Before I start please note that I love this game. It is the best MMO I ever played but there are a few things that bug me about it. I know GW2 strives to be different then the average MMO, which I love, but sometimes it feels like little things get neglected.
I am sure most, if not all, of these were already mention but I wanted to make my own thread anyways.
Chat customization – They preach about how they want to make a more social game, yet give us one of the worst customizable chat windows I have ever seen in an MMO. I am not looking for much, but changing text color and private chat channels is a start.
UI Customization – ArenaNet does not want add ons because they often become “required” (Omen Threat Meter, DBM, Recount etc in WoW). In WoW I was actually an add on junkie and I kind of enjoyed spending a lot of time making my UI look awesome but at the same time I am ok with not having to do that ever again. However the default UI for GW2 is garbage. The health bar makes me cringe, having to look away from your character for cooldowns can be annoying. I know they want people on a level playing field…but whats works for people simply works for them. Its like in WoW when someone in your guild posted their UI and you thought it was the ugliest thing you ever seen yet they were one of your best DPSers. If people customize their UI a tiny bit I don’t think it will give them some astronomical advantage, it will just be what works for them. I understand that this will most likely never happen and that I most likely just have to live with the default UI.
Trading Post – Where to begin. It boggles my mind that previewing from the AH never was and still isn’t in the game. Prices are never accurate (something for 10 silver, you click on it, its now 15 silver). I know the reason for this is just the massive amount of people scanning/buying on the TP so it could possibly be unavoidable. The UI could be more functional and less flashy…but that’s just preference I guess. The filter system is absolutely atrocious. I love searching for stuff for my warrior and sifting through medium and light armors as well. I love spending more time finding an item with the stats I want then it would to just farm for the item itself.
Sqauds in WvW are useless…would be nice if they actually weren’t.
Would be nice is siege wasn’t allowed in jumping puzzles…but I don’t get bothered it enough to really rage about it, but the times it is there is like 3 arrow carts in the arena room. I understand in a WvW puzzle and that PvP is part of it…but siege seems a bit excessive and to accessible to trolling (I have heard people in EB constantly complain one night that 1 guy was using an arrow cart at the top of EB arena for 6+ hours).
There are a few others I can’t think of, but would love to hear your guys input and possibly shed some light on other things.