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kranz · 09-20-12, 12:58 PM

Thanks

I must say I'm pretty disappointed. Why? (apologies for a few spoilers)

PvE:
-dynamic events are really cool. You do hearts (quests) and encounter a chain event giving you a few copper coins, exp and karma. Cool thing.
BUT
after you reach around 75-80 you will need to enter 2 zones which have to hearts, events-only areas. The problem is moving between these events and avoiding "death". Without going into details (no spoilers this time): it's a pain in the a...to do them. (since you cannot teleport to contested waypoints).
IMHO, a completely failure. Sorry, but ANet has always claimed that they want to remove this "grind-like endgame" and they replaced it with something much worse. At least for. I almost completely lost interest in doing these chain events...
-instances. Another big LOL. I went to Arah today (an 80 lvl instance). Took us around 1 hour to get 6 items which can be obtained in 15 minutes while doing dynamic events. I thought that instances should give something more than blue/green items. (bear in mind - blue items are worse than green - not like in WoW). I won;t even mention several wipes bcoz of...
-communication. In WoW, when you wrote something; a whisper, /say /yell etc it was displayed as a line of text. In GW2 (dunno, probably in gw1 as well) when u /say or /w it is displayed as a bubble with text which disappears before you realize someone is saying something and rotate your camera. Another complete failure. I haven't checked the game settings for this, yet, however, I doubt this could be changed.

PvP
Well, I bought this game for PvP. But I don;t like it.
sPvP: Pvp within your own server. Not bad, but the maps are only "urban-like". No flat spaces such as Arathi Basin or Isle of conquest. (WoW). In sPvP you get a basic PvP set of items which later on can be upgraded in the Mystic Forge. Haven't figured out how to do it, yet - even after watching 2 y.tube tuts...I'm really dumb.
WvWvW- World vs World vs World. 3 servers fight against each other on one huge map. Important note: you fight in your Pve gear which gets damaged after your death. For me, the whole idea behind this WvWvW is sooo utterly stupid that I dunno where to start. The best tactic for this type of PvP is: stick to the mass. Just stick to all other players, get your FPS to 1 and fight. Sorry, it's just dumb. No place for individual duels, just retarded mass vs mass. Ranged professions FTW. My dps warrior dies like a cheap s...That's why I decided to buy/craft some tanking items for a axe/mace+shield tank+heal build.
A few more comments about PvE/PvP mechanisms (which on a side note suck hard) will be posted tomorrow.

09-20-12, 12:58 PM	#5
kranz The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Poland Posts: 1,430 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Thanks I must say I'm pretty disappointed. Why? (apologies for a few spoilers) PvE: -dynamic events are really cool. You do hearts (quests) and encounter a chain event giving you a few copper coins, exp and karma. Cool thing. BUT after you reach around 75-80 you will need to enter 2 zones which have to hearts, events-only areas. The problem is moving between these events and avoiding "death". Without going into details (no spoilers this time): it's a pain in the a...to do them. (since you cannot teleport to contested waypoints). IMHO, a completely failure. Sorry, but ANet has always claimed that they want to remove this "grind-like endgame" and they replaced it with something much worse. At least for. I almost completely lost interest in doing these chain events... -instances. Another big LOL. I went to Arah today (an 80 lvl instance). Took us around 1 hour to get 6 items which can be obtained in 15 minutes while doing dynamic events. I thought that instances should give something more than blue/green items. (bear in mind - blue items are worse than green - not like in WoW). I won;t even mention several wipes bcoz of... -communication. In WoW, when you wrote something; a whisper, /say /yell etc it was displayed as a line of text. In GW2 (dunno, probably in gw1 as well) when u /say or /w it is displayed as a bubble with text which disappears before you realize someone is saying something and rotate your camera. Another complete failure. I haven't checked the game settings for this, yet, however, I doubt this could be changed. PvP Well, I bought this game for PvP. But I don;t like it. sPvP: Pvp within your own server. Not bad, but the maps are only "urban-like". No flat spaces such as Arathi Basin or Isle of conquest. (WoW). In sPvP you get a basic PvP set of items which later on can be upgraded in the Mystic Forge. Haven't figured out how to do it, yet - even after watching 2 y.tube tuts...I'm really dumb. WvWvW- World vs World vs World. 3 servers fight against each other on one huge map. Important note: you fight in your Pve gear which gets damaged after your death. For me, the whole idea behind this WvWvW is sooo utterly stupid that I dunno where to start. The best tactic for this type of PvP is: stick to the mass. Just stick to all other players, get your FPS to 1 and fight. Sorry, it's just dumb. No place for individual duels, just retarded mass vs mass. Ranged professions FTW. My dps warrior dies like a cheap s...That's why I decided to buy/craft some tanking items for a axe/mace+shield tank+heal build. A few more comments about PvE/PvP mechanisms (which on a side note suck hard) will be posted tomorrow.