Guild Wars 2

I understand that Lions Arch is the central point for all that is Tyria but the other major cities for each race are amazing, beautiful and… useless.

The main reason people hang out in LA is because of the Mystic Forge, Bank, Trading Post and WvW Portals (just before reset). Why not have each of the main hubs have these same features? Give us a reason to actually use a city that you created beyond personal/living story mode. Let guilds call a city their “home” without being kitten by a lack of Mystic Forge, poorly spaced bank/trading post/merchants/crafting stations.

After being lvl 80 for a while, the game just revolves around LA, Dungeons, Fractals and sPvP/WvW. Why not add the other main cities to that list. It can provide a lot of diversity to the game as well.

Simply removing the WP fee for porting to any main city would also help to liven them up. Another big reason why people only use LA, is because of the free transport to it (via the Mists), as well as it being central (therefore lower average WP fees to the rest of the world). IIRC, the WP fee from Rata Sum to Fireheart Rise is around 4 or 5 silver.

Surbrus, those are some good points and leads me to think that for any current LA portal should give a dialog box where you click on which main city you want to be transferred to. Change the text from Portal to Lions Arch to Portal to Tyria

I’m fine with the WvW portals being LA only because you can get to WvW from any map by pressing B. But there’s no reason every city shouldn’t have mystic forge access. Lion’s eats my processor alive; I’d rather not go anywhere near the place.

Kratic.8763:

I understand that Lions Arch is the central point for all that is Tyria but the other major cities for each race are amazing, beautiful and… useless.

The main reason people hang out in LA is because of the Mystic Forge, Bank, Trading Post and WvW Portals (just before reset).

I think it’s because of free travel through the Mists to LA and then to other city gates. This makes players use LA bank, trading post because it’s faster to get to.

Anet should just let players travel to any home city from anywhere. Without having to waste time going through the Mists/LA/LA gates (3 loading screens).

If anyone disagrees, then you just want players in LA. So you can spam LFG in the chat .