That is by far the most unproductive and most invalid argument I have read on here. I can understand that some people, and that surely includes you, have hours and hours daily on hand to play 4 hours PvP, 6 hours of WvW and 2 hours of WvW, but most simply don‘t. They get online after work, play 2-3 hours PvE, PvE OR WvW and should be able to get something as unspectacular as stat customization considering the hours they have put into a specific game mode. I have over 30K hours on my account since release, but I invested them in PvP which won‘t get people really far reaching mostly Plat, sometimes Legendary rank, so implying laziness is mad. „If you like it - grind it“ also won‘t happen since you can‘t simply pull up and start winning Raids out of the go. Good luck trying to find a group, because what you describe as „grind it“ is people selling raids for gold just so that people can get some stat customizable trinkets. I rather „grind it“ the few hours that I got after work with my team in the HoM doing what I like most rather than spending hours fighting NPC‘s and am simply proposing letting those players pay with another currency, while offering them the possibility to stay in their game mode. People could even not pay at all, grind several 100‘s of hours, collect several 1000‘s of gold and exchange them for gems while doing what they like most (for example PvP). Just so you know, I have only Auroa and Vision as legendary trinkets. I would love to have Conflux and Transcendence, but I hate the toxicity of PvP and couldn't be bother doing WvW. So I make do with just ascended trinkets. shrugs The only time I venture in to WvW now is when I need Gift of Battle, otherwise I leave it. As for raids: I started working on my legendary armours and went looking for raid groups that I would go with weekly. I didn't just wake up one day and joined LFG raids and was able to farm enough to get legendary armours. Believe me, I put in enough real money in cosmetic stuff to help GW2 out. Like I said, I don't have conflux or transcendence. Neither do I go play PvP (I am still rank 8 in PvP to this date) or venture in WvW much. So that invalidates that particular point for me.