please stop make the game easier.

[MilanFrozen]

Well...the skills being chopped mostly were dead weight. You don't need to have two dots on a mob per class unless the class is made around dots, but every job had that in HW. It wound up being a mechanic that people failed more than one they found fun. Some stuff made little sense; why need multiple buffs taking up slots when all they do is increase percentage of damage? Just combine them, or fold the damage into the ability.

I think you are missing the point of my contempt. An ability animation/effect/icon are all gone when removed. This is more of an artistic complaint than a game play one. Though it could be argued as game play since the enjoyment of the animation could be perceived in a game play light. Also I'd like to point out that baking one skill into another changes them both. It's entirely possible to lose two skills in the process of trying preserve one. Either way it would be a net loss. And if we're going to remove skills then take the game a step further and allow us to adjust skill animations for skills and readd them as optional animations/effects for some abilities.

Surely this would be a lot of work and probably not worth it, but I'm free to be upset about the loss of anything. I also don't like it when you get 'ability gaps'. What I mean is like there is a miasma one and I think a miasma two and I think there is a four, but I believe three is gone. So you get miasma one, it changes to miasma two(?) and then you get aoe miasma. I can't remember exactly what the abilities are off the top of my head, I just know that it skips a number in the chain and that's lame. Nit picking for sure, but I just wanted to point it out.

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Can you link the source for this loss? I'm under the impression guild wars 2 is not a subscription based MMO and that sales would be loss relative to the previous expansion, not due to the expansion content (one could not experience without owning the game).