please stop giving everything to the minority of hardcore players, lots of people play this game.

the rewards for trials, vet dungeons, and the various arenas completely outshines what the majority of people play and for the most part there is no reason for it.

let me start by saying I have NO PROBLEM with the way actual gear and sets is distributed (unless that gear is just overpowered in some fashion ~cough~ master axes ~cough~) especially when it comes to trials, as that armor has bonuses SPECIFICLY for trials (and dungeons to an extent) I always thought it was a great idea to reward players that did that content with great gear, FOR that content, it makes awesome gear for them, without alienating the rest of the players or putting the best gear behind content a tiny fraction of the player base participates in.

also sets are fairly easy to complete because you can get blue pieces on normal and upgrade them if you REALLY want them.

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what I do have a problem with is the sheer amount of cosmetics (motifs and skins) thrown at the same minority of players that do trials and vet dungeons compared to what everyone else has access to. this has caused big problem in the wealth of the game and is getting annoying. (I wont get into the paid carries for skins here, lets just leave it at they are a thing)

this was not so bad when a vet dungeon pack was rare, and came with 2 motifs, and back when trials actually drop'd whole pages. this gave high end players a commodity to sell, cool.

but now that 2 or our 4 DLC a year seem to be relegated to vet dungeon packs (that get harder and harder as time goes by, thanks CP) and trials (or shall we say raid content?) has exploded motifs pages into several pieces to artificially slow acquisition.

this trickles down to the average player, that does no participate in any of this content (for many reasons) the price on these motifs (and skins if you want to go there) has exploded as both the difficulty of said content goes up, and the people willing to do said content goes down (for many reasons)

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1) revert raid content back to full pages, that change was dumb and hurt everyone, the little guy most of all, every time you have artificially made motifs harder to get people hate it (GLASS) full pages, end of story.

2) the drop rate on motifs in dungeons should be the same regardless of difficulty, right now this is almost ZERO reason to run a dungeon on normal, EVERYTHING is rewarded for vet completions ONLY, that's not cool. this has caused a lot of people to just not bother with the content at all, as you have said "hey you can do this but there is no point and no reward enjoy!"

3) add some way for normal players to either get money or get commodities for trade, adding roe to more loot sources would be a nice start as well as increasing its drop rate from fishing specifically (now that its being used in more recipes), and upping the drop rate on Aetherial Dust (I farm my own mats and have gotten ONE since its implementation)

4) the idea of the "rare" sellable items from the plunder skulls, add these to open world containers, the money made from the wont be enough to get your high tier players to farm them, but will be a nice bonus to your average players just questing (don't add them to random mobs)


These ideas only help everyone, nothing is getting nerfed, and nobody is losing anything, this is the kind of stuff we need