Guild Wars 2

First of all, the jungle looks absolutely gorgeous, and I won’t lie about me being iffy on only having 4 maps of content to play through, but after this you can really tell that there are 3 different layers of maps in the “one” world map plane, and if the other maps are like this, you’re looking at about the equivalent of 12 maps from central Tyria. I cannot wait to explore the jungle.

I went into this beta completely abandoning the Revenant after being hyped about how cool the Berserker and Daredevil looked, so I didn’t actually test the Herald. This was a major mistake on my end.

Berserker is kind of just okay. It doesn’t really feel like you are in Berserk all that much, so you play a regular Warrior for 1-15 seconds, and then you berserk for 15 seconds, rinse and repeat. You’re telling me that I get kittened and go berserk mode, only to get less kittened as a monster is whacking away on me? I feel like once you go Berserk mode, you should continue to go berserk mode until you leave combat with that monster or monsters. This makes you more of a character like Hulk from Marvel Comics, where once you get kittened enough, you stay kittened until the thing dies, or you get even more kittened until the enemy dies.

Daredevil was also decent, and was definitely the more fun of the two elite specs that I was hyped for, but as time went on throughout the beta I kept wondering what was actually being brought to a class that is already extremely selfish. The extra dodges and endurance gains for yourself are not going to help a party in raids. There are no combo fields with staff and most of the physical skills are also selfish and for yourself. Yeah you get 3 interrupts on a 20 second CD, but other classes can do that too especially mesmers/chronomancers who can not only help with interrupts but also with far more things. I just don’t see what the Daredevil is bring to a class that needed more help because it’s widely viewed as a “PvP only” class

Now back to my point about the Herald….I’m mad because a lot of people seem to LOVE the Herald and is what seemed to be “missing” from the Revenant and some people even go so far as to claim the elite spec was planned to be part of the core Revenant anyways. I felt like none of the legends really paired with Shiro well because they all changed what you were doing drastically, so I often times found myself camping in Shiro mode, but it seems like Shiro+Glint was a resounding success, and now i’m kicking my butt for not trying it out.