Sandbag and I tried out this new WvW map last night. It is very cool and creepy. I love the art of it. But very poor vision due to the heavy fog and very hard to navigate since the whole map is made of small floating islands connected by hard to find bridges. This makes it way too easy to trap and corner people off since most times there's only one or two bridge exits, most times cut off by an enemy zerg rushing both and destroying your team. I would refer to the map as a "hardcore WvW map," because it's quite challenging and hard to keep everyone together. Still quite refreshing and I had fun. One feature Sandbag and I thought was REALLY great was the idea of being able to destroy/rebuild any bridge - completely cutting off the enemy.

there is NO time for checking out your loadout or taking in the view once you've left the safety of spawn.

Because of the map design and environmental elements, like fog, you can appear to be totally safe one minute - blink - zerg - dead. It's epic. In the end I found myself being very aware of where I positioned myself when my team were sieging, which bridges went where, who controlled what. It's a very aggressive game.

A lot of people complained about how far you had to run - but if the map was much smaller it would just be brutal.

I had fun - and I made a new friend. Well Ash, my Asura did He has an Elementalist buddy to compare daggers with, now.

Boring? It's brutal!

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