I have to admit, I’ve pretty much reached the point that I have started playing other things, and considering returning to other MMOs I left to play this game. Which is really sad, as I was once utterly in love with this game.
First and foremost, this whole pre-cursor fiasco. I fail to see the sense in gratz-ing a person just because their entirely ridiculously low % came up on some loot table somewhere. Obtaining these things seriously needs to be some sort of achievement, or effort other than grinding the same dragon/meta events over and over daily… wait, we can’t do it over and over any more because you nerfed that to… Or spending the weeks to grind up the money to hand $400-$600 gold over to some complete stranger who did nothing but get exceedingly lucky. I don’t care if you integrate a year long side-quest line… as long as what I am doing I know will result in the actual reward. Give me something to work towards. At this point it’s just a very seemingly endless grind to obtain a pre-cursor. And that being said, didn’t you Devs say back at launch you never wanted this game to become a grind? Well that’s exactly what you have succeeded in doing. I “ground” up 100’s in gold already getting all the other components for the legendary. Now the gifts just collect dust in my bank, and have been for months.
Your nerfed loot tables overall are depressing. Very depressing. You’re kitten right I want my shinies. I work a 40-50 hour week, and deal with murder and death on a weekly basis. The 2-3 hours I may have in a night, I want those to feel like I’m working towards something, and rewarding. That’s why I play these stupid games, escapism. I don’t mind having to actually play the game to get these shinies… Whether it be a pre-cursor (or work toward a guarantee of obtaining it), or lodestones, skins… whatever, just give me another reason to log on other than to get my daily laurel. I do love your monthly/living story events, but right now they are just not enough to keep me on. There’s no point in running any dungeons unless one needs the tokens for gear or gifts, or grind CoF for gold. Your drop rate in dungeons is atrocious as well as for fractals.
I am now in one of the larger guilds on my server, as my two previous guilds died off. And that reason was the core members leaving GW2 to play other games. They simply got bored of spending all their time doing the same stuff over and over, with very little pay off. I could be playing your game right now, but I found it more entertaining to write this essay at the moment, as I seriously hope you’re paying attention. Right now, mouthing off on here is far more rewarding than actually playing your game. And apparently reading, and inevitably trolling, this is more rewarding for players than playing this game to. And that is very, very scary.
Please do something about your loot tables and pre-cursor aquisition. If I have to spend my new time getting laughed at by some Hutt for wiping for the 3rd time, or play Pokemon with my mini pets… I’m going to be real kitten ed at you guys.