Guild Wars 2

Ive been very critic to most of the content released by now, even though I keep playing and spending money on the game. There are still stuff to change, but there are some stuff that I like (didnt play all the content yet, will come back when Im done with it). Ill bring 2 of them to this topic for now:

1) The new arena is fun. Much more (MUCH) than the annoying crab thing. We are properly rewarded (coffers) and it is fun. As fun as GW1 arenas were (specially the Christmas one).

2) Minis. We can directly buy them (no RNG for heavens sake!) and gem buyers even got a pack for “free”. That was an awesome move. About the other minis, Moa is a pain in the kitten to get, but not bound, so it is ok. Same for the dragon (already got one from coffers I got from arena) – even though it is adquired via RNG boxes, the drop rate is fair and can also be purchased. The colossus is cool too, since all you need is a box of minis and an extra one.

Regarding the skins, I thing that will never change. It is a pain for collectors, but I just decided Im not collecting skins.

In time: thx anet for the “free” minis and for the free back item. We are moving in the right direction.

More about the event:

1) The holografic mobs are kind of fun and rewarding. It was fun to do and got me a ton of boxes. Opened till I got the 2 minis I needed, opened a bunch more to see if I get the wings, till I found out it is better to just sell the boxes and buy the wings. Will buy them soon.

2) Fireworks achievement was a bit boring.

3) The pinata achievement was also a bit boring, but rewarded candies for each “kill” made it more acceptable, since it was like running 2 achievements at once. Nice move.

4) The LA celebration was the lamest celebration ever. I was expecting a GW1-like event, with stuff to do, prizes and a real celebration. I didnt believe it was only this. Same as the end of Flame and Frost, very frustrating. But nice to get 1 of each type of helm. Too bad it is not repeatable, since I would like to have some extras.

I was more impressed that they made coffers drop off everything with a decent rate. sure the holos have a better chance but even for people not grinding for them they can still a large pile just doing regular stuff.

now if only coffers didn’t have that mind numbing low RNG % that lets only a micro fraction of them give anything other then candy.