Path of Fire was a great addition to the game, had a lot of fun playing through the expansion and the mounts are implemented excellently. After playing through the story, collecting all the mounts etc and completing the S4 living world episode, I'm now running through each of the PoF maps for 100% completion. While the maps themselves are fantastic, offering lots of variety in environments, interesting locations and events, and some great encounters, I'm very disappointed by the return of the repeatable hearts from LS3. I appreciated that Heart of Thorns and the endgame zones of the base game had moved away from this grindy, repetitive gameplay format, and it's a shame to see them return. With nearly 20 level 80 characters on my account, the hearts themselves were my least favourite part of the base game, and became a huge chore especially after multiple playthroughs. The prospect of having to run through all the hearts is why it's taken me almost a year since PoF's release to finish the zones - each heart takes far too long to progress and having them reset each day is just salt in the wound when I find out that collections and items require purchasing items from specific vendors. I understand that it's intended to add replayability to the zones and extend gameplay, however I feel that despite this, Heart of Thorns offered far more replayability through the addition of map metas, and that this is a step back. I implore you to revisit this in upcoming content, and hope that future hearts, should they be included in the next living world seasons or expansions, only require one time completion for at least keeping access to the vendor open.
Would be nice to see the Incarnate Light Armour skin back in the store. Those boots would look good on a few of my chars.
