Guild Wars 2

I searched the forums and found nothing on this, which I find hard to believe, so if this has been covered, I apologize.

“Convenient access to the comforts of home.”

If you’re human. Or charr. Or norn. If your character is sylvari, you have access to… a repair merchant. If it’s asura, you get access to… an instance with no merchants of any kind.

Really, A.net, you should have thought of this.

Yeah this was brought up:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Home-Instance-Services-Regulation
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/asura/Asuran-Home-Instance-unfairness

But you know, silence is the best answer ^^

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I think the OP gives too much credit to ANet in this case: there are almost no “comforts” in any home instance. There’s no bank and you can already get to any city for free, via the mists. And the boomerang effect is cancelled if you exit the home instance to anywhere except your originating location.

So the only convenience is being able to gather from your home’s nodes; that’s not “all the comforts,” that’s a “reduce the loading screens” effect.

ANet is terrible about hyping their own products. They give too much credit to little things (“all the comforts of home” or “changes galore”) and too little credit to things that would get a lot of positive attention (has anyone noticed how rarely people get ruined mats now? they fixed a bug that really irked people and never mentioned it in the patch notes).

Hm?
I am rather sure that my Sylvari have access to a Copper, Silver, Gold, Sprocket, Quartz, Candycorn, Aspen, Gummo and Tukawa nodes.
And a skill point.

It can be worth it for some.

But for me, I just parked a mule in Divinity’s Reach to harvest all that stuff daily.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I think the OP gives too much credit to ANet in this case: there are almost no “comforts” in any home instance. There’s no bank and you can already get to any city for free, via the mists. And the boomerang effect is cancelled if you exit the home instance to anywhere except your originating location.

So the only convenience is being able to gather from your home’s nodes; that’s not “all the comforts,” that’s a “reduce the loading screens” effect.

ANet is terrible about hyping their own products. They give too much credit to little things (“all the comforts of home” or “changes galore”) and too little credit to things that would get a lot of positive attention (has anyone noticed how rarely people get ruined mats now? they fixed a bug that really irked people and never mentioned it in the patch notes).

That’s all I use my home portal stone for. I have candy corn, sprockets, quartz crystals, and the basic metal nodes and tree nodes from the gem shop. Super convenient and quick way to complete my daily gathering achievement.

And you never know. They may one day come out with bank and/or trading post access for your home instance for purchase in the gem shop some day.