Well, there's a new dye color, for those interested in such things, for t9.

Still trying to convince for more dyes to be added to tiers 6 through 9. Never enough colors!


The biggest point of controversy was the expensive spending out of your trait line. We all wanted a lesser penalty or no penalty, but ultimately the penalty stayed. Yes, this makes actual freedom of choice and hybridization much more difficult, and yes, their advertising about more choice was basically not true because the point penalty, especially at lower levels, puts a nice stop to that. This has also been something marked as a 'not changing' thing, so... *shrug*

Captain is better than it was, but I'll miss the tactic buffs. Hunter's pretty cool, though I still won't trait trapper. Haven't played minstrel or LM enough to judge much there.

The landscape is gorgeous.


Overall, no, I don't think it's worth pre-ordering. The raid big battle was fun, but there is only one 12 man size and one 6 man size, and I don't think that worth so much money. The lack of the ability to be hybrid on classes (while possible, much harder) sealed the deal as well. If you enjoy mixing and matching, you won't enjoy HD I think.

Also, as of build 4, if you change trait set ups, the game still does not remember where you put your skills and you have to rearrange them every single time you want a new trait build. Yes, it is very annoying. I hope this is changed in the next couple weeks (or that it was with build 5, I was not able to see for myself).