Guild Wars 2

Finished final arah story quest with 2 guildies.

We were underwhelmed by the lameness of the instance, especially the zhaitan 1 button fight, the crap loot in the goodie bag (lvl 20-26 green + 4 mid level vendor blues) was a comically horrific ending to 80 levels worth of story questing, and all of us THOUGHT we got a book that gave the guild 1000 influence.

We all used the book, but our guild didn’t gain influence and there’s nothing in the log. The other book for 500 we got earlier in the storyline worked fine for all (and showed up in the log).

So, either all 3 of us misread what the book was (possible since that ending was so unsettling that my mind was truly boggled), or as with the rest of the final sequence, it’s just more utter suck and a waste of a double click.

PS – Seriously, the Zhaitan fight has to be one of the lamest things I’ve seen in MMORPGs playing them since EQLive at release. You work for 80 levels in a supposedly “player skill based” game to develop a character, then you beat the main boss of the entire game using 1 button in a turret that can’t even be aimed worth akitten There was some weak fighting over the course of the last “battle” but way too much lame turret crap. I play MMORPGs to develop and play a character, not to control turrets or vehicles.

I guess a 1 button fight against a mob that doesn’t fight back ensures that even the dumbest and most pitiful of players can finish their story quest (no idea how they’d get that far in the story if they were that bad though) but it kind of goes against the idea of challenging content by about 100%.

Anyways.

It’s not like we expected loot we could actually use or that didn’t suck in SOME way since the RNG on rewards is generally mediocre – it’s rare to get anything useful and selling crap to vendors gets old. But, we thought, hey, at least we got some influence books. Or not.

As a side note, you should always get 1 ecto min when you break an exotic, like the level 70 garbage you get when you’re level 80 and do zone completion in SoD.