Guild Wars 2

I’m only speaking for myself, but I enjoyed the molten weapon facility alot more than canarch’s lair.

What I liked most about the molten weapon facility:
-it had excellent pacing
-the dungeon layout was nice and “told a story”
-the trash mobs had interesting mechanics
-the bosses were entertaining with a great cutscene, relevant tells, and interesting mechanics

in comparison, canach’s lair felt rushed; as it was essentially a large snaky room filled with mines.

What I dislike the most about canach’s lair:
-it felt very gimmicky.
*you couldn’t even use your normal weapon skills for the solo dungeon (post 5/30 GMT patch)
*for the group dungeon, you needed people to stop combat in order to pick up an environmental weapon (ie: the mine scanner), activate that environmental weapon (to reset a mine), and drop that environmental weapon to re-engage in combat. I found that very clunky.

I would much perfer to use my character’s weapon skills/attacks on an enemy.

If future dungeons were going to use environmental weapons, I would perfer those weapons to contain some relevant attack skills/ability on their own {maybe the boss becomes immune to damage unless you use the environmental weapon to set up a poison field (#1 skill in a select area) , lure the boss into the poison field, and attack the weakened boss with the weapon’s attacks (#2-5 skill)}.

Just a thought.

I think calling the NULL encounter a dungeon was false advertising anyway. It is a single, instanced encounter, nothing more.

So yea, MF was MUCH better.

I think southsun was rushed on purpose tbh. Not because of time constraints, but because it is a transitional event meant to add a bit more to southsun (the upcoming meta event) while letting them focus more on the next major story.

You mean they made it worse then they could have done on purpose without time or money constraints? I dont think that is the case. They lacked one or both of that, probably time.

Mastruq.2463:

You mean they made it worse then they could have done on purpose without time or money constraints? I dont think that is the case. They lacked one or both of that, probably time.

What I mean is I think they wanted to create a “link” to the next one ASAP and then start working on that next story ASAP. Also tbh, this southsun one feels like more of an experiment to me then anything.