Guild Wars 2

Save your trait builds on a character

heavy/medium/light armor, back items

To know what an item is that another player has “oh I like that model!”

very few model skins to choose from while leveling. This is one of the most exciting parts of an MMO, new gear! This limitation subtracts from the excitement and the feeling of progression in the game. Also it should be mentioned that a lot of the gear available now is too heavily or specifically themed. This sometimes makes it difficult to mix and match armor. This is not something that should be done away with but the addition of more generalized (not plain or boring) armor could go a long way

The lack of varying models available through crafting limits the feeling of excitement and progression in crafting. There should also be some unique models only available to crafting

Large scale events in a map that push a map and it’s story forward. This would require the efforts of the combined community to progress over a large amount of time. Perhaps an outpost is being set up, or a ship yard or an excavation site. The community would donate wood and ore, or food for the workers or troops. Clear the site of centaur or bandits before construction begins. These buildings could progress in ways that an outpost could become a fortress, walls get upgraded etc. An excavation site uncovers buried ruins that need to be explored; treasure with unknown magical properties need to be researched or relocated for study. This makes maps more interesting and truly living. It also gives players more reason to come back and feel like they’ve had an impact on the game.

scarves or cape-like items. Get creative.

Unlock more weapons skills that are swapped out with the default/original set you unlock in early game. These skills would unlock more slowly requiring you to use the weapon often in order to unlock the skills. This gives a feeling of becoming more skillful with a weapon the more you use it. It also gives players a character progression option that promotes revisiting weapon types less used and maybe new ways for a player to use a weapon that might match their play style.

Great Axe and and pole arm weapons added to the game

Gain popularity or “renowned-ness” with factions to open up unique gear (Similar to the vigil, order of whispers and priory).

Torches should stand out like beacons in the dark. It is hardly noticeable when day shifts to night. We don’t need to be able to see the same distance in the dark as day and cities should have lots of light points from torches and lanterns

with a settings option

Similar to the personal story, except not instanced. For example every map would have a blue star over an NPC that would signify that that NPC is a part of the Map story line. Doing these steps in the story line explains the history of the map and tells the player more about what’s going on now. Maybe the NPCs in this story line tell the player of rumored hidden or buried ruins. This can link back to community driven events where things happen in a map that change the map forever and push content forward where an underground ruin could be found

Type of faction for each profession that a player can gain a renowned status with by doing missions for their class’s faction and then unlocking unique profession specific gear

The Vigil, Order of Whispers, and the Priory could all give players missions to gain “renowned-ness” with them and unlock more similarly themed gear

this could be put in different areas of Tyria or maps to bring players back to certain maps for materials needed in different recipes. Each type of map specific ore, wood or herb could be used though-out all levels of crafting.

Where appropriate of course. Such as in a snow storm or at the top of a hill

Give utility to the “Home Instance.” This could offer manikins for displaying armor skins you want to keep, and displays for weapons, personalized workstation set to your current 2 active crafts, trophies rewarded for certain achievement feats, a garden with different herbs in it, etc. This could introduce seeds to the game and furniture – possible gem store additions. This, also like the community driven content, could be something that the Player builds through providing wood and stone towards the construction and upgrading of the Players house.

Adding mounts to this game would be awesome but also lame if it wasn’t done in some innovative and new manner. My idea is that a player can capture some select types of animals in the game (with asura technology?) and take them as a companion that stays by their side. This differs from the Rangers pet as it does not have any controls other than attack/defend/passive stances. In addition a Ranger could use this companion as a substitute for their pet and have the additional controls as normal. These companions, with use, grow in size (appropriate for mounting) gain loyalty to the player’s character opening up additional options such as attack/defend stances (assuming it starts only with passive), mounting, speed increase and cosmetic armor. This would all be found under the “companion” tab in the hero panel.

monsters that spawn periodically in random areas of the map and seek out a settlement, or outpost to terrorize would make the game much more living. These monsters would ideally be legendary and require a good sized group to defeat. This idea can tie in with the community driven content as if the settlement is destroyed, the community can work together to build it again.

NPCs that are difficult to get to who will teach a “master skill set” for the specific weapon they master in. The player can learn these sets from the weapon masters only at level 80. This gives players something prestigious to achieve at level 80 that gives a feeling of character progression after level 80 and the look that their character is becoming more skillful.