Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Despite being a ranger and extremely unhappy with the state of the druid which is worse than in BWE3 and with recent changes to smokescale that once again bring a hard nerf to ranger utility with no reason after giving us hope,

I want to say thank you to all the Arenanet staff. For a strong and mostly well designed extension. Despite a lot of ruckus around, I must say that as far as I am concerned I like how elite specs and personal story are tied to mastery and hero points, giving the extension an overall good pathing. And the new maps are gorgeous and a real pleasure to explore and “dive in”. Considering how the original maps were great in their own time, this does not come that much to a suprise, however the feeling of verticaly is extremely strong and it is hard to imagine that there are only four maps with so many layers with intricate interlayer connections scattered around. I am about to unlock the 5th gliding mastery and I can’t wait for gliding forever in VB looking for hidden updrafts and secret locations.

Morever, thank you for your continued work all over the week end, and for a very smooth extension launch. From my memory it is the first time I am given the chance to experience a launch with so few progression blocking bugs, no hardware issues nor queues (druid and ranger being design issues that are not related to the launch itself)