Guild Wars 2

By the new patch.

How bout you guys?

Narrrz.7532:

By the new patch.

How bout you guys?

What complaints?

The patch is really nice, but it didn’t address ALL of my concerns. It did make some very nice changes, though.

I was pleasantly surprised by the patch notes.

Snow.2048:

I was pleasantly surprised by the patch notes.

As a person who absolutely loves reading every single character in patch notes, those long and detailed notes were a dream!

Thank you, ANet, for those lovely notes! I hope all future updates are as detailed and inclusive of changes implemented by the update they are for.

As for what those gorgeous notes detailed:
Practically the entirety of the patch notes were related to things that do not affect my playstyle or alter areas of the game that I take part. However, a lot of the update seems well-received and offered positive changes for areas of the game for other players, so that’s awesome. Though due to my not really taking part in those areas of gameplay, I have no personal opinion on them.

The only changes that really affect me would be the slight adjustments to some skills for some professions, but even those changes were not really a big deal or ‘game-changing’. Though I must admit I like the ranger sword skill no longer being animation-locked…but I rarely use that as my primary weapon on my rangers.

The Effect Quality option is nice, but it does not revert all changed skills to their former, fully graphic state and only reverts the Elementalist Fireball. It is nice to finally get that back, but what about all of the other changed skill effects that were diminished that are not reverted to their previous appearance? Seems to be barely implemented at all. Maybe down the road everything else will get included and reverted to their former glory as well, which I look forward to reading about their inclusion in some future, highly-detailed patch notes.

I still have to play out some more of the game. Before I really start saying it was an amazing patch. One of the problems I am personally trying to see if it was addressed was the new HoT stat recipe books disproportionate drop rates. For instance Minstrel recipe books seem to drop all the time. I have 17 Minstrel Jewelry Recipe books in my storage right now. While other recipes like the Commander books seem to drop at a way lower ratio. To this date I only have 1 Commander Weapon Recipe book. Which I got conveniently yesterday after going through 40 Noxious Pods.

Also talking about Dragon Stand I have notice there are more Noxious Pods that are spawning. However the drop rate for the Machetes seems to be the exact same as before. So it appears getting Crystalline Ore will still be a chore.