Starseeker.5412

Having finished the story, map completion, my elite spec and mount masteries less than a month after the expansion released, I was slightly disappointed. I recently had a "what now" moment, and I am currently doing old content because I'm not sure what I should be doing in PoF after completing the things above. I loved the story, and I love the zones, I think they are all well done. But I think the difficulty level of getting items that were features of the expansion (mounts, mastery points, hero points) was a bit easy. After the difficulty of getting anything and anywhere in heart of thorns, a change was definitely needed for the solo casual player, but I think it might be too far in the opposite direction. The monsters in POF hit hard, and do a lot of damage but otherwise everything was relatively easy. I do miss big meta events, it seems those are lacking in PoF, I think if we had larger meta events that gave good rewards, the zones wouldn't feel as...not empty ...but maybe unused is a better word. I also felt like the last half of the story was rushed. You spend a lot of time in the first two zones and then just say "hi ...bye" to the Desolation which is an interesting zone but you stop there for 5 minutes before moving on to vabbi, which again your not in all that long. All in All I do like PoF and I love mounts, but it felt a little like a Living Story 4 installment than an expansion. I actually found Living Story 3 zones/ideas much more interesting and find myself going back to those zones for the rewards and events....I have not returned to PoF really since finishing the map completion. Also- as a side note - One thing I do not like about the story since Living Story 2 is not being able to skip the dialogue. We love the story, and listen to it even in the old original story...but my husband and I had frequent crashes during the dialogue on quest steps in PoF that would cause us to have to replay a chapter over and over. If we would have had the option to skip dialogue it would have resolved this issue or at least made the replay (I'm looking at you eater of souls) more bareable when we would have to do a 45 minute quest 6 times. A lot of times we would be finished with the quest, and crash in the last scene of dialogue.

Did the repair function outlined earlier in the forums and it worked for both of us to get us past the departing. Didn't have any issues after running the repair, but not holding my breath...just glad we got through it.

NA - Sylvari - Revenant - DuoNA - Human - Mesmer - Duo and SoloEST - have tried both evening and morning Got disconnected once on Glints memories but got through it, but we are currently stalled at the Departing. My husband and I (i am the revenant) did the departing last night. The first time through, he got disconnected after the soul eater during Joko's dialogue, but I was able to stay connected and finish the instance, he did not get credit. We went in again, got to Joko's dialogue and we both got DCed. Tried again, using the run to the portal door method during the dialogue, got through to the cut scene where his character was resurrected and he got DCed while I was still in the game. Tried again, and we both get DCed at Joko's dialogue after soul eater. He tried again this morning solo, and got DCed at Joko's dialogue after soul eater. This really needs to be fixed, or at least a check point put in after you kill the soul eater. It is very frustrating to be 2 minutes from the end of the quest and DCed because of dialogue you can't skip.