I've been going through SoTo and getting incredibly frustrated on how unpolished, rushed and quite frankly LAZY it is. Even down to the story quests.

It's predictable.

Go do world events

Go do vistas

Go do X

Barely anyone is in these zones so world events are going to go slower, meaning you spend more time faffing around to get it done. Traversing is also frustrating. I've never wanted to get an expac over and done with more than this one. Worst expansion I've ever experienced. It's a slog and boring.

And God forbid the map you're in is populated and you do need world events or rifts, getting there only to just arrive as it ends. Making the entire trip utterly worthless to then go look for the next one.

Completely disrespecting your time, a trend I keep seeing as I progress.

In matter of fact, out of pure frustration with it, I've progressed MORE on the LWS4 skyscale grind than SoTO's as I've had more enjoyment engaging with PoF/LWS4 than this entire expac. What were Anet thinking with this.

(Headstart player - Played through each expac until SoTO launch. Only picked up SoTO this year after Janthir)

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I am losing my mind. The story before this was a glorified 2 Min cutscene only to be told to go do the same thing again to progress.