Guild Wars 2

So we have similar situation to last two PvP seasons. First ANet introduced ascended armors so people started playing, and next season they killed it again with grandmaster marks (that was also added to fractals). Here they wanted to resurrect WvW but set rewards bar so high, that this mode will be dead again when people will understand that they will never to be able to get rewards.

Also, just to remind you, ANet, ascended armors are not shiny legendary things, they’re just a bit better than exotic but are required for fractals for example… People search for easy ways to obtain them because they don’t want to craft but you blocked all other ways to get them. Good job.

Let’s see… new map is just awesome, I really love exploring it searching for little caves with collectible items and how it easy to get everywhere if you know map little better and have mastery (without it moving around can be really annoying but still much easier than in Tangled Depths), some champs are challenging and really fun to fight with (legendary wyverns especially) and new mastery is really great, I would love to use it everywhere in both core Tyria and HoT maps. But it lacks something that would kept me there for longer like new skin set for weapons or armor – but that’s my problem with all new maps.
Map: 9/10

Story was ok. It had really god start and ending fights, but quest like “find item on spider” is not something that I don’t like to do (at least it drops really quickly). Can’t wait to see Asura reaction on totally not Taimis secret lab. Marjory and Kasmeer “we’re team” conversation seemed kinda pointless.
Story: 7/10

Outfits:
New outfits look great… but once again they’re just outfits.

Overall 8/10

DX11/12? Why? DX12 would’t be available for many players since it’s available only on Win10 and DX11 would not give significant performance boost. Only new API that is worth adding is Vulkan, that would really help in situations (especially for slower computers) where there’s a lot of draw calls – like WvW for example.