Request for better challenges and better rewards (Formal Letter/Megathread)

[Espritduo]

Looking at this I think I'm just gonna pass on it all until the next season. SE screwed me over HARD by pushing this to 5.21 when I planned on making time for it on 5.20. I'm sitting here looking at these grindy achievements (I want the pteranodon mount gimme) and the expert recipes and I am chomping at the bit to sit down, hit a red bull and go nuts on them. But I can't, cuz I have to WORK like a normal, decent human being. Only having like 4 hours a day of free time basically means all this content is off limits to me except for the lightest of playing around with it for funsies. I already went into the patch with 40,000 Skybuilder scrips so I've already bought everything there, and now its just spamming Diadem, which I have already seen everything there is to see there within half an hour of hanging around.

And you know the kicker? I bet when I take my two weeks vacation for 5.31 restoration, SE will release it with the 5.30 patch content. Really aggravating.

Oh and the rewards for ranking are a (non-class specific) achievement title for ranking 1-12th, and another one for ranking 1-100. And that's as it should be. They shouldn't be putting crazy amounts of crazy rewards behind something experimental when they have NO idea how it is all going to shake out and how it's going to be abused or received by the playerbase (I'm looking at you Ocean Fishing). They can add more rewards for expert recipes and ranking later when they have a better handle on how the players are going to do the content.

I will say that I do like how it IS something I can basically put off until I feel like doing it. Besides the ranking thing which as long as SE doesn't go back on their word, will still be there next season and presumably the season after that with the same rewards and less botting/no-lifing competition, I have all the time in the world to do this content. It is all solo, with no party-based annoyances, which means no stressful rush to get the content done before the critical mass of participation fades. Imma go back to ocean fishing for now and just keep trying to get the 5-star fish while I finish reading The Sandman series. (read it, it's really freakin good)