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Genuine talk, but I would love for them to release more novelisations. And I think an extremely good starting point would be if they could make a novelisation of SotO specifically, which I think would clear up a lot of people's issues with things like pacing, delivery, etc.

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Spoilers for Godspawn

I'mma say it one more time, spoilers, I am wanting to talk about things, spoilers under the cut.

Okay, holy crap was that short. Like, I'm not against entire story steps being a get to know people lul in battle, but when you have three story steps total was it really wise to have an entire one be for the party?

And the final battles, I'll say it, sucked. They stripped away the special mechanics from both Greer and Decima turning them into mostly time wasting fights, and Ura's mechanics were just copies of what they used to have. They should have let us kill Greer and Decima last release story step instead of having Ura save them, it felt like they mattered then.

That's not to say I disliked it all. I liked the first story bit of Godspawn, it had good length, went to multiple instances, had fights and breaks from combat, was such a nice opening. It just really felt like they dropped the ball afterwards.

And just one new mastery? For furniture? Really?

Like, I barely raid, if ever, already have a legendary spear, and rarely bother with convergences, and it feels like the story took a big backseat to all three of those things this release.

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wow

that uh

that sucked lol

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gw2 humans. like if u agree

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Meet Vinca, a sylvari revenant, who chose Scarlet as his legend. What could possibly go wrong?

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i know that SOTO was a controversial gw2 expac but i personally think not all isgarren hate is completely fair... he gets a lot of flak for trying to stop experiment 626 but you have to remember this was a dangerous indestructible alien experiment that had been unleashed onto earth and he was only doing his due diligence. he didn't know it would form a bond with a broken family, and to his credit, the instant he knew, he stepped down

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need her carnally

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Heartless, I become. With a single memory.

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god the new weapons are so funny to me af;lkasjfg like. to me they all look like something straight out of r/mallninjashit. like those 20 dollar non-brand anime swords you find in a hobby shop, but there's SUCH a charm to them it makes me want the entire set

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chromatic assassin weapon skin giveaway!

happy pride month and expac announcement month, let's celebrate and do a giveaway of one of the new weapon skins !!!

the winner will get 1 chromatic assassin weapon skin of their choice. it doesn't have to be any of the above, i just wanted to show some!!

entry / rules:

reblog this post to enter :) one entry only please

be okay with giving me your account name / ign so i can mail the prize

ends friday july 7th, 2024!!!

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Woo. Let's break down that news post with random responses.

I like the Astral Ward and I'm glad we'll be seeing more of them. Wizards can just go sit in a corner and think about what they didn't do.

Trying to stretch 3 updates out of Inner Nayos clearly wasn't working, and I'm glad they're addressing this splitting it into 2. Let's face it, the 3rd update added next to nothing to that map. I will gladly take a Bjora/Drizzlewood approach, and have the first quarterly update focus on the first 2 maps and whatnot.

"that first quarterly release will include something really exciting that players have been requesting for over 5 years" A lot of people are speculating the return of raids for this one, timeline adds up I think? Honestly, raids cannot come back exactly as they are. A big thing people liked about strike content is the story mode of well… the story. If raids come back please for the love of fuck give us a nice story mode version of it. I'm still bitter about a lot of White Mantle stuff being behind raids. I've since seen it thanks to lore people making lore-centric raid clears, but god that pissed me off. Ahem. Anyway.

Water stuff! Land water stuff! This looks promising. And the funky little buildings in the background. Very nice.

The retrospective roadmap of what they've added in the past year is pretty impressive. While some of that is just filler like the rush events, there was actually a fair whack of things that happened. Good times.

Keeping expectations and hype low until the blog post next week that will actually tell us things. Next Tuesday is a suuuuuuper busy day for me even before this, so aaaaaaaah. Excited. Yes.

Back to hitting people in Discord (affectionate)

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Every 2 seconds in SoTo:

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alterhumans maek the internet so whimsical. ur telling me a rat drew this art ? a kitten wrote this post ? i'm in a discord server with a demon and an angel ? THAT'S SO COOL :D

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I know this is really small and inconsequential overall but one little part of the release that kind of grinds at me is, during the very last instance, we get three separate options to choose on how the commander interprets the "peace" agreement with the kryptis. being either welcoming of it, you're all on thin ice, or totally neutral. it gives the impression that anet is definitively aware of the complaints regarding the commander now just feeling like they're a background character with no real influence on the story, and so they decided to throw in one little paper-thin bone to compensate for that. "here!! you get to choose how you feel about the outcome of everything!! this fixes everything!" and then regardless of what you choose there's literally no reaction to it from everyone else anyway. even if you choose the negative one. just the illusion of choice.