Looking on that list, most of these masteries serve one purpose which is in most cases just locked to a single map. Siren's Landing: Siren of Orr = useful only in Siren's Landing.Draconis Mons: Oakheart's Reach = useful in Draconis Mons and Guildhalls.Lake Doric: Spectral Aid, the 5th downed skill = can be used almost everywhere, very useful.Bitterfrost Frontier: Koda's Flame is used mostly to loot the frozen treasure boxes on the map = useful only in Bitterfrost Frontier.Those are Ember Bay, Draconis Mons and Bitterfrost Frontier = useful for those maps Ember Bay: Thermal Tubes to ease traveling on maps it is implemented.But in all other maps you touch a Ley-Line and nothing happens (except from the gliding if you mastered the Glider on highest tier). In Lake Doric they only work if you interact with a Ley-Line which somehow does make sense. Bloodstone Fen: Aerial ley-powered gliding skills which work only in Bloodstone Fen and Lake Doric.Bloodstone Fen: Magic Gathering required to loot Unbound Magic in all LS 3 maps = useful for LS 3 only.When it comes to Living Story Masteries, it is quite hard to find something "useful." Most of the abilities are locked for the specific map only. It's more of a PR desaster and less an actual issue with the beetle, that the thing that has been fully developped before shipping was a gimmicky mount and not, let's say a meta event or Gendara Fortress. I know, that different ppl were working on the beetle than worked on Kourna, so dropping the beetle wouldn't have changed much about Long live the Lich. I think the only aspect of it that makes me a bit bitter is that the rest of the release felt only halfway done. That's ok if not great, because it's a LS release, not everyone will have it in the future, even if they have PoF, so it's good ANet doesn't make it a requirement.The beetle is still fun to ride in the right terrain, much like a sport bike, you won't have a good time if you take it off the road. Was it necessary in, filling an open space that no mount filled, or rather, did ANet find a spot that isn't covered by other mounts? No. I agree with your arguments, yet I wouldn't call the beetle a misfire. Breaking a wall however hardly gives you any feeling of mystery, you obviously know where will you go with that, you could place a wall that leads nowhere, but it will never be as fun as the portals. picking the wrong one kicks you back to the start, also they can be hard to find as both exits can be placed very far from one another.
More over the sand portals are much more amusing to use, as they can be used to create fun riddles like in the Sanctum of Nabkha. There are many places we can't get in directly in PoF and have to use a sand portal to get in.So swapping sand portals with breakable walls in some places does not make the new skill truely useful. You can hardly see anyone riding it in open world too, most players still prefer to ride Raptors, Jackals and Griffons, also Skimmers when they need to cross water.Ĥ) It's "Special Ability" is pretty much force implementedThe ability to break through walls is nothing that the Jackals sand portals couldn't solve. Let's face it, it doesn't really make much difference wether you have it or not.There are several reasons why it's useless:ġ) It's nothing but another nod to the original Guild Wars playersPretty self-explanatory, so let's move on.Ģ) The way we mount it ridicules it on it's ownI mean the "saddle" is a high-tech bike which hovers above the ground and presumably manipulates nuclear forces to remain attached to the beetle.So remove the beetle and instead attach a jet engine at the back and the saddle will become a better mount on it's own.ģ) It's not very convenient to rideWhile it can move very fast it all depends on wether you move on a flat surface or downward, but if you are going up a hill it's very inconvenient.It's also very difficult to steer, which is why no one actually uses it in a race as even if the speed boost will make you really fast it's very likely you will go in the wrong direction when you have to turn. I gather there must have been discussions about it already, however I decided to wait what happens after the hype cools down, so I'm making mine now.
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