It's nice reading everyone's views on here. I visited the GW2 Reddit and it's just one massive circlejerk on how flawless the game is.
It's nice reading everyone's views on here. I visited the GW2 Reddit and it's just one massive circlejerk on how flawless the game is.
And you'll be around 60% weaker than anyone in ilvl 970+, which is average these days. Ascended has around 5% more stats than exotic.
It's the progressive system from T1 fractals to raids in terms of difficulty and for T1 fractals you don't even need a single ascended piece.
Also I don't really understand what's your point. In half a year your gear in WoW will become less than dirt. Your ascended gear will forever be the strongest gear. It's not even comparable.
Aye every game has those people sadly who act like the game is God's greatest gift to mankind.
Rift, Wildstar, ESO, BDO, WoW, GW2, FF14, FF11, Tera, Runescape and the list goes on.
Hell even really small games such as Darkfall or Everquest are mostly a rabid fanbase these days.
970 is average? Lol what the hell.
970 is close to Mythic which make up a minority of the playerbase.
I'd say average is 945-960 at most. Definitely not 970.
And personally I prefer working towards a new level and a gear treadmill. I like that. However GW2 does it differently which I don't mind.
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This. A blind minority should not be viewed as the majority.
Although there are small games where sadly that minority is more prominent.
Stop. If you are going to lie i'm not gonna proceed having a conversation.
970 is mythic gear. Mythic that about less than 5% of the player base does. It is NOT the average ilvl. If you got 960, wich is something achievable with heroic, you will already be welcome in any pug group.
As for fractals, you are right. I forgot we did have tiers, but these tiers are linked to ascended gear aquisition. You won't be able to progress unless you craft some ascended gear as it doesn't drop (or has a stupidly low drop chance) in lower tiers.
My problem is that ascended gearing in GW2 is time consuming and boring and therefore i don't want to do it anymore. In WoW i do fun activities such as dungeons and raids to gear up. In GW2 i have to grind gold and mats, activities that i find boring, to gear up.
Therefore, i prefer this activity in WoW.
This convo is taking dumb turns. This was simple. GW2 is/was unbalanced. Devs change the balance and your best gear changes forcing you to more grind. Also, no, your gear won't be good forever as with new xpacs more optimal gear stat combinations come out wich will get you grinding again. The "you get your best gear forever" trope, is simply false.
Yup like is said, perspective depends on what game you like/know more.
Fractals in GW2 progress like ilvl and mythic+ difficulty. If you naturally progress through fractals you'll earn enough relics for ascended gear, assuming you received no drops.
Ascended gear isnt necessary for raids, they are tuned for exotics. If you're wiping due to the small bump that ascended gear gives you then your probably is skill, not gear.
Theres like 20 different ways to get ascendes gear. You dont even need the righy stats due to stat swapping.
I did that thing in Wo2 to catch up and it felt like hell. Thats before my disdain for WoWs stat system...which still isnt set in stone...changes every xpac. It feels like a chore. I change stats in GW2 to augment my build/playstyle. In WoW it feel like I have to grind ilvl to play content, too much ilvl removes any challenge.
Im not dissing your opinion just different strokes for different folks.
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You can't get armor from factals though. You need to at least craft the insignias, wich again is alot of gold/grind.
No one will take you to raids in exotics, unless it's someone willing to carry. Though i wish it wasn't the case. You also need to hit pretty high benchmarks.
You are generalizing. Theres alot of ways to get ascended jewelry. Armor and weapons are more difficult. It's either lucky drops from world bosses or complex achievement requirement aka grindy... or crafting, wich is the most reliable way. If one gets into raids, one can get it aswell, but again, it's difficult to get in without already having a set.
Theres way more stats in GW2 than WoW. Like, by far. Theres 4 secondaries in WoW and 4 primaries (and 3 terciaries, i believe. They don't matter). How many are there in GW2? I have honestly lost count. Like, that challenge thing is beyond the point for me. It's simply boring to me to get geared in GW2 It's a real chore. In WoW... i don't even notice it. It just comes naturally as i do the content. The power creep is a different issue, wich some like and others don't.
GW2 is a casual poormans WoW xD they couldn't stick to the uniqueness of GW1 so they added lots of grind for mastery/ascended/stat combo and it's no different from any other game. They've abandoned pvp.. it is embarassingly bad.
It has a couple pros like good graphics and good solo content but eventually you'd get bored by yourself I imagine so in the end you begin the grind. Ironically it takes like 9000x longer to get a legendary in GW2 than WoW. I just free boosted a 110 void elf priest and got prydaz after 2 days and I'm 913 doing normal antorus with my guild. And they say it's grindy? I get my 2nd legendary tomorrow after weekly reset.
I think my problem stems from GW2 not adding catch up mechanics as the game goes on, they merely expand the ways in which you can obtain the best gear, but not increase the speed. And gods forbid you want to have a ascended condi, support, or tank set on swap. That grind is not enjoyable either, and idk why it has no gear or skill template so you manually change shit constantly.
I played this game for years and never found 1 pre-cursor, you just end up buying everything on the trading post which is lame. Anyway that's my thoughts, it was a decent game at one point but years of cancerous pvp metasand the very very late addition meaningful content had me pretty jaded to the point I just gave up. I still haven't even tried a raid yet and probably never will. The hype is dead along with colin johansons smile kek.
I imagine it would be more fun for someone who never tried it before so why not, base game is f2p but you'll want your elite specialization and begin grinding those masteries asap in HoT or if you can get them in the new xpac I dunno. The core classes are so inferior to expansion specs it's awful -_- it's like playing your class in WoW at 110 without your artifact traits.
1. The gear you get from killing rares in Argus creates ilvl 880 ilvl gear and it is random what slots (if any) you get when you kill the rares out there.
2. We did go out to Argus and tried to get him some gear but the crafted gear is ilvl 885 so is the same ilvl and not worth it
3. If you do every single rare, every single world quest involving veiled argunite, 2-3 invasions points a day (can only do once per 6 hours because of the lockout), weekly invasion point quest, weekly quest from Turalyon, and the weekly greater invasion point you'll yield 4500-7000 argunite a week. 1 relic costs 650 argunite so you can't even get a full set of 910 per week if you farm the shit out of argunite related stuff. That's 6-10 per week if you are running every thing possible every day when you can unlock them. This is AFTER you have fully unlocked Argus too.
4. Mythic dungeons only award ilvl 885 gear unless you are doing a Mythic+. If you want to get gear that is 910 or higher you have to run a mythic+ 5 or higher. Most groups won't take you in for mythic+ unless you outgear it.
5. Gear is not guarenteed off ANY boss in LFR, noraml raids, mythic, or mythic+. It is completely random if you have the RNG to have gear drop for you. My priest has went 5 weeks running current content LFR without seeing as much as 1 piece of gear drop that was usable.
6. The fact that you CAN simply buy stuff on the trading post in GW2 that are exotics is actually the point of all this. There are plenty of exotics on there right now for under 20g each. Granted they are not BIS but we're not comparing WoW's BIS to GW2's BIS stuff.
7. The difference between WoW and GW2 on stat changes is the simple fact that those BIS pieces in WoW for a class that had their stat weights change with a patch has to literally get a whole new set of gear for it. In GW2 you can head on over to the Mystic Forge with mats and change the stats on the same day as the patch coming out if you had the mats already. Costs ZERO gold if you had the mats already. Sigils, runes, and infusions can be extracted with their respective extraction devices ($20 if you buy them from the gem store to remove all of them from your gear). When you get new gear in WoW you also have to enchant & gem them again so is the nature of upgrading/replacing gear.
You certainly can get armor from fractals though...Boxes with armor drops are a pretty regular rate, or you get purchase armor with your fractal relics.
The average group isn't gear checking you, nor cares as long as you're pulling a min amount of dps (very forgiving) or your boon upkeep is fine.No one will take you to raids in exotics, unless it's someone willing to carry. Though i wish it wasn't the case. You also need to hit pretty high benchmarks.
Ever game mode gives you access ascended armor (PVE, PVP, WVW). If you want to do the slow burn you can get earn ascended just through failing raid bosses every week for shards. I feel like ascended gear has become two accessible because before Heart of Thorns it was seen somewhat as a luxury. Now people feel like they have to have it.You are generalizing. Theres alot of ways to get ascended jewelry. Armor and weapons are more difficult. It's either lucky drops from world bosses or complex achievement requirement aka grindy... or crafting, wich is the most reliable way. If one gets into raids, one can get it aswell, but again, it's difficult to get in without already having a set.
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This is my experience with Legion. Played up and through Halls of Valor, didn't bother with mythic but there really want many upgrades left for me to get. Came back because Blizz gave players a free week. My ilvl was at 885-890 or something, couldn't get into mythics. I'm talking > level 5 mythics. Same xpac, same gear, suddenly (well not suddenly because there was like a year and some change) and I can't return content I was easily doing before. Thats what irks me about WoW.
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I've already admitted my mistake, still 960 is not that easy or fast to obtain, especially if you need some obscure stat combinations like shadow priest with shit ton of haste (I think, 13000 haste rating or so).
Ascended trinkets are pretty easy to obtain with laurels and LWS3 vendors, with attuned rings it will net you enough AR to clear T1 and T2. There are also elite spec collections and Caladbolg questline to easily acquire ascended weapon. Armor will take a while, but only the first time, considering ascended is account bound. If you want, you can even take your time and do Legendary Armor collection, legendary backpack and relatively new legendary trinkets, which will let you to keep one set of gear forever, since you'll be able to switch stats and runes on the fly.
At most it'll mean you have to switch between your Berserker and Viper sets, which won't take you that much time to acquire.
In regards to wow gear as a returnee going full casual(no mythic or NM raiding) i am able to do most open world stuff as a 880-890
The issue is wow has made such a vast ilv gap it really blocks alot of avenues for returnees or newer players. They need to look at ffxiv or old wow imo(bring back valor points i say) so you can gear up properly no matter what you do
As for gw2 ehhh depends how hardcore you play. If going pretty hardcore sole gane gw2 you can gey a basic starter gearset easy enough
Full min max..ehhh that could take ALOT longer but most will not gear gate you like players in wow do.
Not sure you realise what you are saying. Getting mostly a 910 set in one week means you get to run LFR in the latest tier and normal if you get lucky drops you go over that. Everything can war or titanforge and legendaries drop fairly quickly at the beggining which means a 1000ilvl piece.
In GW2 you ain't seeing raids for at least a month and you will be off doing boring grinds huge difference.
As for your zero gold with the biggest IF in the world says everything. As I said before, if you are a veteran player with loads of resources already, its NP. If you aren't you are screwed.
I never log into a patch in wow and I'm suddenly not raid viable. That actually happens in GW2. WoW is way more balanced. Even if you don't have ideal stats the difference is minor. Those things usually happen when new tiers come out. In GW2 there's no tiers. One moment to the next you are just not viable. It's not something I'm comfortable with.
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Are you kidding. People in GW2 pug raids require ascended AND benchmarks. No one is wow asks you a benchmark. Just ilvl and progression scores.
Fractals obviously require them.
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You can't purchase armor and weapons with relics alone, i already said that. You need the crafting marks. Those you need to craft.
The gear drops from the boxes are mostly jewelry (often with terrible stats). Armor itself is a very rare drop. In all the fractals i did i never had a piece of gear drop from a box. I did all the way to tier 3.
Mythic + scales with each tier. It's not the same content you did before. It's harder. You could easily upgrade your gear with veiled argunite on Argus by doing the weeklies or by running LFR. These are activities that take you only a couple of hours in one day of the week. You don't have to grind for gold.
I don't understand how you guys can even compare when it takes ages to get an ascended gear set in GW2 doing tasks that aren't fun.
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I think you don't understand something:
1) Gear inflation in WoW means that if you skip few months, your gear will be worse than what freshly capped character has. Not only that, it means you'll start gearing from scratch every single time you resub. It may take more or less time in any given patch, but cumulatively in WoW you will spend much more time raising your ilevel to the content you want to do than doing said content. Comparatively, GW2 might take longer to get the best gear, but it remains best forever.
2) In GW2 your build and your personal skill mean much more than your stats. Ascended by itself is a single digit percent upgrade over Exotic.
3) You hide the fact that your performance in WoW depends not only on gear, but also on overpowered NLC relics, BiS legendaries and BiS stats, which overall may mean over 20% disparity on the same item level.
4) If your definition of good path to gear is grinding the same content on million difficulties, it doesn't mean it's the definition of good path to gear.
5) In WoW raid PUGs demand better gear than you can obtain in the content you want to do with PUG, so it's community problem, not the game's.
Mythic fractals scales with each tier. It's not the same content you did before. It's harder. You could easily upgrade your gear with veiled argunite on Argus relics in FOTM by doing the weeklies or by running LFR with shards by running raids. These are activities that take you only a couple of hours in one day of the week. You don't have to grind for gold.
I don't understand how you guys can even compare when it takes ages to get an ascended gear set in GW2 doing tasks that aren't fun.
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Yeah, but really getting ilvl 960 in WoW is not a huge challenge there. It is no joke that you can get ilvl 900+ in one day, heck I'd say fraction of a day. Then in between that and WoW basically throwing boatloads of gear at you - you can get to pretty high ilvl in a pretty short time.
The biggest challenge will be sneaking into Heroic Raids, but if you have guild that will be a given.
WoW has issues, but gearing is really not one.
/sigh i'm not gonna continue this pointless back and forth.
It's my decision and my experience. GW2 is a pain to get top gear, in WoW is super easy. I have played both games, i play both games and this is the inescapable reality for me. Theres nothing more to discuss.