Guild Wars 2

Anet has said multiple times that they would never release another tier or gear or bump up the level cap essentially making everyone you have done useless, but since gear is very one dimensional in this game and leveling and speccing out a character and respeccing whenever you want that leaves us with the only one thing that can truly show progression and it is cosmetics.

Why are cosmetics being treated differently? everything I have done in the past 2 years has been invalidated in one way or another, dungeon armour being moved to pvp reward tracks, most of the expensive dyes being re-introduced whenever they get out of the average players price range, fractured reset and now we have fractal skins that can literally be bought on the trading post. How is this any different than a gear treadmill, my fractal skins used to be a really rare sight, now even the most garbage players can spend a few days grinding gold in the afk chestfarm and get the all the skins I had and more, yet that player is doing content which is neither challenging or engaging in any way, there are no gates, no way for that player to show they actually deserved what was once an exclusive reward. I can even remember when arah paths were selling for stupid amounts of gold because people wanted the orrian heavy armour so bad and it was one of the best looking armours in the game at the time yet it was so rare.

We need exclusive rewards, Legendary armour for raids will not cut it, unless you can actually respec the gear while having it equipped it will be useless and take way too much time because you’ll have to unequip it, change stats, re-equip and we don’t even know if it’s possible to change runes. The fractal gold skins are an abomination, they are literally one of the ugliest sets of skins since release, very little effort was put into the skins and it’s obvious that they were just an afterthought.

There is a serious miscommunication even on these forums, people are going around saying that they spent years farming fractals and never got a skin, this is obviously not true, the players saying this were/are just lazy and they will ALWAYS be lazy and want everything on a silver platter. This is why chestfarm exists, but if chestfarm gold can be used to buy fractal skins why the kitten would you ever do fractals when chestfarm is better gold p/h? If players like this are the reason we have buyable fractal skins and all of the bosses doing 0 damage then its a failure on the developers end, I seriously believe there will be no new fractals because they know the majority of people will never do them again once they have the skins they want and I imagine that isn’t far off.

The only thing that needs to be done to fractals is to revert them to pre-HoT changes and make it so instead of a random weapon skins you get a box to choose instead and hey, NEW fractals might not be a bad idea either.