vanfrano.1325

The birthday system is very bad, I returned to the game last year after not having played for several years. I wanted to start fresh so I deleted the only character I created at launch without knowing that the birthday gifts were linked to the character and not the account.

Massive changes in the dev team (including the direction).

Add an option to disable that green bubble skill too. Anything that can remove that awful EoD green and EoD tech from my screen.

+1

I see people pretty much everywhere except on EoD maps (minus Arborstone) but I gotta say that the game feels a lot emptier since EoD. I play a lot less myself. But I always found GW2 more lively than FFXIV. I mean, FFXIV is packed indeed, if you're looking for bots (even more than here), RMTs, afk players showing off and prostitutes idling in town but that's it.

I'd love a toggle to never read that my jade bot found something, and also hear it at all. Even see it at all actually.

What's wrong with spam? /s This is a place of refuge, not... no, ok 😄

Agreed with OP. Also, I want them to unlink fishing from the skiff, which would make it useless, I know. And remove that useless "yeah!" animation every time I catch a fish. First game ever where I dislike fishing. They should rework each and every concept from EoD or remove EoD altogether 😄

Treasure hunter protocol stopped showing some chest for me since last update (using treasure hunter protocol 2).

On the contrary, I am very worried about their new direction. They seem to think it's a good idea to go the way of FFXIV which means a lot of talk, a lot of lies, damage control, pretending they care, pretending they're being honest and becoming PR machines. But if the spell works on the majority, and it will, they'll be happy even if they lose players who won't be their target anymore.

Not only the drops are bad but even the way we loot all the chests at the end of Soo Won is not enjoyable, the whole EoD experience is very unenjoyable. Sadly it seems to have had a negative effect on the whole game as I never got that many map change prompts pretty much everywhere.

I did yellow mobs in Echovald (especially south) with exp boosters, it doesn't take that long. It's boring though, but EoD is boring anyway.

I remember when I got the cutscenes arriving in Cantha and the one when we arrive in New Kaineng and my character was all "woow", where clearly they think you're supposed to be amazed at the "beauty" of the region and I was like "nope, this looks awful".

I'd love an option to turn off the voices only in Cantha for the few times I go back there, I don't know how they managed to make every NPC dialogue annoying.

Egotist / Propagandist / Genderblurrer

I usually get more, I've been doing full map completion for the last few days and got 3 keys out of all the maps (core+LS+expansions). Some will say it's just bad luck.

I'm sure they'll be ok with 60% positive reviews, same as that wonderful final meta 😄

Last year I got a survey from Anet, I haven't been playing for a while at the time. There was several questions including one asking how long a meta shoud last, how rewarding it should be and whatever. I remember answering 45min+ or 1 hour+, I don't remember exactly but I didn't expect them to release something as bad as Dragon's End (and EoD metas in general). I'm hoping they didn't use the survey answers to calibrate this meta because if I could change my answer and scrap the mess that is DE I would do it in a heartbeat. Anet, please, I'm sorry I answered that, I meant long meta as in fun, challenging and rewarding meta not as... this thing I never went back to since April.

You said it yourself, this is a business. They can lie, they can do damage control, they can change their plans later and make up excuses.

I disagree, the negative reaction towards EoD is clearly not usual and I place my bets that Anet knew their expansion was bad and that's why they directly announced that there would be another expansion.

I wasted many days back in April (yes, days) trying to clear Dragon's End, after my first win I tried to do it again several times and see if it was worth including in my fun routine. It's not and it fails too often, I don't mind a challenge, this is not challenging, this is tedious and unfun and the pre-events are lazy and repetitive. All in all, EoD may as well not exist, I'm back to what I did before this failed expansion. If you need help though and want to organize a squad I don't mind helping you getting rid of this thing and forget about it, like a lot of people did.

I think you will have to see for yourself but there is a clear difficulty bump after Core Tyria. I'd say season 3 maps are a bit less difficult than HoT. I know some people hate HoT, others, like myself, love these maps and metas. But I have to admit that I was annoyed by HoT at first, then when I get to learn the maps and mobs behaviour it became very enjoyable. I find the mobs in Path of Fire a whole lot more annoying for example. HoT was when I took the time to understand all my skills and build and it made a huge difference, I never felt the need to do it in Core Tyria. About the story, it's bad overall for me (with EoD taking the crown) so again it will depend, you might like it, you might not. You should know though that season 3 unlocks sellers with some of the easiest to get stat-selectable ascended trinkets in the game.

Cantha Blaster mastery, each player unlocking the mastery destroys a small part of EoD with the cannons until the whole expansion disappears and everyone is happy again. The turtle dies in the process but at least it served a purpose this time.

I'm surprised at the number of players defending this but again we live in quite an... interesting era. Anet should change the wording and be more clear or bundle LW with expansions, period. No need for debate or anything as the practice is dishonest and misleading.

Best thing to do at this point.