Guild Wars 2

+ loved the raptor, am really excited for the other mounts
+ lots of things to discover without being prompted to
+ lots of freedom regarding how to get somewhere (gliding, mounts…)
+ mobs not as annoying as in a lot of LS3 and HoT-maps, being able to circumvent most of them by just running past on the mount was fantastic
+ not too many events that vie for my attention
+ no big meta-event that gets me yelled at when I just want to run around and do map completion or discovery (meta-events like the one in Draconis Mons would be ok, a new Tarir would not)
+ loved the story that accompanies the mount-mastery… even though it is only a small one… it is a lot better than in HoT… we still don’t know how we learned to glide

- mobs spawning while I open a box- I’d rather have them spawn when I get near the box or after opening it
- the cook and the portal-point mastery points… especially in the evening or when people are around they are really really stressful- I get that I would only have to do it once… but I’d rather have them be an adventure or sth. like that
- it was not clear to me when races and when the blitz event are available… I would like to have a place in game to look that up… as well as when a new bounty will be up
- as a German player: there were several missing translations… that should not happen on release

I only encountered the aforementioned bugs on my main-character that I created at game release. Other characters are not bugged, even though some of them are only weeks younger.

A bug nobody mentioned yet and might have other causes: one of my characters got the “one year birthday”-mail today. But she is definitely older than that and I still had her first birthday present in her inventory.

There is a thread about it on the bugs-forum :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Hidden-Arcana-Issues-merged/

Maybe you could add your experiences, too? So that they might have enough data some day and fix this

Update:
I am able to work on the achievements if I enter the story-instance with a friend. She started the instance with one of her lvl 80 characters that already completed this part of the story. She started it in challenge mode after we completed the Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad achievements for her in an instance of that story mode that I opened. She does not encounter the same bug as I do, she is able to talk to Ogden and progress the instance. She is quite sure (as I am) that we did the Hidden Arcana part of the story together in an instance that she opened when I first finished the instance.

Hi,

I just hit the same problem. I also get this shortly flashing up of a text-box and afterwards options about lore questions.
I do have several lvl 80 characters on my account but only did the living story chapters with my main character. My first playthrough went without problems. I did it some time ago, I think grouped with a friend of mine. Now I wanted to do the achievements and started it in achievement mode (purple star). I did the Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad achievements yesterday (also started in achievement mode) and did not encounter any problems.
After encountering the bug I tried:
- using all dialog options with Ogden
- restarting the instance in achievement mode (I left the instance before via WvW-panel)
- restarting the instance in achievement mode after relogging via character selection
- restarting the instance in achievement mode after rendering the chapter inactive, selecting another chapter (later chapter) and reselecting the chapter
The bug persisted.
Something that might be unrelated but that I noticed is, that the inscription in front of the Abbadon-statue is cloned with only one version functioning.

Thank you for looking into this and I hope there will be a possibility to fix this some time. I will try to do the achievements with friends in their instance of the story .

I would not be ok with such a change. I love meeting people I know at least from sight in WvW. It somehow feels like a hometown to me, especially after the introduction of megaservers. I would not want to lose that feeling of being a community that has a shared goal.

Another point is that teaching new players the basics of WvW is an investment of time and resources. I don’t think that the veterans of WvW are going to teach new people every hour just to never see them again. That would block off this game mode from new players even more than it is the case now (as far as I observed new players are just overwhelmed and do not know what to do in WvW – Eotm being even worse in this respect as there are even less people explaining stuff, let alone more advanced tactics).

Not wanting randomly assigned people in WvW for me is not only about server pride- as Synosius mentioned earlier it is a community thing.