Radon.6710

You wrote a lot of things but i still don't see what your vision for each class is. You just repeated what you did. Why do you remove unique buffs? What is the end goal for that? What should classes look like? What should high end content look like? Should every class give every boon without anything unique? Should weapon skills be main source of dmg and utility skills are just for fashion? What do you want to achieve? Because it just doesn't make any sense. Any of it.

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Can we have a source for those numbers? Or you made it up? Anet released thing about having 12m players playing the game. GW2efficiency says that 20% with over 4000h (regular playtime for veterans) have 382 LI -> raided a lot and at that point you have more than 2 builds for sure. Even if in GW2efficiency was only 20% players (which i highly doubt, a lot of people are signed up for gw2efficiency) thus 2 400 000 and let's say 1/5 of them are actual veterans and 20% of those have over 382LI, that still makes 96k players that are impacted and that is ONLY in raid. I know entire zergs in WvW that use build templates.

I shall add a bit of salt from myself as well.When me and my friends first heard about build templates we were thrilled to the brim, finally we can make builds and use feature that should have been in this game a long time ago. We could make builds and swap during speedruns, fractals, raids, WvW, open world etc. so many possibilities with just a click of a button and doesn't break every patch.We were also joking that Anet will make us pay per build template and we all had a good laugh. Then this happened and im actually speechless. Either Anet is so distant from their community and don't understand that more than half of the player population is using build templates for various different things already or just doesn't care and wants more money.I personally have 9 characters which have over 30 asc builds in inventories and i would need about 60 skill templates in total over those characters. If i would want to continue using arcdps as i do now and i guess the price for those slots, i would need to pay around 500€ to get feature i have already been using and the max amount of slots will probably limit me as well as many people around me.Most people i know are using build templates because it's just so convinient. They are WvW players, Raid players, Fractal players, open world players, speedrunners etc. Extreme majority of them have 5-6 builds on their characters, especially on their mains. All these veteran players are being insulted with this build template update (Anet just a reminder, people can be insulted for a limited amount of times before their patience runs out). A lot of my friends already left this game after ERP happened because there was nothing as for content in latest announcement. Now you do this with build templates... you are acting as you really really really want to lose your veteran community.This is very late addition to this game and should be treated as such, not having to pay hunderds of € if you want to continue to do what you do.To everyone saying "If you don't want to, you don't have to buy them", unfortunately we have to buy them. Because belive it or not, i don't remember 60 different builds exactly and i want to save them in build templates so i don't have to think about it. Also we have to do that because Anet removed any OTHER option. Anything else that would compete with their builds is being removed and you have no other choice but to buy them if you want to keep using them. It's like you go to a well for water your entire life and then few soldiers come to the well and tell you that you need to pay for water from now on. It just makes you want to rebel.I understand that for casual community nothing other than living story is needed to keep their interest in the game. That also means that anything except living story is for the rest of the community which actually keep this game alive. Casual community comes and goes and doesn't really care what they get. Veteran community and hardcore communities stay and hold the game together and as far as i know so far, Anet is spitting in the face of veteran community....Edit:Also people that say "Oh but it costs money". Yes it costs money, but people expect something for their money. From the time that PoF was released we got so little content afterwards it's really sad. Other studios have 1/4 of people that Anet employs and makes way more content. Hunt: Showdown is basically new game made for the same amount of time that Anet did content after PoF and it has 70 PEOPLE working on it instead of 300+ that are in Anet. GGG is another studio that has half the staff and triple the content. Start comparing OTHER studios to Anet, not Anet to Anet. Look objectively on this matter people.Edit 2:And other people saying "If you don't like it, don't play it". Your mentality is so wrong on this one. It's like if you don't like part of the city, just move out of the city... This is such a casual approach to things that you don't want to solve because you don't have answer. There is just parts of game that suck so hard and we care about it so we complain so Anet does something about it. People that say "Don't like it, don't play it" obviously don't care about the game at all because if you did, you would complain about bad stuff. You are like that one friend that agrees with you on everything and never doubts anything you say thus toxic friend.

Arcdps is still allowed but developer is forced to stop supporting build templates from Anet side because they are releasing official version.

Just because you got something free previously, it doesn't give you a lifetime entitlement to getting future content and features for free. Oh, I bet they will. Also, the the arc version is being removed and who's going to want to get banned? Feel free to ban me, i will keep using arc build templates until they won't work anymore. And a lot of people will as well, feel free to ban tens of thousands of players from your game that actually keep your game alive.Good luck with decisions like that.

No one is forcing you to use this update. It's there because many people were asking about it for years. Problem is, they do force us to use this update because they remove the possibility that we already have and give us only paid one.

Race changer is possible?