In another developer Livestream, Arenanet finally introduced the big, new feature for the commendator Wars 2 extension End of Dragons. From February you may go fishing with your own ships. MeinMMo author Mark Sellner, however, gets this feature a lot of anticipation, as it can not keep up with the highlights of the other extensions.
What was shown? In a 30-minute livestream, the developers presented behind the MMORPG Guild 2 for the first time the new core feature of the upcoming End of Dragons. There are small boats on which you can go fishing together with your friends. This works not only in the areas of new expansion, but also in all old areas.
It is an activity that one can make alone as a group, because for the first time in Guild Wars 2, you can take other people on your floating vehicle. This coincides with the siege turtle, a riding, which also appears with End of Dragons and can take two people. So far, still moving means were made only for one person in MMORPG.
How does fishing work? Everywhere in the world you can see clearly marked points in the water, in which you can then fishing. If you have a fish on the leash, you have to move a small bar in the medium of the screen until the fish was caught.
Overall, there are over 200 different fish and new dishes should be able to prepare with the fish. Also new are then the boats that existed in Guild was not before.
Of course, there are two new mastery paths to the boats and fishing, which can be levels. But really exciting and varied sounds that does not sound. For me, fishing offers too little, especially as a great main feature of the new extension.
Who writes here? Mark has spent a little more than 6,000 hours in Guild Wars 2 in the last 7 years. He has seen every event, experiencing each fractal and kill each Raid boss. He has built countless legendary objects, characters scorned, gods conquered and dragons defeated, just to go fishing now.
Fishing can be as cool as it wants, but it's just not enough
Why disappointed fishing? An anticipation - I do not have a problem with the feature itself. I hold fishing for a meaningful addition and a nice side activity with friends and guild. But it is not enough to compete with the great features of the other extensions.
The first extension, Heart of Thorns, changed fundamentally, as I move as a player through the world and perceive them. You could suddenly slide. Fly through the airs fly, reach completely new places and experience well-known places in a new way.
The second extension, Path of Fire, has scheduled exactly there. The mountains came into play, each of which had his very own specialty. The Raptor could jump especially far, the rabbit especially high and the griffon has made the movements in the air even better.
End of Dragons does not even show the potential to work similar to me as it could do ribs or paragliders. One could now argue that with the boats yes a new way of moving the movement comes into play, but that's not quite true.
Because over water I could already move with the Ray Mount from Path of Fire and even more flexible. Thanks to a mastery, the ray can even dive and thus move underwater faster.
That can not logically.
Who wants to look at the details of the ships and fishing, finds the complete LiveStream here:
What keeps the community of it? Also the community in the game, on Discord and on Reddit show up from the feature rather annoyed. For many, fishing and boats simply do not relevant and I can understand that.
Once you start the picture of the community, it quickly becomes clear that most players are interested in the new elite specializations and areas. Fishing is just like that for most ... there. And that's a pity.
The 9 elite specializations that come with End of Dragons and ensure much anticipation, but are nothing new. Because the previous extensions also brought new elite specializations. But there were never the purchase reason for the expansion itself.
It could have been so much better
What's for alternatives? Once you imagine that you are the commander of a great force, you have fought against gods, drilling dragons, you even have a dragon even dead and your best friend is a dragon yourself. How could that be more expanded?
By having flying? Yes absolutely. By taming your epic creatures? Yes gladly. In which your fishing goes? Everyone has to find the answer, but in me everything speaks against it.
It would have been so much better with relatively simple approaches. And Arenanet was even really close. The best example of this is the siege turtle, which will also hold with End of Dragons in Guild Wars 2. A mount for two people. Finally, I can take my buddy and show him cool places.
Finally, I can say Spring, I show you how you come there , instead of painting awkward on the map. The turtle is a great addition and thinks the mounts from Path of Fire a step further. But why not it anymore? Would you rather have more mounts like a two-man turtle turtle with weapons, or more than 50 fish more? The answer is easy.
What do the players want? A big desire of the community was a new, playable race like the bird-like Tengu. This is a lot of effort for the developers and I personally think that it had not brought much because a new people contributes little to the actual gameplay.
Nevertheless, on the paper a new playable people would still be much epic as fishing. Another wish that would be much more realistic would be new weapons.
There are already three weapons in Guild Wars 2, which can only be used under water. The trident, the spear and the harpoon sheathing. End of Dragons is primarily based on the sea and the big, evil water dragon. It would have been so great to finally use these weapons on land or at least to bring a new underwater weapon.
This could be optimally integrated into the new elite specializations. It would have changed the gameplay in the long term and picked up new as well as existing players. Here Arenanet my opinion missed a chance.
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What do I wish? Still and secret I have the hope that fishing is not everything is waiting for us in End of Dragons. One of the greatest things of Path of Fire was the grasping riding and that was not announced. Players found it shortly after release and the community celebrates the flying spring cattle until today.
I wish a similar surprise of End of Dragons, as the previously announced features are rather cold than to abide me for the new extension. But until she appears in February 2022, I can only hope that the heroic commander of the pact can not only go fishing afterwards after he rescues the world.
What do you think about the announcement? Are you looking forward to fishing or are you more of my opinion? Can you find End of Dragons has enough features to pass against Heart of Thorns and Path Of Fire? Is the new extension comparable to the old ones? Write me in the comments.
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