Its not solely about the motes. Its the concern of people exploiting the system in what is being called a very competitive mode, its a pay to win model, winning referring to reward payouts. Especially with going back to how deej talked about the purpose of tempered to help people who can only play sometimes. The current setup defeats the reason that deej wrote about a few weeks back

Exploiting? So because I can spend more time than the next guy I shouldn't get to use the buff?

Thats not what I said, what I am overall getting at is a change of format, let lord saladin sell it in 3-4 shorter hour consumable packs. Then it allows players to feel less forced to devote hours to one game mode, in addition by allowing only so many per player, per character everyone has the same advantage per event to reach the 5th rank of iron banner. As opposed to letting someone with tons of time ride it to the top in an event marketed as the most competitive zone. The set up they currently have turns into something akin to pushing atheon off the cliff. Reputation turns into gear you shouldnt get for your skill level. Thats what bugs me, there was a statement that deej released pre update stating that tempered was invented and intended for those who have to work days jobs to catch up to those who have alot of time on their hands. The current set up does not allow for that.

He just meant that there was gonna be a buff. You're looking too into it. You can activate 2 tempers a day and have the buff all day. I understand what you want but whether it's in 4 hour increments or 12, if you play it, you should be using one.

Thats fair, just he was very explicit in the way he said "we havent forgotten about those of you who cannot get on much during the week, whether due to school or work. We are going to mske a buff thatvwill be more potent later in the week, so you can catch up." Thats the generalization of what he said, and it heavily implies a 1 time use item to make you feel like you dont need to play daily to reach rank 3, 4, or 5 by week's end. Use it when you can, catch up to the usual crowd.

Maybe there will be one on Thursday or Friday that allows for more buff for those that haven't used one or haven't logged on. I don't know how they'd discern between people that have played all week and those that have lives. If you get what I mean. How do you give a buff to one style of player that isn't on. How do they know who that guy is.

But I agree, how do you discern what kind of a player someone is. Thanks for keeping this more conversation btw, im happy this didnt turn into comment wars. I was mainly just expressing general concerns rather than outrage.