opinions on this. crunch causes actual hospitilization in extreme cases. it isn't just "job is hard, do your job". do your research.

You are right. There really has been a decline in the quality and amount of content in the game lately. Tbh, I think it is deceiving calling SOTO and JW as expansions. Do you think it has something to do with the Devs being underpaid or just a matter of the Devs being lazier compared to the Devs who have left the company before?

Neglecting the bad? Nah not really I just recognize the game isn't the be all end all of my existence. Every single game in existence has limits and pros and cons. It's all about your goals and interests and if they don't align anymore that's fine...move on. But to lambast this game for 30 min is kinda...extra lol. All games sunset and who said GW2 is immune to this?

I agree that the game is dying, but that's not a bad thing, and the game certainly doesn't suck. Guild Wars 1 has no new content coming out (other than some new weapon skins for the 15th anniversary) and still has a dedicated player-base. GW2 at least has expansions coming out every year and while it's mostly asset-reuse, it's still enjoyable for what it is. I don't like the idea that a game must be getting frequent content updates in order to be seen as relevant. By that logic, every single-player game is dead and left to rot. Which is just not true. I always call GW1 and GW2 "single-player mmo's" and that is with admiration and relief. I will say, however, that if GW3 does become a thing, Arenanet HAS to have learned from their past mistakes, and there have been more than a few. Their next game will be held to this regard. To show everyone that they took all those lessons and feedback to heart. I am both confident and weary, and I say this as a life-long Guild Wars fan, just like you. Thank you for making this video, Sil.

I have played Guild Wars 2 for most of its lifespan and have seen some decline, but I'm not seeing the full extent of the damage simply because the areas that are hurting the most are those I don't partake in. I'm utter shit at PvP; I'm okay at WvW because I thrive on chaos, but what I have noticed in WvW (aside from pretty severe server imbalances.) are some of the cracks in the overall design i.e. that one fucking wall and some people just like to woosh into areas they aren't supposed to woosh into. Speaking from a PvE perspective, I have noticed the decline in story quality, that's not to say it's just a complete and utter shit sandwich, but when you look back at other expansions like, say, PoF, and look at SoTO the narrative is like night and day in my opinion. I didn't HATE SoTO, I didn't like it, either; to me, it was just a weak link leading into another expansion which is, in my opinion, TONS better than its predecessor. However, I don't fully agree that the game is dying. ( I realize you were being a bit cheeky in the title, but even in the video you were seemingly implying that the end is nigh) I have played games that have been going on since, I believe, 2009 that people INSISTED were dying and yet somehow are not only still standing, but are kind of thriving. Stagnation is not always a death sentence if there are steps to stir the deep. I approach each expansion with tempered expectations and don't follow the hype train. I'm a lot happier that way, a lot happier knowing that although this game is not what it used to be, it has the potential to come into its own, again. I've never cared much for comparisons or what could have been, what we have is what it is. Could it be improved? Yes. Will it be improved? Perhaps, if A-Net stops pulling its team to work on projects that may very well fail. Is it in a death spiral? From where I'm standing? No, not at all. It is a 12-year-old game that still has a relatively healthy player base. TL:DR: I agree with some of your points: PvP is bad, the latest expansions have been mediocre, and the writing style is all over the fucking place. However, I do not agree that the game is dead angle, nor do I agree that there is no coming back from this; it is not a death spiral, it is decline, and there's a difference. Death spirals imply that there's no way to pull up and recover, decline is the gradual slide that can very easily be rectified by some timely pulls. That's just my 2 coppers for your thoughts. Or something.

I'm surprised you didn't cover how the WvW restructuring was simply to shut down servers that weren't in use.

just give every player commander tag for free please(or simple collection)

Gonna finish the video next year, havent reached PoF yet, still at HoT where you kill the letuce spider

I used to play at least once every few weeks or months and always enjoyed my time, but nowadays I log in maybe once every six months and quit after just a few minutes. It doesn’t help that I’d have to buy new, lackluster content just to 'really' get back into it. The content itself often isn’t very enjoyable; it feels more like a chore than something new and exciting. Back then, you could just hop on, have stupid, brainless fun, and that was enough. Now, the content feels like something you have to do rather than something you want to do. The bloat is part of the problem, but it’s mostly because the gameplay isn’t engaging. The reward systems are poorly designed, and in my opinion, the game’s major issues have only gotten worse over time. Ever think about running old story missions on all your alts? I certainly don’t anymore, especially with the new content. The fact that conversations are now hardcoded so you have to stand there, wait, and listen-without being able to skip them-completely ruins any excitement I might have had for replaying them, whether for rewards, achievements, or anything else. It just sucks now. So many new pieces of content are time-gated on release because they are scared people will find out that their new content isnt a lot in the first place, and even after they eventually change it, they keep the stupid time-gating just reduced a little, often even just not time-gating but locking certain content behind tedious collect achievements where you have to constnatly jump around the same area with specific annoying restrictions to waste your time.

I mostly play WvW, the past few years have just been a mess-balance, gameplay, WR, etc. It’s frustrating because I feel like the current team isn’t even able to identify the problems, let alone fix them. Which leads to: I’m genuinely worried about how poorly a new game from current ArenaNet might be received by the broader gaming audience, particularly given the current state of gaming/gaming discourse.

Here's a few of my rebuttals/adding to some points: Balance is really hard with so many moving parts, but one part that feel the most is complexity vs. Reward: as boondps chrono, I am sweating bullets to keep quickness around 70% uptime, while herald just...pulses it permanently.weaver and holosmith post negligible results better than classes 400% easier to play. I know it's intentional, but an absolute lack of role Trinity really kneecaps the game's design space. Obviously perma alacrity and quickness was a mistake. The gw2 community has a big problem with assuming optimization. Snow Crows is arguably the biggest resource we have when it comes to build guides, which is crazy to me bc they are a SPEEDRUNNING guild. (No shade towards SC, their content is phenomenal; but that's like asking an any%er tips on your magic build in skyrim) A hybrid note between community and balance is running raids and strikes with a properly experienced group it just turns into a walking simulator. My main criticism for your approach is that you come off as someone with MMO syndrome, where you play a game since launch, dump thousands of thousands of hours into a game (and not an insignificant amount of money either) and expect the game to be just as fulfilling since level your first character. Games lose their novelty over time. Gw2 has a ludicrous amount of accessible content that respects your time to get into (yes lfg is trash). 8 raids, 16 strikes (7 have CM) 23 fractals (5 have CM) and 30 dungeon paths without ever touching the open world. Yes, not all of these are bangers (looking at you cold war and swampland) and LFGing outside experienced is a fools errand not to mention a the walking simulator problem with experienced/optomized players, but the sheer amount of stuff you can actually do is insane even compared to its MMO peers My main point here is this: yes, gw2 has plenty of flaws (outside matters of taste), but also farming content for a game you've been grinding since launch is obviously going to look different to you than anyone else; and the dooming/fear mongering of "game is dead or on life support ect. Does nothing but harm the game bc potential new players will quit before even trying. I am all about expression (hence this fucking novel of a comment) but I really hope you use your platform for better things than "after 1,000,000 hours there's nothing to do"

People say this game is dying for years. Common, those are pure bullshits. See player population or actually play the game to see it is filled with people. It would use more players playing strikes and raids but there are another faults. The game doing worse than it was in its prime, I also think that bcs the new expansions reuse a lot of the models. Like until now the only bosses I get in the last expansions are Greer and decima. You meet them in story, in raid, in open world, in convergences. It is just too much. Also mechanics are pretty similar. Raids point used to be to be sparated stories, but now it is just another recycle content like they did with strikes. Late content is disappointing? It is, but this does not mean the game sucks. And I love the game but I can’t be like those fanboys in the game that see everything colorful and nice and they get angry that you critique the game. User interface is really undated, but hopefully they will fix that. About balance, let’s be honest, compared with other mmos where you have to work again months to be meta after a shit balance patch, this game is fine. It has its issues and there is much to speak about it, but still a good choice if you compare it with the competition. About people that don’t want to take the initiative, this is a thing in every game. Even if you don’t tag, it happens for people to be helpful towards the group and not rare at all. As a conclusion, the game is amazing, but yes late expansions have bad story, a lot of reused content, a little of inovation. They should change something in many aspects, but this don’t make the game being bad. Just hope the bad content will not continue so to surpass what is good. I still think the artstyle, the combat and the monetization are the best in mmos

The balancing PvE fights for ranged vs melee things is actually rlly interesting. I remember an old ANet dev describing old Rev SB 7-shot where it way supposed to "only be more effective at range" in order to leave some design space for melee weapons to be good and that's why you had to line up your triangle reticle perfectly. Now you just push a button and all 7 hits auto-track the target. My, how times have changed.

I dunno. Pseudo plays on a controller. Kind of an idiot if you ask me. 🤣 Thanks for the shout-out. I have far, far too many thoughts on this to add them all here, so I'll just add 3. One neutral, one positive and one negative: *1.* Not to be a complete sycophant, and this also undercuts my third point somewhat, but I think it's massively unfair to compare a 12yo game to pre-release or even couple years-old game(s) like PoE2 or Lies of P respectively. Especially considering that no one expected the latter to explode like it did and end up making approximately: "All of the money." + Not that this is what matters but, GW2 does get "free" or at least earnable, sometimes community designed or requested new Cosmetics or features all the time. See: F1 ley line/updraft [WING] Guild Griffon toggle request, or new cosmetics without buying the new XPacs/Battle Passes if you count Festivals, Recent WvW, or even Gold>Gems/Earning BL keys. The exchange rate sucks sometimes, but we still get them. *2.* ArenaNet has gotten MUCH better at communicating since EoD launched. We used to get "nothing" for months at a time. Sometimes half a year. We all thought the game was basically over for about 5 months after Thunderhead released and IBS and afterward when they didn't have a studio head was absolutely awful. Better communication, was (next to more frequent, balanced, and interesting balance patches,) my primary request as a somewhat jaded vet of 11 years. *3.* However, biased as I am, this communication still seems to largely only go one-way. Especially with balance. There's a limit to who they can listen to of course, and I am fully prepared to eat these words come any future developments. But Guild Wars 2 is massively old by game standards. And changes, even small ones, must be a nightmare to implement. I fully get that. What makes Guild Wars 2 awesome is that you can effectively start up the game and instead of being funneled in 1 direction you can jump in any of 9++ different directions of content. What makes it terrible is exactly the same thing, and that the Dev Studio was in no way equipped to support all of the features this game has. Lke, at all. Most if not all of your critiques are not made any less valid by this however. There's a lot of unmodernized/unsupported content that could have been amazing. It's entirely possible that I too will quit at some point, moving on is healthy if you're not having fun. But until they find a new, creative, way to nerf Bladesworn I still love it, and it's still probably the best MMO that truely doesn't hate you out there. 😄 Good video man. It is important to be able to both praise and critique the things that you like.

Just stop playing if the game sucks. Why make a yt video to bitch about the game? People will always play gw2 since its by far the best mmorpg.

nah , it doesn't suck that much ... just a few adjustments, and the game is perfect compare to any Action combat MMO this game is the top one 😉

1:02 hitting a golem does not show how good the mesmer is, the real test is with a enemy that fight back.

I appreciate your commenting on the developers, particularly the lack of talent. There's no nice way to say this, and the devs don't deserve harassment, but the modern devs are just *bad*. The writing is still just as bad or sometimes worse than launch (though also sometimes better). The maps are all these collections of pre-made assets that make me feel like I'm walking around someone's Sims environment. I struggle sometimes to see NEW assets in these maps beyond a handful of architechture. All the development goes into the gem store. They struggle sometimes to release updated icon art for items, gamebreaking bugs are still in the game, etc. etc. I'm someone who has been here since HoT and it's depressing to see the game just linger like this. I had hope for the new format, but they clearly haven't done enough to make it work. As a final product, it's fine. As a content release pattern, it's boring and feels cheap. Like you said, we'll get a trickle of Greer in Convergences, we'll get "CMs" that will likely just be Stats+. I wish the game would have just sunset after LS4 like it clearly was supposed to. Or EoD like it clearly was supposed to. For me, I don't see this game as you do as a family member not living up to their potential. For me, it's like watching a once-proud and strong family member after a stroke, lingering. Living just to live. Suffering pain and sorrow and indignity for however long it takes until the other shoe drops and the words on everyone's lips are "it was a mercy" "at least they're finally at peace". It is morbid. It is grotesque.

Yea it feels like all the same problems are pointed out times and times again... And about the same conclusion to solve it. Anet have to make changes about a scale of making a new game and they just cant sale it 2nd time to old players or attract same amount of new players to not go bankrot after it... New game is only solution gamedev sims told us there is exist...

I don't like the new expansion model. I'd rather wait a year for an ACTUAL expansion than this shit. As much as I found the conclusion of the dragon saga disappointing, I still prefer End of Dragons to the borefest of Secrets of the Obscure. I mean, ffs, they had the concept of fractals from other timelines to explore and they SIDELINED it immediately after the first map??? why. It was such a good concept, they could have brought back joko or some other villain that died that way! It would have been cool to see villains from fractal timelines where they succeeded.

may we enjoy whatever we choose to do on our free time

I've only played a few hundred hours so far, but I've already noticed a lot of glaring issues with the game. None of them are particularly deal-breaking for me, as I started the game with the sole-intention of using it as my casual long-term game. The horizontal progression and relevance of older content makes it easy for me to pick up and put down over the next few years and helps alleviate how painful a lot of the systems can be. I love the game, but ANet's greedy behavior and unwillingness to improve some basic systems of the game do put me off a bit. I have everything up through SotO (haven't played it yet) and I've enjoyed everything so far. Even though I've spent more than I intended, I have plenty to do for years.

Videos like this are a double-edged sword. Criticism is great for feedback but it should be in a contained space within the community. If it's on an open platform like YT it will only repel potential new players from playing the game.

SotO was shit, JW is low to mid. all the other expansions were more hype and more engaging by far. I'd rather wait 2 years to get another EoD size expansion than 2 SotO's