Deimos.4263

Bring back the Grand Lion Griffon skin. Yes already. It was almost criminally foolish to bring out an absolutely beautiful but expensive premium skin for 7 days mid-month. You're losing precious revenue by doing so. Tons of people were looking at their bank balances and deciding whether to spring for it when they could, and now who knows when it will return.

Should HoT players be compensated? No, that's ridiculous. Should *hot* players be compensated? Yes, we've suffered horribly.

Yeah it's harder than it needed to be. Not to say that things can't be hard in this game, but there didn't seem to be a good reason to make that so frustrating. It's a tiny ledge.

Hey sometimes you need to stop and clear out your inventory. I get it.

If there's a dolyak going by you should be able to jump on and go for a ride. But maybe not control it.

> @"Gallows.4318" said:

> > @"Ardid.7203" said:

> > AFAIK, there are still some core builds in the meta. Also, some of the Elite Specs get nerfed time to time. Also, more importantly, the Elite Specs were not advertised as "better builds to win in PvP" but as "different ways to play your profession". So, technically, It isn't exactly a P2W issue, but an unfulfilled promise of balance one.

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> Presicely. The elites specs should be balanced, but it has nothing to do with P2W. They should be balanced even if they were open to everyone.

Yep. Could easily be tweaked by identifying core classes that are weak, and promoting the most prevalent trait line in each up to an "elite" trait line.

Seems like a well-thought out and detailed analysis. Considering there are mastery points linked to silver and gold on these, adding a bit of time might be a great plan to get some people to "go back" and do HoT content.

Anet has been doing a pretty good job killing some of the higher-ticket trading post items over the last year. (Karka minis, jetpack, iron node, etc. It's a trend.) Might be time to "adjust" the insane prices of permanent contracts by putting them in the gem store. People that paid too much already got plenty of use out of them, so open the floodgates. As for complaining...there's ALWAYS complaining.

Just some rambling questions.

Right now guild membership is account-based, and guild representation is character-based. How would that work with the selection of a "WvW guild"? How often could I change which guild that is, and would it be for an account or a character? If I wanted to play on a different team in WvW, could I represent (or join) another guild? What about players who don't have a guild at all?

Being able to play with your guild is very promising. Many casuals get put off of WvW because they picked some random world when they got their account, and then joined a guild primarily elsewhere...or just plain scattered.

These meters are fine. But they need a 3rd party politeness meter too. Someone having low DPS or the wrong gear? The team either picks up the slack or it doesn't. But a lousy attitude? That kills the team effort.

Help I'm trapped in a Lionado!


> @"Rodzynald.5897" said:

> I wish we got back to pre-HoT pvp where there were no "legendary" players running builds that *allowed* to be so incredibly efficient, and baddies had to git gud.

A "classic" PvP mode with no elite specs at all would be fantastic.

Well I'm *not* a burn guard, because it just feels weird, but I sure hope people think I am. I use judges to hammer smash your face when you don't think I can reach that far and I don't really care if you cleanse the condi or not. Radiant Hammer is so fun!

The same things that keep me from dungeons and to a certain extent fractals. I don't like one-off mechanics. I'd rather use the full set of combat skills I've spent thousands of hours practicing in PvE and have them mostly work. I am not particularly interested in hiding behind a pillar, or standing in a colored circle, or not standing in a colored circle, etc. just because "that's the mechanic". It doesn't feel heroic, just algorithmic.

I do fill in with guild teams if they just need one more warm body, to help out my friends. Generally our leaders are willing to accept this filthy casual over the toxicity that happens more often than not whenever they look beyond the guild to find someone more competent/experienced from LFG. That said, I do have a full set of ascended and a "meta" build, and I understand it. I'm just bored the whole time. I'd rather be in the guild hall.

Windswept Haven is a challenge to make snowy. The snow mounds helped considerably while reducing decoration count.


> @Greaka.6905 said:

> In short: I want to play the whole game, not only the stuff a specific guild does. Also: your point about not wanting to socialize sometimes hit the spot as well.

Stop hiding! Tell them this flat out. If they don't accept it, find a better guild.

I don't know what he was thinking. If this issue was dead, buried, and gone as so many of us on every possible side hoped...why poke at it again? Not smart.

If you have Path of Fire, just joining a decent bounty train is pretty good assuming you sell the unidentified gear on the trading post. Also, it's not mind-numbingly boring, and you get to meet new people.

It's far too difficult to get the upper tier llamas. That is all.

Everything. Bring back literally everything you've already created. The cycling mechanism is horrible and completely unnecessary. Waiting a year or more hoping something will return is annoying. I have money and you want it, so don't be annoying.

I love this community and I feel RNG is a very poor road to tread. No point re-hashing how to fix things at this point though, as they've made their decision. It's been a real challenge to come up with the right answer for me personally.

I would say roughly half of the mounts are worth 400 gems, and half 800 gems. That averages out conveniently to 600 apiece. While I would call the premium jackal skin overpriced, I can say I'd grudgingly pay that much. So that comes to 20,000 gems all-in, or $250 USD before any discount. Right now, I could snap it all up for 11,600 gems ($145 USD). 42% off sounds great, right? Decent bundled savings.

But I don't need the discount. I don't buy all this stuff because it's on sale. I buy it to feel good about supporting the community while working on my fashion wars collections. It's been said countless times that these are cosmetic items and that they are optional. What is not optional is the feeling good part.

Now I won't say anything rash like I'll never buy from the gem store again, or that I'm going to remove my account or delete the game. I'm going to be a lot more selective about what I purchase now and that equates to less revenue from me. Unless there's another method of acquisition down the road, I'll have a permanent hole in my mount skins collection. This removes all the incentive to collect/maintain it.

For me at least, it can be said ArenaNet gambled here and lost. I would hope they are looking into the purchase histories of those who are upset, tracking the changes, and doing the necessary calculus.

I've stopped salvaging (except when I forget) so I don't get much luck anymore. But when I accumulate enough, I'll donate it to a friend with a new guild hall. There's a lot of exotic luck required to level guild halls.

I'm not really sure how I feel. As expected, you said you wouldn't change the existing set (it'd be somewhat problematic to undo), and you're going to "focus" on selling them direct for the next while individually or in theme packs. But I what I don't hear is a promise that you won't resort to the RNG tactic again. And that's troubling.

The new mounts are awesome. Unfortunately I'll be missing out, as I'm not going to support this RNG decision. ANet will also be missing out, as I would have purchased them all. (I'm still hoping for a regular 5-mount Wintersday pack for 2000 gems in December. Santa hats if you're listening.)