Naro.5496

The requirements for participation are set way too high right now. It is a terrible idea to nerf base wxp for taking objuctives. Leave those as they were and simply add incentive for participating in big fights. We do not always have lots of players on maps. After midnight... most enemy players are gone. Dont bend everything toward one particular situation. You need to accomodate the varied situations that arise in WvW. Sure at prime time weekend we might get the right circumstances for this to work. During the week and off peak times.. it is rare to have large groups of players defending objectives. in these times our rewards and progression are actually being heavily nerfed. Right now... its worth more to go around flipping camps than take the extra effort to take undefended towers. they both give the same base xp and with the new participation system.. it is very difficult to get the extra reward so the whole thing feels pointless. I know you are supposed to be balancing this right now... just know the current balance is all wrong. Maybe things were OP on Tuesday... but they felt good. Now its just feels like kitten.

Ok... heres my experience... not verified by statistics. I been stuck on 10/14 World Class Fisher for ages. Completed all zones now. Went to Kessex polluted lake and almost immediately got fang fish... got 2 actually... got a bunch of the other world class fish even though I still havent got the bone fish yet which I need. This was all within one circuit of the lake... plus I got tons of junk that were converted into slivers and 2 goldfish. I'd say this map is definitelyt the place to go. Hands down. I'll be farming this map to complete the collection. Hopefully it will happen soon. Hope this helps.

you only get 200 notes for an ascended item... really not sorth it unless you absolutely dont need them.... better salvage and get the ball of dark mater for future legendary crafting.

I am posting this in the official forum in the hopes that someone at ANET will read it. I have 12 characters right now.... planning to make 3 more to create with the beautiful Cantan faces. I started largely making duplicates of classes because I was already full up on my main character of that class. With so many characters. I REFUSE to even begin engaging with soul bound unlocks. From the many conversations I have had ingame and on social media I assure you i am nowhere near alone. For me... buying a new character slot on sale offers way more value than investing in soulbound unlocks... I just wont do it. I was so disappointed when templates came out and I saw the shameless price gouging that took place. I was so angry that I actually boycotted the Gemstore completely for over a year. It was really only when Season of the Dragon was released that I softened my position as I saw that ANET was really giving a gift to the communnity. This is a serious issue for me because my gameplay is being seriously suffocated by the system as it stands right now. I am being stoped from expanding my play as I would wish. Im going for full legendary armour and wish to get into raiding... specialise in WVW and so many things... I love build craft and would love to more fully explore the different specs ingame. I would love to have one skill slot as a Cosplay slot to really play around wih different looks for my characters. Im a dedicated screen artist and that freedom would be wonderful. However the hideous paywall is stopping me... and yes I admit my unwillingness to play along. A solution to a previous problem was created in the form of Mount Select licenses when the playerbase was angry about mount skins being locked behind RNG. They provided a more expensive way to get exacly what you want. This is what I suggest. Of course account bound slots would be more expensive. I recommend 2k gems for gear slots and 1600 gems for skills slots. This scales and provides benefit to those of us with more than 4 characters. If account bound slots were introduced i would likely max the system providing significant revenue.... left as it is I will never spend one penny on the soulbound system. I know many players feel exactly the same. ANET is missing a huge income here. Dont believe that we will cave and eventually start buying soulbound slots. It will never happen. For many it is a matter of principle not just finances. There is a huge untapped market here. Im asking that you take advantage of it, Take our money please. The template system is a black mark on this game. It is actually the only system that actually stops people from playing as they wish. Some people complain about storage bags... but in reality there are many ways to greatly increase bag space using ingame systems. There is no alternative with templates. They create a hard wall that stops dedicated players from expaning. Surely this is a bad move in terms of ongoing development. The problem has gotten worse with EOD because now we have a whole new set of elite specs many of which I am interested in trying. however to do so it would mean dismantling some of my current builds that I love. The problem will only get worse with future xpacs. It just feels terrible. Dont think you will make more money keeping it soulbound. You wont. You will make a huge amount more moeny creating an account bound option.... this is guaranteed. It would also buy back a lot of trust and credibility from your dedicated veteran community. We are the ones being hurt here. The ones who are investing more and more deeply into the systems of this game. We are the backbone of the community... the ones who stay when others come and go. We are the ones who continue to fund the game through significant gemstore purchases. The way templates were handled was a direct insult to us. Now is really the time to put it right. I got money waiting in my bank to invest in account bound slots. Please take it. Honestly, I dont know how much more i am willing to expand my family of characters. I know some people have many more than me. Im getting to the limit of what i can manage. I am feeling suffocated and unable to progress. Please do the right thing and create account bound slots. Everyone will win. People with little need can continue to invest in soulbound unlocks. More dedicated players can invest in account bound unlocks. ANET will make a bunch of money and win back goodwill and trust. I see it only as a winning proposal. Please make it happen. PLEASE

It seems you should at least be able to get 260 shards per week... this allows you to buy all of the weekly items... if the cap is 150 then really u gotta choose between summoning stone... coins... or clovers. Its already a hard nerf on coin gains. Before I was getting 14 per week from running t4+recs daily. This gives just over 300 relics per day for about an hour per day time investment. Now... presumably i only need to do 5 days t4 to get the 10 but now have to do all the strikes to get the extra 5 on top of this. Takes way longer than 2 hours to get 150 relics. So really there is this whole new time commitment to get back where we started. After noticing something strange about relic gains... I finally find out that there is a cap. This makes matters worse. Now it seems Im left having to pick and choose what items im gonna invest in. I thought the whole idea was to facilitate lege crafting. This just makes it all very weird. i like the strikes and would be happy doing daily multiple runs... however with no real reward it seems pointless getting into it. What you get out of the default box is pure garbage. It is good because at least coin prices have come down to sensible levels so buying coins to get the clovers is less painful but really Id like to be able to get coins and clovers and stones all in a week.If the cap is 150 then I cant even get the stone and clovers all together. If i choose coins then my clover gains will go way down. It all feels like kitten to me. Really... they need to sort it out, Im hoping the introcuction of CM and perhaps more strikes will sort this mess out... right now its just frustrating and irritating... really.

Build and storage tab unlocks should be acc bound. Build templates should be soul bound. Each char should have their own list of templates. PvP should be completely separate. You’ve completely broken my trust. This system you released is terrible... the monetisation structure is criminal. Be careful because you will lose big if you keep going in this direction. I won’t spend a penny on templates until the system is completely overhauled.