Daks.1874

This had me laughin. I have a few FF/WoW friends as well. Those games just aren't for me anymore.

Absolutely agree with you on this. doesn't need to work that way anymore.

Guardian Scepter makes my ears bleed. Its so loud and bad sounding.

Mounts also help making HoT less painful. The maps are so complex and hard to navigate without them.

I honestly didn't realize it was different in EoD, probably because I've mainly been focused on PoF grinds. If that's the case I hope they go back and update old ones. I think it would be a massive improvement

I quit GW2 shortly after the HoT release. It was so long ago that I don't remember all the issues I had the game, I just remember I wasn't having fun. One of my friends who hadn't played GW2 a lot decided to try it. They were having a lot of fun with it and after some time they convinced me to give it another shot. After doing a little research about the game I knew I wanted to get mounts right away so I started with PoF. The moment I was given the raptor mount, I knew I was hooked. Mounting in general seems like such a basic concept for MMOs but the way GW2 does it is incredible. Not only does it change how you explore the world, they clearly designed them with fun in mind, which is extremely refreshing. Jump forward a little over 3 weeks and I've now played through all the story content I've missed over the years (except some Icebrood Saga), and I've unlocked every mount in the game. Now I'm working on grinds for a few legendries and ascended gear and in the meantime enjoying a few game modes. GW2 fully has it hooks in me and I wish I had never gave up on it. All this praise doesn't come without some criticism and I did want to include that here. I think a major lesson MMO developers can take from recent years is that account progression is generally a good thing. I think GW2 does a pretty good job with this(Masteries, Mounts, Legendries, Skins, Bank, ect.) but it could improve in some places. One of those places is exploration. Having to rediscover waypoints on 2-3 different characters feels bad, even worse if you want to have an alt of each class. I think at least waypoints and uncovering the map could be an account unlock and that would only be an improvement to the game. Id go as far to say that maybe POI and Vistas as well but maybe not. That brings me to my next criticism - Hearts. I don't mind completing these once on a character and moving on from there but having to repeat these when I'm coming back to one I've already done feels really bad. I get it, most of them are quick and easy to do. I still don't want to HAVE to repeat them to get some collection that wasn't accessible the first time through, feels like a waste of my time. There are a few other small annoyances I've ran into here and there but I don't want to get "Nit-picky". All in all I'm having a lot of fun with the game and I'm really excited to play and explore more.