Is Guild Wars 2 Still Worth Playing in 2024 | Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure Review

We are back, and so is Arena Net's Guild Wars 2 is back! with the new expansion Secrets of the Obscure here to add more content to the world of Guild Wars! Watch this video as I rant bout PvP and Story, as I break down what makes this game so special! Also yes yes i did update the thumbnail and title to be 2024 because my thoughts are largely the same and the video still applies all the same! Still good stuff!

[@Kuskash]

Strongly agree about the poor marketing. This game is AMAZING they should market it a lot more.

[@meowmageddon]

Front page of steam would go far imo

[@padarousou]

I was thinking if it was on consoles it would easily be the #1 MMO

[@eZgr]

introducing gw2 in consoles could skyrocket it @@padarousou

[@micenabled9418]

Yeah I didn’t even know GW2 had a new expansion until I just randomly came back

[@TwelveTables]

One thing you don't understand about the open world vs loading screens. GW2 servers have only been down for roughly 20 hrs over 12 years. Because of the map based system GW2 does not go offline to update the server. It can run 2 versions of the game at the same time. Opening maps and closing them as needed allowing for server size to rapidly adjust to the player base. This allows you to maintain a lagless connection even if the entire world is in a single area.

[@itsnanablitz]

I understand it a techincly choice, and I’m not saying it shouldn’t have been the case. But it sticks out especially sense it did open worlds right, I feel it’s esspeiclly a disservice to the way mounts work as I find they are the mouth fluid of any mounts in any game I’ve played

[@attinger117]

Legendary gear is supposed to be the endgame goal to work towards as far as gear is concerned. Legendary gear has the same stats as ascended gear but it’s still a desirable goal to work towards for several reasons including aesthetics, major conveniences like changeable stats, runes and sigils can be infinitely removed or put back in, and you don’t need transmutation charges to change the appearance.

[@embreis2257]

in a game with _horizontal progression_ the player is the one setting the goals, deciding their destiny and what to work for. sure, in GW2 it is easier to keep yourself busy when you are into fashion, aesthetics and cosmetic features, in short: *blingbling* . if that doesn't rock your boat, as in BananaBlitz's case it seems, then maybe collecting titles in PvP could be an incentive to show your supreme mastery of the game over other players. gear certainly isn't and shouldn't be your primary driver and motivation to play the game lest you get excluded from all the fun parts as in other games with vertical progressions. instead in GW2, you can aim to constantly better yourself, master all the classes and their specialisations and test yourself against other players. unless your name is _Vallun_ (cf his YT channel) or someone like him, this goal alone can occupy you for many years. looking at the devs and expecting them to set goals for you like in an endless treadmill having you chase the latest gear iteration in order to meet the entrance criteria for some _end game content_ is something no player with self-respect should do. we should shun games which teach us this mindset

[@Olterior]

@@embreis2257 This is the most accurate take of the whole mmorpg genre. We keep asking for an MMORPG we can immerse ourselves into, yet we keep chasing these gear threadmill games, that leave little time for us to do anything else in the game. How many people have quit mmorpgs because they simply burn out cause they were chasing that gear so they can do the "fun" content. GW2 you get to do the "fun" content quick, even if it's not the best idea to jump into fractals/strikes as a fresh 80. The fact that the games power gain comes from you getting better at the game is far more acceptable for me and many people. Like it mimmics a real life skill. You practice(aka play) and practice, and you get "stronger" because now you can dodge, you know when to use what ability, you have situational awarness. I Love CS, and I will always be a CS player first, but the reason why GW2 works for me so well is because of the fact that there is that "skill" element to power gain. In Lost Ark, you straight up can't do content without the correct gear since you just won't do the damage numbers needed no matter how good you are at the game. So whilst the game does have a skill ceiling, it's heavily limited by your playtime/wallet. GW2 comes close to my dream. An MMO where the ultimate power chase is to create a level 1 character with no gear and basic weapon and solo the hardest content in the game/a team of level 1s solo the hardest raid.

[@padarousou]

I luckily just happen to come by this game a couple weeks ago browsing steam. I havent enjoyed an mmo in years and with how casual friendly this game is, it really delivers the ideal mmo experience in a reasonable amount of time

[@zer0homer]

Welcome to the game, hope you like festivals and all the lot of content ahead ;)

[@Notsram77]

I absolutely adore the world of Tyria. They've secretly been building a massive, amazing game for the last 10 years, and most people don't know that it's there.

[@nielsjensen4185]

Completet he achievement Seasons of the Dreagons and after that you'll want all the Legendaries you can get.

[@sharku117]

Did you just call Celestial CRAP for open world survival?!?!? MY MAN! That is THE gear to not die in end game zones...only use literally ANYTHING else for group content that you want higher DPS or higher buff uptime....

[@theOnlyMaggux]

i also dont understand. Im playing a celestial-hyprid-necro-heal for open world. enough damage for everything. and You just cant die. .. also played it often in strikes

[@itsnanablitz]

I must direct you to our lord and savior, viper gear, why have everything when you can melt things

[@theOnlyMaggux]

@@itsnanablitz because with celestiaal gear, everything is like a walk in the park. even the 80zones. and my cele-harbinger is a unstoppable killing-machine in wvw

[@zearcjustice7837]

herald love celestial 🤣

[@Insig385]

lol celestial crap lolololol i get the misconception, but believe it or not, cele is actually super OP especially for stuff like open world, roam wvw, and it was so broken that anet had to remove cele stat stuff from pvp. if you add up the numbers, cele actually gives higher amount if stat compared to more specialized builds. a lot of classes can make good use of all the stats (like ele, guards etc) so cele is actually incredibly op. it also allows much better survivability because you get extra def, hp, and healing power as well. its when ppl switch to berserker gear or viper (for condi builds) that itll be harder to survive in open world.

[@itsnanablitz]

Survival is lame, real gamers go full viper and let die, taking everything out with you

[@sneky1723]

As an advise on what you can do when you feel lost : - Try and go to max mastery point (514 if I'm correct) : to go and get xp on matsery to train, and go and do achievments for the mastery points to unlock them . Its what I'm currently doing and so far, been quite great. I've been replaying the whole story to do the achievements and I find it quite fun -Hunt for legendary gear : they are basically gear with same power lvl as ascended, but that can change stats when u want, and share on all your caracters. Also they usualy have some special cosmetic effect, so its always nice. They are very long term project though, and you clearly shouldn't rush it

[@MusPuiDiTe]

Yep, just make your first legendary, it's addicting afterwards!

[@Arrow333]

In addition to that: Use your achievement panel to pick a few goals to track all the time. This not only applies to the legendary collections, but also for all other long term goals, hidden side stories and rewards. Although you might already made use of that given your progress. But there might be others reading this dealing with the same problem and not yet using it.

[@Ntric8DsastR]

I just started playing GW2 and just found this vid and your channel. You just earned a sub. I liked the video and even though it was on the longer side it was engaging and not boring. Good job in my book. (Not that I know what or where or even which library my books in, but thats beside behind and on top of the point)

[@vdrandom]

32:05 Just a note on addons: they are not officially supported! The fact that updates break them is pretty normal, since developers don't consider them when making updates.

[@Tillionz]

So I would say, as some one who played this game in college with so much free time, to now being some one with a full time job and an active social life with tons of hobbies and career goals, Soto and the wizards vault has given me more than enough content to do with feeling like I still don't have enough time. Also the story of Soto is probably some of the best writing gw2 has had in a long time. I just hope they don't rush too hard on the quality of the content and keep up the quantity cause this expansion feels great so far, we shall see what the quarterly releases give us.

[@AATproducer]

great video.... but Celestial gear is absolutly viable. The thankiest build in the game is currently a vindicator using celestial gear and you can facetank some bosses solo

[@itsnanablitz]

Ok but have you considered, condo damage go brrrrrr

[@MrPhyxsyus]

​@@itsnanablitztry soloing a legendary champion on vipers and then try on celestial.

[@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777]

​@@itsnanablitz I have a condi dps druid build with full celestial for open world and she's pretty much unkillable, everything in her immediate vicinity is cc'd to hell, and condi damage for daaaays. 😂

[@ryanvergara3603]

There are MMOs...and then there's Guild Wars 2.

[@Keinish79]

The game did not get old, it matured. Biggest plus of horizontal progression is that you can take a break from it and come back whenever and you will have to do little or nothing at all to catch up. There are people that will like this and others prefer a constant grind since it focuses where to go in a game. It really is up to you. In this games the achievements work like sort of your quest log. You can also focus on the story. Or you can do whatever you want since the game gives you xp and/gold/crafting materials for whatever activity you chose to do. This did not used to be the case for people playing PvP or World vs World, but that was rebalanced some time ago. You mentioned having technical issues launching the game and that seems weird to me, I can only present my experience and what I have heard from other players, but in general the game is super stable. Like in ten years I have only had to reinstall the game once due to technical issues. Oh, the game has no downtime. When an update hits you have some hours before needing to leave the game to update it. One of the advantages of the game maps being instances. The other advantage is that it uses megaservers, so all players from your region will be directed to an active map. Most of the time you will see people running around wherever you go unless you go into instanced story bits. One of the faults of the game developers is that they kept reinventing the wheel. So there is content that you might like and will not get more of it into the game. Dungeons and raids for example, underwater combat, stuff like that. What is there is a good basis that could be improved, but it will not come to pass under that name or system. If you are lucky, every now and then you will have a week with a spotlight on that activity you like. But that's it. I find Guildwars 2 to be a great companion game. You can play other stuff and fall back to GW2 whenever you are in between other things. It being a buy to play game helps a lot in that sense. But it's good enough to be your main game too. Those who play the game wil find that it is definitely not for everybody, but it welcomes everybody that wants to give it a try. I don't agree with everything you say in the video, but I find your opinion fair.

[@coridulou]

2:14 - Lost interest the moment you said only 3 classes are good.

[@krissparrrow]

lowkey, he should try all classes xD

[@Buran01]

Agree in most of it, except 3 things: 1) Celestial stats are amazing, strongest gear choice for most of builds o¡in OW PvE and in a good amount of WvW builds also. 2) Conquest is the main and best PvP mode, Stronghold the worst. Playing alonme and in a conformed team are entirely different experiences; you should try the later over voip if you really like the game mode. 3) You goal as a player should be A) having fun and B) get your character(s) in fully legendary gear. Since leg gear is shared in the legendary wardrobe across all your characters and build templates once you unlock a legendary item it becomes a superb piece of conveneince, since allows the player to reset the stats, the skins, the sigils/runes/infussions as many times as they want at 0 cost, requiring only to be out of combat. The QoL legendary gear provides is INMENSE, once you have a few you can't go back and getting full legendary becomes a main goal.

[@itsnanablitz]

I know that numerical celi is strong, I just find it boring and unfocused, but I also put all my gear into focus one stat, usally condi or precision. I’m sure Jack of all stats will work for a decent portion of people, although nothing will be the satisfaction of melting enemies with full condi focus

[@xecor4450]

@@itsnanablitzit is not strong just numerically. It is one of the strongest stat practically in almost all classes in open world because gw2 doesnt treat classes as other games where your role is defined. Every class can heal self, give boons, do hybrid power and condi damage. If you focus on power you lose on boon duration and condi duration hence you cant buff yourself well hence you lose damage. There are like so many pure power or condi build that do lower dps than celestial cause they cant buff themselves and this is reality. Ofc in raid or other instanced content where you have roles defined you would want to focused gear.

[@Buran01]

@@itsnanablitz Well, the thing is that numerically the gear with 4 stats (as viper or marauder) provide a +9.35% increase in stat points compared with 3 stat gear (as berserker or asassin, did the maths myself), but celestial provides a +74.38% stat increase compered with 3 stat gear, so as long as your build makes use of every stat (and there's plenty of builds of that kind) will have a massive advantage. I'm not saying 3 or 4 stats that won't work (example: WvW Willbender is stronger with Dragor or Maruder stats than with celestials, or Bladesworn with Asassin since that specs doesn't deliver condition damage and wastes points with cele), but with Firebrand, Mirage, Harbinger, Reaper, Eles, most Rev builds... Celestial is just stronger.

[@PrypeciowyHovnozer]

@@itsnanablitz Wait, what kind of enemies do you even melt - people pick celestial to survive through solo champion/legendary encounters without necessarily memorizing all boss mechanics. I can only agree that cele sucks for new players who didn't boost their character - it's stupidly expensive.

[@t0m_x011]

Amazing video, subbed for sure!

[@lestermorales782]

I didn't realize it were a 30+ mins vid until you said that. Nice job

[@KuroSy]

What I like about gw2 is that it's a good game wheter you have plenty of time to grind or few free time to dedicate to it. Every kind of player can find their personal goal even tho it could be hard to understand what it is. Imo the goal should be having fun so it depends on what you personally have fun with. If it's fashion then you have plenty of monthly objectives considering events and black lion chests and shop constantly add pieces to the already vast in game achievement system (you just have to dig in your achi interface to find out cool stuff). If it's about trying out builds then legendary gear is a great objective (which also adds up to fashion). With soto they added the Vault which imo gives nice daily, weekly and seasonal objectives with skins, gear and gold and is a super useful goal for both fashion and gearing up objectives said above! I see you like the competitive side and playing with friends and I think you did yourself an injustice not digging more into wvw. Despite being a meme in the wvw community, devs are really moving towards to a new system based on guilds fight. In few words, you will be able to be in the same match of your designated guild and this will make it super easy to play with friends! While this feature has been promised for years, it's now in an advanced state and 2024 will be a decisive year. You and your friends can still farm some gold from pvp, pay 500 gems (or zero, if it's your first time transfering) and move to a low populated server and have plenty of fun together in wvw while waiting for guild alliance system. GvG is extremely fun and all the builds are really focused on doing their specific role, with dps dealers running on the same squishy stats played in pve. Open field roaming is more bunker-y but the real great thing is that your group can theorycraft their own playstyle and composition and come up with your own strategy.

[@zxzx24th]

And lovely to see more videos from you Yellow Banana fox!

[@thegrowthcode3624]

I like your voice and the way this is presented! Well done, i subscribed :)

[@SeeHang]

pretty good complicated breakdown for gw2 combat and it’s pretty fair i think. enjoyed the video

[@hilding2063]

It's a great game and always a pleasure to get back to.

[@irispounsberry7917]

Great video! If you want a good comparison on how the game has grown, I'd recommend the original glowing review video from Angry Joe - it was his #1 best game for 2012. I also liked the review from Zero Punctuation and Jocat's Character Creator Critique. I agree that the game could use a better task list in the game to help keep track of goals. I keep a small pad of paper on my computer desk for that purpose. As a suggestion to players new to level 80, there's the mastery system for expansion owners and diving into the Fractal 'dungeons', which is available to everyone. Higher level Fractals are great for getting gold and loot which makes other goals a lot easier to achieve. And, with so many different game modes and activities to do and try out, as Angry Joe said too there's a little something for everyone. Try something out, be up front that you are new to the content (as the playerbase is friendly as a whole), and see if you like it. I was hoping that when the water dragon came up that we'd get more underwater content (as I like it too), but that didn't happen. Still wondering if with the faster expansion release schedule that they'll make one of them underwater. Anet has improved their 3rd dimension indicators in SotO to help with handling spatial awareness, which I personally think is the problem that most players have with the underwater stuff, so there's stuff that they could apply to that content. There was something you pointed out that I think you didn't quite fully connect with a later point you made. You said the game is somewhat pay to win and pointed out the gems to gold conversion that's available, but later on you questioned why you would want to grind gold as an endgame activity. In the design of the cash shop, they soft capped what little pay to win is argued to exist! Anet has also addressed a lot of the cash shop criticisms they've gotten over the years - legendaries on trading post for gold (people arguing gold for power)? They didn't do that for the later generations of legendary weapons, in addition to the game as a whole being more skill based rather than gear based. Random mount skin licenses? Even after designing them in the first place with a limited list and protection against getting repeats (so you could only get so many before you'd wind up with all of them), they did add the selectable license to the shop. Black Lion loot chests have a well known key farming method that can be done for free (if you don't mind dedicating a character slot to it), which is different than just raising up the gold for the gems for it.

[@uniquename111]

I just want to add that in EU fractal groups with randoms happens all the time and our lfg-finder is full of groups with all sorts of requests and if you can't find yours, make your own and people will join. For some reason in NA people wait for others to make groups, but when noone do, nothing happens and the lfg there is empty. Until that one guy add one and boom in sec it is full of people who was sitting there waiting. It is very strange and was always like that but only in NA, but what i want to say with it, fractals are done every day with randoms, just make sure to read the group text, come with a build that add a recent amount of dps and you can check this all by your self in the raidlobby at the dps golem to make sure you do more dps then the support and you are good t go =)

[@Aereton]

^this, only time I have a little bit trouble finding ppl to do fractals on EU is when it's 4am in the morning on a workday or something

[@mrwolf7468]

Ty buddy for helping GW! Ive been only playing this game for many many years and i will still continue to do!

[@slapplayandpudimgame1035]

Loved your review and wish you a lot of success because if it wasn't for you I would buy and play this Gem

[@MusPuiDiTe]

The underwater combat is AMAZING!!! But, to my understanding, we are the minority...many people don't like to manage combat in a 3D environment, and plenty have voiced their hate for it, so ANet just left it there...and I'm still here hoping to see one day a full underwater map, with a Largos city or something (underwater PvP!!)

[@zer0homer]

I am a player of 11 years and I sit on my Kraitkin and yet to assemble legendary spear and waiting. We have SotO in air, now can I have my largos addon next pretty please?

[@lionmeows]

This game is trash and this person MusPuiDite search the internet for Guild Wars 2 content and comments on everything like they are important and we won't eventually discover that Guild Wars 2 is trash.

[@MusPuiDiTe]

Incredible, I watch content about one of my favorite games and comment on 'em, who would have thought it possible... 😆 I really liked the different point of view you offered with your videos on the game, it's unfortunate how things turned out...no need to undermine other people tho, everyone can enjoy different things 😉

[@lionmeows]

@@MusPuiDiTe Cult member distributing lies to innocent gamers.

[@Scott_Silver]

You can also just play staff mirage and break the game with mirage cloak Edit: WvW at face value is what you said, but it is the actual Guild Wars. The GvG can become incredibly hardcore and is almost entirely based on sustain like heal brand and Druid and not sheer dps. This is as someone who only played sPvP for years.

[@pantheraleo2820]

Oh man, I forgot how much I loved playing stronghold when it was populated on launch... I haven't tried in some time, I guess I forgot about it after the ques got long as people returned to conquest pushing more and more poeple to also switch to conquest 😢

[@danielfreitas9301]

About horizontal progression for people who are not familiar with the game: you can work towards legendary gear, which are not more powerful than than the tier below and only slightly better (5% I believe) than the one before that. But legendary has two distinct things that makes them worthwhile: distinctive looks and convenience. And the looks are not only in aesthetics but also in VXF it adds to your attacks and interactions with the world. But even if with this you don’t care, there’s the other aspect. See, it is true that power level is the same. However, once you deck your ascended gear a certain way, it costs a lot to change it. A legendary you can swap its stats and sockets as much as you want outside of combat. Also they ara account, and not character, bound. A huuuuuuuge improvement over the tier below, even though you will not perform any better with them.

[@xecor4450]

You gotta fix your graphics. Turn off more resource intensive settings and put the ones that affect graphics the most on high. So you can have good looking game and high fps. There are ton of videos on yt. Edit: Also you can swap world in wvw. You also get 1 free swap, other than that you can get swap with gems.

[@xyr3s]

Currently ive made making 3 sets of legendary armor my goal lol. After that? Not entirely sure :p

[@0Nuxx0]

One of the commanders i followed, when i started World vs World, had played GW2 for 6 years before he left the game, he only had 6 mastery points on hes account and was one of the best commanders i ever play with. So you can do absolutly nothing after you reach lvl 80 on this game, and still have tons of fun every day.

[@tobiasstamenkovic9628]

Regarding progression: Keep playing for a bit, your crafting skills and/or a focus on what your supposed to do will emerge once you get into legendary crafting. Ofc they arent any better than your ascended stuff, but since you can make infinite copies of them it makes being an build-/alt-a-holic alot less painful. Masteries are a big part ofc and then theres achievements that give you nice stuff like the Fractal Reliquary. This game has enough stuff to keep you entertained for years, its pretty insane.

[@Dakota56]

I honestly don’t know why this guy isn’t more popular. His videos are good

[@itsnanablitz]

Cuz I have the time management skills of a pumpkin and get sidetracked by new hobbies. In this case it’s Tekken 8 and Blender. So videos never get done in timely manners-

[@PVDH_magic]

Never had any login/start-up issues in all my years of playing the game since release. Weird that you have so many issues :O

[@musichaven7598]

Nah, I suggest to main elementalist immediately =D

[@curtis5799]

The game is pretty great. The only reason I don't have charr and asura characters IS because the clothing modeling is abysmal. That's wild about getting the game to start.

[@Feraor112]

Friend you need to focus on making legendary armor it seems meh i have ascended but its a OOO i want to try these stats these combos i promise its soooo much better once u get it.

[@itsnanablitz]

I have been slowly chipping at it although it’s not my priority, partly because I can’t commit to one class or weapon for a charater so I haven’t really hunkered down on getting one, although I have been enjoying the bits of condi warrior I’ve been trying

[@avirei98]

Honestly, it is the most casual friendly MMO out there and they understand that now. I think they understand that their target audience is aging and the new generation isn't getting into MMOs like that and guild wars is going to adapt to the fact that there are Target audience is aging. And I'd say my favorite thing about the game is you will most definitely find a play style that suits you. And you can follow the meta build. But it is more fun if You come up with your own bill that fits how you like to play. I play a mesmer and I've always made a bill that fits how I like to play. Only one time was I ever kicked from content and it was because someone saw me use a skill that wasn't on the meta bill that they thought I was playing. It was only one skilled different from the meadow build and it kicked me because I said I wasn't doing optimal DPS because of that one skill. When I did just fine in the raid no downing did all the mechanics correctly and it was the only time I ever had a negative experience in this game and the decade I've been playing most of the time. No one cares. As long as we can get the content done. No one cares. And my bills have always worked for me for me to feel like I am immortal being able to solo content people need help with most of the time. That's why I play the mismer. It allows it's skill set to adapt to my needs. And ever since the chronomancer has released, I have loved the idea of buffing myself to immortality and I currently play a power virtuoso who is selfish was balloons like I have high up time all the bones for me except for alacrity because the only way I can generate that is through the signet of inspiration. So sometimes I get it and most of time I don't have it unless someone else is giving it to me. But I up the duration on all these bones and I feel like my only real weakness is if I was in PvP anybody with bone rip or Boone convert will destroy me. But in PVE I am a goddess myself to high heaven. Able to maintain max stacks of vulnerability and might with infinite fury and swiftness and quickness and I can generate pretty much stability and resilience on command. Oh with pretty much permanent upkeep on regeneration and protection and I can generate the aegis on command. The bill just does it for me😊

[@INDAREVISH]

Man, healing in gw2 can be fun, just as any other build, just gotta find the one that fits your style

[@MarineCARMINE]

Loading screens are a non issue. WoW may be open but it's actually empty af.

[@itsnanablitz]

Yknow, one of my favorite things in gaming is just wandering the overworld of wow, and I agree, it is empty. But if I’m bein real, I kinda like it, from a wandering standpoint, if I’m doing quests then it’s a problem tho, but the emptiness does make it feel more “real” then other open worlds, but yeah I don’t like loading screens

[@lorenzoescoboza9801]

Are the bad clases balanced with the new Expansion or do they still suck?

[@arjansharma]

there are no bad classes in gw2 it depends how you want to play the class and with the different type of build choice each class can play your avg heal tank and dps. Granted some classes are harder than other. So to understand if the class works for you play them once and see if they rock your boat. I have changed my main class 3 times as each time i tried new class i understood what makes it work and if i like that. Edit: you can watch caffinateddad video to understand each classes he even touches on elite specs as well

[@ch.k.3377]

If there weren't the separate maps + loading screens, then GW2 would probably have problems like WOW with its lags in the events. The mega servers that GW2 uses are very good and therefore there are always enough players on the maps.

[@ChroDaX]

downloading it rn cuz of the video thx

[@JustPixelNoIDontWantAnyNumbers]

Also, regarding the underwater stuff, i have one very specific complaint: Revenants Trident is fucking amazing, with the weapon skills having different effects based on the currently invoked Legends. And I am so fucking mad that Trident is the only weapon that does this. Also: Celestial is arguably the best for Open World and pretty good in WvW. (Also because Guardian is broken as fuck, you can just play celestial Firebrand and clear literally every raid while carrying your team with stability and aegis. It is ridiculous.)

[@GW2MindOfAMadman]

Underwater Ranger is the most powerful class in the game. Underwater combat is good. Your opinion is good.

[@myselfme767]

I love the new expansion. I’m not into the story at all in general , I don’t like it or follow it and the story in the new expansion is somehow not annoying at all and goes faster. I love GW2. I’m far from having perfect gear, I’m working on my ascended gear atm and on getting the new skyscale,but you know sometimes I log in and I want to do something different than my daily routine and what I love about GW2 is that there’s always an event going on, no matter where you are. Even when you’re leveling up, you’ll be making quests and all of a sudden a bunch of people shows up, like 50 people out of nowhere with their cool mounts and fashion and stuff and you go with them and you all fight a huge boss 🎉❤ How cool is this? So sometimes I just randomly teleport to a map and there’s something to do there and the best part you’ve never wasted your time,your account is always progressing.

[@alphazero5249]

I can confirm it can run in dirt. I have a laptop with a 4th gen intel processor and integrated graphics and runs decently, except when there's big groups of players of course.

[@Olterior]

I just upgraded to 7800x3d and 4070ti and I can confirm the game just shits the bed anytime there is a meta if I keep my settings high. My only gripe with the game is the constant need ot change my settings depending on the content I play. But it's only a small gripe and I can live with it.

[@GT-legendary]

1:58 BROO let em know!!!

[@Luaren]

Yes

[@jr-f2354]

I find it interesting that you asked why there are no new raids and then you answered the question in the next sentence by saying you wouldn't choose it over a strike 'in a million years'. And they take 'forever' and are difficult to complete.:)

[@dragoonism]

Short answer: yes

[@aries4378]

Guild Wars 2 is quickly starting to replace FFXIV as my prime mmo. What's really selling me on GW2 is the fact that the armor and weapons I grind for in GW2 don't immediately become irrelevant whenever the next expac drops like they do in FFXIV. When I look at my gear in FFXIV, I feel disappointed because I know that all the work I put in is ultimately pointless as that armor set will inevitably be obsolete. In GW2, all of the legendary weapons and armor are STILL top of thr line.

[@diannahimi7822]

Horizontal progression is the main thing that makes me 'quit' every now and then. Sometimes I specifically make a new character, just because of the verticality during leveling, armor being stronger, with better stats, new visuals to it, same with weapons. Once I reach 80, I feel stuck and glued in place in terms of progression, and at the same time it feels like I am placed on a different type of treadmill, which seems more collection oriented, rather than RPG-ish character development. I actually prefer vertical gear and spells progression, because it gives me the illusion of character growth. The system that GW2 utilizes seems stuck on a dead end in terms of strength gain at level 80 and everything shifts into mostly fashion and visuals, while my character remains the same, stats-wise, for years..

[@bluefacestan1826]

I lowkey wish msg guild wars 2 had more players it a really good game if want to play the expansion story’s by yourself and a good mmo

[@Forgotten_Moon]

15:06 I thought about it actually and I also noticed that WoW players often complain about how laggy the game is now. And I believe that is the reason. There is no loading screen meaning the maps are on one server, and it causes some issues: 1. when there are a lot of players logging in, even if they are on different maps, it feels laggy. 2. Bz doesn't have a mega server so far, so only the players within the servers/ link servers can see each other(unless you are in the same group? I heard you can teleport to the leader's map even if you are not in the same server), and it makes the world feels empty bc the population cap has been limited at the 1st place. GW2's loading screen means each map has its server so the capacity is bigger. Preach noticed it as well. He was amazed when there were 70-100 players doing the same meta event around him, and his setting didn't need to be lower, and he still feels the game was smooth, no issue. I started to think about the pros and cons of WoW maps and GW2 maps when Dragonflight was released. Bc I have to admit, I wish our griffon could fly across maps without interruption. How to connect the junctions of maps would be a big project, and how to deal with the map cap would be another difficulty. I heard Anet is working on a bigger cap of a map so the overflow map during meta can be reduced or removed. We might see more ppl around us doing the same bosses and no one would be left out due to disconnected or late arrival. But it would be even more difficult to achieve the seamless map junction.

[@itsnanablitz]

Oh no I completely agree with the lag thing, though I’m sure it has a part in it I don’t think the seamless maps are the reason, I think most of it has to do with it being on a decade old engine combined with all the new stuff that’s been added, plus more polys

[@joyboy6067]

Hard disagree on griffon,one of the main selling point of gw2 is mount,their uniqueness is what makes them,if griffon can just fly flat like a plane it just ruin it,beside we already have skyscale for that,which kinda sad really that anet make it super easy to get now because many new player i encountered go straight to get sky scale and eliminate the need for other mount

[@Forgotten_Moon]

@@joyboy6067 I don't see what we disagree about. I was talking about flying/riding/running/swimming/rolling ACROSS the map without a loading screen. This means I hope we can TRAVEL ACROSS like from AB to TD or from TD to DS since these maps are connected together. So I wasn't talking about how long can griffon fly, I have no issue with our griffon. You know we can't travel across our maps without loading screens, right? Just want to make sure we are on the same page. There is nothing to do with how griffon/skyscale flying.

[@joyboy6067]

@@Forgotten_Moon yea my bad

[@Forgotten_Moon]

@@joyboy6067np ;3

[@asfsdfh]

can confirm that it could run on a poop potato. asked my friend to play with me, she keeps telling me shes lagging through a month of gameplay. i asked her what she was using to play and she told me she was using an old chromebook w/ intel celeron.

[@TheEzkiez]

Short answer: FUCK YEAH!

[@Anonymous-vw8ei]

didnt u release that video a few months ago? i like it anyways

[@itsnanablitz]

Nah, this is longer and better then my first one, plus it’s more fleshed out cause I’ve been playing for longer

[@OldTime--Gamer]

Loading screens !!! I feel yam but the server way of working is for each map and shard is opened when a map is full so that is why you dont have servers like in WOW. If we had open world we would have the server infrastructure same as WOW and other MMOs!

[@ruslana5350]

I hope one day this game comes to console too

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

There is also that each weapon type has a different set of attacks. I also love underwater combat. But the thing I love the most is that is massive and you can explore with anyone without feeling being a drag on no one. That's because your stats lower depending on the area you are in. So a level 80 player can still die on a level 20 zone. Overall, is a well done game. Just avoid crafting as is a money pit. Spent more money on the gem shop that I would want to admit.

[@stronghold8162]

In started a while ago

[@OldTime--Gamer]

unlocking all Mounts, unlocking the abilities of the mounts, Mastery points u have just like 36 , WVW level and traits ??? !

[@manictiger]

Solve loading screens with SSD. I have used HDDs for a very long time, but when I saw that a 500gb Samsung SSD was 28 bucks, I decided to stop being a boomer. Yes, it is a massive big difference. It even doubled my frame rate.

[@fedesotilpazzo91]

yeah the action camera its a nope dont use thrust dont use it turn it off

[@DravalonWolf]

i had the same feeling in wvw couldnt play with my friends thats why i quit playing that mode unless if i still continue crafting legendary trinket but other than that its just bummer and boring to play :/

[@ericshiel]

As far as PVP is concerned, GW2 is the only MMORPG that has gotten it right for me.

[@MusPuiDiTe]

Well made video: most of videos of this type have a tendency to start good, just to mash together too many things or rush the more you go on, creating confusion and losing focus. You kept it consistent till the end, and boy it does show!

[@itsnanablitz]

Thank you! I will admit I know I was losing steam in the VO on the latter half as I was coming up with sickness and my voice was giving in, 2 hour recording sessions are not kind on the cords

[@m0nk3yscr4tch]

Legendary gear is the endgame... And you really missed out on the achievements of the game, seems not only on the video but also for yourself. Make the Astralaria achievement and appreciate the beauty and secret strength of GW2, that is bringing people together for all reasons possible. No other mmo makes the world as alive as gw2 and thus makes it the only real mmo remaining.

[@SariatheFrostMage]

Uploaded 13 hours ago and only 8 comments? Absurd! I just found this channel because I watch Mukluk, so it's probably no coincidence. I played tons of Gw2, and I agree with most of what you're saying. PvE, yes, great. But also, your advice on dropping Celestial is not the best. New players should keep Celestial until they've really learned the game. Also, certain builds (like Druid) work really well with Celestial. Also keep in mind that the devs build all content AROUND Exotic Celestial for this reason; even the toughest raids are made with Celestial in mind, because they expect most players to need a bit of everything to make it through. For PvP, my advice for new players is to play around on every class they can spend a character slot on, to understand how they work, and for them to realize that there WILL be a guy with 14k hours who will pop up in your lobby every 2-3 matches, and will make you eat dirt. Also abuse LoS and carry 1 CC, 1 Stun Break, and 1 movement option minimum. For Raids, IMHO they're innaccessible content for most players. Strikes fill the shoes of a raid, minus the adds. It's like a one-dip large boss battle, and that's what people want. I'd like to see raids, but I feel like that niche is covered by Fractals. Armor - yep, wonky on the meows. And I would argue that some of the best sets are made by the piece. The Cash Shop is the best way to handle financing for an MMO, IMHO. Gw2 does it right. Buying gold only solves tiny issues you may have, it doesn't buy you power in a way that's meaningful. Especially since 99% of players are in Exotic+ at level 80 and above. Also, the quality of life in this game has been amazing, and definitely better than WoW. Horizontal progress is shared among all your characters, and while horizontal progress doesn't feel as good as vertical, it can definitely fill the gap. Finding things to do is hard in Gw2, and you kinda need something to default to. It's hard to find long term goals, and you can't mindlessly grind dungeons or raids for gear because it's a no-brain decision. You have to actually know what you want, and that's why it's such a turn off for WoW players and the like.

[@shelbytucker6325]

Gw2 is anime ESO... anyways idk why they haven't bring this game to consoles yet.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

Smaller expansions, for the same price as larger expansion = More money for less work. That's about it.

[@frankmills1917]

I don't think you showed a single raid in the raid part of the video.

[@itsnanablitz]

That was intentional, all my footage in the raids was with the same group and one if my buddies in the group requested not to be in the finished video, and I was so far into editing that I didn’t wanna go scramble to find another rando group lol

[@gangrel1234]

Tldr, yes

[@Endrosz]

WvW: "Can't play with my friends" - Srsly? A new account has a free server switch, exactly to address this issue.

[@rafajsp]

GW2 is amazing. Endgame is subjetive ... some like to spent a life learning pressing ABCDE to the point that after that nothing more to do ... and others enjoy other things life offers.

[@jcashisme]

"for races you have...a plant.." HAHA

[@Osirus1156]

I strongly dislike water combat because enemies can wander in from literally any direction and you don't have enough opportunity to even get good with the skills because water combat is barely used.

[@itsnanablitz]

I do agree that is a problem, although I didn’t find that happening too frequently, though I imagine the kinks would be ironed out had it been a higher priority as the game went on

[@LisaSummers1988]

guildwars 2 is the type of game you go to when you need gaming itches to be scratched that other games just dont.

[@zearcjustice7837]

1 sentence for this game amazing game , shit marketing team

[@Neocharm]

Horizontal progression, "to some it's actually a positive"? I played WoW for years and GW2 isnt just a new chapter in a book of MMO's but a whole new book upon itself. All people I spoke from WoW who switched to GW2 told me a whole new world opened up to them. Just, when you start playing GW2, forget everything you know and think you know about MMO's and start exploring. No boosters, just watch your character evolve and learn to play it. "Just spamming dps" isn't quite the case without the support classes in your team. Healing and Cleansing is done in Strikes and/or WvW when you encounter other groups.

[@unnamedproject]

Unpopular opinion: the combat is good until you start looking under the hood and realize how limited it is and how little thought was actually put into it.

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

honestly id rather pay for a subscription instead of having to buy bank slots, bag slots and everything else that they label as ''convinience'' . I've never had such dumb common issues as space in any mmo ive ever played free or not so idk what ther excuse is.

[@itsnanablitz]

I kinda agree! I am a strong believer in subscription MMOs because I know I usually get my moneys worth in that month, but I don’t think one is objectively better then another, for me I generally play MMOs in bursts, usally a month or two straight and move on, then cycle between them, but for those who arnt me, who play maybe once a week, paying monthly would be a negative and the current model is better, all things considered I don’t think the game is poorly monetized, I think it’s pretty reasonable, even though yeah bag space and bank space being limited from the get go is kinda scummy

[@khymaaren]

I guess it comes down to personal taste or playstyle. I, for one, have only bought the first bank tab and bag slot after years of playing, by converting ingame gold, even. And I didn't do it because I couldn't handle the space I had, but truly for convenience. Nowadays, my inventory only gets moderately flooded when I farm my home instance or identify gear by the stack. Also, I played ESO for about a 1000 hours. If you are serious about crafting, the inventory available to you without a sub is laughably inadequate and Zenimax knows it. That there is no sub fee involved is one of the main reasons why I'm still playing GW2. I have spent about 3 years worth of ESO sub over the past 11 years and I have all the "convenience" I need and played about 10000 hours. I don't think any other MMO will let me get away with this much playtime for this cheap, unless, I guess, I play all day, every day. I feel that's not what the majority of the GW2 playerbase is willing to, or indeed, can do.

[@nishantkhaklari83]

being a game with horizontal progression, the luxury of not having to deal with inventory problems, not having to constantly buy salvaging kits, switching gears and builds on the fly with build and equipment templates and legendary gears, TPing to important locations with gizmos without spending gold, VIP lounges, Instant merchants, banks and TP access anytime anywhere, infinite mining, harvesting logging tools all these QoL are endgame goals for most people. Most of these can be solved by gold. so people play the game, make gold and get these "convenience" items. Alternatively, Instead of pay for subscription, you have the option to buy gems with real money for which you can get some inventory slots. Slap some 20 slot(or more) bags, and you're good to go.

[@khymaaren]

@@nishantkhaklari83 Sure, endgame goals. But then that's a choice you MAKE and not a path you HAVE to take. That's kind of my point.

[@fargonthebrave]

I found Guild Wars 2 had better character creation than Final Fantasy hands down

[@tanders_project99]

Chore wars 2

[@rayaya6580]

its advertisements are so ass i so sad. i wantto see a day when gw2 is just so full of players that meta events are constantly being run

[@glitchieeglitch503]

played this back before the first expansion .... got my frostfang after ages of playing and loved the game ...till the expansion -_- the final dragon was made of salad and the expansion was all green leafy shit ..no thanks thought it was stupid and never went back

[@Lazarus_ReSpawn]

Furry opinions are generally invalid. But it was amusing to watch a furry say things like "human clothes on charr are ridiculous". Y-E-A-H, you don't say.

[@jaydunna2645]

No. This game is not noob friendly at all. First of all, you get a boost for buying. If you use the boost, you're fucked for life. You'll never get 250 hero points, unless you do WvW ( boring) or run trains ( conditional). Secondly, unlocking flying is the worst thing in any video game in history. So, to summarize, hero specialization and flying, 2 of the most fun things about GW 2 are locked behind boring chores.

[@yuvmon]

Idk man. It sounds you have had played this game no more than 500 hours. Celetcial gear is the main gear stat people go for for solo OW builds. Obviously they are useless on dps roles in groups content. The "advice" you gave for warrior to gear up all the precision one can get simply strongly emphasizes you dont understand how stat work in this game. To be fair it isnt a simple system. Fractals and their cm is more than doable with random people, in fact, lfg group fill up very quickly, throuout all day. You need people who know whats going on in the encouter and know what their class do and their role, and you good to go. Stronghold? I sry to say this isnt what pvp "supposed to be". You just need to get good or just play and dont care if you can survive more than 2 sec into fight. Funny enough there is also roles in Conquest pvp and if you looking to be competetive you should adjust your build to the role you want to play. Not randomly pick traits and stats, have 0 knowledge what other class are capable to do and expect the fight go well and not look like cluster chaos. SoTo have the best OW meta event in the game??? You lost me there. And finally, your point of this game is somehow p2w is very confused to me. If there isnt any gear you cant get while play the game how it is p2w. Lets take it farther. Ascended or legendary is the highest tiers of gear player can get. You cant buy ascended or legendary armor or trinkets from other player or from the gem store. The only exception is the generation 1 and 3 (again, there isnt diferences stats between the generations) legendary weapon you can buy from other people for gold. Yes you can buy gold with gems. And still, you can craft the same type of weapon as ascended, which has the same stats as legendary. You only miss QoL. But lets be honest, for new player this QoL really doesnt metter. Who want to gear up so many characters?? Who want to randomaly change builds?? While discovering the game.

[@itsnanablitz]

Correct! Nor will I pretend to, I have 420 hours! Which is low compared to the other MMOs I play but my discovery of gw2 is relitivly recent in comparison. I do belive stronghold is still the best mode for PvP, partly because it isn’t purely PvP, which I think could introduce people into the mode easier, as I said PvP I hard and you seem to agree. Though no offense your comment on just get good is partly the reason that I imagine people don’t stick around for it, for most why would they get good at a mode they don’t find fun because they are getting stomped. And the meta event is purely opinion, it’s a close call between that and the one from icebrood(name slides me atm) and yes, depending on how someone defines p2w(as it can differ on what you consider winning) it is pay to win, I make it a point to say I have no problem with any of it as I do think monetization is done quite well. In any case thank you for watching the vid! It was quite an undertaking

[@justcynical6590]

you don't have the best gear until you are fully legendary. so no you have much more to do lol, way more. ur complaining about ''no more gear to get" when you are not even full ascended is just criminal.

[@danielp8433]

if you dont care about story you miss out - typical wow mindset , but have fun

[@justcynical6590]

what i took from the video is... the dude likes the game, but has no clue abt it lol

[@austinXDFtw]

Stronghold is actual garbage though...

[@tomtacker1457]

you cant have it all

[@MarkYu23]

I agree GW2 is indeed pay 2 win to a certain extent. If you want to maximize enjoying the full content of the game, upgrade your gears and builds, or simply play comfortably, you gotta buy those packs as some materials can only be found in those packs. And if you think you are now invincible cuz you just purchased some packs, wait til you see players with overly flashy shining armors and mounts that just fly around and you discover that living worlds are purchaseable separately.. My personal experience 😅 I really enjoy the game and I was overly overwhelmed in a positive way (unlike in blackdessert) as a new player a few weeks ago, was so fascinated that I even thought I could enjoy the game by just playing the base not until I started learning more.... 😅