Guild Wars 2

Good:
Loved the raptor. Their animations, the way they handled, everything.

Loved the map. The way it invited leisurely exploration. I’m hoping the expansion will have a mix of “HoT”-like meta events maps AND more leisurely maps like what we had this weekend with mostly local events.

Mixed:
Bounties were alright, but some combinations of buffs and bosses were nightmarish, like that shadow-stepping hyena with the buff that made it so we could only damage the target while standing in certain zones relative to the target.

Visuals are great, but seem to come at a huge performance cost.

Really awful:
Unidentified gear. It’s awful. It should be grouped by rarity, it shouldn’t cost so much and it shouldn’t require me to trek back to a heart npc and do the heart all over again if I haven’t done it on that day. This system needs a major rework or needs to be scrapped entirely. If it’s left like this, it has the potential to completely offset any enjoyment I’d get out of the other aspects of the expansion.

Items whose only purpose is to be double-clicked to grant you some form of currency should not exist. Vials of Karma were already dumb, but you seem to be adding more of those things in the expansion, unless I’ve missed their extra purpose. Currency should just be awarded automatically. I’m thinking of sending you the bill next time I have to change my mouse because the left button doesn’t work anymore.

The unidentified gear system as it was in the demo is unacceptable.

Unidentified gear needs to at least be grouped by rarity. If this cannot be done, then the system should be scrapped altogether and loot should function as in HoT and core.

Also, if you’re gonna make me trek back to a heart NPC to identify gear, then identification better be free.

Or keep the total cost of identification as is, but allow us to identify from anywhere.

As it is, the benefit of less inventory management is not worth the drawbacks (increased costs, time loss from doing hearts and traveling back to npc) that this system brings.

Ultimately, if I want to ID my gear, not only am I losing a ton of money, but I’m pretty sure I’m also losing more time than if I just had to visit a regular merchant to sell off the junk green sigils and runes I got from salvaging junk green gear.

In the same vein, checkpoint progress is reset if you get disconnected.

Since my connection is highly unstable and I get disconnected all the time, this makes the JP pretty much impossible to complete for me.

Checkpoint progress should only be cleared when going to another map or when completing the jumping puzzle.

Here’s a few I transcribed that I haven’t seen listed in this thread yet

And now, a request, in the hope that someone with more talent than me will be able to help.