Comments on: Guild Wars 2 beta: Quest mechanics

By: RaizinMonk

RaizinMonk — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:45:40 +0000

The funny thing about the sometimes grindy renown heart quests is that they where a relatively late addition to the formula. I don’t think they where planned when they did the manifesto. They where added because the devs found out many of their test players where lost without substantial objectives on their map that they can work towards completing. (The same with the auto attack, by the way. The cooldownless #1 skill was born because early testers didn’t like that their characters where standing around doing nothing between major attacks.)

So while many players think of the renown hearts as the main area quests and the dynamic events more as the icing on the cake, it’s actually sort of the other way around from the devs’ perspective. The dynamic events are the “real deal”, and the hearts are just an incentive for players to explore various areas of the map where dynamic events take place.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:09:18 +0000

The quick travel system works great, so it doesn’t bother me at all that there are no mounts. Almost too easy to move around, it makes me somewhat lazy.

By: Cluisanna

Cluisanna — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:17:02 +0000

Also, there are no mounts, which means it feels a lot more immersive. However, you still get everywhere fairly quickly with waypoints.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:11:47 +0000

There are loading screens. Whenever you enter a capital city or change zones, you will get a brief loading screen, with the name of the zone, and your exploration progress within it. The zones are huge, much bigger than WoW zones, e.g., and once you have explored the first zone, that’s only like…5% ore less of the total world exploration. If exploring is your thing, GW2 has a lot to offer.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:07:27 +0000

This might sound silly, but my biggest question is: “Does it have loading screens?”.

That kind of killed Warhammer Online for me, to realize that it wasn’t one big continuous world, but a number of smaller chunks linked by loading screens. What can I say, I love exploration.

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