Guild Wars 2

I agree with Fallesafe. There should atleast be some merit in doing challenge modes in raids. The rewards system has always been pretty crappy. Most of the time you get no more than an exotic armor piece worth no more than 30 silver.
As for flog’s statement that the game has been running under the same motto for years…that’s plain not true. The game has strayed far from what it used to be, what it once promised and what it once stood for.
Raids were always meant to be high end content for people who wanted challenging content. So it stands to reason since it is “harder” than regular content it should be rewarded differently which it isn’t.
And instead of sticking to their original thought they implemented easier raid content to make raids more accessible to beginners only succeeding in loosing their regular raid player base. They implemented the raids simply for people interested in more challenging content.
Furthermore, the original guildwars didn’t operate under this conclusion either. Every elite area offered the chance of high end equippment even more so if you did them in hardmode. So please get your facts straight before making such a statement.

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penelopehannibal.8947:
Here’s a thought: How about waiting until it’s actually in the game before deciding whether we like something or not?
I think I detect a bit of an ironic voice in that comment. However, I agree with the advice because it just makes sense. (Sort of like looking at the pictures in a photograph menu isn’t the same as tasting the food?)
We know from the blog post that a static screenshot doesn’t show us all the elements incorporated into the legendary armor. I’m looking forward to you guys seeing it fully, after which it’ll be great if you share those impressions as well.

So Gayle,

if we wait and complain afterwards you guys will change the armor in a way the people can actually appreciate it? I seriously doubt it. Additionally, I would like you to show me one player that will wear a whole set of an ugly armor just cuz the effects are “tolerable”.
Therefor, your whole statement is kinda unnecessary.
Anet should seriously consider firing their designers. Haven’t seen a game yet that kittened up the armor skins like guildwars2. Kinda sad since guildwars1 had a lotta decent to great-looking armors. And we get to 700 gems for an outfit that looks exactly like the tutorial monk armor in guildwars1.
But then again, Anet proofed countless times over the last four years that they simply don’t care about their player base which is probably the dominant reason why they lose more and more players.

All they succeeded in is to make the raids even easier than before. They totally ignore the players that want challenging content. They still ignore the people who want good-looking armor. Instead we got another ugly kitten glider and one laughable legendary after the other. No wonder this game looses more and more ppl when anet shows us with every update that they just don’t care about us. Raids are already easy enough if you got the skill and the motivation to learn and yet we get unbelievable updates like this one which ruins the difficulty level of something that was supposed to be for hardcore gamers who wanted challenging content.

MM gets worse with every season. How can they even say that they made it better when all you get are people that play on a level atleast two divisions beneath you…
This is merely getting frustrating. Every season you think they learn and yet all they do is make matters worse everytime…

You really loved it? It was just the same boring stuff they had during the tower of nightmare events in kessex hills. Guess this what you can expect of anet’s staff. Just keep at it not implementing stuff the players would actually enjoy…

Same here…everytime you release an update you break something…I just hope you won’t let us wait another week to do something about this