I only played as a ranger, because thats my main character and I can only say, I was expecting it to be much much worse, but I was a kinda satisfied!
The celestial avatar makes some strong heals, but 2 of the spells are not that mobile, in the first one you have to be still and in the second you must run and actually hunt down the players to give them some heal. The blossom flower it doesnt look like flower, but ectoplasm instead..
I was expecting celestial avatar a bit better. But overall I like ranger and the built. I would prefer celestial avatar also with yellowish or golden colors, not blue! The color of the stars/sun and what nature and flora needs to survive.
Raids are a bit strange for me. I play raids in other mmos for many years and I found it a bit linear. Maybe raids in gw2 represent something different from what is known. I also found out that druids are highly needed in raids. Thats good and bad, because I am not sure if ranger without druid spec will be accepted (lol).
I didnt like at all, the need of ascended gear as a default. How many months players need to built their gear, be able to play a raid? I hope raids won’t end up forgotten, it will be developers fault.
I also didnt liked the way raid was represented in beta, 1 boss after another, without anything else and all of them looked like celestial aliens (same looks). I was expecting some trash mobs, some traveling, some big bosses… But its not that, maybe raids is a kind of fast mission to do something.
I played raid till last boss, I played with 2 groups and we didnt finished it, we made up to phase 2 (with many bosses appear at the same time and with a timer). It needs allot of focus, but also there is dozen of things going on at the same time, in a point I forget healing, just waiting for the orange circle to appear.
Anyway its beta I dont know how raids will be when they get released… Thats my opinion.
I also created 2 other topics about beta, one was about a bug with character creator…
Suggestion :
1) I allready pointed out the celestial avatar coloring. Yellowish or white-yellow like devined, the color of the stars.
2) If you wish raids in that style, I would suggest you to limit the bosses into 2, instead of 4 and add a puzzle as well… A difficult one, that if we fail, we cannot move into the last boss. That would be more interesting! Not just 4 bosses with the same looks and different colors. I know its a beta, it was an idea and I liked the raid room, very well designed, but for a solo boss and a puzzle, not for 4 bosses.
3) As for the celestial avatar spells, what if we have a more versityle group UI, be able to sellect the desired player and spam the heal/spell in that area of effect.
Overall I like the expansion, I am not complaining much, very well designed, I noticed an improvement into how characters move? A slightly faster and more weight into character model… Well, my beta ranger moves and runs faster and better than my actuall ranger and without boons.
I cannot wait to see the major city of this expansion and all other areas!
(edited by Oyranos.9750)