200+ Hour Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Review - Is it Worth Your Time?

So, what do you think of End of Dragons? You got it? Planning on buying it? Let me know!

I just wish they would do something for sPvP too... It would be perfect if the also released at least one new map for each mode. Not only strike missions but fractals and such.

End of dragons was shallow and retarded compared to other expansions, not to mention the core story.

End of Dragons was awesome, played it first then went back and did the previous expacs. I can say, without a doubt, End of Dragons was superior in everyway to the older content.

I had a question ! If I have not bought expansions 1/2 and I buy just expansion 3 would that still work ? Or not

PoF is better in terms of everything. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Cool review tho.

Yup. I have HoT and PoF from previous playing but I have so much content just in the base game right now leveling up my fresh necro that I don't see myself needing it right now. Just gonna continue the journey chronologically because not having context is why I quit previous expansions

my dude if we break it down evenly, you've played less than a full day per year since release lmao

Jade Bot is character bound? O.o

What is this? Unlocking flying in WoW?

End of Dragons doesn't introduce any new game changing features like the previous expansions did, but what it brought to the table (maps, elite specs, strikes, story, masteries and also soundtrack!) was overall well executed and in many cases another step up in quality. The formula of turning story encounters into strike missions , including CMs, is very promising in my opinion for future releases (season 6).

Biggest bullshit dlc . Retard mount , adds nothing special . Lot of players with toxic green robots now.... Ruins it all

Good lord,if you feel the story in EOD is "very good" i dread what you find to be very bad.

I never got the Grypho or Skyscale because I know it will make me lazy and lose a lot of content, even now I am sometimes ignoring the other mounts specially the Springer and try to reach each section by myself because a lot of maps are made to explore and mounts allow you to skip it, I usually use them only after I alread made a standard exploration of the zone and want to go back quickly.
Overall EoD is a 9/10 for me, I loved it and a lot of the story, how everything was presented, but yeah the verticallity of some maps kind of lost me like it did in HoT years ago hahaha

Jade bot is not per character in the sense you MUST do story to "unlock" it. If you want it on a second character, either just craft a Jade Bot core yourself for them or buy a Tier 1 Core from the tradepost for just over 1g :)

Good review and general overview for EoD! But personally I would rate EoD way worse. For me it's not half as good as HoT or PoF.

I just got EoD recently but i've been playing since 2012 and bought HoT/PoF on release. I didn't want to buy EoD since I never saw a reason why I should. Why should I go fishing? Why should I use a skiff? Why do I need a turtle mount when I got all the other mounts already? There was (and still is) no big selling point for me.
HoT had Gliding/Raids and Elite Specs for the first time... big selling points imo.
PoF had mounts and fun activities (bounties, mount races)... also big selling points.
But EoD is just lacking something remarkable... I just got it now for the few strike missions since it's hard to find non-EoD groups.

And isn't it really weird design (or even bad design), that you get a skiff in Seitung Province but the following EoD maps aren't really designed for skiffs at all? Echovald has literally just ankle deep water and roots are blocking everything :D HoT maps were designed around gliding and PoF around the mounts. You actually had to make use of it and it was fun to do so. But after 10 mins of trying out the skiff I never found myself in a situation where I wanted to use my skiff again.

Nice.

Thanks, great video. Yeah, i have expansion BUT i didn't play it yet!! Just woching and listening about it. At moment working on see seit season 10 more days and then...
Looking forward for playing it, hope my computer menage it;))👻

I agree that the more serious tone of the story really helps, other than that yeah vertical map design is annoying without a flying mount but great overall

Glad you have to actively fish, wows fishing is boring as shit.

Nice review dude! I'm glad you also mentioned the exploration of New Kaineng and Echovald; those quickly became 2 of my least favorite zones in the game. In general I think EoD is a mixed bag. The story, strikes and jadebots are really cool while fishing, skiffs and the turtle mount are underwhelming to say the least. The new maps could also use some better rewards like the jackpot items in the other expacs. I don't really have any reason to play the new content after going through it a couple of times. New players should definitely get the other expacs first since those add a lot more value to the game than EoD does.

@Kyosika another amazing review :). I am so happy to know the 3rd expansion was done well. Now I am even more excited to return to this game in a year or so as soon as I am able. Thank you for going so in depth. It is very much appreciated. Any thoughts on covering the state of pvp or wvw in the next few months?

About skyscale: I fear you missed a lot of fun exploration (with a plethora of unmarked beautiful views) by using the skyscale instead of eg thr zip lines. I didn't have my skyscale unlocked yet when exploring through Cantha and I never felt bad about it. Springer and zip lines were enough to get up and gliding.

You don't have to unlock jade bots via story other than for the first character.

Only 200 hours??😅

Having a flying mount system gatekeeped behind a huge grind and gold for new players is super frustrating, that's one of the reasons I'm not playing anymore, everyone who has been playing for long time has a lot of gold and time sinked into that mount, it's super unfair. Mounts should be standarized for everyone and be just cosmetic, like any other mmoprg did.

man it sure has been a while since ive played guild wars 2 might be a pretty good time to get back into the game and that revenant elite spec looks awesome