Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Morfedel.4165
I am trying to recall a single MMORPG where an expansion handed out everything you expected to get with it up front, rather than making you earn it. I can’t think of a single one, and this sense of entitlement just truly baffles me.
Entitlement?
We were told what to expect. People planned for that and did the work asked of them. Whether you liked it or not we knew the upper boundary.
Then they changed it. Not us.
What? They did not change anything since they have not until now given a number.
They stated world completion was the max. Until the datamine of 170 most people were assuming 100 HPs would be a good number to guess at. When we saw the 170 (which again many did not believe) and the progression for a typical profession I realized I could not get everything right away but about 120 would give me a good starting build.
Can you source that? Because i don’t think they said that, I think assumptions were made. That being the case, if they DID change that, because I won’t swear they didn’t, I have the following thoughts on that:
1. It IS uncool to change the info this late in the game. So if they said different before now, then yeah, I agree it’s uncool.
2. However, sometimes changes have to be made, for whatever reason: health of the game, technical issues, other stuff. It’s highly unlikely they are changing things just to make things a pain in the rear for us.
Wanna know something? I kinda thought we would have our elites unlocked if we had done all the hps in the core world, and I would have preferred it that way, so I could use my elites fully at the very beginning of HoT. That being the case, though, I don’t consider this a bad thing.
My problem is the massive rage we are seeing here. The sheer levels of it is ridiculous. If someone said “I’m not happy with this,” I could understand, but people are just burn-the-building-down angry, and it’s flat out unreasonable.
I do not recall the URL offhand but anet specifically said we could run the new content with elites if we had world completion.
Yes that’s correct. But… that was also around the time they stated you needed an additional 65 HPs to unlock the new core spec system. So basically anybody with World Completion were home free when they eventually release the Elite specs. But when they changed it so that just leveling to 80 would give you enough Hero Points to unlock core traits & utilities with no need for the additional 65 points, the whole “World Completion will unlock everything including elite specs” statement went out the window.
Unlock the elite spec, not entirely master it. I can unlock the elite spec and have it half mastered soon as I log in with my main. Unlocking it isn’t the same as getting everything in it.
I’ll pay 1 gold to the first person who can actually find a quote FROM ARENA NET that says that day 1 the elite spec could be entirely mastered.