Brutal Honesty Needed: Guild Wars 2

[Maniacal]

Well, it is an MMORPG, its not like almost any of them have good combat, and its still a massive improvement over WoW's mind numbingly uninteresting combat system. Pity TERA is such a creepy and grindy game, since it actually has a good combat system from what I've heard and seen.

 

[TheDanish]

I recently got back into this game and I've been having a blast. I'm a big PvPer and I really enjoy WvW a lot more than the trainwreck that WoW's PvP has become. The Engineer might be the single most interesting class I've ever played in an MMO; it's extremely versatike and has a very high skill floor but also a high skill cap. HGH+Elixer+Grenades seems to be the FOTM in terms of small-scale PvP builds.

As someone with limited time, the lack of expansive endgame progression works for me. It's very easy to get the highest-quality gear in the game (Exotic, barring Ascended and those aren't a huge improvement over Exotics), and you can acquire gear through several means and use it in almost any situation. High Toughness/Vitality armor does lend itself to WvW zergs but otherwise gear choice is pretty free.

Lots of opportunities for different builds, and most classes can fill every role, though of course some do certain roles better than others (Warriors being better "tanks" for instance). I also appreciate that there's no strictly-defined tanks/healers/DPS though you can build those if you want to (and hybrid specs).

 

[Maniacal]

Humourous take on possible Living Story updates for next year:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/...l_leaked_living_story_release_notes_for_2014/

 

[Maniacal]

With the upcoming overpriced expansion, Heart of Thrones, including the base GW2 game for anyone who buys it, it's no surprise they have announced that the base game is going free to play with some restrictions.

https://welcome.guildwars2.com/en/Play-For-Free#g1

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/play-for-free-today/

Information on F2P account restrictions:

Free accounts will start with 2 character slots and 3 inventory bag slots
Free players can only start a new whisper conversation every 30 seconds.
Mailing items to other players will be restricted.
WvW is locked until a one character reaches level 60. At this point, it is unlocked account-wide.
F2P players will not be able to use map chat.
Characters are restricted to the starter maps until level 10
Lion's Arch is locked until a character reaches level 35
No guild bank access
No masteries
There are no leveling restrictions All F2P accounts will be able to level to 80.
Squad Chat locked until level 30
LFG locked until level 30
In PvP matches, all chat modes except for team chat are locked, including emotes
Chat in PvP lobby locked until level 20
Daily Login Rewards are disabled
Gem-to-Gold exchange disabled
Trading post is limited to a select list of items (List unreleased as of now)
Free accounts are unable to post on the forums
All gem store items that are usable by F2P players are available to be purchased (ex, Glider Skins are purchasable)

Full list of changes available in this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3iv7fk/guild_wars_2_free_to_play_confirmed/

EDIT: So some members of the community are maybe a bit too eager to welcome new players:

Spoiler :

(not my screenshot)