Guild Wars 2

I’m repeating myself from another post but I want the ANET team to see it.

HoT is amazing. I’m deeply impressed. Chronomancers are the answer to many offerings to Lyssa. I’d have bought HoT just for the gliding. ( Yes I pre purchased the delux version on my main account )

I’m grinding away on glider mastery and spending 15 and 20 minutes thermalling (riding updrafts) near the Verdant Brink entry point.

I find myself wondering if Chronomancers will one day find a means to briefly visit old Tyria.

i love gliding……..works so smoothly. such a great addition to game play.

and agree…..outside of some terrible, TERRIBLE balance decisions on certain classes, i LOVE this expansion.

Minus the borderlands, def a good expansion.

These zones have some of the best level design I’ve ever seen in a game, not to mention an MMO. I’ve “wasted” so much time un-effeciently exploring. Luckily the game often rewards you for taking a random path/mushroom/updraft. I barely even look at my map sometimes. The Meta events are extremely entertaining as well even if I haven’t been in a map that had successful completion yet. I especially love the Tarir event. Discovering and learning about Rata Nova was spectacular as well.

The story is amazing so far as well. I’m not going to say more to avoid spoilers, so yeah… just really good.

Unlocking my elite spec (scrapper) has been fun too. I decided to take the hard-mode route and playing with my elite spec enabled. It felt like my character was actually making progression again. I felt like I was earning it too. As someone who loves jumping puzzles and exploration, this was definitely the way to go. I hope Anet doesn’t give in to the people who will forget it took them a day or two to unlock their elite specs. Once they beat HoT and get a lot of the masteries and go back through the maps on their alts they will breeze through unlocking their elite specs. Really the only people I feel bad for are in WvW. It seems pretty hard to unlock elite specs just by WvWing, but Anet needs to be careful as to not make it so easy that it encourages PvEers to WvW just to unlock their elite specs.

I’m doing similar, playing as a Chronomancer while unlocking it. The practice is great. Rata Nova has me pretty excited, though I haven’t actually made it there yet. I have to gate grind for a bit.

BeardRex.6739:

These zones have some of the best level design I’ve ever seen in a game, not to mention an MMO. I’ve “wasted” so much time un-effeciently exploring. Luckily the game often rewards you for taking a random path/mushroom/updraft. I barely even look at my map sometimes. The Meta events are extremely entertaining as well even if I haven’t been in a map that had successful completion yet. I especially love the Tarir event. Discovering and learning about Rata Nova was spectacular as well.

The story is amazing so far as well. I’m not going to say more to avoid spoilers, so yeah… just really good.

Unlocking my elite spec (scrapper) has been fun too. I decided to take the hard-mode route and playing with my elite spec enabled. It felt like my character was actually making progression again. I felt like I was earning it too. As someone who loves jumping puzzles and exploration, this was definitely the way to go. I hope Anet doesn’t give in to the people who will forget it took them a day or two to unlock their elite specs. Once they beat HoT and get a lot of the masteries and go back through the maps on their alts they will breeze through unlocking their elite specs. Really the only people I feel bad for are in WvW. It seems pretty hard to unlock elite specs just by WvWing, but Anet needs to be careful as to not make it so easy that it encourages PvEers to WvW just to unlock their elite specs.

exactly (and agree about wvw)…..but people seem to not be taking into account masteries are account bound. its really not that time-consuming of a task when you consider this.