Guild Wars 2

Ok so ive been grindin it out since the patch hit. This is what I got.
Pros:
-Lots to do, lots of achievements and tasks.
-The zone looks a lot nicer, I mean I like the new buildings and what not. New POI’s are cool as well.
-There is lots of info so far I have learned from the npc’s, good job again anet.
-The weapon skins are amazing!! So are the back skins, again, good job anet.
-The crab toss mini game is fun, I like it a lot even though I got killed a ton.
-More events! Finally, the zone has been dry for months. Killing a refugee feels somewhat sadistic after saving them but oh well its still fun.
-Mobs are weaker, thats cool, finally.
Cons:
-TEMP CONTENT!!! I know a lot of this will go away soon. Crab toss, I dont want it to go. Why cant you guys add more content like this?
-RNG. Not much to be said. I bought 30 of the boxes and got a weapon ticket along with some shoulder skins. Its fun, im willing to buy, but not everyone is, and I feel bad for them. I hope there is another way to obtain the awesome weapon skins.

So ye not too many cons besides RNG and the forboding temp content but those two are big. Anyway have fun out there guys its pretty cool!!! Thanx anet!!!

Con
-Still no way to play with your friends in the mini games.
-Achievement tied to dumb luck and hope that randoms will coordinate with you (Crabtacular!)

Pro
-Crab toss is so fricking awesome!

Con
-Karkas!

Pretty disappointed with all the crap. Crab toss is bullkitten and they even made the mistake to make an achievement with title so we are forced to play it.

Also too many other achievements…

Such a fail. Might be the first time I’m just ignoring all that stuff and doing other things… don’t want to stay the whole next weeks on that map to do all that stuff.

Flame and Frost was better where it only were a few things to do every months.

Pros: EVERYTHING!!!

Cons: Nothing.

Luthan.5236:

Pretty disappointed with all the crap. Crab toss is bullkitten and they even made the mistake to make an achievement with title so we are forced to play it.

You’re not forced to play it for the achievement, nobody has you at gun point -_-

Luthan.5236:

Pretty disappointed with all the crap. Crab toss is bullkitten and they even made the mistake to make an achievement with title so we are forced to play it.

Also too many other achievements…

Such a fail. Might be the first time I’m just ignoring all that stuff and doing other things… don’t want to stay the whole next weeks on that map to do all that stuff.

Flame and Frost was better where it only were a few things to do every months.

lol some of the gw2 community will never be pleased. thts ok we are havin a lot of fun. i acc think this is better than f&f so far. you dont acc have to do crab toss at all. i got sclerite backpiece without it. plenty of achievements to do. i guess you could say youre forced to do somethin for a reward but thats like every video game out there.

At least Dulfy is fast with guides. With this it should at least be possible to do the stuff a bit faster so I can play the other parts of Guild Wars 2 that are more fun in a few days when I’m finished.

And I’m glad the Crab Toss is only temporary… we don’t need that permanent.

Luthan.5236:

Also too many other achievements…

Such a fail. Might be the first time I’m just ignoring all that stuff and doing other things… don’t want to stay the whole next weeks on that map to do all that stuff.

Lol Wut? Too much stuff to do is bad??

fail is: after u done all achivs, there is again no reason to go back to southsun.

else decent evening entertainment with 2 well designed backs, hope the exotic tentacle one gets gfx update so the tentacles actual move.

velestra.9415:

fail is: after u done all achivs, there is again no reason to go back to southsun.

else decent evening entertainment with 2 well designed backs, hope the exotic tentacle one gets gfx update so the tentacles actual move.

you mean apart from the 200% MF buff hat works only in southsun?

or the similar gold find buff that also only works in southsun and can net you up to 5 silver per enemy if the random number gods favor you?

or the relatively high density of events?

or the fact that karka have a pretty high blood droprate? (I actually managed to get 4S 86c and a powerful blood off ONE young karka and I don’t need to be a warrior or mesmer, I got that as an engineer, I LOVE SOUTHSUN! DEATH TO CoF, ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOKARKA)

Sera.6539:

Con
-Still no way to play with your friends in the mini games.
-Achievement tied to dumb luck and hope that randoms will coordinate with you (Crabtacular!)

Well everyone seems to “play for themselves” in the minigame, no?

Also, echoing your dislike of the dumb luck achievement.

Pro: Everything not involving the JP

Con: Everything involving the JP

PRO: New content
CON: I don’t feel like playing this new content since they rushed the Bonfire achievement from FF 2 days before it’s original ending date. Now I have a fully achieved Living Story, but without a freaking ending achievement, because I didnt log on for two days…

CONS: Nothing for those of us that aren’t very good at this

PRO: pretty much everything added
CON: Having to do the hardest JP in the game for one part of the new stuff, and the fact that enemies here STILL hit like a truck (let’s face it, they’re dungeon mobs at this point). Oh, here’s an extra con…no swim trunks or swimwear for players to buy.

Pro; map design
con; karka

lol

Day 1 Impressions~

PROS:

-Dynamic Events livened the place up more than they did in Lost Shores (IMO)
-Allowing the Southsun Supply Crate to drop from monsters
-Opportunity to get skins from past events (Lost Shores Karka backpack) from vendor
-MF and Coin buffs

CONS:

-Crab Toss (does not play very smooth, buggy)
-Crab Toss Achievement Points required to finish the “Secret of Southsun”.
(Someone from another thread mentioned the great idea of moving these points to “Community” with all the Keg Brawler achievement points; or code in a new category just for Mini-Games)

-After I finished everything there was to do, I had no desire to stay. Not that I didn’t have fun playing through the content the first time, but it was a bit “too causal” for me to stick around afterwards.

RyuDragnier.9476:

PRO: pretty much everything added
CON: Having to do the hardest JP in the game for one part of the new stuff, and the fact that enemies here STILL hit like a truck (let’s face it, they’re dungeon mobs at this point). Oh, here’s an extra con…no swim trunks or swimwear for players to buy.

it is a jp but you didnt have to do it. if yur talkin about the stepping stones one for the sample then ye you didnt needa do it. cuz there are 11 samples i think. you only need 10.

RyuDragnier.9476:

PRO: pretty much everything added
CON: Having to do the hardest JP in the game for one part of the new stuff, and the fact that enemies here STILL hit like a truck (let’s face it, they’re dungeon mobs at this point). Oh, here’s an extra con…no swim trunks or swimwear for players to buy.

you didnt take a real look at the achievements did you?
1)you dont need the jp sample for any of the backpieces (10 samples needed and 11 samples are there)
2) you dont miss any achievement points by not doing the jp

so WHY DO YOU COMPLAIN?????
i just dont get it….

and even if you had to do the jp… DEAL WITH IT OMG!!!!!!

im so sick of people complaining everywhere and wanting everything to be easier and expecting free rewards

I didn’t notice that there were 11…and well, some of us are completionists~

Besides, while I hate this JP with a passion (it is THE hardest JP in the game), it doesn’t bother me too much to have to do it. I put it as a con because well…feels like a kitten move somewhat.

Pro tip: Mesmers can port you to the top of the JP.

When I was there earlier, there were 3 mesmers at the puzzle all doing ports. It took me 30 seconds to get the puzzle chest and another minute to find the 11th sample.

When I was there, the mesmer who was there was trying to get to the top so she could port.

Pro: They made this majestic, wonderful, beautiful island with gorgeous features and everything a Tyrian could ever want.

Con: And then they gave it crabs..

I was porting for free earlier (as I hope all mesmers are…) and so were quite a few in my server. Try guesting to a more popular server and ask politely.

One of them earlier was doing it for 50 silver each.

I love that the enemies in the zone are still a challenge, finally a worthy lv.80 zone I love how you have to watch out where to go instead of careless running through everything. A zone which doesn’t feel bland.

FINALLY a zone where you have to use your skills 2-10 thank you Anet!!

+) non-trivial enemies
+) nice artwork & athmosphere (e.g. in the Karka hive)
+) grab toss gets more depth, the longer you play it saw extremely well playing people who held the crab quite a while. Wasn’t that bad myself from time to time
+) being rewarded for exploring, want more of it, Anet. Thanks!

-) I’m not sure if I’ve done something wrong: escorted NPCs to safe places and they disappeared. No new vendor, nothing.
-) haven’t seen any follow-up events… are there any?
-) lag in grab-minigame (long and disturbing lag, the last time I experienced this was during the last karka event in Lions Arch)
-) I’m missing the fantasy-flair a bit, very modern feeling…