The combat system is far cleaner for the melee and some of the scaling downwards is more balanced towards having effects help each other.
There are bunch of changes to the character models and bunch of extra npc models for what ever reason.
The story focuses on making the player center stage when the npc ask what to do but it is a choice of what npc a or npc b wants to do, mostly cosmetically the same thing as before. Again there are dozen of reasons likely why this is but that is speculation.
There are some weird alt tab glitches where the client swaps to the desktop while still running. I think this happened before but it was years ago.
NPC conversations are more like lets go out have beer, instead of the old style of lets go save the world.
A couple classes picked up weapons they could not use.
Culture bit most can ignore, just for the developers that have lost any money from me, a culture that can not be mocked is weak. A culture that is be targeted by people who can not even speak the language but it is different but then to choice to make it something it is not means that is cheap method to cover for a lack of creativeness. If you don’t respect a culture that is not your own take five minutes of your precious time from your free time after five oclock hits and say what would I think if some one spent thousands of dollars to say your name plus kitten for what four years running now?
I am Norwegian and Irish by parentage and American by dint of being born on American soil and I have seen more and more bitter developers try to make the Scandinavians something that never were. I can not understand what the hate is coming from but seriously what is wrong with you people?
Did not get to the desert since the story start with eir being dead and I am not consoling a wolf, it is an animal. Games are meant to be fun not run some human league agenda. Fact not opinion. Well hopefully all the people that made the games great before make enough money off this game despite the agenda or find jobs at other companies making great games. The agenda’s of a couple weirdos should not harm the hard work of a company like Arena Net. Oh and most of Scandinavian is too cold for most animals, blame the bushmen of Australia.