I have been playing alot of Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 now and I think that the travel system should change.
Back in GW:EotN the Asura gates were introduced but not yet used. We had but one Asura gate which brought us to the Eye of the North. But because of the old school GW fast travel they didn’t start useing them either.
I remember watching one of the first GW2 trailer where they talking about how the world would be connected trough Asura Gates. I really liked this idea and started thinking about how they were gonna do this. What I thought they were gonna do was to have Asura Gates in the big cities (which they have) and let you walk or travel on a ground mount trough the world with Asura Gates being the only way to fast travel. This is also very much possible because the big cities are equally divided around the map.
But instead we get stupid waypoints and I think that waypoints remove the whole idea AND lore behind the Asura Gates and I find this a real disappointment. I think this also isn’t correct if you look at it lorewise.
This is only my oppinion and you might agree or disagree but what do you think?
I’m not sure I understand the lore complaint. Magi-matter-transportive devices are fully supported, and their purpose as a “Not as big Asura Gate for smaller traffic to varied areas” seems pretty sound to me. Just because we have airplanes IRL doesn’t make cars obsolete, speed notwithstanding.
As to mounts, no. They’ve done plenty well with the sense of scale by avoiding that, and waypoints don’t really break anything due to their standing as a cash sink – and narrowing it down only to Asura Gates would be… I don’t want to say unforgiving, but that’s the closest word that comes to mind. I personally only use WPs for respawns and trips that would otherwise take me through 2-3 regions or more to reach.
I agree that the waypoints are very easy to use and would save alot of time but even though Magi said it’s a mini Asura Gate doesn’t make it so. How do we suddenly dissapear and teleport to the waypoint without going in or using any device?
I would keep the WP as many as they are, but instead of a loading screen for traveling to WPs, I’d rather use a sort of flying transport which will take the character to the next WP
Every character could have a equip-able slot for a “WP transporter” and it will be used whenever you want to teleport to a WP.
We can call these “automated flying mounts” which will not ruin the WP system, but will make it more enjoyable than some loading screens because it will NOT skip the land but it will give a new aerial feeling of the zone.
Humans will have some sort of delta plans kite
Asuras will have a mini flying saucer
Charrs will call for a war chopper
Norns will call for a griffon
Sylvari will call for dragonfly
These transporters
- could vary so they can make these some collectables
- they take the character through an automated generated route from the character location to the WP within the same zone
- teleporting from one zone to another zone will fly the character high in the sky and then back to the WP similar to the zoom out / in the map.
- teleporting to an underwater WP will change the transporter appearance
- teleporting from within caves, dungeons, rooms, etc will use a “beam me up” mechanic or could keep the current loading screens
mounts and asura gates would be a great change, clicking a point on the map and instantly ending up there removes all sense of immersion,
also mounts are cool
I would keep the WP as many as they are, but instead of a loading screen for traveling to WPs, I’d rather use a sort of flying transport which will take the character to the next WP
This is a very nice idea were I haven’t thought about. If ArenaNet doesn’t want to change the waypoint system this could be a very nice solution.
What also could be a solution is that you can only travel to a waypoint from a different waypoint so that the waypoint will make some sort of portal or will shoot some sort of beam when standing under it and then you will teleport to your desinated waypoint.
I think this would be a very nice idea but I still like my first idea better though
