Guild Wars 2

“Arise my minions!”

“For Great Justice”!

A rip off, to the point that you presenting such an offer and posting this thread feels insulting…

As the person above me stated. Your company policy when it comes to the management of your cash shop has become quite disreputable over the years. The prices you ask are already way overboard compared to what is offered. Quite the reputation you are making for yourselves.

Ivory tower?

I wanted to make a suggestion but I wasn’t sure where to submit the idea this has probably been submited before but… anyhow; so here shall it lay! The game has been out for a while now and I feel such a QoL improvement could warrant some attention. It would really make every users life simpler if we had access to a simple template and equipment manager. Especially considering the limited amount of character space. Even better would be a way to map or keybind “key” builds or equipment setups to swap around when necessary. I understand the UI is fairly simple to use. Still nothing beats a one key “BAM! ready to go” solution. Moreso with the addition of the new specialisations…

Edit: Even more so in the Mist.

/Rant ON

I must admit I have only been into HoT for a little over a week now.
Still in my opinion it does feel quite bland compared to the progressive ramp up of the original. Nor does having to put up with the ego petting “Commander” nonsense help on any way. "Comander! I’m so glad to see you here! I fear I may have lost my extra pair of shoelace to the foliage… But now that you have graced our gaze with your astounding composure… I’m certain the cowering pasture will return them to me for fear of the consequence! (To put it extremely mildly).

The general map layout feels overly complicated (although quite majestic). Most of the content is aimed at groups (quite a bit overboard). Good luck playing during the middle of the week post 11pm on a barely filled map. Some classes are just great at solo, others not so much.

The voice acting doesn’t feel as engaging. "Come back! we’re in the middle of ennemy territory! don’t wander off on your own!!!! LISTEN TO YOUR TESTOSTERONE FILLED COMMANDER OF THE (obliteraded) PACT!!! FFS!!!!. The personality they gave our “Commander” just feels…. so cliché.
And don’t get me started on the strange human “language” they created for the local Hyleks. It sounds more like what it is (a group of humans having fun goofing around) rather then anything remotely engrossing.

When solo it just doesn’t feel like you have anything much worthwhile to accomplish (if you aren’t the legendary crafting mats grinding type).
For me the new classes are the most ineteresting additions.
I’m enjoying them in PvP, I do some PVE here and there.

Gating movement, gameplay and crafting behind an artificial leveling experience… The idea may not have been a bad one, but they just gated way too much. Personaly I prefer content, story, nice voice acting, gameplay… something engaging and well crafted. and preferably not almost completely built around the Dry Top and “co.” episodic content (as far as I have seen). I felt more love for the art in the crafting of the original. That being said Jeremy Soul left (I believe) and that hurts quite a bit (again imho). The general visual and auditive atmosphere is very nice, But at this rate it’s almost all the xpac has for itself…

I probably could go on and on…

Considering the appreciation I had for the original, it does feel like a letdown.

I would agree with the OP (perhaps not for the exact same reason) Considering the HEFTY price tag, this whole xpac feels a bit too overhyped and underperforming for my taste.

Edit: They decided to steer away and try to be creative, Much respect in that regards.
Clearly some aspects of the game have received waaayyyy more love then others. Alas.
And @ 45€…. WTF?

Edit 2: Gating MOOOAAAARRR DEEEEPSSSSS behind Xpac additions… Well Blizzard did it with D3 back when the crusader was released (still does it everytime they release new item sets), Trion does it in RIFT with the additional souls…. It’s nothing new. I guess It should have been expected? Yeah it does seem to be quite the contemporary sales pitch.

/Rant off