Guild Wars 2

The Good:

- The map, the tone, the setting. It’s all wonderful and vast, and it has a sense of character, like the Maguuma Jungle did.

- The mounts, of course, handle and control well! Please don’t change this!

- Races are a great source of fun, every now and then.

- The bounty events are fun and engaging, and a great source of frequent open world content.

- The Mastery Points are more thought-out, and involve more than just ‘finding them’. The colour-coded puzzle in the ruins is a really good example!

- The cache/limited key per day system. If it was 5 keys per zone per day, I think it might be the best heart reward system in a very long time. And please, don’t nerf the loot drops from the caches. It’s a great way to farm all of the materials at random!

- The Casino Coin event, whilst small, is a great mini-game to reward Minis and hopefully other rewards.

- The mobs feel fair and engaging, like they add to the setting and the tone.

- The story’s opening has a grim tone, as if there’s actually a threat for once with the Herald’s rampage. It’s really snazzy.

The Bad:

- Some of the mobs, such as Sand Eels, Choya, individual Forged (not hunting parties in events), and the Zaishen, need a damage buff as they feel far too squishy, and we can easily cut through them. I was playing a D/P Thief and stood still against each mob, and only really took about 2k damage before I managed to kill each one, of my 17k health pool.

- As others have said, marking the Bounties by ‘relevancy’ would be really helpful. It can be a bit annoying when you pick up a Bounty and arrive as it’s just died.

- A nit-pick but Kasmeer’s dialogue that she can’t believe that a God’s turned on/abandoned us is a bit strange, considering Abaddon etc, and at a further stretch, the Exodus of the Gods.

- Rytlock’s Revenant mystery really needs to come to an end in this expansion in a fulfilling way. Of course, this isn’t a gripe with the demo, but something that you’ve teased and needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Another thread? Five not enough?