Is "The Desolation" the new "Tangled Depths" of Guild Wars 2?

[Lotus Victoria]

I mean no offense if you like this area, but my freaking god, why did they design such an annoying map? The other ones were super cool and easy to navigate, but just like TD, they just had to fuck everything up, right?!

/rant off.

[Valeron]

Did you ever play GW1?

[Lotus Victoria]

Did you ever play GW1?

Unfortunately not, but I'm talking about the area in GW2, no matter how good or bad the area was in the first game. I don't like it, and apparently a lot of people dislike it as well (I've seen people bitch about it in the map chat a bunch of times already).

[Svifnymr]

I mean no offense if you like this area, but my freaking god, why did they design such an annoying map? The other ones were super cool and easy to navigate, but just like TD, they just had to fuck everything up, right?!

/rant off.

I don't find it confusing/ difficult to navigate, just the mob density is a problem. I haven't tried the meta thing, but the stupid hidden chests are just HORRIBLE! The one achievement requires 10 of the pieces you get from them, it took like an hour to get 3 chests and none had the item! It's like the Silverwastes shovels, but the chest you ding might be on the other side of the huge ass map.

[Razael]

I 100% the map in a couple of hours. Its cakewalk compared to TD. Mob density is a bit high though and with waypoints being fewer dying can feel very punishing in some areas.

[Deleted]

I 100% agree: this map is really annoying. My favorite map is by far first one...

[barackopala]

I concur with razael, the map is not confusing at all, it's somewhat annoying with WP's being too far appart and having big areas with crevases, but overall it was really fast to 100%

[PACOX]

I like Desolation and it hazards make sense. TD is well designed on paper but not player friendly at all.

[Deleted]

Well Desolation is still easier to navigate & less messy than TD at least... I hated verticality in HoT