I dont want to be casual player anymore...

Aside from completing all the (reasonable) acheivments there's really no way you can be hardcore. T4 fractals are easy and judging by the people that do t4 (pugs) the skill level is extremely low for something that is considered endgame content. There are raids though! And you can be a hardcore raider but there is almost 0 progression in raids. Nothing. Fractals have fractal god title to aim for. Raids have challange modes but they are a 1 time thing and you can just buy flat out anyway. That's why raid titles, aside from envoys herald, are completely trash. Its hard for me to describe. I've done thousands of raids, I have the shitty titles but for me it also just goes down the category of "i log in, do the 'weekly' and log off. Theres nothing hardcore about it. Imo the only area of gw2 that can be considered hardcore is WvW. Why not PvP? Because its infested by and ruled by bots.

Gw2 is not a hardcore game. Nothing about it is designed to be hardcore. Raids are what they call endgame dungeons in other MMOs... So yeah. My advice is: just do what you're currently doing because that is what a huge majority is doing and the reason they're doing it is because theres nothing else. WvW alliance system will hopefully be a godsend for me and many more people.

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