The expansion is great!.. or it could have been great. It could and should have been really awesome. The fighting system has become more exciting with new enemies and specialisations. The glider mechanic is wonderful, thanks for the wing skins, by the way. New maps are fantastic (kinda confusing and tangly, but still), insanely beautiful and entertaining. The part with Glint’s legacy is great.
But The Drama ruins literally everything. And I didn’t put the capital letters by mistake here. The Drama is almost everywhere, it crawls from every corner of the story, it’s its main hero. And it’s absolutely unnecessary.
Eir’s death WASN’T HEROIC. It was pointless and stupid. Eir was trying to save Faolain… what? WHY? She definitely knew who Faolain was, how morally corrupted that sylvari already was, even without Mordremoth’s influence. There wasn’t any point in saving her, even Eir was not THAT kind and forgiving. So… why? And why couldn’t we just glide down to her aid, though the place was literally a few feet lower from our position?.. WHY?
Because deal with it, that’s why.
Okay, so Eir’s dead, and it’s a godkitten disgrace, but we’re moving on.
The commander has a choice: to hurry up and finally rescue their friends from the dragon or to explore some ancient asuran city, that just poped out of nowhere. Obviously, the choice is clear!.. Aaand our mighty hero is off to the frigging ruins, so, yeah, forget the Marshal and those poor kittens from DE, never liked them anyway.
Rata Novus arc was also absolutely pointless. Scryffy’s ‘death’ was pointless, The Drama of the scene was pointless. And I’m not saying that they could have ripped a segment of the pipe from the opposide wall out and inserted it into the gap, (too easy, I guess), but Scruffy’s hesitation? Taimi comforting him? Are you serious? It’s a golem, god kitten it, not a living person, and Taimi is able to build hundreds of Scruffys. But The Draaaaama of that scene, oh my god. It was so obvious and so obviously unnecessary.
Finally, we’re are going for our friends, rescuing one of them, hurrying to another… ah, no, wait. Caithe is here and we obviously have no more important things to do than chatting with her right now. Logan and Zojja are taken away, and they are not in a good state, but don’t you worry, they are… No, we won’t hear from them anymore till the very end of story. Who cares.
So here we are, finally at the end of the story. I must say, that I really liked the last fight in the Dream, even though it was very hard and heavily bugged (like, you know, flying rifts). The dragon is finally dead. Hooray? No. The Drama strikes once again.
Wtf was that twist with Trahearne? Why, WHY would you do that? Wasn’t killing Mordy through the Dream already enough? Why couldn’t Mordremoth just manifest himself in any other mordrem? Oh, and it’s getting even better, because now you can have the broken sword! Sweet.
And that’s it.
We don’t know what happened next, what happened to Mother Tree or mordrem guards – they clearly kept their personalities, so, with Mordremoth’s death, what happened to them? Nobody cares. Even the stupid egg’s hatching is just hanging there, waiting for a LS3.
There was absolutely nothing in the ending what could have made it look like victory. All the deaths were just a waste.
I could have accepted some parts of it, but not the whole picture. The Drama was there for the sake of drama and it was way too much, at least for me.
Right now GW2 only makes me highly depressed, nothing more. I don’t want to participate in Halloween’s events or do fractals, I don’t need new skins of legendaries. I don’t want to play at all. Thanks for ruining my favourite game for me.
Meh.
