Guild Wars 2

Lawton Campbell.8517:

In my opinion, the discovery process is for Bartle’s spades and the only reward is temporary control over the use of the discovered recipe.

Those in favor of the API change seem to be suggesting that the discovery process is the reward. If profiting from information asymmetry was the reward, this change would not be in their interest, and they’d have no rational reason to advocate for it.

In any case, the change might reduce asymmetry, but won’t remove it entirely. Most players I encounter aren’t programmers, and won’t ever touch an API endpoint (let alone tell you what that is). Just as many seem unaware of the wiki, or at the very least too lazy to type /wiki and look something up.

Ybrahim.2084:

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At this point, I can only imagine the writers and devs high-fiving each other before going out to celebrate by giving some hapless nerd a swirlie.
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I find that image rather hilarious.

On topic, I’ve only run Arah SM for the trait unlock, not because of the PS (which remains incomplete on all of my 80s). I’ve managed to only join groups already in progress (by pure chance) and never earlier than the dragon champs , but I still have a twinge of despair when I’m compelled to run it. It can be agonizingly slow between encounters, and the encounters themselves are mechanically trivial.

As I was told (by the welcoming, friendly community) the first time I attempted to watch a cutscene in game, you could always hit youtube for the story (and potentially be kicked from a SM if you think that’s crappy advice..which it is :-/ ).