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So I just spent 242k two days ago on a skin I absolutely HATED just because it had the stats I wanted (power vitality toughness) assuming it was going to be the best gear until the next expansion at the very least. (I know I could have grinded dungeons but I had the karma and I didn’t like any of the dungeon armors that had those stats I was going to transmute with T3 cultural armor set anyway).
So the karma I gathered in almost 3 months of gameplay is going to waste because you didn’t even bother to give a heads up that you were going to go completely against your game design?
I think I deserve a karma refund at the very least :S, seriously.
Sadly yes. I bought the last rings two days ago. Now they are absolutely worthless. I also spent 240k on karma just for what I thought were max stats with a skin I didn’t like, also wasted.
Before release I thought that dungeon rewards SHOULD be better than anything else you get from crafting,wvwvw,etc… I was skeptical about grinding for cosmetics only and thought that it would be this game eventual downfall.
But it turned out cosmetics was enough motivation to keep me playing, it actually worked for me. I was working on getting my T3 Human Cultural Armor Heavy Set, saving up money slowly while leveling other characters. I wasn’t penalized for spending time on alts because I always knew those 40ish gold I spent on the first weeks of the game to gear my main would last at the very least until the next expansion, so I could always log in to my main when I wanted to do dungeons.
I could work on account wide achievements because my main character was done (at least stats wise), do jumping puzzles and actually have fun just doing random stuff in the game. It was fun, logging in didn’t feel like a chore.
This has all changed with ascended armor. If it truly is because you thought that there was a big gap between exotics and legendaries in respect to long term goals and you don’t want to lose the majority of gw2 players which are not complete gaming addicts what you should do then is upgrade all exotic equipment acquired before this upcoming patch into ascended, because after all people paid (in some cases real money) for a product: max stat armor which they are now not getting.
How is this going to affect the economy also? I mean you do get rewards for completing dungeons which affect the rest of the people who don’t want to grind the same dungeon over and over just to make a reasonable amount of gold.
If you wanted to appeal to the hardcore players, and trust me I was one of them at one point (I’ve played FFXI, you can’t get much grindier than that), what you should have done is make new game mechanics that involved skill. The dungeon equivalent of the Mad King Thorn Jumping Puzzle. It was hard it took me around 1 hour and a half of constant failures until I started getting good at it, it was gratifying in the end. But making things hard just because you don’t have X amount of stats is just silly and what’s worse the dev team told us, I wasn’t even aware how silly gear grinds were until YOU pointed it out.