Guild Wars 2

I am much in the same boat as Element of Roamer, I am at best a casual player and I spend very little time on the GW2 Website and Forums page. I use what time I have to enjoy the game and not reading the thousands of posts placed on the forums by the GW2 gaming community. I also am sitting on numerous crates and captain commendations due to the fact that I was unaware of Lyns leaving LA. After numerous mailings with Anet, It seems that this is their only solution to my questions. There needs to be a better way to communicate these major changes and updates to the game than to expect that the entire gaming community are reading the thousands of post placed on the GW2 webpage or the forums. A couple of suggestions I mentioned were to incorporate in the NPCs dialogue any changes to that NPC. In this case Lionguard Lyns, upon visiting would announce her leaving LA on XX/XX date. Now if you do not frequently speak to Lyns, then its likely you will not miss her in LA, on the other hand those who frequently visited her to donate and collect her wares would be aware of her departure and could liquidate your tokens accordingly. Another idea, and maybe the better solution would be to incorporate a “Heralds” Icon in the top left screen to accompany the other various icons that would display all the current news on game changes and updates. I think more players are likely to read this in the game environment rather than to spend time on the forums and website. After all I think most of us want to get in the game and catch up with our guildies or friends and enjoy the game. I would also like very much to see a vendor much like the tournament token vendor in the pvp area, where we can dispose of our captain commendations. At very least maybe an occasional visit to LA from Lyns where shes open for trading, even if she just visits one week every couple of months or so… I spent much time and coin in making the commendations (One week before she vanished, mind you) and it would be nice to be able to use these to purchase the gathering tools, salvaging kits, weapons etc that she offered.