I think the phenomenon of what’s going on in the forums in general has to do with people going stir crazy. Anet, please release some new content, any new content before many fly over the coo-coo’s nest. 
The first response in this thread gets my vote.
It is a serious problem. Even for Engineers, we have a 25 movement speed in traits, I’ve yet to get the thing to work the entire time I’ve played. I’ve resolved to using traveler runes but there are much better runes for certain situations and it’s sad that we have to choose between mobility and functionality in a game that’s supposed to be about diversity.
Power shoes? It appears to work fine on my Engineer. At some point it only worked while in combat but that was updated some months ago.
Edit: Seems only fair to do the same for the Mesmer trait
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Is a class without a passive move steed boost truly playable?!! We live in the age of speed xD
I believe they are playable. Mesmer with 100% map completion (mostly solo) and prior to the WXP “merge” over 120 ranks. 1st character too. Good thing it was 1st as while they are playable, it’s hard to take when switching from say thief to Mesmer.
Actually, I managed to get the normal crystal mostly by luck. I had dropped down there and didn’t have any purple juice left, so I decided to just go for it and use the yellow dash. This just stupid luckily placed me right on the pole with the normal crystal! I’ve tried it a couple times since though and missed the pole completely, and since I didn’t have any purple juice I couldn’t reach the Master crystal that time.
As far as getting from the second crystal to the master, I didn’t use any of the aspects (juice). Just a normal jump followed by direction keys.
I wonder what the odds are on using light dash the way you did
Which I consider really disappointing, as I use Agent of Entropy to effectively count total salvage on my account and its neat to see that. Once I max it out I’m going to lose that
I understand with the rewards added it opened it to people grinding AP for the loots they felt the need to slow it down. But I wish they’d come up with some way to track my total salvage without adding extra AP. It’s a little thing I know.
Good news, it doesn’t stop counting and you even see the award when you finish it again. Just doesn’t include AP. It shows that you’ve completed it x number of times.
Face it. People want BiS. Required or not is irrelevant. It is grindy.
And I have every intent to keep swinging my sword again.
And merely just wanting something is not a reason of why you should have it.
Then grinding is a reason why I should have it?
According to the game, yes.
If you disagree, then feel free to state why else you would deserve something other than “i want it”
Which supports my statement that it is grindy. Thank you!
I was never disputing that it was grindy. I think it’s pretty stupid myself. My point is just because you want something doesn’t mean it should be given to you.
Legendaries were intended to be a long term, grindy goal. There’s really no point in complaining about it.
Since you went there, I see it in a different light. We’re all what I call paid-in-full customers and BiS is part of the content in my book. BiS does not have to mean legendary. I could be convinced that it does include it but that’s neither here nor there for this conversation. The answer to your question is that I’m a paid in full customer – that’s why I deserve it. And to keep that from ruffling too many feathers, that is my opinion.
I also think things like applied fortitude/strength should be given to those new to WvW. Training wheels if you will. And that those with lots of WvW ranks shouldn’t have it. Please don’t take that in the wrong light. I have enough free rank points to purchase both of those goodies and I’ve elected not to do so. Who knows, I may spend them at some point. The main point here is that I still have a blast in WvW. And, I really don’t see why people care so much about others NOT having BiS. What truly gets me is how negative most of said posts seem.
The funny part about the responses to my posts: my first post was a compliment to the game. “It is by far the most grindy game I’ve every played for any length of time.” See what I did there?
My second post. People would use BiS if they had it and it’s irrelevant to bring up need. Anyone who is going to play for some time will run into the grind wall that is BiS. It doesn’t need to be there or at least not so high. And here comes the compliment again: I’m going to keep swinging my sword!
At this point I do have a legendary weapon that I crafted. Yes, it was a grind. I’ve almost repeated said grind. And before I do so the third time, I’ll have enough extra gold to flat out buy another from the TP.
It is grindy. And I’m going to go swing my sword again!
Face it. People want BiS. Required or not is irrelevant. It is grindy.
And I have every intent to keep swinging my sword again.
And merely just wanting something is not a reason of why you should have it.
Then grinding is a reason why I should have it?
According to the game, yes.
If you disagree, then feel free to state why else you would deserve something other than “i want it”
Which supports my statement that it is grindy. Thank you!
Face it. People want BiS. Required or not is irrelevant. It is grindy.
And I have every intent to keep swinging my sword again.
And merely just wanting something is not a reason of why you should have it.
Then grinding is a reason why I should have it?
It is by far the most grindy game I’ve every played for any length of time.
Don’t even ask how many times I “swung a sword again”