For one, my hands donвЂ™t work well so I do hit the wrong button more often than I want. I think the most challenging mastery and the first one I ran into was being a sous chef.

The only place that gave you a minor taste of the Crystal Desert was in Blazeridge Steppes. I love how the area has its own unique look. A couple of my screenshots for this article are from viewing a vista. The vistas do a fine job of showing off the artwork of the new zones. I like that they make you need to acquire them all over time, just like you had to level up gliding and other things to better traverse the Jungles of Maguuma. Many in the first map can be reached without more than the basic raptor, but there are enough where you will want the other mounts. However, PoF adds some new dynamics to reaching some of them due to the new mounts. These all work like they do in other areas. Mounts can be used in most PvE areas outside of PoF, as well. There is a mount, the Griffon, that is not listed in the PoF masteries, but he is the fifth mount you can acquire while exploring the new maps. You will have to pay for the mounts you find after the Raptor. All of the other mounts can be acquired as you progress through the Crystal Desert zones and are account wide usage upon acquisition. All of the mounts have some form of attack that dismounts you in the process.Д®ven better, once one character has done the Prologue, all the characters on your account have access to the Raptor mount. It dismounts you, but it is one way to run into a fight and get some minor AOE on your enemies before you jump into your own skills. The fun thing with the Raptor mount was using the tail swipe to damage things. I liked this tooltip and glad it could be rechecked of where I needed to go when ready to do so. Once I had the Raptor through the training of its third skill, a note popped up about where to go find the Springer. This skill is the third one that can be mastered. The Raptor will jump further, the Springer will jump higher, etc. Most of them have a skill that makes them much stronger in their primary use. Mounts work a lot like gliding from Heart of Thorns in that you get more skills and can get more places. When first starting the only open one to work on is your Raptor. On your mastery page you will find Path of Fire. Each one can be trained up to do more skills via Mastery Insights. There are four mounts: Raptor, Springer, Skimmer and Jackal that have masteries and are listed for you to see. From here you can explore and continue your story at will. You will also find yourself in the city of Amnoon. Once through the Prologue you will have your first mount, the Raptor. I enjoyed myself and laughed through my mishaps. The fights flowed nicely and then helping the villagers all made sense to the story. The fights are soloable, though I died about six times and in part due to my disabled hands. No, we must help clear out a mine and then the village beyond.

I found this amusing because IвЂ™m off to kill a god, not just a dragon.Дue to issues we canвЂ™t land in a safe place. To get to the new content you have to do a story quest called the Prologue that starts in LionвЂ™s Arch, with you requesting a ride to the Crystal Desert alone to go beat up Balthazar. I, however, decided to stick to my staff rather than trying the new sword. I hardly play with it other than to see how it rotates and plunged into the Path of Fire. Slot three is a new combo skill based on which two elements are up. Each time you change, the one you select is your primary and shows on skills 1 and 2 and the previous primary becomes the secondary in slots 4 and 5. This proved interesting because with it you are not in only one element. I decided to use my elementalist as my exploration character, so I installed the Weaver specialization on my build. LetвЂ™s not forget mounts! First Things FirstД®very class has a new specialization they can add. There are multiple challenges to getting masteries. The monsters have cool ways of trying to kill you, let alone never seen before additions. I expected something similar, but with a brand new flavor. REVIEWS First Impressions of Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire

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