y'know, to tell you guys the truth, post-searing Ascalon is really starting to shit me. what's doing it for me is the vast quantities of creatures that pop up out of the ground over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. you clear out a run from one place to another, go through a portal to do one thing, then come back and they are all repopulated again. it reminds me of really old RPGs where you walk around not seeing any enemies and then all of a sudden you're at a fight sequence. there's no way to avoid them like you can roaming mobs, you pretty much have to fight them.
add this to not being able to jump up onto things so there is pretty much only static ways that you can run through terrain and henchmen that are so frustratingly lame and underpowered and you'll begin to see why i am getting annoyed. i mean, when i heard that there were henchmen i thought that maybe it would be ok for soloing, because i don't really have time to fuck around finding people to play with who aren't total fucktards. but why even bother giving players henchmen if they're going to be so useless?
also, i've had the same fucking weapon for the last say, six levels. nothing drops anything interesting. i know that this game is supposed to be all about the skills & how you use them, and they say that being uber will never be about time played, etc, but if it is supposed to be all about that then why the hell do we get so little skills to begin with? before anyone says anything: yes, i am doing quests to get new skills, but hardly any of them are interesting enough to use anyway, so i'm stuck using the same ones i always use.
so here's a recap of what's pissing me off:
running on annoying set paths through bleak wasteland settings that all look the same with a bunch of underpowered henchmen fighting against the same annoyingly unavoidable creatures over and over again with the same weapon i've had for 6 levels and a bunch of skills, only a handful of which are interesting at all.
someone please tell me it gets better than this.
at the moment i'm playing Elementalist/Mesmer, and to tell you the truth i am enjoying the Mesmer side more than the elementalist. also, perhaps i'll switch over to my melee character for a bit and see if there's any difference in the way the game feels, but i'm not exactly holding my breath.
edit: i just read back over that and found it to be both harsh and totally true. unless i can find something to save this game i am really thinking that i might reopen my WoW account and go in search of PvP encounters or something. this game is very very different to what i was expecting, and even rather different to the beta of it that i played a while back.