Dear Plarium, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Just about any theme park mmo got their avatar with slots fo equip. Some of these are f2p, p2w, sub based and what not. You get chance of loot killing npc's, or buy from cash shop, (and then most of the time ,just bling stuff to flunt yourself, not stuff with OP stats. Even killing trash mobs would give you stuff to slot on your character. Easy basic stuff to get, even rare and epics can be found through raiding. Problem is with Stormfall you can't really do much raiding (bg's) as it take forever to rebuidl to go again, unless you open your wallet wide open.
This just adding another layer of monotized stuff to this game. There is the haves and have nots, and those in between, the gap between reasonable and ludacris is so huge now its...... BAD TASTE.
If you want to push the players towards do more BG's, at least give us LOT FASTER build times of units. And I mean PROPER faster build times. The dragon change almost nothing at all in this regard.
Frankly I'm at a loss of words now. seriously.... We can only have nightmares about the next addition coming to this game :/.