Pros and Cons of HOT

Pros and Cons of HOT

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Posted by: TheMightyNewb.6789

TheMightyNewb.6789

please not this is my opinion of the HOT expantion

PROS of the new content HOT gave us

PVE
-The maps look AMAZING, i tip my hat to Anet for making these maps look fantastic, its really makes the new zones that much more enjoyable to play

-The new maps also sound great, the sound track is super fresh and entertaining to listen to and there new system to adjust when you leave combat is really nice.

-events on the new map and really well thought out and well done and play smoothly that also lead into more and more events or potentially a world boss

-Raids, finally really challenging content we have been asking for

- Masters are pretty neat new system giving loads of new features( gliding!, mushroom jumping etc) and reason to play pve for a change

-Guild halls and Elite specs

PVP
- Strong hold ( map looks great) and elite specs add a new change to the game making it fun and fresh

WvW
-the new Border lands and features that weren’t in the system in the old wvw map

CONS about the new content
PVE
-New maps get old and stale and extremely grindy while trying to get these masterys done, it takes a long time to complete masterys past the 3rd tier in each category which makes the maps feel boring and old after a while no matter how pretty they look or well thought out.

-the rewards are garbage, after 1 month of game-play with HOT i have gotten 3 exotic drops, i mean exotics aren’t all that, but that just shows they extremely lowered drop rates from where they were which was pretty low to begin with. whats the point of grinding these new maps if the rewards really aren’t worth while? i can get more rewards from pvp

-Anet said they didn’t want to force players into doing things or certain content they didn’t want to do when clearly you do with these collections requiring certain adventures to be completed with a certain score, and not all these adventures are available at all times which requires players to do events to unlock them, and a lot of the times maps are really dead which is a problem, collections also force you into all 3 game modes and some players only like 1 or 2 of these respective modes, making doing one they may not like frustrating.

-Fractals, i feel anet lied completely about fractals, saying they reworked fractals completely and have made it truly end game content and much harder than ever before?
the reason why fractals are harder is not because of some new mechanic added to the game but by upping bosses hp from 1 million to 10 million hp and increasing toughness! the reason why its hard is because players are fighting the urge of falling asleep. Not because they added new mechanics such as having bosses be invulnerable for a while till you do a certain objective like in the new HOT maps world bosses but on a smaller scale. Its just harder because they passed out while they were pressing 1 for who knows how long and ended up falling asleep.

-Fractals rewards went from and steady income for some people and fun rewarding RNG drop (if you got lucky) to a complete money sink and slap in the face and waste of time (NOW they said they are fixing rewards so lets hope for the best)

-Dungeons received a reward nerf and it was supposed to go to fractals, but they said they would fix the rewards so i wont list anything more on dungeons
PVP
- no new maps, we got a new game mode stronghold, a cheap LOL knock off, or down sized wvw map, whatever you want to call it, but no new pvp maps? why..

- leagues wont have solo que option, (IDK IF THIS ONE IS TRUE but i have heard it more than once and would not be surprised tbh) which allows full pre-mades to be paired with randoms which is extremely 1 sides games now it doesn’t happen too often but it does happen! there’s no reason why there shouldn’t be separate ques for team play and solo or duo play. especially when other f2p games have separate ques for team and solo/quo play

-Anets response to afkers or leaver is putting this dishonor system that doesn’t work at all… if a person rage quits or leaves they probably don’t have an intention on coming back anytime soon,and the time gate stats from when they left!!! so if they go take a break or just stop playing all together there’s no punishment when they try to que again if they just wait the time gate out rather than have it go into effect next time the actually que up like other games do, the punishment starts when you que up next, not when you leave. makes 0 sense.

-anet also punishes parties that have someone who misses a que POP, some ques can be from a 1 minute wait to a 15 mintue wait, so if the door happens to ring and while you are answering the door the que pops and you miss it Anet says HAHA you and your party needs to wait 5 minutes before you can que again? makes absolutely no sense
- why on earth does anet charge 10 gold each for the new amulets and 5 gold each for the new runes? we paid 50 bucks for this expansion why are you charging 200 gold to unlock all the runes and amulets essentially or an extra 20 bucks just for amulets and runes that are expansion specific? come on..
- NO NEW PVP MAPS WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ( i am not sure if they are releasing any with leagues but i haven’t heard anyhting which is why its on the cons list)
- why is there isn’t a report for afking? now with this dishonor people just sit in base afk, why can’t we report these players??
WvW

now i don’t play wvw at all because it dont personally enjoy zering around and having my fps take a giant poop all the time butill list the things i have heard.

- maps are clearly meant to have gliding but don’t for whatever reason, and ill be honest i did jump to my death my first time exploring that amazing new map thinking i could fly around it, and having no glider made me extremely disappointed.

- player population is extremely low on a lot of severs

- map frowns about big groups but wants you to have small teams of groups running around, or something similar to that.

i know there is abunch more of stuff with wvw that can be said good and bad and also guys i really do enjoy gw2 and this is why i wanted to say what i think are the pros and cons, i think anet has a great game in the making i just had to list what i thought went wrong and maybe they fix it and also to see if others agree

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Posted by: DoctorDing.5890

DoctorDing.5890

Pros:

- It gives the hardcore players something to be smug and patronising about on the forums.

Cons:

- Those players might find themselves somewhat lonelier in the game after a while.

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Posted by: warbignime.4610

warbignime.4610

Pros:

- It gives the hardcore players something to be smug and patronising about on the forums.

Cons:

- Those players might find themselves somewhat lonelier in the game after a while.

No hardcore players don’t come to this toxin pit because they are playing the game, casuals don’t come here either because they just want have fun with the game. Only people come here are entitled people who claim to be casual while QQing about literally everything in game like you and me.

Some must fight so that all may be free.

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Posted by: DoctorDing.5890

DoctorDing.5890

No hardcore players don’t come to this toxin pit because they are playing the game, casuals don’t come here either because they just want have fun with the game. Only people come here are entitled people who claim to be casual while QQing about literally everything in game like you and me.

I’m glad you included yourself in that. Many would not have!
I’m a part-time QQ’er. I only whine on the forums during work hours when I cannot play the game. It passes the time.

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Posted by: Kraggy.4169

Kraggy.4169

Pros:

- It gives the hardcore players something to be smug and patronising about on the forums.

Cons:

- Those players might find themselves somewhat lonelier in the game after a while.

No hardcore players don’t come to this toxin pit because they are playing the game, casuals don’t come here either because they just want have fun with the game. Only people come here are entitled people who claim to be casual while QQing about literally everything in game like you and me.

You’re here, so you’re part of the problem would be the logical conclusion.

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Posted by: Notsoperky.2348

Notsoperky.2348

Cons: massive amount of time gating, meta event gating, JP gating, timer gating, and putting mastery points behind one or more of them so half the time you can’t even activate the content you want to try, but instead are forced to endure something else.

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Posted by: eldrin.6471

eldrin.6471

Since iv got 2 hrs between gerent attempts on TD i come here to complain to fill the time.I am at around 30 straight fails so not surprisingly im rather kittened off.