I was kinda let down with that too. I actually liked farming glacial parts, it was something I could do when I was semi-afk doing homework or something. Check back every once in a while see if I got anything good...recycle junk parts. The thing was I could log in and do it 24/7, whenever I felt like it. Luckily though it seems like glacial weapons are still relevant and with the new armor farming armors may be relevant again.
With the PA though...my god is its boring as ****. It always amounts to one of two things. People try to stack the teams every week by quitting and rejoining. If they stack one team its such a lop sided event it really don't matter what you do because your team is going to either win or lose by such a huge margin it just doesn't matter. If they fail at stacking a team one side eventually gets the upper hand on the other side. All their templars respawn with the double stat buff and wtf pwn everyone they get next to with ridiculous amounts of damage as they drive the other team back. That team's templars then respawn with double stat buff as the other teams is wearing off and they wtf pwn everyone. Either way there is no skill involved, and the extent of team play amounts to whether or not teams were successfully stacked.
Plus they made everything so expensive its almost not even worth bothering anymore. 10 badges just to roll one armor piece? You can win 3 nights in a row and not even get enough pieces to roll up one piece of armor even if you were willing to forge with w/e you got on the first roll. Come on...seriously? If you want to roll something decent its gonna take like a year just for one piece, and by the time you get a full set there is probably going to be something better then the new onyx armor to chase after. 12 badges for a weapon roll. Its especially stupid after prices were already much cheaper for like a year...way to screw over potential new players. GM's seriously need to reconsider that. People weren't even using the weapons when they were cheaper...they should just make everything in the power badge shop 1 badge. You guys are gonna make your money when people actually get something they want to forge, what is there to gain by annoying players with ridiculous badge prices and not letting people even get stuff that's even worth trying to forge? If it wasn't for the titles I wouldn't bother with this event at all.