Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure - Overview and First Impressions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- After playing the first two days of Guild Wars 2's expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, I am providing this overview for new, returning or curious players to understand what's changed coming into the expansion (or simply to get some insights).
Road Map News Article:
www.guildwars2.com/en/news/gu...
0:00 Intro
0:19 Spoiler Alert
0:29 Story
1:19 Maps
2:10 Rift Hunting
2:44 Weaponmaster
3:02 Relics
3:33 Wizard's Vault
4:23 Skyscale
5:04 Strikes
5:34 Roadmap
$24 for about 9-12 hours of story play through, adding 4-6 additional hours if you want to add the map meta events and strike missions. That alone is not bad, but we're getting to get 3 more quarterly releases without having to pay again... so in total 35-40 hours of playable story content, etc... the difference is before we'd pay for an expansion and get about 20 hours of story content for the entire expansion then get another 12-20 hours of living world content.. the new system of just time-gate releasing the expansion over four quarters and getting rid of living world makes a lot of sense.
Very high quality, concise, to the point video! amazing
Glad you liked it!
I think the Wizards vault and astral acclaim is a great change. Great way to revitalize and incentivize doing some content that was maybe starting to die a bit. I had a PvE weekly to do the Kaineng City Blackout meta which I had never bothered doing before this. It's cool to be pointed towards activities like that.
I totaly forgot that you can set the type of dailies!!!! Thank you so much for pointing it out!
Thanks for this vid!
Hello fellow KSC! felt the same that the story was quite short. Overall, the new maps are really beautiful. Will have to wait for a while for the rest of the expansion.
It's quite early as well, hoping they tweak some improvements for the Dailies with more option to choose if we go for PVE only without over capping the Astral currency. Amazing video!
Aye hello! Glad you liked the video, yeah it's still early, I'm looking forward to more already though!
I am really enjoying the expansion so far. I love the idea of the streamlined path to a skyscale, but, I spent the morning tracking down 11 of the 14 nests and still haven't gotten an egg. Not all that streamlined for me but others are saying they got one on the 3rd or 4th nest.
Yeah but at the very least they didn't waste any time just giving it to us for the new zones which I think is good
Are you gonna make a updated video for your untamed quickness build? would love to see if you've considered any other weapons/what relic you are running !
I certainly can! As a default Relic of Thief is good for strikes dmg. The dagger/staff don't really apply to a strike build but there is a condi version using daggers I've been playing around with which I'll put a video up about when I can
I feel the same way about the story being short and not enough content for the money we spent. Its just because we were spoiled in the past with previous ones. Like we pay got full expansion then got free content til next expansion Where now were paying for expansion that will give us majority of the game at launch then rest of the story and content comes throughout the year which weve already paid for. Which if they can keep pumping out an expac each year then its not bad, still feel it should be cheaper though, but its not bad.
i just haven't been hyped to come back like i have for the other expansions.
no extra class, no extra specializations, just "hey you know the weapons we added in previous expansions? you can use them!"
"now give me that golem of yours, no you aren't getting it back, enjoy the expansion!"
(i played an asura as a golemancer, and Anet have removed Rune of Golemancy golem.)
Yeah definitely doesn't feel as full without extra specs and stuff and as I said with the new model there's not as much content as we are used to... but at least the new weapons gives different combos for spec's we haven't had before
You know more relics are coming right? Golemancy might be one of them
@@tommytx3769 but why oh why would a company release an expansion that takes content away? the rune system was fine, if they really want to tinker with it then they should not have removed content.
@@RaptorJesus. Yeah well sorry for your loss
story was abit short, but i actualky enjoyed it compared to EoD story.. new maps look nice, but they are just dead areas.. like kaineng
New daily rewards system is a step backwards, instead of 12 dailies to pick and choose from we are now limited to 3.
I feel it's only a downgrade if you choose all 3 modes, but if you choose just 1 mode not really, specially the pve one, as you can do most of those in the other modes. Like kill 5 vets ok I'll go to wvw and capture a camp then. Get dodge 3 enemy attacks ok ill do that in pvp today. And since for Most part you can finish these Dailies just by doing what you actually want to do which is play the game i find the dailies much better now and take way less time to do. Plus if we had 12 to choose from ppl would do all 12 for the extra arcane points since anet cannot code to put a cap on it lol
@odin13th76 we went from a choice of doing as many as 12 dailies and a log in reward to only being able to do 3 dailies and a log in, quite a downgrade I think. I would do all 4 wvw dailies and a few others from the 12 available, we also don't get potions anymore and less of the new wvw boxes needing keys, so all around a very large downgrade.
@@robertobrien5709 but we chose the 3 fastest ones and the ones we're given now are much faster. Faster dailies gives more time to play and makes it feel less of a chore. It's more streamlined now. I loved the old system of picking 3 Dailies out of 12 but I love this new system much more. As someone that doesn't like changes or new things, this is one i can get behind though as my time is being appreciated more. This is a better change really. The only way I see this as negative is if you choose all 3 game modes as preference, then ur stuck with some possible annoying ones. But why would u choose all 3 modes if u don't pvp or wvw or pve. Like under the old Dailies how many times did you go to pvp to do them? I know I barely did, maybe once ever 2 months. How many times did you go to wvw for them? Only when it was the fast ones. So even when it was a choice out of 12 you'd go out of your way to find 3 fastest ones. I feel like you can't see the forest through the trees atm but in time you will appreciate the new system more.
Don't like all the flying
The skyscale isn't actually as useful as I thought it would be hahaha it's kinda slow and can't fly very high. Once you get the updrafts it's much easier though
@@WilstormGamingGriffon >>>>>>>>>>>> Skyscale
Overall this feels like a massive downgrade; especially the new relic system. Time to move on and play better games. And in case you're wondering, I participated in both the GW1 and GW2 betas. So I've been around for quite a while.
If something as small as the Relics is the dealbreaker then you've just been looking for an excuse :p You loudly announcing it tells a lot about what type of bias you have as well :p
What game will you move to?
@@somedude1324 At the moment, Baldur's Gate 3.
@@nielsjensen4185 I have 25 Level 80 toons, many celebrating their 11th birthdays this week. And over half have rune sets whose final ability are just plain missing in the current relic system. So I consider that a big deal. Yes, I'm probably burning out a little, and it's not just the relic nerfs that bother me, but I was hoping the new expansion would rekindle my enjoyment and it just hasn't.
A lot of ple I know stopped playing GW2 bc of the new relic system!
Some others bc of the new daily rewards system and/or the season pass!
I hv 16 lv80 char(r)s ^^ and another 12 lv80 on my sec. acc and I also stopped playing bc of the relic system but also bc of the buggy and imbalanced mess it is right now!