Guild Wars 2

Nikkinella.8254:

[…] you know what its called when everyone gets everything even when they don’t deserve it? communism. Are you a communist?

reading this while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YlbiyiuMc
Thanks for the good laugh

Now, join the Charr revolution and remove the fascists humans from our homelands!

(sorry for offtopic)

Now we are getting somewhere. The Peninsula which points to west and a island to the north of it, is the big similarity you are all seeing.
And with dislocating just a few big countries and one of Thanathos recognized similarity (turkey moves from the crystal desert to orr? perhaps i misunderstand you there), it begins too look like…
http://imgur.com/HVSu17X
(the red hue is to make turkey visible)
Now, ignoring this little mountainchain called shiverpeaks, the jungle, the islands, the missing islands, the missing africa part below the not-so-south-anymore Iberian peninsule, everything east of italy/turkey/orr it comes down to this level of abstraction.
http://imgur.com/GqaeC5k
And on this level, yes you are right! I agreee with you! it looks like europe. So no more condescension for you

Ahh come on, this thread could be promising. But with merely two posters it can’t be described as one of the most "condescending arguments " on these forum. We definitly need some more fuel for that. So drop your “they” and your high and mighty attitude.

Squee.7829:

[…]
OP never said it was an exact reprint of Europe. […]

looking at threadtitle
Sure.

Squee.7829:

[…]
And I can see that. […]

You can see what? Do i miss something? What can you see in these maps, that perhaps US geography majors can or cannot see in it? Is it hidden behind this mysterious [Fun] tag? Perhaps i will find out on a island in austria. Perhaps this thread will be closed by then (no fun allowed )

Dear Raziel, i quite enjoy your banter. Infact i am quite on the front of critizing the US American education system myself. But i have to disappoint you. I am, thank the gods, not a US citizen.
But i have a few questions myself. Where are the mountains that seperates the “germany/france” part from the “Mother Russia” part? Thanathos somehow excluded countries like poland and ukraine. So i guess they now look like swiss or austria. Its been a while since i visited poland, but i guess they changed a bit… But with spain now a jungle i can honestly say that the climate change is a lot faster than I thought.

Austria and swiss on the other hand are somewhere between “germany/france” and “italy/greece” (which by the way is an extremely good way to describe a point with accuracy of a few thousand kilometers) and are flatlands with a huge area of sea and islands. “italy/greece” are…well they have a coast, so the map gets this part right.
The part between “italy/greece” and “Turkey/Near East” can be descriped as the small carpathians?
Yes you have changed my mind. It totally looks like europe with just minor differences I guess..

More seriously: The only part that is right is North=cold=far Shiverpeaks and South=desert=crystal desert. but this is basically true for many fantasy worlds.

As for the culture part, you can look at BuddhaKeks post and see how it matches the real world.

Try again after a map reset.
But dont expect to finish the quest chain and get your collection part, there are still more bugs to stop your progress:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/bashing-bauxite-alchemicals-event-bug-1/first#post6343283

Anyway, good luck

surprise its “bashing bauxite” again.
Bugfixing is hard for anet, how about removing any collection-part that needs this quest chain?

Your geography “knowledge” disturbs me.
Doesnt fit one bit. Not from a geographical perspective or a culture one.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Not really. We don’t know how far “the call” went, first off, and second off we got the simple fact that trying to contain non-threats means diverting resources and manpower away from the main threat – not only the manpower and resources of the resisting sylvari, but of what and who is used to contain them.

Not to mention the stress it would induce – you’d create a perfect environment for the Nightmare to flow through, and the level of distrust could send sylvari to accepting the call out of spite or feelings of isolation.[…]

why should it take so much recources away?
We have the portal technology. Just shove every sylvari through it to the tree and be done with it.
Most would understand, or just follow the order of they mother. The few who didnt obey wouldnt put much of a resistance.
I wouldnt even suggesting killing them. A simple forceful deportation (which other more cooperative sylvari could do) back to the tree would be enough.
Rampaging/nightmare sylvari would be killed of course. Still, I agree with you. More sylvari would follow the nightmare and would start isolating from other races.
I just dont see the big problem with this. Nightmare is a secondary threat to mordremoth, even for the sylvari. For the other races, well why should they care?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

[…]In 20 years, there was no relevance in stating it, and it proved to be a bigger harm than help to do so. When it became relevant and a bigger help than harm, she couldn’t.[…]

Why should the other races not know about her powers? She could just tell them, and could prove it with her actions (like cleansing the brand in ascalon).
The actions of the pale tree will prove her place amoung the other races. There wouldnt be a genocide, because there isnt a genocide in the current scenario.
And this is the worst case, besides total extermination.
In my suggestion, no other race would have been harmed by her actions, where in “reality” thousands have been killed. Hell she even would have saved many lives!

Konig Des Todes.2086:

[…]You’re speaking of mordrem here. Sylvari don’t have the ‘sole purpose of existence to wage war against everything else’. Their ‘sole purpose’ if anything is to fight the Elder Dragons –
as dictated by the Pale Tree, who’s “sole purpose” was changed when she was cleansed (by whatever mysterious means did such).[…]

I took some freedom here. But as a creation of mordremoth, it is not hard to guess what role the pale tree should have played before she was cleansed.
As for her own creation the sylvari. They apperance is similiar to the mordrem. and without further knowledge we can only guess what the differences are.
Still i agree, that the pale created the sylvari without this order.
But the sylvari could also follow the normal mordremoth blue print, just with minimal changes by the pale tree (instead of following the holy order of killing everything, follow this holy order from the talking horse).
As a slightly “manipulated” race my statement wouldnt be nullified. The intention behind the pale tree and her creations where to wage war or helping mordremoth to raise.

Traeherne was unique in his role to unite the races. But his role shouldnt be one, that no one in decades couldnt replicate.
After lions arch would be destroyed there should be enough time for someone (or many people, like a mixed race hero guild) to unite the other races.
Perhaps it would be too late for most of kryta, but i still think that zhaitan would have been defeated.
But again at this point we are far to deep in the speculations department. Mordremoth could raise on the day zhaitan would be defeated. Or 50 years later.

As for malycks tree, I try to avoid him. It just looks like anet dropped this whole story part. And if he reemerges, there is a TON of explanations to do.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

[…]That’s the thing, though. You were saying that the Wyld Hunt is so strong that they must fulfill it even if it means their death in trying.

Trahearne avoided doing the Wyld Hunt however, meaning that it was not strong enough to force him to attempt to fulfill it even if it meant his death. It wasn’t a matter of being intelligent enough –
Trahearne is no more intelligent than your average sylvari by all indication, after all – he was afraid of dying for his Wyld Hunt as he outright states.[…]

I wrote earlier in the thread that failing in following the wyld hunt, wouldnt contradict the purpose behind it.
But I dont think that this is the case for traeherne. Even if he postponed this increadible and for all intends, impossible task he fullfilled it in the end.
Just because he doubted his powers and courage, doesnt mean he was free of the wyld hunt in the end. Yes Traeherne could have failed while he was doing something else.
But it whould have failed anyway if he tried it earlier or in almost every other possible scenario.
I would even go further by saying his fear of failing his task underlines the strength of this absolute order.

draxynnic.3719:

[…]You’re assuming that the other races don’t just go “better to wipe them out and be sure”.[…]

If the pale tree would prove her worth before the other races, there wouldnt be a reason for a genocide. If you assume a genocide would happen nevertheless the usefulness of the pale tree and her minions, you must live with the expection of a genocide in the current scenario.

draxynnic.3719:

[…]Even your policy of containment would have likely built resentment,[…]

König also mentioned it. And i repeat: The sylvari would suffer a lot more from the internal struggle. Sure. But if they cant face the truth of they own being, there are lost either way.
Further Asura experimentations should also be expected in such a case. Still a war between the races wouldnt be possible because of the difference in military strength. Also you are forgetting that the pale tree, would more or less try to calm her minions down. Her guidance about the sylvari is pretty strong.

Your post goes into more details about the fight against zhaitan without the pale tree. Repeating myself, I dont think the death of the pale tree would happen.
But ok lets go with your scenario, without the aid of the pale tree:
Lions Arch would be lost, ok . The other lesser races are of no importance to the big picture. So most of kryta will be lost either way.
But i think you stopped to early.
This, after the Humans are basically in the same cirumstances as the GW1 ascalons,
is the point where I thing the leftover races would start to unify. Under different heroes and in a more damaged state of course.
But even if it took some more time and more losses, I think zhaitan would be defeated.

Of course, i doubt this scenario would have happened. I think the pale tree would have helped with her powers and knowledge. The cost would be some minor or greater form of surpression for some time.
A good price for such a great benefit it would deliever.

draxynnic.3719:

[…]
Glint said nothing about her heritage until hours before she expected to die – and even then she had problems with would-be dragonslayers, and even the suggestion that Glint was a champion from an unreliable source was enough to send Destiny’s Edge gunning for her until she talked them down.[…]

My comparison between glint and the pale falls a bit short.
Still the sacrifice of the sylvari people wouldnt be so selfless. This secret could have cost the victory of the pact, which is the only known force that could battle the dragons. When they lose, everyone else on tyria will lose and the pale tree would be the first to suffer for her treason.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

[…]Imagine what would happen if during – or before – that meeting she revealed that sylvari are dragon minions? None would trust them enough to unite with the Pact to fight Mordremoth, and many would see Trahearne taken down causing the Pact to splinter in at least two – not too dissimilar than what Anet was trying to show happening in HoT but horrendously failed to do – but all this before they could even begin to prepare against Mordremoth. The races would have split between those thinking sylvari should be wiped out now and those not, that no one would think Mordremoth to be a threat.[…]

I agree that a sylvari genocide just before HoT wouldnt be optimal. I just mentioned that it should have crossed some minds.
The lesser extreme forms of suppression on the other hand (like excluding sylvari from the pact fleet) would have helped a lot. Having hundreds of Mordremoth’s minions in your back is the worst outcome. If the price would be some p’issed of sylvari, well they should be happy for not being dead I guess.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

[…]At least when the Pact Fleet was taken out, everyone knew that Mordremoth proved to be the greater threat than the sylvari on their front door because they knew that not all sylvari turned – whether they wanted to admit it or not.[…]

The sylvari are mordremoth at the frontdoor. Yes some had the strength to resist. But a containment of all sylvari across Tyria would have saved many lives, even themselfs.

draxynnic already mentioned the possibility that the pale tree wanted to tell the other races about her heritage. But after ~20 years of doing nothing,… well she had quite enough opportunities for that.

draxynnic.3719:

[…]If the information had gotten out during the period where Wynne died, then… […]

At this point of time the sylvari where not able to wage war against the asura.
Even as more than able fighting machines (Caithe, Faolin) there didnt have the numbers to resist against the highly advanced asura.
A few skirmishes or a guerilla style warfare would be the best that they could achieve and this would end when the asura found the pale tree.

But this would be just in the case that they would be a war. I doubt it.
Assuming the pale tree knows state of tyria (other higher races are battling the dragons, no dragon really active) during the early years,
Her powers of fortunetelling, cleansing of corrupt areas, knowledge of the dragons would be of great benefit for all beings.
Yes I agree that some of her children would suffer under the other races and that they would be outcast for a long time.
But when mordremoth would be defeated the pale tree’s loyality couldnt be questioned.
Assuming draxynnic’s numbers are right, this phase of suppression wouldnt last longer than a hundred years.

For a race, which sole purpose of existence was to wage war against everything else this is a good outcome.

draxynnic.3719:

[…]However, what would have happened in 1325 if the sylvari had been exterminated around 1305? […]

Many aspects on the story where arranged by the pale tree. Traeherne was also the major character of the campaign.
So I agree with you, without the sylvari the story campaign wouldnt happen.
Still I believe Zhaitan would have died someway or another.
With Lions Arch lost, the other races would sooner or later recognize the great threat and would unify they forces (even with just two orders).
The airship weapon should also be possible to construct without sylvari influence.
The important part would be if the deafet of zhaitan would happen before mordremoth would awake.
But how fast would the dragon raise, when scarlet wouldnt exist? 50 years in a case where scarlett didnt exist? Same as in the current scenario, with a scarlett replacement?
But this is also the point where speculations are build on speculations, which are build on speculations,… So I will leave this scenario here :)

@wyld hunt: Just because traeherne is clever enough not to rush and wait 20 years for a good opportunity doesnt mean he is kinda free from this order. Its just mean that he is intelligent enough to wait for a good opportunity and not blindly fail at the start. His helping Nature allows him also to gain trust from the other races.

@cleaning orr (this post is really getting long): Sure there is no indication that she replaces zhaitans corruption with her own.
But especially at this point, there should be someone to question her motives. Because between her freeing orr and her getting another foothold for her own ascension to an elder dragon, there isnt much a difference for an outsider…

@draxynnic: Mule from foundation? Perhaps i should read the trilogy again, i dont remember the character…its been a while :/

Farzo, just a a flesh wound and the rest, I admire your patience.
Repeating the same arguments to dozens of players who didnt read the thread. Getting unrespectful responses and still find some sort composure to rebuff they posts.
I couldnt do that, i would have lost patience ten times over.
I doubt it will change anything, but its still nice to see players who care about the game.
So Thank you.

Palador.2170:

[…]

While I have many problems with the Pale Tree, I’m going to have to speak out in her defense on this one.

It was at her suggestion that everyone was called together for a big meeting, held in the Pale Tree so her avatar could attend. To me, that suggests that she had something she felt she needed to say personally, something of shattering import. In short, I think she planned to tell everyone the truth about the sylvari.

Sadly, she didn’t get to. She was badly injured shortly after the meeting began, and was never fully lucid after it. It’s quite possible that she expected Caithe to state the important facts, or she may not have remembered that she was interrupted before she could tell everyone. I really think we have to give the Pale Tree the benefit of the doubt this time.

In the best case, she risked the lifes of all other sentiment beings on the slight chance of being outcast.
Remenber this is not a what if case, the sylvari are dragon minions and just the writing from anet defeated the dragon after the air fleet was annihilated.

Even if she changed her mind, it was too late. Now its pointless and thousands of life are lost, even among her own minions. Also the situation now should be worse for sylvari. If she told them about they heritage, the other races could learn from them and the pale tree could have a reputation like glint.
Now everyone knows the pale tree/hivemind will risk tyrias downfall, if this would save her race from having a bad reputation.

anninke.7469:

[…]
Who would go on the mission? And what to do with any sylvari PC if something like that happened (regardless of whether the mission succeeded)?

Anyone who lost a life to a sylvari or the actions of the pale tree could have the right motivation for an assassaniation. Or just one of the many evil groups (nightmare, bandits, inquest,…). Finding a culprit wouldnt be a problem

For the storyline:
It wouldnt be a problem for the story to have independent sylvari. The pale tree’s role and actions could be explained through some kind of memory seeds, which would redeem or condemn her actions. After her death the sylvari would be free from her influence and could hunt the murderers of they beloved mother.

Pregnantman.8259:

[…]
You have to realize we killed the mind of the Elder Dragon of Mind without preparation or anything. Nothing would be surprising any more.

Thats the sad thing. So much potential for a intersting plots (i dont even mean my own i,diotic outpourings) and anet will just invent some lazy deus ex plot device and ignore everything else.

Highlord.7158:

[…]

You realize that the majority of any self-respecting soldier in the field will sacrifice their lives to accomplish an important mission, if they have to, right? It’s something that comes with the uniform. It doesn’t even take mind control, just merely knowing the stakes and choosing to put ones duty first.

You didnt get the point. A soldier should know what he is doing. But even before being born, some sylvari get this wyld hunt. Here a quote from the wiki:

Simply put, it is a calling given by the Dream itself. It sings deep in your soul and cannot be ignored.

The wyld hunt can look like a soldiers duty. Like defend your homeland from XY, but not all of them (white stag).
Eitherway, the sylvari are not free to choose. Yes some have the strength to resist (I called them abortions earlier). But for most, this order dictates they life. A soldier can theoretically stop being a soldier and start farming. A sylvari can not.

Highlord.7158:

[…]

Even worse, isolating or attacking the Sylvari as a whole would immediately start a war that Tyria could ill afford. They’d dig in and fight for every inch of ground the other races push them off of. In a choice between genocide and imprisonment at the hands of allies that just betrayed them, the Sylvari would /fight/. Especially since the future of their people would officially be on the line. If anything, attempting to control or kill the Sylvari people would galvanize the Dreamers, Soundless and Nightmare Court into a single cohesive whole, with a big slant towards that last group since now they’d be backed into a corner and standing alone.[…]

But on the other hand, this could be the last time the other races could win against them. To make one more enemy, when the dragons are out there, is of course not optimal. But what if the sylvari where the enemy all along? What if they where all waiting?
In some way this was the case.
And every second you wait this enemy gets stronger. Breading faster fighters then any other race. Every new generation deadlier then the last. In a case that the sylvari would fight for a dragon, the best time to fight them was yesterday.
To make it easier, try to picture them not as flower people. But as uruk-hai from Lord of the rings. Elite soldiers, breed to perfection as killing machines.

Highlord.7158:

[…]I will admit though, that would be one hell of a storyline. Just imagine a chapter where Faolin wasn’t killed off, and instead she and her Court are welcomed by Caithe and the others as badly needed reinforcements. Especially after betrayals and battles that would feed a sea of sorrow and rage into the dream, with a still weakened Pale Tree powerless to stop it.

This would be great!
Having a personal sylvari storyline where you need to flee from a major city, because the local government ordered every sylvari to be deported. Then playing as a rebel for most of the living story and figuring out at the end that the lies about sylvari being mordremoth minions where in the fact the truth.

Diovid.9506:

[…]
This is simply not true, see the Soundless.

The Nightmare Court doesn’t want to be free from the Pale Tree, they want to convert the Pale Tree. Or rather, they want the Pale Tree and the Sylvari race to be what they would’ve been (or what the Nightmare Court think they would’ve been) without the influence of Ventari and Ronan. The way they go about this is through torture, murder and the general spread of misery to taint the Dream. And you think it’s wrong to hunt these sylvari?
[…]

You have a good point here. Its been a while since i heard about the soundless, so I have forgotten about them.
But according to the wiki, the soundless are not truly independent. They are not hunted, but the pale tree can still reach them if she wants to. Also the wiki says, that this sylvari leaves the protection from the pale tree.
It will never mentioned this way in the game, but the soundless could just be some minor abortion. To unimportant for the pale tree to care about.

Regarding the nightmare people: Sure they do evil stuff. But they mistrust against the pale tree looks reasonable to me. And in living story season 2 (before the nightmare court) Faolin was the more often then not on the right side.

Diovid.9506:

[…]

Wyld hunts are just clever disguised orders, which are so strong, the sylvari will die to fullfill them.

There are sylvari that choose to ignore them, as the above mentioned Soundless illustrates.

Again it could be easier to repeat this order in the next sylvari and didnt bother with the abortion. The wyld hunt is more often than not a lifegoal for the sylvari and will drive them to suicide if thats it, what it takes to fullfill it.

Sylvari are creepy. Perhaps i missed something but here are some points:

• The pale tree didnt tell anyone about the relationship to mordremoth, making the failed pact attack possible and resulted in thousands of deaths by sleeper cells
• Within a few years, the sylvari developed from a non existent race to one of the higher races and almost rivals them in power and knowledge. In just one more lifetime, they could overpower all of them. By destroying the pact forces, this point of time is even closer now (sylvari can rebuild they forces faster than any other race)
• The pale tree, a champion of a elder dragon, expands her influence sphere by cleaning orr with her magic sword
• The pale tree, with her power of fortunetelling was not able to help in different tyria wide crises
• The hiveminded structure and the race memory
• Sylvari who wanted to be free of the pale tree are marked as traitors and hunted by all other sylvari
• By controlling Trahearne at the end, mordremoth could have misleaded the pact and feign death. All it would have lost is a major part of its magic. It could just wait for one other dragon to die and absorb the lost magic and be back in the game

I know, this wont happen. Espescially after we killed mordremoth with a “dude, mordremoth is the mind dragon, so we need to kill its mind”- stoner moment, and the power of friendship will kill the rest style of writing. But a sylvari genocide should have crossed some asura, charr and human minds as long as this race isnt too powerful to overcome. Or a ban from lions arch, other major cities, every security force, every leading science project, detaining the pale tree for treason, having a commission to analyze sylvari activities in the past, scanning for inactive sleepers in all positions,…

Edit: one more point:

• Wyld hunts are just clever disguised orders, which are so strong, the sylvari will die to fullfill them.

Seera.5916:

[…]
Your problem seems to be that players will farm gold based on the highest gold/time/effort ratio. There is no way to get that to be the exact same for every activity out there. Because different players will do things faster than others. So the time it takes is impossible to pin down. Some will do A faster than B, others will do B faster than A.

That will never go away no matter what ANet does. They close the ability to do the multiloot, and players will farm the next best thing. Which could just be one run through of AB.

There will always be one activity that players who want gold will farm to get gold the fastest. Always. There is absolutely nothing that ANet or other players can do to stop it. ANet does at times change things around to move where players farm for gold, but players will always farm one content for gold.

And even if they do manage to get everything to be the same gold/time, then players will just farm the easiest. Because that has the lowest chances of failure.

This is roughly what I tried to communicate. Players will favor activities which are easy to complete and have a gold/time ratio. I dont want to stop farming. I want to balance it within the game.

Of course there can’t exist fixed values for difficulty and time for each activity. Both are individual for each player. The molton boss fractal is one of the fastest fractals. But it yields the same reward as a Thaumanova fractal, which takes longer to complete. Most players would agree with this statement. But a true ranking of the fractals, with values for each category would be impossible to make. At this point the dev team has to balance it somehow. Is the molton boss fractal perhaps too easy? Mayhaps a few more trash mobs on the way would balance it more?
But this are small scale differences. The reward for a tier1 fractal, dependent on the effort, is rougly the same. But between a tier1 and a tier4 fractal, there should exist a sensible gap both in reward and in effort. And all players would agree that this gap exists.
The opinion or skillset from an individual player doesnt change that.

So, i tried to visulize what i mean: klick
(I should have done something more productive)

Yes I can’t put absolute values on the activities. But important is the basic trend and the spike, which is Auric Basin Multiloot. Most other activities which takes roughly the same effort (like other HoT map metas), will be on the red-line and wont yield as much reward as the ML.

Again, I know that it is impossible to achieve a perfect solution. But this doesnt mean that you should leave such an patent culprit untouched. The Community will search for new things to do, like shovelling in a desert. But so should Anet, instead of doing nothing. Again.

P.S. Sorry for the creepy quality pics.

I also think, that Auric Basin Multiloot has an negative impact on the game, let me explain:

Most progress in GW2 is linked to gold. You want this beautiful Skin, the new Viper ascendet weapon for raids or a new character needs weaponsmith on 500. Almost everything in game could be done if you throw enough gold at it.
But to get gold you have to pay a price. This price depends on different factors. But one major one is time and another one is difficulty. A activity with a good gold/time ratio and easy access is therefor an optimal way of achieving your goals in game.

An mmo should somehow find a balance between this three factors. Harder content should feel rewarding, therefor it needs to have a better gold/time ratio than easier content. Multi loot shifts this. You can join a map in the last 5 minutes of the meta and then go through ~10 maps for the reward. The gold/time ratio is insane. And this has an impact on all other activities. Yes Sorrow’s Embrace path 2 still yields 35s. But in the time you could finish this Dungeon, you could have earned far more in Auric Basin. From this perspective, you did not earn money; You lost the gold amount that you could have earned in Auric Basin in the meantime.

Many people who wants gold for whatever reason, will be focusing on one activity and not a wide area of multiply activities. This is poison for long time enjoyment because so much content feels like a wasted effort.

By looking just at simple activities it is the best for the playerbase, if every activity in this section should have the same gold/time ratio. This will lead to a playerbase who can freely choose which activity they want to complete. A rotation like the daily fractals is also a nice way of achieving this in a different way.

Harder content works the same. The reward for a tier1 fractal is smaller than a tier4 fractal. A tier4 fractal compared with another tier4 fractal should be rewarding in the same way.

You can call it what you want, exploit or gamemechanic. But it has an impact on the game and in my opinion it isnt a good one. Besides enjoyment in itself, every activity should feel rewarding. By having one single activity which exceeds every other activity, it dimishes the feelings of achievement of all others that are linked with the reward.

I fully understand the distrust towards arenanet. And to make this post a bit longer, here are a few more nitpicks:

Fractals: There was a post from a dev, where he/she descriped that they would look into the new rewards and the s itty scaling.
As a player I feel cheated. Espescially for the rewards. The knowledge about what is going on cant be true. For a dev it should be a five minute task to check the percenteges of each reward, and open 100k chests to verify it. Is it ok? Change the values and commit. Easy. But nop ‘we are looking into it’ and wait over a month for five different values. I dont even play so much fractals, just the dailys. But the way it is handled by the team makes me furious. This is a super easy change, but they are holding back for whatever reason and further alienating the playerbase.
Ohh just to compare: How long did it take anet to change the black lion chest key from the southsun cove map completion?

dungeons: This is the stupiest one for me. They are killing they own content! I know I can still play dungeons. But it was hard to get a pug in TA Aetherpath before hot. And Now? Good luck camping the lfg. For every new player and also for me(i was gone for a long time), it is extremely hard to explore the dungeons that they didnt see. And the armor and weapons require numerous runs.

hot armor: Here are some numbers from a different game, totally unrelated to Guild Wars 2: Guild Wars 1.
13 (14) Armor in the Base game.
10 in factions.
6 in nightfall,
4 in EOTN.
Just 4? Wow this basically like Hot!! Well not really. They where 10 classes, each with a different armor. So it is more like 40 different armor sets. In GW2 there is light, medium and heavy armor… And eotn didnt cost so much :)
The gemstore just shows how easy it is for the team to create new armor (dont even try to justify it with clipping) and how much they dont care about the lack of it in hot.

Gemstore: Gemstore…

updates: There was another post from a dev where he/she told about the legendary collections and how they tested this. What stuck with me was, that they never had the intention to hide a collection item behind a failed event chain. Also they ‘tested’ every part of the collection. It is astonishing how this could happen. And even more astonishing how long it takes them to fix it…

The overall unfinished product HOT: It is beautiful. But everything just feels unfinished. Legendaries? Just three and have fun waiting for the others. Cutscenes? How about low res ones. Horrible bugged main quests for weeks? Sure why not.

In the end I have the feeling that from the 50 people who created GW1, 20 did go away, 30 designed the world (which is beautiful!),the armor, the weapons and everything else in GW2 and the other 220 new people are kittening marketing people creating nice real life trailer and are thinking about new ways to get the most money out of my pocket.

I paid for every Game with a bright smile. I didnt wait for a discount, i didnt try to get the game somewhere else. I paid every game since GW1 in your store. I even bought living story season 2 and first felt guilty about it. But it was wonderful and I was happy after finishing it. I would pay in the future for this kind of content. Not your next stupid skin in the store or black lion keys. Not your boosters or mining tools.
I would pay for content.

I take a look in the world that GW2 and GW1 created. I see so much details and love. Many other players see this also. But with every new skin in your store it looks like anet doesn´t care as much as they used to…