80...not what I expected {spoiler alert}

So I just want to say. first day of 80 not so bad. Then I learned a few lessons today after this new patch. It may be fixed later but for now it really puts a sour taste in my mouth. When I hit 80 I was full of wonder. Happy I could make my epic gear and do the 80 dungeon. I felt that my place was getting my gear together and then helping others with the, somewhat at times very unforgivable dungeons. Then I learned today that 80 progression is based on skins. Not striving for that new uber weap you build. Just skins for it and your clothes. I'm not into playing dress up. That is not progression. Not only is your progression based on skins its also very time consuming to get said skins. Nodes are few and far between and money is still a chore to get. So like in most games you turn to other sources of income or fun. Such as dungeons. New patch, storymode dungeons if you have done them before are a waste of time. You will die and spend more silver in repairs then you actually get. No joke 1 80 and 3 40-50 range people ran cm with me today. Not only is it crazy hard now(makes ac look like cakewalk) but I got 1 silver and 8k xp for my time. So run explore you say. I say naw....your reward for that, besides being even harder and more costly, tokens. yay tokens for more skins..... So running your friends through a dungeon now costs you money... well thats just nice. Even better was the "ending" of the lvl 80 dungeon. all that lead up to your epic battle... spoiler. Its you mashing the "2" key. yup 5 mins of nothing but 2 over n over. I have never had so much fun lvling in a vid game. Story and wonder all around. I have never been so disappointed by "end game" Its an excuse to play barbie dress up. "Look at me I wasted 3 days of my life for this new dress." "Is it any better than what im wearing?" "No" "So those 3 days could have been spent with your friends running dungeons and helping?""I would do that but im broke from my new dress and my repair fees." yea... thats about how I feel right now. /rantover

Thanks for sharing the information buddy. After reading this...my hope level for some things concerning GW2, dungeons, end game content etc., went a little flat. But nice to know as apposed to not knowing. Well I wish I could say something that might better this but I cant think of anything except...

Maybe you could copy this to A-net forums and see if others are saying the same thing...this may go a long way to having A-Net rethink some stuff and possibly fix it to make it better.

:)

Oh i did, and the forums are a buzz, but then I saw a very well made post. It got me to really thinking about gaming and gw2 as a whole.

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Oh i did, and the forums are a buzz, but then I saw a very well made post. It got me to really thinking about gaming and gw2 as a whole.

[strike]Well, THAT sounds interesting. Please elaborate! Do you have a link to the post?[/strike](saw the link to the post in your other thread, thanks!)

It'll probably be a while before I get to 80. And I am very into alts, and love dressup lol (in-game anyway), so that kinda sounds cool to me. Also tons to explore in this world which I'm curious to do.

Also, have you been crafting? If so, did you find it to be worth doing?

and, um... grats on hitting 80 (I guess ;)

lol crafted my heart out. crafting system is very good in this game. The true killer blow for me was not even the speed dungeon/difficulty thing. It was the world wide "omg if you do something to much you stop getting anything for it"
Basically while you are lvlin you are always moving. New zones and sites and storys. At 80 (if you made sure to wander the world,) there is only farming, socializing and helping others. With recient patches farming is of course much harder and you have to move around a lot and is annoying.(making it a bigger time sink) Social is still fun. As for helping... if its a dungeon, why bother. It will more than likely cost you money in deaths to assist your friends through there because the reward overall is nerfed. Not just repeated runs. Even your first run.
It was a quick update. I'll check in from time to time to see what they do.