Guild Wars 2

Beta is fine for a beta, bugs here and there all ok. but more important to me is reporting on the game experience itself:
-Nice map design
-Running with friends allies is always fun, but pretty much needed to survive. creature density is too high, respawn rate is high that even in a 3 man group you would easily get overwhelmed
-Events seem to trigger simultaneously and to often, basically you have time to defend, when done you have a couple mins to go bio and what and come defend mindlessly some more it doesn’t feel like your efforts are in anyway putting a dent in the attacks. you don’t get the feeling of a job well done here, let’s go help somewhere else cause before you really moved anywhere the bloody place is under attack again
- Need more safe havens that the WP to the far east. So far it is like there is no real safe spot to leave your toon other than there, anywhere else you can’t really leave your toon there for more than a min and expect to find it alive. Not even at the northern WP that was uncontested non stop and therefore should be safe.

Unless your plans are for this map to be another mad grind like the Silverwastes some changes are needed so people can actually wander around and appreciate the effort that went into the design of the map as well as killing monsters and not have it be a non stop monster slaughter fest map where you just go to farm.

“Running with friends allies is always fun, but pretty much needed to survive. creature density is too high, respawn rate is high that even in a 3 man group you would easily get overwhelmed”

What class did you run??
There is a big thread bout mob difficulty. And there is a imo a big difference there between those who run they same class as in the normal game and those trying the revenant or the new specialisations.

In normal game there is a long learning curve where you have to learn your build. the default build you are given in beta is ok, but not superior. also you have limited knowledge.

I never had much difficulty with mobs and solo-ing many events (besides the group events obviously).
I just want to prevent Arenanet from nerfing everything just cause people don’t know how to play their toon.
I personally think it is good that the expansion has a higher difficulty level as the rest of the game.