Guild Wars 2

Guys, I was redirected to forums after contacting support they said I should post here.
I play this game 7/7, 8 to 10 hours / day. Yes I am a grinder. I hate it but I am. It is what this game has become anyway. Got Gwamm from gw1, around 20 char on gw2 and 14 full map completions including thorne, been on gw2 since beta.

Now to my subject:

1- Fractals: I do my fractals on a daily basis, in the past 100 fractals only got 2 Globes of Coagulated Mists Essence. I’m stuck because as much as I would like to move on and reach lvl 100, I really want to see more of those so i can infuse my rings and other stuff. If they don’t drop how can I infuse?! Can’t buy them on TP they r account bound, I realize they are ascended and drop rate should be disgustingly low but for the sake of the game can you fix that as well as drop rate for Vial of Condensed Mists Essence and the Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence. Oh and can you chill a bit the amount of mats needed for that as well as those needed for the backpack.

2-Achievements: I would like to reach my 30k to get the hellfire chest. Been playing since beta can you release more content with Achi Points, i’m around 20kish. The annoying part is you force us to get 3 pieces hellfire 3 pieces mantle, should give the players the option that when they reach 20k they have either full set of mantle or hellfire armor. I don’t understand why it was made this way. In addition on Achievements, can you chill a bit the grinding thingie?! guys 100 times tarir? what is wrong there? this is not what I hoped for as extension. I was looking for new content not 1 thing do it xxxxx amount of time. this goes for most stuff in the game now

3- Legendary Crafting: Oh Boy was I glad to hear we can now craft our legendary weapons! I was playing since beta my base MF is around 230 now, always boosted with everything that can boost MF from your TP and food and stuff, but never ever ever in the past years got a single precursor, even the lame ones selling for rubbish on TP! Oh, but i’m not here to complain about me not getting a prec drop, I’m here to complain about the fact that you made it easier to buy one then to wander endlessly grinding seeking a drop that never drops to complete a tier. The main issue is the fact that grinding now has to go through PvP as well as PvE and WvW. to get a precursor to the 1st tier you need live in exile from real life and just play everything in the game regardless if you like it or not. I’m a WvW PvE oriented user. I play PvP occasionally, but now to craft the prec I need to grind on my daily PvP! Why are you forcing me to hate the game!? I do not understand?! Why can’t we get what we want playing what we like?! Should be a different track that leads to the same place either play pvp and get your prec or play pve and get it. Can you please take in consideration the different taste of your loyal clients playing this game and supporting you.

4- Nerfs:
a- Can you please un-nerf what you have done to the dungeon rewards. No one is doing dungeons anymore. Its so sad.
b- Can you please review your policy regarding crafting in general? The game has turned everyone into a material grinding *%$#. I bought this game to fight not to knit and cook.
c- Can you please RETURN the Old WvW maps, the new one SuxeZ (that’s just out of topic, but I had to say it. Perhaps leave one of the new border maps for the players that likes it so we have 4 WvW maps and you can give the designer an academy award).
d- Can you Nerf the lords and chill them in WvW, it takes a blob to take down a guard now! looks like they are on some sort of hyper superhero drug, i’m doing a raid in wvw not a killing Gorseval!

That’s about it, hope there many players out there sharing my opinion. For those who share it, please say it out loud, for those who don’t, I apologies if you don’t like my opinion, but I respect yours as well as you views on the game. In all cases, please find a way to meet the taste of your clients. All of them.

Regarding the 3 forms of mist essence:

I’m sure they used to drop more often at some point. I’ve never had so few drop for me as since the HoT fractals rework, yet I’ve never played fractals as often as I’m doing now. If I hadn’t had a good supply of them in storage, despite having used them to infuse rings regularly, I’d be nowhere near having crafted Unbound.

I haven’t has a single glob since October, just 2 shards and a handful of vials. And I’m not a swamp/swamp/etc. guy.

I assume you only get the vials with higher fractal rewards, just demote the it to globs/shards:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glob_of_Coagulated_Mists_Essence

I get about a vial every 2nd to third day I think. It’s pretty steady.

I play at least 9 fractals a day, almost every day since the launch of HoT. I do 3 at every tier that offers a daily for doing 3, and I try to do 9 different ones. I’m sure I make a lot more kills than the swamp people.

I’ve also not seen a single “Amber Quantic Dipole” or “Azure Denaturizing Agent”, of which you need 13 and 4 respectively. At zero drops, I can’t even extrapolate based on my personal drop rate after 3 months, how long it will take me to find enough to earn an Old Tom minipet. I would arrive at infinity. In the same time, I found 14 Professor Mews.

Maybe I’m unlucky, but my drops for those “special” items are ranging from incredibly rare to never seem them at all. After 3 months, I’m inclined to start blaming the drop rate instead of my luck. Especially when I also consider the price on the TP for the dipoles. Also, every time I open the LFG, I see people organizing “shard farm” parties. They wouldn’t need to do that if the drop rate was reasonable. It’s not like you need a whole lot of them. A handful is enough to cover most needs. And yet people feel the need to farm for that handful.