Guild Wars 2

I didn’t even get the email the last week. I had to go out of town on Friday, came home Sunday evening and immediately logged in both my accounts to receive my rewards.

On one account, I didn’t receive the email but talking to the battle historian got me my reward chest.

On the other account (this one), I didn’t receive the email, the battle historian dialog contained the option to claim my reward, but clicking on that option got me nothing. The chest is missing, and with it, the tickets.

Both accounts have the week 4 achievement (both accounts have the Mist Treader title, ferpetesake).

Bug-reported it, but I’m going out of town again in a few hours and won’t be back for another week. I suspect I’m kittened, at this point.

This isn’t the game I bought.

I could catalog everything I’ve noticed so far, but y’all probably know all of it anyway. I was particularly annoyed when I made a new toon to check out the changes and made a ranger.

No pet controls. Pet does whatever the kitten it wants. Runs off, attacks what it wants, and I can’t call it back. This is ENTIRELY unacceptable. Every other game I’ve played (since 1999, starting with original EQ) has allowed me full control over combat pets right from the start (with the exception of enchanter pets in EQ — NOT the main pet class that was mages who did have pet controls — but even that was mitigated later on with advanced achievements because the players hated it so much).

Whatever class you make, you spam 1 in the opening instance. yawn (Because, you know, having more than one weapon skill is so confusing.) Then you get to spam TWO whole skills for another couple of levels. But what really got to me was when I looked at the wiki and saw you don’t get F1 until lvl 5 (just how does that work with elementalists?) and you don’t get F4 until lvl 24.

For rangers, F4 is pet swap. For elementalists, that’s earth attunement. Level. 24.

I bought this game only a few days ago. My mesmer is lvl 21. I have zero inclination to make any more new characters, with the tortuously slow unlocks and the popups that I can’t turn off.

Sorry — actually no, I’m not sorry. I’m going to go get a refund. This isn’t the game I bought, and I don’t like it at all.