Guild Wars 2

Just want to chime in as a new player who is in the process of levelling his first toon to 80. I have an engineer main in his early forties, level wise, and because of this change I can no longer access Master traits, meaning I’m stuck with the rather meager abilities on offer at the adept level. I don’t understand the scaling back of the access to these abilities. By level 40 you have put in a fair bit of play time, you should be rather capable at playing and understanding your class, I was enjoying building my character based on having access to the enhanced functionality of the Master traits and finally being able to specialise my build in any meaningful way. Getting Master traits at level 40 felt like a long time coming and a just reward, now it’s 20 levels further!?

I’m already at the point where I basically have all the slot skills I want, so as far as that goes, there’s nothing new on offer. At least with the trait system as it was I could look forward to my character gradually strengthening with every level and tinkering with the adept/master traits. Now as it is, this game will be a stagnant grind until level 60 when finally something new is open.

I feel that the changes were not considered enough for players in my level range, and if it is true that ArenaNet has an issue with new players falling off before level 80, they have just shot themselves in the foot.