I didn’t get to test much sadly with some big projects for school due and tests, and my friend wanted to try the game as well. So this is pretty brief.
Mastery Points Gone
I’m really hoping they were just disabled during this BWE since all you really needed was gliding for the raids apparently. But the areas where there were mastery points to somehow get to seemed fine to me, and I enjoyed figuring out how to get there. I hope this was just an error and not final.
Leveling up Masteries
First, it seemed the Exp towards masteries was reduced a lot, again, hoping this was an error because it was horrible to just level up gliding.
Speaking of which, the whole “locking masteries until a previous mastery is unlocked” is a horrible idea. If people don’t want to get gliding first, then they shouldn’t. Heck this was even said on your livestreams. So again, I hope this was just an error or implemented JUST for this BWE.
Removing the archers from the Personal Story
Bad move imo. Did I die in my first encounter? Yes. Did I learn after that? Yes. Please let me learn from my mistakes and slow reaction time, not make it easier for me.
Mobs made easier
I’m not gonna lie and say some mobs were over attuned with HP and damage. Some of the frogs were a real pain to fight, and just as a veteran, they could’ve been tuned down A LITTLE. And one of the normal shroud beasts able to kill me almost instantly definately (note, I said normal, not vet, not elite, not champ, NORMAL).
But this was waaaaay too toned down for everything. Waaay too easy. Go back to BWE2 level and try again.
Raids
I got to do one briefly this morning finally. It was fun, I liked the Megaman approach to the first boss, in which you see what each color does before getting to the boss who does all three. Too bad we got to P2 and instant wiped while trying to figure out why.
And one question to Anet, was this instance of the BWE just taken from the Twitchcon showroom floor? Hence why so different than BWE2?