If you're playing in a party, these things are rationed between you. Its experience points and loot belong to you alone, as does any quest progression associated with killing it. In most of these games, it's traditional that once you attack an enemy in the open world, it's tagged as "yours". Let's start with one apparently small change to the MMO rulebook. To understand what ArenaNet has achieved and how, it's more helpful to look at the details than the big picture. At long last, it's the changing of the guard. In fact, Guild Wars 2 is by far the most important - and plain enjoyable - massively multiplayer game since 2004's World of Warcraft.
But don't let its familiarity blind you to the fact that this engine has been re-engineered from first principles, and purrs sweeter than any has before. From its high-fantasy head to its role-playing toes, it's an unashamed genre piece, an MMO through and through, a giant engine designed to grind out experience points and loot beneath the tattoo of a hundred thousand hotkeys. It's true that you can hardly call Guild Wars 2 an iconoclast. But deflated expectations can be just as deceptive as the hype that led to them. After claims that Guild Wars 2 would shake up the stagnant genre of massively multiplayer online games, many were surprised, and a little disappointed, to find that it looked and played just like an MMO. Funny thing about expectations: they can blind you both ways.
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