[What are you going to do with all your ascended items?]

This post did not age well lol.

For the rich, ascendeds are now a better option than legendries.. 

If you have multiple weps / armor that you are switching between, this new armoury system is awful. You lose all your stats, infusions & upgrades on a new equip. In the past you could equip any new piece with full stats, upgrades & infusions. 

With Ascendeds you can open inventory and equip, fully traited, upgraded, and pimped with 2 infusions.... 

Ascended > legendary now for the end game OGs,  all you is need the legendary skin....

[Legendaries and infusions]

Being rich has never sucked so much lol.

Makes me want to get a full ascended set and just skin over it and put all the infusions / upgrades on there.

Armory is way to clunky & slow if you are trying to quickly swap weapons in between fights. 

[Balance Patch Preview - WvW]

Here are my thoughts on the balance patch as a whole, not singling out any changes. I am only focusing on power as that is all I have ever played. I have played almost exclusively WvW / PvP since launch (Ranger / SoulBeast Main).

• No complaints to damage / heal reductions, this will balance out across the board as intended.
• It is concerning all the increases to cool downs. It seems that in general, cool downs were increased for weapons, traits, and utilities.
• Also concerning is decrease to might / vulnerabillity stacks
• Also concerning is decrease to might / vulnerability durations
• High weapon / utility cool downs + short might / vulnerability stacks + smaller might / vulnerability stacks = one short burst? What if the opponent dodges, and you in turn dodge their burst? Now the two players are left with smashing "1" on each other.

All in all I think the intended goal of putting more stress on what skills are used at what time is a great idea. I understand increasing cool downs is the most effective way of achieving this. However I think the increase in cool downs is a bit extreme. I cant picture the flow of my burst based off of the changes made. I now envision myself kiting for days until an opportunistic moment arises and I toss a huge burst in to someone, and then kite for another day or two if I don't down the opponent.

Perhaps a beta weekend with the patch implemented would be a good idea.