Hello devs. I’ve been playing GW for A LONG time. I’ve been playing GW1 on my brothers account, had a multiple lvl 20 characters, played for over 3 years. I played GW2 on my brothers account again since the beta weekend (We pre-purchased) I now got my own account (finally) and I’ve started to notice a few things that bug me.
1. A well known issue is that the charr light and medium armor clips through a lot and doesn’t look well, you should consider re-designing it for it to look and fit better. Generally all races but humans have a lot of weird looking armors.
2. I really miss a part of the simplicity of Guild Wars 1. To me, mostly what I miss is that every class had a role and in my opinion the game was much more straight forward in that aspect.
3. Guild capes, where did they go? They were so cool.. I really loved having a cape behind my character, looked cool when you were hopping around with an assassin. I know we have guild armors but capes just add to the experience a lot more in my opinion.. They also make the character look much better than a guild armor IMO.
4. Classes should have more weapon options In GW1 I as an assassin did FoW a lot, was the Tank 2 setup. I used a BDS (Bone Dragon Staff for those who don’t know what it is) I think it would be cool if all classes could use all weapons. I really liked the way assassins ran with staffs.. A small thing but a huge pleasure for a long time. This could mean either more skills for classes or that you can have a secondary class. Same like in GW1.
5. Guns and bombs IMO don’t fit here.. I know most people won’t agree but I feel like I’m playing a mix of GW1 and BO2. I really enjoy playing my engineer, I find it a ton of fun but I just HATE the guns. I just think it’s really awkward and doesn’t fit in.
6. Where did the Dervish, Paragon and the Ritualist go? I understand that you kind of fused Dervish/Necro (Into a Necro) Paragon/Warrior (Into a Guardian) and Ritualist is basically an Engineer but I really do miss the classes, the spawing ghosts to attack for you ect. It was great fun. Maybe you could remove the guns and replace the Engineer class with Ritualist. Re-name the class, replace guns with some other weapon like some shaman sticks or staffs, re-name the skills, give them other animations and replace turrets with ghosts.
7. A sort of a pre-searing that is longer than the one we have right now would be cool. In GW1 you could level up to lvl 20 in presearing doing the charr runs ect. Could be another activity for players like dungeons, WWW ect.
8. GW1 Minis! Seriously, how about some minis from GW1 (Mini Rurik ect.) for nostalgia sake?
9. Each class has a specific set of armor. I know this would be a lot of work but in GW1 each class had its own armor. Mesmers had theirs, Assassins theirs ect. Now to me a human thief looks like an ele in GW1. Assassins in GW1 had tight suits, looked really cool.
10. Re-do the human female voice, please! It gets really annoying. When I played an ele a lot of the times I wondered if I should use a speed buff and risk a “I can outrun a centuar” (probably spelled wrong) line or just fail at kiting and die. No offense..
11. Re-do the necro sound effects. I got tired of them quickly.. I muted my PC because when you hear “Shh” “Shh” for 15 minutes straight it gets annoying.
12. Get rid of the beer belly on Asuras.. If you look at an Asura from the side, it has a normal upper part then it belly pops out which looks bad.
13. The game crashes quite a bit. Its not just me because it happened on my brothers PC too and he’s got a really killer setup. He can run any game he wants at max graphics.. It just freezez when loading certain areas like going from WP to WP and stops responding or simply all of the sudden closes and says it crashed..
14. Verification is a pita. I don’t know why, my IP doesn’t change much, only like 2 times a month (as sometimes my internet goes down so I have to re-start the router) but the verification thing appears over 5 times every day and then I have to wait 2 minutes for it to arrive to my e-mail which isn’t a big deal but still..
These have been my retrospection to GW1 ideas and general bugs/annoying things, now for some ideas that GW1 didn’t have and GW2 doesn’t either. I’ll update this post with them over the next 2 days. No offense to the dev team if any of this seemed offensive, it was not meant in that manner. I have only half an hour of free time left and I want to play GW Cheers dev team, have a great day! Thanks for the game