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I like the culling trial as well. Seeing enemies, and through that being able to better fight in coordinated attacks against them with my guildies was one of the best things in WvW these last couple of days.
I think this culling method was finally a good step forward, so please keep it like this.
Personally I don’t mind legendaries to be hard to get, but right now I have to agree that it seems mostly to be about how good you are at making gold.
I’m trying to get a legendary for myself, and I really like that simply by having fun with my friends while running dungeons/WvW together, I have gathered enough dungeon tokens within a decent amount of play-time, and am well underway with my second WvW token stack. Getting my crafting profs up to scratch and gathering certain materials for the gifts also doesn’t seem like such an impossible task.
However, I really dread the moment when the only things I still need are those that need extreme amounts of gold/karma. I dislike both Orr and farming in general (won’t go into specifics, that’d be a completely different thread) and I’m not too interested in the trading post, so I’m gathering both very slowly. I barely ever find rares, so I’ll probably need to buy a pre-cursor eventually, and honestly, 300 gold is pretty daunting…
My point (TL;DR), the tokens and crafting level parts are fine. But close to 1000000 karma and somewhere around 400+ gold (unless you get lucky) is just too much, and not at all interesting. I’d much rather have some kind of epic quest/title track alternative for getting the precursor (like having to get world explorer for the gift of the traveler).
I’m also very much for an account bound commander icon, as opposed to the current character bound one. My reasons are simple and have mostly been mentioned above.
With the high cost, aquiring a commander icon is a group effort for most people, with entire guilds chipping in to supply someone, a player they feel is capable, with it. However, as things are now, instead of actually giving the right to be a commander to that player, it is given to a single character only. This ends up forcing said player to play with only that character (in WvW or where ever the icon is needed), as players that received the funds for the icon from their guild members or the community generally tend to take the responsibility of leading their respective guilds/server seriously. But that shouldn’t mean part of their fun gets taken away, and there are plenty of players who find it fun to regularly change between their characters. It doesn’t feel fair to me this way. But neither does it seem fair to ask a guild or community to cough up 100g again to supply another character of that same player with the icon, not even if it’s a huge guild/community that can relatively easily rack up such a sum.
I also don’t think that making the commander icon account bound would create a sudden influx in the number of commanders present at any given time. Personally I have no interest at all in having it, and I think there are many players who feel like that. Having that icon displayed makes you far more recognizable, and if you keep getting defeated (even if it might not be your fault), or make a mistake, it’s far more likely that the other players will hold you responsible for it. And again, there is the cost, even if it were account bound, I still don’t think too many ‘normal’ players would like to save up such an amount themselves for the single purpose of being able to lead a squad. (As for trolls, there are probably plenty of ways to be annoying even without having to make and spent a 100g for it)