GuillotineFist.8921

Thanks for posting this, as you can see the biggest drop was due to the lack of direction, which a lot of MMO players at the time were not used to, since they have been conditioned by WoW and those kind of games. I am not criticizing this, I am criticizing the prolonged period of having so few skills to use compared to the previous version of skill unlocks. If I was criticizing that, I would've complained about the game director on the UI, which I already turn off since its optional.

I wasn't a veteran back then either. I find the old system superior to the new one. Playing with a full load out early on is better than having a few skills for so many levels. In terms of shortcutting, I already had all professions maxed level, this is a concern for new players. It is no good if players quit early on because using only a few skills for so many levels is boring With regards to people "needing" the slow pacing, maybe it's the slow pacing that causes players to believe they only need to auto-attack and press one or two extra buttons every now and then?

I started this game during early access, and during this time when you created a new character, you could unlock whatever skills you want in whatever order. You could have a full bar of skills by level 10 ish or lower if you just gunned for the hero points. With this new player experience you are stuck with so few skills for so long, it is ridiculous. I am glad I made one of every class long before they introduced this feature. I made a new character to play with someone and this new player experience is frankly mind numbing, and my friend thought so too. I managed to convince him to stay till max level at least, and he is glad he did. Isn't the whole "it'll be fun at max level" thing something arenanet originally wanted to avoid? Please consider changing the leveling back to the old free-form experience, or at least make it optional.

I am unstuck now, thanks.

I am also stuck in a PvP match forever. Timer does not count down, if we kill the opposing team it just resets to the same never ending game. Leaving the map just teleports us back into the map. Changing character allows me to do open world and WVW but a message pops up everytime i load a new map saying cannot enter match because character has changed.