Which PvE content do you like the most?

In GW2 there are many kinds of PvE content. While I'm sure most people play more than one, which is the kind of PvE content you like the most?

(Ideally this poll would allow for more than one answer, so people could pick everything they do, but alas, polls here are one answer only.)

All of the above could of been a answer. But I pretty much do what ever I fancy doing for the day, for verity. It's hard to say what I like the most as everything is fun in its own way.

Open World. Small events. Exploring the map and just going around attacking while looking for subtle things that I might miss (which I do or I wouldn't notice new things everyday).2nd would be the Meta/World Bosses though of course.3rd would be Dungons and Story equally.I don't like the rest.

Jumping Puzzles \o/

A mix between the two open-world pve options, it's just far more entertaining than anything pvp/wvwv/raids/dungeons could ever offer.

Although I enjoy meta events a lot as well (Not HoT Metas, but literally everything else).

Stuff I can solo.

Open World both small and large scale.

Open World exploring, jumping puzzles, role play, etc. However, I like the grand scale of large events too.

I don't care about dungeons, fractals, or raids.

I chose open world small scale because that's what I do the most, but I like both open world small and large scale equally.

Multiple choices, so I voted "other":

• PvE explorable small and large scales.
• Fractals.
• I do dungeons sporadically only, mostly to help others, but I don't enjoy it much (because mostly taking place in closed dark places, what I do not like).

I don't do raids due to a timing issue with the guild I am in (taking place middle of night). I don't like storylines. I do them once only (to unlock progression). After that, I very rarely return to them again (for some, never ever). The few exceptions are when some of the achievements internal to an instance are Ok enough and don't require to finish the whole instance.

Fractals and gathering. but I also like open world content. I regulary do HoT metas.

Maybe the poll should have been: "Which PvE content do you like the least?"In which case I would have quickly selected "RAIDS", the most mind-numbingly boring activity in ALL MMORPGs.

It's amazing how the game gets balanced around the tiny elitist niches of the game.

But then of course open world PvE is not difficult, so there's no reason why you would balance broken stuff. And if you make it difficult and then have a reason to balance it it's not popular anymore. A dilemma.

@Adenin.5973 said:It's amazing how the game gets balanced around the tiny elitist niches of the game.

But then of course open world PvE is not difficult, so there's no reason why you would balance broken stuff. And if you make it difficult and then have a reason to balance it it's not popular anymore. A dilemma.

Well you don't really need to balance stuff around open world PvE, because it is relatively easy. The raids and PvP require the balance to function as high end content. You can play virtually anything in the open world and still succeed (albeit more slowly).

@Adenin.5973 said:It's amazing how the game gets balanced around the tiny elitist niches of the game.

But then of course open world PvE is not difficult, so there's no reason why you would balance broken stuff. And if you make it difficult and then have a reason to balance it it's not popular anymore. A dilemma.

Are you telling me the game should be balanced around the open world? People just toss more bodies at events when they are too hard and do perfectly fine even with garbage builds. I don't think you would like open world to be actually balanced.

As others have stated, I like doing anything open world. I play solo but I do love the big world boss events and being in a mass of players taking out the big bad. Alterately I equally love completing maps (not hearts so much) and doing smaller events. I find that gives me the right amount of enjoyment to make me keep coming back.

@Sarge shot Grif.6450 said:A mix between the two open-world pve options, it's just far more entertaining than anything pvp/wvwv/raids/dungeons could ever offer.

I agree. I love exploring and doing any of the events that come along.

yep...0 % for story missions..doesnt surprise me at all

@Jeknar.6184 said:

@Adenin.5973 said:It's amazing how the game gets balanced around the tiny elitist niches of the game.

But then of course open world PvE is not difficult, so there's no reason why you would balance broken stuff. And if you make it difficult and then have a reason to balance it it's not popular anymore. A dilemma.

that is how the open world is supposed to workif the rest of the game was like that, they wouldnt be in this situation

I like exploration and events with only a few people, regardless of how big the event is supposed to be. doing group events with only a few people is pretty fun. but when too many people show up it becomes a lot more boring. if I could go afk and no one would notice any change from losing a person, then that's too many people

Also dungeons! working your way through a dungeon, getting a bit of story, and some fractals have fairly interesting mechanics

And raids. I like raids mostly because they tend to be more challenging and have more interesting mechanics than anything else in the game. 10 people is more than I would like, but it's not too bad. there's still a lot of individual impact, especially on a support

Aside from WvW and the occasional raid/fractal, I usually hang around in open world doing gathering, collections, events or world completion.

The old invasion temporary events, they don't happen anymore.

From what I remember, the last one of this type was the Mordrem invasion.

@Jeknar.6184 said:

@Adenin.5973 said:It's amazing how the game gets balanced around the tiny elitist niches of the game.

But then of course open world PvE is not difficult, so there's no reason why you would balance broken stuff. And if you make it difficult and then have a reason to balance it it's not popular anymore. A dilemma.

Usually it would be a good idea to balance the game separately whenever it is required. That's too difficult/expensive. So you would think that the game should be balanced around the one game mode that most people play and enjoy, which is open world PvE content. This does not happen in GW2. Game gets balanced around PvP and raids. Which makes sense because balance does not matter in open world PvE content.

There's no point in balancing open world PvE content atm. And when you make PvE content where balancing matters it's no longer that popular (like it happens with all things that have a certain level difficulty and that need finer tuned builds - raids and higher fractals fractals for example).

Interesting collection missions like the gryphon are my favorite. I had so much fun doing that.