Meta events actually make me feel like i'm playing a constant *massively* multiplayer game and not just on patch days trying to select an npc in a sea of players like in other games
100% maps actually feel alive and WvW is the love letter to the term "MMO". Also I love the fact there is no gear rat race every quarter and legendary items actually are legendary not just pure cosmetic.
And in addition to that, the rewards from these events are still relevant, therefore, maps from previous expansions are not death. As much as I love FFXIV for example, it feels depressing when you explore a new map and you are basically alone the whole time. Then you have the urge to take a break in Limsa Lominsa in order to feel like you are playing an MMO
Its crazy how after 10 years of playing this game I forgot about it really never being down and I never have to spend tuesday afternoons waiting for it to come back lol
It is amazing on how not once have they ever shut servers down for maintenance, everything is done through patches. Its cool how they notify you of it on screen while you are playing.
@@skykitchen867 this showed respect for a playerbase, its surely a bit more trouble, but i cant recalled how many time i had a free day just to get stuck on a " server down for maintenance" screen.
Another thing I love about GW2 is that you can buy Gems with in game gold....so if you really want something from the store you dont have to spend money if your willing to grind a bit. Another great thing is how the game incentivizes replaying old areas, every single zone feels alive.
@@archaontheeverchosen7980 But considering it has paid gametime its better in saving money regard to buy game token to save on subscription fee, instead of buying ingame cosmetics
The down state mechanic. The fact that you can not only fight to survive but that people can come along and help you survive or rez you no matter their profession.
I love that a lot, sure GW2 got rid of the "healer" but who needs that when I can be a frontline medic, trying to pull folks up during an event while handling live fire. rub rub rub "Come on rally you Charr bastard, get up and rejoin the fight!"
I've played GW2 since the first beta. I naturally ended up burning out and taking off for months at a time (I didnt even start End of Dragons until 3 weeks ago. I went an entire YEAR without logging in). However, any time my friends play MMOs and say,. "It would be so much better if the game did X like this. No game does that." I always get to say, "Guild Wars 2 does." I have always said that GW2 does (almost) everything right. It is the ideal MMORPG. I have loved this game since day 1 and will continue to play it and sing its praises for the rest of time.
AND it offers real rewards for doing in game achievements and content to not have to spend real money. Sure it's time consuming, but you get to choose how you want to grind because there are so many ways to achieve things.
i feel like a big upgrade is the community itself. I've never seen such a friendly and welcoming community, since the day i started playing i found help on every corner. Truly on of a kind community and cannot be more grateful how they made me love the game.
I played GW2 at release but didnt stick with it due to sunk cost feelings with WoW. I've recently come back and the game feels so alive! I'm playing through all of the stories I've missed and every map has people on it. It's wonderful!
Sadly, I didn't know that character age is a thing in this game so I deleted my 10-years-old character just to change the name (there's an item to do that too).
World Bosses, and the dynamic scaling of events, while not unique to GW2 is something I think is handled better in GW2 than any other MMO I've played. Example of super epic world boss- fighting the water dragon at the Harvest Temple in EoD. it's basically a 50 man raid.
We've been living good boys. I personally believe GW2 is the best representation of what a MMORPG should be. GW2 does grand scaled spectacles which brings together everyone on the entire map to focus on one goal is something I've never experienced in any other game.
the no server maintenance/going down thing i only recently fully appreciated - after another online game i play requires 5 hrs patch time when it updates every 1.5 months, and my friend said the game she plays requires 8 hrs patch update time. until i had to deal with that in other games myself, i literally never thought about how ridiculous and amazing it is that gw2 servers never goes down for patches. its really hard to believe that this is a feature thats there since like 10 years ago, and meanwhile still many games nowadays dont have this feature. sometimes its so easy to not notice or forget such huge things if you've played for so long that you take it for granted!
In the 10+ years of GW2's history, there was I think 1 time where our servers went down, albeit briefly. It was for a very short while, I think barely a day. Then after it was done their IT guy posted a blog explanation of the cascading problems that lead to this. 1 event in all those years. Kind of staggering to think of that.
Enjoy it! But also have patience. Try to have a pace. The game has more than a decade of content available, and you might get lost. The good news is: the community is absolutely lovely (always have exceptions). You can ask questions on open chats and you can be damn sure a good soul will either answer or even help you out directly giving their time for that. It is just the GW2 way of playing. I also recommend (if you're going to buy the expansions) to be even more patient. Maybe reach level 80 on the "vanilla game way" - no mounts, no level 80 boost -, just play and progress until you reach endgame, and then get your mounts and experience the game for real. For any endgame content that will be pretty good. You will have learned the game for real, and mainly, your class, your character and even the game story which is absolutely amazing. It is totally worth it!!
The horizontal progression is the biggest one in my opinion, I have been playing FF14 recently and I can see sooo much good content that went obsolete due to their verticality.
They also outplayed the competition in building a world that encourages cooperation and a close knit, friendly community that tries to help each other. A total noob with no skills can find someone to help mentor them, or a guild that won't kick them out for being underpowered. There is no spawn camping of players, to ruin your day. And they made it so that if you cannot spare long hours at the computer, you can still participate in metas and major events and still get rewards, you just can do it in smaller bites with less time spent glued to the screen.
The customization of combat is something that I think is hugely underappreciated. In most MMOs, your class is limited to a singular weapon type (staves for mages, sword/shield for warrior, bows for ranger, etc etc). But each class has a plethora of weapons they can use to define their playstyle. You can put swords on a mage class like the mesmer, and conversely put a staff in the hands of a heavy armored class like the revenant. The way that each class has multiple different ways that they can be played gives a large number of ways that you can customize your combat.
Good point. Connected with this - the number of playstyles that are actually relevant is pretty staggering. Especially when you consider all the builds across pvp, wvw, and the various types of pve, there's dozens of "optimal" builds, and hundreds of viable ones. I think a lot of people miss out by not trying things.
The point is that once you finished the gear you grinded for, it will NOT get obselete in 6 months, or ever. Gw2 value your time and will not let your efforts be wasted.
the fact that there are constant events going on throughout the world which low and high levels partake in which makes all areas in the GW2 world much more alive.
GW2 is the game that has a story I cannot get enough of. I deeply enjoy every release because not only is it seeing new things it is always revisiting familiar things - be they faces or places really. It is also the most accessible game for me. I play with a low intensity build because I have significant problems with my hands and I can still engage in content like everyone else. The community is also fabulously enfolding. The moment you say you need help there's generally someone willing to either point you in the right direction or come along to show you the way. The resources available through the wiki and GW2 efficiency are top tier too. I can't get the total package that is GW2 to me anywhere else.
Really? Gw2's story is probably one of, if not, the weakest element, especially the latest expansion EoD. Its world building is great, but the actual narrative story itself? Pretty terrible. Written by blue-haired activists and soyboys who couldn't make it to CW's writing positions, and that's saying something. It's like witnessing a budget version of a CW drama..
Although I don't think that the story writing is one of GW2's strongest points, I don't dislike it either, and generally look forward to seeing what the next story chapter is going to be like. But for some, like vidya2144, and others, the story is bad, or too "inclusive" for their liking. That's more their problem, than a problem for most of the players. It's good to hear that you are able to enjoy the game, even though you have some physical limitations that make gaming challenging. I feel that GW2 tries to please a wide variety of players, which they sometimes get criticized for, because some players wish they would narrow the game to please a certain segment instead, saying that trying to please a wide audience only makes the game less than ideal for any segment of players.
I tried almost every MMO and nowhere i stuck like in GW2. In the first half an hour i was hooked. Amazing game. 350+ hours in now and it still feels new with so much thing to do and explore but it doesn't feel overwhelming.
@@corpsestarch8869 Whoa! That's like 3 hours a day, every day, or more. Take a breath and see what the Sun is like outside your door once in a while. Talk to neighbors, visit family, take the dog for a walk. (Just messing with you, glad you're enjoying the game. I've got over 8k hours, but that's in 11 years).
I just discovered you recently and i love your content. keep it up! GW2 is my favorite mmo, i ve already put almost 4000 hours in 1,5 years, gosh i love it so much!
Jumping puzzles. They were the only thing that entertained me in the beginning and allowed me to realise how great of a game Guild Wars 2 is. Then I went on to finish all the Tyrian jumping puzzles and had so much fun doing so. Probably my favourite thing about the whole game.
one thing i would add to anyone coming back to guild wars if they haven't played in a while, you can get free birthday gifts last month i logged into my account after not having played since launch... all 4 of my characters had NINE YEARS worth of birthday presents each!!! that was cool
I friggin love gw2, but I also play other MMOs. I think it's fascinating how GW2 manages to keep their game up 24/7. I also think it's painfully cringe whenever I hear people cry like little babies about a game being down for scheduled maintenance. Read a book, it's not a real problem.
Just saying "there is no holy trinity" is simply wrong. To clarify: In endgame fractals (5 man instanced) you always bring a healer and a supporter (player that sacrifices some personal dps to buff the team). In strikes and raids (10 man instanced) you'll usually have 2 healers and 2 supports and one of the healers also tanks - there is a designated tank in almost every 10 man fight. In open world however you don't need any setup, the metas are designed easy enough to almost always ensure success if you have a big blob of people (and you can choose to play support or heal too to make it even smoother).
One thing that could be also mentionned: GW2 rewards participation. If you join an event or meta and it eventually fails, you still get some loot and some xp. Even raids and stike missions award some of the relevant currency if you lose, based on the progression you managed to acheive. The time spent training to beat an encouter isn't lost.
All of this, and the best open world design with dynamic events funneling the entire map of players into spectacular world boss fights. And the legendary equipment that looks like what a real legendary should look like. Not just a fancy model, but unique effects, animations, trails, sounds and other means to transform your look when you finally get them, on top of a great quality of life boost. And the class system that gives space to a lot of build craft and character customization. Everyone could tinker with specializations, weapon skills, utility skills, gear stats, runes etc. to create a build that fits any role in the game or any roleplay on all of the 9 classes. And despite that, balance is also pretty good. And...
In my opinion gw2 has the best combat and movement systems in MMOs and since that's what you spend 85% of your time doing to me that means it's the best. Also because of map wide group events it's the only actual MMO left.
The only MMO that I think does combat better, or at least as good, is Black Desert, its street-fighter like combo system is a really clever way of having lots of abilities with a limited number of keys.
I think IF I added together all of those sub fee's I've paid to be able to log in for 1 hour on days when I didn't have time to play just to log in, I'd have enough to buy several other games. Sub fees are the "gotcha" of the games. You committed, so you have to play or you wasted your money. Rinse and repeat the same type stuff day after day trying to grind the same thing has taken the place of offerring a new activity in a game to keep you occupied and it's become so "normalized" that people think nothing now of paying for a game and running the same dailies EVERY single login and think that they're getting their money's worth.
The thing that made me come back to gw2 and stay is world exploration. Open world can actually be challenging, and the maps are insanely cool to navigate. With mounts, masteries, and a lot of vertical stuff with maps that are as deep/high as they are wide. So much secret locations, that you can play the game for years and still surprise yourself with a new place on a map you player thousand times
Also the fact that there's a whole other world underwater. While most hate underwater combat, just the underwater exploration alone and finding deep caverns and sunken ships and all kinds of stuff beneath the surface of the waters is purely amazing. It's a whole part of the world that many don't really get into, and other games simply do not even explore underwater.
Totally agree. The maps were huge, multi leveled, and complicated. Monsters were scary and were super punishing. There was a huge focus on helping others and requiring help from others. Even now one of my favorite things to do in GW2 is HoT HP trains.
I have such a love-hate relationship with HoT maps. They are so thematically coherent while being extremely distinct. So many fun metas there too. However, navigating some of them are hell (looking at you Tangled Depth) even with flying mount. 😅
Every attempt to play other MMOs ended in me crawling back to GW2. You just get so used to how smooth it is, every other game feels like hitting a brick wall from time to time. I even forgot what server maintenance even means ffs! Seeing other MMOs stumbling over obstacles GW2 solved decade ago is such a surreal experience!
Just the mounts alone are on a whole different level, sometimes i would just join the game to practice fly around with the griffon, one thing i like about some mounts is that while they're not that hard to learn to use, as long as you put in the work to try and master using them, you basically discover a whole new world, that's why Roller beetle racing (and other mount racing) is a thing.
I’ve played GW2 since release but only on and off. Once you stop treating it like wow or other mmos, you really realize how much ahead this game is. Now that I’ve learned way more about it, it is definitely and too S tier mmo. 😊
You mentioned break bar damage (with the Springer) but didn't really go into the fact that there's no hard trinity in GW2. You are never waiting for a healer or a tank when you want to group up for a dungeon or other small group type activities like fractals, strike missions, or raids (as opposed to large group activities like the open-world map world bosses or WvW game mode). The "soft" trinity is damage, support, and control. Support is more than just healing and includes specializations that focus on providing boons [buffs] to the group like damage boosts, incoming damage reduction, cooldown reduction, and increased movement speed in addition to augmenting the heal skill slot that all characters have with plain healing. Control focused builds bring skills that either CCs the enemies or - for larger enemies - damages the break bar until even they get stunned. There's very few enemies (if any left) that are just straight up immune to crowd control effects unlike other MMOs.
Hey great Video ! I would have added the open world (through map immersion and level design and the events system) and of course the greatness of large scale battle, either via WvW or World bosses. No other MMO does it better than GW2. Also, the wardrobe system is really neat and far ahead other MMOs in therms of system and customisation
I've played a few MMOs, and stayed away from some with bad community vibes. GW2 to me is stories you can progress, at any rate you want. In between you can join in massive open-world missions they call Metas. Plus gathering and crafting diversions you may find the time to get into (or ignore). They made a believer of me! Custom pick and play what you want.
I love how every year your character gets a birthday present on the day you created it. The community is amazing and the game is just great. I think everyone should atleast try it. There is a F2P version and you can go all the way to max lvl.
Additional points that I can think of: 1. No defined trinity of tank-dmg-healer. usually if you wanna be a healer, u will go Priest-related class and be useless all game in exploring the world n complete missions alone cuz ur dmg suck.. But not in GW2.. everyone can be anything. 2. no long grindy story quests and side quests + no conventional quest givers this helps when u wanna have multiple char and it wont feel burnt out repeat dozens and dozens of quests 3. Transmute make u look cool in other equipments while wearing diff equipments 4. Weapon + Skills diff classes can wield same weapons but have diff skills. which is pretty cool. the utility skills are only 4~5 skill that you can select so ur skillbars are not cluttered with tons n tons of skills quickslot 5. changeable Elites usually games when upgrade ur class, you are stuck with it. but in GW2, we can easily change Elite anytime we want depend on our mood. some day you wanna be Deadeye just pew pew from afar, some day you wanna be Daredevil getting up close and vent all your angers onto the enemies.
The combat system of GW2 is also something awesome to talk about. Some games (lookin at you, WoW) have/used to have combat that you had to stand there and cast/swing/shoot your weapons. GW2 you can freely move around while attacking the enemy. There are two different PvP kind of areas in the game too. PvP and WvW. PvP is just that. Player versus player. WvW is World Vs. World. In PvP, you can join in at lvl 2 and still do well against lvl 80's decked out in legendary stuff. Honestly this game is so much fun and I'm happy I have been playing this game for a decade now. One more thing: The community is 100% great. Sure, there are a few trolls out there but at least it isn't childish spam and tons of "your mom" jokes. Also, new players are always encouraged to ask questions even if it seems like a stupid question!
Gw2 took the amazing features of Warhammer Online and polished them. WvW (not as good but more polished), public events, achievement system ect. I'm loving coming back to GW2 and I want more out of it. Its biggest issue has always been marketing
I love that you can use most skills without being locked in place. Tried WoW on 3 different chars, and maybe it was just my class but every skill i used gets cancelled if i walk so it doesnt feel smooth
Casual mmorpg enjoyers dont quite realize what a feet of software engineering GW2 actually is, yes its an older title, but the fact that they pump out updates on updates without any massive, or any bugs at all to the previous patches, especially if you consider the smart instance system they have designed, it truly makes the game feel amazing with regards to stability and the fact that you dont need to wait hours or days for maintenance
About the combat, you can certainly take damage even with good dodge timing, the recharge on dodge isn't instant. Otherwise yeah, ever since I got into GW2 back in 2018, I haven't been pulled in by other mmos even though I gave them a shot. It's just more comfy feeling in all ways for me.
One thing that I truly appreciate about it is being the lack of killstealing. In other games you can literally sabotage players with that egikw GW2 encourages you to play together instead again.
underated comment. You are ALWAYS happy to see more players showing up and joining. There is no ressource snipping either. You mine a nod: it gets depleted.. for you, and you only, other players can still gather from it.
my personal favorite thing is the music, how it feels fitting for place, it changes for combat and sometimes I'm sad to mount up and go away from a fight because that stops combat music. My brother showed me the game, showed me Fear not this Night and I fell in love with it even before I knew english. Guild wars 2 will be my first and last MMO ever. I keep hearing that other games have subsciptions for thing gw2 guarantees, other games have worse mounts, and I can't get to new content if I don't grind for the newest gear, and gw2 spoiled me in this sense. I couldn't live without these, without the familiar songs that I'll listen to outside the game, the fashion sense of this game, and how I grew up with it. It might not be for everyone I'll admit, and I'd like to hear a similar experience with an another MMO
I wouldn’t say GW2 outplayed its competition but it knows what the majority wants and why they are still playing. The MMO genre being usually targeted at people who don’t mind having to grind endlessly and sometimes having to pay monthly subscription, GW2 breaks all of that by offering a horizontal progression and no subscription. In a way GW2 allows more casual players to be able to enjoy MMO despite having a life outside the game and this is something only long time players will realize unfortunately.
Yeah and doesn't have overpowered armors/weapons and it isn't pay to win game, but rather skill based game to be able to play it well at highest level.
There are alot of unique tasks in the game that u literally cant find anywhere. For example there's an event in Diessa Plateau where you dress up as a cow and teach cows how to do stuffs or there's a renown heart in Brisban Wildlands that literally makes you do math questions (you can finally make use of the maths u learned in high school lol). Or the heart where u catch some crabs for the local, or the heart that u train with the militia in Queensdale. These hearts really help building the world of Tyria, making it more lively Is there even ANY MMO that has tasks as creative as GW2? I dont think so bro
I havent been this early since Caithe stole the egg lol that said GW2 has become my favorite mmo. the community alone is enough to play, but then thers the actual gameplay, its refreshing simple and innovative compared to most other mmos
for my account, i don't have any expansions but since i paid for the base game at launch my version is above f2p status with less restrictions so there is vip status, it's like swtor but better in that sense... although with swtor if you subscribe you gain access to all expansions for free whereas guild wars you only get to play with the expansion content you've paid for
Guild wars 2 is a zero commitment absolutely addictive, minimal negative points and Virtually never any maintenance ever in almost 11 years I've only ever seen the servers go down maybe 4 times due to stupid shit like hard drives maxing out
Whenever I play any other mmo I always get to a point where I ask myself “why am I not playing gw2 right now?” That’s how you know gw2 is the king of mmos. The fact that the base game is free so I can hook new friends Into the game is great too!
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GW2 veteran since launch here! Mounts actually have weight. They have cute idle animations. They have quests where you even raise some of them/etc. They feel ALIVE and like companions, and it's magnificent. - I also want to praise the revive system. ANYONE can do it. There's even achievement rewards and stuff for doing so. You press one button and it gets someone up. Play long enough and reviving someone is as much second nature as breathing. - You can help anyone at anytime with combat. One thing I don't like about ffxiv is the lack of the similar revive system and being unable to help other players fight unless you're in a party or it's like a FATE or something. I also deeply prefer GW2's teleportation system & fees. - Fashion Wars: Things you unlock, you unlock. It's ACCOUNT WIDE. This game is VERY alt friendly contrary to ffxiv, and is superior in it's "glam/glamour" system with 'Wardrobe' and outfits. At the very least in the management of it. The fact that the clothes I'm WEARING aren't still in my inventory is A+ - Underwater combat: Super cool. Under-utilized, but still just as cool and fun as land-combat imo. I find the Mesmer's and Guardian's animations especially beautiful. Plus the movement, it's as fluid as the water. - Downed abilities: You go down, you have a good chance, a chance at all for that matter, to get back up. I love the entire getting downed system. - NO SILENT PROTAGONIST: Oh. My. GOSH! do I adore this. I love love love that my fully customizable character has a voice for once. It's been even more fun since it became open-world since Heart of Thorns. Not only are you fully voiced, but each race & gender has their own unique voice. My personal favorites are the female Asura and male Sylvari (I main a Sylvari mesmer). It makes my character feel ALIVE. I like having some personality. I don't need to imagine every little aspect. There are even some people who can't create/hear voices when they think anyways. I wanna feel a part of the word not like cardboard. Unless I'm a character who can't speak, I always prefer a voice xD Been playing this game since it's launched, adore it. Also love the video! It's very engaging!
Ellequently put, totally agree with all the points of the game you have covered and i've always had an emotional connection to GW2 after falling in love with it, to me GW2 will always be the best out of all the others 😊
I play gw2 and I think it's one of the best or the best mmo at the moment. But I think you have to be 100% transparent about these things if you really want to get people to play something. Certainly gw2 will not have a subscription, but if you didn't play in the seasons that the "living worlds" were given away, these are some great DLC that you have to pay to play them. Certainly you can pay them with in-game gold or directly with your local steam currency (to give an example). Currently this is changed, for small expansions (the one on August 22 for example, which is just a payment). On everything else, I agree with you.
That is because that's different. Living world and expansions are treated differently, what you can buy with in gme gold is living world but not expansions no matter how small they are.
@@xvoidgamer Exactly, and that's why I must say that the game does have microtransactions if you didn't play at the time where they gave away the "living world". You can buy the missing living world with in-game gold or real money, it's each person's choice, but the expansions do have to be bought with real money
Wow classic player here... or, well I just had a 8 months break. I always feel stuck in wow, you always need to farm, earn money, dungeon runs for gear, and I just get so tired of it. I really just want to enjoy myself, without feeling behind 😅 So I heard about Aion, and am AS WE "SPEAK" downloading the game. But now I wanna try GW2 🤣 So its really that good? Thanks for uploading! New subscriber here for sure =)
One thing i do love aside from all that you said and also whats in the comments, you don't need a high end laptop/desktop ( unless you want to...and this is coming from a laptop), to play GW2. This has always been a must-install in my new laptop before any other game.
I love the customization in GW2. Being able to combine different armor pieces and apply dozens of dyes to have an exclusive look is awesome. There are many beatiful armor pieces from low level and we are free to combine them by using a simple cosmetic item that is farmable by doing content. I've tried Lost Ark and other MMOs and they suck in this aspect.
Just started GW2 and its a lot of fun. Good mix between WoW (general feel), ESO (combat style and build versarility) and the old Everquest (what quests? Just go, explore and make your own adventure). On question, if your lvl 80 gear remains relevant, what is there to look for once you have a decent set? Do you need specialized gear for the different content? Cheers!
For fractals you need to have for example special infusion you do not need for other content. If you have great gear (ascendend gear for example, there is no need to get legendaries or other ascended gear) I built myself a legendary soly because it looked badass. I will do the same for the new legendary armor that will come out. It's more an experience thing in this game than a vertical progression marathon. Once you have great gear you can just relax and enjoy every content the game has to offer (except maybe fractals and raids)
Im sorry, but there is little to no EverQuest in GW2. Im not sure how you're not aware of this, but the hearts on the map are quests and yes, there's a map and minimap. GW2 is just as much a pinball machine with the map markers as any other modern MMORPG. There is no making your own adventure in GW2 like EQ. In EQ you had adventures with other people by exploring the world and it's systems. Remember when you had to talk to other people in-game to increase your language skill in order to read books in other languages? Where's the exploration like that in GW2? In GW2 it's, again, just as solo as the rest of the modern MMORPGs.
I think my favourite bits are the lack of gear creep (like WoW) where you constantly behind if you dont chase better gear all the time, and of course the mounts and lack of monthly subs that some games do nothing with *cough* WoW and ESO, to improve the game.
started with gw ended with Gwen started with gw2 with hall of monuments full. life happened and now use a Mac after 5 years am playing again through steam and am enjoying it again. world boss trains are fun and everyone has grown and most bosses are faster then I remember.
My favorite thing about GW2 is you can buy Gems(paid currency) with in-game gold. Technically you can download the game and f2p grind gold and purchase all the expansions and LW seasons completely for free by paying entirely with your time spent on making bank.
Expansions cannot be bought with gems, there are in a specific section of the store that can only be paid with real money directly. If I'm not mistaken they are 25,- each, with occasional sales.
I have to agree with everything, I took a long brake from the game and returning to a end game account with end game gear even if I dont have the last expansion I was still able to play like I never left.
Hi there. I am in seven month late, but glad I ran into your video. First off I am a main FF14 player, and play other Mmo`s as well. I am very happy I do, which gives me some knowledge . I play Retail WoW on the side just questing as I do not want to be part of the raiding community in that Mmo - I raid in 14. I have played ESO on Playstation since it came out on PS4 and have over 10k hours on it - combined PS4 and PS5. I just got into GW2 and compared to other Mmo`s GW2 wins. As you said yourself "subscription" and no downtime on servers. It´s a big plus. The combat side of things is more a personal thing and agree on, what you are saying. I want to add something you did not mention, and that is skill gap. There is almost non in GW2 and people I have interacted with say max 7% from new player to max level. That´s where GW2 and FF14 shines, they have two way´s doing that. ESO on the other hand is total opposite to WoW, 14 and Gw2. ESO have a huge skill cap between a new player and a higher lvl player, witch can be seen in content like dungeons, where new player´s are mixed with higher lvl player´s, who downright ignoring new player´s (take a look at the forums). It goes really wrong, when a new player are after a skill point by doing a dungeon quest (skill points are very important in ESO). Mostly high lvl player´s just ignores a new player. There are a lot of posts on the forums, where new player´s are not able to get access to the dungeon quest, and get their skill point. Kill stealing is also a thing in ESO very much, which I do not see in WoW, FF14 or GW2. This brings me to another thing, witch is the community it self. Questing in WoW have for me been very positive, and been meeting some very nice and helpful people. I will not touch much on FF14, as a lot of Mmo player´s already know how good and helpful that community is. The community in GW2 is very much like the FF14 community from, what I have gathered so fare. I haven´t seen any kill stealing, bad behavior, grief, like I have seen in ESO. People seems to get along very well in GW2, and that is very big plus in my book. I got my first mount in GW2 at lvl 10 as a trial, and just went ahead and bought the, whole package, as I want to continue to play GW2, and reached lvl 20. There is not a lot of mounts to earn in ESO besides Godslayer and some other trials. The rest is up to you, to buy from the cash shop. In Wow I got my first mount very fast, but don´t remember, when. In FF14 they throw mounts at you, and as I do extreme trials I have more I could wish fore. If you as a new player want to get into Mmo´s. GW2 is the way to go, and I say this as a main FF14 player. You can not go wrong. Thank You for a very good video and enjoy. Lokkee
Hey dude, just found you, do you have an account tour / character showcase vid ? If not please consider it would love to see it. Gw2 is amazing haven’t played in a while but it remains the best overall online rpg xp available.
Lol so I love the gear grind, I like tab targeting, I liked distinct classes that your are locked into when you select. So my question is what’s in GW2 for a player like me?
I mean it just sounds like you like other type of games? You're kinda asking "I like Call of Duty, what does Age of Empires have for me?" If you like gear grind and tab target then there's WoW and FF14, GW2 doesn't have that, not every game is for everyone
One thing that GW2 does that outplays the competition is a much, much, MUCH more friendly community. Most players in GW2 have shown an eagerness to teach newer players how to play and/or answer questions that are asked. In other MMOs that I've played (Not naming names here) whenever I ask for help with part of the game I usually get the replys "Get gud!" or "Get higher item levels you noob!" and other such comments that feel degrading and lower my enjoyment with the game and I end up leaving. Players GW2 does NOT do that.
GW2 definitely does that. 😅 Maybe not as often, and there is noticably more patience from the few people that do like to help. But I absolutely see regular passive-aggressive comments in world chat about noobs not studying the wiki, or for messing up their precious map events or something. I'm not saying that because "oh no, community horrible." It's just people being normal people. People from FF14 like to say the same thing (it's the MMO I started in, and have played the most), and it is equally untrue.
5 years and back and still can run my old build with ease, and the gem store, bruh the only thing I got was a magic carpet and after that nothing. GW2 is still the only MMO i see outside other MMO who respects my time and I can go away and come back still ready to RUMBLE with my friends!
Before I even knew what GW2 was I used to play MMOs like LOTRO, Aion, and Tera and I never stuck around for very long. Since my husband introduced me to GW2 I've played for almost 9 years now and play almost every day. Last year I was curious and started playing FF14 and man did it make me appreciate GW2 so much... We're truly spoiled with GW2 guys. imo it truly is the best MMO out there.
@@chadmeckstroth4394 I mean to each their own. I just think GW2 does a better job with mounts, with the map system and Waypoints/teleporting system, questing, and the jumping mechanic is sooo much better than FF14. (the jumping in FF14 makes me so freakin mad because of the lack of control I have while jumping) so jumping puzzles are also better in GW2 imo for this reason. Achievements/collections are really fun in GW2 also, I never could get into them in FF14. Also, I HATE that I can't do my MSQs with friends... like it's all solo and they can't come with me to help me fight stuff, and my friends can't watch the story scenes WITH me. I actually had a huge problem playing with a couple of friends of mine because I kept skipping through dialog because I hate reading (that's another thing I love about GW2 is there's voice acting throughout the whole story which FF14 doesn't have) and it caused a rift because they were getting upset with me for getting further into the story than them and they also would yell at me for accidentally giving away spoilers because I never knew how far along in the dialog they were... The whole experience was a mess. In GW2, you can go into story instances WITH your friends and experience the cut scenes and dialog at the same time so there's no worries about accidentally giving away spoilers, plus your friends can help you fight stuff too which I love. Also, I've had bad experiences with social interactions in FF14 whereas I haven't had such issues with GW2 community. (Maybe it's because the community in FF14 is bigger therefore more creepers and crazies) Kinda makes me glad that GW2 isn't as popular as FF14. lol So there's my 2 cents on that. :p But again, to each their own.
Meta events actually make me feel like i'm playing a constant *massively* multiplayer game and not just on patch days trying to select an npc in a sea of players like in other games
Yes, 100%! This is what hooked me and why I love the game.
It really justifies it's definition of MassIve Multiplayer Online
Doing drizzlewood for the first time for me was awesome. It really felt like a war effort
100% maps actually feel alive and WvW is the love letter to the term "MMO".
Also I love the fact there is no gear rat race every quarter and legendary items actually are legendary not just pure cosmetic.
And in addition to that, the rewards from these events are still relevant, therefore, maps from previous expansions are not death. As much as I love FFXIV for example, it feels depressing when you explore a new map and you are basically alone the whole time. Then you have the urge to take a break in Limsa Lominsa in order to feel like you are playing an MMO
gw2 doesn't get enough credit. Amazing game.
its probably why its a good game all the ass holes dont play it cause they think its dead
Its crazy how after 10 years of playing this game I forgot about it really never being down and I never have to spend tuesday afternoons waiting for it to come back lol
Yeah the server architecture of GW2 is black magic. 😊
Zos should ask them for tip on how to run server, eso pvp would benefit a lot from it lol, instead let zenimax dev make lame excuses
Ditto. Legit forgot other know had downtime
It is amazing on how not once have they ever shut servers down for maintenance, everything is done through patches. Its cool how they notify you of it on screen while you are playing.
@@skykitchen867 this showed respect for a playerbase, its surely a bit more trouble, but i cant recalled how many time i had a free day just to get stuck on a " server down for maintenance" screen.
Another thing I love about GW2 is that you can buy Gems with in game gold....so if you really want something from the store you dont have to spend money if your willing to grind a bit. Another great thing is how the game incentivizes replaying old areas, every single zone feels alive.
You can do that with warcraft as well.
@@archaontheeverchosen7980 But considering it has paid gametime its better in saving money regard to buy game token to save on subscription fee, instead of buying ingame cosmetics
The down state mechanic. The fact that you can not only fight to survive but that people can come along and help you survive or rez you no matter their profession.
I love that a lot, sure GW2 got rid of the "healer" but who needs that when I can be a frontline medic, trying to pull folks up during an event while handling live fire.
rub rub rub "Come on rally you Charr bastard, get up and rejoin the fight!"
I've played GW2 since the first beta. I naturally ended up burning out and taking off for months at a time (I didnt even start End of Dragons until 3 weeks ago. I went an entire YEAR without logging in).
However, any time my friends play MMOs and say,. "It would be so much better if the game did X like this. No game does that." I always get to say, "Guild Wars 2 does."
I have always said that GW2 does (almost) everything right. It is the ideal MMORPG.
I have loved this game since day 1 and will continue to play it and sing its praises for the rest of time.
AND it offers real rewards for doing in game achievements and content to not have to spend real money. Sure it's time consuming, but you get to choose how you want to grind because there are so many ways to achieve things.
i feel like a big upgrade is the community itself. I've never seen such a friendly and welcoming community, since the day i started playing i found help on every corner. Truly on of a kind community and cannot be more grateful how they made me love the game.
Ikr! The community of this game is truly superb for some reason. Community in ESO was also fine but this one is on another level
Until you do endgame content lol
not sure I agree with that... There are some bad apples, but mostly people are chill in raids at least@@Filthycasual17
there are always black sheep, there are plenty neat end game palyers.@@Filthycasual17
Until you do competitive PVP and WVW (don't do that, don't go to the dark side)
I played GW2 at release but didnt stick with it due to sunk cost feelings with WoW. I've recently come back and the game feels so alive! I'm playing through all of the stories I've missed and every map has people on it. It's wonderful!
same👍
Sadly, I didn't know that character age is a thing in this game so I deleted my 10-years-old character just to change the name (there's an item to do that too).
World Bosses, and the dynamic scaling of events, while not unique to GW2 is something I think is handled better in GW2 than any other MMO I've played. Example of super epic world boss- fighting the water dragon at the Harvest Temple in EoD. it's basically a 50 man raid.
Except 40 out of those 50 contribute almost nothing to damage, healing or cc😂
We've been living good boys.
I personally believe GW2 is the best representation of what a MMORPG should be.
GW2 does grand scaled spectacles which brings together everyone on the entire map to focus on one goal is something I've never experienced in any other game.
the no server maintenance/going down thing i only recently fully appreciated - after another online game i play requires 5 hrs patch time when it updates every 1.5 months, and my friend said the game she plays requires 8 hrs patch update time. until i had to deal with that in other games myself, i literally never thought about how ridiculous and amazing it is that gw2 servers never goes down for patches. its really hard to believe that this is a feature thats there since like 10 years ago, and meanwhile still many games nowadays dont have this feature. sometimes its so easy to not notice or forget such huge things if you've played for so long that you take it for granted!
In the 10+ years of GW2's history, there was I think 1 time where our servers went down, albeit briefly.
It was for a very short while, I think barely a day. Then after it was done their IT guy posted a blog explanation of the cascading problems that lead to this.
1 event in all those years. Kind of staggering to think of that.
Just convinced me to give this game a try. Been looking for something mildly relaxing and enjoyable that strays away from fps games. Great video sir
Enjoy it! But also have patience. Try to have a pace. The game has more than a decade of content available, and you might get lost. The good news is: the community is absolutely lovely (always have exceptions). You can ask questions on open chats and you can be damn sure a good soul will either answer or even help you out directly giving their time for that. It is just the GW2 way of playing. I also recommend (if you're going to buy the expansions) to be even more patient. Maybe reach level 80 on the "vanilla game way" - no mounts, no level 80 boost -, just play and progress until you reach endgame, and then get your mounts and experience the game for real. For any endgame content that will be pretty good. You will have learned the game for real, and mainly, your class, your character and even the game story which is absolutely amazing. It is totally worth it!!
The horizontal progression is the biggest one in my opinion, I have been playing FF14 recently and I can see sooo much good content that went obsolete due to their verticality.
They also outplayed the competition in building a world that encourages cooperation and a close knit, friendly community that tries to help each other. A total noob with no skills can find someone to help mentor them, or a guild that won't kick them out for being underpowered. There is no spawn camping of players, to ruin your day. And they made it so that if you cannot spare long hours at the computer, you can still participate in metas and major events and still get rewards, you just can do it in smaller bites with less time spent glued to the screen.
The customization of combat is something that I think is hugely underappreciated. In most MMOs, your class is limited to a singular weapon type (staves for mages, sword/shield for warrior, bows for ranger, etc etc). But each class has a plethora of weapons they can use to define their playstyle. You can put swords on a mage class like the mesmer, and conversely put a staff in the hands of a heavy armored class like the revenant. The way that each class has multiple different ways that they can be played gives a large number of ways that you can customize your combat.
Good point. Connected with this - the number of playstyles that are actually relevant is pretty staggering. Especially when you consider all the builds across pvp, wvw, and the various types of pve, there's dozens of "optimal" builds, and hundreds of viable ones. I think a lot of people miss out by not trying things.
"No endless gear grind"
I dont know man, grinding for a legendary sure feels like an endless journey
But it's purely optional and not a requirement for any game mode.
The point is that once you finished the gear you grinded for, it will NOT get obselete in 6 months, or ever. Gw2 value your time and will not let your efforts be wasted.
Crazy how the algorithm shows me a 6 hour-old video from a smaller creator. Glad to be here and hope you're doing good
Horizontal progression is what makes the GW2 stand out. Everything you do progresses your character.
the fact that there are constant events going on throughout the world which low and high levels partake in which makes all areas in the GW2 world much more alive.
GW2 is the game that has a story I cannot get enough of. I deeply enjoy every release because not only is it seeing new things it is always revisiting familiar things - be they faces or places really. It is also the most accessible game for me. I play with a low intensity build because I have significant problems with my hands and I can still engage in content like everyone else. The community is also fabulously enfolding. The moment you say you need help there's generally someone willing to either point you in the right direction or come along to show you the way. The resources available through the wiki and GW2 efficiency are top tier too. I can't get the total package that is GW2 to me anywhere else.
Really? Gw2's story is probably one of, if not, the weakest element, especially the latest expansion EoD. Its world building is great, but the actual narrative story itself? Pretty terrible. Written by blue-haired activists and soyboys who couldn't make it to CW's writing positions, and that's saying something.
It's like witnessing a budget version of a CW drama..
Although I don't think that the story writing is one of GW2's strongest points, I don't dislike it either, and generally look forward to seeing what the next story chapter is going to be like. But for some, like vidya2144, and others, the story is bad, or too "inclusive" for their liking. That's more their problem, than a problem for most of the players. It's good to hear that you are able to enjoy the game, even though you have some physical limitations that make gaming challenging. I feel that GW2 tries to please a wide variety of players, which they sometimes get criticized for, because some players wish they would narrow the game to please a certain segment instead, saying that trying to please a wide audience only makes the game less than ideal for any segment of players.
you deserve more subs, I have been sharng your videos, hope you grow a lot :)
I tried almost every MMO and nowhere i stuck like in GW2. In the first half an hour i was hooked. Amazing game. 350+ hours in now and it still feels new with so much thing to do and explore but it doesn't feel overwhelming.
Almost 4k hours and started in august 2021 Still going strong.
@@corpsestarch8869 Whoa! That's like 3 hours a day, every day, or more. Take a breath and see what the Sun is like outside your door once in a while. Talk to neighbors, visit family, take the dog for a walk. (Just messing with you, glad you're enjoying the game. I've got over 8k hours, but that's in 11 years).
@@corpsestarch8869 Sick!!! Truly and amazing game
The best Thing is Instant mounting.
Why does mounting in every other MMO have a cast time from 1-2 Seconds?
I just discovered you recently and i love your content. keep it up! GW2 is my favorite mmo, i ve already put almost 4000 hours in 1,5 years, gosh i love it so much!
Tell me you're unemployed without telling me you're unemployed.
Nah, just single😏. But yeah unemployment could easily be a reason for so many hours.
Jumping puzzles. They were the only thing that entertained me in the beginning and allowed me to realise how great of a game Guild Wars 2 is. Then I went on to finish all the Tyrian jumping puzzles and had so much fun doing so. Probably my favourite thing about the whole game.
one thing i would add to anyone coming back to guild wars if they haven't played in a while, you can get free birthday gifts
last month i logged into my account after not having played since launch... all 4 of my characters had NINE YEARS worth of birthday presents each!!! that was cool
I friggin love gw2, but I also play other MMOs. I think it's fascinating how GW2 manages to keep their game up 24/7. I also think it's painfully cringe whenever I hear people cry like little babies about a game being down for scheduled maintenance. Read a book, it's not a real problem.
Just saying "there is no holy trinity" is simply wrong. To clarify: In endgame fractals (5 man instanced) you always bring a healer and a supporter (player that sacrifices some personal dps to buff the team). In strikes and raids (10 man instanced) you'll usually have 2 healers and 2 supports and one of the healers also tanks - there is a designated tank in almost every 10 man fight.
In open world however you don't need any setup, the metas are designed easy enough to almost always ensure success if you have a big blob of people (and you can choose to play support or heal too to make it even smoother).
One thing that could be also mentionned: GW2 rewards participation. If you join an event or meta and it eventually fails, you still get some loot and some xp.
Even raids and stike missions award some of the relevant currency if you lose, based on the progression you managed to acheive. The time spent training to beat an encouter isn't lost.
All of this, and the best open world design with dynamic events funneling the entire map of players into spectacular world boss fights.
And the legendary equipment that looks like what a real legendary should look like. Not just a fancy model, but unique effects, animations, trails, sounds and other means to transform your look when you finally get them, on top of a great quality of life boost.
And the class system that gives space to a lot of build craft and character customization. Everyone could tinker with specializations, weapon skills, utility skills, gear stats, runes etc. to create a build that fits any role in the game or any roleplay on all of the 9 classes.
And despite that, balance is also pretty good.
And...
In my opinion gw2 has the best combat and movement systems in MMOs and since that's what you spend 85% of your time doing to me that means it's the best. Also because of map wide group events it's the only actual MMO left.
The only MMO that I think does combat better, or at least as good, is Black Desert, its street-fighter like combo system is a really clever way of having lots of abilities with a limited number of keys.
I think IF I added together all of those sub fee's I've paid to be able to log in for 1 hour on days when I didn't have time to play just to log in, I'd have enough to buy several other games. Sub fees are the "gotcha" of the games. You committed, so you have to play or you wasted your money. Rinse and repeat the same type stuff day after day trying to grind the same thing has taken the place of offerring a new activity in a game to keep you occupied and it's become so "normalized" that people think nothing now of paying for a game and running the same dailies EVERY single login and think that they're getting their money's worth.
The thing that made me come back to gw2 and stay is world exploration. Open world can actually be challenging, and the maps are insanely cool to navigate. With mounts, masteries, and a lot of vertical stuff with maps that are as deep/high as they are wide. So much secret locations, that you can play the game for years and still surprise yourself with a new place on a map you player thousand times
Also the fact that there's a whole other world underwater. While most hate underwater combat, just the underwater exploration alone and finding deep caverns and sunken ships and all kinds of stuff beneath the surface of the waters is purely amazing. It's a whole part of the world that many don't really get into, and other games simply do not even explore underwater.
my hot take is that heart of thorns is just hands down the best mmo expansion of all time. I can't get over how good that content is
Totally agree. The maps were huge, multi leveled, and complicated. Monsters were scary and were super punishing. There was a huge focus on helping others and requiring help from others. Even now one of my favorite things to do in GW2 is HoT HP trains.
I have such a love-hate relationship with HoT maps. They are so thematically coherent while being extremely distinct. So many fun metas there too. However, navigating some of them are hell (looking at you Tangled Depth) even with flying mount. 😅
your "HoT take"? :D
Every attempt to play other MMOs ended in me crawling back to GW2. You just get so used to how smooth it is, every other game feels like hitting a brick wall from time to time. I even forgot what server maintenance even means ffs! Seeing other MMOs stumbling over obstacles GW2 solved decade ago is such a surreal experience!
fun fact about gw2 mounts, they have different effects for mounting or dismounting along with different sound effects based on different skins
There's only server downtime when a new expansion is released...once a year or two or three.
Just the mounts alone are on a whole different level, sometimes i would just join the game to practice fly around with the griffon, one thing i like about some mounts is that while they're not that hard to learn to use, as long as you put in the work to try and master using them, you basically discover a whole new world, that's why Roller beetle racing (and other mount racing) is a thing.
I’ve played GW2 since release but only on and off. Once you stop treating it like wow or other mmos, you really realize how much ahead this game is. Now that I’ve learned way more about it, it is definitely and too S tier mmo. 😊
You mentioned break bar damage (with the Springer) but didn't really go into the fact that there's no hard trinity in GW2. You are never waiting for a healer or a tank when you want to group up for a dungeon or other small group type activities like fractals, strike missions, or raids (as opposed to large group activities like the open-world map world bosses or WvW game mode). The "soft" trinity is damage, support, and control. Support is more than just healing and includes specializations that focus on providing boons [buffs] to the group like damage boosts, incoming damage reduction, cooldown reduction, and increased movement speed in addition to augmenting the heal skill slot that all characters have with plain healing. Control focused builds bring skills that either CCs the enemies or - for larger enemies - damages the break bar until even they get stunned. There's very few enemies (if any left) that are just straight up immune to crowd control effects unlike other MMOs.
Hey great Video !
I would have added the open world (through map immersion and level design and the events system) and of course the greatness of large scale battle, either via WvW or World bosses. No other MMO does it better than GW2. Also, the wardrobe system is really neat and far ahead other MMOs in therms of system and customisation
I've played a few MMOs, and stayed away from some with bad community vibes.
GW2 to me is stories you can progress, at any rate you want.
In between you can join in massive open-world missions they call Metas.
Plus gathering and crafting diversions you may find the time to get into (or ignore).
They made a believer of me!
Custom pick and play what you want.
I love how every year your character gets a birthday present on the day you created it. The community is amazing and the game is just great. I think everyone should atleast try it. There is a F2P version and you can go all the way to max lvl.
Additional points that I can think of:
1. No defined trinity of tank-dmg-healer.
usually if you wanna be a healer, u will go Priest-related class and be useless all game in exploring the world n complete missions alone cuz ur dmg suck.. But not in GW2.. everyone can be anything.
2. no long grindy story quests and side quests + no conventional quest givers
this helps when u wanna have multiple char and it wont feel burnt out repeat dozens and dozens of quests
3. Transmute
make u look cool in other equipments while wearing diff equipments
4. Weapon + Skills
diff classes can wield same weapons but have diff skills. which is pretty cool. the utility skills are only 4~5 skill that you can select so ur skillbars are not cluttered with tons n tons of skills quickslot
5. changeable Elites
usually games when upgrade ur class, you are stuck with it. but in GW2, we can easily change Elite anytime we want depend on our mood. some day you wanna be Deadeye just pew pew from afar, some day you wanna be Daredevil getting up close and vent all your angers onto the enemies.
The combat system of GW2 is also something awesome to talk about. Some games (lookin at you, WoW) have/used to have combat that you had to stand there and cast/swing/shoot your weapons. GW2 you can freely move around while attacking the enemy.
There are two different PvP kind of areas in the game too. PvP and WvW. PvP is just that. Player versus player. WvW is World Vs. World. In PvP, you can join in at lvl 2 and still do well against lvl 80's decked out in legendary stuff. Honestly this game is so much fun and I'm happy I have been playing this game for a decade now.
One more thing: The community is 100% great. Sure, there are a few trolls out there but at least it isn't childish spam and tons of "your mom" jokes. Also, new players are always encouraged to ask questions even if it seems like a stupid question!
Gw2 took the amazing features of Warhammer Online and polished them. WvW (not as good but more polished), public events, achievement system ect. I'm loving coming back to GW2 and I want more out of it. Its biggest issue has always been marketing
Guild Wars 2 is blessed with the JOY of movement. From in-combat maneuvers and mounts to jumping puzzles and exploring.
Horizontal progression and the no sub are purely why I jumped back in. The community is pretty friendly as a plus.
I love that you can use most skills without being locked in place. Tried WoW on 3 different chars, and maybe it was just my class but every skill i used gets cancelled if i walk so it doesnt feel smooth
It doesn't promise you everything but it gives you everything you wanted in an mmo.
Which is a win
Casual mmorpg enjoyers dont quite realize what a feet of software engineering GW2 actually is, yes its an older title, but the fact that they pump out updates on updates without any massive, or any bugs at all to the previous patches, especially if you consider the smart instance system they have designed, it truly makes the game feel amazing with regards to stability and the fact that you dont need to wait hours or days for maintenance
Dungeon / Raid mechanics : WOW
Story : FFXIV (By far)
Combat gameplay : BDO (By far)
No downtime & mounts: GW2
"beware the sleeping beauty that is Guildwars 2. for when she wakes, all will come to serve her"
2:20 actually, how the servers actually work is that.. it's magic. Lich magic, specifically. Praise Joko
About the combat, you can certainly take damage even with good dodge timing, the recharge on dodge isn't instant.
Otherwise yeah, ever since I got into GW2 back in 2018, I haven't been pulled in by other mmos even though I gave them a shot. It's just more comfy feeling in all ways for me.
Just started playing this game and it has hooked me more than any other mmo I have played apart from osrs. Truly a masterpiece
World vs World its a game alone , like a game in a game :)
One thing that I truly appreciate about it is being the lack of killstealing. In other games you can literally sabotage players with that egikw GW2 encourages you to play together instead again.
underated comment.
You are ALWAYS happy to see more players showing up and joining.
There is no ressource snipping either. You mine a nod: it gets depleted.. for you, and you only, other players can still gather from it.
that candle holding in his hand ...
gw2 is the dark horse!!! and our time is now
What's a horse?
@@hanneskarlbom6644 it's something like a centaur i think.
my personal favorite thing is the music, how it feels fitting for place, it changes for combat and sometimes I'm sad to mount up and go away from a fight because that stops combat music. My brother showed me the game, showed me Fear not this Night and I fell in love with it even before I knew english. Guild wars 2 will be my first and last MMO ever. I keep hearing that other games have subsciptions for thing gw2 guarantees, other games have worse mounts, and I can't get to new content if I don't grind for the newest gear, and gw2 spoiled me in this sense. I couldn't live without these, without the familiar songs that I'll listen to outside the game, the fashion sense of this game, and how I grew up with it. It might not be for everyone I'll admit, and I'd like to hear a similar experience with an another MMO
I wouldn’t say GW2 outplayed its competition but it knows what the majority wants and why they are still playing. The MMO genre being usually targeted at people who don’t mind having to grind endlessly and sometimes having to pay monthly subscription, GW2 breaks all of that by offering a horizontal progression and no subscription. In a way GW2 allows more casual players to be able to enjoy MMO despite having a life outside the game and this is something only long time players will realize unfortunately.
Yeah and doesn't have overpowered armors/weapons and it isn't pay to win game, but rather skill based game to be able to play it well at highest level.
I feel like a lot of MMOs live on their glory days of old, rather than pushing forward and being the best it can be - like GW2 seems to be doing.
Meta Events & World Bosses. But my fav thing about GW2 is the customization. You can look exactly how you want to look.
GW2 also has made it very difficult to NOT find a class fantasy that you like
There are alot of unique tasks in the game that u literally cant find anywhere. For example there's an event in Diessa Plateau where you dress up as a cow and teach cows how to do stuffs or there's a renown heart in Brisban Wildlands that literally makes you do math questions (you can finally make use of the maths u learned in high school lol). Or the heart where u catch some crabs for the local, or the heart that u train with the militia in Queensdale. These hearts really help building the world of Tyria, making it more lively
Is there even ANY MMO that has tasks as creative as GW2? I dont think so bro
I havent been this early since Caithe stole the egg lol that said GW2 has become my favorite mmo. the community alone is enough to play, but then thers the actual gameplay, its refreshing simple and innovative compared to most other mmos
Summed up many of my thoughts exactly!
for my account, i don't have any expansions but since i paid for the base game at launch my version is above f2p status with less restrictions
so there is vip status, it's like swtor but better in that sense... although with swtor if you subscribe you gain access to all expansions for free whereas guild wars you only get to play with the expansion content you've paid for
Guild wars 2 is a zero commitment absolutely addictive, minimal negative points and Virtually never any maintenance ever in almost 11 years I've only ever seen the servers go down maybe 4 times due to stupid shit like hard drives maxing out
Thank you for telling me what to think I'm going to give it a try and then get angry at myself because I don't enjoy it as much as you.
Whenever I play any other mmo I always get to a point where I ask myself “why am I not playing gw2 right now?” That’s how you know gw2 is the king of mmos. The fact that the base game is free so I can hook new friends Into the game is great too!
I took an 8 year break. 8 and 1 month did all the story I wanted to and had 3 new characters to 80 geared and starting end game content.
This is it, man, I told ya just make a longer video and you got some gold, Just a matter of time before these hop on the recommended tab.... Keep up the great work on these videos, each one gets better and better
GW2 veteran since launch here!
Mounts actually have weight. They have cute idle animations. They have quests where you even raise some of them/etc. They feel ALIVE and like companions, and it's magnificent.
- I also want to praise the revive system. ANYONE can do it. There's even achievement rewards and stuff for doing so. You press one button and it gets someone up. Play long enough and reviving someone is as much second nature as breathing.
- You can help anyone at anytime with combat. One thing I don't like about ffxiv is the lack of the similar revive system and being unable to help other players fight unless you're in a party or it's like a FATE or something. I also deeply prefer GW2's teleportation system & fees.
- Fashion Wars: Things you unlock, you unlock. It's ACCOUNT WIDE. This game is VERY alt friendly contrary to ffxiv, and is superior in it's "glam/glamour" system with 'Wardrobe' and outfits. At the very least in the management of it. The fact that the clothes I'm WEARING aren't still in my inventory is A+
- Underwater combat: Super cool. Under-utilized, but still just as cool and fun as land-combat imo. I find the Mesmer's and Guardian's animations especially beautiful. Plus the movement, it's as fluid as the water.
- Downed abilities: You go down, you have a good chance, a chance at all for that matter, to get back up. I love the entire getting downed system.
- NO SILENT PROTAGONIST: Oh. My. GOSH! do I adore this. I love love love that my fully customizable character has a voice for once. It's been even more fun since it became open-world since Heart of Thorns. Not only are you fully voiced, but each race & gender has their own unique voice. My personal favorites are the female Asura and male Sylvari (I main a Sylvari mesmer). It makes my character feel ALIVE. I like having some personality. I don't need to imagine every little aspect. There are even some people who can't create/hear voices when they think anyways. I wanna feel a part of the word not like cardboard. Unless I'm a character who can't speak, I always prefer a voice xD
Been playing this game since it's launched, adore it. Also love the video! It's very engaging!
Ellequently put, totally agree with all the points of the game you have covered and i've always had an emotional connection to GW2 after falling in love with it, to me GW2 will always be the best out of all the others 😊
I play gw2 and I think it's one of the best or the best mmo at the moment.
But I think you have to be 100% transparent about these things if you really want to get people to play something.
Certainly gw2 will not have a subscription, but if you didn't play in the seasons that the "living worlds" were given away, these are some great DLC that you have to pay to play them. Certainly you can pay them with in-game gold or directly with your local steam currency (to give an example). Currently this is changed, for small expansions (the one on August 22 for example, which is just a payment).
On everything else, I agree with you.
That is because that's different. Living world and expansions are treated differently, what you can buy with in gme gold is living world but not expansions no matter how small they are.
@@xvoidgamer Exactly, and that's why I must say that the game does have microtransactions if you didn't play at the time where they gave away the "living world".
You can buy the missing living world with in-game gold or real money, it's each person's choice, but the expansions do have to be bought with real money
only downside is everytime i login after PoF being last played i am just clueless what to do... just lost i guess. which is unfortunate.
Wow classic player here... or, well I just had a 8 months break. I always feel stuck in wow, you always need to farm, earn money, dungeon runs for gear, and I just get so tired of it. I really just want to enjoy myself, without feeling behind 😅 So I heard about Aion, and am AS WE "SPEAK" downloading the game. But now I wanna try GW2 🤣 So its really that good?
Thanks for uploading! New subscriber here for sure =)
One thing i do love aside from all that you said and also whats in the comments, you don't need a high end laptop/desktop ( unless you want to...and this is coming from a laptop), to play GW2. This has always been a must-install in my new laptop before any other game.
I love the customization in GW2. Being able to combine different armor pieces and apply dozens of dyes to have an exclusive look is awesome. There are many beatiful armor pieces from low level and we are free to combine them by using a simple cosmetic item that is farmable by doing content. I've tried Lost Ark and other MMOs and they suck in this aspect.
Just started GW2 and its a lot of fun. Good mix between WoW (general feel), ESO (combat style and build versarility) and the old Everquest (what quests? Just go, explore and make your own adventure). On question, if your lvl 80 gear remains relevant, what is there to look for once you have a decent set? Do you need specialized gear for the different content? Cheers!
For fractals you need to have for example special infusion you do not need for other content. If you have great gear (ascendend gear for example, there is no need to get legendaries or other ascended gear) I built myself a legendary soly because it looked badass. I will do the same for the new legendary armor that will come out. It's more an experience thing in this game than a vertical progression marathon. Once you have great gear you can just relax and enjoy every content the game has to offer (except maybe fractals and raids)
Im sorry, but there is little to no EverQuest in GW2. Im not sure how you're not aware of this, but the hearts on the map are quests and yes, there's a map and minimap. GW2 is just as much a pinball machine with the map markers as any other modern MMORPG. There is no making your own adventure in GW2 like EQ. In EQ you had adventures with other people by exploring the world and it's systems. Remember when you had to talk to other people in-game to increase your language skill in order to read books in other languages? Where's the exploration like that in GW2? In GW2 it's, again, just as solo as the rest of the modern MMORPGs.
isn't it ironic that the only game that has no server down times is also the only game that doesn't cost a monthly fee to play on?
I think my favourite bits are the lack of gear creep (like WoW) where you constantly behind if you dont chase better gear all the time, and of course the mounts and lack of monthly subs that some games do nothing with *cough* WoW and ESO, to improve the game.
Good vid, earned a sub
I remember when ESO was down for nearly a week! :D
You join map and events are all ower place and you are not alone,love thes game
The lack of FOMO. It's not zero, but its the closest to zero of any other MMO I've played
started with gw ended with Gwen started with gw2 with hall of monuments full. life happened and now use a Mac after 5 years am playing again through steam and am enjoying it again. world boss trains are fun and everyone has grown and most bosses are faster then I remember.
My favorite thing about GW2 is you can buy Gems(paid currency) with in-game gold. Technically you can download the game and f2p grind gold and purchase all the expansions and LW seasons completely for free by paying entirely with your time spent on making bank.
Expansions cannot be bought with gems, there are in a specific section of the store that can only be paid with real money directly. If I'm not mistaken they are 25,- each, with occasional sales.
I bought the game years ago, and until today I haven't done even 50% of what's in it haha
The pure FREEDOM in nearly every aspect makes it THE GAME an THE MMO for me
I have to agree with everything, I took a long brake from the game and returning to a end game account with end game gear even if I dont have the last expansion I was still able to play like I never left.
Hi there.
I am in seven month late, but glad I ran into your video.
First off I am a main FF14 player, and play other Mmo`s as well. I am very happy I do, which gives me some knowledge . I play Retail WoW on the side just questing as I do not want to be part of the raiding community in that Mmo - I raid in 14. I have played ESO on Playstation since it came out on PS4 and have over 10k hours on it - combined PS4 and PS5.
I just got into GW2 and compared to other Mmo`s GW2 wins. As you said yourself "subscription" and no downtime on servers. It´s a big plus.
The combat side of things is more a personal thing and agree on, what you are saying. I want to add something you did not mention, and that is skill gap. There is almost non in GW2 and people I have interacted with say max 7% from new player to max level. That´s where GW2 and FF14 shines, they have two way´s doing that. ESO on the other hand is total opposite to WoW, 14 and Gw2.
ESO have a huge skill cap between a new player and a higher lvl player, witch can be seen in content like dungeons, where new player´s are mixed with higher lvl player´s, who downright ignoring new player´s (take a look at the forums). It goes really wrong, when a new player are after a skill point by doing a dungeon quest (skill points are very important in ESO). Mostly high lvl player´s just ignores a new player. There are a lot of posts on the forums, where new player´s are not able to get access to the dungeon quest, and get their skill point. Kill stealing is also a thing in ESO very much, which I do not see in WoW, FF14 or GW2.
This brings me to another thing, witch is the community it self. Questing in WoW have for me been very positive, and been meeting some very nice and helpful people. I will not touch much on FF14, as a lot of Mmo player´s already know how good and helpful that community is.
The community in GW2 is very much like the FF14 community from, what I have gathered so fare. I haven´t seen any kill stealing, bad behavior, grief, like I have seen in ESO. People seems to get along very well in GW2, and that is very big plus in my book.
I got my first mount in GW2 at lvl 10 as a trial, and just went ahead and bought the, whole package, as I want to continue to play GW2, and reached lvl 20.
There is not a lot of mounts to earn in ESO besides Godslayer and some other trials. The rest is up to you, to buy from the cash shop. In Wow I got my first mount very fast, but don´t remember, when. In FF14 they throw mounts at you, and as I do extreme trials I have more I could wish fore.
If you as a new player want to get into Mmo´s. GW2 is the way to go, and I say this as a main FF14 player. You can not go wrong.
Thank You for a very good video and enjoy.
Lokkee
Gw2 is healthy gaming design, for costumers to have fun, not to abuse the costumer.
Hey dude, just found you, do you have an account tour / character showcase vid ? If not please consider it would love to see it.
Gw2 is amazing haven’t played in a while but it remains the best overall online rpg xp available.
Lol so I love the gear grind, I like tab targeting, I liked distinct classes that your are locked into when you select. So my question is what’s in GW2 for a player like me?
I mean it just sounds like you like other type of games? You're kinda asking "I like Call of Duty, what does Age of Empires have for me?"
If you like gear grind and tab target then there's WoW and FF14, GW2 doesn't have that, not every game is for everyone
One thing that GW2 does that outplays the competition is a much, much, MUCH more friendly community.
Most players in GW2 have shown an eagerness to teach newer players how to play and/or answer questions that are asked. In other MMOs that I've played (Not naming names here) whenever I ask for help with part of the game I usually get the replys "Get gud!" or "Get higher item levels you noob!" and other such comments that feel degrading and lower my enjoyment with the game and I end up leaving.
Players GW2 does NOT do that.
GW2 definitely does that. 😅 Maybe not as often, and there is noticably more patience from the few people that do like to help. But I absolutely see regular passive-aggressive comments in world chat about noobs not studying the wiki, or for messing up their precious map events or something.
I'm not saying that because "oh no, community horrible." It's just people being normal people. People from FF14 like to say the same thing (it's the MMO I started in, and have played the most), and it is equally untrue.
5 years and back and still can run my old build with ease, and the gem store, bruh the only thing I got was a magic carpet and after that nothing.
GW2 is still the only MMO i see outside other MMO who respects my time and I can go away and come back still ready to RUMBLE with my friends!
Before I even knew what GW2 was I used to play MMOs like LOTRO, Aion, and Tera and I never stuck around for very long. Since my husband introduced me to GW2 I've played for almost 9 years now and play almost every day. Last year I was curious and started playing FF14 and man did it make me appreciate GW2 so much... We're truly spoiled with GW2 guys. imo it truly is the best MMO out there.
@@chadmeckstroth4394 I mean to each their own. I just think GW2 does a better job with mounts, with the map system and Waypoints/teleporting system, questing, and the jumping mechanic is sooo much better than FF14. (the jumping in FF14 makes me so freakin mad because of the lack of control I have while jumping) so jumping puzzles are also better in GW2 imo for this reason. Achievements/collections are really fun in GW2 also, I never could get into them in FF14. Also, I HATE that I can't do my MSQs with friends... like it's all solo and they can't come with me to help me fight stuff, and my friends can't watch the story scenes WITH me. I actually had a huge problem playing with a couple of friends of mine because I kept skipping through dialog because I hate reading (that's another thing I love about GW2 is there's voice acting throughout the whole story which FF14 doesn't have) and it caused a rift because they were getting upset with me for getting further into the story than them and they also would yell at me for accidentally giving away spoilers because I never knew how far along in the dialog they were... The whole experience was a mess. In GW2, you can go into story instances WITH your friends and experience the cut scenes and dialog at the same time so there's no worries about accidentally giving away spoilers, plus your friends can help you fight stuff too which I love. Also, I've had bad experiences with social interactions in FF14 whereas I haven't had such issues with GW2 community. (Maybe it's because the community in FF14 is bigger therefore more creepers and crazies) Kinda makes me glad that GW2 isn't as popular as FF14. lol So there's my 2 cents on that. :p But again, to each their own.
@@chadmeckstroth4394 Nice! If you ever need help just lemme know ^ ^ I love helping new or returning players :)