I hate it. It’s boring. The mobs on the ground are non-threatening, and the mobs when you’re in the air are too threatening. Being turned into a Moa while gliding is just about the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a game. The hand-fired heat-seeking missiles are nearly as bad. There’s nothing fun about having your 12k HP pelted down in 5 seconds while you hang stupidly in the air. At least with Pocket Raptors you knew what you were walking into and could get around them. Now you just spam 4 and 5 and hope you hit it at the right moment to avoid one of the Death-Pebbles™.
There’s just nothing compelling about the new gliding skills. (Why are they designing skills for when you’re flying that only work in a single map instead of fixing or designing new skills for the professions we chose to play?) I land ASAP — except on Hablion, because the constant unavoidable Torment spam, while a nice simulation of what it’s like to PvP these days, is stupid.
The Jades event is just terrible. It’s the very definition of a mindless zerg: it’s certain to fail if you have too few people, it requires everybody to all rush to the same small area, and yet the only way to die is to get shot down by the trash mobs’ anti-aircraft missiles. The Jade Armor even helpfully tosses you out of the only small area where you can take serious damage if you’re bad enough to stand in it. The invisible boss (now you can be blinded by the spell effects hitting BOTH sides of the boss!) takes it to a new level of carebear because you can just ride the wind and pewpew without any danger whatsoever.
There’s a reason that the best open world content in this game is map events that force you to split into semi-organized groups. It heightens player involvement and individual responsibility for the event’s success and it lessens the eye-bleeding impact of 10,000,000 spell effects hitting a single mob.
/rant
