Early opinion
Early opinion
So, we all have been playing for a day and are therefore perfectly competent in the matter. What's everyone's opinion so far?
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I'm a f2p, so I haven't even touched the expansion itself, but I've tried the systems.
Wizard's vault is kind of interesting - the rewards you get daily/weekly are probably too rewarding, as after doing some weekly and daily tasks, I could claim 90 gold, something I haven't ever gotten in 200 hours of play. I like how you can buy laurels as free to play now, I feel like it levels the playing field when it comes to WvW due to being able to buy ascended talismans, though no warclaw still hurts. Some of the tasks for the weekly challenges are terrible in my opinion, such as "escort 10 pack dolyaks in wvw" which is a literal chore that achieves nothing in the game mode. Apart from that, I do miss the daily jumping puzzles that would give momentary community interaction.
Relics are incredibly weird. They kind of ruined the choices between runes, now they're purely stats, which makes a rune choice very linear. Now, speaking of relics themselves, so far I'm rather underwhelmed - the majority of the runes are designed for a specific class in mind and their profession mechanic, which aren't applicable at all to the rest of the classes. The rest I feel are way too situational (depending on what type of elite skill you have), and the generalist relics such as faster weapon swap or better swiftness feel way too boring in comparison to the other relics.
90 gold is really… not that much. I mean, to someone f2p who hasn’t done much yes. But to people who have been playing, 90g is running through raid/strike CM’s in maybe 2-3 hrs.
This comment is entirely tone deaf, a humble brag draped over a not-so-thinly veiled insult, as though only people playing CMs are REAL players. Most people who ARE playing the game aren't even doing strikes, let alone CMs.
Lol I mean, sorry I gave the example as it’s what I do. I don’t do metas or etc else in the game to make money, but 90g is not gamebreaking for a days worth of playing was my point. Not you need to get gud or etc. you can go run metas pressing 1 and get 90g a day just fine.
You dont necessarily have to do strikes or CMs, its more being aware of what gold making options there are.
Meta train for example is pretty player friendly as all it entails is following someone and hitting mobs a few times.
To a person not actively trying to get gold, 90 gold is a lot. To people who are actually trying to get it, its not that much.
Same idea with like work. To someone who doesnt work, 20$ might be a lot, to those who do, its not that much.
I disagree. I've been playing since launch, and 90 gold is still a lot. A lot of players (probably most) don't do raids or CMs.