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What do I do when I see a christmas tree on fire fishing in the asura starter zone? It happened before. Just pretend it is not there and move on? I rather play solo than see this.

I actually did that last night. I went to Dry Top. Took me 12 minutes until I saw this. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aurene's_Prismatic_Noble#/media/File:Aurene's_Prismatic_Noble.jpg Or something very similar. The rainbow on the wings really stood out. I know. You think this is not distracting bla bla bla. That I can just do my own thing while ignoring it bla bla bla. Skins don't matter bla bla bla. That is your opinion. Not mine.

Then what do you call an MMORPG with only the vanilla content that has the quality of life features from the modern version? What is the correct term I should be using for this discussion? Because we currently have examples of this being done. Thing is, Blizzard shutting down private servers doesn't make me want to play on their official servers. Because they are trash. People play on private servers because they hate modern WOW. I highly doubt they are bringing in new players by doing this. They are just causing bad PR for themselves. It is beneficial for the players. But as we all know capitalism bla bla bla anet private profit shareholders bla bla bla no fun allowed. Here is a question for you. What happens to Guild Wars 2 once anet shuts down the servers? Not "IF", but "WHEN". It is an inevitability. Might be 10 years from now. Might be 50. It will happen.

Another one ignoring what I said in the OP and lying that I want the removal of quality of life features such as the wardrobe. "This guy wants the combat to be slower paced how it used to be. He also hates the idea of flying mounts in MMORPGs as they break exploration and traversal, especially for old maps that were not designed with flying mounts in mind. This means he also wants the removal of a convenient gallery for all his skins even though he didn't say so. Sure makes sense to me." Basically your logic. Go look up Turtle WoW to understand how to make a vanilla server for an MMORPG while keeping all the QOL features from the modern version (and then some). Last time I reply to one of these posts. Blocked. Bye. If anet doesn't give a single F about classic servers, let people host their own classic servers.

This. I just did the Dragon's Stand meta after not doing it at all for several years. Let's just say, it was different from the Heart of Thorns days. VERY different. Mounts everywhere (not using them means you will be left behind), massive DPS with the new elite specs and changes resulting in much shorter fights. Even HOT content has been heavily altered by the new changes. And people say "you can just do core content, it's the same."

No. You're not forced. You can use whatever tool you want. It's just poor video game design. I would say the same thing about DOOM if it gave you a BFG with infinite ammo by default. And then asked you to use worse weapons cos they are more fun.

People in video games are going to pick the META. Which stands for most efficient tool available. Especially in multiplayer video games.

So you don't see the rainbow barf on 3 different people. Noted.

Here is a build that does 5k dps with no buffs from other people. Here is a build that does 7k dps with no buffs from other people. Which one do you think is objectively better? This argument "just don't use the best gun in this video game" doesn't make any sense to me. The BFG in DOOM is objectively the best gun for any situation. It is one of those seizure inducing particle overkill kind of guns. But you use it rarely because of how little ammo for it you get. The super shotgun is still the most satisfying gun. Now imagine if in DOOM you had infinite ammo for the BFG by default and you were told "don't use the BFG if you prefer the super shotgun". Playing Guild Wars 2 nowadays feels like playing DOOM with an infinite ammo BFG.

You were saying? Just logged in and saw this in EOTN. Are we even playing the same game? https://ibb.co/0G5MY36 Do I even need to comment on this screenshot?

I checked the required grind to get it. And it's absolutely insane. The end reward doesn't seem like much. In terms of horizontal mobility, it's laughable. I overtake skyscales with my beetle or gryphon all the time during metas. I can even overtake them with the jackal if I use the vigor buff. Vertical mobility is better. Obviously superior to the springer. Might be useful if you are going for map completion and can't be bothered to find the bouncing mushroom or the place where to jump with the springer. Currently I got no plans on doing map completion. I did it with 1 character and that was enough for me.

This is the new map design anet has implemented after vanilla. I pointed it out as well, but I was told that I'm imagining things. Probably people who didn't play Guild Wars 2 vanilla back in the day. The core maps are much more open, have very little verticality and don't require you to go secret hunting to unlock hero points. Path of Fire maps were in a way a return to the vanilla map design.. But bigger and better. This time with mounts in mind. POF maps were the exception from the new rule. I recently got my hero points on an alt character in POF and it was so much fun to navigate those maps. Such simple easy to read design. Use raptor to cross this gap, use skimmer to get high above the water to that ledge, use jackal to teleport through portals. Plus all the beautiful views. A breath of fresh air from all the BS in icebrood, HOT, EOD and living world. If you want to tell me that the map design is the same as in vanilla, tell me how you found this hero point https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Submerged_Cathedral . I found it with a guide. Even on an alt. Cos I forgot the magic pixel I have to go through.

https://ibb.co/qjhhx74 1 actual raid, 3 raid sellers, 2 recruitment ads (1 not in english), and 1 looking for opener.

I didn't put the wrong debuffs on the golem back then. I can confirm I remember it right because I made it to tier 3 on the crossroads inn. I am cancelling the auto attacks. I fail to cast the next ability fast enough and it starts the auto attack. The power berserker rotation is not supposed to have any auto attacks in it.

Or is it just me? I remember doing staff power weaver back when it was META. And later on sword/ dagger power weaver as the META changed. Kind of fast paced. Quite a lot to remember on the order but I was doing fine. Easily doing 35k+ dps. Think some of my best attempts were between 39k and 40k. Condi berserker bannerslave sword/ torch and longbow felt good for me as well. VERY easy rotation. I'm trying to do power berserker now from snow crows. Skill floor of 2. Called "easy to learn". Axe/axe and greatsword. What is even going on? I need to queue up skills that barely have any cast time and avoid auto attacks like the plague. Why do I feel like I need 200 APM to do a basic warrior rotation? 30k was my best DPS with this build.

It is horizontal in name only. Look at me with a straight face and tell me this: "The maximum DPS you can achieve right now is the same or roughly the same as it was in vanilla." If you can do that, then your statement that progression is horizontal is true. Tell me that a condi mirage does the same DPS as a core mesmer 10 years ago for example. It's the same "horizontal progression" from World of Tanks. Newer premium tanks are objectively better than regular tanks of equal tiers. Just as newer lines are better than the equivalents from other lines.

If it's just nostalgia, why am I currently also playing WoW vanilla on a private server and enjoying it? I lied. Let me rephrase it. It is NOT WoW vanilla. It is "vanilla plus" as they have decided to call it. In translation, it is the content from WoW vanilla with some tweaks, some small bits of content added while levelling and a LOT of the quality of life features from modern WoW. Basically, over 90% of the game is exactly like WoW vanilla. I hate it when people throw that "it's just nostalgia" card. They also seem to believe the person asking for vanilla also wants the removal of minor tweaks and QoL features such as the build storage. Did I mention in my OP that I want the removal of any QoL features? No. I only touched on major changes.

Which core maps exactly? I did a stroll through Metrica Province on a fresh character for example. Nobody. Other than 1 christmas tree on fire fishing. This isn't a wintersday thing. It's the norm. You seriously don't understand the rest of my post or are you trolling me? You don't understand how a flying mount is bad for any MMORPG? You don't see the drastic change in combat from vanilla? The particle effects seem fine to you? The map design is similar to core Tyria? You like GW2 basically becoming a shop for christmas lights? I guess you are trolling me.

Why? If you wanted to ask. I realised that I don't enjoy a lot of the changes. Core Tyria maps are dead. Dungeons are dead. Skyscale. Elite specs overly focused on melee combat. With much faster paced gameplay. Seizure inducing particle effects for the elite specs. The new map design focused on extreme verticality. The new "christmas tree on fire" skins I see everywhere.

As I previously said, that's not the point. People speedrunning in WOW classic could easily send a lot of stuff from their main characters to help. But they don't. They do it for the challenge and fun.

The catalyst elite spec for my main elementalist felt like a bad joke. I wanted more ranged options and they turned me into a barbarian with a hammer. Had to go for celestial stats so I don't constantly get downed. I want something that feels similar to the vanilla staff elementalist. Long range spells, crowd control spells, mobility spells. Ideally a power build but not mandatory. I got HOT, POF and EOD. So all professions and elite specs are available to me.

That is what I call external help. For example the guy in the WOW video could have easily sent a lot of gear and potions from another character of his, essentially "cheating". Or even multiboxed with a 2nd max level character to kill the mobs much faster. But he didn't do any of these things. I know that in Guild Wars 2 your curency wallet is account wide, not character specific. You would need a fresh account to do the speedrun with no external help. I like the levelling process. Learning all sort of gimmicks, agro techniques, kiting from mob to mob, best zones to level etc.

Getting from 1 to 80 as fast as possible without any external help. Like in this example from vanilla WOW. This is a full playlist. Only shows the 1st video on the forum.

I seem unable to find anything. Just a meme video where he level boosts from 1 to 80 using tomes.

Yes. I noticed it. That's where everyone is right now? I don't remember all content being deserted during wintersday in the previous years.