Guild Wars 2

I am very much with the OP on this. I am an ‘older’ player with some health issues, so I am not as sharp as I once was reflex or concentration wise, so I was looking for an MMO that was a little more casual player friendly.

I leveled two characters to 80 while still free to play, and enjoyed the pace and content and general difficulty curve. The open play as you choose feeling of the game was refreshing and reeled me in. It never at any point felt ‘grindy’, there was always something interesting to do, and everything went towards my leveling goals.

By comparison, HoT feels like some sadistic alter ego of the friendly easy going game that drew me in and took my investment of time and money. The new maps are bewildering, disorienting and frustrating. The mobs are brutal, my feeling was not so much of being challenged ( ie lets see how I could have won this fight by doing things differently ) but more akin to being ganked in a pvp zone.

The mobs just zerg and zerg, spamming multiple AOE’s and CC’s at you until you die, and if you are anything like me you will die, over and over and over, until you port out to Lions Arch to ponder your options.

So TL;DR is, I personally feel a bit disenchanted, as this expansion is not a continuation of the game I was enjoying, it is something else entirely, and it’s not something I am enjoying.