I made a post on reddit and it seems it got a rather positive response overall, so I wanted to bring it here, too and know what you folks think about it.
So, I love GW2 etc etc etc, BUT…
As many posts on reddit and on the gw2 forums say, low level zones are actually dead and lvl 80 players has absolutely no reasons to go there except if they’re completing their exploration stuff. The way to improve the situation like it is now is to create some kind of daily quests/missions which would encourage players to do something else than farming fractals/orr events over and over again.
They should implement something equivalent to the Zaishen quests from GW1. For those who didnt play GW1, Zaishen quests are daily quests that will ask you to go do some stuff in X or Y zone, and those quests change every day, those daily missions could also involve specific daily explorable dungeons runs.
Imho, to implement it in GW2 and not totally copy/paste the feature from GW1, they could implement equivalent stuff in relationship with the Order you chose during your personal story. This would also make Tyrian Orders more “active” in the game, because at the moment, we just forget them once we go past our personal storyline. ( “Hi, I am a Warmaster of the Vigil. Wait, can you tell me what the Vigil is, again?” ).
As an example:
Every day you can get a mission/quest from your order, which would not be the same for each order, that to not to make only 1 zone overcrowded daily, and leave the rest of the world in its “dead state”. For instance:
Order of Whispers will ask you to go and infiltrate some Fire Legion camp and get a certain amount of documents by talking to some Flame Legion charr or by killing them in X zone, and after you get enough documents you will be asked to go and deal with some veterans or a boss in Y zone, or stuff like that.
The Vigil will ask you to do a bunch of completely other stuff and in other zones than the Order of Whispers.
Same thing for the Priory.
It would basicly be a kind of daily “heart” quests, which requires a little bit more time and effort than the regular “hearts” which take like 5 minutes to accomplish, while those Order “hearts” will require the player to spend something around 1 hour of playing every day and award you with some rewards like loot chests or tokens which you can spend to buy some cool stuff (like Zaishen keys from GW1 which would give you rare/exotic armor/weapons or cores/lodestones upon opening a zaishen chest ). This would also increase the amount of rares/exotics to gamble with for ectos or Mystic Forge and the amount of precursors players get and therefore decrease their insane prices on the Trading post.
This would get at least 2 problems solved ( more or less ): – Players will have an incentive to return to low level zones in order to do these daily quests ( and since I posted there would be at least 2 different zones for each order to visit ( or why not more ) it would make at least 6 different zones to be crowded daily which would make it more fun both for new players and veterans who are all tired of doing Fractals or stick to Orr events over and over again.
-As I said, there will be a new way to get rare/exotic items, cores/lodestones and t6 fine craft materials which would be way more fun than grinding same stuff whole the time. Now for those chests I spoke about, don’t get me wrong, I don’t want them to drop exotics every time you open one, but will still have a rather good chance to drop them. Cuz honestly, prices for exotics and especially precursors are just insane at the moment. Dusk at around 450 gp, count also the lodestones who are at around 2 gp each. So, without counting the prices for globs of ectoplasm + the 250 of each t6 mat, this is already around 650 gp for Twilight? Count around 150 gp more for making the clovers + 250 ectos + t6 mats, and thats around 800 gp for your legendary greatsword. Thats just insane. Most people want to be able to play the GAME to get their legendary, and not to play the TRADING POST.
So those are my thoughs that could ( in my opinion ) improve the game experience for all GW2 players and make the game a lot more fun.
Let’s hear your thoughts about how to make GW2 a better game :-)
Cheers
