Guild Wars 2

I recently got back into GW2 and one of the first things I noticed were the ‘new’ armor skins in the gemstore.
Cool I thought, we had some at release, it’s only natural Anet will release more of them, have to make money somehow.

Updates continue and hey, even more items. Now we have the Phalanx armor and what have you and some days later we get shoulders plus gloves.
Well alright, I’m sure they will be some new items and dungeons available in the game.

But guess what, todays update does not have a dungeon, but an open world zone and even MORE skins you can buy in the gemstore.

This is seriously becoming off-putting; every cool or interesting items nowadays seems to be tied to the gemstore. The only thing we can get while actually playing the game, is an ugly backpiece of some sort.

So my question is, will this be standard practice from now on? Are skins pretty much gemstore exclusive and dungeon sets/weapons a thing of the past?

A good chunk you need to whip out your wallet for, others are RNG drops, and we all know how that goes.

There are a number of skins included with today’s updates that are not gemstore exclusives.

I don’t recall they removing the old good looking gear from dungeons / faction NPCs.

Yes, they are focusing more on gem skins, but the free alternative is and has always been there.

I never said they removed the free alternative, but these skins are pretty old now. And every armor set since then has been a gemstore item, now it’s starting with weapons too.

Just curious if this will continue and if Anet actually believes people will stick with that approach.

just be satisfied they are not in RNG boxes