Guild Wars 2

I got 100% map completion on Verdant Brink, but got no reward for it. I got 100% world completion in Central Tyria prior to HOT, which seems to have something to do with it according to another thread.

Hopefully you guys can fix it soon and reward us retroactively who already got it done!

You should make official GW2 fruit snacks called “Fruit Snaffs”!

Just think, you could eat little fruity Snaffs, Zoijas, Eirs, Logans, Rytlocks, Caithes, Kralkatorriks, and Glints!

Before the patch I thought it would be fun to go through the world again on a new character from 1-80 just doing as much of the world as possible. After the patch, I will never level a new character the traditional way again. I made some alts to test the new player experience and it is horrible. Everything is staggered in an extremely painful way now. It is incredibly boring and seems to take forever to get what we previously took for granted on new characters.

The devs seem to think this game was way too hard and difficult to figure out for the first time, so they dumped the game down so low that you’d have to be stoned, drunk and kittened, at the same time, to benefit from the changes. This patch has made the first 40 levels the most painful and boring part of the whole game in my opinion.

Because of this, combined with the changes to the personal story and stuff from the last feature pack, I will only ever do my personal story and world completion on alts after I’ve leveled them to 80 with Tomes of Knowledge from spvp.

I think Anet did a great job with making me hate the early level experience. Now I fear what new people coming to the game for the first time in the future will think of the game because of this.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!*

I just happened to have a character at the “Forging the Pact” story step when this update went live, and just finished doing the redone chapter 7, and It’s TERRIBLE! It makes absolutely NO SENSE!

You go from your fort in Timberline Falls (which already makes no sense with Mordremoth’s Vines which aren’t supposed to appear until 2 years in the future) to fort Trinity in Orr, completely skipping over large stretches of land that we previously had to fight across to reach Fort Trinity. It’s as if Zhaitan didn’t even try to stop us after we got the stupid book (which we never hear about again anyway).

When we get there we magically have the orb that people doing the Apatia story line fought really hard to get, and we defend the fort. Then we suddenly, with absolutely no explanation, hop on an airship which has not ever been mentioned (or even invented yet I think) and go to the Royal Tombs in the Cursed Shore where Trahearne just randomly has an idea about the ritual to cleanse Orr. After that we do the next step and go to the Source of Orr to do the ritual again. Before we do the ritual there’s all sorts of pact people to talk to. Almost all of them refer to events that, under the new story order, HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET, but they speak as if they did. My character hasn’t even met most of them, yet she acts as if she’s done all sorts of things with them and they talk as if we’ve already done a long campaign through Orr to get where we’re at now. Multiple times they specifically mention catching the Mouth of Zhaitan, which we haven’t done yet!

After we cleanse Orr we go back to Fort Trinity where everyone is acting as if we’re ready to fly the airships to Zhaitan’s doorstep for the final battle, and when I talk to Trahearne he transfers all control of the Pact to me to finish Zhaitan while he recovers from the ritual. But then I have to report to him immediately afterwards to be sent to the Temple of the Forgotten God (which according to the NPC’s I talked with earlier, this and the following events already happened, plus Trahearne seemed to have recovered rather quickly) where I will meet Sayeh for the first time (who in the previous instances spoke to me like we were friends), see the Mouth of Zhaitan for the first time (who has already been killed) and see my first Eye of Zhaitan (which according to the king of Orr guy in the last instance I already freed ALL of the other royal family members who were turned into eyes).

This is also when I realized that the Greatest Fear storylines were completely removed! I was shocked and checked my main who had already finished the personal story two years ago and looked at his story journal. It showed the personal story as it is under the recent changes, so the Greatest Fear storyline was not there. Those missions I did with Apatia a couple years ago have been erased and no longer exist, never to be done or seen again! This is extremely disappointing because I always enjoyed doing the personal story, but now it makes absolutely no sense for new characters and is out of order and illogical. Plus we’ve now lost a whole story arc on alts, which now renders our greatest fear choice meaningless and makes the story feel even more all the same each time we do it ( as if it wasn’t bad enough already). This was uncalled for, stupid, illogical, never asked for, we didn’t even get a warning ahead of time, and has now killed the personal story on alts for me.

Sorry for the wall of text and rant, but I’m very frustrated by this and just wanted to get it off my chest. I hope (but not holding my breathe) that Anet reverts this extremely stupid change.

I also had my Cultivated Seed mysteriously turned into a Pet Seed which requires a Mist Infused Pot, rather than the Chaos Infused Pot that I’m currently working on.

I made first tier of the back-piece (exotic) before the patch and placed it in my bank.

The seed was in my inventory and was never removed from my inventory since the moment I got it.

I wasn’t paying attention, so I finished episode four before I even noticed the issue.

Here’s my first and favorite character that I’ve been playing since before launch,
Blaze Ironshot! Along with his precious Charrzooka! It’s a mix of the Assassin and Vigil armor sets along with the thief starter hood, all dyed Midnight Fire/Taupe. Only real issue is the Ears and horns clipping through the hood.

As you can see in the enclosed screenshot, I’m entirely serious! Next I’m going to invent lasers and attach some turret tech, so I’ll have Levitating-Automatic-Laser-Shooting-Backpack-Turrets!