Guild Wars 2

Alright, I know some of these have probably been mentioned before, but I think there a few essential updates that would really be beneficial and convenient to the community as a whole:

Updated LFG system
This one has probably been beaten a lot, but third-party sites such as GW2lfg.com have it down pretty much perfectly, and it would be very useful to build this in game. I doubt everyone throughout the game has heard about this site, and I’m sure there are other sites in use. Putting a mechanic like this in the game itself will be a much easier way to party up and do dungeons and such.

Basic/Fine Transmutation Stones
To me this is a serious issue. I have almost every profession to level 80 by now, which means all of my 100-some basic transmutation stones will be completely worthless. I would like to see a way that I could refine these into Fine transmutation stones, such as a mystic forge recipes consisting of a basic transmutation stone and a mystic coin or something.

Game code Build Savers
This was something amazing in GW1. I’m the kind of player that gets bored of playing the same thing…which is why I have all of the different professions. But I also get bored of using the same builds on these professions. Guild Wars 1 had an awesome build saving mechanic that I could easily save and load builds that I’ve used in the past. This will be more complex with the involvement of retraining traits, but even if you could only load these builds at a trait training NPC, it would be a much better system than having to manually select and remember all of my healing, utility, and elite skills, as well as all of my trains for every build and profession.

Pet/Minion AI – especially dodging
The biggest problem for pets to me right now is they can’t dodge. I saw a post that talked about pets dodging whenever you dodge, and I think that it would be nice to see my pet evade big attacks that I do, especially with large dungeon bosses and such where they are constantly either dying or on swap recharge. Minions may be a little harder to design an AI for, but I would like to see some improvement with pets, at least in dodging.

Map-wide Dynamic Event viewing
Pretty much speaks for itself. If I’m on the south side of a map and there’s an event going on at the top, I would like to know about it if I look on my world map, at least.

Better/More Underwater Elites
Perfect example is the thief…It’s a pain to have to use the venom elite underwater…especially when it is so brutally underpowered.

PvP Menu Hotkey
Not a big deal, but a hotkey to open up the PvP menu would be nice.

Guild Capes and Halls
What happened to these? They were awesome from GW1, I would like to have an option to display my guild’s cape and emblem like I could in GW1. Also, I believe guild halls have been beaten to death already, but they would still be a nice option.

Dungeon tokens
I several dungeon tokens that are just sitting on my people or in my bank. I would really like to see these being either a collectable item, or something more in terms of currency. A collectable slot wouldn’t do much since it could only hold a stack (250) which is next to none, but I think something like the “collection of laurels” idea should also be applied to dungeon tokens.

Spear/Trident comparison
This is something that has literally bothered me since DAY 1. Every time I get an underwater weapon drop, it seems to compare it to the opposite kind of underwater weapon. Example: I get a spear, and want to see if it’s better than what I currently am using. It compares it to trident instead (which is sometimes not even in the primary underwater weapon slot). It’s actually really annoying to constantly go back and manually try to compare them.

This is all I can think of at the moment: I might add more later if I think of any others…but I think a lot of these would be very nice.

An LFG system is being worked on. The search bar is your friend.

Basilisk Venom isn’t underpowered at all – It’s just buggy. Doesn’t even work with spear gun.

Pet AI is something everyone wants improvements on. Again, search bar = friend.

A way to save multiple builds has been suggested repeated. The search bar is your friiiiend.

PvP Menu? Pretty sure there’s are hotkeys for both WvW and sPvP. Be more specific.

Capes and Guild Halls are also things that have been suggested.

I can’t stress how important it is to use the search bar…
If you bothered to, this post would be twice as small, which means you’d have more time to focus on those ideas, understand them better, and make your post more appealing to the ANet staff lurking on this forum.

Listing a ton of different requests reflects negatively on the poster.
It just looks like a bunch of whims and that you haven’t really put thought into the concepts.
Pick an idea, break it down, refine it, post it, move on to your next idea.

I stated that I knew a lot of these had been posted previously. I have seen plenty of posts on a lot of these. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with stressing something that I would like as well. As far as PvP menu…I mean the PvP menu up at the top left corner that doesn’t have an option for a hotkey. I think if I have suggestions and ideas I should be able to post them and say what I think would help. I’m not a dev, so I’m not going to try to tell them how to implement it in the game…just features that I think would be nice.

And as far as Basilisk Venom, I do think it’s underpowered. If I’m doing an underwater event in PvE, I don’t want to stun 1 out of like 15 enemies for 1 out of 45 seconds.

So many small things that need worked on. I hope these ideas of yours and many others get patched in sooner than later.

Another idea:

Fractals
I think you should look into making Fractal levels account bound instead of character…I feel like I have to play the same character in order to benefit, but I don’t like to stick to one character.

Another:

Particle Effects Slider
This is essential in boss fights. Sometimes I can’t see when the boss is about to use a large attack or sometimes there’s just so many effects my FPS suffers. I would really like to see a slider to see some of these particle effects from attacks get turned down.

Please comment if you agree or even disagree with any of these ideas. If people like specific ones, maybe I’ll polish a post about one specific one.

yes! fractals should be account lvl, not char lvl. sometimes i want to do fractals on my ranger, but it is low lvl fractals, which makes me only want stick to my engi for fractals. e.e’ and sometimes i just dont want to fractal on my engi.

pho.9412:

yes! fractals should be account lvl, not char lvl. sometimes i want to do fractals on my ranger, but it is low lvl fractals, which makes me only want stick to my engi for fractals. e.e’ and sometimes i just dont want to fractal on my engi.

Exactly. I hate having to do fractals over and over on the same person. That’s why I have all professions.

I don’t think they will make fractals acct bound. They want people to log in and do it with all of their toons. If they can burn through it in a month on 1 and have it apply to all of their toons, there would be twice as many people saying they have nothing to do.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Basilisk Venom isn’t underpowered at all – It’s just buggy. Doesn’t even work with spear gun.

Unless you are running venom share, Basilisk Venom IS grossly underpowered.