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I only do private runs when it's part of dailies for the deldrimor marks and to kill time. The rewards are lacking, the missions are boring, the pre events are boring and tedious, and going public scales up the enemies way too much...

The toilet paper will be used to wipe tears after Anet makes bad decisions. And we can always throw the eggs at Asura'

They removed the food/utility consumables from the Wintersday gifts too 😒. Really disappointing move by Anet, and this could have been easily avoidable by making these items not produce research notes from salvaging. No point in opening unless you want to gamble for a rare item and good luck with that.

So....not a French maid outfit eh...disappointing 😇

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I don't have much time for WvW nowadays, but Ill stay when I see some big fights going on. No fights=no fun basically. I have been on AR for 3 years now and I have thought about floating around every now and then, not that there is an issue with AR but seems like it would be fun to play with different people and guilds once in awhile. Siege stacking, spawn camping, upgrading enemy EB keeps, juvenile meme heavy nonsensical and idiotic chat spam.... Not for me

It was tried before; the result was server stacking and player burnout. Although there is some benefit (for some at least) in getting a desired placement in a matchup, to avoid a potential matchup for next week or avoid Red Bl for the week 😐

I am on AR which is currently linked with Mag. WvW has been horrible, EB is always queued because Mag players like to spawn camp other servers and upgrade their keeps. This link can't end soon enough.

I would really like to see some weapon reworks, especially for Necro. Staff needs to be reworked, get rid of marks, change the auto attack into something like fireball with some aoe damage and vuln application, and add some aoe skills (similar to ele staff) so it can actually work as a proper power weapon. In its current form it just doesn't work well, the auto is power based, there are some condis mixed in, and it does not work on downed players in pvp/wvw or objects. Necro staff is basically used to spam 2-5 and swap, it doesn't make any sense to continue to keep it as is. Changing it would provide more build diversity and a ranged option for power-based builds for all necro specs not just reaper. Dagger is also useless as is. Warrior sword doesn't work well, it's too weak for power and mainly used in a melee condi build for berserkers. We have axe as the one-handed power weapon, make sword more condition oriented.

Um you know not everyone plays a Ranger, right? Also, stealth is a garbage gimmick that never should have been implemented in the game, or any game with a PvP mode. One more thing, thief has tons of mobility so if you can't escape it's on you.

One idea would be to include a Weekly WvW achievement track like we have with strikes, festivals, etc. For example, completing 5 WvW dailies during the week would give you one extra PiP for the following week.

I really like the Engi rifle changes from the update, very fun to use now. I especially appreciate that it now has so much synergy with traits. I tried to theory craft a Catalyst build but just could not find one that worked for me and the damage was just not there with hammer. I went back to Tempest and would like to use the new Lucid Singularity trait but still need Elemental Bastion and auras for sustain. I like that the 5% crit chance increase will now apply to all attunements because now after the update Fury basically gives an extra 10% if traited in air for Ele's. This leaves a little extra room for stat tweaking and I was able to experiment with different rune sets for more flexibility. As far as Ranger goes, I think Longbow skills need to pierce by default and the range reduced back to 1200 (or maybe just in WvW), so we don't have to trait into Marksmanship specifically for that ability.

HA, well technically you can in a way through big spender daily and badges of honor from achievement chests. No confusion here lol 😊

It's not a fallacy to point to unacceptable behavior.... He did not say criticism is not allowed, there is such a thing as crossing a line.

How can the two even be comparable? One is a form of criticism or personal verbal attack; the other is a criminal act.

Yikes...I have said some mean things in the past but kitten people it's a game...death threats.... wtf. When I am not happy with changes or balance updates, I go play or do something else. There is never any justification for that level of hate and vitriol.

I'm still hoping for an alternative method of acquiring a gift of exploration through WvW, because I really hate mapping...mainly because of the tedious hearts. I made several suggestions in the past of having it as a reward for completing a series of reward tracks for each region, all together it would amount to basically the same amount of time more or less I think. Unfortunately has not happened yet, I still want to make a couple first gen legendaries but cant force myself to go through mapping again 😬

Would really depend on what the rewards are. Theoretically, even if you know you cannot hold an objective, you can try stalling or just going to dump supply or tag enemies and waiting out the defend timer to get rewards. But of course, we won't know until there are more details released. The scaling system might be messy and open to abuse.

The banner changes are puzzling. Clunky and not worth the effort. Guardian signet changes look good Engi rifle changes look good...I always hated the 1 skill Ele....lol Rev, assassins presence trait change is absolutely terrible.

As I understand it, this rework is more like a tradeoff where you get these bonuses at all times not just when you are in shroud. Basically less of a bonus, but now it will be active full time.

Conflux was a horrible gold/mat sink BUT the biggest advantage about making it is that you can craft 2 of them at once and have them available for all your toons. I would think a Leg Acc would pretty much require the same items just use a Mist Acc instead. They would have to add some little lore, and ingame cosmetics but it would be really nice to have.

After reading the dev post today, here are a few things I would really like to see added. A WvW exclusive Legendary Accessory Add Box of WvW supplies, Metabolic Primers, and Utility Primers to Reward and/or Skirmish Tracks. Update Portable Provisioner food selection to include more options like celestial foods. Allow us to convert Testimonies of Heroics from Pre-Eod Skirmish Chests to Jade Proofs. Or to use desert Heroics instead of Jade Heroics for Eod items.

Just got home from work...was excited to play EoD...then I read the balance notes...No thanks. Back to Lost Ark I go, Anet you just screwed up bad with this one...

With a full set of tools giving you a snowflake per strike, it equates to 250 snowflakes. It might be time consuming but it does get results. Combine that with dailies, and gift farming. Also I don't want to get into a debate but I do get 100-120+ snowflakes per home instance farm, with full tools, and that's w/o a bauble node. Of course I am just using home instance farming as an example, not everyone has access to a full home. Back onto the topic though, the OP was complaining about the vendor prices for items. It is understandable but like with Dragons Bash and Jorbreakers/Zhaittafy, the value of the currency used is entirely player driven. If Snow Diamonds went for 1 silver, would anyone complain if the vendors required 50 Snow Diamonds for minis or skins?

The value of snowflakes and snow diamonds is entirely player driven. If the value of Snow Diamonds was 1 silver, nobody would be complaining about the cost of vendor items. You can easily farm snowflakes with frostbitten tools and each strike produces a snowflake. A full home instance farm for example will give you well over 100 snowflakes, farming the nodes in a guild hall can give over 30.