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I pre-ordered it a month ago, I'm really excited for it.

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karekiz wrote: »

New sets seem really lackluster.
New mini game seems like something you boot up once and never look at again. Its a bad version of Legends of Norrath.
No new class or skill lines.

Time to skip an expansion?

I think sets are more interesting/imaginative than they've been in a while (though they'll probably get adjusted before live and get nerfed after a few months), and the card game seems like a more complex system/mini game than antiquities--I'm not a fan of card games, but I think those that are will get a kick out of it. Still, I won't preorder because it's not like a digital good will run out

Threw money at the screen the second it became available for preorder earlier.

Can. Not. Wait.

I pre-ordered and I can't wait for High Isle - green meadows filled with sunflowers, new furnishings, new companions, new sets and Bretons in Medieval times! It doesn't get any better than that

I think the two crafted sets look interesting... and super excited for new companions!!

ADarklore wrote: »

I think the two crafted sets look interesting...

One of them does - the one that stats-wise looks like a slightly better version of Mother's Sorrow but craftable in any weight.

The other one is just like Armor of the Traineee X 4. I'm sure it'll have its uses but people are already talking about it as a "filler set" where you craft 1 or 2 pieces just to fill in builds that don't use the standard 5-5-2 because there's a special weapon or mythic item in the build somewhere.

You can already use reconstituted pieces of Trainee for any slot you want to fill those slots in already in any armor weight so I'm not seeing anything all that great about that crafted set, I don't think many would give up all the things you'd have to give up to do a full 12 piece set except maybe for the novelty of equipping the first 12 piece set ever in the game.

I give that set 2.5 yawns.

karekiz wrote: »

New sets seem really lackluster.
New mini game seems like something you boot up once and never look at again. Its a bad version of Legends of Norrath.
No new class or skill lines.

Time to skip an expansion?

High Isle will be fantastic, can't wait for the PTS coming up!

Hard to properly judge a card game system from just what was shown on stream. Yeah, you get an idea of the basic mechanics and what type of card game it is. But most of it is in the cards. You could showcase the basic concepts and mechanics of Gwent, Magic, Hearthstone or even Slay the Spire in a short video. That still gives you no idea how balanced or satisfying card interactions are, even if you understand the basic gameplay loop.

I really liked a lot of the art, I have no idea how good it will be until I play it. I hope they had a dedicated team or outsourced it to people with experience in designing card games though. Bad card games get old in an hour.

As for the art style of High Isle itself, yeah... I had hoped for more knights, steel and impressive Breton architecture. And the whole intrigue at court / cloak and dagger theme is another thing that can really go either way. Badly, if full of cheesy tropes. Well, if done with a bit more creativity and layers.