Guild Wars 2

….or Worse? …when it comes to an interesting and exciting instanced experience?

This is a serious question about whether travel suppression (as it’s typically called…. IE: you instantly slow down to a “catchable running speed” for the sake of PvP usually).

Really think about this for a minute….
Yes it’s necessary for WvW. We know that. It’s even somewhat necessary for general PvE zone-clearing where you’ve basically still got random players competing against eachother for Mob kills.

But what about the Dungeons where it’s just you and your most trusted allies?
Think back to the good old GW1 FOW & the Deep? … or just any speed-run elite areas or even the relaxed/silly ones where we didn’t have this mechanic … then compare those to the 2nd Aspect of Glint where everyone feels like they’re wading through pudding instead of actually moving about freely.

Then there’s also the issue of super slow rezzing while “in-combat” which is the main reason you see so much respawn-facerolling to begin with.

I don’t care about the Artificial Difficulty it adds to Dungeons. There’s a million other ways Anet does that ANYWAY with other dungeon-exclusive mechanics. Just think about it on it’s own…. does being slowed down like you’re in Pudding, and rezzing super slow, actually make Dungeons more Exciting??

….Or does it feel like other nerfs where PvE suffers for the sake of PvP uniformity? Was this a good decision by Anet? Or does it feel like one they just didn’t have the technical resources to “separate out”?

…No. Another bad gimmick.

It should be reduced slightly in PVE. I hate missing jumps because of that kitten.

Hamartia.3421:

It should be reduced slightly in PVE. I hate missing jumps because of that kitten.

Ohh… yeah that’s a good point. I didn’t even think about that. That really hamstrings their potential in making some fun Jump-Puzzle /slash/ Dungeon hybrid encounters in the future, don’t it? (try doing the WvW jump puzzles sometime when they’re camped by mesmers or some other jerkbags… it’s break-your own-monitor levels of ragedumping)