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I agree, I don't understand why ANet would devalue this amulet in this way. Everyone will literally get a free legendary amulet once the older seasons metas are finished, so it's not like the more casual players are losing out by not being able to get those tourny wins...

Yep, pls fix anet!

TBH the Skyscale is the only mount with an absolutely dramatic impact on your QoL. All others help, but not nearly as much as this one. Griffon does not even come close to the utility of the Skyscale. The only thing it's truly good for is for areas where you can dive and use its huge airspeed. On the ground, all mounts are situational. If the terrain is rocky and uphill, then definitely Jackal over Raptor, but also Skyscale over Jackal, since you get very good speed boosts from the V skill dodge, which you can chain 4-of if you have the regeneration stamina mastery.

The problem with VB is that it takes 45 minutes, it's not overly fun, and it's wildly unrewarding to take to T4. By comparison, AB and TD are finished in 5-10 mins (in TD you need to wait the actual 15 for endchest tho). Reducing the timer might not be possible in VB. So what to do? Increase the t4 rewards, ofc, so they are comparable to the 45 minutes you have to spend there! Make it 5 amalgamated gems for getting t4 at 200% participation and people will come. Or add other rewards, solid cash, or random ascended materials (deldrimor, elonian leather etc), or mystic coins, or mystic clovers and the list can go on and on and on. Make it worthwhile, otherwise I will not go back to repeat the same content for the 100th time. It's fun for a while but it gets old fast. Every half year or so I feel the need to go back and actually replay it for old times sake, but that's only once and then i am good for another 6 months. :)))

TP control, buying and selling... huehuehue

It's funny because now it's rather easy because of the insane power creep, it used to be a lot harder in pre-expansion days...

TBH the bday gifts are kinda nice already. The weapon skins look good, the armors look good(ish) and the dyes are always nice (getting shadow abyss and permafrost for free... hard to complain about that!). Not to mention the guaranteed wardrobe unlock. More would obviously be better, and each year they added something more to the gift, so who knows, maybe this year they put something new there - we will soon find out. So yeah, at least in this ANet has done a fine job of rewarding old-time players. And the exp scroll is more of a running joke right now I think, nobody needs it but it's been always there so why not (I myself have i think about 15 stacks of tomes, so...).

This would be amazing! And I would get to clear my naughty librarian's inventory of books. https://ibb.co/NZNmpLw

Making a bundle of skins for 2k gems and not selling skins individually or even through the awful licence RNG system is just a cash-grabbing move. So players have now a choice: either the fairy dragon, or the 5-pack of average skins at best. All for gems ofc, since earning stuff in this game by in-game progression is definitely out of the question. And it will be a long while before other skyscale skins are put in the game, so better settle for one of these. I myself bought the pack and the skins are nothing to write home about. But I thoroughly dislike the fairy dragon (I can see it is a special skin with unique design that might appeal to many, just not to me), so this was kinda my only option. RIP 650 gold I guess, but at least my skyscale looks moderately shiny. I wonder if the base skins of mounts have so poor dye channels on purpose, while the gem store skins dye so well. It couldn't be on purpose... could it?!

I really really hope that isn't the combined effect of all 3, it is incredibly ugly. Aurora was fine-ish (damn that purple), combined with Vision it's alright-ish, but doing this weird pointless amalgamation on top of you is ridiculous. At least the accessories have their effects float around you, why is this ABOVE you?!?!

I observed this closely and it is as follows: you only get credit for these slayer achievements from mobs specific to those areas; branded enemies DO NOT COUNT.it does not matter how those area-specific mobs appear, they still give credit if they are just roaming the map or they are from event.some events in the buildup meta have area-specific mobs, but most have branded.the final meta events have only branded mobs so those will not give you anything; however, the endmeta is where the loot is so you want to do it as well. Plus, there is an achievement to complete endmeta 20 times I think (to get credit for this achievement you must also fight the 3 bosses that spawn midfight, it's not sufficient to just tag the weak spot events!).It's not that hard to get these achievements but you have to kinda focus on them a bit and go out of your way to kill the right mobs. I found this easier in the UW side of the map since the specific mobs spawn there in larger groups than in the other areas, but it's doable in the other areas as well. Just find fresh maps and stick to one area until you get your 1k, then move on to the next one. Ranged weapons will help in events since there are many people and mobs die fast and you don't get to tag them all in melee. It's what I farm now when I am in DF, I just tag up and do one of the areas. You don't even need to shout for people to come, they will flock to the tag.

Long-needed change, but I am unconvinced it will do much to attract people, other than the rush of the first few days. Amalgamated Gemstones were a nice addition, but overall the rewards still seem meh to me. We'll see.

I used 0 because the tasks were stupid easy and there were a million mesmers and squads up doing them. IMO it was a bad idea to add the option to buy out of doing the content. It's f2p economy 101, even though in this case the players could craft and sell between themselves the items needed. Next time they will be on the gem store and people will buy them because instant gratification. Meh.

It was announced like a week ago that they are removing BL keys/transmutation charges from the map completion rewards until an exploit is fixed. Have they been added back yet?

This is just not true anymore, if it ever was. I am from EU, made my gw2 account on EU server back in 2012 and played a few months, then transferred to NA and have been playing there ever since, constantly, without any issues. When I played Guild Wars I constantly switched from EU to NA depending on the time I was playing, so I have more people to play with or to trade; never ever experienced any issues. So no. This is not a reason. What IS a reason is making that sweet sweet dough from server transfers. ANet would go a long way to proving they are professionals who do not BS their players if they just admitted that.