Guild Wars 2

Total misconception of PUGs tbh which borders on elitism for some of the posts here. While the OP wants gratification for every boss killed along the way (which I agree upon) I see some dumb posts mention stuff like “don’t suck” and such. Obviously some people here are better at the last bosses of EM dungeons than being able to read and understand an OP. The reason people leave groups sometimes in PUGs are most of the time RL related not ineptitude, it also happens when sometimes an elitist player joins and in the first encounter people are down (probably because it’s their first run) and boom our Elitist player dumps the group. Happened to my group in TA, one such guy did that, we found someone else and completed TA EM anyway and we had fun doing that. Same happened in Arah.
Yea we all know what’ I’m talking about here. I have run all my dungeons so far on PUGs because I enjoy Pugs more than stuck up elitist groups who treat everyone else like they where born with half a brain. So to sum up this, PUgs are well capable to run through EMs, I’ve done it and many have. Why? Because, yes people make mistakes but they also learn from their mistakes and they are willing to try, that in fact makes the run much more challenging than a “breeze through run” that would be lackluster over all. In all honesty I find my philosophy of " make mistakes and learn from them" much more enjoyable than the one that says “don’t suck or leave”.

Coldkiller.3152:

There need to be token drops on each boss, with the majority of the tokens awarded at the end of the dungeon. It’s really silly to punish players just to prevent speed runners and exploiters. This entire line of thought puzzles me. Look at all the problems that honest players have had with the DR system. Now we also have to contend with the very real possibility of receiving absolutely no tokens after spending hours in a dungeon. This is outrageous to be honest. What do you think Robert, do you really feel this is the right direction for you guys to go?

I so feel that way too. I agree also with the OP in most things especially spreading out the distribution of shards. Yesterday I did 4 hrs of Arah path 4, in which we had 4 people leaving in between and had to reform our group (loosing valuable time). We did get through to the final boss after about 3 hrs. We gave the final boss 4 or 5 attempts then in between someone left again so we had to look again for someone. After an hour me and another group member had to call it a day as it was way past our play time. We got nothing as reward in the end and we were a bit frustrated especially because we successfully killed the other bosses, had a real successful attempt at the mesmer nightmare boss and felt we should have been better rewarded for getting the better of her other than a few blue trash loot from the chest. So yes I am eagerly waiting to see if the next build will improve on all these things as Robert stated. End of the day the fun is also in being rewarded adequately for time and efforts put in.