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Guild wars 2 just released a new expac and I've been really enjoying it. Lots of people online, so I'd say not dead at all.
I was just about to say. My friends wanted something to just mess around in, and I had no idea it was still as popular as it is.
Gw2 is like the sleeper MMO that no one talks about but everyone still plays. I think the lack of subscription and never raising level cap does that to it. It's a very welcoming game to pick up and put down as time allows.
I was an og GW player. I hadnt played GW in like 15-20 years? I came into GW2 just 2 months ago and was overwhelmed at first with everything an old mmo adds over the years. I finally found the play groove and we are all enjoying it, even the ones still playing WoW. So much so I might grab the living story addons.
They're a lot of fun actually. Especially if you like open world exploration. They add a lot of very cool maps.
Nice, I didn't know!
Is it still approachable if you’re someone who hasn’t played since before there were expansions for gw2? Asking for a … friend.
I'm probably not the best judge cause I've been playing semi regularly since launch, but I'd guess it's a really good time actually.
Long story short they've recently changed to a yearly expansion model with smaller scale expansions that tell more contained stories. The first one was pretty rocky, not gonna lie, but this new one is really good so far.
If you're someone who wants to go through the entire story and catch up you've got a very long road ahead of you (up to you whether that sounds good or not), but if you wanted to get back in quickly the new expansion is a totally reasonable starting point I'd say. You won't get a lot of the references, but I think you'd still get plenty of enjoyment being dumped in. I'm guessing it would feel like picking up a long running book series on book 20--there are lots of references and characters you don't know, but it's also doing its best to catch you up as a new reader and not expecting you've read it all.
Aside from story stuff, the game has had a bit of a Renaissance lately and there are a lot of new players from what I can tell.
This is EXACTLY what I was wondering about, thanks so much!!!
Good to know they acknowledge that not everyone is interested in the ff14-esque story grind where you have to travel from start through finish. Definitely going to at least check it out. Heard something about where you can do dungeons solo-party? I think that was gw2.
Anyways the book series comparison is perfect 👌
Most of the game is solo-friendly. Some things are very difficult to solo, but if you get really good at the combat system it's still possible.
Coordinated end game party stuff isn't my bag so much, so I'm not sure about soloing it. There are a lot of different things you can do with different names that all amount to dungeon/raid style content. The things actually called "dungeons" are all from the original game and are really old at this point. The newer 5 man dungeons are called "Fractals", and there are also 10 man raids, and 10 man boss only encounters called "Strike Missions" (basically a single raid boss with no dungeon around it).
"Dungeons" as a general term is understood to be "group content".
In GW2, these are:
Thank you!! Fantastic comment content.
I’m not sure exactly what I was referring to earlier, because it’s not in your description 😂 Too much longbottom leaf. I love that they put raids in tho! That’s my jam.
And they are even working on GW3. I really liked GW2 but I am not sure if it's worth coming back after years. But my hopes are up for the new one.
Well that's the rumor at least. No actual news about that one yet, right?
according to some sources they said that they started working on it. but they also didn't want to confirm it later.