Guild Wars 2

First of all I should say that I’m quite pleased with what I’ve seen in this demo, the introduction looks cool and the Raptor looks and feels amazing to ride. But as a big fan of GW2 I have some feedback that I hope will help to make some things better.

1- I had a problem with the introduction mission, I got stuck between two walls with the raptor after jumping and to get out of it I had to log out since there was no Waypoint in that map. I really wish there was one just to avoid frustration.

2- The raptor to me feels fine., I just hope we will have emotes on the mounts, it would be nice to RP, like pet it when you are on top of it or something else or even the character saying something to the mount when running around, like “faster!” or “wow easy buddy” or something more complex that would add even more flavour to the mounts.

3- Races.. I tried one and I was disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the idea of racing is cool but it’s really limited right now. Everything is based on how often you use your jump and after understanding that it was easy to win and to get bored of it.
I can imagine that when you unlock the longer jump with the raptor you will be able to win even easier..
What I was expecting was to have additional skills while you were on the race to slow down the other people racing. Something like the Beetle Race in GW.
Just restrict the skills to the people racing or in a radius around the path of the race so the skills can’t be used to kitten off other players that are not racing.
I’m not expecting the same amount of skills as the Beetle Race but still it would be nice to have at least one, so that it gets more interesting and hard to win.
Still power ups to pick up like in the Sanctum Sprint would be nice to have.
Also I realized that if you are partecipating in a race and not manage to win you don’t get anything at the end, no way to se your timing or at which place you managed to arrive(or maybe there is but I couldn’t find it).

5- Bounties.. This was my biggest disappointment. Bounties have no flavour at all..you just go up to the board and claim one, no text explaining what your bounty will be.
I really was expecting something like that, to be more involved into it, and some text just for flavour would go a long way. A great reference would be the Witcher contracts from The Witcher 3…no need to go that far but still it would help to satisfy people looking for lore. I think that gw1 bounties also had flavour text…

Let me know what you think!