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So despite a thread title that claimed you had pre-ordered, you now claim to have not done so. Quality false rhetoric.

Even in the most extreme cases these days you are talking about 25g for a complete conversion. Maybe another hour or two for the trinkets if you play it smart.. This is for a complete swap of the stats on BiS gear. Two hours farming metas? Maybe Three? Four if your only source of gold is chopping wood in Mount Maelstrom? And if that sounds extreme to you, the game showers you in Stat selectable armor that is second-BiS. Further, if you want to experiment with core stats the price for second-BiS is negligible. This is BY FAR the easiest MMO to gear up in, it absolutely does encourage variety. People arguing otherwise are being intellectually dishonest to support an ulterior agenda.

AWFUL idea. Giving all players a taste of the top level earnable QoL rewards and then returning them back to their previous state would likely turn a LOT of players off the game. They would grow quickly used to the improved state and then are rudely returned to life without it. That said... some better system of gearing on these beta characters is a good idea, I stashed a bunch of what I thought was great gear in my bank the night before the beta started for this reason... it was inconvenient AF. The point really is to push these specs as far as you can and you kitten sure arent doing it in Carrion gear.

BAN THE TOS VIOLATOR!!!! I DEMAND MY BLUE UNIDENTIFIED GEAR!!!!"

Swapping stats on Ascended gear is not expensive.

This game has never favoured immersion over convenience. It's a big part of why many of us play and enjoy it. Telling someone who recognizes this (and would prefer it remain that way) that they are playing the wrong game is some of the worst type of gatekeeping.

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Enjoying the game is one thing. Supporting a developer who you feel is neglecting their game with a preorder sends them the wrong message. For you to be unhappy as a customer and then turn around and give a company money for their next product sight unseen, makes you part of a pretty significant problem with gaming in general.

If you were unhappy with the product before why did you preorder?

Posts like this that assume people don't like the content because they are somehow deficient do no favours to the game. Plenty of us have zero problems with the third axis or the extra gear pieces. Some of us dislike the flow of the combat, or find the movement janky. Some of us dislike the enemy skills or the overuse of certain cheap mechanics. Dismissing that feedback with these kind of "you just don't know..." posts is just another variant of "git gud".

These kind of humblebrags never get old.

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An LI requirement makes the team elitist, not the content. Anyone can start a strike squad and do them. People who don't want to play with you aren't making an effort to bar you from certain rewards. They just don't want to play with you.

The less time and developer resources given to underwater content the better. One of the biggest signs that this content is awful is we are being given a second mount to skip over it in EoD in the form of a skiff.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't get easier for a player than "buy gems get keys".

Fail conditions do not equal bad design.

The vast majority of Desert Bounties are soloable on a number of different builds/classes.

I saw nothing wrong with the previous system of just having access to whatever was in the bank at the time of creation.

Yeah they should totally incorporate that into the lore... Like a necromancer who's sister is lost to the mordrem and takes up the greatsword that her sister's spirit flows into and becomes a reaper. Or a guardian who's ranger mother dies so her takes up her long bow to hunt dragons? Maybe they could have one of the established characters chase his sword into a portal that leads to the Mists and have him come back as a Revenant. Shame they never thought of it.

Actually the first to quit are the players who don't make it past level 30 and these outnumber the whiners on both sides of this debate considerably.

You've previously admitted to buying raid carries for both yourself and your wife.

And I guarantee you that if Anet put up a poll tomorrow that asked if every skritt should drop 40gold players would overwhelmingly support that too. Doesn't mean it would be good for the game.

I have seen some really ugly pieces of divisive false rhetoric on both sides of this discussion. This idea that anyone who disagrees with you is some shadowy cabal of elitists trying to gatekeep you from your loot though is among the worst.

I mean you could always start a forum thread....

Buildcraft as a challenge means "how can I beat X using Y" ? "How do I beat (a Desert Bounty) using (Celestial Ranger)?" "How do I beat (Molten Boss fractal) using (Marshall's Holosmith)?" It does not mean: "How do I beat (Deimos) using (a build with no synergy and the Official Forums)?" The solo challenges are out there. Even some of the harder Dungeon bosses like Lupi are being burned down by solo players doing actual buildcraft to get the results you think you should be getting playing 'whatever you like" You are still clinging to the fact that you should be able to play your snowflake build and blaming the developers when you don't get the same results as those who come up with solid builds and burn these bosses that you struggle with downing in an acceptable amount of time. You are indeed asking for things to be made easier You have indeed asked to be better rewarded for your time. There was zero twisting of your words.