The gauntlet is an extremely cool idea and implemented beautifully (visually).
However, functionally, it’s far from perfect.
The fact that you can go up and see other people fight is very awesome, and I’ve talked to some people while waiting in queue discussing strategies which is awesome.
Improvement: Make targets inside the zone targetable so that you can actually see if the person is close.
The transparent ground is again, beautiful but it makes things hard to see and.
Improvement: Make it opaque when you’re inside, or one way see-through from the bottom. Bonus points: make it possible for colorblind people to do these as well
Nobody knows how long you actually have to finish a fight, other than the annoying announcer which repeats the same thing a few times before giving you a five second countdown.
Improvement: Make the fight an event with a timer visible to the player and spectators
Gambits are not visible to spectators.
Improvement: A way for spectators to see which gambits are used
Many mini games inside GW2 have a title associated with the achievement, but the most challenging yet… doesn’t? I want an easier way to show off my accomplishment. The issue is that (generally) people who care about minis don’t really care for beating the hardest content of the game, and people who love challenges generally don’t care much for minis.
Improvement: Give us a kitten title for beating Liadri
The dome is beautiful, but your FoV gets screwed up when you get close to the edge and it becomes very difficult to see what is going on.
Improvement: Fix it somehow
It’s situated above an absolute kittenstorm of people and mobs, performance wise this is ridiculous. Again, the design of the area is beyond beautiful and the concept is extremely cool on paper, but if some players are unable to enjoy that content due to poor frame rates …
Improvement : Somehow make it so that you de-render everything going on below when you’re on the top level of the Pavillion
I think that’s about all my concerns for the gauntlet, again, I love the idea. I think it’s extremely cool to play and spectate at the same time. By far my favorite part of any update so far.
Lord Vrael [ÆÆÆÆ] – Borlis Pass