In a little over three weeks I have been playing GW2: HoT now and I still have lot’s to do, I cant stop doing the meta events, I am planning on finding some PoI’s, vistas or HP’s and then I stumble upon an event and then I do that and suddenly I find myself following the Event chain and I end up doing the meta event. Ofcourse if I don’t use LFG tool the map are rarely succsessfull but it is really fun to do! I do like that there are so few waypoints and 75% of them are mostly contested so that I have to walk/glide through the jungle and having better chance of stumble over more events. If you just take it easy, every event is pretty close to you. This is so much better than Orr!
A game can always improve and GW2 is showing alot of it!
Edit: Oh I would like to add another post!
I maxed all 9 professions in hero points for their elite specialization and am finding myself still playing GW2. I thought the xpac was supposed to be bad and have nothing to do from what I read on these forums, but after unlocking specs I still havent touched the tip of the game.
-Even though it has nothing to do with the expac but Dungeons are such a nice place to play now, pretty much no gold farmer or Speedrunners join my group now with the rewards nerf.
-It is sad that Fractals has been a total let down but from listening to constructive complaints from players Fractals will now get a good fix. Super!
-World Meta events take HUGE amounts of time (2 hr+ each meta), fail regularly, and the game spawns dead maps faster than then the U.S. Treasury prints money but luckely we all can use the LFGtool so we can all be on a map filled with players with the same intention (And I bet that is one big reason “usuall” maps are empty). As I use the LFGtool I dont have to spend 1 hour of map hopping to find an organized one, or spend 40mins before realizing there is no hope at all that the map is even going to make it to the end phase. Rewards like the bladed armor chest are RNG at the end but someday I will get it becouse I don’t play GW2 just to get the Bladed Armor chest.
-General focus on world events creates this feeling that I can controll what I am doing and I can also help those who don’t know what to do to understand the game too, that We are around 200 people on a map that fights for a common goal. As player, I finally feel very important as I am succsessfully leading people to victory. Getting anything great in this game seems to be just sheer luck. Whether is getting a precursor drop or another nice cosmetic. But it is still just fluff, it will come to me sooner or later as I just enjoy all the content.
-Rewards in general suck and seem to become less and less with each update instead of more. Cost of ascended gear has skyrocketed to the point of making gear for new characters an impossibility for those who think TP is the only place to get your crafting mats. If you weren’t and early bird that got your crap early from the TP, your pretty much screwed but as I said you can get your crafting mats yourself while enjoying the game. Don’t even think about trying to make celestial gear very fast… if your a ele and follow cele meta hype then you have to prepare to spend a few gold a day to buy 25 Quartz Crystals to convert them at a HP to a Charged Quartz Crystal one each day for around 45 days… That is pretty sick so … meh… Since Celestial stats all new stats has just been a pain.
-EVERYTHING is expensive. Whenever I’m standing in front of the TP, I feel like I’m living in the Great Depression and standing in a breadline with a 20$ just to buy one loaf (a.k.a one single strength or scholar rune). I would be affraid to see how expencive things would be if it where easier to farm gold!
-The expansion story part is pretty small, One platyer can blow through the story in less than an hour and don’t really feel compelled to play through it again just to get slammed with bugs from the last boss. The quality of the storytelling is fantastic and I can’t wait to see more! We can’t forget that we also paid for the continuation of the Living story.
Anet made a really good expansion and with a very neat replay value! I still got lots to do but I can’t wait to play the raid and to see more of the Living Story!
Guild Leader of Alpha Sgc [ASGC]
(edited by EdgarMTanaka.7291)
