Anet has take a strong stand against gear treadmills grinding and with the new expac Increasing the level cap to absurd-um but after playing I feel hugely miss-led.
The elite specs behind large hero point cost and those behind mastery cost makes your char essentially start from lvl 60 again which is a fancy tricky way of increasing the lvl cap without having to admit to increasing it. That with the fact that the elite spec cost werent announced until the day before launch troubles me and makes me lose some of the goodwill anet has earned from me over the life of Gw2