Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, this isn’t as much as a suggestion as a general discussion i’d like to start, saying that, i’d love to see it implemented in the game, despite the amount of dev work it would take.

At this point i’d like to say, just so people don’t think i’m hating on the game or anything, that I love Gw2 as it is, and at current, it’s definetly my favourite mmo and is very well designed.

The topic here is PvE, and alot of you probably know what i’m suggesting.. raiding, in a loose sense of the word. let’s be honest though, endgame is why a huge percentage of people play mmo’s, they never end, that’s kind of the point. While Gw2 never ends, with things like fractals, nightmares within, living stories and kick kitten world bosses (Tequatl) once you’ve done it, you’ve kinda done it…

What I am suggesting, or rather just discussing, is some form of higher difficulty dungeon/world events that would require getting a set group together and gearing, preparing and taking it down. The best part about this is (where WoW ultimately fails) is the gearing aspect is already in place and is flawless, going through the story modes of dungeons, to the higher difficulty expl. modes, and then to fractals has a great feel about it, like you’re actually doing something fun, and you’re getting rewarded. Not to mention the way fractals demand gearing through the levels, and demand higher skill levels the further you climb.

The structure is all there for this already, I don’t really know how many people would welcome this and how many would hate it, but there is no better feeling than after wiping for hours, days, weeks on end, downing that boss and hearing the screams of everyone else in the same position of you on teamspeak.

They wouldn’t even have to be tied into the story, they could be an extension of fractals, going back in time to slay some uber-gigantic evil thing that is so totallly threatening everything and the world as we know it..

Anyway guys, tell me what you think, and good job on making a really enjoyable game arena net.

Few other bits and pieces that i forgot to mention.. kinda rushed my post.

I know that you (arena net) are involving the nightmare and scarlet briar more and more, and the whole toxic thing, this could definetly be involved and would make for a great first ‘raid’, if you did decide to follow this up.

One more thing, when i said about gearing through fractals, the main reason of doing that is to obtain AR, and therefore these higher difficulty instances should feature AR, or something similar.

but now you raise more questions then you answer…..
how do you want to raids to happen? how would it keep the basic game balanced? would it bother newly/low lvl players? is it yet another way to zerg or a new way to play?
and the list go’s on, it’s nice and all to say “i want raids” but it’s better to actually provide us with the idea rather then a general name.

I can give you the ways it would work, for example, very much like fractals, rewards/loot could be standard greens/rares and then ontop of that , high performance ascended weapons or accessories, maybe things like backpacks, and other cosmetic only rewards such as tier armour sets with standard level 80 exotic stats. This would stop the game from becoming highly un-balanced in WvW and certainly keep the game to an appropriate level of fairness.

Secondly, low level players would have this to work towards, aswell as everything else that’s going on, and the best part about these would be that no one would force you to do them.. with so much else going on it’s not like ‘if youre not raiding then you suck.’

The raids would not be a zerg, that’s the whole point. They’d have mechanics and tactics, killing the last boss in the ‘raid’ would be prestigeous and could reward titles or unique pets.

Use a more descriptive title and add this to the hundred other raid threads that already exist