Guild Wars 2

I have not seen this addressed specifically so I just want to put out there something else that may need attention. Upon my attempts at the Tendril Torching Adventure I realized that it is not really going to be that easy to get a “gold” result. Looking at the current rank, no person has been able to achieve gold yet. For me this begs the questions, will our Total Mastery Points earned require us to get gold in every adventure in order to be able to eventually obtain every mastery available? I see two different scenarios playing out here currently:

1) Yes. I really do not like this scenario. For people with latency and/or hardware issues, physical disablities, etc this seems to me a probable certainty of frustration. I see a few alternatives to remedy this, such as giving the two mastery points for bronze and silver, but I don’t know if that is up for consideration. I may end up with a few mastery lines full of experience I can never complete.

2) No. I expect it’s obvious this is the answer I am hoping for. However, what concerns me about it is the reward for the people who do get the gold result. What is the payoff for an extra mastery point that you really don’t need, aside from the “bragging rights” of having your name on the board. Shouldn’t they get like 25K experience in a shaky chest that they can apply to either a Heart of Maguma OR Pact Tyria mastery tract? Value can be adjusted for what would be considered fair for such an achievement, of course. I suggest the shaky chest but there may be other containers that would work too, which can be “carried” to either location to open.

Anyways, I really like what I have seen thus far. The Revenant seems a bit unpowered compared to playing a Mesmer in Verdant Brink. I managed to have an ascended set of zerk armor in my storage for each weight class so both were built as glass cannons. I only used three of the new skills (heal, 1 utility, and elite) on the mesmer so I wasn’t playing with all the chronomancer skills. The gliders are really cool…I second the other peoples suggestions for fixing the other maps later to be able to use them, even if it’s just in the cities to start. Hehehe. Wish we could have had the wyvern fight this time around but hopefully some of that will get sorted for the next beta. Great work!! Thanks!!