Guild Wars 2

Hello all, I would like to recommend a practical item addition to the game, as a suggestion to arenanet. I have played this game since launch, but the last 2 months I have barely played at all.

My history runs as follows:

• August 2012: Started the game with a human ranger, a sylvari warrior and an asura engineer.
• September 2012: Deleted the ranger at level 30.
• November 2012: Leveled asura engineer to level 80. Warrior level 50.
• December 2012: I got my sylvari warrior to level 80 aswell.
• February 2013: I leveled a charr thief to 80 with crafting (took me ~40g).
• March 2013: Leveled a human elementalist to 80 with crafting (+40g) and deleted sylvari warrior.
• April 2013: Leveled a human guardian to 80 with crafting (+40g)
• June 2013: Leveled a charr warrior to 80 with crafting (+50g).
• July 2013: Leveled a charr mesmer to 80 with crafting (+60g) and deleted asura engineer and charr thief and started leveling asura thief.
• August 2013: Stopped playing the game out of boredom and gear grind.

In total… I have spent some 230 gold on leveling characters and approximately another 100-200 gold on gearing them all in exotic.

My suggestion: Add experience scrolls to the gem store and sell them for a gem price equivalent to around 50 gold. A lot of players are bored of leveling characters because:

• The PvE world is nearly empty in level 30-70 zones.
• In WvW you get insta-killed by level 80 players.
• You get kicked or not invited for dungeons that are your level (only level 80s?!).
• Crafting is really, really boring.

My idea for not allowing dummies at end-game content:

• If you have max-leveled1 character, you can buy an experience scroll granting 20 levels.
• If you have max-leveled 2 characters, you can buy an experience scroll granting 30 levels.
• If you have max-leveled 3 characters, you can buy an experience scroll granting 40 levels.
• If you have max-leveled more than 5 characters, you can buy an experience scroll granting 60 levels.

In total, this leaves 20 levels to learn your class, for really experienced players. Like myself.

!!!! I want to focus on this point: do not make the count on the number of max-leveled characters a player has, but on the number of characters a player has leveled (even if he deleted them afterward). Personally I have deleted my level 80 sylvari warrior, my level 80 asura engineer and my level 80 charr thief, but in total I have leveled 3+4 (7) characters to level 80. !!!!

Hello =)

I personally leveled 11 characters, because I love make skins when the level reaches 80.

“If you have max-leveled more than 5 characters, you can buy an experience scroll granting 60 levels.”

I totally agree =) because I’m bored to leveling, I just want make more and more skins !

Noglory.6195:

Hello =)

I personally leveled 11 characters, because I love make skins when the level reaches 80.

“If you have max-leveled more than 5 characters, you can buy an experience scroll granting 60 levels.”

I totally agree =) because I’m bored to leveling, I just want make more and more skins !

Aaaah it burns!!!! 11 characters. I admire you.

Well it’s a better idea for fast leveling than others that I’ve heard of. But, I just don’t like your reward system, to be honest. I’ve never been a fan of anything that shoots a player directly to the end game, however, am willing to counter-recommend that only after you’ve leveled to 80 and have completed the story mode on each of the 5 different races would you be able to get a scroll that will level a new character to 60 or even 80. No scrolls for just leveling 1, 2 or 3 characters. The reasoning is that the storylines are separated along racial lines until they merge. Since those stories are about evolving your character from a nobody into a somebody, they are really meant to have your character level and improve as you progress along with the story progression. Not to mention the storyline is more challenging with lower level characters than if you had that insta level 20, 40, 60 or 80.

In other words, complete the challenges set in front of you, before earning the privilege to insta level your next character. Otherwise you’re missing a big part of the PvE experience. No I don’t want to hear that you think the story is boring, because that is not the topic here, and opinions vary widely on that. The fact that you’ve been given the opportunity to progress each race along a separate story line before they merge should be reason enough for you to want to go from 0 to 80 the ‘hard’ way at least once per race.

I would add that this scroll should only be available for use by those races currently in the game. If in the future they add more races, then the scroll would not work for them until the player naturally progresses those races through their own storylines and levels. Otherwise, players will insta level that Tengu or Quaggan, or whatever new races come out with any new expansion. Everyone else’s experience relies on all players at least starting out on a even playing field.

Hello, yeah you are right, I personally finish the story mode (include Arah Story) on 9 characters =)

“Otherwise, players will insta level that Tengu or Quaggan, or whatever new races come out with any new expansion.”

Yep I agree with that, good idea.

I agree partly with that Cattivo:

• Insta-leveling shouldn’t be something that is achieved easily
• Maybe it’s better to only sell scrolls when you have proven you’re an adept player, by leveling 5 characters, but I think the story requirement are a bit severe.

The personal story was interesting until level 50, where you got to the part that got really ugly and rushed, so after you finished your own faction’s story and became a Pact member. For me the most interesting part of the story was level 1-30, the racial one. I think we could add another requirement there though: become a full member of each of the specific orders (Vigil/Priory/Whispers).

Also if there’s a new expansion: there’s 2 options; either we can enter the zones with our level 80 characters or we need to create a new character. In the case you need to create a new character I think it’s appropiate to let people who played the original game buy an experience scroll after 3 maxed-out characters in the new expansion.

CattivoUomo.7198:

Otherwise, players will insta level that Tengu or Quaggan, or whatever new races come out with any new expansion.

Despite what their current position is on the subject, I’d be willing to put money on them releasing some form of race change item in the gemstore to coincide with any new races that were added to the game.