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I’ve always wanted a telekinetic class, with the power to lift up debris and enemies and stuff and hurl them at their enemies with their mind. That and a grappler class.

I’d love to use my norn elites if the cooldown wasn’t so long in comparison to how long you stay transformed.

I think it depends what you consider an escape from reality. I mean games like Persona, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and Elder Scrolls are definitely perfect mediums for escapism.Rpgs in particular are derived from tabletop rpgs which are heavily about escapist fantasy in the form of shared storytelling.I think part of this desire to do anything in an MMORPG, is rooted in the old RPG trope of, a handful of adventurers coming together to form a party. In tabletop rpgs, metagaming tends to be heavily frowned upon in favour of promoting players to make flawed characters with distinct weaknesses so their cobbled together party can try to pull together to brave the world the DM throws at them. Single player rpgs tend to do a passable job of capturing that freedom letting players do what they what they want in them, soloable or low difficulty tend to content in MMOs do so too, it’s only when you get to things like Raids and PvP in MMOs where the freedom that rpgs are supposed to provide seems to die and everyone is expected to conform to a meta, and that imo is why where ever a meta forms you get so much conflict from players who want to play their own way.

Was it a training run? If it wasn't then don't join a group that wants to finish the content and instead find one that offers training. The fault is on the player that joined the wrong group. If you find endless wipes fun then that's good for you. On the other hand, I'm positive lots of players prefer smooth runs. Correct that. Nobody is getting kicked for doing low damage. Kicks happen when someone playing a DPS build deals less damage than the support. Simply auto-attacking would result in the DPS doing way more damage, so they must be doing something fundamentally wrong. Which is why they are kicked in the first place. The astonishing part is about how entitled some players feel these days. Entitled to the time and effort of others. By disrespecting the rest of the team you don't earn respect back. Respect the time of others and they will respect you back. Training runs for Ascalon Catacombs?Training runs for kittening Ascalon Catacombs?!Every day we stray further from Gygax’s Light.

I see this mostly with the Griffon skins but can something be done about the red base coat of the mount skins? I'm finding it really annoying if you're trying to give your mount a colour scheme that incorporates any cooler colours.https://imgur.com/a/BmUNs

"My schoolmate keeps stealing my lunch money!" - "So don't bring any lunch money, seems simple." Really? That's not a solution. We would like to pay for skins, but at reasonable prices. I have already invested way over a thousand bucks into this game (maybe over two), does that mean I need to be milked if I would like to invest more? There are limits to what can be considered reasonable, 2,000 gems for a "fancy" mount skin isn't reasonable at all. How is that even remotely an equivalent metaphor? You own your lunch money, Anet hasn’t stolen the mount skin from you to ransom it to you for 2000 gems.There’s no need for a boycott, you simply don’t have to buy it, you aren’t being inconvienced by not having an extremely gaudy raptor skin.

Would you rather they charger some equivelent of Trade Contract (or w/e the PoF map currency was)?

I’ve been bypassing content long before the mastery system, let alone mounts. Core gives us skills like Rocket Boots, Shadow Refuge and Infiltrator’s Arrow. HoT brings Gliding (not to mention the leyline networks in the LS3 maps) (and Unhindered Combatant which I’ve used a ton). Should we get rid of all those things too? I mean, escaping combat in this game isn’t hard, all it takes in most of the time is just ignoring the mobs chasing you. Leaps, dashes and blink skills and gliding will get you out of combat with ease (you can’t even mount in combat).The Griffon isn’t that much different when roaming the OW than the glider was before it tbh. It has a neat trick but it hardly breaks any new ground.