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They're treating this expansion as a marathon, which is counterintuitive to how players want to experience an expac IMO. People want to be immersed into all the new shiny things when they purchase and jump into a new land. Not have a few new things with the promise of more to come (TBD, probably, eventually).

I must be bugged because the Strength challenge ticks me for like 20% of my health, and my heal does 25%... *LOL yup i am bugged. The trick is to take off your condition damage gear. kitten lol. it works against you.

Not the right expac to return to the game with, this skritt thinks :(( I did notice that instead of fixing bugs and disconnects in story instances, they created better checkpoints. So that's good?

Is it just me, or does Specter not benefit at all from Weaponmaster Training? I can't see how staff or Rifle could possibly help me in basically any build. Maybe even Thief in general, idk.

*Sorry wrong thread.

Ok. I honestly have no clue what you're trying to say if "gw2 does it in the old school buy to play way" doesn't mean exactly what it says. Because "old school way" for MMOs means subscriptions and we both know GW2 has no subscription. Not trying to be a jerk here, I'm just having trouble understanding your run-on sentences and compounded ideas with lack of punctuation. I'll take some blame here for putting in a good faith effort and falling short on reading comprehension. "Mate" is just a common form of addressing someone in my country. I get that it's different in someone else's country and I'll be respectful of that, and you can do the same for others too.

Mate...historically, MMOs leaned very hard into a subscription model all the way back to MUDs. Ironically, one of GW2's main selling points was that it diverged from this old school model and was buy to play. Nowadays, GW2's contemporaries are ESO and Black Desert (b2p too but with P2W as a replacement for expacs/LW) or maybe Crowfall if you'd count that game. Anyways, your observation seems more like taking an opportunity to sneer at f2p using a nonsensical appeal to history. I'm no fan of f2p but that's just wrong. The only old school thing about GW2 is that it still does formal expacs, and it's moved away from that with LW stuff and the upcoming mini-expansion.

Yes, low quality/low effort stuff should cost less or be bundled together in the long term. But I wasn't talking about comparing to other MMOs. I was talking about them improving their own unique business model because it's a win/win for everyone.

I agree with OP. The story stuff is just not that accessible to new players and that's not good. Honestly, most of the people on the forums and in this thread are the extreme outliers of players. They've got theirs and want to pull up the ladder to new players. I get it. But really the LW content isn't very good anyways. The primary goal of LW content was to waste the time of these extremists until Anet can sell a new expac. Now that it successfully did that, they can just bundle it together with the expacs. This will bring in more money and players. LW content just isn't good enough to justify selling on its own. *Also what in the mother flipper, do people actually think new players are going to waste time farming gold for LW? That's a very....unique.. take. Gotta be 95+% of new players will say screw that and play something better.

Thanks all 🙂 I official changed to specter now. I did get exotic Ritualist gear because it seems good for going thru the story, and can do alacrity for group stuff. I'm bummed out I need to get through EoD to start getting Ritualist ascended gear tho. Oh well, I was able to get ascended jewelry at least. Guess we'll all find out how Thief looks soon in the expac 😄 hope it's fun.

Ohhh axe mainhand sounds pretty great. I'm not a huge fan of the scepter because the attack animation is flailing my arms around like I'm dream fighting. I'd strongly prefer an axe, especially if I could use my power gear 😄 But makes it hard in the meantime to work on my gear. I mean, I guess the new weapons aren't coming out for a really long time so not worth planning for. The general consensus seems to be that Specter doesn't benefit at all from weaponsmaster training, and arguably thief in general which is too bad. Maybe I should finish my power set just because I'm close. I tried a Power specter build I found but wow it did not go well for me lol. I'll keep trying the specter for now, though I've been using Sc/P unlike you all instead of dagger. I like the dual wield ability.

Hi I'm a returning player that's been doing Deadeye since I started again. But I've been thinking of Specter, since I like the option to be able to heal/support/be more tanky. I think it may be a better fit in the long run. This is a pretty big deal for me because I've all ascended Power jewelry, a few power Zojja pieces, and even like halfway to a rifle legendary. So I'm wondering if Specter looking good from now til the expac? Anything cool coming out of Weaponmaster Training or maybe offhand axe? Do you guys like Specter in general atm? Just looking for some thoughts, I don't pay attention to the meta-commentary very much. Also I'm not sure if GW2 sites are outdated, for gearing do I just get all Condition Damage stuff?

Yes, I made sure to google every single time a bug stopped my progress (mostly to check if there's a workaround), and every single time it was a known issue dating back years. I can't imagine it's a good look for new players. I think you're spot on with the idle disconnect code. This mission was very long so maybe that's why I was disconnected at the end. Running locally is also probably why you can never rejoin your instance and it'll boot you back to the location before you entered. I saw alot of this problem in my bug researching but luckily haven't came across it. My dcs are usually just in combat or something.

Just following up because I made the mistake of playing the main story again. I was doing other stuff for a bit and enjoying myself but ultimately decided I needed to progress so I can unlock more stuff. I was on Buried Insight in HoT, where you have to do a super long, terrible, just straight-up awful mission with escorting Taimi around bug city and I disconnected at the very end. I immediately long back in and of course, the entire mission starts from the very beginning with an unskippable cutscene. I've encountered other bugs leading up to this, but wow this one was the worst. Think I'm pretty much done with this game. I'd like to play it, but I'm frankly embarrassed to be playing such an amateurish game. I can't justify spending time on this game when they have a complete lack of care in even their main story.

Hi I'm a returning player that's never posted here before. I logged into this forum just to say that I am absolutely disgusted with the amount of bugs I am encountering during the storyline. This is some low-quality stuff, Anet. Every single time I encounter one of these, a quick google search tells me this scenario has been bugged in this way for a LONG time. I'm doing Aetherblade Retreat in Living World Season 1 where the end boss duo bugs. I'm just sitting here typing this because I'd need to re-do the entire scenario again to proceed. This is some kitten. This is not to even mention the repeated disconnects during story missions too. I don't get it, how is the game this buggy? Do I need to play a game with a subscription so they can actually afford to fix their game?