Guild Wars 2

While I do feel that restricting players to autoattacks during the tutorial event is a mistake, and it does bother me a little that I’m level 18 and still not earning skill points for my levels, I gotta admit the new system is forcing me to really think about every skill I’ve gotten so far. I am a veteran with a few hundred hours logged on this game, and I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever felt intimately familiar with my weapon skills as an elementalist; I’ve always given up on eles before. I’m using a staff (I love the play style) and, even though I don’t have Earth, I’m finally looking at fire/water/air as area damage, healing bunker, and single-target control respectively. I don’t know how I missed that in previous iterations. I’ve spent the last 24 hours complaining about how much I hate the new system for leveling alts but as soon as I realized what it actually did for classes I’m unfamiliar with, I’m pretty much singing its praises now.

wat?

/15chars

I didn’t look at the forums last night when I rerolled an Elementalist. I had my Ele at 20 before the patch, and then deleted it once the new player experience was rolled out. I agree with your statement in that the weapon skills are actually more meaningful once it’s constantly used for a whole level. And the hearts actually give a lot of experience that it didn’t faze me at all with this level gated unlocks.

So this morning, I’m actually confused at the hate players are throwing at the NPE. Since my Ele is still level 10 from where I left off, I don’t mind leveling it to max level now that each level gives you a little shiny.

Give it another week… we’ll see if players had adapted to change or have uninstalled their client. When the trait unlock system came out, I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy it. I’m also leveling a Ranger, which is now 64, and I enjoyed the trait hunting, so long as it was accessible to me. The trait unlocks needs some tweaking (take it out of PS, have a marker on the map for it), but it gave me more of a challenge to expand my Ranger’s abilities.