Narsilik Khilsigre.9453

So, I finally made it through all the "dungeons" like I was on constant repeat. My build wasn't "poor" but I was playing a druid and finally changed my build for something a little more offensive. I would switch back when I joined public sessions and generally, the public sessions tended to go faster regardless as I wasn't trying to do all the side objectives myself. I got to the big dragon... nay, dragon champion battle and felt that it was a little more epic than I expected given the rest of the content, but it was fairly shortly lived. At least it felt like all the accompanying NPCs were doing... some damage. Then... to finish the story you have to go back again. Not a big deal, but now it is locked to squad play and I need 35 people, JUST TO FINISH STORY CONTENT!? Why!? No one is even playing this anymore, or at least not 35 people's worth. So now, instead of playing the game, I have to find a third-party LFG site or sit for hours on end with the game's LFG with slim to little chance of filling a whole squad. I knew I was glutton for punishment, but who thought this would be a great idea? This is just too much. Edit: Nevermind. It doesn't let you continue to the story unless you step up to the marker from a certain angle since it and Brek share the same trigger space.

So, I figured I would get back into the game and finish up the story thread for the living story (most of which I have mixed feelings about). I don't want to be negative, but since starting Chapter 5: Champions, I feel like this is the most grueling slog I have ever done in this game.. and I have a few legendaries under my belt from before most of the QoL updates. What it seems to boil down to is 4 chapters of mini-dungeons that become more and more grueling as it goes on. When I finally decided to look at my progress to see where I was, I found I was just barely at the end of sub-chapter 2. Regardless of my ranting, I find it hard to believe anyone enjoyed this, but if there was, can you explain how? I've been playing mostly by myself or with PUGs if they join my session and, while I feel the PUGs help move things along a bit quicker, I feel like they ANet went overboard with these and I'm just doing a repetitive motion over and over and over again. Am I wrong in this? Does it get better? I was considering picking up the expansion as I've been a long time Guild Wars fan, but I feel like I'm being turned off by this game more and more each time I come back to it. Maybe I'm outgrowing it, I don't know. But if there's any redeeming quality in this, please tell me now.