Blix.8021

Day 1 character. Dungeon master complete. Hobby dungeon explorer completed 179 times. Can't buy any gifts or exotic armor/weapons

Pugging the strike was possibly the least enjoyable thing I've done in gw2. Group was random pugs. Half the people there were clearly there for the turtle and had no interest in this kind of thing at all. We ended up slowly 3 manning the last 1.5 phases while half the squad watched from the grave. It reminds me of doing dungeons when the game came out and you had people who "got it" and were in all zerker gear and knew how to do the skips and dodges and then people who just had no idea and made it harder for everyone else. Sad to see Anet hasn't learned anything in the past decade. Instanced pve in this game is absolutely MISERABLE to play when the team isn't fully "in the know." so the people who are knowledgeable shut themselves away-- can you blame them? Personally the value I find in GW2 is the open world collecting/farming and while I am capable of meeting the demands of instanced pve, I would rather play ff14 or wow for that.