Guild Wars 2

I thought I’d get the negatives out of the way first,

1. I personally thought that I did not have enough opportunity to get a hang of Caithe’s skills in Meeting the Asura. In fact, I am not quite happy that those skills were locked unless I make myself seen and by then, I’d be dead unless I react on instinct. I have appreciated that I at least see those skills even when I am stealthed just so that I know what does what.

2. While this is understandable, I really thought that Faolain’s accent is different. I can guess you got a different voice actress for her but still, I can barely even hear a hint of British accent from her.

3. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO END IT THERE? I REALLY WANNA SEE WHAT’S BEYOND THOSE DOORS, kitten!!!!!

Now for the Positives,

1. Once I got to learn Caithe’s skills a bit, I have to say she is kitten fun to play as. She is fast, elusive and I like the attack where I can freeze my targets stone cold.

2. The stealth mechanic in Meeting the Asura is very very good considering the limitations this game has. It had the right amount of challenge and prior knowledge of stealth games on my part to get the gist of how to pass the Asura that it took me around 3 tries at least to finish that instance.

3. The story itself was okay. Not great. Just okay.

One gripe I have is Faolain in that I expected to see her in a more positive light outside of her love for Caithe simply because I still do not understand what Caithe saw in Faolain that qualifies as “dearheart” material.

Overall, I thought it was a good update. It was better than the previous one, that’s for sure.

Whilst I am never a fan of playing a char which isn’t your own in MMO’s for the reason of not knowing the skills and the charc not matching the playstyle you spend so long trying to get sued to…

…she was rather more fun to play than I expected. Much more like the GW1 Assassin class. And her story was reasonably interesting even it did end abruptly (it at most should be a 1 episode story and not carrying over like it does).

Despite my early misgivings, it was better than than last epsiode, but far, far too short and abrupt. And the main story still hasn’t progressed. I’m starting to become disengaged with the “journey”.

I loved the SS Topsy Turvy though – that was just cool!

Walhalla.5473:

I thought that Tangled Paths was shorter, this one felt like double the lenght. But it is not a wham Episode, more like a bridge Epsisode with the intent to carry the Story to the next big thing, which I wouldn’t mind but we had now 2 Bridge Episodes who raised questions but gave almost no answers. And since the the next Episode is likely the last in Season 2 it does feel like these Episodes are on the wrong place and we are getting nowhere. Well not as bad as this feeling was in Season 1 but still.

@ Anet: At this point now, you should start answer Questions, more than raising these. You are still doing it the other way and this is a problem for the Late Season 2. Late Season Episodes shouldn’t raise so many Questions but start to answer Questions and not just doing this in the last Episode. You should have give us another flashback, one with Caithe and Wynne ( its obvious that at one point they have met about this thing that Faolain was obsessed with. ) and it could have answered why Caithe stole our Egg, the very Egg the Pale Tree has reserved for us in the Loot Table.

From another Thread. I think that this Episode ended too early. It would have been better if we had got the last Flashback in this Episode, instead we are now waiting quite a long time.

For the Positive things:

I liked the Stealth Mechanics in Meeting the Asura. While some find it annoying to wait for the moment to get the Job done, I don’t mind waiting because this is something I expect in Stealth based Missions. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike, slip through Guards and sabotage things was fun. Its weird that the Guards don’t react to the knocked out Workers but I guess this is because of Engine Limitations.

The Boss Fight at the end of No Refuge was also good. The Boss didn’t have so much HP and some good attacks. The Elementals are killed really quick qith Conditions and Backstab Spamming him was funny as hell.
Also almost all of the Bosses introduced in Season 2 have better mechanics, are better balanced etc than 95% of the Bosses at Release of the Game. It shows that Anet has learned from the mistakes they made with their first Bosses. Hope that they still get better at this.^^

Caithes Skills were also fun. Stoning Mobs with normal Attacks, having three Death Blossoms at once or just the ability to spam backstab at every mob is fun and it feels that she is very skilled with her weapons.

I kinda felt that we were thrown into the mix pretty hard with Caithe suddenly getting her skills and then praying you will hit hard enough to survive…but once I had the initial panic attack and my adrenaline readjusted she was a lot of fun to play with.

I haven’t started the achievements yet, so before I get burnt out doing them I will say the story started strong, and tapered off til the very unceremonious cliff-hanger. I like where it is going though. So long as they stay on a 2 week format I can put up with it being so short. As for Faolain, her new voice seems to give her a bit more character imho. I dunno, maybe she’s just too stiff in the base game to me, but this is Fao before she turns her back on the Grove so she should have more emotion, even if it’s snark. Lack of accent doesn’t bother me. Accents don’t necessarily make up for acting skill.

Randulf.7614:

Whilst I am never a fan of playing a char which isn’t your own in MMO’s for the reason of not knowing the skills and the charc not matching the playstyle you spend so long trying to get sued to…

…she was rather more fun to play than I expected. Much more like the GW1 Assassin class. And her story was reasonably interesting even it did end abruptly (it at most should be a 1 episode story and not carrying over like it does).

Despite my early misgivings, it was better than than last epsiode, but far, far too short and abrupt. And the main story still hasn’t progressed. I’m starting to become disengaged with the “journey”.

I loved the SS Topsy Turvy though – that was just cool!

Now that you think about it, Caithe did play more like an assassin than a thief with so many of her speed attacks.

KurisuX.7340:

I kinda felt that we were thrown into the mix pretty hard with Caithe suddenly getting her skills and then praying you will hit hard enough to survive…but once I had the initial panic attack and my adrenaline readjusted she was a lot of fun to play with.

I haven’t started the achievements yet, so before I get burnt out doing them I will say the story started strong, and tapered off til the very unceremonious cliff-hanger. I like where it is going though. So long as they stay on a 2 week format I can put up with it being so short. As for Faolain, her new voice seems to give her a bit more character imho. I dunno, maybe she’s just too stiff in the base game to me, but this is Fao before she turns her back on the Grove so she should have more emotion, even if it’s snark. Lack of accent doesn’t bother me. Accents don’t necessarily make up for acting skill.

Neither do I, but it just felt too out of place for me. It’s more of a nitpick, really.

Malkavian.4516:

Neither do I, but it just felt too out of place for me. It’s more of a nitpick, really.

I will say it was a surprise to hear the voice change, and to a notable character. Like it or hate it, it’s definitely a noticeable change. Then again, maybe something came up with the old VA and they had to decline coming back. Stuff happens I guess. She’s definitely more sassy this way.