I must admit i posted a lot of my opinions on the forum, and lots of feedback and suggestions on the game, but i wont make the mistake of forgetting to mention what i seriously love abaut it.
First of all the best thing in my opinion is the map and the terrain.
All the zones and every inch of them is screaming of awesome design. You cant find a tipical “flat texture field to fill in” . There are sooooo many objects, buildings, cliffs, creatures, background objects that there is not a single spot is same as another. And a lot of those ojects feel like you can even use them.
-And that goes for PvP to. The Foefire and Battle for Kyhlo my personaly favorites are mind blowing. Every object and item on the map is designed so that you can use them as tactical adventage. The ranges are totally set and tested for all classes. And they even look good. Not to mention WvWvW. When i told my coworker friends abaut it, they didnt believe me. (untill they try it
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Ok the second thing i totally love is : Animations and effects.
Trough i admit i dont like how Nekro changed, but, I admit :
The pet movements, and animations are awesome. Taking example Rangers bird pets. They dont simply stop. They make a circle and then land, all fully detailed and animated.
Or take the “fire breath” skills for elementalist. The characters movement and the emotion itself is so good looking its a lie. And that goes for a lot of skills and small parts where noone would care, but its still detailed. And thats exacly what most players love.
(redesign the Nekro minions…noone likes them. Or give them unlockable (even with gems) skins or models)
The third thing i liked ware Towns and trading. All the towns on map are well placed and realistic.
The Trading post is an awesome idea. You can sell an item you find anytime, and dont have to waste up your few item slots in bag only to carry stuff back to shop to pawn it at npc. You can put anything asap into the Trading post. Maybe someone is dying buy something you would discard or waste up at Npc-s.
Also Mails are awesome to. You can send others anything anytime.
Truly a lot of things make the players work togather, and its not foring them. They help willingly. It truly supports my theory, that its all based on game design.
I really hope Guild Halls get implemented soon, it was a good pillar of strenghtening the community in Gw1.