After spending 30-35 Hours in game and I am approaching Level 25, I would like to give my small feedback sofar with the hopes that it will get adressed or even reworkded a bit in the near future.
Concerning PvE experience here are some points that needs to be addressed or maybe reworked a bit to make them more enjoyable.
- Repetitive quests.
From the beginning of the game tutorial untill now the quest system is very stale. It´s all about kill few mobs, loot some chests rinse and repeat. There are no dynamic events that are happening around the map, except the corruption portals the spawning around settlements and some other areas around the map. Sometimes some of those enemies are spawing inside settlements and it´s pretty much game over as a low level since they one shot you since they have the Skull Icon under their names.
As a low level character I am not capable of doing those because I have to be according to the recommendation at least Lvl 25 and in a 5 man group. Currently I am trying to avoid them because once I enter the dark-red cloud my corruption meter from 60 goes down very fast. After dying couple of times, I used some potions to slow down the process but still not a chance since it takes forever to down one of those. There are some high-level players 40+ but they simply ignore them for whatever reason that maybe at least in the server I am on and that complicate things around the first settlement for low level players like my self.
A suggestion from my side would be to simply lower their level of those mobs in the beginner areas around the first settlements. Instead 25+ Level requirement make it 15+ Level.
- Unable to advance in main quest unless in a group ?.
As I am approaching level 25 I have read that in order to advance in the main quest (staff ?) you need to have a group of 5 players. I can understand the design behind that decision is to give you an idea about dungeons, but it will be a better experience overall if you can implement a solo-able version of those parts in the main quest.
PvP - Experience
It´s a bit complicated from what I have seen and read sofar.
- Toggle PvP on/off
That is a very nice system if you do not want to get ganked and grieft upon from over-geared players in seconds.
- Why not dedicated PvP -arenas ?
It would be a welcomed addition to the game to have a PvP map where you can participate in a 5 vs 5 mode. Maybe you can add some Leaderboard and some nice rewards for winning the match.
- Faction Wars
The idea behind it it´s nice, but it also has some problems. The main problem from my experience is that only couple of the big Companies ( aka Guilds ) controlling who can participate. Even though I have registered to the (war-table?) to participate in an upcoming war nothing is happening.
I get it. As a low level undergeared player you are not welcomed. Especially if you are not belonging to the Company that owns the place. But I am still part of the same faction. Why should I invest my time and effort to help with influence and projects around owned settlements .?
A suggestion from my side would be to implement a similar system to WvW from Guild Wars 2 where low level players can participate in the server efforts for dominance.
It´s a big wall of text but that is my experience untill now.
Regards