Guild Wars 2

Is it weird that I have used all three of my accounts just to play this mastery over and over? MAYBE! but that’s ok! I get to live my dream of proving myself as a Chef! I have become very familiar with the ingredients to make the Tajine stew! and have practiced and, hopefully, masted the most efficient way to use my kitchen work space \o/!

In all seriousness though, I love this new mastery! it was engaging and fun! I cant wait to see what else areanet does with the mysteries in this expansion! (I hope a return of the chef! BUT! only this time the players will be asking for the ingredients! MUAHAHAHA)

For anyone who has had a tough time with the mastery
At first its a bit tough cause it can be hard to hear what the chef is saying and where to find the ingredient he calls for. what helped me was going through it a few times to figure out where everything is! as well as turn on the NPC dialog under the chat options, then you can read what he called for in case you missed it. also! make sure you throw it after he stops moving. throwing it at him while he is moving can be annoying, believe me! I believe its on a timer! so you have to survive roughly 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but I could be wrong on that.

*Video of mastery (Forgive the quailty) *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gk4JTpYSc

It is a fun little mini game. But I felt like this mastery should have been implemented as an adventure so people could play it over if they wanted to.

I agree with Bridlegoose. Please make this replayable. It’s a fun minigame!

Same! I agree with bridlegoose! to have this repayable would be amazing! but I like the Idea of it being a mastery! In Heart of thorns I liked the challenge of getting to the masteries, but now seeing this one maybe it would be nice to have a change every once in awhile? I just wish we could replay it on the same account! but yeah, having it as a adventure would be super awesome as well! I really like this Mini game!

Honestly I felt this was a bit much. Before anyone yells omg no it needs to be harder, I had to do this multiple times because throwing the ingredient apparently didn’t hit – despite my PC giving me all the visual signs that they did. My only guess at this point is lag, Anet needs to test some of this on an artificially inflated and fluctuating connection at 400-500ms. Unlike many games GW2 is super responsive even on clients connecting internationally but every now and then you get to event/activity where everything seems to work but the flag isn’t hit on the server side, leading to failure on failure and just getting frustrating. (Like the three hours I spent on sanctum scramble because I needed to be 4s ahead of the timer because that’s how long the gates were taking to activate – and I was playing in non US peak a fair while after HoT launch.)

Unless they can fix this issue a better way of doing it would be a smaller (few ingredients) MP, then an adventure that others can enjoy and challenge themselves on.