Guild Wars 2 in 2023
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Guild Wars 2 is a high fantasy MMORPG with large open world maps, a hybrid combat system, unique mount system and horizonal progression featuring both PVP and PVE content that was initially released back in 2012.
Recently the game has just released it’s 4th expansion Secrets of the obscure which has come only 18 months since the previous expansion End Of Dragons.
Secrets of the obscure brings with it two new aerial maps which you’ll explore on your skyscale mount which has new flight materials that you’ll unlock as you progress through the new content.
You’ll face new enemies in the form of the Kryptis which are entering Tyria through reality rifts which players will need to seek out and close for rewards.
A new reward system has been added in the form of the Wizards Vault which basically gives you currency for completing daily and weekly tasks as well as achievements.
2 new 10 player strike missions have been added, a new 5 player fractal dungeon, and probably the biggest change when it comes to classes is that elite specialization specific weapons are no longer tied to a single elite spec which means there’s much more flexibility when it comes to build creation, previously if you wanted to use a Greatsword as a Necromancer you’d need to play the Reaper elite spec but now that’s no longer the case.
In this video I revisit Guild Wars 2 for a bit to see if the new expansion is interesting enough for me to want to stick around and play more.
What do you think about Guild Wars 2 in 2023? Are you enjoying the secrets of the obscure expansion or would you really like to see Guild Wars 3 at this point? let me know in the comments below!
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Guild Wars 2 2023 Steam Description
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure is the latest Guild Wars 2 expansion.
In a world finally safe from the Elder Dragons' corruption, new threats rise to seek power. Embark on an epic journey and uncover the mysteries of the Wizard's Tower as you defend the skies against incursions from the Mists.
A BRAND-NEW ADVENTURE
Uncover the secrets hidden in the skies: the truth behind the Wizard's Tower and Tyria's place in the cosmos. Alongside new allies in the Astral Ward, you'll fight to defend Tyria from the ravages of the Kryptis, a strange army invading through the Mists. The story of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure will play out over installments, with new story content to look forward to at launch and in subsequent releases.
THE ASTRAL WARD
Join the Astral Ward and embark on a quest to seal rifts - tears in the fabric of reality - as Kryptis forces crawl into Tyria from the Mists to threaten our newfound peace. Through the Astral Ward, you'll gain access to rich rewards and sent on bounties to hunt ever-deadlier prey.
POWERFUL COMBAT CHOICES
Experience all-new flexibility in combat customization thanks to several potent system updates. Relics augment your build with special additional effects, combined with a streamlined and revamped rune system. Unlock access to weapons that were previously exclusive to elite specializations for each profession. In future releases, each profession will gain the ability to use even more weapons to introduce entirely new fighting options.
SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND BATTLE
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure offers an updated path to unlocking your skyscale mount. You'll use the skyscale and new Masteries to explore epic aerial maps. At launch, two new explorable zones will take you to the skies over Tyria; a new map will become available as the story progresses in future releases.
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@@naughtycultmemes784 same
Actually looks good. I used to play AFK Arena all the time. Thanks for the heads up.
I'm getting to old to keep switching between MMORPGs that are generally all the same with their themepark content. For better or worse, I'll stick with WoW until Ashes of Creation and other true next gen MMORPGs release.
Bro stop recycling the same 10 videos EVERY YEAR.
To address your gear inventory situation, there are equipment tabs that you can slot your gear into so you dont actually need to hold all of it in your inventory anymore. You just press a button and change the whole set. And it stays in its tab
ya, love Peon's videos but there are times like this where he just misses stuff completely
yeah, i think Peon this time missed a lot of things that anet introduced in the last couple of years like the equipment and build tabs, and the legendary armory. I do pvx and on most of my characters i have the base equipment and build tabs that anet provided when they intoduced the sistem and it's enough to always have a build ready for pve and WvW (this isnt even a factor in sPvP imho). Only on a couple of characters that i usually main in WvW do I have 1 or 2 more equiq/build slots to cover the Blob/zerg/havoc/roaming builds i use the most. I think Peon on this one didn't do is homework properly.
Tbh, it's the game's fault for not showing it. I bet you most ppl have no idea about it
@@mikekuzmicz8408 that's really the fault of a lot of MMOs, there are many systems and things in other mmos that aren't shown or explained well at all. Peon reviews mmos for a living, shouldn't be a big ask to dig into stuff beyond face value
@@mikekuzmicz8408 i mean there is literally a numbered tab bar on top of the gear screen, people could actually start to use some brainpower sometimes. The big problem with gear set tabs is the fact they are highly monetized. (Edit) Although there are ways to get them without gems with the new vault reward system.
A big part of your issue with the game stems from impatience. Like many other players, you want to "jump in, be high level, get to the good part", and end up skipping everything that makes the endgame good in the first place. Googling a build can help get players into a semi-effective state quickly and then learn at their own pace, but jumping to one that has 'Hard', 'Designed for Raids and Fractals', and 'A complex and fast-paced build' in it's description and then complaining when you get pancaked is pretty low-brow content, dude. And not reading any of the mail you're sent that explicitly tells you that relics are introduced, here's three for free, is part of the reason why you're swimming in inventory: you get stuff, and then you ignore it. I can't tell if you were just in the wrong headspace to make this review, but it seems like you just don't have the patience for MMO-level complexity at the moment.
Also, cannot bear the irony of wanting a game with "more power-based progression", then just buying your way into whatever gear the internet tells you to buy and complaining how expensive it is to have skipped the grind.
Yeah, let’s play a Raid/Fractal build in Open World what could go wrong? 😂😂😂
Yep that's it
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@@fenrirwolf7238 There's so much more to PvE than raids and fractals...!! Raids/fracs aren't everything, let new players be new players and enjoy the freedom of open world with their own creative builds without veteran elitists shoving down their ideologies down the new players' throats!
peon basically did a quin69 ff14 playtrough
I started GW2 up again and started a new character for the story only, I am now 220 hours in and I am not done with the story yet, I still need to complete two DLCs.
The amount of content is insane!!!
And due to level normalization you still see level 80s in the
@@hardbrocklife In the old daily system you'd occasionally get "Complete 4 Events in X Zone" or "Gather Y Type Materials in X Zone" dailies, and players would swarm to otherwise unpopulated maps. As annoying as the quest was, it was the old system's only redeeming quality. Nowadays we have the temporary Black Lion Recovery event, but nothing permanent like that
@@hardbrocklife yeah sucks that level normalization completely takes me out of the game. Its quite literally trash. I dont want a lvl 80 in my lvl 5 wolf zone, nor do I want to be lvl 80 and fight lvl 5s as if they were on my same level.
Its actually not the case, with good gear and good build, youll 1 shot the lv 5 wolf, even with level scaling.
@@whoaskedyoutolookatthis I think your problem might be the user 😂
Legendary gear lets you do what your "hot take" complains about, just gotta work for it. Ascended gear has the same stats as legendary and can be traded within characters while u work on Leggies
His complaint is valid however. Gear means nothing in GW2 other than the skins. It's not the same as in other RPGs.
Let the legendaries be cosmetic achievements and just get rid of gear for stats altogether. GW2 is the perfect MMO to have a system like this.
@@cristi724But at the same time it would be removing the only vertical progression the game offers (fractals is sort of similar to other MMO's in this regard, even if it's fast to gear up. But you can repeat it on alts). I think it's good that it offers some of that. Legendary gear is one of the things that keeps players invested into the game. Removing this benefit from endgame reward would not be a good decision Ithink
@@cristi724 Yet he said on one hand "There's TOO MUCH horizontal progression" but by removing gear-stats entirely the game would have EVEN MORE horizontal progression...so, which is it now?
@@KuroNekojiIt's about having horizontal progression that matters. Gear in GW2 doesn't matter. Skins matter.
@cristi724 Do you even play this game? lol stats matter and gives the game build variety.
Taking out stats also would destroy a lot of the game features, including material prices tanking.
If he doesn't know about legendary armor, he only has surface level understanding of the game.
For a game that was made in 2012 it aged like a fine wine
ya too true. Compared to a lot of MMOs its has done a LOT of things right and respects peoples time. and graphically it looks just as good as FF (better imo) so thats a moot point anyway
Peon just got the graphics way down that's why it looks like that.
@@2Btoobee Truth. I'm running my game over 100 fps at 1440p and the game is absolutely gorgeous. I believe it's the best on the market, and you get so many of the quality of life mmo features that arenanet pioneered for us. Always remember, as long as you're out of combat/not hit by mobs, you can instant mount in GW2. In wow you have a long cast time to wait for every time. There are lots of little things like that in GW2 that a lot of people will not notice on first glance.
@@2Btoobee It is starting to crack a bit visually - which isn't a bad thing - it's just telling of it's age. It's impressively held up well for so long and I still dig the look of it.
@@merlylvsmyeah thats true. To be fair its more noticable in the older map regions. The Newer ones from EOD hold up quite well imo.
LazyPeon only having 96 mastery points spent unlocked explains a lot. That's half the amount you'd have by completing the content up to and including Heart of Thorns. That's not a lot of experience, and explains him not understanding the horizontal progression (since he doesn't have much of it unlocked).
I think many players view horizontal progression as gear "quality" chase every half a year, excluding anything else a game might offer. Like in wow for example. For me personally, gw2 was always a favorite precisely because you don't chase a carrot all the time. Although some prefer the other way around.
When i reached half pof as a newb 1st time playing an mmo i was 150 mastery points, i didnt even unlock every mastery in hot
That’s roughly the amount of mastery I have on my alt accounts 😅
you dont need all the mastery to realise how frustrating the game is, F2P is fine but the games designed to make you spend money for slightest quality of life needs
@@shindigidy2286 It doesn't make you spend money, you're incorrect. That's your own low self-control. You can obtain *everything* in the Gem store by simply playing the game.
Hot take was indeed very hot. The idea already exists in the game and is the main source of progression for most PvE players, that is Legendaries. These are stat selectable pieces of equipment usuable across most of your alts. I agree this isnt new player friendly but the game is casual enough as is honestly and you've got to have something to work / grind towards. Otherwise great review.
I wouldn't expect gw3 anytime soon. The devs have said they're going to focus on releasing smaller expansions more frequently now, starting with this new one.
This. He has no idea what he is taking about, he didnt even read what Anet plans for next expansion. Did he even mention that this expansion is splitted into 4 updates?
Also they said they working on fifth expension ❤🎉
yeah peon is more happy to advertise wayfinder than gw2. he instantly nitpicks whenever he launches gw2. i think this is some kind of conspiracy theory but even asmon hates gw2 for no reason. i guess this is just WOW boomer hate
@@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2itYes no one watches his streams who leaves comments like this.
Not to mention GW3 has never been mentioned by the studio, they dropped all side projects a few years back to only focus on GW2, are regularly updating GW2, and have already announced the next expansion.
The only reason this one has a 2 in it is because the original Guild Wars wasn't even an MMO. It was an online singleplayer game with multiplayer lobbies and a party system to play the maps and missions via multiplayer. It's no different than if Elder Scrolls: Online had instead called themselves "The Elder Scrolls 2"
Played it for the first time this year, put 200 hours in, can recommend
I have played almost all major mmorpgs out there. Guild Wars 2 just hits different.
I guess after making youtube vids for years the patience to put out quality stuff has wear thin.WIth each new vid you can feel his impatience to just get it over and upload the video.
You can hear it in his voice, I remember how his first Warhammer Online video did so well that it populated those servers at full capacity for months! Then he went back with the laziest video and just focused on a low area pve zone.. And the video made the game look like shit, it didn't bring any new players to the servers at all.
I think he just wanted to do some pvp and thought, maybe i can make this into a video lmao
Damn what a way to make a livin, probably get paid to review games and half ass it like being asked to review it is a big hassle 😂 fair play , livin the dream tbh
Guess he need that sponsor money
you can only make so many videos on mmos you don't really enjoy
For me the thing that keeps me addicted to GW2 is leveling up my account. The idea of permanently unlocking things for your account like Armor, Weapons, Skins, Mounts, and Masteries is what I really enjoy. It's kind of like how roguelikes are addicting because you go into a run and unlock something that makes your future runs smoother/different
Agreed. Although, I'd love the opposite too; being able to create a "seasonal" or "ironman" character that has no links to your "main" account and characters.
There's something really satisfying about being able to switch between the long, chilled grind, and starting completely afresh with a new character and experiencing it again from the start. This type of contrast is what always keeps me coming back to games like Path of Exile.
Sounds like I would really enjoy it then. I'm really enjoying old school runescape rn
bruht he game is so bland LMAO
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@@jjswigger8591 bland? dodge mechanic, complex skill build and variety which that mean my ranger can be different to other's ranger, weapon swap during combat, different weapon skill in each class even it's same weapon, dynamic event on open world that randomly happen, massive meta event map in open world, massive world boss, 100 tier of fractals, raids, strikes, worldvworld that war between 3 servers, the best mount system in entire mmorpg which different mount has different skills, huge explorable map that has many players still roaming around in low lvl to complete achievment, voice acting, great story, fluid combat animation, dye system make fashion wars possible and unlimited cosplay potential.
what do u mean bland? it's not just doing raid to get higher gear on every expansion, that is bland LMAO. Gw2 has more variety content that they give to their players, more than any other mmorpg
Well, your critique about gear is exactly what legendary armor and weapons do, they let you change the stats of your gear whenever you want on every character, and it’s a grind for you to do.
You could argue it just should be free for everyone but I think it’s ok for someone to grind for it as a big goal to have in the game
I hard disagree. You know the problem is bad if the solution requires you to just live with the problem for months at least. Arenanet should improve the gearing system, if not, so many peeps would just drop the game out of annoyance before even learning about legendaries.
Edit: to clarify, I have problem with the gear storage issue, not the process of getting gear itself.
You also have multiple gear tabs for multiple gear sets you can change on the fly so they don't clog your inventory...
@@herrscherofshrimps1451 what are you talking about? You can do literally 95% of all over content with beserker gear. Just one gear type and that's it. PvP has an own system which is very simple however. Which just leaves WvW where you could use better gear. But to start WvW, you can also just use beserker.
It is a great thing that you can use so many stat combinations and if you are playing solo or with a guild there are a lot of fun builds or just little things you can improve for your own playstyle. If you just want to go and don't care about that, just use beserker
@@herrscherofshrimps1451it’s not a problem though, you gear your character once and you are done IF you want to play Alts in a convenient way and never have to deal with this ever again you can, but you don’t have to get legendary amor.
How is this any worse to other mmos where you have to grind for days to get your build/alt ready?
TO BE FAIR I actually do think gear in this game DOES feel meaningless, unless it’s legendary, but that’s more because the game showers you with gear all the time so you end up desensitized from it more than a problem that should be fixed by deleting getting gear Al together.
Yeah sure go and grind 10 years for the enough gold to make 1 single legendary of every single gear piece mate. Nice solution. Specially when anet is just milking money with gw2 for other projects and doing minor-low budget updates.
Peon: I like gear progression.
Also Peon: Make gear useless.
ikr made himself look like an idiot there
you're missing the point. gear hasn't mattered in gw2 for its entire life span, the only way it matters is that you're making sure the stats on your gear line up with your build (power, conditional, etc), but every time an expansion releases the gear stats/item levels dont change, so there is no reason to tie stats to gear.
@@shiddygaymerExcept unless you're going full glass cannon dps you don't want all your gear to have the same stats? And even then sometimes you still don't. One reason I play WvW because I really dislike how limiting the stat selection in sPvP is, and also how it disables all the additional options in the rest of the game (which I saw Peon hasn't even unlocked any of)
Ascended Peon xD
@@shiddygaymersure sure Peon, why dont you make a full vid about that then
i cant wrap my head around the fact that he never noticed the novelties tab 🤣
Seems like despite his loud compliments throughout the years peon only plays it when a new video about it is getting made. Sad, kinda lost my trust on this one
For me personally GW2 is the best mmo on the market right now. Im not a meta gamer and I love colllecting stuff, farming achievements, transmog and that kind of content and GW2 hits every spot in those regards for me. Fantastic game
correction you mean best CASUAL mmo on the market. For hard core, I think it's still WoW (top raid content) or BDO (RNG grind).
@@ADesertVoiceClearly uv never done fractals, strikes and raids GW2 has plenty of learning curve, yes the game is welcome towards casuals but to truly be good at it u need to learn ur class and hardcore content id say the most casual mmorpg is ffxiv
@@ADesertVoice You think farming legendaries is CASUAL, think again :) In terms of difficulty I believe FF14 has the most difficult raids of all since you're not allowed to use addons like you do on WoW. I didn't play BDO enough to talk about it, but ppl say it's grindy but I guess it's up to debate if it's worth it or not.
@@ADesertVoicepfft, you saw the words "for me""best" and felt the need to correct them? Not everything revolves around your preferences
@@ADesertVoice i want to correct ur comment also, but any other comment above already did what all i wanna say
Tell me you had a deadline for a sponsor video without actually playing the game, without telling me...
I'm having an absolute blast with SotO
I'm an ex-wow payer and started playing GW2 last year in august when it released on Steam, and was doing all expansions and living world seasons in order. I finished a week after SoTo launched, just in time to jump in while it's still fresh :D
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I think the point is that soto does not have features that would attract new players (Well maybe skyscale), but well if you like gw2, you gonna like more gw2.
@@robertaskuzminskas1356Soto shouldn't be aimed at attracting new players. It is an expansion for GW2. GW2 should be attracting new players. If you think an expansion in any MMO is aimed at new players, it is a very silly thought.
Captain Copium over here
@@Emanx2318 Captain Copium because people enjoy a game? Oh no! How can they like something that you may not. Sorry Captain Universe. What else should we like / dislike?
@@aaronh678 Oh lord, did your mom forget to wipe your ass this morning? :D Dont be a salty little kid :D
Enjoy your vids man, but I gotta say-
Dropping gear from the game would remove a majority of the fun and excitement from getting a new item, plus a majority of the trading post is people trading gear or crafting components for gear. It would make absolutely no sense to remove gear from the game, especially with equipment tabs already being a thing. I'd also rather have this system over rng enhancement systems rampant in other mmos. But that could just be me.
Something to sell on the TP or turn into materials. Apparently everyone's goal is a full set of legendary which is exactly what he described as making the game better.
The legendary gearing system basically does what Peon wants to add to the game too.
@@mithecai But without 2 years of grinding
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@Jalae actually I have seen a few games that have that option. Mario Kart is fun. If you play it more, you get better at it. Yet not once did I ever feel like it was turning on the computer to work.
I would bet there are more than a couple of people who felt the Skyscale quest was work. Probably, some of those didn't consider the quest fun. Some people consider work fun. If you're idea of spending days grinding out a quest to receive a digital trinket "fun" there are many like you. However, I'm not one of them. Hogwarts is a fun game. I didn't feel like it was work going through some of the quest. Then again, those quests don't take 6 months of daily play.
I think you’re right that you’re not able to figure out how to play this game because you’re accustomed to other MMOs. You’re missing basically every element that makes this game awesome and just playing pvp. I get it. That was me for the first six years of this game’s life, but then I actually embraced the farming and crafting, the build craft that requires effort, the collections and achievements. There is a lot, but you make a valid point that it’s not immediately obvious to traditional MMO players, and so it gets missed.
20:00 - For the equipment issue, look in the Equipment tab. There's small tabs at the top with the numbers 1 and 2 (and the rest are locked which you purchase via the Gem store), which are basically templates. For template 1 you could use for your PvE build, and template 2 for your WvW build. Once your gear is in an equipment tab, it disappears from your inventory - clearing up space. Literally changing your build with the click of a button.
For the stats issue, that's why there's Legendary gear essentially. Legendary armor/weapons/trinkets/backpacks can be equipped on multiple templates AND multiple characters simultaneously (a medium armor set can only be equipped by characters who can wear medium armor, ofc). Legendary gear let's you swap your stats any time you'd like when you're out of combat and - for the fashion crazy people - changing the look of a legendary item doesn't cost transmutation charges.
Overall, legendary gear is a huge quality of life upgrade and usually a long-term endgame goal many, many players go for. While there's a bump in numbers between Exotic and Ascended gear, Legendary gear is not better than Ascended, pushing it even more on the QoL upgrade aspect.
And? Is legendary available to use for a new player? He is speaking on a new player perspective.
@@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu Oh yeah, you should find them in your inventory right after you hit 80 like trash Asian MMOs.
There are only two ways to get legendary armor: raids and competitive pvp. In the new expansion you'll be able to (soon) get it from general PvE (legendary armor has existed for 6 years now just fyi)
@@Blake420 i wouldnt call wvw competitive at all lmfao
You're missing the point. GW2 is actually my favourite MMO, I have all classes max level, some of them have ascended gear, but I have the same issue. I log on to one of my characters, wanting to try a new build... 150g or I have to change stats on gear I already have. I don't have the time to invest on legendary armor. I don't agree with removing ALL the gear but at least make some of it come with selectible stats, even if it's just the exotics.
I also have the same inventory issue, always full of collection items that could have a bank tab just like the materials tab. Also a lot of different bags and boxes that could be made simpler, they did something about it in PoF but still a mess of inventory/loot system.
People have mentioned legendary gear already, but ascended gear also fixes your issue to a lesser extent, since ascended gear is stat-changeable at the mystic forge
except changing those stats is very expensive for a full set + runes and sigils. its nt different than spending 50-100 gold again like he said
its at MAX 20-30g and you can
1) give gear between charecters
2) get multiple sets with equipement tabs
3) there are MANY EASY WAYS to get free exotic gear like verdant brink metas
1) you can only share ascended /legendary gear between characters. Exotic not so much
2) the BIS runes and sigils for condi, healer and power and now relics are expensive. they alone would be worth 40G
3) You also need to level ascended crafting to change stats.....
4) you only get 2 free weapon sets
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I started an alt account to try different builds of the same classes, I think I have one toon almost levelled as an artificer and a jewelrycrafter. All other stuff I get, I salvage/decon and sell the mats. I'm Just going to buy some legendaries with the selling of the mats because it doesn't cost much more to buy it than to craft one if you include all of the materials you use to make it, the materials you used to level the skill line and the time you spend.
Ascended gear is so easy to get I'm like 50 days into playing for the first time and have half Ascended gear and 100 AR for fractals. I dont understand how anyone could have a gearing issue. He plays all power DPS toons. He could have one set of gear of all his PvP toons.
The thing you said about gear at the end. It's already in the game. You just need to unlock/craft it. legendary armor. you can equip the same legendary armor piece/weapon on how many characters you want. And with legendary armor/weapons you can switch stats as you wish, you can also unlock a legendary version of the runse/ sigils and use them in the same way.
Do you still need pieces out of the heart of thorns era raid to craft the legendary armor?
@@paulscarfo9869 You can also craft legendary armor from wvw and pvp, with new pve armor coming in arround a year for which you dont need raids.
@@paulscarfo9869 If you are going for the raid legendary armor set, then yes. however, there are two other legendary armor sets, one require PvP pieces and another require WvW pieces. also, they are going to introduce a fourth legendary armor set that uses open world resources.
@@paulscarfo9869 no, u can either raid, wvw, pvp or in 6 months, do some open world grind
@@paulscarfo9869 There are 3 (soon to be 4) ways to acquire Legendary Armor: HoT PvE (consisting of Raids and OW Meta/currency grind), sPvP, WvW, and coming soon via the current Expansion, an Open World grind set which isn't entirely known yet, but requiring a lot of the "new" Rift mechanic, which is basically Bounty Farming, as well as Soto Metas.
In regards to eliminating gear and having to get different stats, I think the new opportunity for legendary gear from open world is intended to address that; as well as providing a 'grind' for those that like to do that. The legendary armory means you can use a set of legendary gear on every character, and be able to change stats freely and with no cost.
I don't think it's fair to casually mention legendaries as the solution considering THE HUGGEEEE barrier to make even one set is -insanely- difficult. The gear is a problem. Even as a day one vet with more than one legendary it's so annoying and whenever I want to start a new build I want to quit. Sometimes it doesn't feel worth it. Not to mention the daily ascended trinket grind
I'm not saying it should be easy or without grind but I really agree that gear needs to be cleaned up or looked at. Because I've had my whole friend group give it a try and once they get to gearing themselves out they hate how much time they spend on a wiki.
@@AsheNoodles Getting a full ascended set for a casual player shouldn't take more than 10 days.... CASUAL not hardcore / veteran. I know because I am casual. Also you don't need legendary gear. You now have "gear tabs" to have multiple sets of gear equipped and swap between them. They don't clog your inventory. They have been a thing for a while now.
Last but not least, The legendary gear SHOULD be mentioned. It's not mentioned casually, it's mentioned for a reason. It does bring a lot of power and convenience... And no it should not come easy. And it is not mandatory either given there are ways to work without it (as I mentioned above).
Some people you can not please... They are complaining "There is nothing else to look forward to / grind for once you get your full ascended set" and then they complain "My one and only ascended set is not enough" or "Getting legendaries is too hard". Make up your minds... Do you want something to grind past Ascended? Or do you want to complain ascended means you have no more things to get? You can't complain about two things contradicting one another at the same time.
By crafting all 3 sets of legendary armor, you will spend more time and gold on armor than you would've ever spent on buying new stat combinations for new builds and alts.
You can do it for the legendary skins, the QoL it comes with but lets not pretend that this is somehow a cheaper alternative, let alone lowering some kind of barrier of entry for new builds/players.
@@MyN0N4M3 Yes!! going from full ascended to legendary is like the Great Filter Theory XD, is like going from 100 to 10.000.000 . The amount of gold is just insane, you need like 30-50 gold for pieces for ascended or the wizards bault wich is super convenient for your 1st ascended set, but legendary is like 1.500 gold raw gold with a lot a looot more of materials, even with the new legendary set.
I get it's hard from a new player perspective since there are so many activities, but I don't think gearing up is that bad. You basically just play the game. Do some pvp or wvw and use the hero tracks and you'll get chests eventually with stat selectable armors and weapons. There are plenty of map metas that do this as well. You build them up in no time.
Most of the novelties have been available since launch. The menu came in a few years back. The chairs are a few years old - you can get some ingame through rewards too as well as spending gold on the tradepost. Not just the gemstore
ANet is already working on next expansion. They said that there will be few expansions after this one, on yearly basis.
PS: Novelty tab is like 4 years old, if not more, Peon.
And even prior to the Novelty tab - a lot of these items were already in the game
Novelties and chairs have been a thing for a while. Came out between Path of Fire and End of Dragons.
the tab came out then, but most novelties have been around since launch which makes his take even more absurd.
To address your map completion problem. I know its something that you don't wanna care about (and don't need to). But the map completion is somewhat needed for every new character bcs after you do 100% of the core game map, you get the part that is needed for the S1 legendary. I know its possible to make the recipe different. But its like forcing changes on an annoying wow classic quest. Its possible, but it ruins the intended wibe.
Maybe keep the recipe, but make the progress resetable. That way we could even explore a second time with the same charakter.
Not having waypoints and the fog, is a pain in the ass for alts.
@@shadowpaladin8412 unsurprisingly thats the system implemented into the last two expacs, gen3 legendary weapons and upcoming legendary open world armor both need map completion of the expac zones but you can re-do them on the same character by interacting with some nodes placed around the map.
@@graqon_4400 That is a boring solution that requires to look up those nodes on the wiki. Being able to reset the progress would be much better. I actually hate the lantern system.
well it is as interesting as going from point to point can be, and id argue that all lanterns are placed nearby a corresponding point of interest so wiki isnt really necessary@@shadowpaladin8412
played for the first time this year, put 400+ hours, unlocked all mounts in 30 days, great game!
How do you unlock all mounts in 30 days!?
@@gamergod7434 by averaging 10 hours a day, and making golds in Auric basin meta events. i got all of them after 300 hours
@@gamergod7434 You just progress through the story and that can take what, two weeks? The Skyscale mount can be unlocked in 4 days, which apparently got easier to get with the new expansion (I haven't tried that way yet although I did the original way).
same , around the 400 hr mark aswell, got every mount except Griffon , i have the gold but im good with skyscale
says gamergod @@gamergod7434
Chairs and tonics have been around for a long time
i gave gw2 more of a chance this year and am enjoying it more than any other mmo ive played for years. kind of wish id played more at max level sooner.
Your Hot take IS answered to some degree. You just need to grind the game for legendary gear. It's account wide then, free to transmog and to equip with all stats in the game. That's where the progression is at in gw2. Legendaries.
Or just get multiple ascended sets... You can get to full ascended in about a week... We've had gear tabs for a while now. It allows us to equip the gear in those tabs so it doesn't clog the inventory... and then swap between them on the fly.
@@Kira110lol legendaries are also a BIG goal to work for.
Something that mmorpg players do need as it seems.
@@akhsdenlew1861 Crafting my first legendary felt SO good. Lol.
@@Nevario1 Yes they are usually a long grind and an adventure so it feels good to craft them.
you remove gear from the game by making legendaries so you never have to worry about changing gear since you can just change stats anytime, anywhere. Legendaries are the endgame in gw2 carrying massive questlines through achievement panel.
OR by having multiple ascended sets placed in the gear tabs... we've had them for a while now... Exactly for this purpose. Store multiple sets of gear in saved gear tabs you can change on the fly so it doesn't clog your inventory.
@@Kira110lol AND it will still cost much less than crafting a full set of legendary trinkets, gear, weapons, runes, sigils... legendary gear/trinkets are more goldsink for people who have nothing better to do with their gold, and even there I think it's a waste because the gold could be saved for future content/items you will want to get.
@@IRedpunk Right? The only Legendary I crafted was a greatsword because I loved the look.
Legendary gear has no stat increase past Ascended. It's literally the same power. And now with gear slots you don't need to change the stats either.
Legendary gear is just bragging rights.
@@Kira110lol No its not , it has more advantages , like removing runes / sigils / infusions without extractors , free transmog of skins also you can wear them on multiple characters at once , not having to trasnsfer the gear from one to another.
@@Just4frends Except for the removing infusions it's not that relevant.
I didn't know you can freely remove runes and sigils and swap them around. I didn't try it. But that's good to know.
Been watching you for years and gotta say you just didn't put in enough effort into this for a review. There are a LOT of things you said you disliked that have comically easy solutions such as relics (you get 3x free per lategame character) and gear (legendary gear exists). I recommend you take a look at Mukluk's video reacting to this, he breaks it down for you.
they already removed gear from the game in a way, legendary gear can swap stats for free at any time out of combat, they are even making it easier to get this gear so that more players have that quality of life.
The novelties tab is 6 years old, my guy.
have you gotten any positive feedback on this video?
dude i really like your channel since its my place to go to look after an mmo state, but damn, this felt really half baked. did u were in a hurry or something?
16:56 F for the wasted gold on the speed relic when you got it for free via those 3 relic chests sitting in the inventory slot next to your purchased relic.
This is like a review from someone that have not played the game.
Secrets of the Obscure brought me back to the game. After having played other MMORPGs in the last few years I now realized how good GW2 is in comparison. Just for the insane quality of life the game has, exciting explorable world and no pay to win or gear grind.
GW2 is the best because you can take breaks and come back and everything you did is still relevant. no P2W like you said, no monthly sub eating at your wallet while you dont play, no FOMO. other games are fun for a minute, but GW2 is the one I always come back to.
quality of life, all of which exists in the gemstore, yet no pay to win
xd
considering you can get all items in the gem store without paying money makes it not pay-to-win@@susperdis
@@susperdis ofc not, you can buy everything with raw gold... and nothing is really.. needed in order to "win".
the vast majority plays the game and simply changes their gold into gems to get all the goodies.
@@akhsdenlew1861 convenience is p2w. why are you fighting for a worse experience and bad monetization i dont get it
legendary equipment has stat changes, so you don't have to buy new armour end game. and they added build library and tabs so you can save you equip and skill setups. the armour is also usable by all classes in that type (light,medium,heavy) once unlocked via the legendary wardrope. i think there's a guy in lions arch who tells you all this when you hit 80. you may have skipped the message
Legendary equipment are a massive grind tho and a massive time sink which was his argument in the first place.
Massive grind without paying.
@@dreammfyreif there is no type or grind then why tf even play the game? Every mmorpg has a grind either for gear or for fashion
the alternative is assended armour which you can just drop in the forge to stat change. @@dreammfyre . a lot of the things in the video are kind of you actually missed this, if you read/clicked this ingame thats explained or just up your graphic settings
Todays update actually added a merchant that sells stat selectable exotics :-D to WvW
I believe Lazy Peon's opinion is his own
and did not do justice to the expansion which is still incomplete.
Secret of Obscure is a year's worth of new content.
Guild Wars 3 is still not yet going to happen in like 20 years
with all due respect, he should at least do more hours of playing GW2 before giving his review.
Ascended gear is a BIG advantage. Gear is very important and impactful in Guild Wars 2 just not in the ways you may imagine. WvW is endgame for PvE players. The whole incentive within most content is crafting Legendary Gear with the convenience of being able to stat select on demand like you were talking about. That is the nature of vertical prog in GW2. Removing gear would completely negate the value in doing any of the content in the game and ultimately kill the game.
Very happy with SotO.
no
Legendary Weapons are linked to map discovery.if it was account wide, a player could never get more than one legendary,and there are gear tabs so you dont have to manually switch. You must have missed those two HUGE glaring features 😂
Just saying. The game nows has equipment slots/tabs that you can get in the wizard's vault or in the gem store. When using these tabs you can have one complete equipment set per tab. All itens used in the tab will count as equpped itens and will not take any inventory space. Also if you do have legendaries, you can have the same legendary in different tabs with dfiferent stats/runes or sigil/etc.
Thanks for the video. One of the reasons map completion isn't shared is due to a reward at 100% completion that's required to craft the gen 1 legendary weapons. If it were account wide you couldn't craft more than one.
I mean you actually could but it would be tied to something else other than exploration. e.g. collecting lanterns like you do after completing EOD maps..so you could get the gift of exploration for finding them over and over again, but I guess it's something they don't wanna invest more time in.
+A lot of people still use the exploration xp to lvl new chars. And maybe the best mounts have me spoiled but it's really not a ton of trouble run between a couple wps. You certainly don't NEED 100%on EVERY char
A lot of people would love an opt in or out option as well, because they don't care about legendary or have enough.
See you forgot downstate is part of ele's DPS rotation 😂
It would be nice to mention that map completion is definitely easier to do now than ever before, especially with mounts. I’ve had to do it multiple times to get to my 12th legendary which is why it can’t be account bound completion. But I can see how a player who is not interested in legendaries can see it as a chore. But you can actually just get all the waypoint unlocked from the gem store if you’re looking for a quicker option
Title should be 30 Minues of Guild Wars 2 in 2023
the og stool is kinda cool though. I remember having a campfire with a bunch of random people i met in lions arch and we all sat around it in our stools and talked for literally 2 hours late an night. Was awesome.
@TheLazyPeon you are by faaaaar my favorite mmo review content creator, but I strongly believe you missed the mark with this one.
10,000 hours in this game finally achieved. No Regrets I love this game and many more years to come, and to respond to that gw3 thing no expansions are going to be yearly now so excited for that but that doesn't mean they aren't working on something for the future but never less guild wars 2 has never been more alive.
Vanilla map completion drops an item you need for gen 1 legi
I like how he likes to chase gears in other games which gets outdated in 3 months or so, but here buying a set of gear to progress your character make him upset.
some people are just wierd
Always watching old WoW players Peon and Preach both have videos on this game maybe I should try.
Legendary gear is there allowing you to change stats without having to buy stuff or bring multiple sets in your inventory.
You don't even need to keep them in your inventory though... we have equipment tabs for a while now... you equip the gear in those tabs and switch on the fly so it doesn't clog your inventory. Funny how he missed that.
@@Kira110lol He missed that cus he doesn't really play the game.
He roams around a little bit for his videos and that's it.
The dude has 96 mastery points, that's a CLEAR indication that he doesn't really play the game.
idk if you realized after Peon, but the title card around 10:50 in the vid, showed over a town you've been too. it was a pretty cool title card to show if you were up to date with everything. seeing your town be shattered was pretty "OH WTF" moment lol
your hot take is so right, i feel the same. every time i log in and take a look in the inventory, i instantly log out. really sad. :/
I don't think GW2 is particularly difficult to get into, unless you have some long-standing habits from playing other MMOs. I also believe it's one of the easiest ones to recommend to people who haven't played Any MMOs before.
Thanks for a great review, as always. ANet have promised more content for this expansion in the future, so I think I'm going to wait until this expansion is content-complete before buying.
He's a former wow player which is an entirely different mmo to this one. I think he wants gw2 to be more like wow
I completely disagree, GW2 is a headache. But I love the game, just not invested enough to learn all the different armor types, currencies, in and out of crafting.
@devinkipp4344 lol that sounds like more of a you problem than the actual game's problem
@@porkncheese1789 You can say that, but I find the systems in FF14 so much simpler. I'd say it's one of the reasons for the larger player count, accessibility and simplicity. FF14 doesn't have sixteen different currencies . ..
@@devinkipp4344 fair enough. I played ff14 for almost 10 years and agree the simplicity is nice. But it is a flaw as well imo. If it had a bit more complexity to it, I think I would have stuck with it
For some reason this feels like a review of a person who, going into the game, already decided they didnt like it and hence didnt even try to showcase any of the features ment to solve the problems discussed.
E.g. complaining about a full inventory while having a ton of consumables sitting in your inventory or complaining about the amount of different gear while not using gear templates.
PvP Queue times are not a problem, you can queue up while exploring the open world.
Legendary gear is the "dopamine" you're looking for and has been in-game for like 8 years now. It also solves your "hot take".
i still think graphics on this game are insane, and looks really cool! i want a gw3 too but they are really fine comparing to other games
You didnt have to buy the relics, you got 3 chests with relics you can pick and choose from. They are ridiculous high prices atm since you get 3 basic ones for free on each character. And you cant sell the expansion ones which are better (you didnt mention it was a new feature). You can get sets of gear without paying gold, its all in the grind/playing. I dunno, a lot of the gripe you have is what makes guild wars well guild wars. I find WoW is way harder to get into as a new player and I tried multiple times for several years. its just not enjoyable and no reason to experience old content. GW2 has all the content relevant. And I would argue that GW2 has more than a decent business model compared to other games where you pay for the game, pay sub and pay to win elements with buying gold for gear. I can justify my purchase of heart of thorns still, but what moneys worth are people getting from the WoW expansions. Arguably you get them for free now but that content is no longer worth anything unless you like experience such things alone for lore. WoW skipped the WoW2 by releasing the same game AGAIN and people gladly pay money for it again that they already payed for before, the MMO version of skyrim re-releases. My fiance is the same with inventory but you just gotta let go of hoarding. Salavage, sell or destroy. Most things you can get a copy of even if its used for a quest and if its a collection once its registered in achievements toss all the extras. I think I have gone off topic now though and probably being to biased. But yeah, I have seen you get into grinding for stuff, get into grinding the legendaries in GW2 and when you done you can create any and all builds and stats combos you want. But you are right though, loot drops are just salvage for mats or if I get something exotic its to check the skin :D
This gives real "Being a content creator is sooo hard you guys, so I'm just going to not play it. I'll come up with ridiculous statements to stir the pot for engagement so my video does well. And then I'll delete it later like I've done for dozens of other videos if I get enough blowback from the community."
Personally I'd be embarrassed if I made this video but I guess I'm not as nearly money grubby + lazy.
You can completely gear a character for under 10g for all content except fractals so not sure I agree with the armor complaint.
I think alot of legendary weapon rewards and such are tied to map/world completions. So I'm guessing that is the reason they are not shared. I'm sure they could come up with a new system for the legendaries but I just think that is the main reason they haven't done that yet.
5:30 as an active player I must say nothing could ruin the game more, map completion is a big task I and many people love to do, it would remove hundreds or even thousands of hours of gameplay depending on how much you like it
the reason why map completion isnt account wide is because the game has the legendary weapons tied to it, if u only did map completion once youd only be able to get 2 legendary weapons from the core game
Your build is a glass cannon, berserker stat gear doesnt increase your survivability it only increases damage output. Probably why you struggled on the boss.
And his gear was rare aka yellow.
@@dravvan it's only his rings that are rares, the rest were exotic.
There are solutions to most of your complaints, but you will not know them if you play for 4 hours every year or two.
I play GW2 since it's launch from time to time and I did not care about gear or builds even once. I enjoy playing what I like to play and it's working out fine. No ever complained about my damage or gear score as in other MMOs. I think GW2 is just fine if you enjoy a relaxed MMO where you don't need to find a group to do activities. Just do whatever you want and have fun.
do you play the games you review?
I have been playing gw2 since release, have nearly 14.000 hours in the game and still having a great time. The best advice i can give a new player is to join a good guild with helping, experienced players. Since gw2 was released 11 years ago the amount of content and information might be overwhelming. Just having good advice will help you a lot (like where to start, how to get gear etc.). So you don't have to waste your time and break your head for hours, thinking about stuff or even making bad decisions. So that you can spend the most time doing the stuff you like. It will still take a lot of time to develop your skill and understanding of the game.
Your final point can be solved by legendary gear. One set of gear any stat combo you want and can we switched infinitely outside combat...
How bad you want your review to be ?
Yes.
Love the flashbang noise when he opens the bright white document lmao
Honestly, the vertical progression is Legendary gear.. Only then will there be "too much horizontal" progression. Legendary allows you to swap gears around. But I do wish there was more "Carrot on a stick" stuff
14:00 lets take the class with the lowest health & armor, give it the max dps/min def upgrades, and put it in meele. And with an unfamiliar build. Nice!^^
You are right, you are not equiped to take on bosses solo. But you should be fine on most other solo content. I'm glad they made the story boss cheeseable. There is still the optional groupe fight against her, where you cant respawn and have to fight in a coordinated groupe. it's quite fun.
That hot take was hotter than the sun.
I think this video reveals Anets biggest issue:
The education of players.
I'm not a fanboy. I have tons of gripes about things here and there. The suggestions Peon made would destroy the core player base.
No one crafts legendaries for skins. They craft legendaries because it provides gear that can be used on every toon simultaneously with hot swapstat selection.
Legendaries are literally the answer to Peons greatest criticism.
Can't blame it all on arenanet, looks like he fired up the game and went right into the expac with yellow gear on without even checking anything.
that and he doesnt know where to gear. You can gear anywhere in this game, may it be pve content, pvp or wvw, you just need to know where to get what, and that's not something the game itself tells you. for example, many people dont realise for a LONG time that competitive mode in pvp actually gives you an additional reward structure with pips. many never notice that or they do and wonder what those currencies even do.
i make legendaries just for skins or to sell em
@@finalfan321 and your father found the cigarettes
As a long term player I can say that your hot take is valid but it already somewhat exists in the very late game. Legendary armor let's you freely select stats and transmog however you like and is also account wide once you have it.
What you're asking is basically to make part of legendary gear baseline for every player from the start so I doubt it will ever happen because it would devalue legendaries too much.
Oh and I'm enjoying the newest expansion very much!
Your hot take section is 100% resolved by just getting ascended and legendary gear. Novelties aren't new and other comments have done a better job than I can with all that you missed or got wrong.
This review is sooo bad... He knows almost nothing about how the game actually works, complains about things that are 'missing' from the game that are already there, complains about his build being squishy while playing a raid glass-cannon build on one of the hardest specs to play, buys a relic of the trading post even though all of his characters got 3 free relic choices (which the game tells him once he logged in, but I guess he just skipped over it (putting Lazy in LazyPeon I guess)), etc.. Go watch Mukluk's reaction to this video if you want a better review of the expansion and the game itself, don't let this inaccurate review put you of playing this wonderful MMO.
Fr every other video about GW2 was so positive and suddenly everything from the Visuals to the combat is bad in his mind , dude plays a raid build and is probably pissed cause a noob boss fucked him up 💀💀💀 Fr this video is so bad and filled with nonsense
It's boring as 💩. Played for 6 months on launch and the community is trash as well.
@@jamessherlock6912 did we play a different game?
Honestly the map completion not being shared annoys me too
As a guy that frequently review MMOs, i think it really showed that you're not doing the due diligence to thoroughly understand the game by itself. That makes me question your review for all of the other game, ngl
Half of the hot take can be fix with legendary gear. Getting legendary gear will solve all of those issues as well as giving more sense of pride and progression to your character, since legendary are not an easy thing to get, that's part of what makes them great too. If you have it you know that you're better than most of the playerbase. Getting rid of gear will not solve any issues, it'll just make a lot of the content boring, since a lot of people enjoy doing all the content in the game because of legendaries, that's why the open world and all the game modes are so alive nowadays, that's my opinion though.
Regarding the map completion being account wide, I do agree. I find it hard to main a class and not being able to freely change to another one of my alts to try and focusing on that one, makes me wanna close the game because I have to complete the map all over again and my current main it's not clicking with me anymore so yah, if they do make map completion account wide it would be easier to choose a new main and stay more connected in the game since I wouldn't need to redo everything all over again if I want to reroll a character and I hate the idea of having a "main" character with 0% map completion.
13:37 In case you are wondering why you struggled so much, it is quite obvious.
1. you are not good at the build whatsoever, catalyst is definitely one of the hardest classes to play and requires a good amount of mechanical skill.
2. you literally play a glass canon high-end raid build that is meant to do damage and nothing else, all of the sustain is done by supports, ur asking to die. That being said you could beat her without dying if you had the mechanical knowledge. Play a build that can perform well in solo encounters. and in case you're wondering it is not the class's fault, catalyst is one of the better solo classes out there funny enough. You must love dark souls coz the build ur playing makes guild wars 2 feel like dark souls, can one shot everything but everything one-shots you too xD
As someone that just started playing the game again 2 weeks ago after a long break(wasn't even mastery rank 20), I can agree with some elements. I'm loving it, but I do have a lot of the same issues. Also, your gear sets can be saved in the equipment templates and you can get 2 of them from the AA rewards in the wizard vault. My biggest issue is getting to the point where I feel I can really branch out and enjoy alts, even though the game is alt friendly, you just have to get to a certain point in the game to make it alt friendly with a large amount of grinding done. A lot of the things that can make it feel better would require a fair bit of gems and gold, so it's really good to get your main done and that established, unlock some equipment templates, some build templates, bag slots, and that is a hefty price if you want to get a fair amount of it.
So currently, I'm bouncing around classes, trying them all out while feeling rather restricted and limited in a lot of ways with REALLY annoying inventory management, where I am sitting there clearing out the LOADS of materials and pieces of gear I'm CONSTANTLY breaking down huge stacks of with so many other items, trophies, and what not filling up my inventory on every character I have. What I ended up doing was using some characters that I don't care to play and taking everything from the bank and filling up their inventory. I don't know if it feels worse in this game because I have limited inventory or just because it throws it at me much more frequently, since I feel like I'm clearing out my inventory more frequently than doing a lot of other things in the game. Currently really enjoying Necro, guardian, Revenant, and mesmer. Thinking of making Revenant or Guardian my "mains" for now simply because of how many options you get and variety and then branching out from that with maybe necro as a focused secondary. I don't mind for the legendary grind since you can use it on any class and change all of it around, so it's sort of a reward for grinding so much in the game for it. plus they have some of the coolest, and best looking armor and weapons in a MMO that I've seen so having it be a grind, one of the few things you can do in an MMO that's horizontal, is good to me. Also, I personally prefer how the female characters look in this game more than other MMOs lol.
I will agree that the map completion not being account wide, to some degree, even if just teleports, is one reason why I'm wanting to decide on a main over just embracing the "alt" life since it's a lot of story and things to unlock on EVERY character, it's not fun to me.
What I can recommend is asking someone to sit with you and look through inventory. New players tend to struggle with understanding which objects can be safely discarded/sold, so having someone do some digging with you can lift up most of the shit that is getting in your eq.
And this is why you do research before you review a game
map completion gives matts for legendary gear.
And BL keys
Guys please, don't base your opinion on whether you should play Guild Wars 2 or not based on this review. As this is a half cooked review at best. I have great respect for the Peon, and been watching him for a while. But this, this is not it. Every issue he mentioned in the video, has a remedy.
It's better to check those kinds of reviews from actual game creators like Mukluk, Spudzie, Caffinated Gaming Dad, and myself included.
Hot take felt very out of touch ngl. There's a somewhat vertical progression of legendary crafting and all the problems you had mentioned in the "hot take" would be solved immediately. As someone with a couple legendary crafted weapons / armor, I can say that there's is most definitely a feeling of rejoice and satisfaction once I've finally finished crafting such a grind of an item. As you said, being able to just stat swap whatever gear I have is indeed amazing, and legendaries no longer take up inventory space thanks to the legendary armory!
You can ignore gear if you get legendary items. Getting a full set of legendary items is the true endgame.
As someone who is nearly done farming all the legendary armor weapons runes and sigils I would be upset if they removed gear completely. I'd have wasted hundreds of hours so that new players can pick and choose stats like I do. There would have to be some massive reward for the time I put into farming all that gear that you would now get for nothing.
I have to say, this video feels very much like you didn’t want to be playing GW2 and didn’t care to even try to figure it out. Not sure if you go into every game with as little enthusiasm as this one, but this didn’t really seem like an effort to actually PLAY the game so much as an effort to pump out a video.
I wish the map completion was account based but i think its because the reward for it is the legendary crafting component