Wheezy.2846

I mean, minus the whole thing that they took the idea and changed a bunch of kitten so it's better? It's not linear, the cosmetics are permanent, no premium as you mentioned, etc. So it's not really... The same. That's like saying because we have a hotbar with skills and cool downs and classes that combat is the exact same as every other mmo, they just copied it. Or we have mounts just like every other mmo, so they copied it. Details matter, the vault itself is different enough. The dailies themselves, I agree, need some work, but I don't think 'they just copied season passes' is exactly a fair take.

As far as I know they're supposed to be depositable, so I'd guess that'll be a fix in a patch soon.

It's about them skin over it being exotic, and it's needed for legendary armor so of course they're going to make it more.

If you get in once a week and do weeklies and the dailies one time (and no, dailies won't take 3 times as long with friends. Most are things you can do anywhere, or in 2 minutes. View s vista, kill 10 enemies with a food buff, kill vets anywhere) you'd get just as much as previously if you don't care about the new skins and such.

Ooone slight thing I think you missed (and it's very easy to) is that if you use the lures on the Rifts you can get 4-5x the normal amount of that currency at least. Map currency is pretty low, I agree.

Definitely one improvement to make. Old dailies let you at least click the compass and it would try to point you in the right direction. It wasn't always great either, but it had something.

You get celebration boosters for weeklies, 40 more laurels for weeklies, you get ascended gear options instead of exotic. You get gem store items if you buy them, including options you didn't get before. Again skins if you want them, let's take the 1,000 essence and swap the griphon skin for $20usd of gems converted to gold. How about the legendary starter kit with a full gift of might or magic? Yes, if you do the bare minimum of just logging in, don't do the dailies and weeklies and special stuff, it's worse. If you do, it's way better. You cutting out and not counting 2/3 of the new stuff because it's not exactly the same stuff isn't a great comparison.

Agree on points 1-4 for sure. Point 5 I... Get people could be, but I didn't have any issues on clarification. I also read all the posts and patch notes and such. Point 6 I hard disagree with. It feels less rewarding to be able to buy a mount skin, armor and weapon skins, a few black lion utility items, and the ability to get the materials we got before? I think you'd need to look at totals again and think of everything you can buy, including liquid gold, laurels on top of the weekly chests etc.

They removed them from the recipes. This was in the notes.

I don't understand why you're all SO hung up on the login portion. You get more if you play. The amount listed, the options per day, etc, I get. You get more if you play than you did before. You still don't have to do much to do that, especially in PvE. If you didn't have time to do more than login and play for 10 minutes before, you probably didn't finish daily. If you do the same now, you can knock out one of the easy ones, you'll get 15 AA instead of 5, and over time you can buy the same stuff. If you actually play, you, I'll say it again, get more value out of the rewards. Not as involved as LS2? What? There's problems, but.... what? The first half of that was walking for 10 minutes and interacting with 2 or 3 journals, and doing an instanced fight of trash mobs every month or so. Wooow. Also, hard disagree on the story. I'm enjoying it a ton from act 1.

I disagree with your point on depth, but I'm with you on the testing. I like the first new map, enjoyed the enemies and events I did, etc. I like relics, though some not working is a problem. I like the Wizard's vault overall, but some external testers giving some feedback would have been able to smooth some of the rough edges out before they launched. Daily activities should have more options, and there's issues with the new dailies giving newer players objectives in maps or stories they haven't completed yet. Probably not great for them. Dailies not being the same for everyone - not a problem for me since I mostly play solo. You've got friends though? Uh, might want to do those together. Unless you all got different ones for some reason! Weeklies are ok, you have 9, and do 6 to get the bonus. Awesome. If you do every extra weekly that's another 480 essence / month. Good to do, but not crazy detrimental if you don't do all of them. Dailies feel bad though.

I like the system as a sytem. The rewards are good, the quarterly nature is good, including the special category. Weeklies are fine, you have 9 options and only need 6 for the bonus. Dailies though. Woof. Dailies need extra options. If they feel 3/12 was too easy (it kind of was) that's ok. 3/3 no matter what (plus your login) feels bad. Give us 5-6, make it a mini track and don't give 10AA for any past 3. Done.

I mean, every expansion some people get more, some get less. Mesmer has never gotten 5 new weapon skills UNTIL this one. Ele always gets a ton because of attunements. Warrior is arguably getting nothing very useful out of the elite spec weapon changes, where Rev is getting really great options. It's just how it goes. Some stuff isn't 1:1 fair. Can't be all the time.

Asking people to do one strike, any strike, or a few open world events, or healing players 50k, isn't elitist, isn't excluding anyone. I said it in my last comment too, but casual or relaxing play is one thing. I do a strike every few days maybe, I've done all 4 for the legendary insight maybe 4-5 times. I have done fractals like.. Once in the last year. I do open world mostly. "casual" is how I would describe my play these days. That's one thing. Doing nothing, not playing or engaging with the game at all, and getting rewarded for it aa much as we have been, is not good.

.....what? Relaxing play is one thing, not playing at all and still getting stuff is another. This system, just like the dailies before, asks you to PLAY. Not do CMs, or raids, or win automated tournaments or monthlies. Play. They're not even fully removing getting something for just logging in, but reducing it in favor of giving us more for PLAYING the game. I guess you can just RP in LA all day every day, but like, don't expect that to give you any ascended gear. You don't have to do fractals, but you can't get the fractal backpack then. That's how all of this works. Do thing, get reward. Now do thing get more reward, do nothing get less than before.