BeardedBacon.9328

7 year player here, Ive pretty much always been a casual story player but I do own a couple legendaries (2 weapons and a backpiece but I didn't even think about crafting them til the pandemic) I haven't touched the game since I finished EoD That said I completely agree, not so much because of the flashy affects but because of the fact I never got an email from Anet in those 7 years up until these last few months and what's the main portion of the advertisment ? cosmetics 🙃

That's as lame a brag as buying a legendary with rl money

I remember when chrono weaver firebrand and engi had crazy rotations and the people that wanted that unique feel kept playing it while others were free to do simpler rotations (reaper dragonhunter etc) but if you wanted that unique role you'd learn it. Now everyone has a faceroll rotation and the high ceilings aren't even worth learning

So what I'm hearing... Is there weren't any design notes to begin with... and you guys are gonna just jumble up some nice sounding package of "this is why we made the changes" Ill write it for you in 2 lines: the same way we gave up on writing a cohesive story, we got tired of classes/specs having unique thematics so we've given every single class the option to do everything, don't worry, guardian can still do it better than everyone! Now that everyone's feeling special about their main class and getting legendary armor will be more accessible you have no reason to make alts aside from fashion wars reasons 🙂

An MMORPG is supposed to be a game you can play long term, there's so few in the game that if you don't think you have the time to spend an hour or two on a jumping puzzle in the span of the average player routine repeatedly, when things like WvW and PVP tacks exist; Pale Mother's grace, I wish you luck. I barely do either of these gamemodes myself and am a super casual player but every once in a while when I'm doing map completion I really enjoy coming across them. Maybe it's not the most immersive but I think jumping puzzles are a strange thing to point fingers at as to why the game might feel a lil unrealistic nowadays