Guild Wars 2

Ditto yet again from me on the dying & hanging on map load, then being unable to get back in until it was too late to get the chest rewards. I had started the chain back at the beach assault so I had been at it quite a long time by then and found it quite frustrating to be denied the finale.

The reinforcements step was just an annoying slog, but I did like some parts of the chain (e.g. the gas chambers – a bit contrived, but a nice concept). The best moment for me was someone pulling an armored-stage karka vet into a crowd of us on the repaired bridge and having it go roly-poly over the lot of us – simply hilarious. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a zerg group steamrolled quite that effectively before.

However the reward lockout plus the bugs which made the intro quests unfinishable until several patches were applied leave me with a bad taste, and this after a somewhat disappointing game balance patch leaves me all the more disheartened.

The current patch suffices, on top of everything else we’ve seen. I can still solo most things I face (incl. many Champions given time and some maneuvering room), but it feels like every fight is mired in molasses now compared to before the patch. My Mesmer has stopped being fun and feels like work. I pay to have fun, not work. I still love the class aesthetics but that isn’t enough for me under this new “balance”.

Between this and bad experiences with this weekend’s events, I think I may be giving GW2 a rest for a few months.