Guild Wars 2

Introduction
Hello everyone. Since Raids are deactivated now and i had a chance of experience them i want to give my feedback regarding the new Raid.

On the first day i made it in the raid with 2 more people then the UI broke. We just thought lets try these mobs and started Killing the Green and Red Guardian. They were rather easy and we were quite disappointed that it is so easy to kill them. (We had no boonstrip for the blue one)

But as i could experience the raid now with a 10 Man Group yesterday i changed my mind completely from a little disappointed boy to an impressed one. We killed the first Guardians and that was pretty easy. (As it probably should be). And then there he was the Vale Guardian. When we started the fight we realized pretty soon that this fight is not only “lets kill a boss” but also needs some nice coordination between the squad itself.

So now to the Feedback itself. This fight was amazing. This is the content i was waiting for. The idea to introduce the boss mechanic by the “trash guardians” is an interesting idea .(Even though i like to just go in a bossfight and dont know what will happen :P)

Graphics
The area itself and the boss effects are beautiful. I like the style of this ruins very much.
It perfectly fits into this jungle theme. At some points it can get a little much with effect overload tho. (in combat)

Mechanics
Speaking about the Mechanics this first encounter was pretty solid. You have to watch out for the field to stand in with your people. Keep the People alive. Deal damage and coordinate well together. The boss split is pretty cool and i liked the idea of letting the boss split and seperate the Team giving a challenge there to coordinate “condis to red etc”

Result
For a first encounter this is pretty solid and more than well done. I never thought i’d get such a great raiding experience and you guys have exceeded my expectations by far.
The ideas, mechanics and art is beautifully done and i want to thank you all for giving us this experience.

In my opinion for the First encounter the difficulty was perfect. It was not too easy and not too hard. And this was really nice to bring in as a first raid test.
Keep on doing that work this was awesome and i am looking forward to see more of the raids in the future! And hope the challenge increases with the bosses.

Well done Arenanet. Well done.

tl,dr; Raids are awesome, perfect Difficulty, nice mechanics.