This is my first and probable last post. First of all I can’t thank you wonderful, thoughtful, cogent, principled and dignified people for bringing attention to this issue. It’s one I’d not considered and I feel so enlightened from having spent the time reading your thoughts on this duplicitous development. I hadn’t realized the specifics behind a concept like “the treadmill” and all the varying ways it adversely effects players. I had been eagerly awaiting the launch of GW2 for the past two years though not extensively as many of you. It was exhilarating creating my characters at midnight precisely August 25th. I thought of all the fun that was soon to be had. For that first week I found friendly, funny, and above all decent helpful people helping others, a true community. That abruptly changed post launch. First red flag. I began having WoW flashbacks upon reading some of the garden variety cruelty so readily typed in the map channel. So quickly it had changed. Regardless I plunged on steadily leveling 4 “mains”. I tried moving to a different server and luckily found friendly people once again. Then came the bot trains. Second red flag. Seeing the same professions being used to farm seemed to invalidate the notion that all professions were equally footed and skill alone would determine their success. Naked bots for gods sake, extremely insulting to my Mesmer taking far too long to kill the creatures these unarmored things were shredding in seconds. I pondered my build, I tried consulting other peoples builds to no avail. I didn’t mind it, it felt like I was crafting something and just needed the right recipe. It was a fun diversion. However, intrinsically, and I may well be utterly wrong, I felt lied to. As someone hilariously and sadly accurately summed up the situation in another post (I’m paraphrasing) “anyone playing a warrior need only roll their face across the keyboard to outperform my character”. This latest update however has broken whatever trust I had in this company. I’m utterly disgusted. I feel terrible for all the beta testers who gave their time, energy, and enthusiasm to perfect this game. It appears merely from perusing this now merged thread there was a lot of communication going on between the participants and the developers. The contrast to this silence regarding the treadmill is insulting. What has done it for me however was finding a post regarding Magic Find :https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/MF-Gear-in-Dungeons-Contribute-less-get-more in which a Game Designer responded within an hour of its posting. See it for yourself. The OP is questioning the fairness of Magic Find in dungeons, the response he receives is a sales pitch pointing out the wonderful new addition of Magic Find via Ascended gear in the Fractals. My friends they don’t care. They are going ahead with this full press. The jaded side of me feels they used the beta GW1 fans as dupes to saturate the opening of the game. Your usefulness wore off after only 3 months it appears. I say this in full candor and forthrightness regardless of its lack of diplomacy. I hope it doesn’t result in an infraction, however it is my opinion based on what I’ve seen over the last 3 months. I am sorry if this is offensive to anyone but it is my observation and is absolutely fallible, but I now believe it. To end this positively I’d just like to again thank everyone who took the time, energy, and insightfulness to write in this merged thread. You’ve shown me the world isn’t full of selfish, short-sighted, essentially voraciously greedy people. Your dignity and principles are the best examples of what it is to be a human being and I can’t thank you enough for having the courage and resolve to address this betrayal.