Guild Wars 2

Hello, people of the forums (and most importantly, the developers!).

During a discussion with some of my guildmates, I brought up the idea of an interesting possible purchase for the gem store. Now, I know there the Tomes of Knowledge and Experience Scrolls, however, what I am wishing to implement is a tad more advanced so to speak. I believe it would be a brilliant implementation to include a service consumable in the gemstore that when used would allow you to create a new character with a few changes.

The first, and perhaps the most massive change is that this new character would have all the map completion (but not the rewards) of the character on your account with the highest map completion. So if for example, you had a character with 100% map completion, the new character would also have 100% map completion, but wouldn’t have any of the rewards, so no Gifts of Explorations on this character. To clarify further, I believe that these characters would also be exempt from receiving Gifts of Exploration or map rewards in general to prevent abuse.

The second, is much more simple, the character would be level 80. When you roll this character they would be level capped with no questions asked, as well as have all their class skills unlocked (much like you do when you go into the Heart of the Mists).

The third change is tied into the second, rather than starting in white gear, your character would start at level cap, so why should they be in white gear? Instead, they would get a set of the highest crafted gear available to their class in the stat combination of your choice, so if you rolled a Guardian, they would have the full Draconic set, as well as the matching crafted weapons and jewelry.

The final change (and the one I’m most on the fence about), is that this new character would also be missing their personal story. It will be counted as already completed, with you choosing the major parts of it at character creation. And if not, then it will be as if you never did it, allowing you to go ahead and complete it in full from start to beginning. Sort of like how a lot of story-heavy games these days have a “story mode” of sorts.

As for the cost? I think 1600 Gems would be decent for the service, especially since the service cuts out some of the major possible rewards for new characters, such as Gifts of Exploration, as well as Karma and Gold. This also rounds out the cost to a healthy $20 and makes a nice solution to the idea of a Class/Race Change feature.

There’s a 480+ post thread about new Gem Shop ideas, done so there wouldn’t be hundreds of separate threads with suggestions with 1/2 of them being the same but you decided not to post there because…?

you really find it that difficult to level to 80? -_-

1) That’s arguably pay2win

2) There is already a massive thread with ideas for gemstore items

3) The wall of text was completely unnecessary.

I don’t know about others, but I generally don’t read any thread that has ten pages of posts. Even if you post an idea in there, it’s going to get buried under other ideas. It’s not like it’s stickied to be THE thread for gem store suggestions, so I don’t get the criticism for posting it separately. It’s not like we’re running out of forum space. =P

As for the idea itself, I’m less that enthusiastic about it. I don’t mind paying players progressing more quickly with boosters, buying gold, etc., but the idea of just buying a level 80 character, with all of their skills unlocked, with a full set of, say, exotic beserker armor…I think that’s going too far. Boosted players, generally, at least have to go through the learning experience, even if they do it more quickly; dropping $20 to cut to the end seems substantially less defensible.

I’m not sure I like the kind of play that would encourage, of buying a character and immediately hopping into the end game. Even if you’ve played a different character before (and aren’t totally new,) there’s still a learning curve implemented by the need to unlock weapon skills, traits, class skills, etc. You can still do this, to some extent, via crafting XP, but I don’t see much reason to make it this incredibly easy.

Redenaz.8631:

I don’t know about others, but I generally don’t read any thread that has ten pages of posts. Even if you post an idea in there, it’s going to get buried under other ideas. It’s not like it’s stickied to be THE thread for gem store suggestions, so I don’t get the criticism for posting it separately. It’s not like we’re running out of forum space. =P

The devs care. There are tons of posts everyday. If people really wanted their suggestions heard, they will post where the devs post and where the devs tell them they will be reading their suggestions.

If all they want is for other people to say “hue hue hue great idea kitten ” and not have any devs actually read it, sure, make a new thread for a horrible idea.