Guardian of the Light

You really didn't think this was gonna be nerfed eventually?

So one of my favorite shows had an interesting show which I think displays a few points worth talking about:

I feel this is relevant to the whole RNG chest thing everyone complains about (especially the first half). You all ask why couldn't Anet simply put these items directly in the gem store instead of sticking them in random boxes. Well the answer is simply because it's less financially viable to put them there and they experimented by how much when they released rox and Braham's weapons in the gem store and compared to the box sales for fused weapon tickets and found that RNG chests earn a lot more money.

So basically the only real way to protest it, is by not buying the damn boxes.

I don't think anyone is arguing this RNG for skins thing is anything but stupid. I hate a random gambling element for anything and I'd prefer these items to be directly payable in the store. However at the end of the day they're just skins, they don't actually affect the game directly in the game in any way so I'm merely accepting them as a "necessary evil" in order to generate revenue for the company. It's not like there are not a ton of other cool skins to go for in this game either. If a minority of people gambling for skins support free content for me to enjoy I honestly can live with it personally.

Besides you know what the best way to stop this practice? Stop buying the damn chests when Anet does this. It's the only real way to protest this. If Anet think they'll make more money by putting this stuff directly in the gem store, they probably will but if chest sales keep increasing when they do this, they'll keep doing it. Anet's not stupid, they know this pisses people off but NCsoft probably told them to keep doing this because it makes them a lot of money.

Well it was an alright update if you were looking for an excuse to mess around in Southsun. There's definitely more stuff they added in here than what F&F had in it's first couple of months. Might be worth karma farming Southsun because the events there spawn pretty frequently and you get a free MF or GF boost. Nothing worth really getting excited about but hey, Southsun isn't a dead zone anyone! There's actually stuff to do now..... even if it's essentially the same 5 types of events copypasted a few times around the zone .

What I want to know is what will Canach's Lair and the Karka queen involve. They're hinted at in the achievements but will they involve events, a dungeon... maybe a meta-chain similiar to the temple events. We can only hope.

I bet Anet could make a 5v5/3v3 arena option using custom arenas. All you'd have to do is put in an option to disable primary/secondary objectives and make players be able to modify points on player kill.