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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.

Thinking this does not make you a horrible person. I've honestly felt the same way. People whined relentlessly about Chalice of Tears I was all too happy to help port people through for the return to event. I'm a little bitter about that now. I still haven't gotten my turtle so I can't help with that but if you are on NA I can definitely help you on the raiding front. Feel free to hit me up in game. I help with really laid back training runs every Sunday. I can save you a spot if you'd be willing to come try it out.

Anet made their own casual player base the real final boss because that's what is making this fight hard.

I'm fine if it's hard. In fact make it even harder. Go ahead and make it Dhuum CM hard. Just remove the turtle from it.

Hopefully. I'm gonna vibe for a bit in Zenith because I just need some chill, positive game play right now.

This is true. I've seen it happen with so many other things in the past. When people ask why the rush????...this is why. At the same time though it's not healthy. I find myself holding back from berating players in the map for not dodging or CC'ing. I'm normally pretty chill. I'm usually down to help new players. I rarely come to the forums. This just has me so tilted I know if I log on I'll try again and likely end up losing it on someone.

I keep seeing people say this about Teq and TT. It's been a long time for me perhaps my memory isn't clear. Can you please remind me which mastery lines were gated behind successful completion of these events?

Absolutely. They would really have to have some amazing incentives to go back.

My point was doing collections can be challenging but are with in player control doing collections for Vision and Aurora come to mind. Some people had a hard time with the jump puzzles. I personally didn't and would help others through and have spent full afternoons porting people through Chalice of Tears when people were needing help with that. I don't have an issue if there is some challenge to getting the mount. I do have a problem with it being up to an rng riddled mess. It doesn't matter how much I practice if I don't roll a good map or the boss mechanic rng sucks that run it will fail. Stick the egg at the end of strike I'd be ok with that because even if we don't get it 1st roll you can practice and tweak as needed.

Yep exactly! I give up. A bunch of other games have dropped this month that I'd like to play so I'll be off doing that. I'll pop back into GW2 for my weekly pve raid with my guild and some wvw maybe but beyond that I'm done. I was really enjoying this expansion but walling off an entire mastery line behind this event has soured me on the whole thing.

I don't want the mount for free. I do not think they should make the turtle free or even easy to get. I actually had no problem at all acquiring the griffin or skyscale mounts. I got my skyscale well before they nerfed the time gate stuff. I like challenging content. My problem is this is that getting the turtle egg is completely beyond my control.