My first read on this is to be pretty excited; the new dailies system looks interesting, more accessible skyscale will be good for newer players, etc.
Can’t believe we’re coming up on the 11th anniversary soon. This has always been my favorite MMO.
I got so many hours of fun out of this game. Ultimately burnt out on the endgame content. Doing the same things every single day gets old. I wonder if it’s gotten better?
Yea, I get what you mean. I feel that GW2’s strongest parts are the exploration/discovery bits. The game is beautiful (Anet always had very good art direction) and there are so many little things to discover.
It’s also why the expansions put me off, they were so hard to solo, and I was constantly fighting for my life. Never got that vibe I did with the base game.
Yeah, Heart of Thorns is still very difficult solo, but Path of Fire and End of Dragons are quite comfortable, especially once you get an elite spec into your build. It kind of feels like the difficulty progression was reversed, as open world play has actually gotten easier with each expansion.
This news make me excited for two reasons.
First one is, because I heard about the new addon here in the fediverse first, before I even saw the announcement on the official website. Nice to see, that the fediverse, especially its content aggregators at the moment, is growing and some specific gaming content is arriving. :D
And the second one is of course the announcement of the addon itself. Looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the new story and new maps and the skyscale improvements sound nice. And I’m happy to see that legendary armor will be accessible to non raiders. The changes in the weapon system sound interesting, too, but I hope they get the balancing right. I mean, there was a reason that you couldn’t use every weapon of every elite specialization. On the other hand this could lead to some cool new synergies and builds. Not sure though which weapons I’m going to combine with my mesmer main. :D
If you’re into gw2 specifically, there seem to be 3 communities (two active and one basically dead I think) in the fediverse -
Guess this means I should finish EoD story soon!
I’m pretty hyped, I love the communication from them! I’ve still got so much to do from icebrood and EoD, time to dive back in I guess!
My only worry about the sky scale is how they talk about buffing its movement, it sounds fun but it’s also already the most powerful mount. Hard to imagine a use for our bunny or raptor if we’re zipping over queensdale on our dragon. Guess it matters less if everyone’s got it, no more leaving new folks out.
Are they buffing base skyscale movement speed? Because that’s the use case for the raptor, it’s faster than skyscale over flat surfaces.
Only use my springer gets nowadays is when a boss has a CC bar to break at the start of a fight, eg matriarch.