Aretak.3826

The hotfix for Champion HP yesterday seems to have work, the rest of mobs however still have huge amounts of HP. Not to mention the burster spam (terrible design, please limit them) which also seem to have HP comparable to a 5 man instance with the regular enemy challenge active.

I agree, despite the 'fix' to Champion HP yesterday the rest of the scaling seems to be incredibly off for solo. The insane amount of bursters and damage from regular mobs is already hard enough, but their HP pools are also huge. The Champion itself is ironically fine now, it's just everything else.

I get what you are saying and don;t disagree, but Scion's do have a guaranteed way to obtain as per the OP This is only a one off for the first 1000 chests you do and is not a proper long term solution.

Edit: NVM looks like a bug.

Just to update, finally got the guaranteed box (took me around 30 metas as my first ones weren't that efficient) and knowing that I have no guaranteed method of acquiring another I'm not touching the map again. I love the skins, but: 1) There are already a lot of nice skins already that have guaranteed progress towards, including legendaries 2) Who knows what great gemstore/black lion chest/claim ticket will next come out Not worth the stress! Something like Dragon Stand is necessary for all Gen2+ legendaries and part of guaranteed progression towards them so of course people will always be doing them.

The meta is so time consuming if you want to actually get a decent number of keys/coffers, which is a huge difference compared to other metas such as Tequatl. A lot of the people here are flat out missing the point that having decent items locked behind pure RNG grinds that have no guaranteed payout is ridiculous. Having done ~30 metas I'm approaching the 1000 chest mark and have probably seen maybe 2 or 3 people actually get the Gift of Aurene as a drop. When I get the guaranteed one I'm not touching the map again. In the time it could take me to get another skin I would've earned enough gold for a legendary. My suggestion: Make an achievement for acquiring all blossoming mist shard which unlocks an item to purchase either 1) the skin only for 250 motes or 2) the full ascended item for 250 motes + necessary ascended crafting parts similar to how the WvW items are handled.

Positives: Open world is prettyMounts are niceAll the maps not relying on timed metas for content is niceStory is a bit better than HOTNegatives: No longevity in content, open world gets stale quicklyNo new group instanced content at all, funerary weapons/armour should have come from a new challenging dungeonA lot of elite specs have not had enough effort put in and are completely unbalanced. Lack of willingness to split balance between modes hurts.Story was short and felt slapped together