So, we all have been playing for a day and are therefore perfectly competent in the matter. What’s everyone’s opinion so far?
So, we all have been playing for a day and are therefore perfectly competent in the matter. What’s everyone’s opinion so far?
Have been playing the first map and not that far into the story yet.
The new map feels great. It looks beautiful and plays very well. There are a lot of mini bosses and events, that makes it really engaging. The verticality is well done so without adding to much orientation complexity. The meta was pretty nice, even though it bugged out on our first try (funnily while a dev was participating in it). What I don’t like is the use of the special action key, where you channel for a very long time to cleanse invulnerable opponents. This takes very long in some events, when there are only a few players.
I have mixed feelings about the new login rewards. I don’t really like that your selection (PvE, PvP, WvW) affects which objectives you get. Why do I have to choose what I want to play one day/week before? Just give me all of the objectives, reward me for the first X and hide the modes I didn’t select. It’s perfectly fine for me to have 6 PvE, 6 PvP and 6 WvW objectives and get a reward for the first 6 I do.
Another problem I see with dailies/weeklies is that they aren’t synced between players. It would be great if my friends would have the same objectives as me, that we can pursue together.
What astonished me is that they didn’t remove alt account farming. You srill get 5 AA each day for simply logging in and can buy Mystic Coins or materials with it. It seems like they didn’t identify this as a problem.
They are actually, but only between people who have the same preference (pve vs pvp vs wvw) and the same expansions on their acc.
5AA a day is a pretty substantial loss compared to getting the monthly login rewards. Just the mystic coins alone you’re missing out (15.5 vs old would get 20 every 28 days), plus they’re missing everything else laurels and materials. So while they still get SOMETHING it is definitely less.
Yes it is a nerf to the login abuse, but it is still bullshit that you can get a fortune just by logging in X accounts every day. Ofc it’s very convenient for the people doing it and it feeds the market with mystic coins, but its basically a money cheat.
A better concept IMO is to remove monetary rewards from purely logging in general and add other ways to earn the coins, where you actually have to play the game.