Guild Wars 2

I am extremely and utterly disappointed by ArenaNet’s actions to reduce the hero point value from 400 to 250 so early into expansion.

First of all, I have to completely disagree that 400 HP was high at all. On launch day I started my Revenant with lvl30 scroll and 38 Tomes of Knowledge and leveled to 80 to get access to HoT content. Now I’ve been thoroughly enjoying this expansion so far. My main goal has been trying to unlock Herald for myself but I’ve done other things as well. (Meta events, story, old stuff) Even while doing everything else I had managed to get 80% unlocked of my Herald before today. If you can get all of that in 5 days while working 8h a day on 2 of those days. So it’s quite clear that it doesn’t take too much at all.

Secondly, Elite Specialization felt like a big reward for playing the game and it felt different from how most games work. In most games you just get the skills or buy them. But in Guild Wars it has always been an adventure to get those skills you wanted. It truly felt wonderfully different. Even in the recent post from Colin Johanson he said: “We always viewed the elite specialization as one of the major rewards in expansion…” And that’s how it felt! Well at least until today.

Now that it’s been changed to this greatly lower value I got my elite specialization when I logged in today. I have to say I didn’t feel any enjoyment for unlocking elite specialization or all that work I put in. I only felt like I’ve been robbed from that amazing feeling of achievement I was looking forward to. That feeling of finding the last hero point you need to get that final elite skill and amazing weapon. Fighting the mob with people. All the while knowing: “after this I’ll have that shield and elite skill” THAT is the moment I was looking forward to. So today I excitedly got back home to continue my quest. You can imagine my disappointment when I logged in today. That amazing feeling you’d get from this achievement was turned into a simple, boring, login reward.

I cannot express enough how annoyed I am right now. All that work, all that anticipation and everything turned to ash in my mouth. Imagine working forwards to killing a big boss monster constantly failing but getting back up to try again. But before you can go for another try, developer comes and instant kills the boss for you and gives you the loot. This kind of boss kill would not have any meaning or emotion behind it. And that’s how I’m feeling right now.

Seeing how this part of my experience was taken from me, just because ArenaNet could not wait even a WEEK(!?!) before conforming to these whiners is beyond disappointing. Seriously it’s been 5 days since launch and people are complaining it’s too difficult? Even when I manage to do it without problem from level 1 to 80% elite spec progress? And all this for what? Because the spoiled children couldn’t get their toys right there in the shop? So the developer spoils them more? If this was the only game where loud children get their opinions heard it wouldn’t be too bad. But I’m sick of watching every game to conform to these people who want everything instantly for no effort. Though I have to say the biggest disappointment is the Guild Wars 2 developers. Developers who can’t stand behind their own design decisions which I think they achieved fairly well. What a massive bunch of cowards.

Now that I’ve said my words maybe I’ll be able to continue playing. I certainly wasn’t feeling like playing before I wrote this. Have a nice day everyone! See you in Tyria!

PS. Sorry for the spelling, structure, etc. Second forum post I’ve ever made.