Really love Labyrinthine Cliffs. Excellent work to whoever on your team designed that. Love using the aspects and pulling off crazy jumps and tricks to get to hard to reach locations. So much fun.
Hunting down the Sky Crystals was some of the most fun I’ve had in a very long time. Excellent fun to do with a friend. I use fun a lot now, I guess you could summarize the content as, fun!
The Sanctum Sprint mini-game is also rather well done, but does have some issues I’d like to see ironed out. Lag mainly, and a rather disturbing map exploit available right at the end, that lets you skip straight up to the winner chest without even crossing the finish line. It also suffers from the typical instanced mini-game issue of not being able to play together with a friend unless you luck out. It would be nice to at least be able to queue up as 2 players so you get into the same instance and can play together.
I’d hope that these things are permanent, but I get a feeling that since we get the Zephyr Sanctum Model, it of course won’t be. If it was always there, why have a little model to view a (low resolution, seriously, it makes it ugly, who did that encoding, what the) video of the place?
On the negative side, I really dislike (even though I personally have no issues with it and find it easy as a WvW player) that Obsidian Sanctum was used in the achievements again. I have no issue with this. I am a WvW player, and I’ve done OS hundreds if not thousands of times. I know the quirks, how to pass choke points when under fire, and so on forth. It’s not a problem for me. But I hate it for the fact that there are those out there who are not WvW-oriented, who may be on servers that can’t keep and capture Keeps in order to even gain access to it. I just find it to be a unfair location to put an achievement in for a limited time event. Permanent stuff, no problem, limited, problem.
Overall though, this was a really great update. Well done, and thumbs and toes up, to the team that worked on this!
