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The OP is right when he says this game is pretty boring at 80. There isn’t much to keep players occupied, in my opinion. The only things to really do at 80 are achievements, crafting, PVP, and token runs, but all that busy work is for naught since they result in little reward.
What I see as one of the problems is the lack of gear diversity, stat-wise and appearance. There’s no reason to go out and hope for something better to drop. Not only does gear have the same stats, but there’s an insignificant amount of models available and 95% of them are butt fugly. Pretty bad when level 80 items look exactly the same as the item you were sporting at level 2. So not only can’t you wish for something that will function better, but you also won’t get anything that looks any better. Guess appearance doesn’t matter much since you can always xmute items.
I share the OP’s sentiments on the token reward gear; it isn’t impressive. The only thing I found halfway decent was the Arah caster gear for a necro.
They supposedly had an economist devise their gem/gold scam system, but I guess he failed to mention how combining every server into one trading post would completely destroy any economy that could have existed. I thought bags would be a good money maker for tailors until I found that they sold for a few silver more than what the rune of holding cost. The TP UI is also complete crap that makes me want to break my keyboard every time I switch tabs and forced to reset all my filters. It can’t save those settings? Why??!
Toxophile has the right idea with things like player housing and an elaborate crafting system. I loved EQ2’s player housing and obtaining items for interior decorating was a game in itself. Not only could you craft home items, but you could get them from quest rewards, achievements, and just about every holiday would have some as quest and instance rewards. Holidays in GW2 don’t seem to give much incentive. How many people actually got something decent during the holiday? Seemed like the odds were stacked. But you could, however, buy gems to trade for gold to buy the overpriced crap that did drop for others! It’s sickening.
Well, whatever. It is what it is. I’ll spend several weeks playing, take several months break again, and then come back to see what bugs ANet still hasn’t fixed or how much more they nerf my class.
Oh, and by the way, I thought your rant was epic, Avathor. =)
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I happened to walk close to the hut in back of the frog’s corpse on the left hand side and all of a sudden a cutscene with Arlon began which allowed me to finish the quest. Arlon was not present in that location.
Current objective: Make sure the twins are okay. The frog boss is dead and I don’t believe there was a cutscene after killing him. A green marker isn’t present on the minimap. I have spoken to the 3 NPCs which exist within the instance and I have exhausted all of their dialog choices. I swam to the beginning of the instance and back twice. Arlon is nowhere to be found; it appears this quest is bugged.