Guild Wars 2

WARNING: Very long.
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-Introduction-
I am confident many of my inputs have already been touched on but I just feel like my 2 cents need to be expressed. Hope my readers don’t feel offended on certain points or start backlashing me, after all, this is the Suggestion Panel; it’s all subjective, opinionated and preference-depended. Looking forward to as many people’s constructive inputs and point of view on my post as possible. Overall, Guild Wars 2 did make some serious innovations to the MMO genre has been fun until I hit a brick wall by hitting 80, then all the game’s flaws became more apparent. Regardless of my critique, I am staying around for a while regardless as I am a loyal fan of GW, and as I have high hopes for such a dedicated company to be aiming for being the #1 MMORPG in the MMORPG world; on top of that GW2 just launched and many contents are coming our way as the team repeatedly announced. I am trying my best to persist playing GW2 and trying to shed light on it by finding as many new fun things to occupy me the best I can, and here are the reasons why I am struggling to persist:
-ArenaNet’s Goal of Making Guild Wars 2 non-addicting-
I frankly believe that is the first mistake that contributes to the lack of longevity for Guild Wars 2. Why wouldn’t the goal be that? I believe a moderate level of addiction should be strongly considered. If game creators strive for non-addiction MMORPG, might as well have never made GW2. For my perspective, aiming for a goal of avoiding addictiveness translates into avoiding fun. But don’t get me the wrong though; Guild Wars 2 was definitely worth the buck; for a biased and loyal fan of Guild Wars at least.
-Grinding-
ArenaNet strongly opposes grinding for Guild Wars 2, but the dynamic events, map completion activities and tasks prove otherwise. The system of progressing throughout the game without the need to return to the quest assigning NPC is definitely a relief, because it allows you to breeze-explore the world without any bondage. But that is besides the point of this section, “Grinding”. Keep in mind, this is all subjective. I constantly find myself doing an event repeatedly because there is not a structured progressing system. As a player who aims for the feel of accomplishments and progression, yellow heart-tasks and events are what I aim for. After quite some time, these contents gradually become repetitive (I know I am the one to blame, but keep on reading), which gives off the sense of grind-nature; but fortunately I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to grinding, the problem here is that the rewards are just not worth the pay-out making it bland and tedious to participate in, but I feel obligated to do so for the sake of experience points and progression. At least make it more exciting and fun, I believe I speak on behalf of most of the players when I say… repetition of exciting and fun activities, why not? Adding onto “ArenaNet strongly opposes grinding for Guild Wars 2”… to gain access to higher level regions, armors and all other higher level end contents, repetition of completing events, hearts, and all not-worth-the-payout activities are required; you can’t help but to do them to acquire them… so to say Guild Wars 2 is not a grind-fest is teasing the players with all the nicer features and contents limited to only higher-levels. Guild Wars 2 attempts to be a game of not rushing and just enjoying the scenarios and environment, but at the same time… the charismatic wears for our characters at cap level which is really only achievable via grinding events and hearts (the most efficient methods at least). I understand there are many other activities to engage in, but by personal preference and behalf of many people who voiced the same… they just aren’t exciting making it too short-lived.
-Bosses-
The bosses all feel the same and very generic, especially on the HP aspect… monstrous amount of HP, that is indeed – lazy. Most of of the players such as myself are just spamming buttons for 20 minutes while you are checking up on your auctions or screwing around with your dyes. In fact, if you are using range, you don’t even have to use your skills, just chill while auto-attacking until their death. I suggest defining difficulty differently such as via improving their AI or complexity of skills, etc; just making them more fun and engaging. Monstrous HP= merely time-consuming, dull, not engaging.

-Contents-
Warning: Vague post.
The game seems to be a makeup of merely mass creative contents with very little depth and lasting impressions to them; shallow contents. I can’t brush off the feeling that Guild Wars 2 tried too hard to stand out and be unique as oppose to making the game actually fun. I feel as though with the open-freedom and tons of contents is aimed for a wide and general audience of MMORPG as it is aimed to be the #1 MMORPG, but at the end of the day, it is only targeting players that enjoy nice graphics and exploring beautiful sceneries. I understand ArenaNet’s mindset of taking away competitiveness to promote a friendly and peaceful community, but it’s in a way where it can destroy a game’s potential of fun. I hope Guild Wars 2 somehow promotes a moderate level of competitiveness.
-WvWvW-
The main problem is that it feels so impersonal. There is no actual player pride.
Ex: FPS games – A skilled guy kills 5 enemies quickly, everyone sees it. They go kitten that guy is good, he can earn a name for himself etc.
But then again, I can respect that it’s not implemented since it doesn’t make players get caught up on their own status rather than for their world; it encourages teamwork. It’s just my opinion that I’d prefer the opposite. I just wish players could at least feel a tad bit of individual significance, pride and recognition from their achievements in WvWvW.
-Combat-
The combat system in Guild Wars 2 at the end of the day is not much unique. The only difference is the disability to modify half of your skills. This is personal preference, but I prefer the combat to be more engaging and flashier (Take the game, Cabal for example). That UNF feeling is the type of feeling that would be nice to feel from combat.
-Dynamic Events-
If a combat-related world event starts without you, the story gets lost in the muddle. Guild Wars 2‘s lore isn’t its strong point, half the time when I stumble into a world event, I am clueless of what is going on except what the assignment is. “Help this guy fend off a bunch of undead!” or “Escort that pack of Dolyaks from this place to that one” or “Keep the hordes of centaurs out of our camp.”
Why? Who knows. People show up like firefighters rushing to the scene, working to fill a yellow bar (or deplete it), win the event, collect their winnings, then scatter. Why were the undead attacking? What were the Dolyaks carrying? What were the Centaurs looking for? You can find out if you hang around and wait for the event to re-spawn, but…it’s an MMO, and who wants to do that? I really don’t want a quest log, but an event catalog that keeps track of what you’ve done, that explains the setup, might be nice.
I strongly suggest giving the players the ability to be an antagonist for certain events such as escort events; being able to attack caravans, and as soon as they inflict damage, their names turn red indicating they’re hostile and an enemy that is vulnerable to attacks from protagonists for a certain amount of time or until their death from protagonist players; they get criminal points from becoming an antagonist (opposing force); similar to Silk Road Online escorting system, and Runescape’s PVP area where all players are able to get hit, but in this case, caravans being the one to be possible targets for attacks during escort events. I understand this is implemented in WvWvW already, but regardless, I find this a nice addition to the PVE world.
I realized there are only five types of dynamic events throughout the whole game from level 1 all the way through 80, and those would be as listed: Escort, defend, gather, boss-kill, and occupy. I suggest throwing in some type of fun competitions with NPCs such as races (land, sky, or sea setting), item-toss fights (food fight, snowball fight, etc.), paintball battle, etc.

-Dungeons-
The dungeons are time-consuming and excessively slow-paced. This generation is definitely more accustomed to a fast-paced lifestyle. Many people don’t have the time to put out to running a whole dungeon (directing at explore mode dungeons); they last for hours, up to almost more than half a day even sometimes; this is mostly directly at Arah Dungeon Explore, but I have heard similar for ALL other explore mode dungeons. All the drag to complete the explore dungeon merely for the coins. Dungeons should provide better pay-out rewards after checkpoints; either that or nerf the dungeon’s difficulty level somehow. I am aware it is not impossible to complete, but the pay-out… is definitely not worth all the effort and time put into completing them.
-Armors-
Comparing GW2’s armors to its predecessor GW1, I found the charismatic aspect of them to have degraded. I believe I speak on behalf of majority of the player-base when I say light-armors really deprive of charisma; especially when compared to heavy and medium armors. But all the armors in general, I hope for them to be flashier in the near future; in other words, stand out and more attention-grabbing.
-End Game-
This is already a trendy topic in regards to deprivation of contents and depth of contents, so I won’t go deep into this subcategory. GW2’s lack of end-game material can give some players no sense of completion, so it would be nice to touch on the end-game more. Also add in exciting features and contents exclusive for cap level players or adding in more exciting features/contents in general.

-Crafting supplies-
-t’s a shame you can’t work crafting stations from your bank inventory. If you want to craft, you have to have all your ingredients on your person. That makes sense using real world logic, but this isn’t the real world, and you can access your bank account from any crafting station, including the “collections” tab that stores all your crafting loot. Why can’t the crafting tables tap your banked collection? Having to transfer this stuff just seems punitive, and for no sensible game-related reason.

-Individualism-
I feel that another problem that many players are facing from playing GW2 is the lack of individual pride/significance. There is really close to nothing to show off; nothing to show off but armor, commander symbol, and map completion symbol. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is… but there is a big lack of individualism in the game. Everyone feels like everyone else vague-speaking. There just is not much to show per individual; a hint of hierarchy would be nice too.
-Storyline-
The quest system (and story) is very background aka insignificant. Subjectively-speaking of course, the storyline-related NPCs lack a lasting impression, attachment, and incentive to progress through it.

-Level Scaling-
Level scaling robs the game of any sense of power progression and achievement causing attachment-deprivation between you and your character. No matter how high of a level you worked for, it is disregarded as you step into any lower level ranged area. The only advantages to leveling are new armor sets (which is only highly beneficial in areas your level range besides for the purpose of charisma) and exploring higher level-areas. Higher levels in lower level areas should feel more achieving, something to make the higher level players stand out. Maybe a different type of scaling should be implemented rather than stripping away like 90% of their levels away. This is significant, because character advancement is usually the only RPG aspect in action RPGs. What’s the significance of level-progressing and getting stronger if the game arbitrarily decides to toss that out of the window repeatedly?
Colors should be implemented to help players indicate other player’s level range as opposed to showing their levels. The color can be filled in the player’s name or in a square next to their name.
Black= Cap Level player
Red= Way above zone level
White= Zone level
Yellow= Way below

-Map Activity-
There are an excessive number of areas in Guild Wars 2 that are deserted and deprived of players. Could it be the world is too huge? Maybe we need to compact the areas? Maybe combine a few less populated servers together? Maybe add in more exciting and rewarding contents in less populated areas? Maybe focus on making each area stand out, make each area have its unique rewards and achievements to obtain. The areas are nice to explore, but most of each and every map lack a depth of uniqueness and content to them and that long lasting impression.
-Additional Contents/Features-
-“Lucky Spots”- These are invisible randomized spots in the world where if a player stumbles across one, they receive achievement points for running into one and reward such as gold, crafting materials, basically a good amount or good quality item(s) or exclusive items from these “Lucky Spots”.
-“Capture Skill”- This is a skill from GW2’s predecessor that allows the player to capture skills from monsters and bosses and permanently keeps the skill. I find this a very fun and exciting feature to implement. But of course with the waypoints in our way to destroy the fun, place bosses with the capability of stealing skills from far away from any waypoints; that will give the skill capturing a more accomplishing achievement.
-Linking events in chat- Gives players the ability to show the event in chat; functions exactly the same way as any other linkable items.
-Fishing- We have wood-chopping, gathering, mining, why not implement fishing also? It would make a great addition.
-Mining/Chopping/Gathering leveling- I find this implementation to be exciting, the higher your mining/chopping/gathering level, the more chance of obtaining rarer extract, less chance of obtaining a ruined extract. My main idea is to make mining/chopping/gather have more depth of content really.
-Pet vs Pet- I find this PvP feature to be very exciting; Pokemon would be a great comparison to this. Basically we get to own pets that we can train, level and evolve to battle in Pet battles.
- Buddy Chat- I think this would be a pretty neat idea to implement “buddy chat”. Its function is basically exactly the same as all the other chat tabs such as Guild Chat, All Chat, etc. Buddy Chat will be strictly for all the buddies to chat into. I found this to be very effective in regards to the social aspect from games that I have played prior to GW2. It is especially useful for players with friends that are spread out across different guilds and/or servers.

Honestly, if the ArenaNet team just change their mindset of making the game moderately addicting, rather than not addicting at all… it would help out a bunch. As of right now, there seems to be a lack of depth of content, goal, progressive-feel, etc.

-Pet vs Pet- = I think that is being planned in LA.

-Level Scaling- = I like it because i can replay zones and it still be challenging. AN should find more ways to encourage high level players to play in low level zones.

-Fishing- = I think that’s being planned too because I see many NPC fishing.

-Mining/Chopping/Gathering leveling- = The problem is to many tools in our inventory.

-End Game- = mmo’s do not have end game content. You just wait for new content or play old content.

Onshidesigns.1069:

-Pet vs Pet- = I think that is being planned in LA.

-Level Scaling- = I like it because i can replay zones and it still be challenging. AN should find more ways to encourage high level players to play in low level zones.

-Fishing- = I think that’s being planned too because I see many NPC fishing.

-Mining/Chopping/Gathering leveling- = The problem is to many tools in our inventory.

-End Game- = mmo’s do not have end game content. You just wait for new content or play old content.

Those are great news to hear about the planned implementations. As for the level-scaling, the problem is that there are hardly any one in the higher level areas and many mid-level areas are empty :S At least compared to low level areas. As for End Game, MMOs do have endgame, “Fan scuttlebutt has long held that Guild Wars 2 has no traditional MMO endgame”, even Guild Wars 1 had end game content; for example GW2’s predecessor, GW1 had exclusive trophies for end game such as: Deldrimor Talisman, Amulet of the Mists, Book of Secrets, Droknar’s Key, Imperial Dragon’s Tear, etc. I understand ArenaNet by them saying "Endgame in Guild Wars 2 wasn’t something AreaNet wanted players to experience only “after a hundred hours of gameplay,” or some other “arbitrary number”; but it does not have to be to the extent where the reward is such a tide-turner to their gameplay such as something that makes end-game players 354214x stronger you know? Just something enough to put a smile on the players’ faces. Simultaneously, players can’t help but feel defeating Zhaitan is the Endgame… he was a threat to the whole world, and finally he was defeated which is only possible by reaching cap level.

“As of right now, there seems to be a lack of depth of content, goal, progressive-feel, etc.”

lack of depth of content
- are you sure? the world is quite huge to me
- the nps have lots of things to say, did you try talking to them all?

goal
- the daily and monthly achievements are a good enough goal for me

progressive-feel
- well gw2 is not about stats progression anyway

Have you been to Orr cause that place is always teaming with people trying to do Temple of Baltazar and the countless other events going on there.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

“As of right now, there seems to be a lack of depth of content, goal, progressive-feel, etc.”

lack of depth of content
- are you sure? the world is quite huge to me
- the nps have lots of things to say, did you try talking to them all?

goal
- the daily and monthly achievements are a good enough goal for me

progressive-feel
- well gw2 is not about stats progression anyway

Yeah, like I mentioned in my post, Gw2 has tons of contents, but the depth of content is lacking :S Yeah, been there done that haha regarding the NPC interaction. As many others have mentioned, many of these contents should be more obvious. You know there is a a slight problem when you have to “find” these smaller less obvious things to do to keep you occupied.

Kaimick.5109:

Have you been to Orr cause that place is always teaming with people trying to do Temple of Baltazar and the countless other events going on there.

Yeah I have; let me rephrase my statement haha, it’s usually only the lowest and highest level areas that has the most activity, but everything else in between is inconsistent with activity. :S

Goal Of Non Addiction

‘Addiction’ is not always synonymous with ‘Fun’, and the level of addiction will change from player to player, even if they set out to make a non-addictive game.

Looking at another perspective, making the game non-addictive could also increase longevity for some players (at least during the leveling process). Me, personally, am quite happy that I don’t experience the addictivness I felt with WoW (although ‘addictivness’ might be the wrong word; I felt the need to play since I was a Raider and had to keep up with gear requirements, and in the end, I didn’t last more than 6 months because of burnout.)

Grinding

To me, Grinding is when you absolutely have to do content in order to do content you enjoy i.e. gating through gear requirements. Otherwise, it’s just playing the game.

Repetitiveness, however, is a different matter. It’s not that the game lacks content, but lacks a variety of content.

I feel they need more ways of acquiring Karma, Unique Skins, Crafting Materials ect, as well as content that makes it worthwhile to go back to lower level areas. I suggested making Ameranth the new Nic, and she sends a randomised list of items you have to collect, as opposed to having everyone have the same list.

I do like how easy Exotic gear is to get though, and I don’t mind spending a long time working towards skins, because there’s no rush to do that to stay competitive.

Events

At the moment, I’m finding events boring. They all just seem to be re-skinned versions of the same events whose main purpose is to give you loot and money, as opposed to actually TRYING to kill you. These events NEED to be able to kill you, and players need to be able to fail events in order for them to be engaging.

I think events could benefit from two things:

• Triple Threat – At the moment, with events there is only one thing you have to worry about (killing, gathering, defending ect). Why not make it so that you have more than one thing to worry about? Shelter’s Camp, for example, we only have to worry about the mobs coming towards us. Why not throw a few of them exploding mobs in? Some siege weapons? Why not link the Pertinent Camp and Shelter’s Camp events, and if one fails, then the Risen can use the tunnel to flank the other camp?

• Evolution – As above. The event gets passed X amount of times, and so the event changes. For example, Shelter’s Camp. The Risen storm 5 times, fail 5 times, so next time, they bring siege weapons (catapaults, cannons) and a few Veteran mobs. That fails 5 times and as well as the siege weapons, they bring Necromancers that make soldiers out of the corpses of allied dead. Obviously there would be a limit, but making the events get harder and harder each time would, IMHO, keep things interesting.

Armour and Weapon Skins

This needs a bit of work, I think. It could be helped by adding:

• Profession-Specific Armour and Weapons (to tie in with the theme)
• Player-Created Submissions (through competitions and such)
• More Holiday-Event Armour and Weapons
• Named Mob Armour and Weapons
• Dragon Armour (crafted from mats gained unique from the Dragons. An NPC would spawn after each event allowing you to purchase the recipes)
• Legendary Cultural Skins (Fierceshot’s Bow, Jora’s Sword ect)
• Skin Generator For Gear

Individualism

I think this would be improved by adding more symbols (maybe add medals under your health bar?), as well as adding more unique skins that can’t be obtained through regular means (crafting, karma, gold ect)

Storyline

Yup. You’re one of the highest ranking people in your Order and the Pact, and you hardly see them. Why not have daily ‘missions’ that they send you?

Scaling

I feel scaling isn’t harsh enough. I still find myself two-shotting (one-shotting if crit). As well as that, scaling is needed simply because of how events work. A level cap with level cap stats will sneeze and kill everything, meaning no-one else gets participation. Scaling is a good mechanic in this sense as it stops the griefing of events.

Map Activity

I don’t think the maps are too huge, I think that too many players are sticking to the level 80 zones. More activities to bring them to lower level zones would help remedy this.

Additional Content

I like Pokemon, so I wouldn’t say no to this (although PETA might).

Some other ideas that people have had are:

• Scavanger Hunts

• Treasure Hunts

• Labyrinths

Goal Of Non Addiction
I agree with “’Addiction’ is not always synonymous with ’Fun’”. But at the same time if the makers of a game intentionally tries to make a game non-addicting, I find that a big mistake whereas if the makers of a game intentionally tries to make a game without the goal of making it addicting would be a different story. You know what I mean? Hope I made a slight sense at least haha.
Grinding
That’s an eye-opener. I agree with your take on grinding vs repetition. We just need more exciting and/or rewarding contents in general.
Events
I agree, and your suggestions won my vote.
Armour and Weapon Skins
Got my vote
Individualism
I agree with the addition of more symbols, unique skins, etc. Also the addition of more variety of equipment slots would be nice also, such as Charms, bracelets, belts, etc; o maybe obtainable auras via big achievements, they can be the auras that glow the silhouette of your body, or the aura that appears to be a ring-like shape below your Toon.
Scaling
That is true, I was hoping ArenaNet was able to somehow work around that, somehow simultaneously preventing “sneeze and kill everything” and not scaling one’s level. I guess I just want our characters’ level to play a tad bit bigger role in the game.
Map Activity
I agree, that’s why the suggestion of adding unique/exclusive contents to other less populated maps. I am sure that will balance the world out activity-wise.
Storyline
Or maybe our Toons are just too narcissistic lol.
But wow, quite frankly I was jaw-dropped by your idea of having the player’s organization or order assign daily missions to him/her. That’s rad! /votes

when i read the title, i thought this would be about biblical things that you wanted to see in-game lol

Subcatogory:
– UI scaling.
– Able to move everything in the UI where ever I want it.
– Chat. Splitable chat, changable font, changeble size, changable colour, able to make the chat even bigger (im playing on a 24" monitor and the chat is to small evenon biggest), make privat chat channels so multible guilds and people can comunicate.
– Map drawing system. Improve on the drawing system. Ad a system where you can change colour, ability to put down a temperary mark that lays there for some more seconds then the drawing.

I agree with the individualism part. I remember that in pretty much every MMO I played, there was a really good player that everyone knew. In Guild Wars 2, there’s no hiërarchy between players. You can’t distinguish yourself from all the other players. No matter how great I do in dungeons, WvW or spvp, nobody remembers me for it. There’s no way to be a notch above the rest. Maybe a legendary weapon, but that would just show that you are filthy rich and that you have too much time on your hands. Isn’t the point of an RPG to distinguish yourself from others? Right now it just feels like we’re a herd, all wearing the same badges and armour.

“Fun” is the effect of the “enjoyment” of an “activity” not its goal.
When you enjoy an activity, you are forgetting all the tangible goals of that activity and only in this way the fun comes in.
As long as fun is considered the goal, there won’t be any enjoyment of any activity.

So, play the game and enjoy it and not focus on what rewards you get after hours of play, but on contrary think of it as a way of spending time. If you don’t enjoy it, then go and do whatever activity you enjoy without thinking of a reward because that will bring up the fun for you.

I feel like you want to transform gw2 into wow… So maybe stop wasteing your time and play wow? It’s that simple.

Maneating Fridge.6289:

I agree with the individualism part. I remember that in pretty much every MMO I played, there was a really good player that everyone knew. In Guild Wars 2, there’s no hiërarchy between players. You can’t distinguish yourself from all the other players. No matter how great I do in dungeons, WvW or spvp, nobody remembers me for it. There’s no way to be a notch above the rest. Maybe a legendary weapon, but that would just show that you are filthy rich and that you have too much time on your hands. Isn’t the point of an RPG to distinguish yourself from others? Right now it just feels like we’re a herd, all wearing the same badges and armour.

*fistbump and a *highfive

Ronah.2869:

“Fun” is the effect of the “enjoyment” of an “activity” not its goal.
When you enjoy an activity, you are forgetting all the tangible goals of that activity and only in this way the fun comes in.
As long as fun is considered the goal, there won’t be any enjoyment of any activity.

So, play the game and enjoy it and not focus on what rewards you get after hours of play, but on contrary think of it as a way of spending time. If you don’t enjoy it, then go and do whatever activity you enjoy without thinking of a reward because that will bring up the fun for you.

That’s why I said “more fun and/or rewarding activities” Either character would be great Does not necessarily have to be rewarding; my point is, I just contents to keep the players engaged. At the end of the day, I’d like to end with a good comment…gwarsh was that fun, totally worth my time, OR, gwarsh that was so worth the reward, or having the best of both worlds would be even nicer. :P

HiddenNick.7206:

I feel like you want to transform gw2 into wow… So maybe stop wasteing your time and play wow? It’s that simple.

You should refer to my subcategory dedicated to grinding. I made implications that grinding is indeed painfully and repetitively boring. WoW= Pure grindfest.
And as i said i my introduction, I intend on sticking around as I am a biased and loyal fan of GW. Just because some features are similar to that of WoW’s does not automatically mean WoW outweighs GW2 for my liking for online gaming. And as as reminder, this is the suggestion panel, I am only pointing out the changes I would hope for.

BrunoBRS.5178:

when i read the title, i thought this would be about biblical things that you wanted to see in-game lol

Hahahah, sorry to disappoint you if it did lolol

ZtriDer.9573:

Subcatogory:
– UI scaling.
– Able to move everything in the UI where ever I want it.
– Chat. Splitable chat, changable font, changeble size, changable colour, able to make the chat even bigger (im playing on a 24" monitor and the chat is to small evenon biggest), make privat chat channels so multible guilds and people can comunicate.
– Map drawing system. Improve on the drawing system. Ad a system where you can change colour, ability to put down a temperary mark that lays there for some more seconds then the drawing.

I am honestly neutral about the UI, chat and whatnot, but I definitely don’t see a reason why not to improve on these, would do more good if anything, you got my vote.

Keep in mind that this game just came out a few months ago. Any of you guys play GW 1 back when it was brand new? It was completely different from GW 1 today: no expansions, no other continents, no heroes, no Nick and Yakkington, just the 1 storyline and pvp (which had way less arenas and guild halls, along with those premade builds).

My point is, GW 2 obviously isn’t perfect. But Anet will keep working on it, and a whole lot of those suggestions will probably end up in game. So don’t complain.

Dreamwalker.3617:

Keep in mind that this game just came out a few months ago. Any of you guys play GW 1 back when it was brand new? It was completely different from GW 1 today: no expansions, no other continents, no heroes, no Nick and Yakkington, just the 1 storyline and pvp (which had way less arenas and guild halls, along with those premade builds).

My point is, GW 2 obviously isn’t perfect. But Anet will keep working on it, and a whole lot of those suggestions will probably end up in game. So don’t complain.

As I mentioned in my intro, “…on top of that GW2 just launched and many contents are coming our way as the team repeatedly announced.” And plus, this is a suggestion panel, players voice out their suggestions here to improve GW2 to enhance their gameplay and at the same time help the staff make GW2 a better game and indirectly help their franchise, my thread poses the problems and the possible improvements/fixes to them. With that being said, it’s not merely “complaining”, and under the rules of conduct on GW2 forums, if this was just a complaint-thread, it would have been removed by now.

Also…auto representing a guild would be nice also..half the time new joined (or so they think) members are not even aware that they are not officially in yet until the ymanually open the guild panel and press “Represent” at the bottom of the menu.

A personal customize-able mercenary would be a nice implementation also

Arah Explore dungeons do not take hours / half a day when done properly, even without skipping any mobs that would aggro normally if you tried to run from start to finish.
30~45 mins when skipping and not dying often. (1-2 wipes max)
~1 hour when not skipping and not dying often. (1-2 wipes max)
2+ hours when dying a lot (Sir Wipesalot)

‘’I died a lot so arah took the entire day’’ should not be an argument for toning down the duration of the dungeon.

I do agree with some of the other parts of your post though.

@ZeroStatic Just to clarify I never said “I died a lot so Arah took the entire day” or anywhere to imply that :P

The reason on my stance for nerfing the dungeon, namely Arah Explore is not just from my own horrible experience with it (death was not relevant until the grub-eating boss) but also gathering comments on the dungeon from map chat. Everyone I asked seemed to have said that Arah Explore takes at least 3-4 hours even for a novice group. The last time I took on this dungeon was about a good month ago anyways, right after the exploit fix. Maybe I should give it another go, now that there should be more experienced runners of the full run around.

Now when you mention the timing for the runs in respect to the amount of deaths and scene-skips, how experienced of a party do I need? Are any particular classes/builds recommended? The farthest I have gone was the grub-eating boss; my party and I would always get murdered when he’s at the stage of shadow-stepping -3-