The only reason you should have to play a game is to be entertained. Everything else is second.

I mean that's pretty much every MMO nowadays.

Finding a guild helps, I joined EVOS who runs Triple Trouble each day after reset around Midnight EST. They are a great group and helps when you want to find people to do content. Also simply posting in LFG is shockingly effective. Its really one of those "build it and they will come" type of deals. The community (in my experience after playing for a few years now) is that many people are willing to group up, just not everyone is willing to START the group.

Also, I have found lots of repeatable fun in different map metas that very organically allow you to group up with people. Besides that, if youre feeling solo play, there are tons of great collections to work on that have genuinely worthwhile rewards (herta, princess, Ley matter converter, griffon, ascended banners backpack from PoF, etc.).

It is very easy to find a guild. Just talk alot in the open chat in any mayor city or ask on starter zones. I am sure you can find alot of people to play with.

That’s true, but luckily I feel there are players pretty much anywhere in Tyria. There will almost always be someone by your side at an event or there to get you back up on your feet.

I guess that's just how F2P goes in games where most content is P2P.

GW2 has actually had remarkably little powercreep compared to other games, but even so, there's still enough that players without a glider, mounts, elite specs, etc will struggle to keep up.

I wish there was a way for players to reduce their own power in OW in exchange for slightly increased rewards, even if those rewards were account bound. Most players would go for this (I think) and it would reduce how much stuff gets obliterated in seconds without making players feel like they got nerfed.

The drawback of game being based on horizontal progression is that at this point when you reach level 80 you have to find your own goals, if that's getting ascended gear, leveling and learning new classes, farming gold, unlocking skins or something else.

Maybe getting the living story and expansions would be a good next step since it adds more story content and open world maps to play through, as well as more friendly instanced content in form of strike missions and eventually raids (once you're ready to tackle them).

And yeah fractals are fun but people tend to speedrun them a lot since most people are experienced with them. Try clarifying in your LFG that you want to learn and practice instead of speedrun.

Don't you get a Raptor mount at level 10 when you have bought any of the existing expansions, i. e. HoT, PoF or EoD?

I mean, you could literally get a raptor in less than an hour of gameplay...

Unless you're talking Warclaw in WvW, in which case yeah that sucks but then again so does all the rest of WvW. And it'd have nothing to do with the 3rd expansion.

If you didn't like it that's fine, but there's no need to make up nonsense.

I also wonder why you're here, too, if you only played for a day, didn't like it, and quit. Not saying you shouldn't be here, just puzzled as to why you'd spend your time here, that's all.