I am disappointed
1) The ranger “nerf” is a bug. Jon Peters even said he was looking into it. As far as class balance goes, I’ve never had any issues with it in general. Heard plenty of people talking about being facerolled by a Thief, but never had any issues with them myself. Same goes for other classes.
2) I have never had an issue with the uniqueness of my weapons. I have skinned all of mine to the lionguard models at the moment, easy to get, but I don’t see many people with them. Also the dye system allowed me to match my armour to my weapons.
3) Explorable mode dungeons offer your 3 different paths to choose from. Given the number of possible combinations of classes and abilities there are also several ways you can approach a boss fight, so I would disagree that they are linear.
Story mode dungeons are far from ‘too hard’. I’d love to see you in explorable mode if you think the story mode is hard.
If you aren’t using tactics, that’s your issue, and explains why you find the dungeons hard…(little example- story mode sorrows furnace golem boss. – guy in map chat saying it was impossible. We had just killed all three golems no problem simply because we stacked condition clearing skills and favored using mesmer/guardian reflect shields over damage. Went down easily.)
4) I enjoy PvP. Again, your issue, not the games.
5) Bots…look at the sticky thread.