The combat in Guild Wars 2 isn’t as visceral as games like Tera and Neverwinter, but it’s still best classified as “action” oriented. Guild Wars 2 ScenaryĪnother aspect of Guild Wars 2 that I really like is that it features action combat no point and click nonsense that older games like Shaiya and Last Chaos employ. This is a huge step up from the original game, which featured persistent towns, but instanced everything else. I’m glad that Guild Wars 2 is set in a large persistent world. Even newer games like Skyforge from My.com feels this way, because much of the game takes place in instanced areas. I rarely even ran into other players and never needed to group up with others. I completed every quest by myself and reached max level while enjoying the story. I mean, when I played Star Wars: The Old Republic, it felt more like a single player experience than anything else. It actually makes an MMO feel like a living, breathing world, rather than a largely single player experience, which let’s face it, most MMORPGs feel like. Even though players don’t group up to complete these dynamic quests, it’s always cool to see other players in an area working towards the same goal. Frankly, I’m tired of wandering around zones in more traditional MMORPGs like Jade Dynasty and Aion and completing quests all alone. These group activities make Guild Wars 2 feel truly like an MMORPG. It literally brings players together in a natural way without the need for coordination. What I like about this system is that it encourages teamwork from players. Depending on how much a player contributed, they’ll earn either bronze, silver, or gold rating the higher the rating, the better the reward. Anyone can participate in these dynamic quests, so oftentimes a half a dozen or so nearby players will congregate and end up working together to complete one. So while traveling, a player may see a notification for a nearby dynamic quest that requires him to help defend an area from bandit attacks or protect a caravan. Dynamic quests occur throughout the world of Guild Wars 2 randomly and nearby players can participate simply by completing the required objective. The game’s questing system is essentially broken down into 2 facets the first being standard run of the mill quests, which are called “heart quests” and the second being dynamic quests. I’ve literally played countless MMOs since I got into the genre from obscure titles like Nexus TK and Erebus 2 to more mainstream titles, but I’ve never seen anything like Guild War 2’s dynamic questing system before. The dynamic quests are unique and something I’ve never seen in an MMORPG before.
I’m only level 20 on my Necromancer, but there’s a lot I already really like about the game. So like I said, I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 for a bit and so far I really like it.
So with a slew of new players, NCSoft is making more money than ever selling premium currency to their new users. Since they aren’t selling very many new copies of the game, going free to play doesn’t cause the company to miss out on any new sales and instead opens the game’s doors to an entirely new set of players, like myself, who never would have played the game otherwise. Given the game’s age, it was released in 2012, it’s safe to say the pace of sales for the base game slowed down dramatically. I actually think the decision to go free to play right before the release of the Heart of Thorns expansion was genius by ArenaNet/NCSoft. Guild Wars 2 was a game I was always sort of interested in, but never to the point where I was ready to actually pay for it, so going free to play was the sole reason I finally got around to playing it. I don’t have too much time to sink into MMORPGs the way I did when I was younger, but I still like to sneak in an hour or so of grinding a day. Ever since Guild Wars 2 from NCSoft officially went free to play, (August 29, 2015), I’ve been playing it pretty casually.
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