considering the new gear circumstances, i personally feel it would be decent of arenanet/ncsoft to reimburse players their gem, gold and/or karma expenditures or provide free ascended equipment upgrades for those who purchased any exotic gear.
i have enjoyed many aspects of the game, spent a considerable amount of $ to support it and i’m not opposed to gear progression (except when the words “mystic forge” are used), but i never would have invested in 2nd tier gear, skins, runes, order gear, transmutaions and so on, had i know about ascended gear.
i know that i’m not in this boat alone, so hopefully the devs make the right decisions while going foward with ascended gear for their customers.
thanks for reading
edit- not attemting to start a riot with this post, just trying to present a fair compromise.
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