Guild Wars 2

I completely echo Ehrotic Avenger.7426, this is also the first time I have been on the forums, as this new feature is sucking far too much of my enjoyment out of the game, and this is the first time i have felt like it is a grind in GW2. If we wanted to grind to simply level our characters, we would be playing other games, this was the main thing that made me love playing this game above other MMOs and it feels like it is fading away.

I love the ability to go through the traits without having to get them refunded every time now, however as a player who cannot spend that much time with the game, I am very disappointing that the time I do have to spend on it now has to be spent on random events, maps and in WvW that I do not enjoy if I want to level any new characters.

One thing I always loved about this game is that it had so much variety, if you did not want to play in WvW or PvP you could still get the full enjoyment of the game, and vise versa, now that is completely impossible, and the cost of the traits make it impossible for people who cannot purchase or earn that much gold and SP quickly enough. I now do not want to make any new characters, or level the ones I do have, which saddens me as at this stage I will not get the enjoyment of 4 of the classes I have not leveled up yet. I have spent 4 hours today (got some time off, thought I would see how it goes) and unlocked one measly trait through gameplay. I don’t think I will be spending in gemstore and making new characters until changes are made.

Even just taking away the SP cost for buying traits would help, we already have enough things to spend SP on.

Please consider adjusting the new trait system so those of us who can only play a couple of hours a week can still enjoy making and leveling new characters, otherwise I fear many people will move on to other games where they don’t feel punished for making new characters.

Edit: anyone got any idea when the devs will be looking at these threads and providing us with feedback/any actions that will be taken, as I know many of us will not be playing/playing new characters until something changes?