I'm gonna let myself be hype for this expansion. Worst case scenario is I get a new spear to mess around with in PvP and a couple dozen hours messing around in open world pve.
Based on what state the last several Fractals were released in and how (except for Cerus) all the other Strikes were mediocre to be polite -- I have no expectations for the Raid being any good. Also, I expect those two Bears introduced in the trailer to be killed off for cheap shock value in 5 minutes flat before we even get to know their last names. In any case, my main problem with this mini-expansion structure is still the same: paying upfront without any guarantee that the content delivered in half a year's time will be any good. SOTO's follow-up patches were where story and world-building took a nosedive. The launch was not a lot, but it was pallatable and somewhat interesting. And then thee was just demon nonsense on an awful singular map. And the worst thing is that I bet the value of my account that Anet will not go back to SOTO's content to fix and improve it. Not now, not ever. Maybe there will be a few tiny tweaks, but that's it. Why would they? The A-Team is already working on the next expansion after JW and the B-Team on the mediocre JW follow-up patches. They already got the money for SOTO from people. I honestly am glad my last purchase was EoD and that was a learning experience I will not be repeating. There are enough suckers who think that what Anet delivered with SOTO was good value for the price, they can keep the company afloat. I am out until they prove they can do something worth my time and money.
That's the best approach towards expantion you could have, and i applaud you for it. If everyone were this willing to keep their wallets closed, we'd have much less shitty games on the market. Anyhow, if you want pragmatic asshole's opinion on weither JW's features are worth a broken penny, I'm planning to remain scepticall as untill Arena earns the benefit of the doubt again.
To be fair, Wizards tower was an enigma even in GW1 so they went in with zero idea. Granted the expansion started off strong with a good cast of strongly defined new characters for us to get invested in, but it went down hill with the death of Mabon. They could have done a lot with a mursaat that never condoned the actions of his people (and voiced by Liam O’Brien no less) but they just bumped him off cheaply. Then we did lore on this demonic plane that is largely being ignored going forward as we now face the titans and possibly white mantle remnants. In short, it had potential to be great but after the initial release and story was done, the writers took the story in a direction that was generic and mediocre.
God im hoping for at least one class whose spear combat is what ive been looking for in a melee "staff" type weapon. I wanted daredevil to be it, but its not quite right with the reliability on the dodge mechanic and overall lack of sustain. Revenant staff is basically just a CC button. Warrior staff is a great support tool but trash in the dps department. All other professions staffs are basically some variation of a spell caster staff. I want power dps with a pointy stick in my hand. Pleeeeeease anet , i don't even care which class it's on, just give me one really good one 🤞🤞
Not to sound dramatic and its just my personal opinion (and im glad some ppl are happy), but I actually uninstalled gw2 for the first time since vanilla gw2. The game isnt going anywhere, they need a new engine to do anything cool. The only way I can see myself playing again is if they update and fix core things and change a lot of systems and talents/professions. But ANET is not capable of doing anything like this. Fractals need a massive rework, like everything about it. There needs to be a queueing system for dungeons and fractals which would be simplified if all healers were alac and all dps were quick, it would just make the game insanely easier to understand for new players and smooth out filling groups. Or they could just bake those 2 boons in baseline and remove them. Boons need to be 10 player again or just outside of raid/strike instances. Most weapons need a massive overhaul instead of constantly adding new ones. Better spec identity. Better weapon tuning. Fix literally everything in the game before a new expac. Because as it stands right now ANET are making me ham sandwiches with different breads and nothing on it, expecting me to jump up and down like they deserve to be on Hells Kitchen. Idk Ill just go back to WoW and wait and see if Ashes of Creation will be any good. Unless ANET wants to leak their progress on GW3...
100% of the player base who owns JW will end up seeing the things in the raid since in addition to being a Raid Wing they're also open-world meta events. Open-world is the narrative casual mode while the raid will have three more, NM, CM, and Legendary if you feel like flagellating yourself. IMO this is a great use of assets as it means everyone gets to see and enjoy what was created as opposed to Strikes that has the same problem as the old Raid Wings namely that you have to seek them out explicitly, which means that the assets and time will be wasted unless people do so.
@@captaincrapface7337 Who knows? I do know there's a greater chance of it if people are being made constantly aware of it existing. The SotO strikes, like the old raids, has been a massive investment failure Last I heard Cerus has been killed fewer than 100.000 times, I know I only go there once a week for the weekly clear. The objective fact is that you only engage with the strikes during the story and then you're never reminded of that they're there ever again. There's nothing in the open world that takes you to them or even remind you of their existence. It's almost criminal that there was no structure in Nayos for Temple of Febe. If you go chest or Lantern hunting often then every time you're reminded that the Cosmic Observatory exists and that's all, you have zero interaction with it. By making the raid a part of the open world it creates the story-mode that people have asked for to get people into the content. By already being in the content they might want a bit more and if they're also aware that it's afraid then they have a path forward. Even if they remain where they are and people never go into the raid it's still never wasted development time or investment since people interact with the content. A major issue of the raids is that such a small portion of the player base ever interacts with them. When I was educated in nudging I learned that the biggest obstacle to making people do something is raising awareness of it. That's the reason that when you're in a hospital there are hand sanitiser dispensers everywhere. There are so many simply to remind doctors that they have to sanitise their hands before they see a patient. That's cheaper and easier than to remind them all the time.
Love your cynical takes on the game, also great choice of music with DOS2. For a while now I've wanted to tell you something: My roommate and I share a bathroom and she has some face mask beauty product that says "clay face" on the package. Each time I walk by and only see it in the corner of my view, I read it as "crap face" and I have to think of you. Anyway, great video as always.
Elementalists and engineers are getting fucked as usual, nothing new. We are told about all classes getting spear access, which is cool, but at the same time, those two classes will NOT get underwater spear skills. It means, they are learning how to use this weapon, but once they enter the water, the knowledge magically dissapears from their heads. Great as usual anet
If pragmatic scepticism is what you define as "hate" then you should unplug your interner ASAP, becouse you'll get PTSD when you find out that some people say the F-word out loud.
you are not a philosopher or something deep, you are a guy who makes video content... gtfo here talking about 'cynical pragmatic pessimism'. ITS NOT THAT DEEP. its a video game buy it or dont
but just fr the record lol for the price it sells it offers way to much so i really dont care i just alittle like beacous they talk of it and all and i got 2 hyped lol and they make it such long wait :
i kidd u not im not complainning at alllllllllll really soto for the price i got it its like whoo gives ashit tbh lol they deliverd hard but thoe i would complain here on the weapons beacous For some reasons.......... i duno its alllll quite meh for me i cant even think about 1 weapons im useing for the fun of the game from this new collection whats sucks to me is that ok u told us about it WHY make us wait suck long time for it and they sucked unfortunetly for me maybe thife axe alittle fun i am not sure maybe mesmer with the new rifle alittle nice what els i berly remmeber big meh on the swords on nec i just hope the spears would change my mind :S!!!!!!!!! and id love to play them not like the warriors for staff i see sometimes i feel like they are all useing it beacous of the op buffs and effects
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Kinda happy now since I have crafted an ascended spear long ago and now it is ready to go once this is out
I was a non-raid person but now I raid a lot. Personally i believe Raid will get hit if it is made accessible to everyone.
I'm gonna let myself be hype for this expansion. Worst case scenario is I get a new spear to mess around with in PvP and a couple dozen hours messing around in open world pve.
cant wait for another amazing meta where you escort NPC which will get stuck and go back every 15 second.
To, they'll improve upon the concept, and NPC will get stuck and backtrack, three times as often XDD
@@captaincrapface7337 and ofc every map will have 50 ppl cap which will get fixed in future (as eod maps)
It really has to be epic or gw2 is gonna go down in flames
Unfortunatly, all they have to do is outdo SotO, but don't tell them.
Let them actually try this time.
Based on what state the last several Fractals were released in and how (except for Cerus) all the other Strikes were mediocre to be polite -- I have no expectations for the Raid being any good. Also, I expect those two Bears introduced in the trailer to be killed off for cheap shock value in 5 minutes flat before we even get to know their last names. In any case, my main problem with this mini-expansion structure is still the same: paying upfront without any guarantee that the content delivered in half a year's time will be any good. SOTO's follow-up patches were where story and world-building took a nosedive. The launch was not a lot, but it was pallatable and somewhat interesting. And then thee was just demon nonsense on an awful singular map. And the worst thing is that I bet the value of my account that Anet will not go back to SOTO's content to fix and improve it. Not now, not ever. Maybe there will be a few tiny tweaks, but that's it. Why would they? The A-Team is already working on the next expansion after JW and the B-Team on the mediocre JW follow-up patches. They already got the money for SOTO from people. I honestly am glad my last purchase was EoD and that was a learning experience I will not be repeating. There are enough suckers who think that what Anet delivered with SOTO was good value for the price, they can keep the company afloat. I am out until they prove they can do something worth my time and money.
That's the best approach towards expantion you could have, and i applaud you for it.
If everyone were this willing to keep their wallets closed, we'd have much less shitty games on the market.
Anyhow, if you want pragmatic asshole's opinion on weither JW's features are worth a broken penny, I'm planning to remain scepticall as untill Arena earns the benefit of the doubt again.
To be fair, Wizards tower was an enigma even in GW1 so they went in with zero idea. Granted the expansion started off strong with a good cast of strongly defined new characters for us to get invested in, but it went down hill with the death of Mabon. They could have done a lot with a mursaat that never condoned the actions of his people (and voiced by Liam O’Brien no less) but they just bumped him off cheaply. Then we did lore on this demonic plane that is largely being ignored going forward as we now face the titans and possibly white mantle remnants.
In short, it had potential to be great but after the initial release and story was done, the writers took the story in a direction that was generic and mediocre.
God im hoping for at least one class whose spear combat is what ive been looking for in a melee "staff" type weapon. I wanted daredevil to be it, but its not quite right with the reliability on the dodge mechanic and overall lack of sustain. Revenant staff is basically just a CC button. Warrior staff is a great support tool but trash in the dps department. All other professions staffs are basically some variation of a spell caster staff. I want power dps with a pointy stick in my hand. Pleeeeeease anet , i don't even care which class it's on, just give me one really good one 🤞🤞
Not to sound dramatic and its just my personal opinion (and im glad some ppl are happy), but I actually uninstalled gw2 for the first time since vanilla gw2. The game isnt going anywhere, they need a new engine to do anything cool. The only way I can see myself playing again is if they update and fix core things and change a lot of systems and talents/professions. But ANET is not capable of doing anything like this. Fractals need a massive rework, like everything about it. There needs to be a queueing system for dungeons and fractals which would be simplified if all healers were alac and all dps were quick, it would just make the game insanely easier to understand for new players and smooth out filling groups. Or they could just bake those 2 boons in baseline and remove them. Boons need to be 10 player again or just outside of raid/strike instances. Most weapons need a massive overhaul instead of constantly adding new ones. Better spec identity. Better weapon tuning. Fix literally everything in the game before a new expac. Because as it stands right now ANET are making me ham sandwiches with different breads and nothing on it, expecting me to jump up and down like they deserve to be on Hells Kitchen. Idk Ill just go back to WoW and wait and see if Ashes of Creation will be any good. Unless ANET wants to leak their progress on GW3...
100% of the player base who owns JW will end up seeing the things in the raid since in addition to being a Raid Wing they're also open-world meta events. Open-world is the narrative casual mode while the raid will have three more, NM, CM, and Legendary if you feel like flagellating yourself.
IMO this is a great use of assets as it means everyone gets to see and enjoy what was created as opposed to Strikes that has the same problem as the old Raid Wings namely that you have to seek them out explicitly, which means that the assets and time will be wasted unless people do so.
Yeah, i kinda wish our fight against Baltazar in PoF was made into a Strike mission.
Quiestion iss will people play the raid?
@@captaincrapface7337 Who knows? I do know there's a greater chance of it if people are being made constantly aware of it existing.
The SotO strikes, like the old raids, has been a massive investment failure Last I heard Cerus has been killed fewer than 100.000 times, I know I only go there once a week for the weekly clear.
The objective fact is that you only engage with the strikes during the story and then you're never reminded of that they're there ever again. There's nothing in the open world that takes you to them or even remind you of their existence. It's almost criminal that there was no structure in Nayos for Temple of Febe. If you go chest or Lantern hunting often then every time you're reminded that the Cosmic Observatory exists and that's all, you have zero interaction with it.
By making the raid a part of the open world it creates the story-mode that people have asked for to get people into the content. By already being in the content they might want a bit more and if they're also aware that it's afraid then they have a path forward.
Even if they remain where they are and people never go into the raid it's still never wasted development time or investment since people interact with the content. A major issue of the raids is that such a small portion of the player base ever interacts with them.
When I was educated in nudging I learned that the biggest obstacle to making people do something is raising awareness of it. That's the reason that when you're in a hospital there are hand sanitiser dispensers everywhere. There are so many simply to remind doctors that they have to sanitise their hands before they see a patient. That's cheaper and easier than to remind them all the time.
I do not know know. The announcement did not trigger an ounce of excitement.
I feel you, after everything that SotO falied at, it is hard to be excited for the next batch of potentiall faliures.
Love your cynical takes on the game, also great choice of music with DOS2.
For a while now I've wanted to tell you something: My roommate and I share a bathroom and she has some face mask beauty product that says "clay face" on the package. Each time I walk by and only see it in the corner of my view, I read it as "crap face" and I have to think of you. Anyway, great video as always.
I'm pretty sure "clay face" was name 9f some comicbook villian, so that's not a y better in my book. Lol
Elementalists and engineers are getting fucked as usual, nothing new. We are told about all classes getting spear access, which is cool, but at the same time, those two classes will NOT get underwater spear skills. It means, they are learning how to use this weapon, but once they enter the water, the knowledge magically dissapears from their heads. Great as usual anet
Considering seven classes kept losing knowledge of the pointy stick, as soon as they inhale air, for over a decade, by now its a tradition.
So much hate… why even play the game pffffffffft
If pragmatic scepticism is what you define as "hate" then you should unplug your interner ASAP, becouse you'll get PTSD when you find out that some people say the F-word out loud.
you are not a philosopher or something deep, you are a guy who makes video content... gtfo here talking about 'cynical pragmatic pessimism'. ITS NOT THAT DEEP. its a video game buy it or dont
You say, you clicked on *that thumbnail*, expecting "yes or no" type of answer?
but just fr the record lol for the price it sells it offers way to much so i really dont care
i just alittle like
beacous they talk of it and all and i got 2 hyped lol and they make it such long wait :
i kidd u not
im not complainning at alllllllllll really soto for the price i got it its like whoo gives ashit tbh lol they deliverd hard
but thoe i would complain here on the weapons beacous
For some reasons.......... i duno its alllll quite meh for me i cant even think about 1 weapons im useing for the fun of the game from this new collection
whats sucks to me is that ok u told us about it
WHY make us wait suck long time for it and they sucked unfortunetly for me
maybe thife axe alittle fun i am not sure
maybe mesmer with the new rifle alittle nice
what els i berly remmeber
big meh on the swords on nec
i just hope the spears would change my mind :S!!!!!!!!! and id love to play them not like the warriors for staff i see
sometimes i feel like they are all useing it beacous of the op buffs and effects