My short EoD review and thoughts

[ManaPotato.3279]

The Good:

• The story is so well done, enjoyed every bit of it.
• Maps have the best design since launch. Finally a sane balance between horizontality and verticality.
• DX11 is almost here, making the game smoother and giving opportunity for engine upgrades in future.
• The music is amazing, truly gave life to environment.
• Masteries feel much easier to obtain and don't confuse me as much on how and where to get them.
• You can pet the cats in EoD maps.

 

 

The Bad:

• The engine is showing its age and limits.
• New specs still feel unfinished and clunky compared to PoF ones.
• EoD is still not polished and bugs can still pop up.
• Jade Bot charge pickup could be slightly faster.

 

 

 

The Ugly:

• No new runes and sigils.
• Guardian, Necromancer and Revenant were dominating for years; and people discriminated if you didn't play them in competitive content.
• Elementalist is a mess and feels completely gutted. People want to play ranged class, ANET forces them into mele.
• No new PvP (my fav game mode) content FOR YEARS!!!
• Still no permanent 2v2 and 3v3 mode even though it's in the game.
• 15v15 PvP map is still not implemented even though it's finished.
• No new PvP game modes, stronghold never received more maps.
• No class balance in PvP for 3 years.

 

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by ManaPotato.3279

[Farohna.6247]

Nice fair list.  Love the good section.... especially the cats!!! That's bugged me for years, why can't I pet cats and dogs lol.  Now I pet them all 😀. The maps and music are gorgeous.  I enjoy the story, and some enjoyable voice acting.  

[Blude.6812]

Nice, (if you care about PvP that is).

[Jski.6180]

It looks like more of an LS update then an expansion at this point.

[Sarius.9285]

7 hours ago, ManaPotato.3279 said:

EoD is still not polished and bugs can still pop up.

2 weeks after launch, I think that's still reasonable.

 

7 hours ago, ManaPotato.3279 said:

Guardian, Necromancer and Revenant were dominating for years; and people discriminated if you didn't play them in competitive content.

maybe in pvp, but definitely not in pve, unless you really needed to cover a role that only they could fill.

 

I 100% agree with the rest tho 

[decease.3215]

You like the story?  There is a bird lady who fight by your side.  Do you know her faction and personal story?  What do you know of the speaker?  The jade brotherhood?

 

Story is short and simple.  Commander zerg through, too late to stop Ankka.  Then we slay another dragon...

 

The only npc with any sort of depth is probably Rama...please correct me if am wrong...

 

P.s. just in case if you don't know...Soo Won is not the first dragon we slay . however... She could be the last...i hope she is the last dragon we had to murder...

[Peterson.5172]

16 minutes ago, decease.3215 said:

P.s. just in case if you don't know...Soo Won is not the first dragon we slay . however... She could be the last...i hope she is the last dragon we had to murder...

i fully expected we get aurene killed somehow (and legendary weapon components would be harvested off her corpse), the expansion is named end of dragons afterall...

[Veprovina.4876]

18 minutes ago, decease.3215 said:

The only npc with any sort of depth is probably Rama...please correct me if am wrong...

Pretty much. Any others, even villains, that got an once of development made their ends before you could even start caring about them.

 

And the rest are just very shallowly characterized.

The story was fun, and the end instance was pure epicness, but felt kinda empty without characters to give a kitten about.

[decease.3215]

3 minutes ago, Peterson.5172 said:

i fully expected we get aurene killed somehow (and legendary weapon components would be harvested off her corpse), the expansion is named end of dragons afterall...

No ~~~~~~~not my baby dragon. 😭  

[Veprovina.4876]

8 minutes ago, Peterson.5172 said:

i fully expected we get aurene killed somehow (and legendary weapon components would be harvested off her corpse), the expansion is named end of dragons afterall...

That's pure goregrind death metal! 🤣

[Super Hayes.6890]

Possible Spoilers!

I must admit that I'm surprised there were no major character deaths (talking about long term allies here.) I thought Logan was done at one step but he's really just a punching bag at this point. Still no Zojja... I have to agree that the story was extremely enjoyable overall. I actually really enjoyed the elite specs.