Guild Wars 2 At Its Lowest

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@WoodenPotatoes 3 года назад

The balance with bootts video will be a bit away! It really is a massive episode so hang in there, apologies! There are a few really insane changes in there, too.

@ColdMystery 3 года назад

Really looking for this one!

@savioluk1256 3 года назад

Anticipating patiently since yesterday!! Expecting your fruitful input toward the update!! XD

@orack6355 3 года назад

Yeas ! :)

@savioluk1256 3 года назад

@@iamperplexed4695 lmao typo

@WolfMoonstarMAC 3 года назад

I'm surprised the massive PVP bot infestation wasn't mentioned. But then, that would be beating a dead horse with a dead horse.

@matta6088 3 года назад

Dude I'd completely forgotten when I was new to the game, going right into HoT after finishing the personal story and being like 'who the hell are these guys' regarding the new roster.

@NessaGW2 3 года назад

same, no idea about ANYTHING

@ThiagoPuccinelli 3 года назад

SAME xD

@ChaoticNeutralMatt 3 года назад

I only did it so far as the mount sadly.

@cambeul 3 года назад

who the Hell is Brahm, where is Logan?

@ArcabuzStrife 3 года назад

ikr gw2 story is so bad. At least gw1 story hooked you

@grimvisionz91 3 года назад

The Tyrian Yellow Cab was Guild Wars 2 at its *Highest*

@Sangria713 3 года назад

This video is such a reminder of how good WP has been at cataloguing this franchise. So many things were huge blasts from the past that made me go "Whoa, I totally forgot that had even happened".

@rampant1apart 3 года назад

Plot wise, I remember the Pale Tree being described as the center of the Eternal Alchemy, then knocked out, and then just forgotten.

@speedlarcool132 3 года назад

Again, after mordremoth, the pale tree just disappear, no one speak about her and how she has been doing. Same with Zojja just disappearing from the face of the Tyria

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

I remember when people were convinced that she was already compromised by Mordremoth, and the summit in season 2 was a trap to kill all the world leaders. I also remember personally wanting the fallout of HoT being everyone no longer trusting the Sylvari and enough fear-mongering leading up to the Grove being put under siege while she was still recovering. This would lead to Malyck returning with an army from another Grove to give aid.

@rampant1apart 3 года назад

@@choryllis6646 Oh gods, Malyck! I forgot all about the other Pale Tree! Another plot tree that could have been so cool!

@MorningShore 3 года назад

@@speedlarcool132 If I remember correctly, Zojja was just discarded because the voice actor was expensive/hard to get a hold off due to other engagements. I read that somewhere a long time ago. Which I agree is kinda lame, Zojja used to be a favourite character of mine

@MrShadowRaiden 3 года назад

@@MorningShore which then you have to wonder do you just go ok look guys we cant get the same voice actor but we have recast them, happens plenty of times and 99% of people will have understand heck even add in a little event to the story maybe a device went wrong that caused her voice to change or something to make it more believable instead of just going she doesnt exist anymore.

@Brickbroslegosrule 3 года назад

It seems a lot of people sort of miss the point with Rytlock and his arc in IBS and the requiem story. People mostly say “oh but he doesn’t act like a charr” as if that isn’t the point. At launch he was the brutal blood legion Tribune most people know him as, but because he went globe trotting with the commander he sort of mellowed out, became more sympathetic. The requiem story was sort of the final part where he almost fully stopped acting like a charr, when he realized why The Commander and Caithe were so upset over the death of Aurene, and reflected on his life wishing he’d done it different. That’s why in IBS he’s more uncomfortable back home, he feels like and outsider trying to connect with his “family” which just isn’t possible, leading to him having to come to terms with that and make the hard choice in the end, to kill Ryland. It’s personally my favorite arc of any of the characters in the game.

@PinkPiratePickle 3 года назад

I am glad that you see it this way and explained it beatifully , I just always say he became a domesticated cat . some just cant escape the fantasty stereotype . His character had a lot of conflict with his own people and its been demonstrated a lot in the story. One example was that he declined a higher position amongst the charr.

@Cheeryjokey 3 года назад

Agree - I never liked the sentiment that the Charr had to be bloodthirsty creatures hellbent on war - the Olmakhan proved that and I didn't mind if Rytlock shifted. I would be annoyed if entire legion Charr society changed in that direction and appreciate that Crecia was more of that style of Charr mother where Rytlock softened somewhat. I basically see DE Rytlock as a different character to DW Rytlock now, but I don't think that's a bad thing and I agree with your comment.

@TheIronDrapery 3 года назад

Yes! I've said it before, them expanding on the Charr by making them more compassionate, like any other sentient being would have to be to build a society in the first place, is not a retcon. The fascist hierachical structure that takes away the young Charr from their parents and endoctrinates them to become dedicated to war and the strength/supremacy of the Charr race is not the natural state of being for any society, and A-net introducing the Olmakhan to reflect this was a great move. We like out villains, gray, not black and white, right? Adding this extra depth to Rytlock, and as extention the entire Charr race, was one of the best things A-net has done, world building wise.

@wafflingmean4477 3 года назад

I wish they put a little more of this in the game though, not just the Requiem story. I read it, so understood Rytlock's new way of thinking. But I feel like most players didn't quite understand why Rytlock was so different by the time he met Ryland. I loved how they outlined the difference clearly though, when Bangar straight up said "Charr don't have sons, everyone knows that."

@Jbills 3 года назад

Agreed. Rytlock is my favorite character of the "gang" by a longshot.

@MoreImbaThanYou 3 года назад

I still hope for an update in wich our commander wakes up in a hospital, with Zojja greeting her: "You're finally awake commander! That crash landing after we killed Zhaitan really did hit you on the head, didn't it?"

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

Oooooh, and then everything that has happened since then could happen again, but better! And everyone starts questioning the Commander because they've "seen the future" and we could get a ton of really neat plot twists and character interactions as the Commander struggles with if they should tell everything and risk changing the timeline for something better or worse, or keeping their mouth shut and making the best of it!

@marthdaeglin 3 года назад

I would pay double for that expansion.

@kingjakewolf5348 3 года назад

@@choryllis6646 This would be amazing

@NexusNoxCS 3 года назад

Holy crap! You actually, really blew my mind with the idea that Personal Story would end at Claw Island and Season 1 would be about pushing into Orr and fighting Zhaitan at the very end. What a concept.

@MultiINinja 3 года назад

I stopped playing Guild Wars 2 many years ago. I still watch your videos though now and again simply because I enjoy your content. Whatever happens, you have always been one my favorite content creators and you deserve all the best my man.

@Nico-lw5ol 3 года назад

2 many years? damn how many exactly?

@xkmto 3 года назад

@@Nico-lw5ol i'm not the guy but my guild and I started playing at launch in 2012 and stopped in 2017, so it's been 4 years already

@_megori 3 года назад

On the same boat. I had been playing nonstop since season 2, sadly missed season 1, and I left the game last June and only came back for the finale, and well... I don't think I'll even buy EoD. WP is the only thing related to GW2 that I still care about and enjoy.

@JesusOnDuty 3 года назад

@@_megori same. done with gw2. Anet clearly left the boat long time ago.

@Kasaaz 3 года назад

Same!

@ForeverUnmotivated 3 года назад

The weird sense of mismatched scale was actually what saved HoT's story for me from all the other little disappointments of the cuts. I liked the disorienting feeling of being on a collision with Mordremoth and having no idea how you'll actually overcome him until the last second. It felt very intimate, HoT's maps were really good at making you feel small and insignificant, and the story kind of played on that. I do wish there was just... more, though. I had just come to HoT from FFXIV and it's first expansion and found myself wishing GW2 was more willing to have story beats where you just read unvoiced text purely for exposition and pacing.

@MissGenkiArt 3 года назад

I'm in the minority of my friends but the HoT maps are some of my favorite to this day. You're spot on with how they really do make you feel small and insignificant. You can get lost in the jungle, especially in the Tangled Depths. Verdant Brink's endless war with so many different small stories going on at the same time is one of the most immersive maps there is. It really has the scope of war with finding survivors from the crash, rebuilding from next to nothing, distrust among the pact, and surviving the night. I really wish my friends had the same appreciation for the atmosphere and storytelling in those maps. But they're generally just too annoyed by the mere act of traversing them, haha.

@gewreid5946 3 года назад

The HoT maps, how they felt and the stories they told were amazing. I just wished the personal story would lead us back and forth inside them more, rather than just rush trough.

@CollectorsTeam 3 года назад

HoT maps were fantastic (except Tangled Depths, fuck that map), They made being on those maps worth it, with the meta events.

@JeffHzak 3 года назад

Vlast only being a character post-mortem is actually the aspect I really liked. The sense of loss you get when he muses to himself and addresses his sister in his memory crystals was fantastic.

@bartkorol611 3 года назад

Yes, it gave a sense of the time passed and one that we will not get to see, BUT we got to hear glimpses of, it was a really cool experience.

@Wrzlprnft 3 года назад

I agree. It made me feel for him.

@wafflingmean4477 3 года назад

I think it was far better than getting nothing out of his death, but I think they could have done both. They should have kept Vlast with us for most of PoF, and if some parts of character arc didn't really organically come up, we could see that through the memory crystals.

@thornwalker8970 3 года назад

Yes!! Having a character die almost immediately and then bringing you to like them through flashbacks and tidbits is a stroytelling method I really like! I think I was disappointed with it because it didn’t have as much impact on Aurene / the Commander as I thought it would. But overall, Vlast’s death was not a bad point for me.

@MastaGambit 3 года назад

Vlast will always be among my favorites. Poor thing was just depressed due to his confinement.

@baptistemartin5591 3 года назад

its actually really soothing to go through all of the hiccup of the game , really put in perspective the current situation

@EdhellenCuar 3 года назад

makes me feel better about the expansion

@wiedzmin2908 3 года назад

When i said last patch was a huge dissapointment in that new dragon instance i was called toxic asshole, dissapointment to my family, hater, retard etc... So ye. Looks like i cannot have negative opinion about stuff xd

@ChaoticNeutralMatt 3 года назад

@@wiedzmin2908 lmao people who can't take negative options both amuse and sadden me

@rayrayz4667 3 года назад

he really makes it sound like leadership/management is just a complete hot mess that doesn't know WTF their doing...and I would agree.

@AzureRoxe 3 года назад

Let's never forget the first Karka invasion, where it was VERY clear that the game servers were actually potatos and could not handle so many players and enemies in Lion's Arch, let alone in the Karka's island [forgot the name] where EVERYONE was there. Everything during that invasion was a slideshow.

@kblacklabel 3 года назад

yeah it still is that did not changed whatsoever

@zeomassicot9664 3 года назад

I agree that it should have been on the list. Lost Shores was the first major titled (non-festival) release and it was absolute chaos and fuckery. Everything was culled, no megaservers, etc.

@MUGENGaming 3 года назад

Another 40 minutes. I’ve been going through a lot of popcorn these past few days 🍿

@Nudasz 3 года назад

Now you have to do Guild Wars 2 at it's highest

@dayweed85 3 года назад

im high right now.

@Soinetwa 3 года назад

some must haves youl be first second maybe third raid wing.. probably bundle them together SAB first Halloween decisions in the creation of the game that made combat as it is wardrobe mounts (several points becasue id give one to the pof launch mounts and at least one for the rollerbeetle) becasue it makes movign around just so much more fun well these are just from 1minute brainstorming id love a video on this tpic of wp himself

@Silith13 3 года назад

This. For sure. We need positivepotato after these last few days.

@Magmadu100 3 года назад

One of my personal pet peeves with the recent story is how they handled Almorra's death. One of the most interesting characters in the game to me because of her direct connection to one of the elder dragons, that could've died fulfilling her vow of avenging her warband and saving the day in one last hurrah is instead killed off camera after her narrative importance is exhausted. And all that to be replaced now by a boring norn...

@speedlarcool132 3 года назад

who only interact twice with the main character, like, who the fuck are you?

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

Not only that, but she is one of the few Charr we interact with regularly who doesn't fully hate humans and isn't 100% bloodthirsty and war-mongering. Almorra, Rytlock, and Tybalt are 3 standout Charr because of their compassion for the world and their willingness to put their grievances with other groups behind them for the safety of them all (you can make the argument about all of the Charr in the orders, but none of them were as developed as these 3). Almorra openly admitted that she was upset about her son being killed, but she had come to terms with it long before because it would be for the good of the world if Charr and humans got over their own egos. Rytlock was the same, and his "hatred" of humans in the Personal Story was basically just being upset that Logan left the fight early. And then there's Tybalt from the Order of Whispers who very heavily respected the humans he served with (most likely because they didn't treat him as badly as the other Charr legions did after he lost his warband). Tybalt died in 2012, yet they still bring his death up as a very traumatic experience for the player, such as during the fight with Mordremoth and when the player is in the Domain of the Lost. Almorra? You tell Jhavi every few releases, "She'd be proud of you." Also, Jhavi should've been given a lot more character for how big of a role her ancestor's story was when dealing with Jormag. Her biggest role in all of Icebrood was the fight against Drakkar and then she's basically a background character the rest of the story.

@Kasaaz 3 года назад

I had forgotten just how confusing the end of the Personal Story was. I felt like I was having a stroke sometimes, because things just kept randomly happening and had nothing to do with other things. I kept thinking I must be forgetting huge parts.

@lexan2002 3 года назад

it's because your expected to play every race and every faction to get the full story which pissed me off to no end. it's fine to have a personal story but there should be a cohesion of main story plots. Like the fact that fort trinity was a combination of sylvari char and asura tech wasn't brought up in the human story, you just get there and like "hey check out our awesome base we built overnight" or how about the fact that there aren't chat icons over characters with dialog, so you have to mouse over every single person just to hear "nice weather" from someone.

@Temmoie 3 года назад

@@lexan2002 Coo, quagan likes you.

@Justacravat13 3 года назад

It's really disheartening to come in as a newer player and see vets holding these kind of opinions especially when, through my eyes, I see so much this game does well. It's quality of life with it's wiki integration and customizability are really amazing, it has a really diverse cast with great representation that so many other games either miss the mark on or lack completely (Like disabled and LGBT characters who just /are/ instead of having it be their whole personality), the world feels really alive with so much of the content being voiced and offering a lot of interaction, and having a lot of really unique things about it's gameplay and events that make for some amazing moments that I find myself wanting to replay and experience with people (like the wonderfully chaotic metal concert in grothmar). As a hardcore player, I think it is easy to get jaded over time when you look exclusively at the faults of something, but I think that there are a lot of positives to really help to balance out the negatives you list here (a lot of which seem to be things they've at least attempted to learn from). I also want to note that, as a consumer, I'd much rather have a company try to do something innovative and unique and fail rather than having them turn out the same shit on the same schedule. Coming from being a hardcore player of FFXIV, having everything be the same and predictable 100% of the time feels boring and you kind of find yourself wondering why you spend so much time gear grinding to stay relevant and be able to play when you don't want to anymore- at least GW offers the ability to step away for a little bit and then drop in to pick back up when you need a mental break, life happens, or something else has caught your interest.

@Alesthes 3 года назад

My sentiments on the “top” worst moment in the development of GW2 are very close to WP’s. The worst mistake, and by far, was indeed right after the game launch, when it became apparent that they didn’t have a clear idea of the post launch content and they hadn’t a post launch production pipeline ready. They even admitted several years later that for quite some time they just tried several things to see what was sticking, which is insane in my mind. This was really GW2’s original sin. When the game launched it was insanely popular, WoW had a weak expansion launch and tons of content creators and outlets were closely following GW2. Unfortunately, they were quite unprepared to keep people engaged after the first months. I have thought many times where GW2 would be now if it launched with a clear and solid post launch roadmap, Ascended gear, quality 5-men and 10-men instanced content like Fractals and Raids/Strikes, a consistent series of Living Story episodes planned and the clear notion that Expansions will be a thing. It took quite some time for them to figure out this (relatively obvious) stuff. But in the meantime they had lost lots of people and the game had earned this infamous label of being the MMO with no endgame and where “there’s nothing to do”. To this day, I believe they could have become a genuine behemoth of a game, because its fundamentals are indeed outstanding. With more revenue and visibility in the long run, maybe the layoff disaster would have been avoided and the game would be in a quite different position today...

@Rose.Of.Hizaki 3 года назад

I think one of the worst mistakes was using the same engine from GW1. This game runs like complete ass on new and powerful hardware. It was a massive oversight given how much of a departure GW2 was to GW1 and also how long GW1 lasted. There is still quite a lot of people that still play GW1. But all we got is the same engine on steroids that struggles. This game would have ran a lot better if they built it on an engine that supported DX11 or DX12.

@HarJBeRw 3 года назад

How about a "Guild Wars 2 at its best" video to follow up on this one? :D Would be a good way to remind us why we love this game and build up some excitement again after the sheer dissapointment of the last week!

@Jbills 3 года назад

This !

@igorb8255 3 года назад

true -it would be good

@bintangdanar3663 3 года назад

Want it

@gewreid5946 3 года назад

Yep, rather than put things into perspective this just nourished the nagging voice in my head saying that GW2s immense potential has been mishandled at every crossroads.

@99LitOs 3 года назад

Good suggestion

@joshuatran1556 3 года назад

I think that the Long Live the Litch release was one of the biggest letdowns because of the extra problems it caused. That release ended with the public firing of Jessica Price and one other dev, a massive amount of negative press from the developers berating the community, the complete shunting of Gandara as a location, a nearly empty and soulessly grindy map, all with the sentiment that "We are the developers and this is what you get".

@thelyssamysterygw2439 3 года назад

That was the beginning of the end for MO's GW2.

@HizzerPeews 3 года назад

Garm is hanging out with Eir's other daughter or son no one knew about.

@jduchiha4656 3 года назад

Ah, yes..... So and so Eirsotherson

@sandgrunge 3 года назад

@@jduchiha4656 i dunno sounds legit.

@sephardbanks 2 года назад

@@jduchiha4656 Eirsotherson killed me

@mikalemadden1762 3 года назад

That live action trailer is still so baffling to me. My theory is that maybe their producers filmed a bunch of stuff for some other project that got canceled and they were just like "we paid money for this footage so we can't waste it... here you go anet make it about guild wars" or something

@lifewhatsoever 3 года назад

Nah I think Anet thought it was such a cool and original idea but it ended up being really wacky.

@mattd5857 3 года назад

No the live action trailer was ANet letting their artists have a bit too much creative freedom. The whole thing is very much an arthouse piece, lots of bizarre elements combined in ways that make sense abstractly but are not easy to digest by the mass audience. I think what happened was people loved ANet's use of their concept art and leveraging the talent of their artists so for the launch trailer they let some of them take the helm, and surprise surprise a bunch of art school grads make an arthouse piece that is bizarre and not well received in mainstream media.

@wtaylor9408 3 года назад

So... about just a couple of months before GW2 released, another MMO called "The Secret World" came out, with massive, open-world PvE, WvWvW 3-way faction battles, PvP, etc, & it had an animated trailer very similar to the GW2 live-action trailer. The Secret World actually seemed really promising on release, & during GW2 beta there I saw a lot of people debating which game would be better in the end. GW2 had far better WvW & PvP than The Secret World, & TSW released with monthly sub, iirc, & GW2 was just a bigger overall game. I don't know that TSW release had anything to do with GW2 putting out that weird trailer, I just remember thinking how oddly similar it was to some of the TSW marketing at the time. Honestly, there may just be no explaining that trailer; hopefully we'll see a bunch of former Abet employees being grilled about it on a Netflix documentary in 20 years or something.

@dreamcore_gg 3 года назад

For me the absolute worst was their decision to basically ignore WvW from launch, the single gamemode with undeniable potential and IMO one of the major selling points for the game pre-launch. Launch WvW was still some of the most fun I ever had in GW2 and that was a time where mechanically, WvW was a shoddy mess with graphical glitches, culling, the fact you couldn't use your skills in Stonemist fights at weekly reset because the servers couldn't handle it - despite all that, the gamemode was just so much fun because GW2 had(and still has) an incredible combat system. It baffles me to this day that ArenaNet went with focusing GW2 to be a solo-player story game where practically all of the potential of the combat system is lost(save for interesting mechanics in raids or fractals, which are few and far between). The focus absolutely should have been on open world PvP and sPvP, where those mechanics could really shine.

@bryanj78 3 года назад

Volunteer and Avenger of the Dispossessed are to this day my greatest GW2 achievements

@mrDjuroman 3 года назад

This video made me feel old, and kinda sad for the game. In every part of its history, it was a game with the greatest potential and most disappointing realization

@captRhay 3 года назад

well said friend. i'm with you

@GrayveStone 3 года назад

Glad I'm not the only one that finds the idea of permanently deleted content of Season 1 to be a baffling idea.

@FurySong 3 года назад

I played this game at launch and remember vividly the release of Flame and Frost. A bunch of my friends and I were in several different teamspeaks and ventrilo servers eagerly waiting for the patch to drop. An entire mob of players entered Wayfarer Foothills and followed a line all the way down the map, repairing signs. After awhile it got really, really quiet in every chat room and especially in map chat, there was this communal feeling like... “Is this it? There has to be something more to this, right?” But after about an hour or two of wandering around trying to find the content we felt were promised I gradually saw everyone’s numbers dwindle and log off. Or go do something else. It was the saddest thing I ever remember in my 8 years of playing this game.

@Jbills 3 года назад

It seems like GW2s issues stem from constantly shifting gears with the direction of the game (Living world, expansions, etc) and not having a plan. Before GW2 released, I remember them saying as soon as the game launched, half the team would focus on the next expansion, and there would be an expansion every 2 years. They should have just stuck with that instead of playing around with Living World.

@panzerstorm9016 3 года назад

Guild Wars 2 at its lowest: "Giant Shuriken backpack/glider combo"

@venomushero8918 3 года назад

LMAO

@Cheeryjokey 3 года назад

It would be nice to also get a list of what you think the best parts of Guild Wars 2 are. Also surprised you didn’t mention the lack of polymock at the end there

@Metallex 3 года назад

As having lived through all of these, this brought some GW2-related PTSD back to the surface. On 17, the absolute worst thing was how little of the currency you could actually acquire over the entire event. Good times had by all.

@harrincourt95 3 года назад

This is a slight correction, but All or nothing wasn't the last release of S4, that was War Eternal and it came out in May 2019. So The wait to the Icebrood Saga announcement wasn't as long as you make it out to be in this video (although the announcement wasn't less disappointing anyway).

@bloomins8088 3 года назад

I'm literally 60 pages into a fanfiction about Joko and Elona because Anet didnt give us enough of him after setting him up SO well.

@drchaos2000 3 года назад

how about some rytlock and taimie rule34 ?

@dukelemur 3 года назад

That sounds dope to read tho, links?

@_megori 3 года назад

You can't say that and not drop the link

@KokkeOP 3 года назад

Share that Joko-Lore!

@KokkeOP 3 года назад

You just dropped the bomb right by the end of the video. All those are one of the most annoying mistakes decisions ever done by Anet.

@meinname3414 3 года назад

My top 1: Gear grind and keep on making legendary superior(which is still going on). The things I'm missing: -Introduction of the wardrobe and focus on achiementpoints(why did they make it visible in game anyways). It changed the community from "play they way you want and enjoy" to zombies hunting for carrots. -change of the forumsoftware -killing Tybalt

@yalcinunal19 3 года назад

As a norn fan, from the moment when tooth is cracked in season 3, i always waited for a content that me as a norn commander, go to north to reclaim lost homeland. But soon after we get to see jormag put into sleep. So i made peace with the idea of not going there since the threat did not disappeared entirely. When IBS came and we went to north, i was super excited for possibility of finding our homeland. (I can relate the pain of yours about getting disapppointed as a primordus fan) However all i get was a disappointment as IBS got butchered for a coming expansion which we told we wouldnt need it because IBS supposed to be that good and and replace expansions. Leaving my disappointment on my favorite topics getting ignored, arenanet had way too broad scope and try to deliver many stuff but it was highly under equipped to run such a big ambitions. After a certain point even having 5 different race and different story lines were too big to handle for them. So focusing on smaller subject like having only one or two race and not focusing various big story arcs that affect the course of whole world would be way healtier for arenanet. At this point Especially after loosing so much blood. I dont think neither they have capibility to tell captivating stories about the course of whole world, nor will to provide consistent story telling. I really do support your ideas on us, players are not gonna believe or getting invested into new story arcs. And that is devastating. I spent so much time in this universe and i love tyria. Rather than having elders dragons as a mighty nemesis that making us have to put everyting aside and unite to save tyria, i really enjoy little stories like chars having a civil war, norn finally have chance to reclaim, rising tension between char-human, having a lich king tyrant, sylvari as a race have a connection to elder dragon so getting into position that there is different opinion about salvation and getting racial hatred towards them. At this point race seems like only a cosmetic option where you only get couple fun diolougue based on your race, however at the end you supposed to be a good commander and fight against the baddies. Im sorry, this long comment lost direction many times. Im just glad you as a huge geek about this universe, mention some similar problems. I always felt getting disconnected from my charecter and it always went worse. Wish we only had only one option, play as a human but the decisions we made had a real consequences. All other races should have remain as non playable races.

@rayrayz4667 3 года назад

On guild chat I think it was like 3-4 people who made the North meta on drizzle and its like your company has around 280 employees now WTF are you doing with all of them...and this is AFTER the firing. Sure not everyone is a game dev but many should utilized WAY more than they are right now.

@nnapjuice 3 года назад

gods this video made me feel nostalgic like none of your others. i haven't played in years, but remembering being bewildered with some of these when they were happening with my friends really brought me back

@feniu10 3 года назад

Am I weird for liking one path ends? A return to Orr? Seeing it being reclaimed? Fighting the last mursaat? Learning more about the shining blade? Livia and the commander having amusing character moments? I enjoyed that. I don't think you could realistically expect more from the mursaat story than a dedicated living world episode.

@WoodenPotatoes 3 года назад

I love the patch in general, especially aurora and how it invigorated the whole season.

@bmscarecrow. 3 года назад

I loved one path ends but the character I experienced it on was a human blessed by Balthazar, with the unknown parents background, and a member of the order of whispers. Many storylines from my personal story were concluded or expanded upon in season 3 so I understand the criticism of it because I can't even imagine how awkward it might be to play as a different race.

@perisemiotics3204 3 года назад

don't forget the gorgeous - though arguably useless - Siren of Orr mastery :) also, the JP around that tower with the boat at the top remains one of my most satisfying moments in the game.

@ChristinaStarlight 3 года назад

The problem was that they didnt show any respect for the mursaat. Livia tells you that the powers of the mursaat "used to be impressive" :s.

@Eggbutts 3 года назад

I thought raids deserved this big cool story beat considering it was pushed aside by LW3 and how they had been following that storyline so much. They could have portrayed an epic battle so much better.

@ashtonc8325 3 года назад

Honestly, what's even left that's still interesting about the GW universe after EoD wraps up? The worldbuilding from GW1 is what originally captivated me and made the GW universe interesting. However, it's like they see the GW1 worldbuilding more as a burden than as something to nurture and cultivate. Whether it be the gods, the dragons, or general GW1 mysteries, they seem so concerned with wrapping things up to go to something new that they're willingly butchering (or writing out of the picture) chunks of the GW1 worldbuilding and leaving behind a mess of half-baked plans and story threads that'll never be brought to fruition. EoD? They'll likely do the same to Cantha that they've been doing from the start. The treatment of Jormag and Primordus may not be the worst thing they've done, but they were certainly bad enough to undo any good faith they earned from PoF or LS4. This was their chance to prove that they could deliver consistent quality across multiple LS/expansion cycles and frankly they blew it. Post-layoff ANet? This is apparently what they're capable of delivering, art without substance. Outside of reimagining locations from GW1, they've struggled to make good use of the existing worldbuilding and expand upon it in competent and meaningful ways. I seriously doubt they'll be able to do any new worldbuilding post-EoD justice, especially once they no longer have any lines to trace or worldbuilding left to butcher from GW1.

@WesternHypernormalization 3 года назад

You summed up my feelings pretty well.

@darkonxy 3 года назад

Yeah it's weird how often they've messed up like they have a ton, and sometimes I can't help but feel my love for this game could be considered an abusive relationship :| and it's tempting at this point to just file for that metaphorical devoirce.

@kesamek8537 3 года назад

Remember to take the dog and tell the lawyers to go for the house.

@GruntSquad92 3 года назад

I dipped out in whatever living world episode palawa joko was. Went to ffxiv, not regretting my migration at all. However, I miss wp, I'd like him to switch too, I am sure he would do very well there, and gain a good audience number

@_Encie 3 года назад

this might exist already, but even if it does, an updated version might be interesting: Will there be a TOP 10 of GW2? :)

@kesamek8537 3 года назад

The real Top 10 is the friends we made along the way.

@CallumTWalker 3 года назад

Yess

@charlesbertram58 3 года назад

I also would like a top 10 things they did right!

@lucentfir640 3 года назад

Shame on you WP, for reminding me about that god damn Taxi cab video :[

@ToyLatrine 3 года назад

I still can’t believe they haven’t put season 1 back in the game fully playable

@DrakorthaProductions 3 года назад

I didn't like how Aurene was brought back to life. When she died, I thought it was to be a pivoting point in the story. It's what makes a story interesting and engaging, when there is loss as well as triumph. If all that ever happens is triumph that shit just gets boring fast. I really liked the way HoT story played out, generally. It began with the tragedy of the pact airships crashing and it really added a lot to the story. It made you care and want to help. The whole Aurene thing is starting to feel like a Disney cartoon..

@Scanntraxx001 3 года назад

I thought the idea of temporary living world content was stupid from the start. So much content you cannot play again and new players will never get the chance.

@gewreid5946 3 года назад

I really liked the idea of a truly living, ever changing world. Though in hindsight i'd say that for a game like that, you'd need a much smaller world, like a single city or something.

@dorsia6938 3 года назад

I'm constantly bewildered by the bad choices these big gaming companies make. Living World was definitely a really, really bad idea. When they launched it, the game still had a lot of fundamental issues and bugs which I'm not sure they ever fixed. They should have focused on fixing those instead of trying to add superfluous story events.

@VidereOrbis 3 года назад

I have forgotten so much of this. Makes me think why I still play sometimes.

@NessaGW2 3 года назад

cos community is the best, true

@Rkcuddles 3 года назад

Thank you for this... it was way more enjoyable than some of the recent daily discussion episodes. I hope those discussions aren’t delaying/preventing you from delivering quality content like this,

@seafighter4 3 года назад

Your number 1 actually brought back some very fond memories of the game. Prior to being disappointed by the reveal that all the commotion was just some dredge on fire, I really dug the atmosphere built during the patch that added the broken signs. I remember staying in the Wayfarer Foothills, listening to the distant sounds of drums and/or explosions, being reminded of LotR's Balrog reveal, imagining that Primordus was tunneling under us, ready to burst out, wreak havok and create a volcano or something. Good times. Sadly the disappointment set in with the next release.

@ILoveGrilledCheese 3 года назад

I feel like Anet has fantastic ideas that they quickly find ways to avoid implementing.

@gewreid5946 3 года назад

Yes or something that get's axed just while it's getting good.

@flobro6768 3 года назад

To me Gw2 is like this: a bunch of truly amazing and talented devs with a clear vision of what the game stands for and what the game should be about, being chained to a headless chicken who run around endlessly in the most inconsistent manner. Basically, the head of guild wars is like that moa event in Dry Top.

@CollectorsTeam 3 года назад

It's more of they are trying to do too many things in too little time, so everything gets rushed and changed at the last moment to fit in. Anet can do amazing story, the Kralkatorrik fight in Thunderhead Peaks is proof of that. To me, it was the highlight of GW2, that one fight.

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

It's like me writing fanfiction, but they're a supposedly professional game company trying to put out a product for people to buy. I'm a less than mediocre writer splashing words on the screen and posting it for free online.

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

@@CollectorsTeam It was amazing, to be sure, along with the Balthazar fight for me.

@basinox 3 года назад

A few days ago I took my friend through his lvl 40 story, and you must have heard his disappointment when he enteres old LA and realized he can never explore it

@Sunari 3 года назад

I still miss playing hide n' seek with a friend, and using some of those interesting bridges to escape them ): It was a really interesting and interwoven area.

@Irredine 3 года назад

I want the old lions arch. Looks thematic and pirate town. Miss the shanty look to it. New LA looks like the upscale tourist boardwalk/harbor area of modern US east coast cities.

@Steely33 3 года назад

@@Irredine I agree, I too would like to see the old LA back.

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

I wish Anet would've remade the main area (the mystic forge, the trading post, the bank) and then had the rest be rebuilt like old LA. Give players a taste of both and show a bit of classism in there.

@courtneyb9182 3 года назад

Tbh, I came into the game around early 2018, and I was so confused going right into the expansions on who the new characters were, I probably spent a good 5-6 hours of watching lore videos of LWS1 to figure out what was going on. Still SUPER thankful to you and the other veteran creators who made so much helpful lore content for us newer players! But thank to Dragon's Watch not having a permanent, proper introduction, I have problems to this day of getting friends into the game past Zhaitan because of the gap in the story.

@Ray01360 3 года назад

I haven’t finished the video yet, but I am so glad someone said PvP was dropped. My heart sunk as an avid pvper in GW1. GvG, RA, and HA were my favorite things to do in GW1. I didn’t get any of that in GW2. I kept waiting and playing pvp & wvw for years until I got pissed if from waiting.

@riddlesphinxx 3 года назад

Genuinely, what a hilarious way to spin this in a fun way!

@imenz93 3 года назад

This just made me realize that the only reason I play the game are the lack of required gear grind, the ability to take a break without being punished for it and my love for wvw and the combat system.

@rayrayz4667 3 года назад

Imagine having to stand still to use most of your skills. GAG

@taserrr 3 года назад

So your "only" reasons for staying is the essence of the game being the great combat system, a major gamemode that's pretty unique in mmos (WvW) and the overall progression system? You just summed up the game pretty much, the story is only a small part not sure what this guy is clickbaiting with "gw2 lowest point".

@EngieMak 2 года назад

@@taserrr heh "clickbait", nice use of the word. He has listed other parts that weren't about stories, did you not hear he said Anet announced ascended gears after week of the game release despite saying you won't have to grind for gear, causing massive backlash? They got things right but without new update, players will be bored so they thought fixing a fucking sign was the answer to content drought, lets not even talk about the cringy marketing. Again, did you watch the video?

@GuzziHeroV50 3 года назад

Surprised not to see the Karka assault on Lion's Arch here. Delivered hours late, and when it arrived, the servers simply couldn't handle it. I was staying up late, despite being at work the following day. I managed to fight through till about 1am (I was due up at 6am!) and... crashed. What an absolute ball ache. It is only right that Anet gave us all our rewards later but that was built up so much and it turned into a slide show.

@Tyloric 3 года назад

This video just makes me mourn GW1 even more.

@Goremize 3 года назад

Hey, at least in the Zhaitan fight you get to actually shoot a dragon after you've bled it out with the missions beforehand, And get to see it fall to pieces. Unlike Of course, a fight that had more wild magic involved since Abandon, not even causing the world to shake :p

@BrendanCS 3 года назад

Hilarious how much longer he was able to go on about additional things that could have been on the list, they just kept coming to mind lol

@westarrr 2 года назад

Heart of mist is so high. THANK. YOU. As a GW1 veteran (and even gone back to GW1), someone finally mentions what PvP was supposed to have been.

@screamingopossum7809 3 года назад

With the way they did the entire fight, I didn't believe that Jormag and Primordus were even dead (ok, Primordus yeah with Jormag saying "Open wide"). Primordus was woken up, didn't really have much to do other than be drained by a human God, then woken up again to have an ice pop. He deserved more.

@kesamek8537 3 года назад

omg the taxi, he's going there

@ismael1751 3 года назад

I gotta say, the fact that Aurene got rezzed like she did was the nail in the coffin that made me realize the absolute joke that GW2 writing is.

@aran4241 3 года назад

This right here retroactively made long the lich even more infuriating for me when you realized he died for Aurene to have a fake out death so the story can have its cake and eat it too

@DrakorthaProductions 3 года назад

the salt in the wound is Aurene has a voice actor now, so she's annoying as hell that you actually WANT her to die xD

@jdgual 3 года назад

This is what you do best WP, putting everything in context. Great video!

@Miraki 3 года назад

Will we see a flip side to this video by chance? "Guild Wars 2 At Its Highest"? Thanks for the video WP, cheers!~ edit: It's in the title should be Its :]

@labdG 3 года назад

I kinda like this way of thinking and perspective. It's not about pretending the bad things are not bad. We can be dissapointed with the things that deserve it. But we also can do what we can to have fun as a community and not wallow too much in negative feelings. It's not an easy ballance, but I think it's worthy to strive for. Understanding the dissapointment while also trying to make the most of our situations. At least that's just my thoughts. x)

@funkdahmental 3 года назад

Here’s my thoughts of gw2. Shit just fizzles out. Dont get too attached.

@Jinkaza1882 3 года назад

I was on the hype-train for GW2. Dropped Warcraft as if it was an 8am English Litureture class. Picked mesmer and went to town! Exploring, fighting, crafting and hanging with friends. Completed my personal story, did this instance, and sat there seething. All of that time to get to the ELDER DRAGON, and all I did was press a button on prompt. It is a game folks and goals matter. The best leveling experience I have ever had in an mmo, and the mmo that turned me off of the genre for years. Ty WP for the vids, and best wishes in your future endeavors.

@blackcitadel37 3 года назад

One more GW2 Netflix documentary. This week is being wild.

@Designsy-wl9nr 3 года назад

I remember feeling all these feelings WP but when I voiced my frustrations I felt like I was the only one. I guess the majority felt the same way and just left?

@kamilkornobis1742 3 года назад

Ok i actually burst out laughing at 'good luck with Steam release, i say' :D

@rayrayz4667 3 года назад

Yup because steam players and reviewers are honest AF and will tear this game apart.

@stevens7443 2 года назад

One path ends was worthwhile because Siren's Landing is awesome.

@_Banjo_ 3 года назад

There was actually a reasonable recent comment from Linsey Murdock where she mentions some parts of the New Player Experience and says how some it didnt age well / the people in charge of those decisions arent around anymore.

@rayrayz4667 3 года назад

MANY people aren't around anymore looool

@Klong15 3 года назад

I remember during the gw2 beta, you'd get a survey (in-game if I remember?) asking how the difficulty of random story encounters and public events felt. It made me feel confident that they'd make it fun and challenging. I guess most people didn't select the "easy as fuck" option...

@thatrealba 3 года назад

Dang.. I completely forgot about the gobs and gobs of hours my guildies and I poured into the beta and all the information we sent. 🤷‍♂️ guess we were right all through GW when we said that Anet hated us.

@gewreid5946 3 года назад

I checked both the "very challenging" and "very fun" boxes and have been fearing ever since that was a mistake... Maybe i should have said that the difficulty is in the middle, so as to not suggest it's TOO challenging.

@CollectorsTeam 3 года назад

Problem with that is that most people didn't know how to min max builds yet. It became very apparent that the story was way too easy once you realized you can just go full berserker gear and nuke everything.

@Irredine 3 года назад

Lol I remember that now. Something rating hearts and events scores. Game was leaps and bounds more exciting back then

@AzureRoxe 3 года назад

@@CollectorsTeam Most players still don't know since the devs themselves have mentioned that the DPS of the average player compared a good one is ridiculously low.

@mattzeyro 3 года назад

Such a great video as always, Potatoes. Thanks for always putting your heart and soul into your content, it's hard to find a RU-vidr with more heart and passion for a game than with you and the Guild Wars franchise. I've played Guild Wars 1 since release, and dropped off Guild Wars 2 in 2014 right before the Heart of Thorns release. It was a really bumpy ride which led up to my heartbreaking departure from Guild Wars 2, and I've listed a few below which you didn't include in your top 17. -Southsun Cove, one of the first huge new maps to be released in the game, was a conceptual and technical disaster upon release. While visually designed very well, the amount of mobs, players, particle effects, and everything else included with the corresponding event made playing it a nightmare. Not to mention, after the map's release event ended, Southsun Cove completely faded into the background as a seemingly wasted effort of dev time. -Super Adventure Box Season 2. After proving to be a MASSIVE hit with the playerbase, it was a huge stab in the back when it came back around the following year with artificially harder difficulty, near-impossible insta-death jumps, and a brand new monetized Continue system to seemingly be pushed as a solution to the newly added difficulty. It really emphasized the fact that Nexon was on the monetization team for Guild Wars 2, and was one of the more player-hostile Gem Store schemes early on in the game's lifespan. -You touched on it briefly, but the Heart of Thorns prerelease disaster was my final nail in the coffin. Yes, I'll go ahead and admit I thought it was sleazy to add a new playable class without providing an extra character slot initially, especially based on what the precedent was set with Guild Wars 1, but that wasn't the meat of the issue. Like you mentioned, the hand-wavy explanation of "Core is free, HoT is $50, and no discounts for current players" was the straw the broke the camel's back. It seemed like such blatant disregard for the hemorrhaging playerbase at the time in many ways, and I still look back on that situation and shake my head in severe disappointment.

@FeeBee3001 3 года назад

I have played Guild Wars 2 since headstart. My biggest issue is that Guild Wars 2 does not feel like it is the same world as Guild Wars. What I hated the most about the new player experience is that they made personal story level gated. I had my most fun with that when I was going through under levelled and seeing how low my level could get by the end story. I have not done personal story properly since then.

@Frosty04eb 3 года назад

I went back to GW1 last year ant it gave me so much more fun then 2 did in years.

@Irredine 3 года назад

Seriously had this on my mind for a while. Everything I look at about it looks like so much more comprehensive and better made developer design

@Frosty04eb 3 года назад

@@Irredine its the story and build crafting that always draws me back to GW1. So wish they could contract it out to another company to start developing new content for gw1 again.

@8bitalanjames 3 года назад

Despite having pre-ordered and been hyped for it, I never managed to get into GW2. I think I stopped about level 60, not even finishing the base game. Whereas GW1 I returned to last year for the 15th anniversary patch, and I'm still playing. 3600 hours, though that includes a few hundred AFK playing Nine Rings (e.g. right now). I wish WP did more GW1 videos, as the ones he does are fantastic.

@Killxden 3 года назад

I also went back to GW1 a few weeks ago and I am having a blast, even started to do gwamm on a another char :D

@Chlikaflok 3 года назад

I was so very hyped for this game, after loving Guild Wars (1) with all my heart. The art and lore of GW2 was looking so good, but ArenaNet dropped the ball real hard early on after release, and while I haven't kept up with the game along the years, I feel like the game was repeatedly mismanaged and its VERY HIGH potential was utterly squandered.

@duncanrobertson6472 3 года назад

I love that you've catalogued and laid out the history of the game so well here. It puts its failures into perspective, and reminded me of many things I've forgotten over the years. It's incredible how many problems can be summed up as the developers being too ambitious and not following through. As one of the few pvpers still invested in the game, it especially hurts to think of all the missed opportunities for competitive play. I wonder what would have happened if they invested in the pvp infrastructure at launch, or at least pitched the pvp as a beta of sorts, delaying the hype until they were ready to launch a decent leaderboard system. As a fan, it feels like there were moments of creative genius in the development of the game, particularly with the combat system. The weapon swap mechanic, dodging, movement abilities, jumping puzzles in conquest maps, and elegantly designed skills all combine to make incredibly compelling pvp combat. Still, pvp floundered because it lacked the tools for competitive play, and by the time they came, the last gasp of esports hype was undone by shoddy balance. Today we have an even better infrastructure, but the gamemode is hamstrung by a low population - the result of past mistakes and neglect. I think End of Dragons has the potential for a pvp revival, not as an esport that will attract outside attention, but as a game mode with a healthy devoted following. There are benefits to a scene that has dropped all pretention of "making it big," so I wouldn't say the outlook is all bad. I really do hope pvp continues to get love though. I've been happy with Cal Cohen (cmc)'s influence, and I think the mode will do well as long as it receives frequent balance updates.

@theambianceofhomraryan4111 3 года назад

I 100% agree on the #1 choice here. A large group of my friends jumped into Guild Wars 2, and all of them left at the start of the Living World. My memory is fuzzy, but I believe they quit because "there's no endgame" and "it's a game for casuals"... (there was also some drama with world vs world too, with people jumping onto high population worlds...) I tried to convince them to come back for Heart of Thorns / Path of Fire, but no luck there. Can't blame them for not wanting to invest in game that let them down.

@forgottencoast3677 3 года назад

Still watching. As a Nord player from the start, I was instantly disconnected from the story the moment Eir was taken out of the picture, and felt like my race lost its main representative (and my favorite member of the main cast) and I never felt like the bond I had with her in the personal story was ever replicated by Brahm or anyone else. I never found my footing with the story again since then. I dont even know whats going on in the current story. Eir could literally be alive right now and I wouldnt know, or care. Edit: Yay you mentioned it!

@SuperFohd 3 года назад

The fact you don't even know the name of your actual race makes me doubt you ever felt connected to the story at all...

@tobeymaguire9371 3 года назад

@@SuperFohd FYI, there's this little thing called autocorrect 🤦

@TJtheBee 3 года назад

I am SO GLAD somebody said this. Honestly, I love the norn, but they got absolutely no love and attention, and I just hate Braham, even more so because Eir's death was solely for his development, which sucked. Both of my favorite characters were killed off in Heart of Thorns, and I've never been able to get past that frustration. Not to mention that my excitement for the Icebrood Saga was completely dashed the moment they released the prologue and I was like "oh, this is going to be entirely about the charr. Okay then." Not that I don't like the charr too, but . . . Yeah. Just feels good that somebody understands.

@lowhangingvegetable 3 года назад

When the music came in at the end I genuinely thought you were just going to slowly fade out your voice while listing off an endless number of things you dislike about the game 😄

@aidam6152 3 года назад

I think the overall theme of those low points is Anet bitting off more than they can chew. They tried to make an ambitious game with immersive rpg single player game level story, esports pvp, large scale siege battles and explorable dungeons. I think maybe they could have made a perfect single player storytelling game or a perfect pvp/wvw game but trying both with endgame pve on top was just above their available resources.

@apollovenkman447 3 года назад

For me, the saddest thing is that there are no Tier III Legendary weapons. I still remember doing the collection achievement for my Nevermore, which was an incredible experience.

@williamhawkins542 3 года назад

the thing about this patch was how we went to season 4, which was great, to this so quickly? I would have added the content droughts

@NeoChromer 3 года назад

I remember gw2 the wow killer.. that aged very bad..

@Paint2D_ 2 года назад

Anyone got the link to the pet only video?

@dimitriostsobanopoulos7 3 года назад

The most eloquent flame I have ever watched :D

@ikaemos 3 года назад

Having gone over to FF XIV after Season 4, I always found it shocking how sure-footed the XIV team was. No waffling, conflicting visions, changing plans, complete overhauls of what format of content gets delivered when, etc. They have a clear, unambiguous picture of what their game is, what they want to produce, and the range of things they're willing to experiment with; they don't always hit the mark (e.g., Eureka), but each misstep gets a second look before long. And they update like clockwork. I think GW2 hit a similarly confident stride around S3-PoF-S4; a bit wonkier, perhaps, but those episodes contain some of the game's best moments, both gameplay- and story-wise. It's the _most presentable_ the game had been over the course of its lifespan. I think the problem lies in the fact that GW2 was never intended to be a "bimonthly bit of story + RPG-lite map exploration"-kind of game - its bones are too competitive, the gap between skill floor and ceiling is too wide to serve as a workable design space (especially without good tutorials), and every release before this era is all over the place, making onboarding difficult. This narrowed the audience down to a very specific intersection of interests: 1) lore-nerds that somehow got roped into a (marketed as) PvP-focused game, and then stuck around despite a studio that didn't seem overly concerned about respecting their setting's believability and consistency; 2) people invested in the plot or characters, which is quite a feat given how uneven (or flat-out not in the game) some chapters of the story are; 3) people who enjoy GW2's intricate RPG buildcraft and combat mechanics, despite the devs having to ignore all of them when designing their casual story patches. To not be the perfect center of this Venn diagram is to experience even GW2's "heyday" of stable releases as a cavalcade of frustrations.

@WoodenPotatoes 3 года назад

Very eloquent, wow

@AzureRoxe 3 года назад

One good thing about FFXIV's team is that they actively understand when they CAN do something and when they can't. Something Naoki Yoshida constantly says is that his teams has a ton of ideas that they can do, but since they know they don't have the time or budget, they simply swallow their pride and don't do it.

@PaintySkies 3 года назад

Have we played the same game?? I've been playing FFXIV since its release and would consider myself a massive fan, and am usually really forgiving of the team because they're working with an absolute dogshit budget thanks to higher ups - but even I think you're being *FAR* too generous. FFXIV content loops involve getting a SINGLE dungeon, a SINGLE trial, a bite-sized amount of story, with an alliance raid and a savage raid tier every other patch. The same old song and dance every 3-4 months; their events are short and uninvolved as well. There's no world to explore, nothing to really interact with. The dungeons are beautiful, but are all the exact same hallway that anyone can get through with a single hand. Raids and trials can be fun, but rarely have any creativity in terms of mechanics. Classes have lost all identity and are now homogenous in the name of easier balancing. There are no situational abilities, no CC to work with - everything always boils down to doing the exact same skill rotations over and over with nothing to keep tab of in between. You mention their experimenting and talk about Eureka, but don't mention how they tried that same idea twice and failed both times - how they've changed combat and have reworked classes several times, have removed entire mechanics and stats from tanks, have "experimented" with cross skills and role skills only to end up deciding to give everyone the exact same bland abilities because it's easier; I could write an entire essay on how badly they've screwed healers up. The XIV community has been raging at the dev team about the awful state of healers for THREE EXPANSIONS and they've somehow only managed to make it worse everytime they try to play with it. Important to note as well - it was only a few years ago that we were getting 2-3 dungeons a patch, 2 trials, new cosmetics and character customization options per patch. Events are rarely anything other than talking to 2 npcs, doing a FATE, and reaping your reward of one whole small furniture for your house (FFXIV housing is a whole other monster of a topic by itself). They don't even do the latter anymore - they sprinkle a hair option here and there at best and it's usually some derivative of the same short hair style. FFXIV has long had an issue of being all flash, and very little substance. It's great for players who want a static loot treadmill that never changes, but is otherwise extremely finite and extremely repetitive. Beautiful story, music, and world - but very little in it to keep you interested for over an hour per patch. Expansions bring a lot in, but face the same issues.

@ikaemos 3 года назад

@@PaintySkies I'm not all that happy with XIV as a game either; it's just an incomparably better managed project. The game has next to no mechanics on the player's side - you just do your Job, literally, and can't do all that poorly or carry all that hard - but the devs make the best of that limitation. It allows them to design intricate enemy mechanics, with lots of confidence in what the players will be capable of handling. GW2's mad-scientist build diversity guarantees that ANet will never be able to get even close to that kind of encounter design without tossing out the bottom 99% of their playerbase. All in all, the kind of frustration the XIV community has for the devs' efforts to design new content pales in comparison to how the GW2 community reacts with revulsion to any new direction ANet decides to take. Which makes sense - GW2 is torn between so many conflicting design philosophies that nothing will ever please the frankensteinian aggregate that is its playerbase. XIV has no aspirations of being a reinvention of the wheel - it's a very precise product which telegraphs with certainty what you can expect from it, and delivers on it. It's never been a particularly transcendent RPG experience, but I've never felt cheated or strung along by it, and this clarity let me focus on what I enjoyed best in it - the narrative.

@duncanrobertson6472 3 года назад

@@ikaemos "It's bones are too competitive" - I love that line, and the rest of what you've written here. I can't help but wonder where GW2 would be if it had the kind of humble and stable leadership Yoshida blessed FFXIV with.

@terrytoriq 3 года назад

One of the worst moments for me was the implementation of Gandara. I was really, really hyped about that one.

@Oblivius33 3 года назад

The Domain of Kourna as a whole has been butchered along side Gandara.

@ericlakeauthor 3 года назад

Excellent point. That meta was so spectacularly awful and could have been great.

@GBugden 3 года назад

Im still waiting on my Hero-esq NPC that we were gonna get to adventure with us

@GBugden 3 года назад

Still waiting on Commando too, though

@paperwarrior7411 3 года назад

I think something arguably important is also the fact that we heard nothing about Mike Z leaving back in November of 2019, still haven't heard anything to this day and there is still an open posting for a Game Director on ArenaNet's careers page. I'd argue thats a low point, and continues to be one.

@dukecasual 3 года назад

Just starting the video, calling my shot: Jormag v Primordus is gonna be Number 3. Brb. Edit; I was close!

@choryllis6646 3 года назад

I guessed 3 as well

@joshuamorris9756 3 года назад

WP would you be able to make a video on top 20 or top ten of the best of GW2? I think it would be good to have both sides of the coin because there were some great moments and things as well.

@Serophous 3 года назад

Had issues up to the end of HoT. When mounts were announced, just noped out and did not care. Yes, it was mounts

@yojimarusilverfang 3 года назад

Remember when Anet released the Tier 3 human cultural armor with added particle effects on the gemstore, then caved to outcry and changed it to the hideous Flame Feather Armor? Such a shame, the possibilities of being able to use any cultural armor regardless of race (its no secret that the armors were designed on a human model and then shrunk/stretched to fit the other races) would have led to so many more interesting looks. Or what about when there was an outcry about Anet only releasing new armor skins on the gem store, and so Anet went in the complete opposite direction and began to only release them as ingame rewards... at a glacial pace. This in turn led to the creation of the Outfit system, which many players loathe. Thats always been the flaw with Anet when it comes to GW2. They always pivot between extremes and almost never settle somewhere in the middle. A profession too powerful? Gut it! A material too cheap? Cut the generation of said material massively and then increase the demand for said material several fold (looking at you, Mystic Coins).

@tuko357 3 года назад

Although I agree with alot of what you say I also hope you do GW2 at its highest. Because Anet did lots of things great and since you have been pretty negative (justified ofc) last few days I would like to see some positivity :)

@CollectorsTeam 3 года назад

All or Nothing was GW2 at it's highest for me, that episode was the closest thing to a perfect episode that there is.

@venomushero8918 3 года назад

@@CollectorsTeam facts

@spyse7e 3 года назад

Forget Braham's "grief", I hate him because of the Scarlett death scene. "Scarlett: Aren't you curious why I did everything I did? Braham's: No! We are tyrians! Blah blah blah" I wish I could've pressed F to kill Braham instead.

@AzureRoxe 3 года назад

Braham being constantly shown to be a complete moron was so irritating. I'll never understand why the hell did they kill Eir just to replace her with him.

@granville7 3 года назад

@@AzureRoxe Braham is a character I could never warm up to. even the death of his mother didn't generate positive feelings for him. he was so irritating and I was left wondering what Rox saw in him. the only positive was how kind and protective he is towards Taimi

@kenzaske2278 3 года назад

My faith in Arena Net has been totally destroyed over the last few years. I was a guy that would spend a few hours each evening unwinding while playing and trying to enjoy the game. Sadly, this last round of kill ten moles then kill another ten moles, over and over again has broke me of even caring about doing dailies.

@Outland9000 3 года назад

To be honest the only reason I don't play GW2 anymore is because the people I used to do story with moved the day we played to one where I was working. I didn't find the motivation to do the story on my own.

@jasonthaler7328 3 года назад

To be honest, i was not to interested in Cantha perse... i was interested in more gw2 though, very interested :) but that finale had me question that a lot.