Guild Wars 2

What the kitten, he is explaining what the Manifesto means, on what idea it was founded. The ideas on what the whole game was based on. The bloody concept.

But well, nothing is harder to see than the things you don’t want to see…

Dear Lord, people are dumb.

PTR PATCH 2.1.2

- Pets

- Several monster attacks that are intended to be avoided by players that weren’t already dealing reduced damage to pets now deal significantly less damage to pets

At least DEVs in other games have realized, that punishing classes with pets by having bad pet AI is not acceptable.

But no, you will always find people that will defend bad game design, no matter what.

The “find another way” bullkitten talk, “think out of the box” bullkitten talk is totally infantile, as long as other classes can succeed by doing the same old same.

Every zerg event in GW2 nowadays comes down to be a battle vs a timer, which means that it is a DPS race.

It is ANet last staw to make the zerg events sort of challenging. It also kills any variety in matters of builds.

Milk was a bad choice.

No MMO with a sub would ever let a mess like this go live. They would lose customers.

The fact, that ANet released this abomination of a patch shows, that they do not play in the same league as successful AAA titels.

This is just another F2P game, that thinks its customers will accept anything because it is for “free” anyway.
“You get it for free, be happy you get something!” And some people even repeat this mindless mantra on the forums…

Here lies Kaiyanwan the Lazy.
He tought he was a the clone next to him and blew himself up.
May he rest in pieces.

This is my way of protest for ANets expansion-gate.

I will buy the “expansion” or whatever you want to call it – twice. But I wont pre-purchase it.

There are several reasons for this, but the biggest of them is that I think that ANet got greedy. Therefore not pre-purchasing the game from their store will result in the smallest amount of money they will get from me (unless I wouldn’t buy it at all).

Let me explain:
If you pre-purchase GW2:HoT directly from ANet, they will earn $50 minus taxes (before NCsoft’s share). That is actually what I really like to do for companies I support, financing them directly. I would have done so, if the whole expansion-gate had never happened.
Now if you buy the game from a retailer, the profit for ANet is at max 1/3 of the recommended retail price. That’s just how it works. So by buying a physical or digital copy in a store I will cut ANet’s profit by 2/3.
The funny thing is, that I will have to pay less for the game (around 1/3) from a retailer, as they tend to offer sales at release so more people will buy it in their store (I expect GW2:HoT will be sold as low as $35), which will result in a win/win situation for me.

Sorry ANet. Nowadays it becomes fairly common to treat existing customers worse than new ones (like new contracts being cheaper in the first 24 monthes and stuff) but I am not going to accept that from you.

I will vote with my wallet – and still enjoy GW2:HoT.

Thank you.

Wv3 players want Wv3 on their maps. I think that concept is easy enough to be understood.
Scarlet and LS sound horribly PvE to me, and PvE crowd does not necessarily mix well with Wv3 PvPers.

PvEers will feel ganked and PvPers will feel like the update is not focused on them, even though they waited forever for it to happen. Sounds about right to make everyone unhappy. Good…

Soulseek.2867:

Well, it’s me again : D Now that I see things clearly, I have an even more amazing question:

What’s the point of this change, seriously? To encourage people to use the dodge button more responsibly? They already did this with the vigour nerf.

The aim of this change is to help Warriors with the brain of a dead horse to not get killed with the speed of a snail by clones around him he can not distinguish from the real mesmer in PvP. Otherwise, ANet will get in trouble with most of their PvP playerbase.

Warrior: “Uh, me not know wut is all that Mesmer, must punch all of Mesmer with big hammer now. Outch, it hurts ouch, must punch!”

How do people not see the following points is beyond me:

1. The BiS item is only available on the gem store (P2W)
2. All following items on the gem store in this category must have the same effect or better to be attractive to buyers (P2W power creep)
3. Items of this category formerly sold on the gem store are inferior (end of P2C for this item)

This is just the first item in a row of many to come. It is like ascended rings leading to full ascended. It is bad.

This game just becomes more generic with every single idea they implement.

That’s it pretty much. Play one MMO, know them all. Including GW2.

MrRuin.9740:

Anyway, saying goodbye to this pointless, selfish, killjoy thread. And for those who enjoy Tequatl as much as I do…..see you in Sparkfly!!!

Honestly, you say no to scaling, tuning it down, and tell 99% of the playerbase that they should live with the fact, that they shouldn’t do a dragon encounter anymore. That this is what the 1% of raiders want and that nothing should change but the other encounters should become the same.

And then you tell these 99% that they are selfish and that this is a killjoy threat? People should listen to themselves sometimes.

Starting a day with casting half an hour of mantras, no that’s not the lazy way. Mantras are in fact the opposite of lazy. They are time-consuming and pretty much useless most of the time.
I see where you are coming from, but mantras are not fun at all at PvE.

Nybor.9687:

… I’m just saying its annoying seeing posts…

Sounds like moaning about moaning to me…

Source:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-27-guild-wars-2-preview

Colin Johanson:

“Everyone, including casual gamers, by level 80 should have the best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on an equal power base. The rare stuff becomes the really awesome looking armours. It’s all about collecting the unique looking stuff and collecting all the other rare collectable items in the game: armour pieces, potentially different potions – a lot of that is still up in the air and we’ll finalise a lot of those reward systems as we get closer to release. And those come off of things like the bosses at the end of dungeons – the raids.”

Edit: Oh, someone deleted his post… ^^

I like abbreviations, they offer so much space for interpretation.

I would like to gather feedback on what people feel like with the latest feature patch by deciphering NPE in their own words.

Example:

Need
Personal
Entry

This game has a “Living Story” presented in a “Living World” while the story is pretty much dead for monthes, and the world the same old same.

Sounds like traditional ANet marketing to me.

I run this in PvE now.

Honestly, while I like the idea of updating my leveling guide, I will be waiting to see how Traits 3.0 are going to work first.

And to be fair about leveling right now, my guide would be like:

Step 1: Create a mesmer.
Step 2: Go to EotM and follow the zerg.
Step 3: Profit.

I realy hope ANet will get the fun back into leveling with Traits 3.0, otherwise I will just delete my guide and write something like:

“Wait till you got enough tomes of knowledge and insta-level to 80. Good luck and have a nice day.”

ANet has no idea how to balance stuff.

They also got their focus wrong: eSports for the win! As if anyone cares. They try so hard to be something they are not that they make GW2 even more of a niche it already is.

Meanwhile in the real world:

B&S drains players for vastly superior PvP. While PvE is a bit old-fashioned, it is at least something new to toy around with.

Black Desert around the corner: Awesome PvE and a home for WvW people.

Other titles in the making (mainly for the WvW and PvP crowd).

What do the GW2 players get again? A patch with minor PvE stuff every three monthes that destroys professions for an unpredictable time every time.

Are you nuts ANet? Do you think people will support this model by buying your next expansion?

This must be the worst business plan in computer gaming history. You must be living in an ivory tower over there…

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Ah c’mon. I’ll just log into the game and see how ANet fixed the event over the last few days.

They had enough time. Time to get positively surprised.

/afk playing GW2

Game crashed in the hologram fight. Nice. Well done.

Edit: Actually right now deinstalling the game.

There is a fair difference between playing a game and posting on the forums.

It would be the same to say, if you read the critics of a movie it is the same as watching it…

This “final” is a big disappointment. Just another massive zerg with massive bugs and so little story, that it hurts.
I really hoped some huge dragon would rise from below LA in a great cinematic. That would have had some epicness. “Here I am, you fools, I made her free me!”
But no, she cracked some ley line. Woohoo! The end is nigh!

C’mon, worst final of worst story ever.

I would gladly sacrifice Trahearne in the blink of an eye, if I could get Sieran back.
Even though I would gladly sacrifice Trahearne without any deeper reason, I think Sieran was the best written character in GW2.

While I understand the importance of loss and how difficult it actually is to set up a NPC to achieve this goal, I still somehow wish she survived. Well played.

Get berserker and then mix in as much defensive gear as you feel you need. If you get better/used to the content, you can switch back to berserker again.
If you have a lot of gold, get runes of air, but I still prefer runes of the centaur overall.

Sounds like we get very little in matters of new playfields.

They try to avoid answering this question like snails a pile of salt.

On the one hand, they give us a very traditional expansion, they even return to the Personal Story concept, some horizontal progression (like AoC has done too years ago) some new PvP and WvW. A new profession to toy around with.

On the other hand they call it all new and exiting as if they have invented “endgame” expansions and give this as an excuse that the new landmass will be fairly small (at least this is what I get out of the interviews).

Saying that other games have fire and forget zones you leave behind after leveling through and using them as an excuse to produce less zones because you know, reasons, is incredibly irritating.

So ANet only has to produce the small amount of endgame zones other expansions also have and skip the leveling zones because you know, no leveling? What will the players gain from that? If you want to impress players you have to give at least the same amount of zones as the other MMOs and make them endgame, otherwise there is a LOSS for them.

If the new landmass feels any smaller than what other games with a similar approach have done (no leveling, just endgame – like in Rise of the Godslayer for AoC) I will be thoroughly disappointed.

ANet is not the first company to release an expansion with only endgame stuff. HoT will be judged in regard of what people have experienced before.

And I actually like leveling and working my way through zones, so something has to replace that experience anyway. I hope it is not endlessly replaying a zone, to actually level you character (masteries) to replay the zone and see a tiny bit more of it.
Sounds like a chore to me.

Most MMOs avoid one-time events for a reason. Badly executed, they will kitten off all of their customers.

Best example: This event.

Those who participated had to suffer massive lag, endless mobgrinding and many missed the reward.
Those who could not participate feel betrayed by seeing all those shiny items which were given away.

So most of the playerbase is now unhappy – way to go ANet…

ReV.6097:

N Nope
P Nope
E Nope

This sort of made me smile.

The question is, what do you think you will achieve with this move? I still think, this is a bad decision in general.

If you check other games forums with “special” community members, you will see, that the influx on forum communication – after a brief period of excitement – is neglectable.

Most games just got lower DEV or GM forum visit frequency after installing community representatives. I fear it won’t be any different over here.

There is very little to gain with this move, while the risk of unhealty communication is rising. Community representatives are easily manouvered into a defensive position even professionals can’t easily handle. There is a reason, why the profession of a CM is important and challenging. Non-professionals will just end as target dummies, which will burn them out. That will cause a feedback on ANet’s communication in general.

Lose/lose.

So why again would you install community representatives?

Guild Wars 2 had a really good and promising start.

But then, ANet descided to start a devolution spiral. Now, GW2 is more generic than ever, with more and more replaceable temporary raid content sold as the best thing ever.

It is actually a pain to watch something nice being butchered by the Dev’s for the sake of not having a clue what to do and start copying other MMOs.

Vertical progression.
Grindy achievements.
Raid content as endgame.
BiS items gated artificially.

What has this game become…

munkiman.3068:

As far as the OP goes, i would much rather them not have to work overtime to crank out buggy content before the holidays.

You know, the same argument was given for the final of Season 1. Anyone remember the final episode, how it took them one week after releasing it to fix the most gamebreaking bugs.

What I see from ANet is just way too many excuses for not delivering what they advertise.
Great stuff is coming, they say. They just don’t say when for a reason. Because I am fairly convinced that a) they do not know when it will be done if ever or b) they are not even convinced that what they produce right now is great stuff.

Too little too late, as seems to be the whole philosophy of the content updates for GW2.

Terok.7315:

Epic areas that have less pew pew and more indiana jones.

Unfortunately they have chosen to make them more like Indiana Jones 4…

Problem for me:

PvE is boring. My character does not evolve, it is the same old same since release.
All LS missions are now either: 1. spend hours talking or 2. kill stuff until boss appears and kill boss. Those missions feel repetative and interchangeable.
Played The Dragon’s Reach Pt. 2 for the first time yesterday, finished it in one evening. That’s all? Not enough for me.

The new maps are tiny and get old even faster. Nowadays I save up content for 4 monthes to get enough stuff to actually feel like it is reasonable to log on for a week. And then it lasts for a max of three days. That’s really all this game has to offer? I do not feel like this is worth to invest any money in. Or time.

Sorry.

Adamantium.3682:

Nightarch.2943:

Killing Scarlet was absolutely wrong. She should have stood trial for her crimes and so much more could of been explained. Suppose she was too dangerous to be kept alive by ArenaNet’s standards.

Except as they closed in to do just that she attacked them nearly killing 2 of your friends. I believe lethal force was justified.

She killed thousands before, why would two random NPCs make any difference. My friends? Braham? Nope. Marjory? I would sacrifice her every day to hear the whole “masterplan” of Scarlet.

oxtred.7658:

Yeah miku come on and get better kitten

Yeah Miku, c’mon, Bubi must be right, because he seems so convinced of what he repeats all over again and again.

Sorry Miku, time to L2P now.

If a lead developer explains the game, that was promoted by the manifesto, one would expect him to know what the kitten is going on.

You act like the Manifesto was written by some stranger outside of ANet just for the sake of writing it.

We do not want grind that’s just not fun. It has been said. We have grind, and it is a necessity if you want to compete with BiS items.

And I would not say that Colin is just a small number in matters of GW2 who is just throwing around ideas out of the blue in an interview…

MrRuin.9740:

This thread is a testament to the laziness and entitlement of MMO players:
Read through it all. Its a list of everything players think they shouldn’t have to do. meanwhile theres a lot of people who are doing Tequatl daily and getting the rewards and having fun doing it. Tequatl is one of the most fun events to do atm.
If it was impossible and noone was doing it…I might agree with you people. But hundreds of people are doing it daily. Many people enjoy it and think its a fun event.
You have 10+ other easy mode world bosses……..you’re losing nothing by not doing Tequatl. Anything he could drop in terms of stats can be had anywhere else. So skip it and forget about it. Those of us willing to do it will continue to do so.
Its a sad topic on an MMO forum when it’s full of crying about having to interact with others in a coordinated effort. Especially when on the same page as this topic is one about Legendaries not being "legendary’ and some things should be challenging to get and make you earn them. Well guess what? We can’t have that kind of content and this topic illustrates why. Too many people cry about having to do anything more than the absolute bare minimum for reward. So you end up with Legendaries that can be bought, Ascended weapons that are a joke to just grind out without doing anything real and temporary content that amounts to fetch and kill missions because noone will do anything beyond the absolute least they have to. Sunless skins as a reward that shows you took the time to kill Tequatl probably many times? No…can’t have that, dumb it down so everyone can have those skins and in 2 months we can all complain about lame it is there’s nothing to earn.

And Kaiyanwan – tequatl doesn’t provide a source for farming Ascended. Get your facts straight. Yes he does have a chance to drop something, but in that time it takes you to get a Sunless weapon, you will likely have farmed out multiple Ascended weapons via the mindless way. Saying Tequatl is the only major source of a 10% power jump is a joke and only shows you are grasping for a reason to hate Tequatl or don’t know how Ascended weapons work.

But this MMOs was promoted for people that do not like MMOs. Yet you list all the things that a classical MMO offers and tell people lazy, when they do not want to do it.

Are you serious? Calling people lazy? For what they were told to expect? Dear heavens.

coglin.1867:

Carighan.6758:

Will we get any coverage about PvE or WvW balance? Really not trying to be angry here, but the attention such a miniscule game mode is getting at the total expense of any balancing in regards to the two large game modes is really disheartening.

It’s not that the imbalance itself is annoying, but the lack of even acknowledging the issues is. I can do years of waiting. Waited 7 years for some changes in WoW. But at least the devs replied in vanilla-era threads that they’d like to do a change there or here but had no resources for it.

And what are the issues?

How do you want WvW balanced? Balance to roamer vs roamer? balance each profession based on zerg vs zerg fight? balance each profession for assaulting a keep? Balance each profession for defending a keep?

If you are going to claim there are issues, it is perhaps best if you list them. As well, what you claim as issues may be non-issues to the rest of the population.

The only issue I see is that GW2 still wants to be an eSports.

Player.8373:

Op what kind of build are you running? I duel loads of them and I don t have any problem with them.

And what kind of problems are you facing? I might can help you.

(I play necro aswell)

All together it sounds a bit like a variant of:

“I am scissors, paper is fine, nerf rock.”

Only that we would have to go with:

“I am scissors, but I do not know how to beat paper, nerf paper.”

To the leaders of our nations.

It has been over a year since the allied forces of the Pact have defeated Zhaitan, an elder dragon.

But, instead of moving on, the Pact has now been rotting in Fort Trinity for several monthes, short a mission, wasting supplies. Orr is no longer a place for our forces to conquer, the risen armees will diminish over time with Zhaitan gone. Orr is cleansed, others will take it.

We should mobilze the Pact, moving to the deep north or south-east, where the corruption of two elder dragons is still spreading, endangering men, women and children everywhere.

Leave the minor threats like those lousy pirates to the Seraph or any other regional force. The Pact exists to defeat dragons, and we have already waited too long to fulfill our destiny.

We must face the elder dragons, and let them feel the power of our united forces.

Sincerely

Your Commander of the Pact.

zetherin.8372:

I want BWE3 Druid back so I can have fun again on the Druid.

Look, ANet has become like all the other MMO companies out there.

This expansion proofs that Guild Wars is no longer about fun and choices, but about how to stretch content and gate stuff behind mindless grinds. Sounds familiar?

This happens, when passionated developers become businessmen. When the desire to create something awesome becomes the desire to create profit.

This expansion is not about fun, it is about making the most coin with the least amount of content possible.

Sorry, the BWE3 druid is not coming back, it was there to hype people to pre-order the expansion.

It worked, you spent your money.

Dawdler.8521:

Fun thing to watch if you want to get nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWcN0jmWiE

You may notice first the awesome shatter/summoning sounds (and Thief pistol sounds!). The Mesmer has Shadow Refuge instead of the Thief, forward Phase Retreat that cause damage (and for some reason cause swiftness to enemy mobs), scepter that sound like a 150mm tank gun, insta-popping of 2 Phantasmal Duelists, Chaos Storm that cause poison, cripple and apparently insanity, instant staff auto-attack on target, commanding phantasms to move to location and omgisthatafreakininstakilllasergreatswordthatsoundlikeafreakinrailgun?!?!

The best part of this trailer is how the mesmer casts two iDuelists at the same time, they kill off two different mobs and he can shatter them on the last.

That is exactly how those phantasms work. NOT.

Yeah, it is pretty much a total fiasco.

The only thing epic in this final of the LS is the sheer amount of bugs.

Well, I see this as the most polished content, ANet can produce. So this, or worse, is what we are to expect as content in the future.

Why would I be looking forward to any update again?

I dunno, while I really want to try the new HoT stuff, I am actually happy, that I didn’t buy the expansion early on.

The voice of reason in the back of my head has proven to be right. This expansion is a stunt pulled off by ANet and is pretty much against all my personal standards in every single way.

I have bought over 50 MMO expansions in my life, good ones and bad ones, but there has always been one expansion of a game that made me stop playing that MMO.

Too bad that it looks like for GW2 it is already the first one.

The new and improved compendium is available, check here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Leveling-Open-World-Compendium-1/first#post5342268

Kai’s Complete PvE Compendium

Welcome to Kai’s new complete guide to PvE. The old one has reached its editability, time to pack everything and more in a new one.

Disclaimer: The intention of this compendium is to offer guides that work in a wide array of content. The theme is more “casual” for a reason – getting into the game and the mechanics is the first step, perfection itself a whole journey. Discussion is welcome, but I do not intend to add builds that only work in very specific aspects of the game (like high level fractals or dungeon speed running).

Contents:

1. Leveling Guide

1.1 Leveling Guide: Part 1 – The Basics
1.1.1 General Advice: Did you know?
1.1.2 What grinds my gears: Stuff

1.2 Leveling Guide: Part 2 – Leveling
1.2.1 Leveling 1-20: Me, Myself and I – How to blow up the guy in the mirror.
1.2.2 Leveling 21-44: I see myself four times. I must be trunken twice.
1.2.3 Leveling 45-70: Leveling 45-70: Nothing but an illusion, until it blows up in your face.
1.2.4 Leveling 71-80: All good things come to an end.

1.3 Leveling 1-80: TL;DR Version

2. Build Section

The Lazy Kai Build 2.0
TBD

Most parts have been update by now, thank you for your patience.

You can find the original thread over here:
Lazy Kai’s Guide to PvE

It is because noone is playing the game, but shhh, don’t tell anyone.

They will tell you to guest on a full server and everything is ok. This seems to be the temporary solution. If you want a permanent solution, buy gems and migrate to the top 3 servers, otherwise you are pretty much borked on PvE content.

Nah, they will say, if I don’t like the game, I should play something else. Problem, I like the game somehow, just not the countless flaws. Like why do we not just merge all those empty servers? Because we expect millions of players to come back out of the blue some day?

I do not know.

NewTrain.7549:

Karizee.8076:

Azreell.1568:

People are shouting for expansions because this game currently has a total lack of content to keep people logging in.

Don’t make ridiculous statements. This game puts out more content that any MMO ever created.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

You’re joking, right? You have to be joking…

Yeah, must have been ironic. Noone would seriously think that fluff and recycled zerg stuff is real content, compared to what other games patch in…

1.2 Leveling Guide: Part 2 – Leveling

1.2.1 Leveling 1-20: Me, Myself and I – How to blow up the guy in the mirror.

Here we go, after wasting hours on the character creation screen to find a name that is not taken, you have arrived in the world of Guild Wars 2, Tyria.

The good news is that you are wielding a rusty little sword right now, a formidable choice. Swords will be your friend on your way to 80, so get some practice with it. Do not replace it unless you find a better sword or – even better – a greatsword. Well, you can fool around with other weapons and you should, but for leveling itself everything with the word “sword” in it is your first choice.

The third sword skill will generate an illusion – to be more specific – a clone. There are two kinds of illusions, clones and phantasms.
Clones are as pretty or ugly as you are, doing close to no damage and are as durable as ice cream in a melting pot. Sounds promising? Do not despair, clones are mostly seen as a resources for the Mesmer’s profession skills – aka shatters. More about that in a bit.
Phantasms look like you too – sort of – just without textures and more transparent. They actually do good damage and can take a hit, and they also are a resource for shatter skills.
The maximum amount of illusions you can have at a time is three, if you cast a new illusion with three illusions out, one of four things will happen:

1. If you cast a clone, the oldest clone will be replaced by the new one.
2. If there are three phantasms, the clone will replace your oldest one.
3. If you cast a phantasm, the oldest clone will be replaced by it.
4. If there are three phantasms, the oldest phantasm will be replaced by the new one.

So what to do with all those illusions? The same thing you do with all stuff you no longer need in real life – blow them up! Shatter skills (F1-F5) will cause an effect which will get stronger the more illusions you have available. While you can use all shatter skills without a single illusion, which can be very useful in certain situations, it is more often the wiser choice to cast a full shatter (three illusions) to maximize damage.

Your first shatter skill “Mind Wrack” will unlock at level 5. It is our bread and butter and what else you would put on a bread skill. It will be hard to get enough illusions on the screen below level 10 to cast a full shatter, as the mob will be pretty dead until then anyway. Remember, illusions are bound to the enemy they got cast on and will disappear the moment this enemy dies. It is therefore better to cast a Mind Wrack with only one or two illusions, if the enemy is close to dying anyway.

When you reach level 6, you will get the choice between a greatsword or a torch. This is actually not choice, it is a test. If you pick the greatsword you have been reading the guide carefully up to this point. If you take the torch, god help you. I surely can’t. Only excuse, you found a better greatsword on the way, or on the trading post…
The greatsword is a great weapon. It is ranged, everything hits more than one target and its fourth weapon skill, which gets unlocked conveniently at the very same level as your first phantasm skill, the “Phantasmal Berserker”.

Now that you got your first phantasm, you also got a decision to make every single fight: To shatter the phantasm or not. Sure, while the phantasm is alive, it will cause great damage, but if it dies, you have missed the opportunity of a stronger shatter. If you ask me, and you should, let the phantasm do its job once and then, with some clones around create butterflies – which means use it kittenter fodder. Later on you will get a better feeling for when it is right to wait, but for now, you should get some practice on how to shatter in the first place.

DaedalusDragon.3754:

1) Is Trahearne in it?
2) Does it have legitimately good writing?
3) Does it involve interesting game mechanics?
4) Does it have an enticing story driven by genuinely well written characters?
5) Are the rewards fun? CAVEAT: I don’t want to pay for rewards… I want a good story first and foremost.
6) Is there an actual expansion with game content in the works?
7) Is it worth the money?

1. Trahearne is just a visitor, but he was still better written than any of the characters involved in season two. Did I hate Trahearne? Yes. He had personality though. Do I hate the season 2 characters? No. But the reason is, I do not care about them at all. If they all died tomorrow, I wouldn’t care. It is a result of really terrible character development.

2. The writing is as lame as the characters. It feels like it was done to give a reason to travel through the maps for moving from point A to B. It doesn’t give you the feeling that you are needed there, more like “hey you are done here, go there”. Pretty much like working off quest hubs in other MMOs. There is no real depth, no progression.

3. They went with the old-fashioned dungeon system of older MMOs now. Learn the mechnanics from the trash and use them at the boss. Unfortunately, that is fairly boring for a single player game. Everything becomes very predictable, which gets old fast.

4. As explained in 1. and 2. a clear “NOPE”. The story is so shallow that it hurts. The single episodes are extremly short, so there is actually very litte space to fit story in them, so that might be a reason too.

5. You still get a great amount of trash, which feels as rewarding as a getting a full dust bin for your birthday. At the end of the later episodes, you get a piece of armor only useful for visuals.

6. No official announcement for an expansion, so probably not in the next 12 monthes.

7. I would never pay money for what we got with the LS. But this is your choice.

The characters have at least as much depth as the story.

Seriously.