Guild Wars 2

This post is in response to another where a customer wanted a refund for HoT. I DON’T want a refund, even though I think that HoT is the worst xpac in MMO history. I will play it through no matter how frustrating and not fun it is. What I would like is a statement form the president of ArenaNet and the devs of HoT explaining to a very dissatisfied customer base as to how they could release such an awful game. be seeing you.

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

Kaamau.5341:

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

EXACTLY. Remember Vanilla Guildwars 2 on release….. You had to earn those utilty’s and even then couldn’t unlock all your skills when a new section opened because of lack of skill points. It seems people have forgotten that. Slow down and enjoy the story and hidden secrets.

glyphofhealing.1609:

Kaamau.5341:

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

EXACTLY. Remember Vanilla Guildwars 2 on release….. You had to earn those utilty’s and even then couldn’t unlock all your skills when a new section opened because of lack of skill points. It seems people have forgotten that. Slow down and enjoy the story and hidden secrets.

Story = Mastery walls

Artorius.6178:

glyphofhealing.1609:

Kaamau.5341:

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

EXACTLY. Remember Vanilla Guildwars 2 on release….. You had to earn those utilty’s and even then couldn’t unlock all your skills when a new section opened because of lack of skill points. It seems people have forgotten that. Slow down and enjoy the story and hidden secrets.

Story = Mastery walls

How is this different from personal story requiring a certain level? Both are achieved through EXP gain. To me this feels natural, and they realized and removed the only high requirements mastery for story.

This is no different from Personal story, except the expansions story is WAY better.

tonyajc.2618:

How is this different from personal story requiring a certain level? Both are achieved through EXP gain. To me this feels natural, and they realized and removed the only high requirements mastery for story.

This is no different from Personal story, except the expansions story is WAY better.

you could level up in multiple different zones, doing many different things (even just crafting, or doing dailies, or doing world bosses, everything grants exp), however when it comes to HoTs masteries (at least those that matter for HoT story anyway), you’re locked into solely only doing very few events or killing mobs (HoTs zones only as well by the way) in order to grind masteries in order to see more of the story.

Mirta.5029:

tonyajc.2618:

How is this different from personal story requiring a certain level? Both are achieved through EXP gain. To me this feels natural, and they realized and removed the only high requirements mastery for story.

This is no different from Personal story, except the expansions story is WAY better.

you could level up in multiple different zones, doing many different things (even just crafting, or doing dailies, or doing world bosses, everything grants exp), however when it comes to HoTs masteries (at least those that matter for HoT story anyway), you’re locked into solely only doing very few events or killing mobs (HoTs zones only as well by the way) in order to grind masteries in order to see more of the story.

I haven’t actively looked for any crafting stations in Jungle maps but I would have assumed they gave you exp for mysteries…I already maxed out most of the crafting disciplines anyways though. You should still be able to do bosses in the jungle and they added adventures, which gave a TON of EXP. Not to mention Masteries are account wide so you can go do these on alternate characters if you wish. Not sure how repeatable adventures are though haven’t tested replay-ability.

The only thing I really agree on, is I wish you could work on Maguuma and base world masteries no matter where you are. I am slightly bummed out when I went to Orr for a change of pace, and my Maguuma masteries wouldn’t level. Other then that, I actually really enjoy the system and lets me multitask with getting new gear/plants/stuff from the jungle while leveling masteries.

You cannot get experience for crafting when you a L80. I tried it in Tyria with my Revenant.

Mirta.5029:

tonyajc.2618:

How is this different from personal story requiring a certain level? Both are achieved through EXP gain. To me this feels natural, and they realized and removed the only high requirements mastery for story.

This is no different from Personal story, except the expansions story is WAY better.

you could level up in multiple different zones, doing many different things (even just crafting, or doing dailies, or doing world bosses, everything grants exp), however when it comes to HoTs masteries (at least those that matter for HoT story anyway), you’re locked into solely only doing very few events or killing mobs (HoTs zones only as well by the way) in order to grind masteries in order to see more of the story.

Very few events? There are plenty events going on, and mutliple maps to boot. The problem is, everyone is just staying in the first area and not spreading out. Heck, I would like to see a successful Tarir map event, if more people would just leave the entrance zone.

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Who knew a game with no mounts had so many high horses.

Zalavaaris.5329:

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Who knew a game with no mounts had so many high horses.

Surprising how Tyria has horses, yet no one has seen one yet! What a weird anomoly

tonyajc.2618:

Zalavaaris.5329:

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Who knew a game with no mounts had so many high horses.

Surprising how Tyria has horses, yet no one has seen one yet! What a weird anomoly

Mounts would actually fix some of the complaints about the game being unsoloable. WP are far fewer and people could get from point a to point b without fighting a horde of enemies every trip without the fear of death and WP miles away to make the trip all over again.

Also I’ve been to every map aside two of them and I haven’t seen anything greater than a small pond with like 3 skelk so I have no idea where this salt water is coming from? I do know underwater weapons have become even more worthless though..

Doam.8305:

tonyajc.2618:

Zalavaaris.5329:

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Who knew a game with no mounts had so many high horses.

Surprising how Tyria has horses, yet no one has seen one yet! What a weird anomoly

Mounts would actually fix some of the complaints about the game being unsoloable. WP are far fewer and people could get from point a to point b without fighting a horde of enemies every trip without the fear of death and WP miles away to make the trip all over again.

Also I’ve been to every map aside two of them and I haven’t seen anything greater than a small pond with like 3 skelk so I have no idea where this salt water is coming from? I do know underwater weapons have become even more worthless though..

I was just making a joke on how people are ‘salty’ about the expansion. Just a bit of fun. Though there is actually some salt water in the Jungle!

I hate everything about the new map, being constantly told “no” by the game is not fun. I can’t even get a Vista without farming another 1 million XP. The map is huge and difficult to navigate and feels completely empty most of the time. It’s honestly the complete opposite of what I was expecting. I just want to run through my story while simultaneously unlocking my elite spec, no forced XP grinds, no gating just enjoyment. The only thing I like about this expansion is my Revenant who I can’t even fully experience. I really can’t remember a worse expansion that I’ve played.

Doam.8305:

tonyajc.2618:

Zalavaaris.5329:

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

Who knew a game with no mounts had so many high horses.

Surprising how Tyria has horses, yet no one has seen one yet! What a weird anomoly

Mounts would actually fix some of the complaints about the game being unsoloable. WP are far fewer and people could get from point a to point b without fighting a horde of enemies every trip without the fear of death and WP miles away to make the trip all over again.

Also I’ve been to every map aside two of them and I haven’t seen anything greater than a small pond with like 3 skelk so I have no idea where this salt water is coming from? I do know underwater weapons have become even more worthless though..

I absolutely LOVE how the maps aren’t littered with waypoints now. There is actually a slight fear of death now! There are certain areas where if you ignore the mobs and run past, it is a pretty good chance you will die. Coming from playing RuneScape when I was a wee lad (The TRUE old school, none of that 3D crap), I missed that fear of death.

My friend complained that he was having trouble getting to a certain part of the map, and I asked what stat combo he was running. He said Berserker, and it made me chuckle. Zealot Necro FTW.

Kaamau.5341:

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

I’m fine with the mastery “grind”. I find it slightly excessive, but it’s not that important, especially now that they’re reducing the story requirements. I also enjoy the content that gives me the masteries.

What is unacceptable is that I’m locked out of elite specs on all my alts basically indefinitely. I haven’t even finished the traits on my main, and my alts would require several weeks of grind to get their elites fully unlocked.

apodelaman.6215:

This post is in response to another where a customer wanted a refund for HoT. I DON’T want a refund, even though I think that HoT is the worst xpac in MMO history. I will play it through no matter how frustrating and not fun it is. What I would like is a statement form the president of ArenaNet and the devs of HoT explaining to a very dissatisfied customer base as to how they could release such an awful game. be seeing you.

The above quoted to text is filled with inaccuracies. Primarily the assertion that there is an unhappy player base. The fact is there is a segment of the player base that is unhappy, but there’s another segment that is thoroughly enjoying this. Me and the majority of my guild are loving this, so don’t talk for the entire player base. And as such since you can’t make everybody happy no matter what you do, they don’t really owe you anything.

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

I wish I could give you +100

I don’t want a refund. No one can take away my Revenant!

tonyajc.2618:

Who knew the Jungle was filled with so much Salt water?!

I bet that’s how we’ll kill Mordremoth, we divert all the salt from the forums into his root system.

I don’t want a refund either, in fact I just put a bunch of extra money into the gem store too.

I think it has saved the game. So happy that this kind of venom will leave the game by Halloween.

apodelaman.6215:

What I would like is a statement form the president of ArenaNet and the devs of HoT explaining to a very dissatisfied customer base

You do not speak for the “customer base”, and this board— in which people will complain about literally anything— does not represent the “customer base”.

Kaamau.5341:

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

Nope. Really enjoying it.

And I hate hate hate pve.

But whaddya know? I’m actually pve-ing and having fun.

Why was the other thread “I want a refund” locked. That’s pretty sleazy Anet, there was good information about people getting a refund back if they were unhappy. How conventient it’s now locked and this thread remains open…again Anet stooping to another new low.

I don’t want a refund but I want hot fixed.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Why was the other thread “I want a refund” locked. That’s pretty sleazy Anet, there was good information about people getting a refund back if they were unhappy. How conventient it’s now locked and this thread remains open…again Anet stooping to another new low.

This thread is more critical and negative about HoT than the other. How is it a new low if Anet are leaving the worst commentary up?

Ashen.2907:

Shen Slayer.3058:

Why was the other thread “I want a refund” locked. That’s pretty sleazy Anet, there was good information about people getting a refund back if they were unhappy. How conventient it’s now locked and this thread remains open…again Anet stooping to another new low.

This thread is more critical and negative about HoT than the other. How is it a new low if Anet are leaving the worst commentary up?

Because people actually got there money back. Why not let them know there’s this option? I see no harm in this…like I said, it’s very conventient that Anet decided to locked it, but I guess greed changes people.