once 2.3 comes out it won't be as bad but seeing as the whole point of 2.5(or 2.85) was the novious, not implementing the "real" way now and making players wait till 2.3 is annoying. The people with animus should be finishing their novious right now and yet we are just starting the quest, but hey that's an MMO. this whole 2.8 patch has players saying whats the point instead of yippie, they should have just finished 2.3 faster. The one free one a day argument has no validity for several reasons, one being because 90% of the time you get brayflox, and you get brayflox with lazy people who don't play their class right, not using skills, no flash/overpower, auto fairy/eos. I don't care what your ilvl is just don't be lazy. Second because this is supposed to be a merit based weapon and the free alex isn't merit based it's giving it to you, I personally would rather have it so people have to actually work(not saying that I don't enjoy it).