Hello,
Beware spoiler ahead for LW content.
First post because it is 2:37 am and I just defeated Caudecus in LW S3.
So, here is a feedback, I finished Vanilla content with my personal story and I was so amazed and charmed by the content GW2 has to offer that I wanted to go deeper. I bought all extensions and I even got the LW unlocked.
When I entered S2 it was cool and all and then I got into HoT.
Oh my, where is the warning saying: "You'll die from small raptors"? or anything like: "Ok here is the real stuff and dark souls is a joke".
Honestly, the difficulty gap is so insane I just wanted to go through HoT fast to get to PoF because it appears to be more 'solo-friendly'.
And here is the issue, this difficulty is going up in LW S3. The Bronze Jade archer is able to lock you permantly in small areas (like caves and hallway). Manor Caudecus is a nightmare, zones with events are packed with mobs locking you like you were the number one threat since they are born.
What I see in GW2 is that everything revolves around the dodge, stunbreak and shield break mechanism. Yet, it is the hardest feature I have ever seen in any MMO.
In LW S3, there are so many mobs that could stunlock you forever (I am engineer and even the belt stun break is not enough, I need like a invicibility frame of 3 sec to have a chance to survive).
So yes , I did succeed killing Caudecus, after dying 6 times. That, after the small raptors banging me 7 of them at a time, now replaced by a fine mix of, either carnival mambo jumbo fanatics coordinating every spells to one shot me or Jade armors having shields and stuns and life like it was an Ancestral Dragon, I wonder...
Is PoF any better? I know it is an MMO but getting a full group running LW stories like I wanted to go for a mid level fractal is not easy.