Devildoc.6721

There's only one way to make the RNG acceptable and that is to have a way to earn licenses in game, similar to how you can earn keys in game so that offsets the RNG of black lion chests.

I'd easily pay 1000 gems for mount skins that I want (2000 is kind of pushing it, I mean the skeletal mount pack was 2000 but that was a skin for each mount), but anet has decided to market to whales instead.

I disagree because there's only a few skins I want, most of them I don't want and will never use, so for me , I have to filter out all the skins I don't want and then the price is like $40-$60 a skin that I want. Unfortunately my not buying these licenses won't dissuade anet from making similar decisions in the future because of whales that will buy all the skins even if they only want 1 or 2 of them. I'd like to buy the skins I want individually, but not at what amounts to about $60 for the 2 skins I for sure want and would use. but instead of offering items to the market that people like myself represent, Arenanet will instead market to whales, and hope that non whale customers will give up and take their chances anyway, and the sad thing is, it'll work, just as it has with chests (though thankfully you can get some keys for those through personal story and drops and as long as you have a spare character slot you can get 1 key a week with just a little effort due to how many tomes of knowledge the game throws at you)

I've been playing other maps aside from PoF maps lately because of the halloween event, going through some alts Personal Stories and LS2 and HoT stories to get some more black lion keys.. and it's really noticeable how much less obnoxious traveling around the maps is in them. HoT maps occasionally have mos with extended aggro radius but they're relatively few and far between. PoF maps.. it's near everything, you're virtually always in combat and it's annoying, and because the respawn rate is so high it feels pointless to fight especially when so many mobs create blindness effects around them just to make them take longer to kill. Really annoying, not fun. Really all I feel like doing is 1 solid run of Serpent's Ire to finish my funerary armor unlocks and then I just don't feel like ever going in PoF maps ever again unless these aggro ranges and respawn rates get dropped.