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I'm pretty disappointed by this. Over a year before I can even get the opportunity to grind out features I already obtained so that I bring my account back to the flexibility I currently have. There are other games that do vertical progression much better. One of the selling features of this game is the horizontal progression. I made the mistake if pre-ordering immediately. This will be the last time I make that mistake with Anet, I will also not be able to recommend people try this game any longer.

How would it be a reward? By your logic, we aren't losing anything by having them strip the functionality away, then we wouldn't technically be gaining anything by having them return it.

How does making it easier for others make your achievement of getting it while it was more difficult any less? They've already made getting the skyscale easier from when it launched. I finished map comp the 1st time while we still had to unlock all of the poi and vista's in wvw. They made that easier too. It doesn't take away what I did. Really the problem here is people want to use the skyscale as a flex. It shouldn't be a flex though because it delivers so much utility. Anet could fix this by having cool skyscale skins locked behind achievements. Do an easy quest to unlock the basic skin and use of the mount, you have to earn the majority of the skills and cool skins. The problem with that is they want to sell the coolest skins in the gem store.

Everyone has the option to obtain a 'free legendary' already with the pendant.

I hope they do give the skyscale to new people or make it super easy and cheap for them to get. The mount is so good the Blizz copied it. Anything to get more people in and enjoying the game is great as long as it doesn't detract from current players progression and experience. It doesn't negatively impact people who have a skyscale in anyway to give them out. If anything it will save us veteran players gold because ultimately we tend to help people get the mount. So yes please give away the skyscale. While they are at it just make leyline gliding automatic. I'm tired of helping in raid training, making it to Xera only to have a few members have to leave because they don't have it.

I pre-ordered with out seeing this. 😞 I'm so upset with myself for doing that now. I don't suppose there's a way to get a refund on it?

Sounds pretty common. My guild leader got assigned to a different world from the rest of our guild. We also had other guildies assigned to other worlds. They had the guild selected as their wvw in the guild panel and also on the wvw selection menu. Anet's not fixing for people either. I don't know about the rest of you but when I play an mmo it's to be with friends. WvW is team based so 2 weeks in a beta without a driver is going to be genuinely terrible. The lack of flexibility from Anet for people that got misplaced is awful considering they are using us as guinea pigs for 2 weeks this time.

I think my favourite part of this beta is how our guilds leader (and driver) was assigned to a different world. The absolute best part is when they filed a ticket Anet told them sorry about your luck. I think it's great gives me more time to play D4.

It would be nice to have some better rewards. As someone who tends to play support the compensation for time spent can feel lacking.

Time flies when you're having fun I guess.

As someone who has all 3 weight classes of wvw legendary armor, Warbringer and 2 Conflux I didn't mind at the amount of time it took. I was just playing the game mode I enjoy. What I do mind is that there is no achievements (ap) and also it would be nice to have an upgraded skin similar to pve.

I agree with all of this. One thing that used to hold value and was a fantastic way to learn or enjoy the game mode smaller scale was scouting. There is no real point to scout with the current blob meta as all the big groups just run around capping the same stuff or running over small groups of people. Most groups don't respond to call outs so objectives just freely flip teams. Defense has always been one of my favorite aspects but it doesn't seem to matter at all now.

I hate map completion. It's tedious and pointless. The ONLY reason I do it is to get the gift of exploration, I firmly believe ANET stuck the gift of exploration in open world because otherwise no one would do it. STOP MAKING US DO THIS TEDIOUS BS TO AVOID A $150 Pay per Play on legendary weapons.

How exactly is this not some sort of preview for how alliances will ultimately work? The fight guilds will stack together and if you're not in one you'll end up on team punching bag. Period. A roamer or small pvx guild that can't(or doesn't want to)get in an alliance or with one of the fight guilds will have no control over where they end up. I've dealt with some pretty rough match ups in the past but takes the cake. Anet can keep their meager wvw xp buff it's not worth the frustration.

Yeah I play ele main and a lot in wvw. It's not in a good place that said playing ele as a roamer isn't impossible but you definitely can't play full berzeker. Most classes don't run full berzeker so I wouldn't really say this is an issue. Cele gear works pretty well on tempest and I've run a few different variations with weaver you just need to be quick on the dodges and teleports. For group comp ele kinda lost its place with the nerf to aura tempest. Catalyst was not very appealing to me in the 1st place and I don't see it changing the meta so investing time into it seems counter productive. As such I've shelved the ele and started playing other classes with the hope I find something else I enjoy. I just honestly can't deal with the constant carousel of nerfs to ele anymore with the amount of work and practice it takes to get rotations down it just doesn't feel worth it when I can play almost any other class with half the effort and twice the results.