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I see the long story format as a plus, that we only get two acts now fulfil the three-act stanza. Act 1. We acclimate. In Act 2 we try to fight and find out that due to the appearance of Ura, we're unable to win, and in Act 3 we can have our moment of triumph by confronting the Titans on the mountain and beating the snot out of them. This will also be the raid so, there's a real narrative reason to urge people into the Convergences and then later the raids. After that, we have a real motive to find whoever made these new Titans and stop them if they're still around. This is a great narrative structure and much better than SotO. Due to the slower pace, I'm actually emotionally involved with the characters. If Stoic Alder ends up buying the farm I'll feel sad for real, as opposed to, "This is Maabon -> Maabon is now dead and you should feel sad." Perhaps I would feel more sad about Maabon if I knew more about him than "good Mursaat."
I couldn't agree more! Stoic Alder is definitely one of my favorite characters. It was just the first bit, especially the prologue, that felt a bit long to me.
@@Kyosika Yeah, there should definitely be a "skip" button for the second playthrough for, everything, since you're most likely doing it for achievements. That or there should be more checkpoints than just one.
At least you can use Renown Tokens in that Heart. You can save up Tokens slowly by doing the Skiff and Glider Adventures, they each reward you one per day.
7:40 A little correction here. I think the extra jump height is based on timing and not your current endurance meter. Waiting to jump again when your warclaw's feet glow triggers the higher jumps, while jumping again too early that results in weaker jumps.
RE: Homestead deco controls, it's interesting to hear that take. I see where you're coming from wanting the controls to be a bit smoother to use. Personally, I found them quite intuitive as someone who has spent a lot of time in blender, UE, and various other 3D modeling programs. But perhaps rather than Place, Edit, and Remove being swapped via profession hotkeys, they could be the default deco skill bar, swapping to the full skill bar based on context. Maybe arenanet will add configure customizations down the line? I would also like to see a toggle for snapping similar to the toggle for global/local orientation.
Thanks for your take! I see what you are coming from. I got used to it at first but it felt a bit clunky at the start. As you said, I think removing it from the profession skills already makes it a tad easier.
@@Kyosika agreed, the tyrian aliance would be a nice dialog sink if they kinnda rushed the formation due to the titan threat mid story not at the beginning when ppl only want to deep dive into the new zone.
This comment might be a bit negative, but I really don't understand the praise for Janthir Wilds, especially since a lot of ytbers and streamers say it's much better than Soto. There is literally nothing of significant value to do in the expansion. 1st map is really nice, good events, fun jumping puzzles, looks good. On the other hand the second map feels unfinished, with a lot of events that are just the same event just worded differently coppied on different locations(moa meat& berries /board meat& cabage, etc) half of the event's that are there don't count towards the hearts, which give quite bad/useless rewards anyway for doing it daily. There is no meta for the 1st map and the meta for second is garbage. Unless you have a premade group that is already in the map like 10+ min before it starts you will not coplete the meta. Not because it's difficult, but because you need to have all the people there at the start or you will not have time to finish(unlike most other metas in the game where you can gather ppl during the meta and not fail due to time constrains), also the rewards are cheeks so barely anyone does it anyway. The 2nd map is literally empty since like 2nd week of the explansion which is just outrageous - yet nobody talks about it. If you are a casual like myself you might find a niche activities to do like sniffing the treasure with warclaw, do daily JPs, gather new matherials, but if you don't like gathering stuff there isn't much to do here, you might just go and do the regular metatrains and stuff like that, that is not related to the expansion at all.
Understandable! I think it's a fun experience. For me is that they created a new playstyle (spear) without Elite specializations and made it feel unique. Next to the optimizations to the Warclaw and the fun events, it's a great experience to me. And also, this is not all. They will add more content over the next few months!
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I think you forgot a very important thing, the music, it's absolutely fabulous, imo they did an amazing job with the soundtrack in this one
You are correct, the music is a treat to listen to! But I got to admit, they always do a great job on the sound and music!
I see the long story format as a plus, that we only get two acts now fulfil the three-act stanza. Act 1. We acclimate. In Act 2 we try to fight and find out that due to the appearance of Ura, we're unable to win, and in Act 3 we can have our moment of triumph by confronting the Titans on the mountain and beating the snot out of them. This will also be the raid so, there's a real narrative reason to urge people into the Convergences and then later the raids. After that, we have a real motive to find whoever made these new Titans and stop them if they're still around.
This is a great narrative structure and much better than SotO. Due to the slower pace, I'm actually emotionally involved with the characters. If Stoic Alder ends up buying the farm I'll feel sad for real, as opposed to, "This is Maabon -> Maabon is now dead and you should feel sad." Perhaps I would feel more sad about Maabon if I knew more about him than "good Mursaat."
I couldn't agree more! Stoic Alder is definitely one of my favorite characters. It was just the first bit, especially the prologue, that felt a bit long to me.
@@Kyosika Yeah, there should definitely be a "skip" button for the second playthrough for, everything, since you're most likely doing it for achievements. That or there should be more checkpoints than just one.
The entire janthir wild feels like our commander retirement adventure lol.
Hahahaha, why's that!
At least you can use Renown Tokens in that Heart. You can save up Tokens slowly by doing the Skiff and Glider Adventures, they each reward you one per day.
That's true! Thanks for the addition!
7:40 A little correction here. I think the extra jump height is based on timing and not your current endurance meter.
Waiting to jump again when your warclaw's feet glow triggers the higher jumps, while jumping again too early that results in weaker jumps.
I meant to say that you can jump using your endurance. Not that the endurance determines your jump height. This is, as you said, based on timing!
3:28 what part was that? I don't recall that Mursaat silhouette and can't stop wondering what was it on that map.
I honestly don't know. I walked around the western part of Janthir Syntri and came across these two.
RE: Homestead deco controls, it's interesting to hear that take. I see where you're coming from wanting the controls to be a bit smoother to use. Personally, I found them quite intuitive as someone who has spent a lot of time in blender, UE, and various other 3D modeling programs. But perhaps rather than Place, Edit, and Remove being swapped via profession hotkeys, they could be the default deco skill bar, swapping to the full skill bar based on context. Maybe arenanet will add configure customizations down the line? I would also like to see a toggle for snapping similar to the toggle for global/local orientation.
Thanks for your take! I see what you are coming from. I got used to it at first but it felt a bit clunky at the start. As you said, I think removing it from the profession skills already makes it a tad easier.
Im struggling my way through Soto. Everyone tells me that the wilds are better but im not going there until i finish soto story
Maybe it's better to find a party for soto?
@@raptorhacker599 I'm not having any trouble soloing the content. It's just not fun to me. Having to close rifts every other quest gets old.
I do think the story of Soto was pretty nice. But I understand that the rift hunting can be a bit dull from time to time.
Chrono is strong!
If you find it slow at the start, then I’ll probably die of boredom before getting to the good part 😂
Am I the only one involved in the story and the plot so far? I didn't find it boring for one second. It's story mode after all.
Don't get me wrong! I love the story, but I felt the prologue and the first bit of Act 1 a bit longwinded (Kodan at the table).
@@ok_listen honestly I haven’t played this game in years, I just watch & comment on Kyo because he’s nice 😅
@@Kyosika agreed, the tyrian aliance would be a nice dialog sink if they kinnda rushed the formation due to the titan threat mid story not at the beginning when ppl only want to deep dive into the new zone.
Great review
Thank you! Just sharing my take!
This comment might be a bit negative, but I really don't understand the praise for Janthir Wilds, especially since a lot of ytbers and streamers say it's much better than Soto.
There is literally nothing of significant value to do in the expansion. 1st map is really nice, good events, fun jumping puzzles, looks good.
On the other hand the second map feels unfinished, with a lot of events that are just the same event just worded differently coppied on different locations(moa meat& berries /board meat& cabage, etc) half of the event's that are there don't count towards the hearts, which give quite bad/useless rewards anyway for doing it daily. There is no meta for the 1st map and the meta for second is garbage. Unless you have a premade group that is already in the map like 10+ min before it starts you will not coplete the meta. Not because it's difficult, but because you need to have all the people there at the start or you will not have time to finish(unlike most other metas in the game where you can gather ppl during the meta and not fail due to time constrains), also the rewards are cheeks so barely anyone does it anyway. The 2nd map is literally empty since like 2nd week of the explansion which is just outrageous - yet nobody talks about it.
If you are a casual like myself you might find a niche activities to do like sniffing the treasure with warclaw, do daily JPs, gather new matherials, but if you don't like gathering stuff there isn't much to do here, you might just go and do the regular metatrains and stuff like that, that is not related to the expansion at all.
Understandable! I think it's a fun experience. For me is that they created a new playstyle (spear) without Elite specializations and made it feel unique. Next to the optimizations to the Warclaw and the fun events, it's a great experience to me. And also, this is not all. They will add more content over the next few months!