Guild Wars 2

I expected constant events, lots of action, lots of events going on. Instead the map is mostly empty, can hardly get more than 5 people at an event, maybe 10. I think we killed the wyvern with like 16 or 17 people. And then it turned nighttime and nobody seems to care about the night events, so everyone dispersed. I relogged twice, so I don’t know if I was just getting into dead overflows or what, but there shouldn’t even be dead overflows, this is the first day of the new expansion of one of the most popular games. There should be boatloads of people everywhere. I saw about as many people doing map completion the other day getting my last few hero points from the rest of tyria.

Even if there were people, the events are nothing special. You walk awhile, kill some mobs, pick up some trash and give it to an npc, maybe kill a champion mob every now and then. Orr had more interesting events and Anet has had 3 years to learn from orr. Silverwastes and dry top were much more interesting and had more action. Even old, non-max-level event chains like the centaurs in harathi hinterlands feel more interesting than what I’ve seen of HoT so far.

Regardless of whether its grindy or not, regardless of whether we should be able to unlock our elite specs more easily, I’m not really impressed with what I’ve seen so far. Maybe it gets better in the later zones, but I have to unlock those zones, so yeah. I don’t feel like HoT is an improvement on the base game at all, at least when it comes to the open world pve.

I didnt see this at all, i saw full events all day.

Having said that, people have already rushed into the second zone and i saw comms packing that one out. Curiosity will have got the better of beta players especially.
Add in new, vast swathes levelling Revs, new map rewards etc, then im unsurprised to hear ppl are so spread out.

I ran into this too. Very few people around. Didn’t have enough to complete several events.

Although the first map (for the first two hours) I was on events were completed frustratingly fast. Especially pre – glider. They’d get completed before I got there.

But ya. After the first few hours (5am-7am pacific) I’ve been in semi empty zones the rest of the day.

i hate the new zones, awful to navigate, the skills you need to navigate it are locked behind a grind wall which makes… no sense? you need 400 Sp to play the new elite spec.

And as you said the events are… preety standard. i also got to a hero point challenge and no one else was there, waitied 15 mins and still no one was there. i guess thats what you get for trying to explore?

I’m bored but for another reason seem some of the people either went into HoT with the complaints you all have or others like myself went back a to work on Core Masteries and found a horrible mindnumbing grind to await us.