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Originally Posted by truemajeed
I've played Guild Wars for a year now... and there is almost no grinding, yet still there are huge differences between players at the top end, even if they have max armour...
You don't have to have grinding to have a stable top end to a game.
I played WoW for a while, and the grinding is horrible... even if you are doing quests, it just means grind, run, then grab a small reward, rather than just grinding!
The time it takes to level in WoW is horrible... especially for a new player...
The problem is that a (casual) player wants to get a boost every hour or so... which Guildwars provides, by giving you levels, attribute points and skill points, which you can quite quickly, but can make a big difference
One element which can effect grinding is other people... it is good fun if you can talk to your guild and friends while doing so, but also if you have a bit of competition (but not too much) like in runescape, where an area might have 4 monsters and 4 players, but since you bagged your own monster, this did not matter, and since the downtime between respawns was useful to regenerate health, the competition was just someone to talk to, and compare against
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that one made me laught.
first i dont think we can sayd GW doesnt have grind.. specially in faction and even more nightfall. Second someone playing GW for the first time will find it WAYY harder than WOW wich is very simple and fun since lvl 1. The grind in WOW comes once you get close to top lvl. and even there you not grinding to lvl yuo do it to get more stuff ( factions points, raids.. yea once you done the same severle time and start farming the dungeon its jsut grind too !)
Questing become something boring when you re not intersted in the reason and storyline of those quests.. just like most of people in WOW that jsut go get the quests without even reading, watch wowcartografer to know wher to go and jsut complet it as fast as possible to get more xp... that how most of people play WoW and in the end turn something supposed to be fun to something boring.
at first ( correct me if i m wrong) grind was used for someone that had to kill the same mobs/area for hours/days in order to obtein something.
Nowdays as soon as you have to do soemthing boring to you ( might not be to someone else
) its called grind ...
with that new definition i dont think you can make a game without.. actually i wouldnt want too ! if its always not fun to me then i m probably not playing the right game.
my 2 cents