As a "filthy casual," I am also seeing the large effort discrepancies between Transcendence and Conflux. It took me several weeks since their debut to get Conflux. And I was able to get it on my own time and terms. But this isn't the same in PvP, which I am just about as casual. In PvP, I cannot just quit when things go south/sour. But in WvW, I can die badly, respawn, and just decide to exit the mode when a tick passes (thus making progress in skirmish rewards). I also feel Transcendence has too high of a hurdle to leap over just to acquire. Even worse so just to make Transcendence since it requires 20 AT wins which I cannot see myself getting into. The time commitment just to get into a match, only to realize that you partied up with players who are either lackluster or non-existent chemistry, is too high of a requirement for anyone who doesn't have the time to spare. Like some who have previously posted, I can only commit a few hours a day on a work day. And even when I'm off for the day from work, it's only 6 hours or less. When 2v2 came out, I refused to step inside of it because I refused to deal with the uptick in potential toxic commentaries. If I lose out bad, the other player is going to berate me. If not that, the other team would start taunting. And I rather not hear the constant blasphemy of these kind of people if all I wanted to do is try out the mode, get a feel for it, and just mess around. I'm overall disappointed in the wide gap between acquiring (Slumbering) Transcendence. I started casually playing since the start of the current season. Thus far, 43 wins, with a personal new record of 13 straight losses. I also make it a personal goal to get thru the entire pip seasonal rewards at least once. At the rate I'm going, and with the Ascended Shard of Glory currency being one of the requirement, it'll take me several PvP seasons just to acquire Slumb Trans. Even if, for the sake of theory, I had all the Ascended Shards of Glory ready to purchase the necessary components, the win requirement is what's holding me back and is taking up more time than I had spent in WvW getting objective captures.