Eloc Freidon.5692

I'm glad the Steam release was delayed. If all those new players would come in to see that this is how content is released, they would abandon the game.

> @"evlover.6270" said: > It just kinda feels like the whole patch wasn't really thought through, not just the volcanic weapons. It's an instance so you're screwed in case of a dc, lfg can only be done in squad under icebrood saga so people have to use party lfg in tyria lfg, timer doesn't finish after completing the 3 events at start so you're idling for like 2mins once those are done.. I suffered a dc a bit after the party lock. I was able to get back into the instance I was party locked in. The content at least has proper scaling and that going for it.

You want to pay to skip playing the game. MP is given when you complete certain tasks in the game. There are MP I haven't gotten because I don't want to play the content that those MP are hidden behind. That is the trade off. If you don't want to earn the MP, you don't get them.

Not connecting Ebonhawke to the Crystal Desert in some way was a colossal disappointment.

Not only these can't be crafted when all the previous versions are, but they put a mastery point behind unlikely RNG and actual gold sink into the TP. Why?

It should have been both. They really need to renovate the wardrobe.

The vision items you get being worth 50G certainly feels like pressure to finish them. If you ever wanted to get one of those skins but got rid of the vision item, you are facing another 50G loss on top of ascended costs that already exist. Trash ideas always seem to creep their way into this game.

So instead of waiting 2 months for content, you wait that time to play an hour and then have to wait two weeks more for another hour even though that content is done and in the game. Weekly releases of finished content sounds like a good idea if there is a progress bar to complete. A week of no progress bar and the previous bar amounting to no impact on the game at all is, by current experience, a really bad idea. Add onto that, every community event has been bugged or broken (save for Fractal Rush) with throw away rewards. Just wait for all the content to be out and let the community progress bars fail. Limited and timed content is the worst content ever, Living World 1 being prime example that almost bombed GW2. If Anet wants to come back to that, let them fail.

You're my friend. Just no. There might be an argument for paying for the exp to fill the bar. But the MP is supposed to be earned. If you can't get the harder ones, do the ones that are easier to acquire or wait for new easy ones to come out. Max Mastery isn't that important anyways. Skip unlocking the final masteries in lines that don't give you any real benefit, like Raven Bright, Exalted Gathering, and Siren of Orr.

Legendary insights can be bought so I don't consider them a valid source for experience.

I personally didn't think that this "expansion level content" would actually make me want to play the game less. I was at least prepared for disappointment thanks to the oversell of Sun's Refuge, tempering all future expectations.

When they said Champions was in four chapters, it sounded like there were four whole episodes worth of at least story content across the next several months. We didn't think they would literally split up a single episode across half a year. This is actually the worst case scenario.

> @"Randulf.7614" said: > > @"Eloc Freidon.5692" said: > > Anet is NOT good at game wide events. > > I'm not sure I agree with this as a blanket statement. I agree this one has been poorly thoguht out and anyone who has been in the game since post LS2 will remember the catastrophic Modrem Invasion. > > However, they have had plenty of successes too. The Boss Rush and Fractal Rush worked just fine. They encouraged pretty decent levels participation and there wasn't a huge amount of genuine criticism levied against them. We also have the Kiel/Knashblade vote from LS1. Now I know LS1 was pretty bad, but this was a well received event for the most part. Sure there were conspiracy theories about it being rigged towards which fractal we'd end up with, but ultimately it engaged the community probably more than any other event did. > > So to say Anet is not good is simply incorrect, but they are inconsistent due to a lack of foresight about what could go wrong and being more and more out of tune with their community due to their desire to keep as far distant from engaging with us as they can The boss rush took several failed attempts and ended up being uninteresting. People do WB regularly anyways so of course it would be completed without any extra input from the community. Fractal Rush was the same in terms of going to be completed regardless since people do fractals regularly, and finally broke their record of botched executions. It even had good rewards. You might not agree with my statement. But the numbers don't lie.

> @"metalmike.8346" said: > So am i hosed and have to get another 425 geodes? I put a ticket into support. Again, from what i recall the diff bags showed the same recipes just diff geode requirements or something like that. Yeah you got to farm for the currency again. At least it wasn't time gated. Just a pain to farm.

There is no unique reward or something even half decent in the final tier. Of course the community didn't reach it. The story isn't going to change regardless of the end result. This system is designed to make it seem like community participation matters. The design of how this chapter works is not really exciting in terms of rewards. I just like that the instances can be done solo, with a premade party and that it can be done without needing some limited time event to happen. Content designed around self reliant progression is what Anet is best at. Anet is NOT good at game wide events.

I expect a new region every expansion minimum. Expansions are supposed to expand on the game's world.

Sandswept Isles really pulled out all the stops in fulfilling all the things that make a great map.