Hello Anet, first up I will like to say thank you for trying to give us regular content and sorry for jumping ahead to blast you when I thought the content was ridiculous ( Some of it was, I’m not gunna say I completely take back what I have said ). Now that I have said that I have some bad news which I will post a image of with this post, a lot of my guild ( who are veteran GW1 players from the very beginning of GW1 ) have decided to go elsewhere, for what reason exactly I am not sure but I have a feeling the content schedule has a big part to play in it, and without my guildies I will have nothing to do, so I fear I may be leaving soon also.
First up, The living story, well most the time really its more a event you can usually complete in a few days and not really much of a story. After the few days have past the interest in the event just disappears leaving us to do regular things, a lot of which is boring/grindy. My first suggestion is to take it back to one LS per month and set the other teams on a whole new expansion, I think everyone would love to see Cantha, maybe even Elona, hell you have enough free room on Tyria to open up that would make a huge change/lots of new content to explore.
Next on my list, Loot. The time vs reward in this game is extremely discouraging, considering the price of precursors ( when I am pretty sure are being monopolized and capped, you guys should look into that ) and other items people may want to achieve. Its very difficult to save that much money, particularly when you guys keep adding limited time items and the money saved goes to the new items ingame or into gems to get new items. It s a violent circle of discouragement IMO.
Next up customization, I am sure people will disagree here, but I am going to use a sylvari heavy as my example. I have tried many many combinations but some of them are just insane, clipping issues can be so frustrating sometimes, colour differences in armor is another one. I have TA heavy on, mainly because I can’t find anything else that looks good, so maybe some new armor/weapon skins more frequently. Gift of light has a ton of recipes but gift of darkness has one ( I think ). I would love to see a dark and light set of basically any forge weapon, it was a brilliant theme for Twilight/Sunrise and Genesis/Entropy why not change a few effects/colour/recipe and throw them in the mix? Also why not add ‘Legendary dyes’ ( You know a 100g scavenger hunt, not something worth 1500g ) that change during night and day or have special effects on the armor.
This last one I think we really need. HM vanquish, I miss it so much, this is what brought me to have a good friendship with some people from completely different countries, I used to stay up late and kill everything in sight. You could even use this idea for the precursor scavenger hunt. Make it so Tyria HM must be completed to get a Gift of the precursor or something like that, give it incentive/worthwhile rewards. Its something I think we can all agree on ( hopefully )
As for the attachment this is what I woke up to on my guild FB page. Don’t forget anet these are people that played GW1 for 7 years and are bailing on GW2 in just 1. Something must be getting done wrong.
Thanks and regards Tadz
