Is Guild Wars 2 any good in 2025? Is one of the "Big" MMOs I never played.

>>717314292 (OP)
Start with F2P
Story is mostly garbage, especially in the paid expansions
Combat is good, but PvE does fuck-all to showcase it, at least the open world feels somewhat alive if you're on the right map
Speaking of, the game is very pretty
World Vs World is extremely hit-or-miss, most of the time one team or the other will be dead and it'll feel like PvE, while taking turns being the hapless mobs
The game is best in smallman WvW, a properly built party can wreak absolute havoc, so make a few friends and go wild
Speaking of, F2P is pretty gimped competitively, it has a few 'viable' core builds but they're mostly shit for support which large-scale WvW relies heavily on, and you can forget about instances PvE
Gear comes fairly easily, PvP and WvW vomit second-BIS gear and the Wizard Vault gives you a few BIS pieces per season, though each piece has a slot for upgrades which you'll struggle to find on your own, but you can get away with whatever in open PvE
F2P endgame is the Silverwastes in the northwest corner of the world, use LFG to find a populated map instance, if you get there and the game still doesn't tickle you then just drop it
Don't touch PvP, it's full of cheaters and win traders

>>717315534
Okay, thanks

>>717314292 (OP)
no, and it was never good, took a massive shit on guild wars by turning it into another roastie mmo

>>717318076
Wrong

>>717314292 (OP)
the games painted art style graphics hurt my eyes to look at for some reason

>>717314292 (OP)
I played it back in 2015-2016 or so and I just wasn't that into the lore and gameplay much. I had some fun with pvp because you could jump into it at any level but according to the first post, it's apparently fucked now.

>>717320335
t. roastie

>>717314292 (OP)
No, it's even worse in 2025 since they're funneling more and more devs to work on GW3.
It's fine for a single player experience if you go through the old expansions though.