And whyyyyyy? hands to the sky
I rolled a new character to experience the levelling changes, an asura.
Who makes these decisions? So far I’ve done 3 hearts, am on fourth (the oozes one), and I have a few questions:
- Why would you dumb down the content of the race that’s smart by lore?
- Why did you turn off the golem chess?
- Why is the heart to fill containers with electricity so annoying now? I much preferred the mechanic of the mobs dropping the orb, which then I could use to fill the tank or to knock down foes (in the latter case feeling incredibly smart for finding such a use for the item). Now I get the annoying lightning on my person and have to run top speed to find a container to get rid of it before it drives me insane.
- You moved the progeny heart – that was exciting. That shows me you can change heart contents. So that’s a good thing, kinda.
- But why did you empty the little lake? I suppose this is because it’d be too overwhelming for new players to do under water combat? You kidding? GW2 is THE ONLY game with a GOOD under water content that I’ve seen and I love it. A new player would be nicely impressed I’d think if they went underwater and saw things to do in there? No? Now it’s a sad sad sad empty lake.
- The heart where you turned into a golem is completely kittened now. There’s no other word for it. It pops this stupid message all the time how your companion is happy, and is equivalent to pressing one button repeatedly (even monkeys don’t do that).
- Why is every merchant in the 1-5 lvl zone now selling colored bags? The battle arena merchants in particular. It was exciting to look at different badges from respective labs once they won the battle, and I expected it to be a collection, and it’s bags (which should be a collection too :P)
I didn’t understand before why the community was so offended at Anet and was asking if Anet thought them kittens. I kind of see it now.
I really don’t know who these changes are targeted at, I really don’t know who makes these decisions, and this makes me sad. I don’t really care much, I realize only a few people like me come to this early content to see if they can find smarter ways to do these hearts etc. But really why even waste your time doing these things?! I dread to go and see what changes were done to other zones (I hope not too many)
Again it probably doesn’t matter. It is assumed players only do these zones once and don’t care about them. Well why then remove things? Yes some of these hearts were confusing, especially to people trying to rush through them, but they gave the zone flavor. The right flavor.