For me, I love variety, so I play basically all content.
After my Dailies, I most often enjoy just roaming OW or WvW. Sometimes I get more invested into Fractals, PvP, or working on a specific Legendary. Occasionally I’ll jump into a Dungeon or Raid. I haven’t tried Strikes yet but they’re on my list.
My favourite is adventuring through OW with a buddy or two, especially when I don’t have a full gear set or Masteries unlocked. I prefer not using the TP because I enjoy opening bags of gear and seeing what I get. Unfortunately, there’s no way to create “seasonal” characters, nor is there an ironman mode or anything, but I’d love to see one in the future as these modes offer a really nice alternative way to play. For now, I just RP them when playing with friends.
What do you guys most enjoy? I’m curious how many players actually spend most of their time in difficult instanced group content, cause the subreddit would have you believe that most players do this, yet I recall seeing ANet mention only ~10% of players do this.
My account age is 545 days. I upgraded from free-to-play in December 2022.
Still haven’t entered a fractal, or an instanced raid, or done WvW.
Still going through story on my first character, a squishy elementalist. I’m in LW3, but have unlocked most of the PoF mounts to make it easier to do the older content.
There’s a lot more to do.
I wasn’t raiding for literally 5 years playing the game - started this year and did legendary armour. I recommend, its pretty fun, don’t even need a guild to do it.
Everything! But the gameplay in combination with the story is the real deal for me. I was a longtime player of ffxiv, loved it so far, but the lack of gameplay was driving me away from the game.
It’s just not fun to have hours of cutscene and dialoges without real gameplay and I think that guild wars is nailing this.
It’s also amazing to see such a living world, it doesn’t matter where you are, there always people around you that are actually doing stuff in the open world und playing the evens, it’s just amazing 🤩
Fully agree on the gameplay part. It’s much more engaging to actively play through story parts, than waiting for a cut scene or dialog to finish. Gw does this very good (in most cases).
For me it’s also the variety. There are some tasks that I do every day, like fractal cms and sPvP and other stuff depending on my current goal.
Deep combat. I come from a background in fighting games so having a rich combat system that I can sort of experience in different ways (i.e. in diff modes) keeps the game interesting to me no matter how I feel like experience it
I only do WvW, roaming and small scale stuff preferred, sometimes bigger squads but generally staying away from EB.
Anything with friends. Had tons of fun failing at OG dungeons back in the day with a couple friends at recommended level with zero experience. Also ton of fun progressing raids with friends and etc. WvW with friends also tons of fun. Now I mostly play raid/strike CMs with friends and that’s about all, and play solo through story or get achievements or whatever I’m working towards myself.
Combat and shiny fashion…
WvW for the most part (zerg fights) and open world pve (Total, I’d say more than 80% of my time is in wvw though)
I usually focus on one thing for some time. Fx I’ve mostly done sPvP most of the year, but right now I’m focusing on the story.
