The problem with HoT

The problem with HoT

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Rukmag.8192

Rukmag.8192

Ok this is just my personal opinion and i just wanted it to go out here to see who else feels the same-ish way.
for the past one and a half years anet has constantly just listened to the moaniest casual players on the forums who constantly cry that some content in the game is too hard for them. Eventually forcing the game to be nerfed to suit their needs (one of many examples the huge difficulty nerf of Liadri the Concealing Dark in crown pavilion). And now guild wars has just become a grind fest. There is no difficult pve content even lv50 fractals it can be done while half asleep because the difficulty does not go up with fractal scales only the mob and boss hp just making fights longer. Of course there is one exception and that is the beloved Mai trin if your group is good she can be killed really fast unlike other bosses where you are just mashing your attacks for hours. Anyway back to my point because of this the good players and bad players are all dumped in the same spot of just do this easy thing a billion times and hope you get something nice out of it.
All of this can be easily fixed by adding things like hardcore modes for dungeons so casual players can do the easy stuff and the more experienced players (if they want to) kill themselves repeatedly at harder modes of them dungeons for a slightly better drop rates.
I understand anet wants gw2 just to be a easy going game where people can easily go in and out whenever they feel like and that is fine i do it constantly and many of my friends have done it as well. But the reason most of them left in the first place was because they got bored.
Anyway the point i was trying to make is that it is fine to have casual content but also leave some more difficult content for experienced players. So what they cannot do a boss or a dungeon right now… that at least will give him/her a goal to work towards that cannot be achieved in a sw chest farm.

And now we get to HoT the big change everyone was waiting for… I just don’t see it from the feedback i got from friends that were in betas and by watching SOME of the videos of the classes etc. It just looks like the same old thing with a re-skin. I’m sorry but i do not want to spend between £30 and £80 for a expansion to a game that i originally bought 2 or something years ago just because it had potential.