Also, spoj said everything : “gear in this game should have been statless, just like GW1”
This ridiculous amount of gear “stat combination” and LvL 80 is a compromise that Anet made trying to make the game more available to the typical MMO. Some people only joined in because of that compromise, but then make demands to see such compromise developed into the game core mechanics, when it was never about that. It was simply a fishnet, and it caught a bunch of you in the ocean.
It’s all about giving a clear idea of how their game works to their community.
First of all, transparency is a problem caused by O’Brien’s company policy
Secondly, that would mean that they understand how their game works in the first place. It hardly seems the case, judging how a Dev showcased Thaumanova Fractal. He was using a P/P thief with PVT gear and Scorpion Wire, who proceeded to die at the first mob group that aggrod. If not for the gear/weapon/utility skills used alone, all of them together make even less sense at all and I’m not even going to try to point the obvious flaws in them. It really doesn’t feel like they play their own game enough, making them lose touch with key points.
Anet desesperately needs to recruit or trade feedback with one member of the dungeon community. That is, of course, if they were to spent any development effort in that area at all, which doesn’t seem likely. In that case, following current strategy, ignoring is the best option for them.
