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Please put the Rebel Long Boots back in the gemstore sometime soon!! Pleaseee :D

Today marks the end of an era and I feel incredibly sad to be saying goodbye to a game that brought my wife and I together and brought me so much joy over the years. I'm a full legendary player, 46 leggys on my account and as of today, there is no longer an incentive to play this game. The devs ruined the legendary runes atleast for me, the only reason I got them was having access to all of the cool/niche effects and builds. They made an expansion that is just polishing up things I've already paid for and then selling them back to me. I already had all of the elite spec weapons, all of the "relic" effects. The assets in the new maps are reused too, the devs seemingly put in as little effort as possible. The devs took away log in rewards and by extension screwed a decent amount of veteran players' ability to go after legendaries and keep the market balanced. I understand that my opinion will be unpopular and I'm okay with that, but here's what I believe: By removing log in rewards and giving the entire player base access to more liquid gold and materials then ever before Anet has done something that will seem good, but is really bad imo. It will probably be praised by the community but here's what I would guess will happen... Material prices will plummet, gold will become more available, this will mean that the gold to gem ratios will change in a way that will make it way more difficult to be a fully f2p player and discourage fiscally strapped individuals from getting into the game. The yearly 'expansions' will ensure that all rewards worth going for are behind a paywall, either expac or BLTC, since mats and gold will be so devalued. This may be good for Anet's bottom line but it feels scummy. I smell sea water, I think the ship is sinking and the goal is to milk us all while it sinks. That is my theory. Call me crazy, label me as a doomer or whatever you like but Gw2 is a 10-yr old game and was gaining in popularity. I think these moves are intentional. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope I'm totally off-base with this but I quit Guild Wars 2 as of today. Gl and have fun everyone and thanks for readin'.

I think I'm done interacting with you friend. You aren't interested in conversation and consumerism. You seem to want to argue.

Listen. I'm a full legendary player. I play plenty okay? I paid for a thing, I should have that thing. Isn't that a fair sentence?

That too, absolutely.

:/ I really dislike this mentality. The reality is there are a decent number of players just like myself who support and play the game, who probably won't between this and the legendary rune changes ultimately leading to a less populated game and eventually a dead one. Even if you don't agree with my outlook, you as another consumer, should atleast be worried about the health of the game as a whole and how the backlash from veterans like myself is likely to be received.

Alright @Rubi Bayer.8493. I know you can't comment too clearly on things due to the nature of rewards and how future releases can/will affect the economy of the game. So, as a long time supporter of the game, someone who met their wife in this game and has several alts. Can you give any kind of answer on if the 5 AA a day reward will, in effect, be similar in value to the 55 Laurels and 20 Mystic Coins we have received previously? I know myself and several other veteran players would very much like to know.

I play every class and have between 2 and 6 builds for those classes. I only have like 12 characters. So not only are the Legendary Runes less useful after the expac, I won't actually be able to replace all of the builds I currently play.

For anyone who thinks it's childish or stupid for players like myself to feel slighted, you're either a new player who likes the idea of the veterans being inconvenienced, or you aren't thinking it through. Legendary Runes aren't an old system. Runes are sure, but ANET CHOSE to make Legendary Runes not that long ago!!! They are removing functionality from a LEGENDARY ITEM, ya know the super grindy thing that's only advantage IS FUNCTIONALITY, and selling that as a feature in their expansion. For the players who've put in the time and work to make Legendary Runes, they are just screwed over. 'Significant progress' for a thing that won't be out when the system comes out or even soon after!!! The whole point of legendaries in guild wars 2, unlike other games where legendaries have more stats, IS THE EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY OF THE LEGENDARY ITEM. So these players not only will just suddenly lose the functionality associated with one of the longer grinds in the game, but then they are devalued and forced to use your kitten half-complete, by your own admission, system and wait for you to release a new legendary item for us all to go chase down JUST TO GET BACK WHAT WE ALREADY HAVEEEEEEEEE.

I really hope that is not how they are gonna try and implement these things. The last thing PvPers and WvWers are gonna want is their builds locked behind running around in each expac doing more achievements.

This whole thing has me heated, I won't lie. It's probably a bit obvious from my previous post though. It's such a kitten move to just rip some functionality off of something we all grinded out and then not even offer us a comparable replacement. Like not only are we not just getting a legendary relic, we gotta wait who-the-kitten-knows how long to actually regain the functionality of the runes. It's bs and Anet knows it. Well myself and my guild, we will speak with our wallets since I doubt the forums will be enough to make them treat us right.

I'm a player with Legendary Armor, Weapons, Jewelry, Sigils, and Runes. I WILL NOT spend another CENT on GW2 until this bs is addressed and fixed. I ALREADY PUT IN THE WORK. I HAVE 7/7 LEGENDARY RUNES. the work is done, I've paid for the content. I refuse to go backward in time for a year or more while you devs scramble to convince the player base that this isn't selling me a shirt I ALREADY OWN. A kittenING EXOTIC PIECE AFTER YEARS OF WORK TO MAKE A LEGENDARY ACCOUNT?! HELL NO!! Make it right Anet, and none of this "significant progress for a feature we haven't even finished and you'll need to wait 1-5yrs for", fix it before SOTO launches or you will lose potential profits. I swear it.

That's ridiculous. That means even if it only costs a singular silver per research note. Which in my experience is roughly 1/3 of the real cost. You'll spend an extra 10k gold on just research notes alone. I can't with this, it has to be some sort of joke.

Average cost of spirit shards, karma, ambergris, and research notes. The values are conservatively based on buy now of items listed on Fast farming website and the understanding that as more people have more uses for these currencies, their values will rise.

Okay, I want to start by saying these are my opinions as someone who has six Aurene legendaries and was very excited for the variants to come out... I'm pissed. I was expecting a collection, and maybe some interesting lore, not an upfront cost of between 350-500g per skin before I can even work on the collection. The Aurene legendaries are already the most expensive legendaries the game has ever seen. This is coming from a player who currently has over 40 of them including trinkets, armor, and gen1, gen2, and gen3 weapons, sigils and runes. This means, that for someone like me who has always wanted to collect them all, I will need to spend nearly 6k gold in various currencies PER Aurene legendary. So basically to get the REskins of the weapon I already own. I'll need to spend the equivalent of making Eternity twice, and do 5 collections. Atleast Eternity gives you 3 separate greatswords unlocked in your armory. These are just skins! I don't know if I'm alone in feeling this way but I just don't understand why Arenanet picked this particular path and I'm incredibly disheartened. Thanks for reading and I hope to read healthy discussion below and maybe someone can help me see a silver lining. Attached is a screen of my efficiency's armory page to accent my feelings and goals https://imgur.com/a/6Fj7qzC