Finding a guild helps, I joined EVOS who runs Triple Trouble each day after reset around Midnight EST. They are a great group and helps when you want to find people to do content. Also simply posting in LFG is shockingly effective. Its really one of those "build it and they will come" type of deals. The community (in my experience after playing for a few years now) is that many people are willing to group up, just not everyone is willing to START the group.
Also, I have found lots of repeatable fun in different map metas that very organically allow you to group up with people. Besides that, if youre feeling solo play, there are tons of great collections to work on that have genuinely worthwhile rewards (herta, princess, Ley matter converter, griffon, ascended banners backpack from PoF, etc.).
That’s true, but luckily I feel there are players pretty much anywhere in Tyria. There will almost always be someone by your side at an event or there to get you back up on your feet.
It is very easy to find a guild. Just talk alot in the open chat in any mayor city or ask on starter zones. I am sure you can find alot of people to play with.
A friend tried to get me into gw2. I played for a while and my general sentiment was that there was a lot of stuff I could do, but no reason to do any of them. I don't remember much about the game, only that I described it like that to him.
I actually had an opposite reaction - I'm a f2p player and it started really strong. I loved the initial story and how you could have choices (be it how you want to do the story or dialogue choices based on your character's personality), the world and how it had actual personality through the whole meta event system and heart tasks, crafting, loads of free content - it was great.
However, after reaching level 80, getting personal story finished, crafting exotic armor and weapons I was pretty much out of things to do. I tried PvP and WvW but didn't particularly enjoy them, though Fractals were quite interesting but got basically completely ruined when me and my duo hit a wall and experienced players were just running through everything with me having to play constant catch up and bosses melting in under a minute.
Now I just occasionally log in to do dailies, maybe do some fractals too to work on some ascended gear (money for 500 crafting + the ascended rings) - that's pretty much it.
I guess that's just how F2P goes in games where most content is P2P.
GW2 has actually had remarkably little powercreep compared to other games, but even so, there's still enough that players without a glider, mounts, elite specs, etc will struggle to keep up.
I wish there was a way for players to reduce their own power in OW in exchange for slightly increased rewards, even if those rewards were account bound. Most players would go for this (I think) and it would reduce how much stuff gets obliterated in seconds without making players feel like they got nerfed.
My friends can't handle no vertical progression for some reason unfortunately. But this game was recommended to me by a friend that played it occasionally before path of fire and I play it since
My friends talked me into playing it but I only lasted a day. Any time I asked how to get anything cool the answer was always like "just play through the entire 3rd expansion"
It wasn't fun running behind a bunch of people on mounts I wouldn't be able to get for several weeks
I mean, you could literally get a raptor in less than an hour of gameplay...
Unless you're talking Warclaw in WvW, in which case yeah that sucks but then again so does all the rest of WvW. And it'd have nothing to do with the 3rd expansion.
If you didn't like it that's fine, but there's no need to make up nonsense.
I also wonder why you're here, too, if you only played for a day, didn't like it, and quit. Not saying you shouldn't be here, just puzzled as to why you'd spend your time here, that's all.