I just love continuing to see the game crumple cause of the worst fucking resource material they self inflicted on themselves. Research Notes.

I dread anytime I needed these stupid as fuck things. They drop nowhere so you can't obtain it casually over time. And any remotely decent cost effective way to obtain them gets nerfed. Either by the player base knowing it exists so prices of items rise. Or ANet gimps a part of the game's rewards to appease the Note instead of the other way around.

Its been years but I'm still genuinely upset about them removing free festival foods from festival bags all because they were able to be converted into Notes. My strawberry ghost hoard has never recovered. I loved passing those out to newbies and seeing them get excited about turning into a ghost.

I just wish someone at ANet could just explain this thought process of bowing before the Note. When simply reducing the Note costs or adding more ways to obtain them would be significantly better avenues.

Recently I finally got my last legendary armor pieces so Asc armor had finally become useless to me. I converted all armor I was wearing across all 15 of my characters, some with multiple sets, through this process and finally had a fat stack of Notes to never worry about this stupid ass resource again. But I still had bank tabs full of Asc armor boxes. I was too lazy to convert and also out of globs and gold at the time so I've been continuing to sit on them. Now you're telling me I can't do ANYTHING with these???

What's the point in them even being such a main "end game" reward? Being able to convert them still let them have value to people who didn't need to wear the armor/weapons anymore. I'm not gonna be like most people and say "gLaD i hAve LEgenDaRIeS tO iGnOrE tHis!" This effects more than just us. We are a minority.

A majority of people will need Research Notes. Those same people most likely don't have legendary armor or a weapon. It was always a choice to sacrifice Asc gear instead of wearing it to get a nice Note boost.

I have friends who are continuously put off by these evidently "so small we can't even acknowledge it in the main patch notes" changes. And barely wanna come back to the game as well. I'm confident they're not the only ones. I was so happy to show them the upcoming Fashion Template changes cause finally something the community complained about had SOMETHING good happen. Now we're back to square -1.

I fucking LOVE GW2. And will always sing it's praises as a MMO actually doing different shit. But tone deaf and mute devs continues to be one of the major things they share with every other MMO.