TL:DR Aurora, Vision and Coalescence stack their effect into a new one so DAMN COOL.Raids are too hard to do, both because the community is unfriendly and in pugs often happens nasty things like they kick you from the party without a word just moments after you joined or they ask you to pay gold to kill boss for you.Paying someone to do something because I'm lazy or I don't want to do it is perfectly fine, but it should be an option not a commitment.But even with friendly people, raids ask a lot of time, a full team and a lot of experience and precision.I can't login when I have some spare time and asking for a random raid and to clear it because I don't know if I will play again before the weekly reset. I work, I don't have much time for play. I often know I can play a couple of hours just moments before logging. I can't join a raid guild because I can't stick to their schedules.Morover I'm in EU, often we're not English native speakers and problems in undesrtanding or speaking it can be huge sometimes, and this can make the difference between succeed and fail and wipe everytime. To do some fractals, wvw, pvp, openworld, dungeon is way easier because I'm not forced to rely exclusively on the others, pugs are easy to find, and less but not least I can decide what I want to do, where and for how long (like collections, achievements, tracks, farming materials or currencies, etc), allowing me to (slowly) proceed anyway even if it takes 2x or 3x the time of other players with more time for playing. So, it's fair that raiders can have a legendary to do inside raids, but it's unfair this legendary stacks its effect with other legendaries doable in pve.It would be great to have at least a couple of different choices, in particular for raid-linked drops because of the difficult to do it or at least having it when there are mechanics like this one.Why people who can do raids can have the full effect while I can't just because, for x forcing reasons, raids aren't an option for me? LONG VERSION The only thing I find unfair, apart being forced to do raids (for this I can simply wait to see if another ring not linked to raids will come out) is that Aurora, Vision and Coalescence have a stack effect. Thing I find this and the final effect SO DAMN COOL. BUT. Raids are quite different from everything else. For a gift of battle you enter in WvW/pvp when you want, you stay how long you want, you exit it when you want. You don't depend on anyone, even if it's your first time in wvw you just need to find a commander and follow it.Points will arrive as a simple consequence of go straight on and do some dps. For openworld pve/collection/jumping puzzle it's the same. For fractals is quite easy to find someone in a guild or sometimes in PUG to do some of them (even if it can happens to find a party of people not so experienced who stay in a medium-difficult fractal for 2 hours without arrive to its end). You can actually not enjoing it, BUT you are ALWAYS able to do every game mode above-mentioned without being forced to rely on experienced people or to be forced to have a schedule or a raid-guild or do trainings. To make an example: in this months I'm pretty busy, my time is very limited, I can't stick to programs like "Tuesday=raid/raid training day". When I've 2-4 spare hours I play GW2 and I do what I can.I play when I can, for the time I can.Often I decide that I can invest a couple of hours in the game from one minute to another because I see I'm not too tired and I've finish my work before I tought. I need to do some wvw? I go.I need some openworld pve? I go.I need some fractals? I go and I hope to find some friends or a nice party. I need a raid?I can't do anything because raids require a lot of time, experience, well-equipped characters and a full 10-players-squad.I can't do them, I can't hope in a pug because1) try-and-die is frustrating and not a deal and 2) I tried to go PUG for raids but in countless times I've been kicked without a word even before the raid started. They simply decided they didn't want to see me play even just for 2 minutes. Was it because my char didn't have a legendary? Was it because it wasn't shiny so they thought I was someone who doesn't invest enough in the game?I really don't know. Guilds have schedules and calendars for their activities, I can't login into the game and say "oh guys, can we do a raid NOW? I must clear it in about 2-3 hours because I dunno if I will play again before the weekly reset!". If they say I'm crazy and too demanding...damn, they're right! This without counting I live in EU and I play with EU servers, where language barriers can be HUGE (so if one's is not Irish or British, English is not our first language. Problems in understanding or speaking another language on Discord while doing a raid is pretty high and this make a great difference between succeed or fail and wipe). And sorry, I don't want to pay some raid baron like a mercenary squad, first because I don't want to invest my time to farm gold to pay other players to do something only because raid community tends to be toxic (forcing you to search for a nice, kind guild because otherwise you collect only a neverending sequence of kick-from-party because you are not enough for them. Not enough geared, not enough experienced, not enough [insert other characteristic here]).It's frustrating and unfair to hear "you can play with us only if you pay". It should be just a free option among others, not an almost forced one.And So I think the OP is saying that noone should be forced to play a game-mode one's doesn't enjoy and have a chance to play and obtain legendaries throught others missions or channels.It's not fair that a raid player is forced to do a lot of pve if they don't enjoy it. It's a game, it's suppose we have fun while playing.For Xiuquatl, for example, one of the gifts necessary can be obtained both from HoT or PoF maps making you free to choose which expansion do you like more. Or, similar, we can say it's perfectly fair to have legendaries for every game mode, giving the players the chance to have them through their favorite game-mode BUT for raids to have a secondo option for those who can't go raids since they're so HARD to do both for the not-so-friendly community and for the time, experience and equip they ask. I would like to have Aurora, Vision and Coalescence in the future for the stack effect they have, but since I need to work to pay my bills and my work doesn't let me to have so much spare time, I can't obtain Coalescence since I'm unable to do raids.I accept to invest much more time because I play much less than others do, double, even triple the time, to invest gold to buy farming materials because I've no time to farm them.But be forced to PAY PLAYERS to access a whole game-mode because I lack of time and the community is unfriendly without the chance to choose, sorry no.
TL:DR Aurora, Vision and Coalescence stack their effect into a new one so DAMN COOL.Raids are too hard to do, both because the community is unfriendly and in pugs often happens nasty things like they kick you from the party without a word just moments after you joined or they ask you to pay gold to kill boss for you.Paying someone to do something because I'm lazy or I don't want to do it is perfectly fine, but it should be an option not a commitment.But even with friendly people, raids ask a lot of time, a full team and a lot of experience and precision.I can't login when I have some spare time and asking for a random raid and to clear it because I don't know if I will play again before the weekly reset. I work, I don't have much time for play. I often know I can play a couple of hours just moments before logging. I can't join a raid guild because I can't stick to their schedules.Morover I'm in EU, often we're not English native speakers and problems in undesrtanding or speaking it can be huge sometimes, and this can make the difference between succeed and fail and wipe everytime. To do some fractals, wvw, pvp, openworld, dungeon is way easier because I'm not forced to rely exclusively on the others, pugs are easy to find, and less but not least I can decide what I want to do, where and for how long (like collections, achievements, tracks, farming materials or currencies, etc), allowing me to (slowly) proceed anyway even if it takes 2x or 3x the time of other players with more time for playing. So, it's fair that raiders can have a legendary to do inside raids, but it's unfair this legendary stacks its effect with other legendaries doable in pve.It would be great to have at least a couple of different choices, in particular for raid-linked drops because of the difficult to do it or at least having it when there are mechanics like this one.Why people who can do raids can have the full effect while I can't just because, for x forcing reasons, raids aren't an option for me? LONG VERSION The only thing I find unfair, apart being forced to do raids (for this I can simply wait to see if another ring not linked to raids will come out) is that Aurora, Vision and Coalescence have a stack effect. Thing I find this and the final effect SO DAMN COOL. BUT. Raids are quite different from everything else. For a gift of battle you enter in WvW/pvp when you want, you stay how long you want, you exit it when you want. You don't depend on anyone, even if it's your first time in wvw you just need to find a commander and follow it.Points will arrive as a simple consequence of go straight on and do some dps. For openworld pve/collection/jumping puzzle it's the same. For fractals is quite easy to find someone in a guild or sometimes in PUG to do some of them (even if it can happens to find a party of people not so experienced who stay in a medium-difficult fractal for 2 hours without arrive to its end). You can actually not enjoing it, BUT you are ALWAYS able to do every game mode above-mentioned without being forced to rely on experienced people or to be forced to have a schedule or a raid-guild or do trainings. To make an example: in this months I'm pretty busy, my time is very limited, I can't stick to programs like "Tuesday=raid/raid training day". When I've 2-4 spare hours I play GW2 and I do what I can.I play when I can, for the time I can.Often I decide that I can invest a couple of hours in the game from one minute to another because I see I'm not too tired and I've finish my work before I tought. I need to do some wvw? I go.I need some openworld pve? I go.I need some fractals? I go and I hope to find some friends or a nice party. I need a raid?I can't do anything because raids require a lot of time, experience, well-equipped characters and a full 10-players-squad.I can't do them, I can't hope in a pug because1) try-and-die is frustrating and not a deal and 2) I tried to go PUG for raids but in countless times I've been kicked without a word even before the raid started. They simply decided they didn't want to see me play even just for 2 minutes. Was it because my char didn't have a legendary? Was it because it wasn't shiny so they thought I was someone who doesn't invest enough in the game?I really don't know. Guilds have schedules and calendars for their activities, I can't login into the game and say "oh guys, can we do a raid NOW? I must clear it in about 2-3 hours because I dunno if I will play again before the weekly reset!". If they say I'm crazy and too demanding...damn, they're right! This without counting I live in EU and I play with EU servers, where language barriers can be HUGE (so if one's is not Irish or British, English is not our first language. Problems in understanding or speaking another language on Discord while doing a raid is pretty high and this make a great difference between succeed or fail and wipe). And sorry, I don't want to pay some raid baron like a mercenary squad, first because I don't want to invest my time to farm gold to pay other players to do something only because raid community tends to be toxic (forcing you to search for a nice, kind guild because otherwise you collect only a neverending sequence of kick-from-party because you are not enough for them. Not enough geared, not enough experienced, not enough [insert other characteristic here]).It's frustrating and unfair to hear "you can play with us only if you pay". It should be just a free option among others, not an almost forced one.And So I think the OP is saying that noone should be forced to play a game-mode one's doesn't enjoy and have a chance to play and obtain legendaries throught others missions or channels.It's not fair that a raid player is forced to do a lot of pve if they don't enjoy it. It's a game, it's suppose we have fun while playing.For Xiuquatl, for example, one of the gifts necessary can be obtained both from HoT or PoF maps making you free to choose which expansion do you like more. Or, similar, we can say it's perfectly fair to have legendaries for every game mode, giving the players the chance to have them through their favorite game-mode BUT for raids to have a secondo option for those who can't go raids since they're so HARD to do both for the not-so-friendly community and for the time, experience and equip they ask. I would like to have Aurora, Vision and Coalescence in the future for the stack effect they have, but since I need to work to pay my bills and my work doesn't let me to have so much spare time, I can't obtain Coalescence since I'm unable to do raids.I accept to invest much more time because I play much less than others do, double, even triple the time, to invest gold to buy farming materials because I've no time to farm them.But be forced to PAY PLAYERS to access a whole game-mode because I lack of time and the community is unfriendly without the chance to choose, sorry no.