User:Morgaine

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Progress in GW2[edit]

  • It's going very well and I'm enjoying it hugely overall, despite many niggles and a few very serious problems.
  • I've played all 8 professions now, all of the characters to level 80 and all of them have fully completed Orr.
  • As in GW1, my interest lies exclusively in PvE, and I will not be commenting on PvP nor interested in replies about it. (The needs of PvE and PvP are very different, and one should not compromise the other as they so often did in GW1. Hopefully that lesson was learned well.)

Overall Assessment of GW2[edit]

  • After this fairly extensive (but admittedly not complete) experience of the PvE game, my considered opinion seems to reflect what many of my in-game contacts and local friends are saying. I'll be dedicating some time to a more extensive and detailed assessment once I've finished "everything", but for now I'll just summarize the experience so far in a single line which touches on the three most important elements of daily play:
Stunningly wonderful open game world and totally brilliant dynamic events system, utterly abysmal skills and skills choice system.
  • I'm very saddened by the second part of that assessment, but most of the time I try to ignore the deliberate denial of skills-related player choices/customization and just enjoy the glorious world. I often simply stand on the tops of mountains and just gaze around in awe. What a beautiful place.
  • It's also sad to see how ArenaNet fails to capitalize on their gorgeous and vast open world, and instead of leveraging that, they have returned to the bad old tradition of closed dungeons and the appalling pile of rubbish that is "LFG". Maybe this will change in the future, but it's very poor at present. It's as if one team brimming with novel ideas has created the open world, and another team that's stuck in the past is adding endgame content, and the two never talk to each other. Pity.

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Game Update Notes[edit]

Game updates information on wiki: Game updates

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