Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t be surprised if they did, in fact, with all these (bad) changes, I would be surprised if they didn’t. It would mean they still got a strong ‘spine’.

I felt the need to post on this topic for ‘feedback’ purposes. Let me be clear and say that I by no means am a veteran player, even though my account has more than 2 years, I started playing regularly a few months ago, before that I was mostly on and off.

Regarding this New Player Experience (I really like the NoPE abbreviation) it actually saddens me seeing ANet screw up the game so hard. The tutorial part was really needed I give them that, new players have no clue how to play the game and Gw2 is by no means an ‘ordinary’ MMORPG, a few tips and explanations are well appreciated. Though we managed to learn by playing, I don’t think that’s ideal in a game.

That being said, I just don’t get the locks made with this new Feature Pack, Vistas, PoI, Skill Points, that’s the kind of change that should not be taken lighty. I mean, downed stated skill unlock, come on ANet, seriously… it gives the impression that they grabbed random people on the street and asked them directions to take on the game. And even if they were well received in China (spoilerthey don't), that doesn’t mean that in EU/NA they would. Those limitations make no sense whatsoever, even from a new player perspective, I don’t think I was overwhelmed with a few icons on the map, it was different from the other games in the market, and it was great (again, a few directions would be greatly appreciated by then, directions differ from limitations, mind you). And please don’t get me started on weapon skills, oh man, I just loved unlocking weapon skills, it was kind of magic to me, killing things while unlocking, learning new skills, finding out which weapon sets you liked the most, that felt good and it took some of the boredom away while leveling in low areas, and guess what, they took away one of the best original features (IMO) on the game. Well done guys, great job, and you wonder why we don’t look forward for another update. I mean, those locks would be bad enough by themselves, now I can only imagine leveling an alt in these days with these locks and traits locks. It must be a nightmare. (fun fact: I was thinking about leveling a Mesmer and a Thief).

It’s just sad, and I fear that is only the beggining, I’ve seen stuff like this happen in other MMOs and I can say that these games are not very ‘popular’ these days.

Just adding here my frustation towards the new Feature Pack and my ‘feedback’. And to the folks that ask for a constructive criticism, i’m afraid that boat is sailed, they should’ve asked for our opinion before implementing the changes, not after, I don’t think they’ll turn back on this now.

TL,DR: I think this new FP is the worst update this game have ever seen and i’m afraid it won’t stop there. Plus I was thinking about leveling a Mesmer and a Thief as alts.

PS: English is not my native language.

Let me just give my 2 cents here. I’m a fairly new player (2.5k AP) and I pretty much started doing dungeons a couple of weeks ago.
And funny thing is, I’ve yet to find one party willing to teach new (or old, idk) players how to do the dungeon “the right way”, even stacking is somewhat hard to find, most people just direct you to YouTube.

When you look at LFG all you see is “pX 80s exp”, and new players are not to blame IMO, I’m willing to learn and I would love to finish a dungeon killing every monster, at least once.