Guild Wars 2

I’ve recently got into HoT and I love it, at the moment. The reason I say at the moment is I have some concerns and some suggestions.

My biggest concern at the moment is how HP are done and the main story of HoT, at the moment everything is fine, I can find groups quite easily but there are times, certainly tonight where the server population is bit low and getting a good group to do these really challenging and fun events makes it nigh on impossible as you need more DPS and general hands on deck to win these events.
Now imagine in the future where we have say, two to three more expansions each more challenging than the next?

Why would you go back to HoT if only for nostalgia? What happens to those players who are just starting or are getting HP to unlock the next class? If HP won’t be a big part then what’s the point in getting HP at all?

So here are some of my solutions.

1. Henchmen: Back in GW1 everything was a challenge, you couldn’t solo all of the content, it was possible with some classes but not all of them so you would get NPC’s that would follow you and attack, there were kinda like pets but would fit certain roles in GW1, this made any content that would be unplayable, playable. It wasn’t amazing because human players were…for the most part…better than the henchmen.

2. Make HP events more rewarding: Perhaps make them give out a gold chest that can give out Asc mats or gold, if there is no reason to go back and do these events, as a new player or on a low populated server, your stuck, more so if you want to progress in the main story.

3. Nerf it all to the ground: This is the one I hate the most but is the easiest to implement. I cannot stress how I love the challenging open world content that forces team play but again, what happens when HoT becomes irrelevant to that player base? You make the content easier so people can get the HP and mastery points to progress to the next expansion.

There has already been a statement by ANet that they were modifying HoT to be more accessible to casual/solo players. Perhaps we should see what they do. Iirc, the eta on this is the April quarterly patch.

IndigoSundown.5419:

There has already been a statement by ANet that they were modifying HoT to be more accessible to casual/solo players. Perhaps we should see what they do. Iirc, the eta on this is the April quarterly patch.

I was just thinking perhaps they could add a buff to it, so, less people you have the stronger you get. Either way, it’s good to see them thinking about it, be looking forward to see what happens but hope it doesn’t ruin HoT

Probably won’t do henchmen as then everyone would run round with henchman and it would make the game too easy again xD and everyone would use them for everything and would no longer do parties as much.

One problem with numbers now is that people are leaving, they have ran metas so many times, done the story content and are now bored or unsatisfied with the game and have to wait til mid summer for content they will burn through in a day.

Gw 2 needs to flesh out its content more HoT is just 4 meta grinds and the story is short and more like dlc than an expansion.

I quit yesterday as I was tired of running metas and carrying unsocial people through content and just wholly unsatisfied with HoT in general, I will be back to see if they improve with ls3 but I am not holding my breath.

The reason henchmen won’t happen has nothing to do with easy and everything to do with lag. If they can only support 150ish players on a map now, and you start adding henchmen, it’ll be harder and harder to get into servers with friends and guildies. And it would increase lag as well.

Drakz.7051:

Probably won’t do henchmen as then everyone would run round with henchman and it would make the game too easy again xD and everyone would use them for everything and would no longer do parties as much.

One problem with numbers now is that people are leaving, they have ran metas so many times, done the story content and are now bored or unsatisfied with the game and have to wait til mid summer for content they will burn through in a day.

Gw 2 needs to flesh out its content more HoT is just 4 meta grinds and the story is short and more like dlc than an expansion.

I quit yesterday as I was tired of running metas and carrying unsocial people through content and just wholly unsatisfied with HoT in general, I will be back to see if they improve with ls3 but I am not holding my breath.

I don’t disagree with most of what you’re saying but HoT defiantly doesn’t feel like a DLC. Actually i was impressed with the amount of content this expansion gave compared to other modern mmo’s. This expansion basically gave me a reason to play all the classes over again hence elite spec’s.