Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons

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  • Publisher: NCSOFT
  • Release Date: Feb 28, 2022
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  1. VectorManuel
    Aug 14, 2023
    3
    This is bad, real bad.
    **Cons:
    * Story - It became so bad, why does the commander (saviour of the world) who is an foreigner in a new land has to deal with their politics? Why is there even an emphasis on it? Especially when their dragon (which their tech is based on) is in the brink of dying? It wasn't as immersive as it was before. * Script - Worse, felt like a teenager has written    This is bad, real bad.
    **Cons:
    * Story - It became so bad, why does the commander (saviour of the world) who is an foreigner in a new land has to deal with their politics? Why is there even an emphasis on it? Especially when their dragon (which their tech is based on) is in the brink of dying? It wasn't as immersive as it was before.
    * Script - Worse, felt like a teenager has written it. It seems they forgot who the commander is and what they stand for.
    * Plot - I want to mention this separately, they could've done a better job in showing the end of dragons, Zhaitan had a better end than the water dragon.
    * Features - It was fairly obvious that there isn't much new features that can be implemented, the new expansion didn't bring any QoL features, just a glorified revive orb.
    1. - Fishing - Another source of resources, great for first few reels, then it just seems like an achievement driven task.
    2. - Skiff - Slower than skimmer, good when paired with fishing.
    3. - Turtle - Combat mount, good if you have a friend, bad if you play solo.
    4. - Jade Bots - Not a great addition, would be useful if it has drone features in future.
    * Politics - Why? Just why?

    Pros:
    * Maps - I liked it, except for the colour saturation
    * Music - Good
    * Elite Specs - broken, but enjoyable.
    * Foes - I finally have foes who are not weak anymore, annoying as it maybe, it was a nice touch.    … Expand
  2. Arkevorkhat
    Jul 13, 2023
    1
    Story: 2/10. Generally uninspired and formulaic. This section only earns points because the community isn't full of mouthbreathers who will scream at you if you skip the cutscenes (looking at you, FF14.)
    Gameplay: 1/10. Some of the new elite specs are fine, most of them are useless, or pidgeonhole you into a specific build that doesn't synergize with the rest of your profession's kit.    Story: 2/10. Generally uninspired and formulaic. This section only earns points because the community isn't full of mouthbreathers who will scream at you if you skip the cutscenes (looking at you, FF14.)
    Gameplay: 1/10. Some of the new elite specs are fine, most of them are useless, or pidgeonhole you into a specific build that doesn't synergize with the rest of your profession's kit.
    Maps: 0/10 They've somehow made maps that are difficult to navigate *and* boring to look at. At least Heart of Thorns' maps were interesting to try and work around.
    Difficulty: 10/10 (lower is better). It's super fun getting deleted in the overworld, with a completed elite spec and head to toe exotic gear. I'm super happy with the fact that the equipment I spent 50+ gold on isn't even enough to let me survive 4 basic enemies at once.    … Expand
  3. Avenrise
    Jun 16, 2023
    7
    Revised score: Down to a 7 from 8/10. Reason: After a year playing the expansion the longevity of the content in EoD maps has slightly decreased for me. Still great but it's natural that when you play content so often it becomes a little more stale.

    To the negative reviews... everyone is entitled to an opinion but honestly ignore the 1-3's and take the 10's with a pinch of salt. This    Revised score: Down to a 7 from 8/10. Reason: After a year playing the expansion the longevity of the content in EoD maps has slightly decreased for me. Still great but it's natural that when you play content so often it becomes a little more stale.

    To the negative reviews... everyone is entitled to an opinion but honestly ignore the 1-3's and take the 10's with a pinch of salt. This expansion was the best selling to date by far, was the most well received content for the game in years and encouraged more people to start playing the game than since it went free to play in 2015. ANET announced that due to it's success they now have more devs working on the game so it's here to stay for a long time yet.

    I've played the game since launch and seen both the ups and downs of GW2. The latest expansion, End of Dragons, is a joy to experience - from the vibrant new maps to the shock of a Jadepunk world we have not seen anything like in GW2 up until now. The music is stunning, taking inspiration from traditional Korean music (Maclaine Diemer is a HIGHLY underappreciated composer outside of GW2) and the final battle meta event is honestly one of the most impressive scenes seen in any open world MMO.

    The lore of EoD is the best story content since Season 4... maybe even surpassing it. Ankka has become one of my fav characters in the franchise and while not entirely to my liking did well to wrap up the decade long Dragon arc we've had in GW2 and gave hints as to where we are heading next.

    Negatives to balance it out: The third map does seem a little barren, could have done with a few more events maybe and with the final map being a smaller meta map the events are few and far between outside of meta time. The Elite specs haven't all been slam dunks with many saying some feel rushed and bland and were very unbalanced at launch however as of me editing this review major balance updates are on their way to fix many of the issues. Finally I'd say that there are indications here and there that make you feel like the expansion was made under a bit of a time constraint... not rushed but just feels like it's missing the odd thing here and there.

    I'm a fan of the franchise so I am naturally biased, this review is based on me being a current player but honestly this expansion was and still is great fun and with it being GW2 you buy it and it's there for you to have fun in until the servers shut down. GW2 with all the expacs and Living World content is the best $100 you'll honestly spend on any game.    … Expand
  4. hjikqfbiuqdbiqw
    May 29, 2023
    0
    really bad, doesnt come with a graphics update like competitors ff or wow do. Doesnt have a lot of new content. Still comes with the GW2 core gameplay: farm gold, gold for shop is everything. Doesnt give a lot of content which is without the shop grindable. Doesnt give any new gameplay, still all classes are button smashing, button smashing and more button smash. Strikes are solo bossreally bad, doesnt come with a graphics update like competitors ff or wow do. Doesnt have a lot of new content. Still comes with the GW2 core gameplay: farm gold, gold for shop is everything. Doesnt give a lot of content which is without the shop grindable. Doesnt give any new gameplay, still all classes are button smashing, button smashing and more button smash. Strikes are solo boss raids now, which is great, but not in this game where the fight is nothing but stand melee and button smash. There is no sense into playing this game, it is only about grind gold, get some glowing skins and then be honored by your other gold farmers. It is basically a idle gold farm expansion, in a mainly ingame-shop-game with some minigames attached where you just idle and press 1-10… Expand
  5. KlausArne
    Dec 18, 2022
    8
    This addition can really bring different emotions, there were lingering moments, there were good moments, but in the end the addition is amazing, the new systems complement the gameplay a little, and even if the new systems are not perfect - I think - that the addition deserves 8! The new balance is far from the past and perfect, but I'm playing this game with GW1 and I can understand whyThis addition can really bring different emotions, there were lingering moments, there were good moments, but in the end the addition is amazing, the new systems complement the gameplay a little, and even if the new systems are not perfect - I think - that the addition deserves 8! The new balance is far from the past and perfect, but I'm playing this game with GW1 and I can understand why this is happening, it remains to be hoped that the edits will help smooth everything out.… Expand
  6. MoofiaBossVal
    Nov 5, 2022
    5
    EoD brings the least amount of new content and features of any GW2 expansion thus far. No new SPvP or WvW maps. No new raids or fractals. No new transformative PvE features like gliding or mounts. You're pretty much getting a glorified living world story pack with new elite specializations, and that's it.

    There are only 4 new PvE maps. Seitung Province looks okay. New Kaineng is a    EoD brings the least amount of new content and features of any GW2 expansion thus far. No new SPvP or WvW maps. No new raids or fractals. No new transformative PvE features like gliding or mounts. You're pretty much getting a glorified living world story pack with new elite specializations, and that's it.

    There are only 4 new PvE maps. Seitung Province looks okay. New Kaineng is a little cool but the futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic doesn't fit the franchise. Echovald Forest looks like a prototype HoT map. Dragon's End looks overall meh, and centers around a poorly designed meta event, though it does have a cool boss fight at the end. The level design isn't on the same level as HoT's map design. There are no adventures (minigames) packed into these maps like in HoT, or even races like in PoF's maps. There is no incentive to keep playing these maps once you get the hero points and mastery points.

    The music is unmemorable. There are a couple of nice ambient tracks that play in Seitung and New Kaineng, but I struggle to recall the rest of the soundtrack.

    The new elite specializations are a mixed bag. Many of them are thematically cool, but a lot of them are just mechanically broken. It has been 8 months since release and the Untamed still hasn't been fixed yet. Another problem is that the new EoD elite specializations are overtuned and have powercrept older elite specializations (let alone just playing a vanilla class with no elite spec). The EoD elite specializations are also underwhelming visually. The Untamed for instance has no animation on its new teleport ability, Unnatural Traversal, and has no new animations when equipping an Aurene Legendary (unlike every other class). The new Thief spec, Specter, wields a scepter but reuses axe animations, which looks odd. And so on.

    There are a few other miscellaneous issues. EoD maps are capped at 60 players. EoD maps are constantly closing, causing all progress on an event chain to be lost and you lose all of your built up fishing or bloodlust or Dragon's End stacks when switching instances. The ascended weapons for EoD elite specializations are gated behind fishing up rare fish that have incredibly low droprates. Spending two hours fishing for a stingray for your Untamed hammer only to never get it is very demoralizing.

    The story is very bad. It is 11 hours long but there is only 2 hours of cool adventuring: the setpiece with the airship fleet at the beginning, and then the final battle at the end. The 9 hours in between is spent standing around listening to the pathetic melodrama of unlikeable, narcissistic characters. Much of the dialogue is horrendously awful and not even the voice actors can salvage it. There is also a lot of swearing all of the sudden, not just in the story but also in outdoor events in EoD maps. Don't play EoD with your window or door open. It is hard to believe that the same people who wrote the vanilla game or HoT or even season 4 wrote the story and dialogue for this expansion. Narratively, End of Dragons is an unsatisfying conclusion to the game's storyline.

    I overall enjoyed EoD, but only just. I would only recommend it if you are playing GW2 and one of the elite specializations appeals to you, or if you really like GW2 and have played through all of the content up to EoD and just want a little bit more GW2 to play.    … Expand
  7. Junanelle
    Oct 7, 2022
    3
    The story was somewhat enjoyable, but we are waiting for something new for so long now. Pretty much sure to say the game is dead. Even though they announced a new living world series and next addon right with the launch of this expansion, there is nothing to be seen of this promise. But well if the quality of ingame content keeps spiralling downwards - as it did since launch of theThe story was somewhat enjoyable, but we are waiting for something new for so long now. Pretty much sure to say the game is dead. Even though they announced a new living world series and next addon right with the launch of this expansion, there is nothing to be seen of this promise. But well if the quality of ingame content keeps spiralling downwards - as it did since launch of the basegame - its for the better to let the game die out in peace.
    Want to love the game and cherish the roughly 15.000 hours I put into it but sadly cant anymore. Even as a long year veteran I need to say "stay away from Guildwars 2" at this point....    … Expand
  8. Eonagon
    Jun 21, 2022
    2
    Each story mission is filled with UNSKIPPABLE chatter, waiting around, or riding elevators. Arenanet refuses to let your progress carry across characters- meaning you have to repeat hours upon hours of following slow NPCs just for all your characters to be caught up.

    The DEV team consistently ignores the cries of its player base. While they have done an amazing job balancing classes and    Each story mission is filled with UNSKIPPABLE chatter, waiting around, or riding elevators. Arenanet refuses to let your progress carry across characters- meaning you have to repeat hours upon hours of following slow NPCs just for all your characters to be caught up.

    The DEV team consistently ignores the cries of its player base. While they have done an amazing job balancing classes and building beautiful scenery, I can't ignore the fact that they don't care about what the player base has wanted for 5+ years.    … Expand
  9. Thaksin
    Jun 8, 2022
    8
    Я прошел сюжетную часть!
    Это было потрясающе!
    Спасибо ArenaNet вы лучшие!
  10. Shadamehr
    May 22, 2022
    6
    The downsides:
    *The game is showing signs of budget and dev cutbacks.
    *4 maps compared to the previous expansion's 5 *No sign of Living World 6 in sight, with the previous expansion Living World 4 dropped in just two months after the expansion's release (Sep 22nd 2017 - Nov 28th 2017). Instead we have repeat content for new players and those who have never played Living World 1. And    The downsides:
    *The game is showing signs of budget and dev cutbacks.
    *4 maps compared to the previous expansion's 5
    *No sign of Living World 6 in sight, with the previous expansion Living World 4 dropped in just two months after the expansion's release (Sep 22nd 2017 - Nov 28th 2017). Instead we have repeat content for new players and those who have never played Living World 1. And challenge modes for the 10 man strikes.
    *Almost all drops are geared towards making legendary weapons, if thats not your thing ...
    *The 2nd map which is meant to be a bustling, busy city (think Bladerunner) seems deserted and empty with cut and paste mobs and repeatable quests, nothing at all like the loading screens. Where are all the citizens ?
    *One of the downsides to Guild Wars 2 is that if you've never played vanilla Guild Wars there will be a lot of names and lore that are totally lost on you (some of them mind blowing). The expansion is based in Cantha, an area from vanilla Guild Wars, the amount of hype before release was similar to that when Blizzard announced Warlods of Draenor: We're returning to Burning Crusade get excited !!!
    *The game went through a 10 month new content drought along with a truncated ending to Living World 5 just so they could all work on the expansion (with the latter they pulled devs off it and ordered the story to end).
    *Once you've obtained the item needed for your turtle mount there's zero incentive to do the meta on the last map. The meta is tough (which as a non raider I don't mind at all), but can fail, you can waste a full 2 hours for no reward. They've added a very rare infusion drop to encourage players to get involved however I've been playing for 6 years and have played map meta events hundreds of times without once ever seeing an infusion drop, let alone transformation potions, or since the start of 2021 the infusion from Khan-Ur. We're talking about a 1 in 10,000 drop rate. Playing the meta for a chance of a very rare infusion would be soul destroying. They need to add more drops, mount skins, pets, skiff and rod skins, transformation potions etc. Or have the map wide meta start from the actual boss fight.
    *There should be more gear collections.

    *On the plus side, its ***new content*** with some challenging story instanced boss fights if you're going for achievements.
    *It was a fun, enjoyable play through though again seemed short compared to the previous expansion.
    *I added an extra point for the epilogue, very well done.
    *There is no endless gear grind treadmill where all your gear becomes obsolete once every 3 months when new content drops. Your gear stays current, always. Which also means all previous expansion and Living World maps are current, there's absolutely no need or urgent hurry to jump into the latest expansion, if you're into story I would really advise against doing this.
    *Fishing is fun once you get into it, and insane if you go for the Cod Swimming Among Mere Minnows achievement (a pun title based on a vanilla Guild Wars title).    … Expand
  11. vickykoi
    May 9, 2022
    5
    I've been playing since release. Taken many breaks in-between. I'll be honest, this expansion is pretty mediocre. The contrast is very high in the colors of the maps. I mean the maps are beautiful, but the colors are super bright. The story seemed great in theory with the Icebrood saga buildup. BUT then they brought back some enemies that were already resolved several years ago as the mainI've been playing since release. Taken many breaks in-between. I'll be honest, this expansion is pretty mediocre. The contrast is very high in the colors of the maps. I mean the maps are beautiful, but the colors are super bright. The story seemed great in theory with the Icebrood saga buildup. BUT then they brought back some enemies that were already resolved several years ago as the main antagonists of this expansion. "Ankka" was just thrown into the dialogue out of nowhere to be the main antagonist because "she's so empty inside and wants to kill the gods and all higher powers".

    The "selling" features of this expansion were some iffy elite specs, a boat, and fishing. And you could already use the stingray to ride over water. So honestly i feel like this was 6 months of free release maps labeled as an expansion. Not worth 30$, infact i might even ask for a refund and wait till it goes on sale.    … Expand
  12. lorkano
    May 2, 2022
    9
    I've been playing this game since Path of Fire release. This expansion improved on story delivery systems developed during Living World Season 4 and IBS, and delivered in my opinion best story chapter to date. Masteries are not perfect, but fishing is very enjoyable. Weakest point is the turtle mount. Map design is one still one of the best in the industry, especially compared to otherI've been playing this game since Path of Fire release. This expansion improved on story delivery systems developed during Living World Season 4 and IBS, and delivered in my opinion best story chapter to date. Masteries are not perfect, but fishing is very enjoyable. Weakest point is the turtle mount. Map design is one still one of the best in the industry, especially compared to other mmos.
    Soundtrack for this expansion is one of the best I've heard in the industry. There are many achivements to find, especially on third map. There is some endgame content, not much but they will build on it.
    While this isn't game for everyone, it's perfect game for me. Thats why there are barely mixed reviews of the expansion - either you love it or you don't.    … Expand
  13. Generalgameman
    Apr 24, 2022
    2
    Fun, well made, half decent story.... but still no respec, if you are new and you mess up your build, enjoy hours of grinding!
  14. AleksanderSubur
    Apr 9, 2022
    0
    Guild wars 2 was always out of the classic medieval fantasy with it's story (steam copter, steam submarines, roboter, laser guns, holographs), but in this expansion averything come together in green shining nightmare. The story is less predictable, but as unlogical as the stories of the other parts. But the most impertinent are the new, unfinished elite specializations (i.e. untamed).Guild wars 2 was always out of the classic medieval fantasy with it's story (steam copter, steam submarines, roboter, laser guns, holographs), but in this expansion averything come together in green shining nightmare. The story is less predictable, but as unlogical as the stories of the other parts. But the most impertinent are the new, unfinished elite specializations (i.e. untamed). Searching for a new game, or i'm moving back to guild wars 1… Expand
  15. Deathmonger
    Apr 6, 2022
    10
    This is no joke the greatest game I have ever played. I will attempt to do this review spoiler free but it is hard because there is just so much to love. I will caveat that there are probably two groups of people that don't rate this as high. First would be those that loved the old grungy Cantha in GW1. Second, those that come back and forth to GW2 when there is an expansion or itThis is no joke the greatest game I have ever played. I will attempt to do this review spoiler free but it is hard because there is just so much to love. I will caveat that there are probably two groups of people that don't rate this as high. First would be those that loved the old grungy Cantha in GW1. Second, those that come back and forth to GW2 when there is an expansion or it strikes their fancy. For those that have played almost all content and been with it for over nine years...it is the magnum opus. It is how Mass Effect should have turned out naturally instead of how the company was forced to half fix due to fan fury. The voice acting, the lines, the hilarity is there and so good it even hits on a second playthrough. The expansion is plenty of content...PLENTY. Took me days/about two weeks even with finally getting started right away with everyone else and playing several hours a day. The masteries are fun and give end game and are not even really necessary. The plot is epic. EPIC. Wraps everything up and gives even EPILOGUE which is often so lacking in games--it isn't the end of GW2 so don't panic or think like a lot of us did that this is the end and how lovely on to GW3....nope. But we do have no idea where we are going next which is amazing :). The final meta event is one of the greatest if not greatest gaming moments of all time. This game/expansion is a true ten. Perfect 10, no one will change my mind. Now if you will excuse me...back to it just because it is that fun!… Expand
  16. Zenriwk0
    Mar 30, 2022
    0
    Nice expansion if you are looking for story which will make you sleep and sick
  17. Mirotvorac
    Mar 23, 2022
    10
    High quality expansion in all aspect of Guild Wars 2. Real refresh of game.
  18. Tenarus
    Mar 18, 2022
    1
    A good game ruined by the incompetence of the developer.

    The addon itself just has a mediocre story, meaningless masteries, unbalanced metas (which could have been prevented - i know from a friend playtesting from the side of anet means journalists play the events with dmg buffs and invuln - thats not playtesting, thats stupid), no challenges, no real rewards for veteran players. The    A good game ruined by the incompetence of the developer.

    The addon itself just has a mediocre story, meaningless masteries, unbalanced metas (which could have been prevented - i know from a friend playtesting from the side of anet means journalists play the events with dmg buffs and invuln - thats not playtesting, thats stupid), no challenges, no real rewards for veteran players. The expansion is bland, boring and meaningless.

    To top it all off arenanet slaps in the faces of veterans again and again. All the kinds of content veterans wish for (eg new raids) get canceled. Bugs that have been reported on release of the base game are still not fixed to this very date. Arenanets incompetence in technical aspects as well as their ignorance to their playerbase ruined this game.

    Bye, commander out    … Expand
  19. Jaunty
    Mar 14, 2022
    0
    Worst GW content to date, in 17 years. Unrecognizable development team, focusing more on inserting woke politics than creating an entertaining product. It is a failure on every level. This is the Last Jedi of Guild Wars. Let's just forget it ever existed.
  20. andrecastelo
    Mar 14, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a beautifully rushed expansion pack.

    The new areas look good, difficulty is up there, and while I did not enjoy initially the new specs, they are growing on me. Guild Wars 2 art style is its strongest point, it's a very unique and holy **** it's breath taking at times. The environment design is amazing as well, though attention to detail has been lacking a lot in some areas.

    However I believe this expansion pack lacks substance and attention to detail. There are new elite profession specializations, but they're nothing to write home about - existing specs are either better or they're simply uninspired. I feel some of the specs intentions were to allow some classes to have access to a certain roles, but in a way they all sort of fall short.

    End of Dragons added one new mount, and while the concept of two people riding it is cool, it's still one mount and the novelty wears off fairly quickly. The acquisition process is hard, but I don't think that's really a problem.

    The expansion also added fishing as a new mechanic, which while interesting, I don't really want to fish in a mmorpg. It has appealed to some people, but it's a niche addition that isn't embraced by the whole community.

    Another addition were skiffs - you can now get a boat and travel around in a boat. But you could already do that with Skimmers. I guess you can use the skiff to go to a fishing spot and fish, but again, niche addition.

    They also added jade bots, a companion that will boost some stats and help you in some areas of the open world, but they managed to botch that by requiring characters to go through the story to get a jade bot power core. And though the story is well written, it's full of unskippable dialog and parts where you are required to walk around and talk to people - it's a complete slog to go through it, it's so mind bogglingly boring. On top of that, there are weapon collections that require you to go through the story with a character of a specific class - so to get the new elite spec weapons, you have to go through the story NINE **** TIMES.

    Overall, this expansion pack lacks attention to detail, feels rushed in some areas and lacking substance. For comparison, Path of Fire added 9 new elite specs, 6 mounts, raids and awesome areas for us to explore. EoD brings 9 new uninspired elite specs, 1 mount, fishing and a boat for some reason.

    My suggestion for anyone considering this is to wait until there's a discount and then get it.    … Expand
  21. TerterBG
    Mar 14, 2022
    10
    10/10
    The expansion have great story.
    The fishing game is excellent. The skiffs are fun, especially with friends. The siege turtle is awesome. The meta events feel like a combination of HoT and PoF metas merged together but with their good parts. The strike missions are fun and challenging, especially the last one. There is a lot of stuff to do in the expansion, lots of objectives    10/10
    The expansion have great story.
    The fishing game is excellent.
    The skiffs are fun, especially with friends.
    The siege turtle is awesome.
    The meta events feel like a combination of HoT and PoF metas merged together but with their good parts.
    The strike missions are fun and challenging, especially the last one.
    There is a lot of stuff to do in the expansion, lots of objectives to fulfill for you to experience everything the the ArenaNet studio has put into this expansion.
    The soundtrack is one of the best in video games I've heard in a while. It tops HoT and PoF soundtracks in my opinion.    … Expand
  22. Shinyu
    Mar 11, 2022
    2
    It isn't great. I got baited by the reviews, and boy, do I want my 30€ back.
    The story is unskippable and is some of the least interesting things I have to witness for a while. It is really bad. Villain bad because villain bad, hero good because hero good. Sketchy people sketchy because a plot-twist no one could foresee will happen. Annoying cutscene simulator with bits of *very*    It isn't great. I got baited by the reviews, and boy, do I want my 30€ back.
    The story is unskippable and is some of the least interesting things I have to witness for a while. It is really bad. Villain bad because villain bad, hero good because hero good. Sketchy people sketchy because a plot-twist no one could foresee will happen. Annoying cutscene simulator with bits of *very* unbalanced gameplay, as usual. You get swarmmed by enemies, and unless you play a tankier build, you will get deleted over and over. Not that prevents you from clearing, it is beyond frustrating.

    The performance is still EXTREMELY bad even in 2022. With the DX12 wrapper, which is a *must* to play this game, it oftens crashes into the low 20 fps. Not only that, but it looks bad. Really bad. Looks like a PS3 game, and runs like a PS1 game.

    The map design took a turn for the worst. It feels like heart of thorns again : frustrating to navigate. Unless you explore secret areas and stuff like that, navigation should be easy to figure out. I should be able to look at my map and say "yes, I wanna go there, I can reach it by going there". I'm only in the 2nd map and getting HoT vibes from a confusing, vertical based, level design. I guess that's why people use navigation add-ons on that game. And it seems they didn't learned anything from Path of Fire. They did simple maps, that are huge, but somewhat easy to navigate. You read your map, you know where to go.

    The gameplay is still the same, for the better or for the worse. Glass cannon is only viable in raid/fractal/strike environment, and they keep making the mobs stronger and stronger to enforce a tank-meta. It gets really frustrating after a while to fight enemies able to one shot me because I refused to wear knight gear. Other than that, it plays well and feels good, just poor mob tunning from arena.

    I'd not advise anyone not madly in love with GW2 to play end of dragons.

    (Unrelated side-note : arena net support is among THE WORST supports out there. I bought a physical copy, used the code on the wrong account, got called a thief by their CS operative when I showed them all proofs needed (photo of the box + code, account next to it with the same code visible, even some documents of my bank info) and still they wanted me to buy ANOTHER copy instead of helping me. They also asked me to get a refund from the shop I bought it... You can't refund a PC game if the box was opened, due to the possibility of the code being used. 11/10 best support.)    … Expand
  23. OhLawdHeComin
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    I love Guild Wars!

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    What's this?
  24. JonJonz
    Mar 9, 2022
    5
    Of all the expansions for this game, EOD is mediocre.

    The good to excellent: * A few really fun new class specializations like the Engineer Mechanist * Lots of Hero Points with only a few protected by Champions * If you complete the story you get a teleport scroll to the new zones so you don't have to do the story for all your characters The bad: * Previously to access    Of all the expansions for this game, EOD is mediocre.

    The good to excellent:

    * A few really fun new class specializations like the Engineer Mechanist

    * Lots of Hero Points with only a few protected by Champions

    * If you complete the story you get a teleport scroll to the new zones so you don't have to do the story for all your characters

    The bad:

    * Previously to access new expansion zones the player only had to complete 1 or 2 solo story missions. This expansion require completing the entire long story chain, we are talking 10s of hours to go through. Do you want to play a MMORPG or single player RPG?

    * It's not the old scrub friendly GW2, Open world metas are tuned like raids now. If you don't have a Raid capable toon, your screwed.

    * The turtle mount that was heavily marketed as a reason to buy the expansion requires completing the Raid level difficult final map meta.

    * The previous two issues have divided the comminity and turned it toxic, the try-hards vs the casuals. The game has flipped from starting out as casual friendly buy with game modes on the side for try hards, to putting try hard first and abandoning casuals.

    * The new zones are mediocre.

    So if you are a try hard pro and you love story missions its a definite buy. If your the average scrub, unless you really can't live without one of the new specializations, wait till it's on sale or just stick to what you have now. If your new to the game, it's still a good value if you are a try hard buy, if not pass and stick with the base game including POF and HOT expansions.    … Expand
  25. JohnLSD
    Mar 8, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Excellent (except the gay marriage at the end). The new specializations are great and the story and art fantastic. It's quite short but I expect one more complete season. Fishing is also great and, at the moment, you can make a great profit, ~30 gold/hour of relaxation, this makes the expansion less grindy.

    It also feels like it has less content than the other expansions, after finishing the story and tried the final meta a few times I try to find new things to do. I remember that on PoF and HoT I have grinded the maps for hours, but maybe because now I have a lot of legendaries and I don't have to grind for the stats. This felt a lot easier and faster to advance and also more relaxing.

    The negative parts: Still no update on WvW, no new fractals, the new masteries that you unlock are not essential, they feel like novelties. Using waypoint from LA to the new zone cost 9 silver :D.

    Overall I have enjoyed this but I need new content soon, especially content related to WvW, PvP. Maybe 1v1, 2v2 modes.    … Expand
  26. graven2002
    Mar 8, 2022
    9
    Very solid expansion. Longest and arguably best told story out of the three. Interesting map design, with beautiful music and environment art. Epic meta events, lots of new enemy designs and combinations, and plenty of achievement quests. Elite specs succeed in changing how each class feels to play. Masteries add new forms of play outside of standard combat / traversal. Overall, aVery solid expansion. Longest and arguably best told story out of the three. Interesting map design, with beautiful music and environment art. Epic meta events, lots of new enemy designs and combinations, and plenty of achievement quests. Elite specs succeed in changing how each class feels to play. Masteries add new forms of play outside of standard combat / traversal. Overall, a very enjoyable experience that I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys the base game.… Expand
  27. itsawn
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This expansion started off incredibly solid and had me really excited early in the playthrough.

    However, it really takes an incredibly sharp turn downwards in quality in the last quarter of the story or so, where they really hurried to put a cork on an almost 10-year ongoing story.

    The ending felt very rushed and kind of baffling due to how they introduce this supposed dark threat to the universe that was behind all of the world's problems all along, despite never even being hinted at before this, then to you heroically vanquishing this ancient evil... in the span of an hour or two, maybe three? Where most of this is spent dealing with idiotic story characters who believe this is all your fault, all while the world is supposedly in the process of ending, but you don't even really see this happening either. Then you go to the zone where the end of the universe is just kinda chillin', slap it in the face, roll credits.

    While the explorable zones are certainly good looking, exploring them felt more bland than usual because the hero and mastery points just seem tacked on. Instead of the occasional puzzle element or unique mechanic, it's all either "kill this generic enemy" or "interact with this thing and here you go". They're also pretty much all out in the open, whereas in other expansions quite a few made you think on how to get to them. Quite a few areas also have some performance issues going on with steep framerate drops, regardless of hardware and their new DX11 setting.    … Expand
  28. Heyra
    Mar 8, 2022
    10
    First off all i didn't had big expectations for eod. But dayum i was showed that i was wrong.
    End of Dragons is a masterwork of Art . The look , the music , is 10/10 the song A world Without you is stucked in my Head . It had some start problems with the meta events but most of them are already fixed. World building and Voiceacting are on point . Gw2 truly gets better and better witch    First off all i didn't had big expectations for eod. But dayum i was showed that i was wrong.
    End of Dragons is a masterwork of Art . The look , the music , is 10/10 the song A world Without you is stucked in my Head . It had some start problems with the meta events but most of them are already fixed. World building and Voiceacting are on point . Gw2 truly gets better and better witch each addon.    … Expand
  29. Lilucifer
    Mar 7, 2022
    10
    Started playing GW2 in 2018, right after Path of Fire release, so i dint really quite had the experience of a expansion launch, so End of Dragons announcement got me hyped from the very begining, and when the day finally came, i was thrilled! It is AMAZING!!! So BEAUTIFUL, SO FULL OS COLORS AND LIFE!! The story is great, it keeps you engaged and eager for the next part. TheStarted playing GW2 in 2018, right after Path of Fire release, so i dint really quite had the experience of a expansion launch, so End of Dragons announcement got me hyped from the very begining, and when the day finally came, i was thrilled! It is AMAZING!!! So BEAUTIFUL, SO FULL OS COLORS AND LIFE!! The story is great, it keeps you engaged and eager for the next part. The especialization lines are so inventive and i cant keep myself from changing builds so i can try everything and see what best works for me. The new masteries are so cool, i cant tell you how many hours i have spent already fishing everywhere i can because its so fun! All the metas are so combat and skills driven, you need your full attention while doing it for a lot of things are happening at the same time and the mechanics are so different from what we have seen before. I love it and i am having a blast with this new expansion, im certainly gonna be still playing these new maps for the next couple of months for so much content there is to complete!!… Expand
  30. dr0nzer
    Mar 5, 2022
    5
    The problem I find with all guild war games is that you never really feel powerful, your character never really progresses or grow in stats and power level, so you're always the same from start to finish, even as you gain new armor, the games scaling system makes sure the enemy npcs keep pace, this just makes your toon feel weak and squishy all the time, with very easy and constant deaths.The problem I find with all guild war games is that you never really feel powerful, your character never really progresses or grow in stats and power level, so you're always the same from start to finish, even as you gain new armor, the games scaling system makes sure the enemy npcs keep pace, this just makes your toon feel weak and squishy all the time, with very easy and constant deaths.

    People say this game respects your time, thats a load of crap - it's absolutely grindy as hell with crazy amount of materials to farm to unlock/craft armor as well as the sheer amount of time you need to invest into unlocking the mounts.. which they advertise heavily in their PR/marketing material. Using the achievement system as a quest tracker is absurd and shows you how limited this game engine is.

    The title was probably great in 2002 but it's mechanics and game systems have not aged well to modern times. Die hard fans will disagree as with all cliques but to a new player.. I do not recommend it, this is a try before you buy.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
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  1. RPG Fan
    May 16, 2022
    80
    Unlike other Guild Wars 2 expansions, End of Dragons doesn’t have one big feature to hang its hat on. Instead, it offers several smaller features and the game’s most enjoyable campaign yet. Factor in beautiful new maps and challenging but engaging late-game bosses, and there’s plenty of content for Guild Wars 2 fans to come back to.
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  2. Meristation
    Apr 14, 2022
    75
    An expansion with lights and shadows but interesting for Guild Wars 2 players nonetheless. Too much time waiting for a content that looks hurried at some points.
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  3. PC Gamer
    Apr 4, 2022
    81
    A worthy send-off to Guild Wars 2's Elder Dragon saga, and a reason to be optimistic about the future of the game.
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