trying to keep this post as constructive as possible. I’ve played and enjoyed gw2 sense launch in spite of it’s obvious departure from the first in several ways. in terms of this patch I’ll go in.
World bosses: Twisted marionette/Triple trouble
I’ll be honest I’ve only had the chance to try out the Twisted Marionette so far, and in spite of losing both times, I enjoyed it a lot. the whole tower defense thing was fun, but the thing is, the 2 hour wait time in between was horrid. I honestly felt like I NEEDED to stay in lonars pass just to make sure I wouldn’t be booted into Over flow when the Marionette spawn timer went off. and the only real entertaining thing to do there was trying to collect cores which was limited as well, so this experience turned out to be a lot of waiting around. it was just as bad as the whole “LFH the GG” scenario except even when we were ready we were still forced to wait. It’s not that the world bosses were bad, just waiting around for them sucked. the events that were related to the Marionette didn’t feel rewarding (I should at least be getting Cyphers or core pieces to further the story) and didn’t spawn often enough.
constructively. I feel like when you launch big bosses like this, you need some thing to do on the side while you wait. a lot of people on map chat seemed lost wondering what to do when the patch went life. and comments like “We need more people to look at this wall! MOAR PEOPLE!” were popping up. personally I was laughing at map chat, but seriously, having people look at a wall while we wait for a boss to spawn? is that what you want from you game? the time gated content is fine but as I said, we need some thing to do while waiting, and I would prefer it to be in the form of events in the area and in abundance! yes there are a lot of events in each map, but people aren’t worried about them, they want to experience new content, so new events spawning all over the map, sort of like what was going on with the machines gathering, but in more abundance have people running around while they wait then the timer pops and every one get in to position!
the rewards are pretty much the same as all the rewards in the rest of the game. the mini’s are cool but personally I don’t see a use in them. WoW has their little pokemon game, why not use Polymock with Minis? this way they have more of a purpose in the game?
constructively,
I understand Anet is trying to rework the system, in terms of making berserkers not the the be all end all gear. but as it stands the reality of the situation is, there are a lot of useless stats in gw2. Healing power is one of those useless stats. the scaling is horrid. so needless to say adding another stat combination with Healing power tacked on, you might as well have added in more grey items instead. I would love to be able to use my Guardian and be able to stand back and Heal people and use spells to gate areas, but as it stands healing isn’t a viable option, and the stat isn’t either. before you push out more stats you need to make them worth while. armor and life is great if you want to live but there’s no “tank” you can’t hold ‘agro’ and keep other people built to DPS alive. healing as I said before scales bad. the system needs revamped before you start shoveling out more stat combinations.
as far as the black lion items go in this patch, I personally don’t see any thing I’d buy this time around. I do buy things from time to time, I love supporting this game and watching it grow, but personally I’m not a gambling type, I’ve not bothered with a black lion chest sense the first Halloween event. I can’t argue the direction you’re going with the BLTC personally the things ~I~ would buy. I plan on buying that firey gladiator’s armor. I would have no problem spending money on more vanity armor/weapons modeled after Elements, animals, Zodiacs Chinese and western. also taking these sorts of armors and incorporating guild emblems on them. also different back pieces, capes, wings, ect. these are things I would drop my $ for. hopefully Anet adds this to the pile of feed back they all ready have and can turn some things around.