Some thoughts on my Beta experience
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Shalaine Calenos.9748
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Shalaine Calenos.9748
To start with the positive. It is breathtakingly beautiful. It is also very dangerous area. The levels are very complex and I could certainly wander around for hours just to try and reach all the different places. Bravo art design team!
I played a revenant and between getting used to the new skills and utilities and the different creatures/mobs trying to kill me, it was a struggle at times. I am sure that will come as I become more experienced and level through. I love the hammer over the mace and axe but then I love the hammer on my guardian so it’s a thing for me. I do plan on creating a revenant because I enjoyed it so much.
Now to the minor somewhat negative feedback. The masteries were kinda convoluted for me. I got my 2 mastery points. I went to start which path I wanted and thought I had selected Gliding…but halfway through the first session, I realized that it did not take my selection and so lost all the experience that I had fought through. Once it was selected, I didn’t have enough time to get enough points to get the gliding.
I really think that the bar should fill from fighting and then something should pop up and say where should it be applied. I had a friend that didn’t even know to click on the bar so also lost the opportunity to try out the mastery. I believe this should change because losing progress is not cool.
Mastery problems aside, I look forward to the revenant being more fleshed out to give us even more options and traits. It is a cool class so far and am eager to play. I will definitely buy the expansion and most of our small guild will too.
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to beta test this. I helped beta test GW2 from first open betas and it was great to be once more included. I did find a portal in the SW which made me very happy.
The one and only precursor I have ever gotten was an underwater one from of all things the reward for the trash collector achievement. I couldn’t believe it! My husband laughed and laughed. I sold it for 67g because if I am going to grind for a lengendary, it won’t be for an underwater weapon! I have played since early beta and that was probably my only drop.
What I find the most annoying is trying to deliberately to get dodging. I sometimes use it but this is forcing me to try and get those and it is really more time consuming and much less fun. I end up leaving those to last since it is so hard for me. I want to kill something my way not be so structured.
I have no issue with crafting. That is easy.
Killing 5 Veterans is fine…it stretches the area you have to go to.
I agree that the combo kills will be much harder, I haven’t encountered that as a requirement yet.
Yesterday, I found an Abyss dye and the trading post was not working for me. My husband at the computer next to me said that he would sell it for me since the trading post was working for him. He sold it and sent the money back…16 gold and change. We shut down our game shortly after that. We logged in this morning and he has been banned for gold/selling. He is the guild leader for our guild. He has submitted a ticket. I feel terrible because he just offered to help me out since the trading post is often not working for me. Is there anything we can do to straighten out this issue? We have played GW1 for 6+ years and played all of the beta testing for GW2, and have enjoyed playing GW2 quite a bit…we have even reported gold sellers’ emails that we have gotten. Now to be accused of doing so really upsets us.
To top it off, this is our vacation time that we planned to spend playing GW2 a good part of the time. I see elsewhere in the forums that it may take as long as 24 to 48 hours to have the ticket reviewed and that doesn’t guarantee a resolution. That means that we may not be able to play for the rest of the year. Really not acceptable, especially when he did nothing wrong. Please reconsider these bans as soon as possible.
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