The loot in the PoF maps is pretty good if what you are looking for is materials for crafting armor and weapons. I wouldn't even call it an expansion, more like a DLC.Īfter 1 week I had no real reason to revisit any of the places. PoF IMO is already the bottom of the barrel, I can't even imagine how an expansion could possibly deliver less and get away with it.

It has no challenge and no real endgame.Įxpansions are supposed to bring a lot of repeatable content with them and the 'finish & forget' type of content should be used as filler between expansions - except PoF is exactly like that filler content. No dungeons, no 'meta maps', basically just a bunch of leveling zones without actual leveling. PoF is just the final step of making things even easier. I think HoT tried to merge the two: no dungeons, but they increased the difficulty, replayability, and teamwork needed for open world. Open world was the chill casual filler content. Vanilla had dungeons as repeatable endgame content, and at release they were far harder than open world, obviously. It's the result of Anet taking out any kind of difficulty and reason to socialize more and more as the years go by. I still haven't played Serpent's Ire all the way through and I want to do that at least once. I've finished the story and got the griffon but there's a lot I haven't done, like map completion and a lot of the achievements and collections. Having said that the main reason I've not spent much time in PoF since finishing the griffon is because I started making a legendary weapon so when I'm not playing one of my low level characters I'm working on that and most the stuff I need is in core maps. IMO both expansions should really have been a mix of both, but Anet thought they were responding to what players wanted. But apparently it was too hard and another large group (or possibly some of the same people) complained about needing a group for everything and wanted flatter, easier to navigate maps where everything is available without having to play through long event chains. Before HoT the majority (at least on this forum) seemed to be asking for hard, end-game content with big meta-events like Silverwastes, so that's what we got. Obtain and use Memories of Otter from powerful enemies in the Drizzlewood Coast or by salvaging Charged Stormcaller weapons.Different maps, designed to appeal to different people. In-game description Acquisition Significant Otter See below for a list of available prefixes.

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