i also pretty much only pvp and tbh leveling is totally fine this expansion. It took me like 5 to 6 hours to get maxlevel. Dragonriding was fun, zones were good. You should be able to afford 5 hours of leveling…
I’m aware of what GW2 is, yes - I play it myself
You can more or less do this in BGs on WoW too minus the scaling, you’re just made to hit level 10 (afaik?) first - a very painful 30 minutes of time, I know
Frankly, with how much “GW2 this, GW2 that” you’re employing, you might want to consider that GW2 is simply the MMO for you as opposed to WoW. It’s certainly something I’d be asking myself; if I wanted a GW2 clone, I’d possibly just… play that instead?
You may have preferences in regards to how things operate in an MMO and you may ultimately enjoy Guild Wars more in accordance to the way that you choose to play an MMO (and that is as valid as the next person), but you’re obviously someone that doesn’t care for the majority of the content that WoW offers as someone who is heavily (and seemingly exclusively) a PvP player who would rather just be able to PvP immediately. Like it or not, levelling is ultimately an integral part of the game’s overall experience - if Blizzard didn’t think that way, I’m sure they would introduce some means in which to circumvent it (a means that isn’t paid, i.e. the paid boost, obviously)
To be honest, more than anything else, you should try to find some more things you enjoy in the game rather than locking yourself into PvP jail for eternity - seems like you’d stand to get more out of that rather than bubbling up even more and living in BGs and arenas forever
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But you don’t need to.
I could stay on a level 1 character forever in GW2 and still partake in ranked PvP all day.
No you can’t.
“minus the scaling” is why: it just takes too long to queue as a result.
When it comes to game design and philosophy? Yes, GW2 is definitely the game for me.
However…I don’t enjoy GW2’s combat even half as much as I do WoW’s.
And if I don’t enjoy the combat, how my character is played, then it doesn’t matter if everything else is amazing.
This is also why Legion is the worst expansion for me. Great content, sure, but it didn’t matter for me because I hated playing my class during the expansion.
It not only takes too long to queue for BG, but BG give way too low experience. If you start at level 10 you’ll not be 70 in 3 months.
Its the best its been in atleast a decade
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They literally don’t until max level and gear up, if you had gear before, every level makes you lose power.
Which doesn’t say much because even a decade ago it was already terrible.
The world does not scale with you. Your character down scale to it. Also the mobs don’t upscale with you in the open world which is important because that is something I hate in WoW. The way gw2 does their scaling is really to my liking. Especially in PvP & WvW
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I absolutely hate scaling in WOW. So new players are unable to find a zone suitable for their level? The game should make the zone suitable for their level. No thanks.
And with quick leveling you are left with awful gear against mobs getting constantly stronger.
This entire comment is completely irrelevant to the thread.
I’m not here to say that GW2 is a better game than WoW.
I’m merely stating that it nails its approach to leveling and content accessibility.
Are we complaining about the MSQ as well now??? Man, this is a new level of complaining…
Ok then, you don’t like quests… I suppose you want the game to give you max level since Day 1 and then what? Raid log and/or spam BGs/Arenas all day? Get real…
Well said… I cannot stand those people…
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Yes! Yes, exactly. This is 100% how I want it to be played, and that’s how I play it 99,9% of the expansion - the 0,1% part being the leveling bit.
More power to you then. But don’t complain the game doesn’t cater to your demographic specifically. The game is listed as MMO-RPG, not MMO-PVP…
I mean, I would love Mythic Raiding to be removed as this content is useless to me, but I won’t quit the game over Mythic Raiding.
Completely different claims.
I’ve never played a single Mythic raid because I was never forced to do so, therefore, it doesn’t get in the way of me having fun in the game. I have no reason to want it gone, and neither do you.
Besides, I don’t want quests deleted from the game. I merely want to delete the whole concept of leveling.
Quests would still be there for those who enjoy the lore (how?), 100% completion or who want reputation rewards.
Neither does leveling. It’s so fast that the majority is actually complaining Blizz is not investing in leveling as much as they should be.
Also, Mythic Raiding and parsing culture does affect the community in a pretty negative way but that’s a discussion for another topic.
Good luck with that. RPG = leveling… That’s how it should be and that’s how it always has been.
Yeah some of us enjoy the story/narrative/lore. Yeah I know, your world just crumbled around you.
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I don’t get it. Every character is so one dimensional, it’s beyond cliché.
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Not everyone…
Also, some clichés and one dimensional characters can work wonders in a story. This obsession with multidimensional characters needs to die already.
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WoW has a vertical progress system where you get to do more leveling and go bigger and stronger every expansion and it makes old content less important. GW2 has horizontal gameplay where even the base game has some sort of importance every expansion, but it lacks of new stuff and sometimes makes you do old content over and over again . it’s a matter of personal choice . You clearly enjoy horizontal progress so you should play those games but that doesn’t make wow bad or boring, it’s fun for other people. imo vertical progress keeps game more alive since there’s always something more to do but i also love and enjoy gw2.
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Hello!
I am a gw1 and gw2 player (max out end game heros in gw1 and full legendary in gw2 with all raid CM and fractal CMs achievements done) and a wow player since BFA. I loved the idea of the Cantha expansion since gw1 faction was my favorite expansion however the land of the jade wind was a major letdown for me. I played the story, got the boat and turtle and indeed spent time on the dragons end map most of my time doing the meta. So for me Cantha was a HUGE let down! Dragonflight is by far the best expansion that wow made since I started playing: maps are amazing, dragonriding is the best feature ever added in game, the quests are out of the world good (even more he side quests), so many things to do in game (while leveling and after), dungeons are good, villain is awesome, talent tree is amazing and overall I had a blast. Comparing gw2 cantha with deagonflight is like comparing home made apple pie with the crappy thing you get from McDonalds (it’s fine for some people, but most want that home made taste).
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