Guild Wars 2

A little history before I get into the feature request;

I have played MMO’s since 1999 when EverQuest came out, and the one aspect I have Always hated was grinding out Levels. With the crafting system in GuildWars2 you can get from 1-30 for about 20g in under 2 hours, then you can grind out the additional levels via AC:Story/Explore and so on for IMHO the fastest leveling the game has to offer.

Bu this takes time away from my other more Geared and Favored Characters on my account.

True I can run an instance with my 80Guard, 80 Elementalist or 80 Mesmer, then swap to my lower level Character(s) at the End Boss to get the Instance completion benefits and Experience boost, but that feels stupid and cheap and like I’m using the group to obtain a selfish goal, rather then being ‘part of the team’. On the other side, the LFG website is more and more looking for only level 80 players. If you join on your level 46, for example, they either don’t let you self invite or kick you out after you are settled in (this happens 6 of 10 runs on average for me).

The alternative is to run Map Completion till 80 (which can take a couple weeks if your schedule isn’t that great, and mind numbing boring if you have done this already on your other characters) but either way you run your alts to 80 you are taking away time from your main character(s), Friends, Groups, Farming(CoF Path1), and Guild Events to maintain the time it takes to get your alts to your desired Level cap.

Also if/when you run your Dynamic Events with your Alt, you do not benefit from the level 80 reward chests, this fact just drives me nuts as you are loosing out on high valued Exotics/decent Rares in favor of grinding out those levels on your Alts. This has felt like a step back, honestly.

So here is the feature request;

Enable a feature in the UI that lets you dictate your gained/earned experience on to whatever alt of your choosing, and let you choose how much experience ( I.E. 10%, 20%, 40%, 50%, 80%, or 100%) so that you are not forced to do a 100% push from your level 80 into whatever alt you may choose. Or make it that 1 Skill Point earned via Experience at level 80 equals 1 Level below level 79 on your targeted Alt.

Lets call this ‘Gift of Experience’, 2 Drop downs, the First is your targeted Character’s Name, the 2nd is the Amount of experience you want to gift to that character when you earn Experience on this character.

And the reason;

This lets you play the game however you want, and still be able to have Alts building in the background. You are still playing the game as designed (Time sink), and you are not boosting/cheating the system (as it should be raw EXP only, currently boosted Exp should not count), and you can grind out whatever instance, Dynamic Events, Guild Hunts/Events…ect, with out taking away from the other players in your circle just because you want to get XYZ levels on ABC Alts.

This is a feature that should only be enabled once you have 1 or 2 Characters on your account at level 80 already. This could be earned via an Account Achievement, TP Gem Purchase, or Legendary Crafting recipe.

Benefits for ANET/Gem Store;

1. This would probably get players to buy more character slots, since you would be able to build XYZ Class/race/sex, while playing your other characters as you Please.

2. Build a new set of Boosters for this feature only, and they would be on the gem store only (Not in the Black lion Chests), that would probably also boost Gem sells.

Anyway, that is my complete thoughts on this Feature request, I hope it lands on someones Desk.