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Oh I absolutely loved it! It was written so well! As of this moment, I’m all caught up in the story so all my thoughts for every batch of content are out on the channel lol

I think it's Berserker armor for Power. I like Bladesworn best, use sword and pistol, as well as a defense banner and a damage banner.

There's so many characters in GW2 that seeing the phrase "Floaty Armour Dude" could be anyone at this point in my head lol

Hmm, not sure. What exactly is this "Looking Back?"

The story and themes of IBS were great, but the execution of said story in the later chapters were really bad. From everything I was reading and heard about, it sounded like the team was rushed at that point so it's still a miracle we got what we have. That said, I would still love if they had a small team trying to rework the ending to make it better. When you have a long running story, you always want to put your best foot forward. Add to that the fact that GW2 has the ability to let us play whatever we want, when we want, and I honestly believe that it would not only get new players more invested with a change, to the players who already got past IBS going back to check out what the devs did.

My assumption to this was their plans changing to the yearly expansion release models mid-development of SotO. Not sure if it's going to be the same way with Janthir Wilds or not, but considering the story development has been happening with all the patches in SotO, I would expect it with JW too. We'll see though lol

Thank you!! I've only had R'tchikk for a day and a half, but if anything happened to them- Oh interesting! In the throne room? I'll have to go back there sometime then lol I did 2 or 3 dungeons but didn't wanna hold people up to watch all the cutscenes ;u; Yeah, they had interesting stuff there in the story, just wish they had some more time to let it flow better. SotO isn't the first time this happened, a great example being Braham's interactions with the Commander suddenly going from understanding to disdain and even hate at the drop of a hat. The stories are great and have a ton of potential, but I'm on of the people that loves to get lost in a story and world in the games I pick up. When something with no buildup happens, it does have a way of taking you out of the immersion and whatnot. Oh yeah! I'm looking forward to seeing what comes in Janthir Wilds! This will be the first time I'll be partaking at launch! Let there be Kodan!

@@MegaMadVladMMO Haha, you needn't go back into the story. If you look at your own footage at 14:42 you can see the thing I'm talking about to the right of/roughly level with the throne (darn thing being transparent lets it camoflage so well! You can still make the sneaky triangle out though) And yup, launch day is great. Make sure you're hanging out in Lion's Arch for the hour or so before the patch (it's always the same as the standard patch times). Players are always having a bunch of fun chatting in mapchat in LA waiting for it to launch. The moment you get the "new build available" banner, you just log out, patch your client and log back in and you're off! No server downtime :)

While I did have a good time with it, it's definitely my least favorite expansion out of all of them. To be fair, I did expect that as well because of the nature of it being a smaller expansion to begin with. I'm hopeful it was a good way for the devs to figure out what they can and can't do with this yearly release schedule.

@@MegaMadVladMMO The whole stealth thing at the start of it enraged me so much that once I finally passed it, I played a bit with that character in the new zones and was done. I had no want what-so-ever to take any of my other alts through that intro hellscape again.

After that you do like 2 "quests" and get the free tp to the hub, so no need to repeat

Yeah, at the time I played the base game, I knew next to nothing about Trahearne and then he just up and became the Pact Leader. It just goes to show the difference of experience people get depending on their race and choices at the beginning of the game.

@@MegaMadVladMMO Oh yes, it really varies. The other day I had a discussion in another comment section with someone who complained they couldn't find gw2's main story. It turned out they did, but they didn't recognize the human story line as part of that. It made me realize, not for the first time, that Sylvari are the ones most connected to the main plot all the way up to the end of HoT. I feel like after that it's more taylored towards humans. Although I haven't played season 5 yet, which I expect to be more norn focused. I also find it fascinating that all the other races just kind of stumble into the fight against Zaithan, while the Sylvari plot line manages to be a chosen one story, without actually treating you as the chosen one, which feels really awesome.

Lol I’ve never been in a Taco Bell bathroom before, but the stories I’ve heard

I strongly disagree. First 2 maps + their story were amazing. It is just that Demon story was weak, neglected characters established in the first part of the story and didn`t have any interesting twists.

@@procerator what story? literally every release was 1 hour of story less if you did not have to do boring events. Wizards tower was so under whelming we waited for decades to go to the wizards tower and the best they could do was an empty boring map. That mao should have been oozing lore, secrets and history and we got nothing. Not to mention they turned demons into poor misunderstood subjected people that only want to be free. In other words they turned something that could have been a great enemy into nothing.

@@MrVivi0001 there are a lot of things to do in Wizards Tower

@@procerator you mean old boring things that most people don't do or care about. And that lots is not really that much.

Reading these complaints about the SotO story reminds me of how many times the GW2 development team has screwed up an opportunity to present and expand the great lore of this franchise. For a game that isn’t known as the best for its endgame or PvP, and that it has more casual story loving players, they really need to put more focus and effort into making the story great, if this game is going to survive.

Almost time to try my first on content release with Janthir Wilds!

Zojja mindwipe makes sense. People forget that Zojja was actually a bitch. Now they can change her personality to be much more loveable.

Yea. Rift hunting is the majority of the content from me. As 3 month prior to launch, aside from strike and the meta is the only thing that stood out. It is not even good content as leggy armor was not even out yet. The metas on 3 map AND convergence was not even good at all. Massive downgrade in fun compared to EOD

SotO isn’t perfect by any means, but what was there was probably a bit more fun for me since I didn’t linger on things for months between patches. It’s just one of the things that makes my experience different from people that play everyday. One of the things I was indifferent about was the Wizard’s Tower. Since I started GW2 almost 2 years ago, I didn’t even know the tower existed lol Not until SotO anyway.

@@MegaMadVladMMO I think it helped that you had the opportunity to take it in one stretch. for the rest of us that took when dripfed it was 45 minutes of story and then wait three months. I'm so glad ANet learned a lot from this and I hope the pacing of JW will be a lot better.

Oh absolutely. My experience was bound to be far different since I didn’t have to wait between patches. That said, I’ll be in the same boat as everyone with Janthir Wilds. Here’s hoping that expansion runs better overall now that ANet dipped their toes in this new release cycle

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say and I appreciate it very much! ^^ Yeah, I liked what they were going for in the story but felt it needed more time in the oven. Even just making the story longer to have certain scenes have more meaning to them would help the overall experience. I know that there's a lot of people that play MMOs only for the gameplay and friends rather than the story, but the story is one of the things I look forward to in games. Stories help me to just get lost in a world and want to know more. See more even. It helps to make a world feel more full essentially. Yeah the fill bars were a bit excessive in this, especially with how I did the entire expansion all at once lol. Janthir Wilds is definitely sounding bigger in a lot of ways. Not tremendously bigger, but bigger at least. When plans on projects and development get changed, the scope can be harder to pinpoint down. I saw SotO as ANet learning how the scope should work and that the real test of their mettle would be in the following expansions. Definitely looking forward to trying JW actually ON content for the first time. It'll give me a different overall experience lol Once again, thank you so much! ^^

lol Doing the raids is on my list, especially more so now since Janthir Wilds is getting one. Just currently too busy to try finding a group to run them with at the moment. Not to mention JW is pretty much right around the corner so there's that lol

@@MegaMadVladMMO I my self also need to start doing the raids but mostly for the legendary armour and trinkets. Just it is so hard to get into it. Seen this conversation yesterday in Lion's Arch: The game is really easy and because of that people are expecting you to do speed runs of the raids and fractals. Best way to enjoy them is to find a guild that is not full of try hard speed runners. Ans I can not agree more.

@@Auriorium Yeah I wanna do the raids to see what they're like. I've done normal raiding in FFXIV before, but considering how different GW2 is, I can only guess as to what the experience is like. Definitely looking forward to it at some point lol

As for the "story", there are 2 self contained (5 and 6-7), the real good one is 1-2-3 , though its too late my friend cuz they fill the gap between HoT and bloodstone fen and now you are completely spoiled off what "their are doing".. but may give you more lore context if you are into it What you REALLY wanna do wing 4. For starters its the easiest one, but that aside the story it tolds links to SotO and JW

​@@MegaMadVladMMOeven if not a content creator, if you make an lfg and clearly state that you are inexp and wanna clear for story, you gonna find bored nerds that'll join and carry.. that or join the "ping 250 bananas" groups, the toxic meta applies mostly on mon/tue, after the weeklys are cleared we are bored, wanna play awfull meme builds or try another role and the elitism drags off (at least in EU)

LUL! The video would've been done sooner if Elden Ring didn't take my soul for a while there, regardless, we couldn't time that any better if we tried

That's one thing I do appreciate about GW2, depending on your race and choices of backstory, some dialogue is different

Couldn’t have had that story if I already knew the safer route there lol. I’m perfectly fine with making mistakes like that, it’s what makes journeys like this memorable.

Well there was a few reasons for this. The first one being I don't know the layout of Eastern Kingdoms and how each zone connects to each other since I'm still new to this stuff lol. The second is I wasn't at Arathi Highlands by this point in my time in the game. And the third is it not only worked out, but I also got a story out of it in the end lol.

@@MegaMadVladMMO just funny that you hit up a guide telling you this bs. But anyways. As long you enjoy your journey the game dud as it supposed to <3

I think finding that guide was specifically my fault since I typed in something like "How to get to Badlands from Stranglethorn Vale". Very specific question in that case lol But yeah, it's been a lot of fun going on this journey so far!

Yeah, I had a few things I was looking at before starting my journey through Classic WoW. Did I want to try finding a group every dungeon, or queue up for a random dungeon to save time? Wrath Classic also had Joyous Journies enabled to speed things along as well. The decisions were all made with making sure I could get a video out in a more reasonable time. It took me 60 hours to get from 30-60 so I can only imagine how much longer it would be in Classic era. The other thing I looked at was that, while yes, the game changes with each expansion, I was still able to get a fairly similar question experience to that of Classic Era. That said, I do plan to play Classic Era at some point when I have a group to go through it with. Likely won’t have a series for it like this one though lol

I can believe that. Classic WoW has a far better new player experience than Retail any day of the week. For me, the journey in something like this is what gives memories. I’m gonna remember my times doing the run back for Blackrock Depths lol. I don’t know everything there is to know about WoW and it’s dungeons. My experience right now is that of what you described and it honestly makes the experience more fun overall. I’m kind of soloing my way through the game at the moment with the frequent random queue dungeons for fun.

The sheer amount of utility skills the various classes get is really interesting. Mages create portals, Warlocks can help summon others, Shamans can walk on water, etc. It honestly makes Azeroth feel more fleshed out with stuff like that. Thanks!

@@MegaMadVladMMO it's awesome if your friends cover all those classes. And you develop a good possie.

Oh no doubt about that lol

The dungeon itself wasn’t bad at all. Though that run back was brutal lol.

Lots of dungeons are cut up as well - Maraudon is hella long but RDF basically has you kill one boss near the start as an entire run, a few later on in another RDF, and another one for the a few ending bosses. BRD is another example of that.

Oh is that one of the reasons people dip after a single boss kill?

@@MegaMadVladMMO I have to imagine so, one boss will grant the RDF completion bonus so they leave. I don't think theres a reason to do so otherwise unless you're targetting an item for locked lower level pvp or something, but that's not something ive ever seen.

Can’t wait for Mists of Pandaria classic :)

That’s called Remix lol That’s coming to Retail right now as an event

It's also likely it'll come after cata - remix is basically an experiment - one I imagine is a testbed for stuff they can do with older content for retail, as its nowhere near an experience of the expansions as they should be. So leaves room for Classic to carry on (and its new and old flavours to come) and of course for more remixes if it goes well.

I am curious about why they did the Remix. If what you suggest here is what it is, then that makes some sense. But I'm also wondering if Classic Cata is where traditional Classic ends. Hard to say. Blizz might not even know at this exact moment what happens after Cata in this instance. Only time will tell.

@@MegaMadVladMMO Traditional classic ends with the end of Wrath, Cata remakes the old world entirely, condenses the talent trees, to their last recognisable form before Dragonflight, and those old world changes make its Azeroth functionally the same (missing expansion lands, of course) Many people expected that they might not do Cataclysm at all if they were not interested in continuing classic beyond the old world - but I personally think if they did Cata there's no reason to not continue.

Now that I’ve played all the way through EoD, I can say my absolute favorite bits of content are Dragon’s Stand and Dragon’s End. The absolute spectacle of both of those Metas are phenomenal lol And nah, no sponsor or anything. This is essentially my journey and experience through the game

@@MegaMadVladMMO Wish you the best then.

I was so happy when it was like Dragon's Stand. Loved how grand they both are and both are absolute highlights of the game for me!

FIRSTEREST!!!

I’m definitely a fan of keeping the challenge in things as well. Seeing as I could barely keep up with everyone else was rough but I was still awestruck by the spectacle of it all

Oh I'm in agreement with you there. I've changed the title a few times now trying to figure out what the best would be. This current one isn't exactly too far off the mark, but farther than I'd like.

While that would've been fun with all the people playing the game, I wouldn't be able to go through the expansions when I finished it up lol SoD is on my list to try out though!

Yeah but its kinda depressing seeing you go through a seasonal realm most people quit by now... SoD is going like hot cakes and most of the playerbase is there(besides retail) @@MegaMadVladMMO

Is that in SoD?

@@MegaMadVladMMO yes

I'm on Mankrik, probably should've stated so in the video now that I'm thinking about it lol And yes! Huge Soulsborne fan right here and the opportunity to use that joke was too hard to resist

you have some sort of experience buff, so you must be playing on some wotlk server BARF. thats not classic wow!@@MegaMadVladMMO

@@dwarflord What's so wrong about that? lol Just because 2 expansions exist, all of a sudden the vanilla world doesn't?

thats the wrong classic :( but have fun dual wielding I guess@@MegaMadVladMMO

@@dwarflord lol I do plan on playing Classic Era at some point, it's just for the sake of this style of series I'll be continuing into the expansions as well. Also I'm on a bit of a time constraint before Cata Classic destroys Vanilla Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms.

Thank you! I’ll be starting on that soon