Just remembered i had an account a few minutes ago, first time since 2015
Yeah I quit around level 40 something. A great game but I had just spent 6 years playing WoW and was pretty burned out on MMOs
Yes. I played but not all that much. At the time my internet connection was shit and I didn't really care for playing it solo.
I played it a little bit. Thought the platforming puzzles were fun. I haven't really gotten into an mmo since ffxi. Not being able to solo as a viable option for anything really made the community there pop. GW2 had some nice design with making it possible to play with people below your level, but I still felt really atomized. Without the social component those kinds of games just turn into skinner boxes and that's where I fell out.
I tried playing it but it was like 15 levels of running around one shot killing everything with no challenge, very boring, also I was a necromancer and didn't even have summons (i think you get very lame ones later) what the shit is that about
the tutorial for the game is basically levels 1-80 if that makes sense. theres a whole half of the game that becomes more apparent once you have a character that is max level. or you can play pvp or wvw as it makes everyone max level (temporarily if you arent)
the real fun of the game is in the fluidity of the combat, how theres a whole set of combos you can use by rotating through your spells/attacks, and how you can move while doing it. every fight is like a puzzle with all the different classes and combinations.
plus there is nothing quite like putting on some music/podcast/etc, emptying your brain, and just doing map completion for a bit
It was my first MMO and I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I set foot in Rata Sum and was awestruck by the dope fantasy magitech and cool impossible capital they had. I still maintain the Asura had the best intro area to the game. Most of the playable races in that game are winners, with the weakest being the basically just humans but made of plants only being beaten by literally just humans, but the Charr and the Asura remain some of the more memorable fantasy factions.
I never really kept up with the living story stuff. I got the first expansion and didn't really like the new verticality and air explorations of the zone they added, just wasn't really what I liked about GW2, and all my friends who started a small guild at the start dropped off long before then, even.
I've got fond memories, and since I suppose I could just boot it up again now all these years later is pretty cool even if I don't really want to/ have nobody to play it with anymore.
