Do you play for fun? (regarding titles, ursan, pvp, farming)

This thread is more directed for people who've played the game for at least 8 months or more.

Titles
The benefit you get in PvE Skills is just as good in lvl 9 compared to level 10 but the grind it requires is a lot more. If you enjoy maxing titles, it's all good but after 1.5 years of gameplay I have 0 maxed titles.
my alternative: play every (elite) area in game at least once or try crazy builds rather than fill in HM books (same quests over and over). Where's the fun in that? (but if having a maxed title is fun for you, then it's all good)

Ursan
The whole creativity of making a 8-man team disappears. Play want to play to clear an area as fast as possible to get the maximum reward.

I can understand if the game was new or for newer players who want cash fast but shouldn't people be inclined to do more creative stuff rather than stick to ursan after almost 3 years the game has been out? I personally take my paragon to UW and people call me n00b or paras suck or leave group when i say this is a non-ursan group.

PvP
There's an abundance of R/D Sway. Again this is all good for newer players but higher ranked players are running this.

Farming
this is where the most creativity comes into play and kudos to all people who come up with builds.

The common theme is all this is people want the most reward in shortest period of time even if it involves them grinding (ursan, hm handbooks, etc.)


On the other hand, I really enjoy it when people play something creative like all mesmer team fow or even time challenges in UW/FoW (even with ursan) because that promotes some thinking.

So if you really play for fun, shouldn't we see "MOAR" creative clear of elite areas rather than less. (esp. after enough game play where you'd have more than enough money/armor/etc.)

so do you play for fun?

i play for fun as for all games i do
idc about winning cuz i go PvE and sometimes PvP with some funbuild i made up
gogo A/D critical scythe

when its not fun i dont play, the point of playing is to have fun.

I try to play for fun. Farming used to be fun before loot scaling. Arenas used to be fun before dishonour. Elite areas used to be fun before Ursan. PVE used to be fun before HM and titles.

I wish I could have the old GW back instead of the current ruined one.

I play to get my mind off of work.

Right now I'm trying to finish prophecies right now with my Nerco so titles don't mean anything to me right now. I think I can only get one or two when I finish the game in normal mode. IF I can get the bonus on Dunes of Depair. (Man I hate that Mission and Bonus) Hell If I get bored I'll help people with missions or go roaming around and see what kind of trouble I can get in.

Its only a game and I use it to relax. Like someone else said "If its not fun, I don't play"

I also "try" to play for fun. But sometimes it just sucks...
Anyway. Right now I'm doing some HM missions and NM dungeons with my warrior. (Yes, NM dungeons...) And with my ranger I'm going for Legendary Survivor. I only use my own build creations, except for the sabway build.

Idon't play very much now due to the fact that I have several characters in NF (worst of the 4 games) My assassin is in Torment, and assassins in torment.. Meh..

Tried DoA Ursan-way, but got kicked cause they though I were a n00b that didn't know how to play in DoA properly (that was my first time ever in DoA)

i've pretty much stopped repetitive farming and just play for fun nowadays. using 6 heros + 1 player had been my new hobby lately.

takes about 2 hours for a clear fow in NM. granted i am only using a party of 7.Much slower then ursans but not mindless 1-2-1-2 spamming.

eventually i'll get the build down and do HM. gives me somthing to look forward to.

Why else would I play?

My only maxed title is guardian, Ursan is fun for a single run with friends, in PvP I use what works, and I never farm.

Different stuff is fun for different people, though. Some people are into the digital slot machine thing with farming, I suppose that's their own problem.

I do play to have fun.
That's why I like to play with h/h because that way I know I have guys in my party who are able to carry my weight.

I try to play for fun whenever I log in. Sadly, I get bored after 10 minutes and go afk.

I do just play for fun, wiping areas that take the least amount of thinking or slowly working on titles if I get bored of that.

In most MMO's its all about the e-peen, and yes I can satisfy that in PvE for some extent. But in all honestly, In PvE for me things are only fun the first time around, then once repetition occurs; it just kills the gamer's mindset of progress. Now what I believe to be the MOST fun thing to do in GW, is creating effective, tactical, and unique builds. This is why I love GW, it is what made PvP so great, it allows you to pour your creativity into subject matter that other people have no clue what to do with. The feeling is similar to RTS's in that sense, two people can be playing the same "race/team" against each other but one will win.

If I want to have roleplaying fun then I'll play a single player RPG like Oblivion, where the actual elements of roleplay exist. Its a damn shame though, Anet did make that push farther than any other MMO as far as the "single player" experience is considered, but I'd much prefer they tried even harder with GW2.

I play for fun,and from time to time I have to bore myself to achive something.
But nothing of the levels of god walking amongst mere mortals.

I play to win. In GW PvE, this means to get to GWAMM. When I get there (only two titles left!), I will uninstall GW1 until GW2 arrives.

I used to play for fun, but I retired from PvP.

I play because of the different playstyles.

Bashing things in with a Sword, Hammer or Axe...
Spreading conditions and turning the enemy into green dust clouds of poison...
Hexing the crap out of things and screwing them up, aswell as interrupts, but Rangers do it better.
The list goes on...


Title-hunting on my Ranger at the moment.

I play for entertainment, yes, to me that's what games are for. I enjoy grinding away for titles, not necessarily the act, but the result, which is that my time has produced an accomplishment.

I like running ursan, yes it is fun, and regardless of what others feel, running ursan with skill can produce much better results than doing it without skill.

I don't PvP.

Farming is another aspect of the game which is similar to titles, in that it is a kind of a delayed gratification act. The fact that you can create/tweak builds to make them more effective makes farming less boring than title-grinding.

Unfortunately, I think that team builds will always lean towards efficiency, and at this point ursan is very efficient. So, right now the fun of a team build is the time aspect of it, not as much the individual builds that make up the team.

I personally think this game is great fun, though, and one of the reasons is because no matter what you consider fun, you're likely to find it in GW.

I play purely for the fun. When it stops being fun it gets uninstalled. Sometimes I enjoy the challenge/grind of titles and sometimes I don't.

Of course I play for fun. If I didn't have fun, there'd be no point for me to play (I always kinda scratch my head, when I visit an outpost, and someone is saying "Mann I'm soooo booooored. Ugh, booored. I'm bored " over and over. If you're bored, stop forcing yourself to play and go do something else, lol).

I work on titles occasionally, but it does get old quickly. So I try to keep the title grinding to small doses. xD

Ursan is lame.

I don't PvP. Don't really know anyone that does, so I was never able to get into it.

I do farm a bit. We all need our gold, right? Like title grinding, I try to keep it to small doses.

Some of the funnest things, imo, are getting with a bunch of friends and going to a dungeon/UW/FoW just for the heck of it.

fun.
the only level 10 (maxed ) title I have on ANY character is sunspear...none of the eye ones (only level 5 for the armor!)....dont think I have even done many of the missions in hard mode (except the noob island ones)....
I used ursan for the quest it was required for and that was that. (dont even think most of my character did the quest to get it either).

pvp--nope, just nope.

titles yeah got a couple only because I want to finish some things---prot and cartography come to mind---and those make me feel like I have completed those chapters (yes I have seen the whole place and killed what I was supposed to kill!) otherwise titles dont really interest me much (yeah I have a monk that wants to get the pretty birdie so he is doing skill hunter)....and I was doing the prot and cartography before they made the titles so ....because it was fun --not because I was going to get something out of it.


so fun it is.

Whatever I do in GW it's always for fun. That includes title grinding and vanquishing. When it's not fun anymore, I'll move on to something else.

Ursan and serious farming are not part of my game.