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My guess would be that the changes to the daily system were primarily made to slow down people with multiple accounts and muti-boxers, while at the same time making players grind an extra hamster wheel in order to keep them playing.

Elegy, requiem and seven reapers as far as I know are the only ones without a butt-cape.

I broke my mouse hand a while back and it didn't stop me from playing. I changed A and D to turn instead of strafe and mapped utility amd elite to E, Q, shift+E and shift+Q, heal on C. I would set the mouse in the centre of the screen and enabled the ground targeting to stop at max range. I played staff/staff mirage and dont belive I missed out on much during the months my hand was healing.

The conversion rate for BL statues is 1g, since you can exchange a statue for 1 bl coin and sell it for 1g. A hair style kit is 7 statues, so 7 gold. If you don't have the statues, you are better off buying 7 bl keys for gems than the kit itself.

Making racial skills better than the proffesion skills would make optimal builds include race skills, which would mean that many people wouldn't pick the race they like, but the race with the best skills. That this will not happen was shown when the devs changed the HT temple when people realized that a sylvari racial could be used to skip some mechanic. On the front of pet skins: giving them would make it harder to balance pet specialisations, because of the "i bought a skin, now i can't use it because it got nerfed" argument or making pets stronger because they would be more proffitable. It would also show favour towards pet specialisations as they would have more costumisation options than non-pet specialisations.

You can also turn in the statue to the statue collector in seitung. If you turn in all 4meta statues, you can buy 5 more chests per week to increase the chance.

By this logic, people with bifrost should be given aurenes staff since its iridescent themed. Same goes for incinerator and rodgort since they are fire themed so primordus, kudzu is plant based so mordrimoth and sharur is orr themed, so zaithan.

Adventures?

Technically there are infusions in BL chests during festivals. There are guaranteed chests that can drop them.

I use spearmarshals plea to go to the gryphon sanctuary in Vabi. Entering a PoF map unlocks the waypoint at it's entrance so you can go from vabi to crystal oasis in a few minutes, depending on loading screen. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spearmarshal's_Plea

While I absolutely agree that roles are not good for the game, the problem is the shift in game design from HoT raids to the EoD strikes. HoT raids were designed for groups without specific roles, but the players introduced them in order to cheese and skip certain mechanics by healing or outdpsing. The greens at VG being an example for the former and Gorseval for the latter. This shift in group composition was of course noticed by anet and they took it into account when designing later content most notably the EoD strikes that are very hard if not impossible be completed without these roles. With this, we now have a major discrepancy in the core philosophy of encounter desigh and consequentially proffesion desigh. Going back to the original design philosophy would require a major redesign and in some parts direct undoing of design choices made over the last few years, which is just not possible at this point.

So players would have to pay to change the skin of another players mech or reduce their visual noise? The only way to reduce visual noise of the mech is to properly balance mechanist, thus reducing the number of players who play mechanist.

I don't think giving mech skins is a good idea. 1. Mechanist is an elite specialisation meaning it's 1/27th of all specialisations. Giving mech skins would mean mean that they would have to come up 26 or at least 8, if they would do this only for EoD specs, additional things that are simmilar like different auras or spell animations, since most don't have a pet to skin. Otherwise this would imply favouritism towards one elite spec. 2. It would make mechanist more profitable compared to other specs. This would increase anets interest for as many players as possible to play mechanist, severely affecting the balance of elite spec. 3. At the same time it would give mechanist players a solid argument against any potential nerfs. Something in the form of: "I have payed for a mech skin and now I can't use it because mechanist sucks."

Just play in common or uncommon gear if you find the game to easy.

Here's an option that is already in the game: use lower tier equipment. Noone said you have to use ascended, exotic or even rare gear. Yes there is a lack of stat combinations in the lower tiers, but those can be viewed as extra chalanges to overcome.