Guild Wars 2

So the new feature Patch has a new leveling system and have to say it was unnecessary to do so. Going to discuss the new personal story update and leveling system.
The ability to just get a weapon item and gradually learn new attacks by simply using the weapon over time worked great for the flow of gameplay.

1. This allowed the new players to test out their newly acquired weapon and at the same time learning how the game works.

2. This taught new players that every weapon skill was crucial in a fight and also taught them when it was good to use these skills.

3. This allowed players to move more freely in the world and feel like they are accomplishing something. Having it locked to your level is more restrained and feels less of an accomplishment and more of a requirement.

Now with personal story if it is going to be locked to level ten at the very least bring this lock down to level 5. Having the story locked to level 10 just halts your immersion. At the beginning of the game you make your character and do a quick story introduction. Then the game gives you a quick heart mission and you are back to getting into the story. Having the game halt your story to level ten feels less apart of the game and more of a mechanic that unlocks at level ten. It feels more of a chore then it does being apart of a grander story. personally I preferred the old way of getting a personal story since the flow felt natural.

One last thing is gamers are not as slow in learning a game as you think. It doesn’t require holding their hand. when learning to play a game it is about being immersed into the world without being told what you are doing. Show don’t Tell. A charater learns when they experiment, and finds out new things by discovering it themselves. Yes it’s okay to give hints to help out a new player, and yes it’s okay to help them understand the gameplay, but it does not need to be locked to require that player to understand the game. The more open the game is, the more the player feels like they have a choice in the game.

Any other things that I may have missed please post. And thank you