Kongajinken.3182

I've noticed blood fen isn't nearly as trashy as the rest of HoT was, I don't own the entirity of season 3 of the living world though so I won't be able to try all the new maps, thinking of trying them though as blood fen was pretty good.

I loved the original design of GW2 because the world was more open to exploration, HoT made it so hard to try and explore area's it frequently takes me 10+ minutes to even figure out how to reach a location. And its purely due to poor level design. I shouldn't have to wait until night fall, than follow a stream of sky jets to figure out how to reach an island, I still haven't completed the first HoT map as I don't how how the heck to get many points of interest.

I left, because I didn't want anything to do with this mess of an expansion and I shared the experience I had with my friends, none of them decided to buy it.

The point is unless I tell Anet why I left, they will continue to make a game I no longer love and will be unable to enjoy again, if they realize their mistake, via me pointing it out, than they can reverse course and make content good again. IE, no gated gimmicks anymore and level design that isn't so rigid. Flying up should have more than one path to get there.

There was more groups than just 5k ap or kick, I frequently hosted them and much enjoyment was had. How can I wear rose tinted glasses when I hate what the game as become to the point that I stopped playing it for 4 years? Thats not rose tinted glasses, thats just the game being bad. Yes those gimmicks ARE compulsary for map completion, maybe if you've grinded out all the masters already you've forgotten, but as someone that hasn't. I'm running my face against the wall repeatedly just running map events over and over so I can finally do the maps.

I picked it up in hope that its better than HoT, which is a pretty low bar so I'm pretty sure it can't get any worse.

I'm not giving you anything. I'm saving it for when they make this game good again, and finally realize that horizontal gimmicks aren't fun.

I'm an avid fan of GW2, I have 7 of the available classes at 80, I had them there 4 years ago. I stopped playing this game after HoT came out. I came back because I missed playing this game, and replaying it again made me realize why I left in the first place. The gimmicks, o mother of whale supreme the gimmicks. Holy crap. Did you know you need level 4 of frog retardation in order to eat this mushroom in order to survive posion? Did you know you need level 2 hand holding in order to food deflect people's hunger hands in order to go on the next story mission? O darn I forgot how to dig holes across the map so know I'm stuck again. Which all of this would maybe be cute if there was more content to explore. Its 4 zones of poor level design that requires you to climb in the air on the other side of the next zone, and navigate the wind zones to get this single point of interest, now do that 100 more times for every single other location on your map. Did I mention every single map icon requires you to grind a specific gimmick in order to do that icon? Don't want to do that? Well thats all the content there is folks!..... But wait you say! There's zone events going on! WOwzers! Now I only have 20 minutes in order for it to start, and no one's here, guess I'll just wait for the next event that starts in 30 minutes. What should I do in the mean time? I guess I'll do story quests. O wait I need to grind another gimmick mastery in order to proceed with the story!.... YAYAYYAYAakjdalkjtgahjf atiaaj fajtiajrkafaFUN FUNNU !u fhN!! ! FUnnnnnnnn......l. GRIND more SCRUMB arujng agrind more SCRUB GRIND MOre GRIND MORE GRIND MORE GRIND MORE GRIND MORE GRIND MROE GRIND MORE IONGRIMND GMORE INGRIMD NGMORE ANGRIND MORENO GRINM ORMOE INGRD IMNERM ORE NOJAK A. PAY 5 dollars to teleport between events so you don't have to find where to grind!. Guess I'll just sit here and do taris for the 9th time as wonder where to get enough XP to play the game again. Rember when you had the freedom to walk into a zone, fully enjoy exploring all it had to offer, and than you could either go to another one, go do the story mode as you've leveled a couple times, or maybe tried you hand at a dungeon that didn't require you to wait 30 minutes for it to start? Pepgrid farm remembers, o god it rembers, I remember loving this game so much. I just want to love this game again, but there's no new content thats like how the game used to be, this game used to be phenominal. Nots its a gimmick locked grind fest. I'd rather run on a skinner gox treadmill that go through this "horizontal" progression system. Even though they kindly forget to tell you that ALL of this gimmicks you're leveling through is only relevant for you're current area, so in the next zone, you get to grind for more gimmicks so you can gimmick grind for you gimmicks so that you can progres the story for your gimmicks so you can finally play th grimmikcks ofor you can finally playing the game again john. You can play the game again john, gimmicks john gtheres gimmicks jowhn, don't you want to grind the gimmicks john, did ou want to lay the game hohn? Don't you love playing the game john? Grimmcs john, you can play the gimmicks john, don't forget ot grind so you can do the gimmicks john............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Once again I'll be retelling my friends that buying HoT was a mistake and to never come back, its a trap.Good night my fellow GW2 enthusiasts.