Ok, sorry for the lame title, but I cannot think of something else that’s still polite.
So, Anet, I think you misunderstood the community. When we said “Living Story should add new permanent content to the game”, it was not a way to say “The old content sucks, nuke it and do something else”. And you know why ? Because you’re not adding content to the game this way !
You removed a path to add another one. There is still 3 path in Twilight Arbor, the exact same number than a year ago.
Twilight Arbor Forward/Up was an ok path with a kinda difficult and bugged final boss. Just put a cap to the number of spiders and make them despawn on wipe (that was the original state of the encounter btw), and done. You’ve got an ok path with a kinda difficult final boss. And no more whining about TA Fw/Up.
I don’t care about how longer, better, more fun, more interesting, more rewarding the new path is. I simply don’t care. You are removing core content from the game. And the pseudo lore justification I’ve read somewhere, just stop. You can’t put Scarlet and lore in the same sentence, that doesn’t work.
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And btw, I really hope you’re not going to slap Scarlet everywhere from now on, because she’s not a good character. She has no charisma and her dialogue is cheesy as hell. If you want to write a “I’m evil because I’m mad” character, take a look at Suikoden 2 or Final Fantasy 6, not some Scooby-Doo cartoon.
I already foresee Arah p5 with Scarlet riding a Robot Zhaitan and summoning more undead dredges and Etherblades, because you know, everyone loves dredge.
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I was really hyped for this patch, I was like “Ok, they are going the fix the issues in TA Fw/Up, maybe upgrade the 2 other paths, and add a new path ! Great !” but after watching the live stream, I’m really really disappointed.
I was kinda happy with the direction taken by the Living Story with the last few patches, but maybe I was too optimistic. This is not the good direction for the game. It has been a year, and I’m really tired.
That’s bring me back to my first question, why ?
PS : I’m sorry for any mistakes I’ve made, English is not my native language.