I can KIND OF understand why the new halloween items (not the crate items) are so grindy.
Arenanet doesn’t want to hand out exotics. If one item was really easy to get, no one would even bother buying the others.
To fix this, they made them harder to get than normal exotics.
That’s not a very good idea then, now they’re locked for level 80s with lots of time.
The game wasn’t built around that.
You should make the item level 1, but transmutable.
1. Less grind, since you won’t be giving away good items, they won’t need to be hard to get.
2. People will need to buy fine transmutation stones, which would help arenanet.