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Sep 18 2016 11:37pm
Whats overall better? better gameplay, better fights etc etc. Dont care about the pvp at this point mainly concerned about the gameplay
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Sep 19 2016 12:57am
they both have their charms about them, you would need to be more specific


the obvious choice would be the play the newer game since it isn't dead
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Sep 19 2016 09:24am
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they both have their charms about them, you would need to be more specific


the obvious choice would be the play the newer game since it isn't dead


Thought maybe the "Not worried about pvp" was specific
D2 is only good for pvp as d3 is better for hack n slash, running around killing 9383844 monsters
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Sep 19 2016 12:02pm
It depends what motivates you.

If you like to feel accomplished and more complete playing a game... Guild Wars 1 is probably for you. Since GW1 is no longer updated you know exactly what you are getting and you know what the caps/ceilings are.

I feel like GW1 was less of a grind as well.

If you feel the need to be able to jump around everywhere or swim etc -> GW2 is for you.

Plus it is technically less dead than GW1, not denying the fact you could manage to find people to play with still in GW1.
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Sep 19 2016 12:03pm
1 by a landslide. every aspect of the game was on point.

but these days the game is a barren wasteland. dead doesn't do the state of the game justice. it's several years post-mortem.
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Sep 19 2016 12:13pm
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1 by a landslide. every aspect of the game was on point.

but these days the game is a barren wasteland. dead doesn't do the state of the game justice. it's several years post-mortem.


You know, the PvE activity hasn't really changed much for the past few years -

What the PvErs have done to ruin the PvP scene has been rather disgusting. I know you don't play anymore, but are you aware of what they've been doing?
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Sep 19 2016 12:13pm
idek what other games to play anymore im just so bored with everything and life at this point xD
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Sep 19 2016 12:36pm
Quote (Motoko @ Sep 19 2016 02:13pm)
You know, the PvE activity hasn't really changed much for the past few years -

What the PvErs have done to ruin the PvP scene has been rather disgusting. I know you don't play anymore, but are you aware of what they've been doing?


people still play pve? i'll hop on some weekends and try to do urgoz/deep bonus but haven't found a group yet.

pvp i have no idea. lots of bots, that's all i know lol.
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people still play pve? i'll hop on some weekends and try to do urgoz/deep bonus but haven't found a group yet.

pvp i have no idea. lots of bots, that's all i know lol.


Honestly the bots aren't really a huge issue anymore. The meta right now is 2 front 2 mesmers (1 dom 1 wastrels interrupt spam) and typically either a paragon or a splitable air ele. Everyone is kind of on equal ground with interrupts these days.

Heres what I wrote up complaining to one of the devs last week:

Hey Joe, I know you are going to give that whole "game is in maintenance/report to support" thing you do - But let's be honest. That doesn't work. It hasn't worked for years. We are running into some game impacting/gvg experience issues. These are becoming major issues where one person is ruining the game for everyone. This seriously needs to be taken into consideration and escalated to someone who can take care of this. Let us do a quick overview:
1. http://gw2w.de:1337/ <- This is a player made working ladder. Notice the ability to "Show Unimportant Guilds". These "Unimportant" guilds are mainly syncers (and botters if I am not mistaken). Those who do not play this game but merely join gvg matches against each other to either have a high ranking/rated guild or to farm champ points.
2. http://i.imgur.com/ACeQFTn.jpg <- This is a daily AT played morning American/Afternoon Euro. These ATs are always either dead or 3 rounds consisting of 6-8 guilds. All of these extra guilds? Afk syncing guilds who have entered purely to afk and grief everyone else actually playing. Now, you might say "but you get to play 5 rounds!". Normally that would be really cool. But if 2-3 of our 5 matches are hitting join only to find out my opponent is 2 afk players + 4 henchmen having a powwow with the Guild Lord, well, 1-2 hours of everyone's day just got wasted sitting around.
3. The ladder. Let's be honest. The ladder has been dead. It has been dead since ANet made the mistake of freezing rating and then nerfing ladder rating. However - There is a huge problem with these syncers that there are a few who have bots set up to wait for matches all day long. Once the match is entering - they will purposely leave before the countdown timer is up so no match officially occurs. This happens over and over. It prevents any ladder matches from ever even occurring. No rating is gained or lost.
The point is... You guys have claimed to have Guild Wars in a state of maintenance. This is not maintenance. The kind of maintenance you guys are doing right now are what countries do to maintain their Olympic venues after their hosted games are over. It gets covered in rot and filth and eventually people stop visiting. There are a few things that could fix this issue just to give you some ideas: Remove the GvG countdown timer = no time for the syncers to leave prior to a match. Only allow guilds with 1010+ rating to enter ATs. (Prevents all the syncing tanking guilds who can't sustain a positive rating to play ATs). Ban the players/guilds performing these actions.If none of the above problems and or solutions make sense, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to discuss these issues via phone, skype, or ts3.
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Sep 20 2016 05:49pm
soo in other words.. gw2 or gw1? look at them and pick? or gw2??
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