Bored

I am getting bored with GW:F and GW, Dont get me wrong i love the games and i have played them for a while, beaten prophecies but not factions, i dont know what to do i am so bored with it. any ideas?

i do.

this is not wow or eq which is meant to be played constantly.

treat it the same as a console game you are tired of for now .
after all if you dont play it is not costing you money.

play or do something else until the urge hits to play some more.

if you force yourself to play you will hate it.

maybe NIGHTFALL will have something that will really make you want to play more.

I understand what you are saying, and I never thought of it like EQ or WoW, thank you for that.

I play 2 games competitively GW and Rome Total War, and one game just for fun, CoD2, sometimes idk i just cant seem to find what im looking for in GW. However thank you for the advice i will give it a rest

I got the protector title for both Tyria and Canthan for my assassin and am also getting a tad bored. I went to battle isles and did pvp and even that gets boring after a while. I don't like grind so I can't be bothered to go for the other titles. Also completed both games with my other characters...

Sometimes I just go and help ppl out in missions but it does get boring too.

Maybe you and I need to take a break and play something else. Thing is I've played and completed most of the other worthy rpgs...like Oblivion, Morrowind and its expansions, NWN and its expansions and horrible programming, KOTOR and KOTOR II, Diablo 2 LOD...

WOW I refuse to touch cuz of the monthly sub.

Play PvP. You might have a hard time at first (with finding groups etc) but eventually it's very rewarding. PvP is the only thing what keeps me going in GW.

What Loviatar says is dead on...

I too keep loading up Rome Total War (good game); especially since I'm still waiting for Oblivion to get an official patch. hehe

I don't think Factions was meant to be played constantly. There's just not enough to do to keep the player base busy for the full 6 months between chapter releases.

I have seen people suggest you could try PvP; but even some Pvpers I know are, in their words "sick" of Factions and GW. edit: like the post right above mine now says - I do not like the PvP game at all in GW, but many do.

So yea, a break might be good.

/end rambling

ANet was smart. They knew that people would be complaining about how 10 hours to beat factions is too easy. So, they made titles Some of these titles can be really time draining, so less people would complain. Try getting 90 elites, opening 100 chests and such, then quit until nightfall

How is it rewarding? I have tons of Balthazar's faction and dunno what to do with it...unlocked almost everything.

Only "rewarding" thing about PvP is alliance battles (Can get good money off amber/jade) Heroes Ascent (Ranks for titles, show off, etc) and know that your better then the team you beat

Rewarding in the knowledge that your team beat all your opponents? I dunno, winning alone is pretty rewarding to me.

Doesnt anyone like team sports? >.>;;

Meet the locals in towns.

I too am getting really bored, sometimes I don't even play and just read the forums all day. Makes me feel like I played GW and didn't even know it.

Wish they would come out with the purchasable character slots soon.

Any game you play for a long time eventually gets boring. It's good to have a bunch of games you can come back to when the others do or just find some other hobby to do.

Is a game rewarding if it's tracking how many times you've done something or having a progress meter fill up?

I play Guild Wars for the PvP and just to play it...it's fun just competing with others and trying to come up with new builds and strategies. Winning does feel good too

Like any other game I've played more than I should, I'll get bored and move on to another game until I feel like playing GW again.

I understand OP's feeling. I'm not a hardcore player, so today when I got the last skill I needed to fill out my two professions I kinda felt like "well, what's next?"

I think I'll play Suiko5 and Shadow Hearts 3.

I'm pretty bored with Guild Wars PVE and PVP.

To me PVP in GW is very boring after rank 9 since there are no longer any worthwhile rewards worth continuing to play for.

Titles are not implemented well since you can only display one at a time, hence there is no point in achieving titles that are less respectable than the best one you currently have. Ie: A player with "Renowned Hero" will have no purpose achieving "Collector of Wisdom" or something like that since "Renowned Hero" is a much more respectable title and cannot be displayed if a worse one is put up on your character.

If the devs really wanna keep people playing, they should remove all limits on the number of titles you can display, thereby making there be an actual point to earn ones that are worse than what you already have. You have to earn each and every title you have, so you should be able to display all of them at the same time.

Another problem is that there is not enough things to spend money on once you have the armor you want.

You can only use one minipet at a time so collecting more than one of them is pointless. You should be able to release as many minipets as you own, all at the same time. And be able to release them in towns and PVP areas. That would make collecting all the minipets have a point and give players more things to do.

In conclusion: no more rewards = boring game. The devs can boost the longevity of Guild Wars to some extent if they fix the flaws with the current rewards, and add new ones.

Or you could play online poker tournaments and win free hats

See that's what I was trying to get at with my post...whatever happened to playing a game and its gameplay as its own reward?

As an example, I actually liked playing Random Arenas before all this Gladiator title stuff and it was always rewarding in itself if we somehow got the 10 wins and made it to Team Arenas. We were just winging it and seeing how far we could get. If we lost at 8 or 9, it was like "Wow, we had a great run..." Now, I get this feeling of getting robbed of a gladiator point and feeling I just wasted my time the past 8 or 9 games. The game lost part of its enjoyment.

I play a lot of other online games (mostly FPS's, RTS's)...some of them have persistent stat tracking (Blizzard ladder for Frozen Throne, some Day of Defeat: Source servers I play on have a ranking setup) and most others don't (UT2k4, Quake III, CS). I honestly don't give a crap what my kill:death ratio is or how many headshots I've made in those games. that are tracking them. They're good for bragging rights, but it's a friggin game...who cares. Those games I play because they're just fun to play. Moreso, if I'm playing them with friends.

I dunno...those aren't RPGs though, and that's one of the points of RPGs... where you have to feel a sense of progress or achievement with your character.

With all the new discoveries about using an assassin properly I'm tempted to start a new one and work with it, but the idea of waiting hours to get into a PUG turns me off a bit, I donno, I may still try.

Other than that, all I am doing is helping out guildies with my monk and occasionally doing the Fissure or one of the elites in Cantha. I'm pretty bored also.

I play GW when I feel so, thus no need to play by force. For example pro wow gamer play it by force, because he knew that if he don't, someone else will find the uber gosu last update item before him and own him on the battleground, thus gaining more points.
There are a lot more games to play for refreshment, so you should have a little from everything, not just play till it's dry dead. Before 3 years I was like that too btw
Most people that play GW are above 22, thus they study or (and) work. And that is the point of the game - you need to play it when you want, and still you can retain your personal life. Btw watch the review of the new warhammer game. It is going to be somekind like GW in context - a game to enjoy, not LIVE in it.

You could always start collecting perfect gold items for you characters etc ^_^

As others have said - go do something else for a while.

I have WAY more fun at GW just playing 1-3 hours a day. It takes me *forever* to do somethings. During those hours I'm not trying to max anything - just play. I may farm a little, I may play a mission or two, do a few quests, or some other random thing (I have not finished factions with any character yet). I understand how it doesn't have much of a reward for lots of play styles. The first time I got Droks armor I was really happy, the next few characters were "eh". It wasn't until I scaled back and started playing the game instead of min/maxing that it was fun again. And I'm not really a hardcore player - it's got to be rougher if you are.

Right now my "other" is real life stuff (namely, archery - trying to get my first 300 NFAA indoor round or a 290+ vegas - dang mental game). Sometimes it is another game, sometimes other stuff.

That's the great thing about GW and why I like it so much. I do not feel ripped off if I play for hours upon end or just a little bit here and there. Give it some time off, play just at your leasure, and try and have fun - not play good (playing at a high level doesn't always mean fun, sometimes goofing off is better. Plenty of goofing off/fun/RP guilds out there).

With rewarding I don't mean items or faction (although winning a sigil is nice).

What's rewarding for me is the fun I have with my guild/friends while playing PvP, the thrill of winning a match when both our team and the opposing team plays really good, trying out new stuff, improving my gameplay and getting fame.

About fame I would like to say that that is rewarding for me personally. I would like to get to rank 9 by playing monk. We all know the stories about how some people get their rank. So please don't start a discussion about the meaning of rank.

You can literally spend hours in PvP. Its never really dull since you are playing against real people who will think dynamically.

Just start playing, the PvE side has a very short longetevity compaared to the PvP side.

GvGs, HA, TA... its all exciting.

Hmmm....bored? Well, let's see. You could take a college class, spend some time with parents/kids/friends, go work out, read a great book, watch a good movie, go for a walk, go for mountain bike ride, work in the yard, wash your car, visit an orphanage, vist a retirement home, volunteer at your local youth center or hospital, the list is endless. Need I go on?

Folks, there is a big old world out there. Live it.

I've been playing PvE for over a year now and find it as exciting as ever.

My recommendation, if you're not just into "rewards" and more into "personal satisfaction" is to attempt to solo parts of the game without henchmen and without a 55 HP character.

It develops a whole new appreciation for the game, the endless combinations of skillsets you can play with, and the monsters you face (and their powers/weaknesses).

I've soloed (except for a few later-in-the-game missions) the entire Prophecies game with my non-MM N/Me, so that shows that it can be done. Killing a boss solo and using it to cap one of your last skills is an awesome feeling, especially if you've tried it several times (and failed) and finally beat him after an hour-long duke it out fight.

I'm in the same boat as OP, GW is getting very boring. I think the main reason for alot of people being bored, is Faction. It didn't live up to the hype that Anet made it out to be. Everyone was expecting it being as fun and same amount of content as GWP. This is going to hurt Anet when chapter 3 comes out.

And for those that says take a break, this is the main killer. Being bored, then taking a break is like saying out of sight, out of mind. GW will be easily forgotten especially with alot of good game titles coming out soon. If Faction was good, then it would have been a different story. Faction was terrible and thats the last image people remember after taking a break. So don't expect people to come back too eagerly.

I pvp already it just gets boring there are only so many different things to do.


I was Aboyscout until you become to old to be it which is 18, finished with rank of Life scout. Ran out of time for eagle project. I drive around i hang out with friends i am currently taking pre law classes public speaking etc... i just look for games when im done and have time and since summer is here i mean im just meh, bored i expected something better with factoins i expected something that would well stay interesting.

Im also a little bummed about sapps and rubies.

Also about PvP I hate alliance battles. I think that the fact that we have to get 500 points and there is very little to no coordination when i play(Kurzick) i would prefer if it were eliminate all or something like that. I prefer the old alliance battles or have us make 12 player teams just no 3 4 players teams.

Send me an xfire caesar795

I got bored also, so I took a little break. I've been playing HL2: Episode 1 (which is great, btw). But, I've come back to Factions and finished it for a second time today though. The second time around, I skipped all but the primary quests. I hate the city so I couldn't wait to get out. The game went much faster and, for me, was more fun the second time around. Some of those city quests are just mind numbingly boring. Also, I spend a lot of time in Aspenwood playing. I actually like it a lot...even though I'm not a PvPer. That is as long as you don't have a leecher or an ass on your team.

EDITED to add: For those that don't know, Aspenwood is not PvP. It's random teams playing against each other with some NPC's thown in the mix.