Guild Wars 2

I agree as well. Please dont change them too much.

Soulbeast here i hope. But it depends on how it turns out, so hopefully it will fit my playstyle.

Barnabus Stinson.1409:

Why is wrong to want the Power based Spec to actually be decent with power, why are people hostile to the idea of a power reaper being buffed even a little?

I dont expect to just AA and Condi rotations really arent much harder, and even if they are not enough to make a near 50% DPS increase ( 24k Power to 34k Condi )

Indeed…
Power really should have some build that’s on par with the condition ones, for all classes as well. As far as i know condi is leagues ahead on at least 2 other classes and it really shouldn’t be the case. Not asking for an auto attack only build here either, a proper rotation with an optimized build should be relatively equal on either power or condi in a balanced game.

I don’t mind the mastery system as such. It works well for what it does. But the kitten mastery points being like they are is what i really hate about the system and why I’m unlikely to ever fill it out. Quite simply i am not an achievement hunter at all and that’s what a ton of those points are gated behind.

Id love for a way to get them that doesn’t involve the adventures or achievement hunting. Even if i have to buy them for gems it would be an improvement in my case.

Just tested it after the last patch, its still broken. I have a feeling this will be fixed about at the same time the drake bug will be fixed. Either that or its a “feature” to make soulbeast look more interesting. Hopefully I’m wrong.

I always found the rather extreme amount of elitism in this game to be strange and incredibly off putting. Are the raids really hard enough to force everyone that wants to play one to go with the “meta” of the specific raid allowed classes?
I know I’m unlikely to ever be allowed on a raid team with a power reaper because its not part of the almighty meta. Hell I’m not sure a necromancer even counts as part of the meta these days with any build.

So, the elitism in this game makes the raids (and some other team stuff) extremely unpleasant and it really is the worst I’ve seen in any of the MMOs I’ve played.

Basically the wyverns sucked before because they couldn’t hit anything even remotely moving. The same patch that fixed them broke drakes tho, and those aren’t fixed still, 6 months later.

Ill give this a solid 3/10.

The story was meh and full of holes as others have said.
The new map really needs more waypoints or at least respawn points without having buy them.
What is with the excessive CC in this game in general? Getting hit once and then being pingponged between enemies until you die is frustrating as all hell, the same with all the blinds and cripple etc.

The story was at least mildly interesting and the new map does look good. However the wholly frustrating combat and tedious puzzles really drag it down.

I have this as well, it tends to get especially bad when you go into caves and other darker areas. Only way to “fix” it is to turn off shadows completely. Maybe there is something like sweet fx to re-enable shadows?

Started showing when i upgraded to a GTX1080.

I’ll up mine from 0 to 4. Still not a fan of the event setup myself but at least i wont have to rush the masteries in order to get my elite unlocked before going through the story.

I’ve been around a while, mostly liked what was around and the whole story. But HoT feels just like the STO expansion Delta Rising did. Progression speed is somewhere between glacial and continental drift and all you need to do in order to move it forward is mindless grinding of rather boring events.

Add to that the terrible decision to effectively lock elite specs behind masteries so you basically have to do everything before you can go and unlock an elite spec fully and on top of that the mess of the zones. Basically hallways with enemies everywhere making it frustrating just to get around then those enemies often have far, far too many knockdowns/knockbacks. Being chain bounced until you die is even less fun than being one shotted out of nowhere.

My score for this has to be 0/10 as its probably the /worst/ expansion i have ever seen in its current state.

I hope that it can be fixed in time because before long people will start bailing.

My fear is that the expansion will go the way that Star Trek Online did. Increasing difficulty to the point where pugs are more usually a liability and make your mission fail as well as making the whole spec thing grindy as hell.

A harder game would likely make the whole toxic/elitist thing a lot worse while driving away a lot of people.

The only thing this game seriously needs in the way of chat is custom channels. Why an MMO in this day and age doesn’t have that already is beyond me.

My main worry is that the difficulty of the new stuff is too high for random teaming to work along with being required to actually get anywhere with traits and such.

I also hope that the specilizations wont be required to get for your char to stay competetive and instead them just being an option to the normal classes.

I had heard good things about it, so when STO was turned into the most tedious grind imaginable I jumped on a sale and bought GW2. Another plus is that it doesn’t follow the generic MMO model too heavily.

This is my highest level sylvari and also first char in GW2.