Guild Wars 2

Just went through the first 2 story missions, and I enjoyed them immensely.

From reading all of the crying about how hard the new zones are I also must say I am looking forward to a challenge as I venture into the jungle…I am hoping to get trapped/stuck/confused as much as possible. Most MMO’s never have a high difficulty so this will be quite nice.

I only need 14 more hero points to unlock my Druid skill line and begin shooting my lazer beam with my staff…very excited.

It is raining quite a bit here and I hope to play all weekend.

Thanks Anet for all the hard work!

I second that. Anet congrats on a great launch and an amazing game.

Yeah, I got up early in the morning, when the house was quiet, and finished the first two missions. Excellent job! That’s the most fun I’ve had since exploring Caledon forest the first time. Good job on the difficulty as well! Just right, really enjoyable!

I knew it was going to be nice, but you really exceeded my expectations, all around.

I’m completely in love with HoT, and I’ve only experienced roughly half of Verdant Brink. I love how you can get completely lost, spot secret tunnels, spiral down pathways and all. I love how I can get jumped by enemies and get my kitten handed to me if I don’t pay attention, finally there’s proper need to use defensive skills in PvE! I love the sense of panic when say, that bullseye appears and you spot like 2 elite snipers all the way in the distance, as if the regular ones weren’t evil enough.

I did two or three missions from the story, it gave me goosebumps. There’s so much conviction and emotion put into the voice acting now, GW2 storytelling has come a loooooong way since those kinda awkward PS/LS1 beginnings, it’s really amazing.

And shock, horror, there’s even a steady stream of actual decent loot and mats!

I liked GW2 already so I expected to like the expansion too, but this kinda blew me away!

Twisey.2081:

I second that. Anet congrats on a great launch and an amazing game.

Great launch? I cant even get to the jungle.

Play a bit more and tell us if you still have that opinion.

Merkin.8412:

Just went through the first 2 story missions, and I enjoyed them immensely.

From reading all of the crying about how hard the new zones are I also must say I am looking forward to a challenge as I venture into the jungle…I am hoping to get trapped/stuck/confused as much as possible. Most MMO’s never have a high difficulty so this will be quite nice.

I only need 14 more hero points to unlock my Druid skill line and begin shooting my lazer beam with my staff…very excited.

It is raining quite a bit here and I hope to play all weekend.

Thanks Anet for all the hard work!

Please, play WvW and become a GvG player and you will understand how very bad that is!

I’m mainly a wvw player but I have done every story in the past. It’s been so long since we actually had a story and now that I started this new story I am hooked on it again. I’m up to prized possesions and WOW is all I am going to say. You brought out my soft side anet LOL

The Heart Of The Matter

After spending way too much time exploring last night (and about six hours past when I intended to get to bed) my initial impression of HoT is: BLOWN AWAY.

ArenaNet has done a fantastic job, and overall, I like where the game is heading.

There’s a need for tuning, refinement and debugging, but that’s hardly unusual at launch, especially for something so ambitious.

It’s not hard to see plenty of negative feedback in the forums today (that’s hardly unusual, either) and though I am impressed with the experience so far, I do agree with some of the more well-substantiated complaints. It also remains to be seen how engaging and enjoyable the Heart of Maguuma will feel six months from now.

But the foundation HoT has laid down is solid, takes GW2 to the next level, so to speak, offers a lot of new things to explore and bodes well for future expansions.

I was a little worried that this would be a little wonky and to much of a jumping puzzle instead of real content. Was I ever wrong! Best launch I’ve ever seen. Got right in and played right on launch, nice. Everything seems well balanced and challenging. Just know, nice work. Thanks ANET! So fun!

Have to chime in with my praise. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I hope the complaints don’t make you guys think you need to backtrack and change a lot. I think the expansion released really well, and I’m happy there’s some systems in place that will take some work – masteries and elites. I have to giggle when I hear complaints of “grind.” HoT is nowhere even close to the grind I’ve experienced in other MMOs. Can’t wait to dig into things more this weekend. Loving it!

Just finished a 12 hour session. I had an epic time.

One of the most fun I have had with an expansion. Top notch.

Love my Druid. Love my new Smokescale pet. Love the jungle.

Love this game.

Sweet Dreams.