Heart of Thorns Opinions?

Heart of Thorns is almost 6 months old now, anyone have any opinions on it?

 

I don't have a fresh opinion but for me it kinda ruined Guild Wars 2. I don't mean ruined Guild Wars 2 as in it now sucks, I mean ruined as in how I personally play it. I don't like the expansion at all. I absolutely loved 1-80 and still really like it today... I've done it all though so it's hard to go back right now. Which leaves HoT. So I really liked the Events in Guild Wars 2, easily one of my favorite parts of the game and HoT's took them to a new level, yay right? No, in Guild Wars 2 these Events would scale up and down depending on the number of players, they also usually aren't mission critical and can usually be done on your own or just plain avoided.

In HoT they are MUCH harder, or at least they were. I'm not sure if it has changed since but they for the most part do require a group. Maybe I was spec'd wrong, I don't know but I do know I went from being able to easily adventure at my own pace -> follow the group or die. I did not like this at all. I love the Events and how they bring people together but it's really annoying not being able to do my own stuff. Having to be dependent on other players to get anywhere is a nightmare and it became especially apparent when the mega-server started messing up and putting low numbers of people together... progression slowed to a near halt, it was a constant fight and very annoying just to move around the map. This was not the GW2 I loved playing so much.

Maybe this has been fixed now. Maybe not but this combined with a number of other things really put me off of the game. It just wasn't for me any more. I may go back eventually to give it another go but I don't know, I've never seen a game flip so far from one side to the other.

 

I hated that in Orr (I think it was Orr, though to a lesser extent) as well in the Wastelands. I mean the whole build up was cool the first time or so but having to through the whole loop or wait for it each time got very tedious... especially when it had to be done.

 

Yes, lfg is used to farm it to death. The silverwastes chest trains too, that was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in a video game lol. I don't think it was designed that way though, it just kinda happened and Anet was like "whelp gamers gonna game... it keeps em busy" lol.

 

I seen the new one time 80 boost thing too, definitely considering it as I can try another class as well. Not sure I'm ready to commit the HDD space to it yet.