Guild Wars 2

Hai,

I bought ls2 finally from gem store. ANd I have to say i’m rather disappoint so far. I’ve done the first 2 episodes of it. A couple themes pop up during these episodes. One is dumb aggro mobs spawning every couple fight that you have to clear over and over. The other is glitchy npc…..that are in the wrong location….standing with their sword inhand when they are supposed to be on the ground dying (that was lol). And there’s always a huge delay after you finish an objective……everyone slowly walks to a location and then just stands there silently for up to 10 seconds in some cases and then finally some1 says something or the next objectives pops up in the top right corner and you can advance.

I really like Taimi’s lines so far. There was this one moment where she walked behind rox and the tail glitched into her and she was all like “hey! watch it with that tail!”. Pretty unexpected lulz moment. Taimi tends to notice the ridiculous of some things that happen in the game and calls them out, which is amusing at times.
Anyways the enemies are all dumb and pointless feeling much more so than hot and ls3. The party actually did a bit of damage to a boss which i was surprised……like i waited 10 seconds just to see and the sylvari boss in the first episode actaully took 3-4% damage!!!! omg!! lol. The other times i leave them 1 enemy to kill and its the usual…..we can’t even handle 1 enemy thing. And the other times they just get wrecked to 1 hp on the most basic of enemies and do little to no damage and just sit there floating from 1-3% hp glitched waiting for some1 to do all the work.

The support of the npc is much better though than the other content, not alot better tho lol, than the hot and ls3 stuff….i mean quickness buffs are actually useful combat help.

I’m getting rewards so far, which is somehting people said I wouldn’t get. And i get ttyrian mastery points….so thats good maybe? idk.
Hopefull it gets a bit better. Was expecting ls2 to explain all the new characters that weren’t from destiny’s edge…..like I don’t remember or know where taimi and rox and matilda and brahm and the others even came from……i don’t remember meeting them back in 2012 when i did the gw2 story…..i don’t remember any of that and was hoping that it was all contained in the ls2….apparently not, so im still scratching my head like i was in hot.

Oh and I have alot of issues with the location of the objectives not always showing up on the maps….its really annoying. Like i finished and it told me to go to drytop for the first time into a village area in the middle….ive already beeen to drytop so i ported in to the nearest location to the village. What happens? the marker disappears and i have no idea where to go. I go back out into verdant brink. And I walk back in to drytop and still no marker….
so i just walk around a bit and start an arduous search since the wiki doesn’t give me location data outside of general giant areas. and finally while walking i trigger it and it starts giving me objectvies to do and leads me to go that location. Then other things to like doors blocked with vines….it says i need to find taimi and others but in reality i need to clear the pve events going on nearby that happen to have spawned when i was doing the story. Then the sylvari boss fight was grueling….the special light abilities kept disappearing before their charge had been spent……they kept throwing me to my death off of cliffs.

Like why is that yellow dash ability supposed to be used to bypass a door, but before the channel ends it leads you off a cliff? like….why!??!? and you move farther back to use it so the channel ends safely away from teh cliff it won’t register through the door! like….what?!?!
just crazy wtf stuff like that happened all the time through these first 2 episodes and it was just a grind most of the time so far.

idk I’d recommend just going on youtube and watching ls2 if you have to buy it with gems……you arne’t missing anything from the first 2 episodes at least.

I was impressed you could stay behind in 1 of taimi’s instances and learn about scarlet through a hologram that spawns if you stay behind long enough. Little things impressed me. Tons of big things left me feeling bleh. TOns of little things left me aggravated.

Cerby.1069:

… Was expecting ls2 to explain all the new characters that weren’t from destiny’s edge…..like I don’t remember or know where taimi and rox and matilda and brahm and the others even came from……i don’t remember meeting them back in 2012 when i did the gw2 story…..i don’t remember any of that and was hoping that it was all contained in the ls2….apparently not, so im still scratching my head like i was in hot….

These characters were introduced in Living Story Season 1, which is not replayable at this time.

Cerby.1069:

Like why is that yellow dash ability supposed to be used to bypass a door, but before the channel ends it leads you off a cliff? like….why!??!? and you move farther back to use it so the channel ends safely away from teh cliff it won’t register through the door! like….what?!?!

You can use the skill again to end the channel and come out early.

Good luck.

It gets better. A lot better – there is one quite lengthy episode set in The Priory. I wont spoil it, but it was a great surprise for GW1 players.

I don’t think the first 2 episodes were as bad as you found it, but the whole season is a bit up and down in consistency. As a season overall, the quality is generally pretty high, with some excellent boss and mob encounters.

Missing out on Season 1 sadly removes almost the entire back stories for the NPC’s so feeling lost in concern to them is only natural.

Yep, if it hadnt include carapace armor and mastery point i wouldnt bother, the ls2 were just meh, and the first few episodes showing too much of romantic scenes. the ls3 is more than awesome nevertheless.

LS2 gets better the deeper you go into the story. LS3 is even BETTER! Now remember a story only gets better the more you go into it and the more mysteries that are unraveled.

I found LS2 to be very enjoyable actually. Sure, some scenes were ridiculously long/slow (which becomes even more apparent when you go back for the achievements), but overall it was well done.