The gasping like it’s “suffocating” is what I find disturbing. I know it’s not real, but watching a seemingly tortuous death that mimics something all too real made me feel uneasy. Take away the gasping look and just have it flopping around would make take away the majority of my negative feelings towards it.
I actually haven’t been playing the game for quite some time now and never saw the fish in a video or anything until this thread. Not sure I would have noticed if nobody brought it up.
They should be releasing the legendary weapons without additional funding. We already paid for HoT, we shouldn’t have to pay more for something that was advertised as being included.
I hope I won’t be forced to purchase the living world releases like I was in season 2 just because I didn’t adhere to your schedule. I already paid for HoT and expect to get living story season 3 unlocks for free whether I log in at the time they are released or not.
No. If I’m still playing then I’m still going to want to access the new areas and content, and I might as well get the prebuying goodies.
At any relate, they never said how many Legendaries would be in this expansion. “We’ve been working hard on new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns, with more to come in subsequent updates.”
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns heralds the beginning of the first new set of legendary weapons to be added to the game since its original set of twenty included in the launch of Guild Wars 2. The first three we’ll release are a celestially themed axe called Astralaria, an experimental energy themed pistol called H.O.P.E., and a raven spirit themed staff called Nevermore. It takes a lot of work to craft these legendary journeys for release, so rather than take the time to develop the full set before releasing any of them, we will be releasing new legendary weapons in small groups at regular intervals until the full set of sixteen has been added to the game. Collections for the existing legendary weapons will be available on launch day, while the first three new legendaries will become available shortly after launch, alongside raids.
I was definitely under the impression that 16 new legendaries would be released at regular intervals following HoT.
I will never own a legendary weapon, but still find this news troublesome. They talk about having 70 employees working on the next expansion, yet here they are indefinitely suspending work on content advertised in the current paid expansion to have those employees work on something different. Sounds like they should have taken employees from a different team.
Even when using a PRNG you can draw the numbers from a common pool for all players at the server. This is totally unpredictable since it also incorporates the reaction patterns of players as well as network latencies.
So, no, true random is possible.
You got me there. Never heard of using hardware to generate the numbers. Interesting stuff.
The fact that I can take lengthy breaks from the game and come back and still play every single one of my characters in almost every part of the game is why I think the game is extremely casual friendly. Being able to jump in on any of them and just play without having to worry about obtaining the next tier of gear that was released while I was away is HUGE.
Sure there are grindy aspects to the game, but those don’t stop me from enjoying 99% of the things I do.
I don’t think it’s the overall best, but could easily make the top 5 or so. It is definitely the best for me when I just want to run around and do things without paying much attention though.
No complex dps rotations and easy open world makes this one of the easiest to jump in and play without any stress.
I just took a break and I’m back enjoying the game again. I think I just played too much when the expansion released. I started playing FF14 which was really fun for a bit, but I don’t think the game is for me. Needless to say I’m already logging back into Gw2.
In hindsight I probably shouldn’t have spent so much time focusing on unlocking elite specializations. It took away from enjoying the expansion as much as I could have been.
HoT is one of the only expansions to a game I actively play that made me play the game less.
HoT is the only expansion that has made me want to explore other mmos out there that I have been putting off for some time.
HoT was a bigger bust than even WoD imo. First few weeks were great, then I just logged in less and less. Not even sure why, just not really enjoying the expansion any more.
I started playing FF14 a few days ago and I’m having a blast. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an alternative or secondary mmo. The last time I played the free trial I wasn’t into it, but this time around I’m hooked.
I Tried ESO during the beta. Things were very broken then, which ultimately led to me never trying it again. One of these days I’m sure I will though.
Visual effect nerfs is something myself and many other players have been asking for since the game’s release. I stick by wanting the effects lessened. I do think a slider would be make things just peachy.
If I had to choose between nerfs or no nerfs without a slider, I would choose the nerfs. World bosses(and sometimes even 5 man bosses) just had too many effects to see the tell of certain attacks.
These “nerfs” haven’t done jack kitten in reducing the so called “visual noise” (I am so sick of that term). Impact particles that scale up are what prevents one from seeing mobs and bosses, and those haven’t been touched. And tell me, how much clutter did the old version of auras cause?
Nothing has been improved for anyone with these nerfs.
I actually haven’t played enough lately to know if the changes helped out or not. I am just assuming they did. I simply saw that they toned down some effects and thought that was great and hopefully it made a difference. If they are toning down things that aren’t the problem, then that’s a problem in itself.
Probably should understand what everyone is talking about before I chime in.
Visual effect nerfs is something myself and many other players have been asking for since the game’s release. I stick by wanting the effects lessened. I do think a slider would be make things just peachy.
If I had to choose between nerfs or no nerfs without a slider, I would choose the nerfs. World bosses(and sometimes even 5 man bosses) just had too many effects to see the tell of certain attacks.
Perhaps there should be a new term MMPO (Massively Multiplayer Persistent Online…"
Uh, you may have noticed that I didn’t say persistent was part of the term; I said it was one of the features.
From Wikipedia: A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is a video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously in the same instance (or world). By necessity, they are played over a network, such as the Internet.1 MMOs usually have at least one persistent world, however some games differ.
Emphasis on “MMOs usually have at least one persistent world, however some games differ.”
Many never expected flying to be brought to the entirety of Azeroth, but it was done. If the demand is there, I could see them bringing it other parts of Tyria too.
They would just have to make sure it doesn’t affect the integrity of jumping puzzles.
I got to the point where I would sit at a hero point for 20 mins waiting for someone else to come along and help. Asking in map for help almost never seems to help anymore. There were hero points I would skip altogether because I wasn’t able to get any help.
My enjoyment for the new zones has lowered quite a bit. They were fun at first, but got old after doing the same events many times.
I’m still enjoying the new specializations and the revenant. Overall I’m still really enjoying the game.
Solid 6-7/10.
I would rate the entire game a bit higher though.
Everyone I knew stopped playing the game, so I play completely alone. I run full berserker on all of my characters and I’m having a blast exploring the zones solo. The only real issue I’ve ran into are some hero point challenges that I am unable to complete solo.
Can I please get some acknowledgment for the argument that most MMOs with so-called “cheaper” xpacs still have that monthly fee thing going on?
WoW offers many amenities for that sub cost that GW2 doesn’t. Things like free hair/face changes, 50 character slots on as many different servers as you want. Every single armor/weapon set is released through the game. There are a lot of things offered in sub games that b2p and f2p games don’t offer.
I’m having so much fun with the expansion. I haven’t hardly left Verdant Brink either. I’m going through getting hero points on several characters and having a blast with the zone. It was much more fun when I got gliding and then it was much more fun when I got mushroom jumping and updraft use.
I’ve only experienced a tiny bit of the second zone, but I’m enjoying it just as much. This expansion is great.
As others have pointed out… opportunity costs.
By your logic everything in the real world is “free” as well. Everything from candy bars to private islands. They are all free!!!!!!
K and by the same token I’ll expect all the undeserving 10s to be updated as well.
What if they really think it’s worth 10?
There were people all over here and reddit talking about how they were giving a rating of 10 to offset the 1s. I think if we are to ask the 1s to remove/update their rating, the other side should do so as well.
Thank you, Colin! This is one of my biggest complaints taken care of within a week of release. Seriously, this change will improve my HoT experience tenfold.
I would work on making a medium and heavy ascended armor set.
Awhile back I sold off some items that could have made me close to 15k gold if I sold today. I think I made about 100g off of them when I sold at that time.
The story is great, the zones are beautiful and fun to play. So far I am enjoying the expansion.
My only real issues are with the grinding/gating(and low pop zones). I can deal with obtaining hero points for a character or two, but after that it is going to destroy any desire I have to continue “progressing” my characters. I just can’t help but feel that this is extremely alt unfriendly. The “progression” should not have been with the elite specs like this.
It’s unfortunate that a good expansion is getting so much negative feedback ingame and out because of this.
I’m not sure how I would fix this. Masteries are fine because they are account bound. I guess drastically reducing hero points needed to get all skills/traits would be okay.
I’ve been spending my time finishing up LS2 on my ranger, so can’t make a fair judgement on the mastery system, but from the get-go I thought it looked bad. It looked like a way to slow me down before I got to the fun. I understand that they want us to get as many hours as possible out of the expansion. If they can prevent us players from competing all the new content in the first couple months it will be for the best.
I think it’s possible that I will warm up to it though. It’s definitely not a big deal for me.
There are several things I don’t like, but I’m still very happy with my purchase. I wouldn’t give the expansion back if they refunded me 2 times more than I paid. Not saying it’s worth that much(it’s not.), I am just happy I get to play it and don’t regret my purchase one bit.
Yeah, I don’t like this at all. This is not fun. It would’ve been fun to experience the new content with a new build, not the ones we have been playing for over 3 years.
It works well for me. I will wake up 8-9 hours after it launches, which gives them time to fix things before I log in.
Why do you feel the need to immediately play? The expansion isn’t going anywhere.
I just wanted to experience the new content as the new elite specializations.
I really hope the first 200 points unlock all traits/skills and the last 200 unlock cosmetics. If they are interweaved together and it will take 400 points to unlock all traits and skills I will be very disappointed.
I know I now won’t be enjoying the HoT content like I should be. I’m going to be focusing on running several characters through the zones getting hero points to unlock elite specializations.
This is going to feel okay the first and second time. This is going to feel terribly grindy the 7th and 8th and 9th time though.
Most of my toons except Ranger has like 6-10% world map completion, because I don’t like doing it. But they currently all have their spec finished since they already had everything completed prior to the hero points patch.
Does this mean that come HoT, my toons can just do Hero challenges in Maguuma jungle to be able to use the elite spec, or do I need to go do all the other HP in the rest of the world and the ones in Maguuma just to be able to use the elite spec?
“Except you don’t! There are enough hero challenges in the jungle you don’t need to do any in the core tyrian world – those simply speed you up on day one if you already got them.” -Colin
I think I made about 100g off of them when I sold at that time.