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If your like I was a month ago, and you are thinking to yourself "I wish I had a good MMO to play now that most of the ones I played when younger are slowly being turned into trash". Well then you kinda found a good game to bide your time. I've never had the pleasure of playing a game that values your time as much as Guild Wars 2. Everything is very achievable, just given time.

Your not going to get the classic MMO experience with this game. Yes the combat is very similar, except for the dodge ability, but the base mechanics are very wild. For starters, you don't have a GCD. Each ability has a specific Cool Down. This means that you can now Queue ability uses (To a max of 2 abilities at any given point in time) so that instead of thinking "What's the next ability in line" it's "What's the ability after next". This allows you to focus more on mechanics.

The Traditional MMO "Trinity" of Tank, Healer, DPS is a bit skewed in this game as well. Tanking is a specific role that is usually covered by a healer, since they can stand in one place and do their job, and they have gear that gives them the highest toughness. There is no taunts, if an enemy needs to be tanked, it's either "The first person to hit the enemy" or "The person with the highest Toughness Stat". There are other "Sub-Roles" in each raid and strike, but the main must haves is Alacrity generators, and Quickness Generators. There are both Heal and DPS version of each generator, called a Boon DPS. They are always required, where as other jobs, such as Pusher, Kiter, or Tank, are a "per-Fight" basis.

Finally, Gearing. Gearing is a bit funky. Once you hit max level, you'll most likely have a wonky full set of Exotic gear. However, the stats arn't going to be exactly perfect. So your first goal is a full set of Exotic gear that melds with your abilities. You can use a build, or theory craft something yourself, but there is no "You must use meta builds" rule in this game. As long as you can do mechanics and apply a minor to moderate amount of damage to a boss, you'll get along fine.

After Exotic gear, you get Ascended gear. This gear is Bind on Account so you can transfer it between multiple characters. This is also the highest your recieved stats will get. Full Ascended gear is "Gearing Complete". However, there is one more option, and this is where the game get's most of it's play loop.

You can craft Legendary Gear. Currently, you can get a legendary for every single slot in the game, and every armor type in the game, including "relics" which are trinkets that give you a bonus ability such as "When you dodge roll, you do increased damage".

This legendary gear has the same stats as Ascended gear, but with a few caveats.

First, you can change the stats on the gear to ANY you desire on the fly, no need to do fancy craftin recipes or mystic forge nonsense, just plug and play.

And finally, and this is the biggest thing: IT DOES NOT TAKE UP AN INVENTORY SLOT. It has a "Legendary Armory" that you can equip it from anywhere, any time, on any toon, save the armor, which is class specific (Heavy, medium, and light armor respectively)

This is called Horizontal Progression. Your not getting bigger and better, your getting convenience, your unlocking achievements, doing weird challenges for legendary materials. There is no "New expansion? Everything else is irrelevant except the new stuff" it's just 'Some of the new stuff is pretty cool and slightly better on some classes, but you can still use any of the other expansions stuff just as effectively."

i highly recommend this game if you have a hole in your heart for the grind, but want the game to value your time rather than making you suffer the entire way through it.

When I was young, i dreamed of becoming a truck driver. When I became an adult I did, and was the happiest i've ever been. Unfortunately, I suffered an Injury at a young age that ended my career before it even started. This game lets me feel what it would of been like had everything gone right, and I thank it endlessly for that. My only regret is that I can't afford a setup that would do this game justic e and make it feel truly real. But even with an Xbox controller I still manage to have a blast driving around.

While the game is rather short, it was a wonderful experience and well worth the sale price. Probably going to play the first one now too because of it. Does a good job of giving you all the previous games info in the prologue.

It's Civilization meets Total War: Warhammer, buy it, it's worth it, get 1 and 2 and the dlc's and everything, it has a wonderful story that goes to it.

The nostalgia lives on in this one. It's a bit dated but if you can look past that it's still a great story and a wonderful experience.

While it doesn't have the same touch up on the story like ME 1 2 and 3, it does itself justice playing through it again now. I'm 61 hours in, still haven't beaten the game actually finding myself full completing entire planets without leaving once.

The combat is what keeps me sucked in, powers feel so much more.. powerful! It's a wonderful thing combined with the boost system the jump packs give you, allowing you to dodge and weave through cover using Biotics, Tech, or just straight up grenades and cannisters to destroy anything in your way, it feels good.

Also, Female Turian Romance, 'nuff said.

America, the Simulator. Grab the fastest firing, highest caliber gun you can and just unleash unholy hell upon a herd of bison and earn 10000 bucks in like 20 seconds.

It's pretty good I guess

Here's my experience:

1.) Spawn into world
2.) 3 seconds later, a get a message saying "-Spawn Protection"
3.) Get immediately shot by some guy with a shotgun and maxed out gear

Don't waste money, it's DayZ with nothing but 11 year olds from minecraft talking about what their going to do to your mother.