I’m 45 ish days into GW2. I had a great time going through base Tyria without it feeling like a grind. At all.
So now HoT comes out and locking elite spec behind a massive wall of hero points might be okay for you guys but in the long run I assume you guys are gonna keep introducing further ‘elite spec’ such as ele with greatsword (used ele cause that’s all I’ve managed to play so far) for example.
Here is my major concern, will your future expansions be the same as this such as ele + gs that it will be gated by another massive grind combined with another couple of areas that requires as much mastery into it just so that we can actually ‘specialised’?
If that is your long term goal, you’ll lose a massive amount of players just from the idea of this.
Just my two cents.