Guild Wars 2

Ticky.5831:

Pretty much all of your problems with it are that the story didn’t go the way you imagined it would.

That’s absolutely not true and you know it.

I was really hyped at the point were Eir died, until I slowly realised that this was the top moment in the story (not because of logic, but because of the brutality and the surprise, which i really enjoyed). When i realised, like at Rata Novus, that the story is getting to an end, and waaaaaaaaay too rushed than i would have liked, i got dissappointed. The last third was just way to short, this whole story should have had at least 6 acts instead of 4.

My Gf is pretty much the most Casual Player to think of. About 130 hours played time in the account, not even 1k Anetpoints, she never played a game before where you have to use the keybord + mouse before i guess, … well maybe Minecraft with me, but even there she had difficulties to navigate.
And she adores the Addon. Besides all the stuff she likes, she even enjoys the difficulty! Yesterday she told me how she was trieng to get this HP and died 3 times, before she (quoting) “met this cool group of cute little asuras” who helped her. I told her that it’s not her fault, many people were complaining about the bad designed difficulty, but she replied, that she found it fun to be in danger and needing friends to play with. She comes along just “ok” i guess for a casual. She hasn’t seen the second Map alot yet, but she won’t mind, because “I paid so much money for this game, why should I rush myself though it?”

And that’s it. It is okay to be Casual. It is okay to die, or be worse in gaming. Making such a big thing out of it, that you as a Player suck at a game, makes the game itself bad, is just false reflecting. When my ultra-noobish Gf is capable of playing this Addon, then everyone in this Forum is, because I don’t think that my Gf is suddenly such a Progamer, when she can’t even solve the Mad Kings Clock Towers first 10 Jumps.

Be bad so much you want. It’s not the game, it’s you. HoT-Maps are not even “middle hardcore” or “soft hardcore”. They have a slightly rised difficulty, learn to play it and everything is fine.

Ahhh … i remember the first weeks in the Core game. AC was such a hardcore dungeon, and Lupicus was told to be the hardest boss one could imagine …

10/10 for sure. If it’s too hard, I’m too weak. Worst Thing about the Xpac is logging in, and thinking about what I should do first for 15 minutes.

The Maps are the most beautiful I’ve every witnessed in a MMO. Hands down. The story went from vanilla-kittening-boring-I-just-have-to-do-because-it’s-my-story to what-the-kittening-did-this-just-really-happen-oh-my-god and I, as a lore fan, can’t say it loud enough how much I enjoy this story so far.

Enemys are fun, glidding is awesome and feels smooth, events are actually just a solid 7-8/10 for me, but hey, do I really even care about some events, when I’m able to glide?!
Tempest may not be the best new Elite-Spec but i actually find it fun to play my Tempest! Didn’t expect that!

Anet, if you are able to make an LS3, that is just 75% of the quality this Addon has, do it. Take you time. It will be awesome.

Like 3 or 4 weeks ago in the last beta, the forum was full of people who said, the beta was waaaay too easy, and everyone wants the old difficulty back. Now it is here, and it is waaaay too hard for everyone. What do you guys expect Anet to do? It’s just that someone who has something to complain is more probably seen in the forums to say what he disslikes, than anyone who actually enjoys the game is rather less probably seen in the forums to say what he enjoys,

… because he is in the actuall game playing it.
It’s always just a fraction of people, no matter how much % if the forum is full of new threads. I hope Anet may change something with the Hero challange champs (who the hell actually cares?) but leaves everything else just like it is.

This Addon is, based on the wishes the community had!! , a 8-9/10. It seemed kinda obvious to me, that this was not an Addon Anet made “with their own ideas to improve the game”. Nah, this Addon was everything the game lacked in the last 3 years, everything the community bragged about, put into one piece of Awesomeness (Yes, Colin … i said it).
Community wants more challanging Content? → Raids
Community wants a better story → ON POINT achieved!
Community wanted an Orr like Endgame that actually felt dangerous to play → absolute nailed
Community wanted Guild Halls in “Guild Wars” → Got it
Precourser Crafting → Here take it
Killing the Zerk Meta → Future will tell with Raids, but in the new maps, taking Zerker will make you an easy target for the enemies for sure!

The List goes on, alot for PvP and WvW but since I’m not active there, i wont speak for them. But it seems obvious for me, that this addon is an “We collected all issues with the game over the last 3 years and are selling solution for them to you for just 50 Bucks!”

Not that im not happy with that. I am!

heres mine. love this little asura