Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been enjoying this Living World with “The Razing” a lot, even though I just did it on my own (I can imagine that playing this together with my friends will be an enjoyable affair). Bit slow to start up, but I guess that we got a fair warning from the Dredge and Flame Legion before they chose to strike, as they are doing now.

First of all, some good things about it:
- It’s an extension and definitely an improvement to the Personal Story. I like the cutscenes implemented, it adds something extra that the vis-à-vis kind of conversations in the Personal Story didn’t have.
- I was actually pleased with Rox, although I thought that with her big eyes, ANet were going for a more cutesy kind of annoying personality, but luckily I was mistaken, and this has actually been a great experience for me, since I can see improvement in storytellling and giving us characters that our own will grow attached to in some way (hopefully Braham and Rox will make other appearances than just in the Flame and Frost).

- Another thing I’d like to add is that people have been sceptic or complaining about how the Living Story might turn out. Personally I realized that the Living Story is a concept they said would be there, but we haven’t really experienced it up until now. It is not content that is always there, and therefore I found it a bit strange that some people were complaining about it already. I am getting very excited, though, to see where they are going to take it in the future.

- Now, to some problems I can see heading their way.
The Flame and Frost is taking place in two zones, which right now is not so bad, it is fine, there is no need for much more there.
There is a potential problem though, as they later on will introduce Elona and Cantha, that the Living Story content can be such a huge project that, unless they find a more convenient and less time consuming way of making this content, will only ever appear in a small dosis, meaning that there is not stuff happening all over the world, but rather in small areas at a time.

Hopefully, you guys are enjoying the Razing as much as I am. It gives me hope for the future content that the Living Story team will provide.
- I am definitely getting more excited about the current story of GW2 and the Living Story aspect of the game.

See you in-game (and feedback is, of course, welcome).

+1 from me.

But I can see two major flaws of the game with the new content:

1. Instances are just a Single-Player experience without any reword (they fail again and again about rewording players). As I said, they are solid and fun to play but it’s disappointing that they encourage playing them solo. It’s a multiplayer game after all.

2. There is no solid way to track your progress. They are trying to do that with their Achievement and Mail systems when it suppose to be some kind of RPG style Quest Log! I know that they are avoiding it to stay away from quests… But that’s unreasonable to me.

Yeah, they definitely need to work on their reward system, however, I can imagine that they are waiting with the BIG REWARD till the last boss fight or last event in the Living World series.
- I wouldn’t mind some weapon or armor being rewarded to the player (exotic, if I might add) and I would also like to see some more weapon and armor designs.
I like the look of the different armor sets that I’ve seen so far, and I think that Braham’s weapons are particularly nice (I like how they glow as he is holding them. Making that a feature for Guadians could be nice, but that should probably go on the suggestion page, even though it’s pretty far fetched).

I like how things come out in a weekly basis. It’s like waiting for the next episode of your favorite show. But instead of watching, you’re participating in the show. I’m excited on what would happen to Rox next week with her new Baby Devourer pet.