Regarding the firebrand changes, so in summary there are now 3 layers of nerfs while getting almost nothing in return as compensation:
1) shared pages amongst all tomes
2) increased cooldowns on most skills
3) increased page cost on most skills
While it's true that nerfs to firebrand utility are long overdue, 3 layers of nerfs with no compensation is simply too much. This is especially terrible in WvW where these heavy nerfs will result in less pushes and a return back to pirate shipping/ranged meta which everyone hated. You say you wanted to see grandmaster traits other than Loremaster used, but after these changes it will make it the only viable grandmaster trait because the others are simply terrible by comparison.
Please Anet, stop with the heavy hammer approach - start with minor nerfs first and work your way up. At the very least please consider keeping the skill cost to only 1 page each and see how that goes. Thank you.
