Guild Wars 2

Pretty Pixie.8603:

What Na said. Producing new content for a once a year festival is a wasteful use of resources, considering they have LS3 and an expansion to work on.

Square is able to make unique annual Halloween & other holiday content, with brand new rewards, stories, and events year to year for all events, produce beefy content patches, AND working on the Stormblood expansion while still not reducing quality of any of these. Point to FFXIV!

Silly competition joke aside, Holiday events are usually fun and special for some players. I think its important to keep up with certain events if they were there in the past. If there was a One-Time event for a patch, that can be left out the year after, but Halloween? Its like if they were to take out the Christmas/New Year event; Halloween & Christmas spirit is a good thing to have and it would be nice of A-Net to celebrate that with their player-base. They don’t HAVE to do it, but its nice if they do; it keeps them connected more with their players.

Now if you excuse me, I got the new All Saints Wake Halloween event to do in FFXIV! Bye! :)

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Thamriyell.5490:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Thamriyell.5490:

What’s this? A post providing feedback and suggestions to change my favorite game??? dramatic gasp…such blasphemy!

The OP doesn’t like gliding. That’s fine. It’s optional, so he doesn’t have to use it. But his ‘suggestion’ was to take it away from the rest of us. That, and a couple of his other points, demonstrate that he is really looking for another game. That is a far simpler answer than trying to change this game to suit the generic mmo he seems to desire.

Its not like the OP is just holding you down trying to pry the glider off of you! A suggestion is nothing but that, but people immediately jump on the OP for even mentioning alterations to their favorite part of the game, as if the OP is sitting at the A-Net office about to delete any gliding-related code and assets from the clutches of helpless players mid-glide.

Its a constant walking-on-eggshells situation on these forums and on reddit. I’d love for some people here to just have some chill and simply respond with a normal response; more “I actually like the (feature) because (reasons)” and less of “I strongly DISAGREE with your Opinion/Suggestion regarding (feature) and shall proceed shoving down 100 reasons why your opinion is WRONG!” ._.

And to people that have chill and offer decent responses, I appreciate you.

Dude, I’ve looked back through this thread and all the responses the OP got were calm and rational. People took the time to talk about what they like or didn’t like about his suggestions. The only non-chill response in this whole thread was your melodramatic “dramatic portrayal”.

I ain’t your “Dude,” sorry.

Are you talking about my first post? I was satirizing people’s immediate reactions to any suggestion posts ever created since HoT launched. I’ve seen a good chunk of them and they always follow suit of instant knee-jerk responses of people attacking rather than debunking or starting a discussion in regards to player feedback. The attacks even go beyond just the post, but are aimed at the OP, their preferences, and any other form of direct attacks. Its pretty disgusting, but the GW2 Forums and Reddit community is quick to judge a person rather than have an actual discussion and I don’t know if its just the culture to do that or if a Wall-flower MMO attracts wall-flower people that feel free to be ridiculous. WoW forum squabbles are nothing compared to some of the most disgusting responses I’ve ever seen on the forums here.

Please understand, I am all for disagreements for a suggestion, but I am not for shafting of a reasonable point.

I’ve been on the forums for some time, reading stuff about HoT and GW2’s future in general and as much as I don’t like it, it rustles my jimmies when people act all snob-like on here and cross some common sense decency lines. I get the monitor is a great thing to hide behind, but what follows that that advantage of anonymity is what pushes people away from the community and the game.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Thamriyell.5490:

What’s this? A post providing feedback and suggestions to change my favorite game??? dramatic gasp…such blasphemy!

The OP doesn’t like gliding. That’s fine. It’s optional, so he doesn’t have to use it. But his ‘suggestion’ was to take it away from the rest of us. That, and a couple of his other points, demonstrate that he is really looking for another game. That is a far simpler answer than trying to change this game to suit the generic mmo he seems to desire.

Its not like the OP is just holding you down trying to pry the glider off of you! A suggestion is nothing but that, but people immediately jump on the OP for even mentioning alterations to their favorite part of the game, as if the OP is sitting at the A-Net office about to delete any gliding-related code and assets from the clutches of helpless players mid-glide.

Its a constant walking-on-eggshells situation on these forums and on reddit. I’d love for some people here to just have some chill and simply respond with a normal response; more “I actually like the (feature) because (reasons)” and less of “I strongly DISAGREE with your Opinion/Suggestion regarding (feature) and shall proceed shoving down 100 reasons why your opinion is WRONG!” ._.

And to people that have chill and offer decent responses, I appreciate you.

What’s this? A post providing feedback and suggestions to change my favorite game??? dramatic gasp…such blasphemy! How dare someone even remotely suggest to alter or modify this pinnacle in the MMO genre that I have no total bias over?! Arena-Net has blessed thee with thy masterpiece and ye dares say to defile it with filth of constructive suggestions? Burn thy heathen at the stake, I say! Burn thy heathen alive, I say! Woe to my perfection that is GW2, none shall taint it with decent and optimistic suggestion, thee has only the right to marvel and never criticize! Repent and be bombarded with mass attacks on thy forum post!!!

/dramatic portrayal of the responses end

I swear, GW2 community always gets touchy-feely when new suggestions are brought up in regards to their game. As if outside perspectives are not allowed anymore. Some of you need to let your hair down every once in a while. Suggestion posts aren’t going to change a game, but at least give the person a chance and keep an open mind before immediately striking any suggestion through. For example:

1. wouldn’t be too bad of an idea. Having some sort of progression to work towards would give people a reason to keep going. Maybe not add gear with better stats, but they could and should totally add more gear into the game with different combination of stats and skins. If a player reaches their Ascended or Legendary gear, they really have nothing else to work towards aside from playing parts of the game’s content. Unless people just want to do raids and PvP over and over on a looping treadmill, they have nothing else to work towards regarding their character and their gearing journey ends. I like MMO’s that add levels with meaningful way to grow your character, not gear-wise but even with alterations to abilities. Having a feeling of personal growth and progress is nice in MMO’s.
2. is a preference so please don’t immediately jump on the OP screaming DON’T TAKE AWAY MY GLIDER #GliderLivesMatter
3. aims to make 5-man content relevant again. I would LOVE to have dungeons back and with levels of difficulty! Let’s get them 5-man’s back, wanna run those with my buddies!
4. HoT in general was designed for the “hardcore complex map & raiding” minority. Majority of people don’t ant to deal with the headache of figuring out every nook and crevice of how to get past the gating per map’s level. Make those optional for people wanting those maps, not just shafting everyone into a mess that only few will actually enjoy. Poor decision upon Anet to shaft everyone there. (Here come some angry reponses to this particular opinion >.>)
5. WvW would be neat if they gave me skins to pursue. Otherwise I can go get a more immersive experience in ESO Cyrodil battles.
6. New armor design would be nice. Costumes are neat, but armor wouldn’t be bad either.
7. Spectator mode would be good if someone like a streamer wanted to host a competition. Would be neat!
8. I shall not touch as I am not well versed in sPvP. It looks like a visual mess if you watch the tournaments and doesn’t captivate me. I will simply stay out of it.

All in all, please understand that its just player feedback and it doesn’t mean that the devs are going to jump out of their seats to change the game to some player feedback immediately. Use people’s posts to start a discussion instead of shafting players away from the forums. Starting a discussion and conversation will go a long way to get to know a fellow player and even make you friends. GW2 players have been seen as very touchy and very negative to criticism as of late ever since the quarterly report so please don’t give people a reason to back up that theory. Do it not for yourself, but for the game’s image too

Its been some months now, but SPOILER WARNING AHEAD OF TIME! PLEASE DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE DRAGON STAND META EVENT YET!

As much as I heavily disliked Warlords of Draenor, WoW’s recent expansion, I at least had apexis dailies.

But in all seriousness, and let’s be real here, DS was completely undersold and was underwhelming. I am not talking about anything that had to do before the final encounter (Which I gotta say was tedious, annoying, confusing clutter of things that hurt and down you unless you are dodging every second or using a healing/defensive every other cooldown), but after putting in a lot of work into the whole final battle, I get…the picture that is attached with the post.

To clear up the picture, its Mordremoth’s head impaled on a sharp tree part and has tar-like goo oozing out of him. He planted himself there, as if mounting himself for the heroes to take screenshots with after about 40 minutes of getting light burns and boo-boo’s all over his face. Some parts of his face are scarred, but I guess the sheer pain was plenty enough for him to just finish the job for us. Good Guy Mordy.

Seriously though, that’s it? Like, legit, please be real with me here, that is it??? there is no part 2 or 3 to this that continues in the raids? Done?? Mordy is dead and we can go home full of green and blue loot after taking a screenshot with Mordy’s self-mounted head? I am sorry, but Sha of Anger fight was more interesting than that last fight during DS and that actually required coordination at its prime from all members, tanks, healers, and DPS alike. It even rewarded people with gear that was worth the grueling effort it took to do. (By prime, I don’t mean doing Shas at level 100 or overgeared level 90, I mean when it was first out and it actually took people 2 full raid groups to take it down and get the mechanics fully figured out, prime of its time).

I was going to completely ignore any issues I had at all with the game regarding its maps, events, metas, specializations, changes to mesmer, mobs in HoT, and even Dungeon Nerfs if this final part of the epic journey was going to be the cream of the crop here. I was so happy and excited that we will take on the Elder Dragon and battle someone who was revered as the ultimate bad guy in the game, I was so looking forward to it. I just didn’t expect Mordy to be a kind gentleman and mount himself for us on a sharp tree part perfectly placed to take screenshots with. I got to learn that Mordy never was a big mean bad dragon dude that everyone always said he was. He gave us difficult adds for full-time GW2 players to finally feel their blood pumping from evading extra attacks and raise their hand circulation, gave us raids for those that care, made us learn the tedious wonders that are Masteries, and even rewards us with nice Greens, Blues, and Rares (on top of bags of bags of bags of Green and Blue loot and crafting material) as well as showing us his best modeling “spike through the skull” look he practiced for who knows how long.

tl;dr

Did DS. Felt confused. Realized what happened. Felt numb. Cried a bit and then closed the game. Wrote this post to cheer myself up while I practice writing pseudo-fan-fiction about Good Guy Mordy. Hope someone actually gets what I did and gets a chuckle out of it. Prob won’t do DS ever again.

Thanks for reading.

Vayne.8563:

pickpocket.2071:

If I was you I would wait til it’s on sale for $10 or $20 hot was a massive disappointment for me, if you lik a lot of grind and no loot with no new armour than buy hot. Also be prepared for no new content til the next expansion, Because let’s be honest it’s been how many months since hot was released and still no living story 3. But don’t worry I’m sure it’ll be here promoted with the next expansion along with legendary weapons……..

Unless you count raid wings and the PvP tournament, and gliding in central Tyria and the Shatterer redesign, and a patch coming out like in five days with changes to a bunch of stuff. And there are new armor sets, just not many. New weapon sets too. In fact, the expansion was a massive disappointment to some people and a lot of fun for other people. Plenty of people have said they think it’s worth their $50.

Also, the LS should be coming out after the third raid wing. The third raid wing comes out, if it follows the other raid wings, in June, which would mean July for the Living Story.

Nah just be safe and get it on sale for $10 or $20. If you like it, then you get even greater value for it for less, which is a win. If you don’t , well at least you saved $30-40 on it, which is in a way also a win.

If you want to spend more money to support ANet, you can always just use the $30-40 you saved to get gems or something

Ragnarox.9601:

You get new black lion skins and gliders every 4 weeks for 800 gems. Buy now, regret later

That made me chuckle a bit xD

General Health.9678:

lonthor.5046:

You know I was very upset today

You shouldn’t buy HoT. Not because it’s bad but because you’ll just spend all your time generically complaining about it.

The alternative to what Anet has done is what WoW does where you have to buy 112 different expansions and the core game and apply them one at a time until your PC runs out of room. Oh and then you have to pay a sub to play it.

Making a single install is something Anet should be praised for instead of this whine every time someone comes on looking for misplaced sympathy.

There is a link elsewhere offering it for $40 that I can’t be bothered to dig out for you.

I wouldn’t just assume someone is going to complain about something. Maybe they might like it, maybe they might not. You never know, but I wouldn’t go immediately turn people away like that and assume the worst out of them.

112 different expansions? Okay, now that sounds just a bit like you might be throwing a tantrum. WoW doesn’t even have 10 expansions and they even stream-lined them all now with kitten and a free copy just for seeing the Warcraft Movie (assumed from rumors) so its not like you rack up $100+ for everything. I am not a major fan of WoW myself, dropped it for FFXIV, but I doubt misleading tamper tantrums is a good way to get your point across.

Also, what MMO doesn’t do single installs by now? WoW on its own is like 25GB, FFXIV is roughly 30GB, but that’s because they stream-line all the data and memory in order to make it more compact and not fill up space. At this point, its pretty standard to compress data that large for MMO games, otherwise no one would be able to install any of them.

I don’t want to sound like I am dissecting your post line by line, but it seems like you might be one of the bunch of people that defend ANet with HoT till the very end. Not anything regarding you, but I don’t get why people get so upset with their favorite company being negatively commented on. Its as if they know deep down inside that the negative comments might be right but are trying to yell the praises louder to hopefully drown out the negative voices or anything that doesn’t agree with HoT. If you like the expansion, that’s fine, but I see many times again and again players berating others for saying any comments regarding HoT. Where did the decency of being a GW2 player go?? I used to regard this community as something of a wallflower of MMO’s that didn’t support this nonsense and was actually friendly to people, but as of late, it seems to be going sour on the daily.

bananaman.1685:

I was planning to buy it but it just sounds too different from the normal game. It’s like they decided to incorporate everything I don’t like in one expansion: difficult content, confusing maps, forced grouping, raids, inflexible timers. That is simply not GW2 in my book.

n I keep reading that this is what the players asked for but I certainly didn’t. Where is the logic in giving a bunch of existing happy players a completely different game to play?

Having said that, I would really like to be able to glide but I don’t want it $40 worth.

Many players will share your views on this. There will be some die-hard ANet fans that will defend them till the last forum post, but I think its ultimately up to you to get or not get the expansion. Use whatever online sources (mine is mostly YouTube) and listen to both sides of the expansion. If it looks enticing enough for you to get, then you will do it on your terms at least, not because people on forums told you to get it because they say its “good” or “bad”.
You could always wait as well, ANet started working on the next expansion already, maybe that might be interesting enough? (I say that because I have no idea what its about or what features it will have, but I hope its a bit more than what I got in HoT personally. My two cents, please don’t let this influence your thinking though ;D)

ChoChoBo.6503:

The point I wanted to make was that the system for taxi’ing around is pretty much crap. There wouldn’t be a need to taxi people if the megaserver did it’s job and put players in active maps. So they should either revamp the LFG tool or fix their megaserver system.

^This right here. I am surprised the players just let the system be broken and find a work-around rather than, you know, ask the developers to get it fixed up so that it works as intended. If its doing more harm than good, why even have it in the game in the first place? Also, quite surprised that this is still isn’t fixed even after months of the expac’s release.

Either fix it to work properly, or set up a system that auto-taxi’s or tells people to taxi to another map.

Many other points have been made about the game and the direction HoT is taking it so I won’t repeat any of those, but I do certainly agree with reasons for frustration.

I’d like to add though, considering this is an expansion, it doesn’t feel like it really “expanded” on much of the world. Ideally, all we seemed to have gotten were 4 different flavors, or shades, of green jungle. Each had a different tint, shading, contrast, exposure, and color palette wasn’t exactly the same, but ideally was just 4 different filters of green jungle lands.

I have experienced expansions in other games and just from the setting’s perspective, I found it refreshing and nice when the expansions expanded on the world more rather than staying with same color or area. I got into WoW in the middle of Cata, and even then I appreciated the diverse zones, including Vashj’ir, no matter how annoying it was to teleport to them. It was nice to explore these new areas at the time. Wrath was considered very uniform, but if you look at each zone, you start noticing major differences between them, and that zone is known as the snow continent. In a way, I’d say its similar to the theme that HoT was going with, but personally felt it did well to diversify each zone so that it doesn’t feel like every zone looks like the last one. Even Pandaria or WoD, WoW’s most recent expansions, were very diverse, yet stay uniform and feel like they belong together. The expansions may not be the best and to each, their own, but I can certainly say that the zones had wide diversity while staying in unison. You have your mountains, swamps, dry steppes, forests, jungles, shores, and lush floral areas.

I can talk about FFXIV’s expansion, but I’d be repeating myself. Nevertheless, same point: uniform, but diverse from one another.

I get that they are trying to show that we are in the dangerous uninhabitable jungles, but its like getting the same meal with different seasonings. I don’t go to a restaurant to get 4 salads of same content with different dressing on top. I’d prefer personally a diverse course of meals. Salad is healthy, but I’d like a plate on baked potatoes, maybe a nice steak, and finish it off with a cheesecake at the end.

I am not saying they should have added snowy mountains or molten rock platforms for the sake of diversity, but a mountain area with a different filter would have been neat. Or maybe add a swampy area where its really murky and requires some swim mechanics or something.

(Sorry if I made someone hungry)

Conncept.7638:

You ever have that one professor, that designed his tests, not to test your knowledge of the subject matter, but as a means to bolster his ego at your expense? Just one question after another attempting to catch you on technicalities, lack of clarity, or just outright trick you in to selecting the wrong answer.

HoT is the game version of those tests and its makers the designer version of that professor.

From beginning to the end it is an exercise in frustration. Champion level mobs disguised as veterans, group events disguised as solo events, mere skill point acquisition requires a bloody train of players. It makes you not want to explore as you spend hours trying to get somewhere only to inevitably find at the last step that it requires a mastery that is hours of farming away. Mobs seem purposely designed to have no telegraphing on their attacks whatsoever, and attack at a frequency that completely nullifies everything the base game taught you about active defense and evasion. You want to get to that event? Worse, you need to get to that event for some piece of progression or other? Too bad, waypoint closes down as well as the five nearest. Happen to meet one of those unsoloable champs disguised as a vet while hoofing it? Lets port back to the very entrance of the area, the only WP that is ever open! And then, oh boy, the event credit, is that ever a great system! I have lost event credit literally a fraction of a second after killing an event spawned mob, seconds after going down, walking back to an event from the WP, because mobs didn’t spawn, because mobs clearly within the event circle were not ‘event mobs’, while resurrecting players and event NPCs, and lost event credit because I was fulfilling the event objective but doing so without killing event mobs!

I like challenge, in both exploration and combat. But HoT doesn’t challenge you to use what it taught you better, it throws everything that it taught you back in your face and tells you you’re an idiot. This was an expansion made by developers trying to prove their superiority to players and the gaming/MMO community at large.

This. Personally, I can relate with everything said here if I knew how to put it in words better. In feel this can resonate with a lot of players out there that are also frustrated or annoyed with HoT

Regarding people playing the game, I have a pretty long list of people on my Friend’s List. I was able to rack up the friends’ list as long as it is (Maybe like almost 100 people of so, not too sure, but its certainly a long list) while doing a let’s play on GW2 and I was able to meet all kinds of people that watched my videos. We talked all the time whenever I got on to record my character’s progression and I was able to meet some amazing and helpful people that I felt I got close to. We even made an in-game YouTube guild and were planning to do guild stuff together with all the people that joined in and record/stream it. It was really fun meeting new people and read out messages and write them back as I met players that offered hints, tips, and sometimes useful items since I was a complete newbie to the game.

Ever since HoT entered, the active daily people count on my friends’ list started to dwindle as people experienced HoT. Some started to get on less and less, others silently left and I never heard from them again. At this point, only like 7-8 people are on at most and about 3-4 on average, and majority of them are people who either play GW2 HoT as their only MMO/Game or people who are raiding and have a dedicated position in a Guild. (Chrono, Druid etc.) We were able to get the Guild Hall, but after that, everything is usually dead. I sometimes drop some gold for the building material needed for things, but otherwise its pretty dead at the moment. Anyone can join at any time, but it does feel very barren when there are so many grayed-out names on the friends’ list.

What I noticed most when entering HoT is that people seem to be really tense when the topic is HoT as an expansion and when people voice their feedback on it. Sometimes when someone asks me how I feel about X or Y in HoT, it feels like I am interrogated; almost as if I need to watch what I say or if my response doesn’t fit the person’s expectation, they jump on me trying to disprove anything that I feel about the expac and shoving my opinion, just a simple opinion, as wrong and blasphemous! (dramatic hand-waving for impact).

Some of my good buddies on the game even started to outright berate me for disliking X or Y or Z or all three altogether, as if something is wrong with ME that I don’t like a particular part of the expac that I felt could have been executed better. Ooo, opinions are scary! I get if someone doesn’t agree with my opinion and that’s cool and all, but I don’t think I need to be berated for not liking one or few things that are in Masteries. I stopped talking to some of them, but pretty stupid how a DLC causes people to get over-emotional and even cut ties like that. Its sad as well, but its also pretty dumb imo to stop talking to someone over difference in opinions. I have 3-4 best friends and I never just stop talking to them over a differentiating opinion regarding any topic at hand.

What I once knew as the Canadians of MMO’s (caring, jolly bunch) is now split between people who are Gung-Ho and Elitist attitudes about the expansion, people who have concerns over the expansion, and then the silent bunch that simply lives quietly in the back. I am sure there are plenty of people that don’t care about forum nonsense and still play, but even in world chat I started noticing that elitism and berating happening, which is getting annoying to see as of recent.

From my end, I can see there is some decline on active players, at least from people that I know on my friends’ list, and I used to talk to people pretty regularly on there. Maybe its just the downtime because of no major patches came around, but I am pretty sure a good chunk of people left the game because it wasn’t what they hoped the expansion was going to be.

At first, I was personally very optimistic for the expansion and even though some things were hard to adjust to, it all started going downhill for me.

Its not even just the actual content being presented from the expansion as people have mentioned. Its the elitist snark “on a high horse” attitude that some people in-game and on the forums start shoving down people’s throats that is becoming exhausting. People are blatantly berating players voicing concerns or opinions that don’t support the direction the game is going or A-Net’s actions and quickly verbally attack players. It happens from forum to forum and its a bit melancholy seeing what I considered the Canadians of MMO’s (Nice, Helpful, and overall pleasant bunch) start getting toxic and overly aggressive within particular members.

Some of the replies really seem stuck up. I don’t make it a habit pointing out what other players do because it isn’t my business, but I can’t go every 3rd post without seeing it ride off on a high horse somewhere or just berate the OP or general player population.

OP, you are right, HoT is harder than Core Tyria. As someone who personally enjoys doing Personal Story solo myself, I’d suggest getting a toughness set, something pretty tanky. It doesn’t have to be Exotic, but Rare should do. Also, build yourself to be a bit more tanky in any way possible. Focus on dodging out of the attacks and try to every now and then practice defensive strats against adds in-game outside of Personal Story to get used to the new build. Its really either that or rolling a class that has a way easier time.

If I will make any comment on the mobs in HoT is this: they are annoying as a mother kitten (self-censor for A-Net) sometimes. I get that players like a challenge, but Pocket Raptors exist only to make a player feel silly for getting massacred by a pack of tiny little lizards chewing every exposed limb off. Really makes you feel defeated when tiny little things like that take down a level 80 character who killed Zhaitan before…

As someone who loved running around as Glass Mesmer, I realized I can’t do that atm. I tried, but I just don’t have the ability to properly run Glass Mesmer and play at my best. At the same time, GW2 isn’t my main MMO, as I play all kinds of MMO’s (pretty much anything but WoW atm) and I don’t really feel that I need to get bent out of shape trying to become some Mesmer Dodge master just to enjoy the expansion. Its way easier for me to just roll a more defensive build and practice defensive combat rather than burst things to death. I end up taking my time killing enemies and bosses and can now even face off against several veteran and sometimes a champion add, but at least I am able to play finally without repairing my gear due to death. And if I really do start getting bent out of shape about something in GW2, there is an amazing list of other MMO’s I can go and play for a bit to come back with a fresh outlook on GW2 mobs and find a new take on the situation.

I play MMO’s not to be the best, I play it for entertainment. I don’t aim to be the most amazing player on the planet unless that is my main goal or unless there is a particular boss that I want to kill just to feel like bad-kitten (self-censor for A-Net). Some of you that replied, however, seem to be giving off some elitist vibes. Let’s chill on berating players on here or in general, its a game. If someone doesn’t have the time to dedicate themselves to this game alone, that’s okay. If someone doesn’t main this game as their primary MMO/main game/only game like you, that’s not a good excuse to go judge them on how bad they are or make comments about -“three years of casual content has ruined this game going forward if the players are going to complain at the slightest of challenge being introduced.”- (Looking at you, Sird).

Others of you have been very constructive and helpful and I’d like to say thank you for offering your replies and perspective to the OP. You guys are why I like GW2 community.

Vine Tendrils on the first part, glide past most mobs if possible, pop AoE heals and party buffs if you can, and use Ranged weapons on the last guy, he does a bladestorm ability that also throws ranged axes at everyone in a circle. Use the stone pillars to try to avoid the axes being tossed in your face. If you have a Chronimancer, use one of their wells to nullify their damage.

Its easy, good luck and have fun getting the Guild Hall!

From my experience of raiding in WoW and FFXIV, its all about personal adaptability as well as open-ended thinking and mentality from every member of the raid. Not all players will have these qualities, but I’d look for a guild who has these qualities and is willing to think things out with you and work with you on getting raid-ready.

You have to be open to working with the raid as well. Your strats, tactics, build, and mentality is going to have to change if you want to work well with the raid.

Toxic players are a no surprise here, they will be everywhere. My rule for raiding, whether you are leading, calling out, or learning, be a decent player and don’t put others down over anything. So many guild members leave raids because of Ego and too many cliques form and turn guild-mates against one another.

I have yet to do raiding in GW2, but I’ve done a lot of dungeons and recently ran a Guild Hall run, which was pretty fun and easy once we figured out all the mechanics. We did GH on the 1st try and I was surprised how easy it was to run that. I feel like Raiding would be fun to do with my guild and learning the mechanics together and taking down bosses would be pretty fun!

I keep leaving empty maps to join maps that are “more populated”, and all I get are emptier maps than before.

Something is wrong here lol

As someone who is pretty OCD about bag space, I admit it can be a little cumbersome to just be flooded with all these new items that I am most likely going to sell off or salvage. My bags are pretty good and I am thankful for any donated bags people have sent me, but I feel like sometimes I need bags just to hold my bags so they don’t burst.

Its awesome to get all these items that I can sell/salvage, and I do understand that the influx of all these items does benefit people by giving them gear they can get for less on the AH, but I can feel the digital stitches on my bags strain a bit.

Maybe a temporary storage system would be cool? Something that sends excess items to deal later with instead of notifying me that I don’t have more room for 10+ items that can’t go in my bags haha

Hey there all, first time posting on here, but I have been reading the forum for some time regarding HoT and people’s feedback while playing the expac.

I got to the Tangled Depths map, explored it for an hour, and was left with an aftertaste that can only be described as frustrating.

I seemed to have gotten the same aftertaste from all the HoT maps, feeling a higher level of frustrated aftertaste with every new map I discover. Following the pattern, I feel like I might feel the same from the last map, which as a customer, makes me feel like I paid $50 to feel frustrated. (Joke)

Jokes aside, I feel like the reason I feel this aftertaste is maybe because the maps have too much stuff in them.

If the maps had too little to do on there and were too flat and not dynamic enough for the average playerbase, players would feel frustrated that there is nothing much to get engaged with. If on the other hand the map felt like there is too many things to do or were too dense with enemies, maps/levels were too messy and felt really dense in the design, the same effect would most likely occur but for opposite reason.

Now, I know that every player has their own threshold on “too empty” and “too dense” and its all based from player to player, but if I learned anything from a graphic design class, its that a good balance is needed for any work of ark or it may look too empty or too dense in some/all places. I feel like that can also make sense for level design in a game as well.

Compared to the base-game for GW2, I feel like HoT maps are too dense with things and aren’t spread out more. If, let’s say hypothetically, the maps were bigger and all the mobs/events were to be stretched out across a bigger map giving the player breathing room to explore or if they were to tone down the density of all the maps and maybe nerf some events/mobs by a pinch, it might solve the density issue.

It may not seem like that to people who play GW2 as their primary game, especially if they spend a lot of time daily on the game and like the fact that there is always something happening in-game, but as someone who gets on for maybe 1-3 hours a week, I feel like the expac is a bit too dense with mobs and level design.

My main MMO atm is FFXIV and if I were to compare the expacs of the two games, I feel like Heavensward is better spread out in map design, events, and mob density than Heart of Thorns is. Aside from other factors, FFXIV’s Heavensward feels like it has a good balance of density for the average playerbase.

I am not here to attack GW2, a game that I still love and enjoy even if the new maps do give me a nasty aftertaste. I just wanted to use the forums for the first time in what seems like forever to give feedback on HoT.

Feel free to leave your feedback on the maps below.