The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

What tipped the scales for you guys in removing the fun from the game?

For me the 4 man Dolyack teams when vanquishing Tyria were/are so unfun, I've all but quit GW's, as much as I want the GWAMM title, I also want a game to be fun and not a job. NF = fun to vanq, Factions* = fun to vanq, Tyria = login, sigh, logout. Any monotonous areas of the game made you quit? Interested to hear.

* Another thing left for me to do is vanquish Luxon areas about 10000 times for that title, then when I get Luxon, I get to do the whole thing again for Kurzick, woot, lucky me

So....What now, please don't say PvP, I prefer PvP on games like UT & FPS where skill is relevant!

Funny how I'm at that point too. Vanquished and mapped Cantha and Elona, got the Elonian Skill Hunter and for 2 days I've been trying to get myself started on Tyria but just looking at it demotivates me. Same thing goes for the Kurzick/Luxon titles, that many grinding hours is mindnumbing.

All the whining about how the game isn't fun any more

Seriously the game's almost 4 years old. People are going to get tired of it after a while.

When it comes down to it, there's still a lot of people who do find it fun, but if that doen't include you, go and do something else

I got GWAMM did Luxon & Kurzick, did Legendary VQ (before i got EOTN, and those sexy skills :P ) now i help others do titles made some new chars (yes one is Assa ).I guess it is a bit boring luckily for me i`m in very nice guild so hangin on ventrilo and just buzz around the GW world with buddies makes it kind of bearable.I really hope GW 2 is gonna come out earlier than that grim date of 2011, and that`s about it.

Oh yeah one more thing i keep playing GW this much because i havent seen a decent game in ages, talkin about boring stuff and 3-4 day wonder games every time i finished some of those new "breathtakin" games i`m so happy to get back to GW world !

I will admit that Tyria can be a bear to vanq. There are 4-5 areas I'd consider pretty difficult, including a couple 4-man areas.

Just remember, Tyria wasn't designed with vanquishing (or any other titles) in mind. Wait until you go for legendary guardian and have to find ways to save NPCs who die before you can possibly reach them!

Anyhow, vanquishing Tyria can be done. I did all of the 4-man areas with a triple-necro setup and VERY careful pulling. It also helps to take some way to shut down at least one Dolyak. [skill]Broad Head Arrow[/skill] [skill]Power Block[/skill] and [skill]Signet of Humility[/skill] are all options.


EDIT: Just wanted to mention... If the game isn't fun for you right now, stop playing! The beautiful thing about GW is that it has no monthly fee, so, if you aren't having fun, take a break. I think you'd find that most people who have been playing for extended periods of time have taken several breaks of a month or more. I know I have! You are right, it shouldn't be a job.

The game pretty much topped off when I was done with Vanquisher. Sure, it was hard and aggravating, but after I was done with it, there wasn't anything left for me to do in PvE that I would have wanted to do and would have been challenging. I gained interest again when JQ became active.

And lol @ PvP = no skill.

What 4 man area has stone summit?

Take a break play a new game for awhile. I was playing the Runes of Magic beta but didn't login in for a couple weeks then decided to stop playing it all together because I was to out of the loop. Not to mention while it was fun at the start it got to be to WoW boring..

Nothing's removed the fun from the game for me.

Though there's plenty of things that annoy me. The biggest is that, for some reason, whenever I'm in a mission outpost in Prophecies or early Factions and I'm on my Dervish, I have people trying to invite me to their party (generally they're very low-level so they're just looking for a run), and getting annoyed at me if I don't accept. Seriously, if I'm in a mission outpost on that character, it's because I'm waiting for my friend so we can do the mission. And for some reason people don't like that reason. Yesterday in Sanctum Cay I wanted to yell at everyone to leave me alone and play the game themselves.

(and the weird thing is, it's ONLY my Dervish that this happens with. No one bothers my other characters. Just her.)

The only thing that removed the fun is the obvious - no new content, no more advancement, no more lore. We'll see what happens with the April update, whether or not it adds content.

I have to agree with Hollygen - it's a 4 year old game, that has run its course. Hopefully GW2 will address issues that led to GW's demise (impossible to balance, having to go through the same exact content for all characters, repetitive grind in place of more content).

One tip for VQ'ing the 4 man areas: get a good group of friends who have all day to play, start from Yak's (with 6 ppl), and work your way back, 1 zone at a time.

Hard Mode, its crappy design and lack of new content or nice updates. And also the fact that every dude on my friends list left the game.

lack of new contents. probably also because i did everything like 100 times already. i cannot believe i move on, as much as it is the best mmorpg available, surprise factor just not there anymore, and titles ain't that much appealing to me.

I used to be like, woohoo weekend, now even the weekend double bonus thingy isn't appealing anymore.

Put on some more clothing, you slut!

Pretty much most the people I played w/ leaving and no new content. Although pvp is still fun sometimes, but otherwise its meh.

I don't think he's saying 4 man areas with summit. He means areas with 4 Dolyaks. I'd have to agree, though I can't remember them being that hard when I vanquished it. Had plenty of daze, minions, and all out firepower.

If this thread is just going to turn into a circle jerk for the people that have quit the game, yet still sit around here going LOL PEOPLE PLAYING GW LOL, I vote for an early close :P

What sucked the fun out for me? Titles. Grind. The lack of any decent pug experiences after the Ursan nerfs.

I've played for over 2 years and still love the game, tbh. I think switching from PvE guilds to PvP guilds has kept me from getting too bored. Plus, I've become a pretty casual player

this.

for those who dont play from the start, it can be hard to imagine gw without HM or any kind of titles. Thats is the reason why there is such a big difference between prophecies and the other campains.

Fort Rannik anyone? ^^

As for the OP, what made you think maxing "GWAMM" or w/e is going to be anything else but a mindless grind???

for the dolyaks i used 6 x discords, and i had enchant removal and no other form of spellcaster shutdown,point is keep trying u will make it eventually also i found the shiverpeak protector's in deldrimor bowl more anoying than the dolyaks while vanquishing.
Also as i see u are tyring to go for gwamm,so unless u are prepared for some serious grind u should forget about it,it took me about 3 months to max it and about 500-600 hours(that without all the time i grinded for sweets,alchool and party items) and after i got it i just stoped playing so feel free to spend the same time grinding it if u want.