[If you beat the Dragon's End meta for the Turtle mount - your headache isn't over just yet.]

2 minutes ago, radium.7350 said:

For me it is not about difficulty, it is about forcing me to do content i don't like to do in a game which i play for the very reason that instanced group content is optional and nothing important is locked behind it. It feels bad.

I am grown up and i don't need "encouragement" to do different game modes. I do everything i find fun. Reason why i don't do strikes or raids is because i don't want to, not because i would be so dim i haven't thought of doing them or that i would be out of courage to do them.

I got my turtle egg on friday afternoon and had my turtle collection done very late same night. Yes i did the strike. No, it didn't turn me curious about the strike content or in any way encouraged to do more of them. Quite opposite, it left me bitter about having to do that and very worried if this game will fling the same poo to me again when next mount or other item of open world player interest comes out.

One final thought to the end. I wonder why Anet is so keen to get more and more people into instanced content. Their golden egg is fun large scale open world content (including WvW here), they are the game that does it the best in the game industry. Why try so hard to pull people from open world to small instances? It seems like a bad idea to alienate your main audience in attempt to compete on game mode that so many mmorpgs offer and are more famous for while destroying the very thing which you do the best.

Exactly this, I don't do the strikes because I don't enjoy them, I too have done it just for the achievement and I'm not planning to step foot in a strike ever again, it's just not my kind of content so stop forcing it on me.

[[Suggestions]QoL (Quality of Life) Ideas [Merged]]

Visual noise reduction.

 

Please think about adding some visual noise reduction options, it's always been bad but with the new AoE borders it's way worse. I would love an option to turn those off because for me it's becoming too much to play the game. Especially in small areas like the basement in the CM dungeons.

[Upcoming Bonus Events]

I loved these in Guild wars 1,

I would love to see special drop weekends, such as the lucky clover/unidentified eggs weekends in gw1.Hopefully combined with small achievements or even just titles.

Little events to keep coming back ^^