Leybi.1405

Personally I'm really disappointed. I must say that I'm a Guild Wars fan since the release of Prophecies. I've bought outfits, char slots, bonus missions in GW along with all the games, and countless skins in GW2 in addition to the expansions. Even met Gaile Gray in a game con 10 years ago (you gave me skill pins ! I still have those). I'm a die-hard fan. I know that nowadays, every game companies will have a random loot option, because a small subset of the community (whales) are falling for them, hard. I'm not stupid. I won't buy those, or anything rng, but it doesn't matter because you probably get more money from those whales swimming in gambling boxes than from players like me buying a nice skin once in a while. Its sad that Anet couldn't resist the tide, but I didn't thought you would embrace it and go full RNG for the mounts. Still, look at what Path of Exile is doing for example. They release rng boxes with new skins, then 2 months later the skins are introduced and can be bought separately in the shop. Everyone wins. Hope that can happen in GW2, because the way it is I won't support you guys anymore. You get the whales money from gambling addiction anyway, you don't really need mine... I guess.

Like: mounts, collections which feels like epic quests (hidden mount). Overall a lot of small collections relating to lore & exploration. New maps are great. Dislike: no meta-event. 1 or 2 would have been great. The Brand area in Vabbi would be perfect for a meta event: going into the brand protected by moving protective domes and culling the branded for example.Also dislike: balance is off, and the balance team were clearly shy with the new spec weapons, very few of those feels better than vanilla or HoT weapons.