Guild Wars 2

All and all I’m not happy with any of this. Coming from someone who never posts on the forums I was motivated to do so when I loaded up the patch today. Not one person I have talked to personally, be it in my guild or in map chat, has said one good thing about this feature pack.

You’ve taken away most of the things that make levelling any fun at all, low level skill points, gathering nodes, vistas, and personal story.

Some people have pointed out that it may be a move by Anet to make personal story unlock at level 10 to dissuade Key Farming, but I really don’t think that’s the case? Otherwise y’all would have just changed the reward given by the personal story, I think?

Moving on from that small point, the UI is buggy and weird, and I don’t feel as motivated to level any of my alts. Especially when I’ve spent so much time, and money, buying all these weapon and armor skins and now they don’t even unlock until level 6? Granted level six is easy to get to but… I don’t know. This doesn’t feel like the same game at all.

The new way the skills for weapons unlocks is just making the game HARDER for some nerbies, I’m sure, and what the heck is with this and having to unlock downed skills? That’s ridiculous, honestly! And the downed option doesn’t even happen for several levels, so now when my little lowbie characters cross the damage threshold they just die, not even giving me a fighting chance. It feels like you’ve dumbed down your game for the sake of new players, but in most cases you’ve just made it harder for them.

Wasn’t the point of having vistas and skill points in the low level areas to give people options for levelling? What now, you want us to come back to these low level areas to do map completion once we’re higher level? It’s like everything is backwards now, and completing maps doesn’t even feel rewarding.

This is a lot of complaints, and I’ve seen several threads like this one, but I really think everyone who’s upset about this feature patch should make themselves heard. Please consider reworking the features you’ve installed, and even, you know, not fix things that aren’t broken in the future? I’d like my fun game back, please…