Guild Wars 2

Hello Lovely Forum!

This is my attempt to write a little post about my concerns about the game in its current state and what I think we need in order to move forward and continue to make this game our/my dream game. I’ve been a fan ever since I saw a video of Gw2 on YouTube and was forever hooked and wanted it to be released so I could get my hands on it. Let’s stop ranting and get straight on the suggestions I have for Guild Wars 2.

Let’s begin with the PvP shall we?

I’ve always been that PvP type of guy in any game I’ve been playing. I’ve always wanted to compete about being the best. And right now there is almost nothing to it on the competitive side of PvP. What we need is several game types, not only conquest.

Could be:
-Arena
-Moba gamestyle
-Could involve some type of jumping puzzle
– For example, imagine a jumping puzzle faced at each other, first to get to the middle (the plateau) wins. Could also be first to the plateau is given an advantage and them some kind of fight takes places, team that survives win. – Then we have the more casual gamestyles like capture the flag ( could be with rules as if you would play it in real life, with prison, the map divided in two with each team having one of the side etc)

Now the most important thing is ladders and ranking to make it competitive, with fast and easy queues. As many have noticed it is kind of hard to play with friends in the “casual games” like the snowball PvP and quickjoin. This is due to “we don’t want premades”. I can understand that solo queuers don’t want to get stomped by premades but this affects most people poorly who want to have a great time with their friends. This has to be looked into because it can’t continue like this in the future.

DUELING, One very controversial topic.

The most commonly answer to this is that you will be able to duel when the rentable arenas comes out, though I don’t think that is the right way to handle the issue. Who wants to setup, invite, get to the arena and all that just because a duel? Would maybe take 3 minutes for a duel to take place. Do not fear fellas. I believe I have a great idea for this “issue”.

The solution is to make an ARENA in the mists, with all kind of environmental objects. You easily get to the arena and then there is this list where you can pick opponents and search for their names. Both have to stand in the surroundings to pop up on the list and then one can send the other contestant an invite that they either can accept or decline. Then there is this other list where you can spectate ongoing duels. Then we can make this even fancier and make 2v2, 3v3 with real queues serverwide, both ranked and unranked (for fun). And one of the games you should be able to modify some features like if you want resurrection to be possible etc. As we see in the world we have workers building and rebuilding things all over the world. This Arena/colosseum doesn’t need to be in the mists it can be all over the world and be moved from time to time to convenient places. Likes cities, key thing is that it shouldn’t be a pain to get there. This will help the world be a little bit more alive than it is.

The CAMERA.

Coming from other games the camera is rather narrow in this game, even after the little fov (field of view) change. Some of you might experienced the lovely Halloween BUG, when the camera got stuck at max range after the dungeon. I have some picture I would like to share with you from that bug that I think give you a great perspective.

I took nine picture of camera distance range from this bug. From MAX to MIN:
http://imgur.com/a/nd0iB

What I believe is that the camera is way close to your character at the moment. You cannot experience the world in such a way that I am sure most people would like and enjoy more than the default we have currently. I and many other who experience it during the Halloween is living proof of this.

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Now about annual events and Cities, just like wintersday.

I love these events so far if we disregard the lag and the things that didn’t went so smooth on the karka for example. But it can only get better and I am sure it will. So far I love the wintersday and I’m sure there is lots of goodies I haven’t seen nor experienced yet but there is some things I have noticed. For example the “trixx ship” could vary a little bit more from city to city, maybe throw in a jumping puzzle and some of the FOTM concepts, since they were quite unique. Though the wintersday jumping puzzle was superb, maybe a little too short for my liking, maybe add a new path every fifth day or something like that.

I went to Divinity’s reach the other day to the to trixx dungeon, and to my disappointment there was no christmas feeling there. I think Arenanet should devote themselves to the other cities just as much as they do to Lions arch, and put events/minigames in each and every city to make it unique in order for people to come visit there. To reduce this “ghost town” feel everyone is talking about. Now to one very important detail that I think can make “wintersday” to the "wintersday it should be. The Christmas presents, in my opinion I think it should contain something of value, something more than some materials. Something very interesting, and a slight chance of something very very rare. That very rare thing could be a mount (if they introduce that in the future) it could even be a legendary, some nice outfit. I hope you get the point, a real Christmas present.

Neat Features, many drops make a river.

One feature I think would come in handy is an improvement of the preview function. I’m sure everyone have come across previewing a weapon and your clothes hides it all. What I am thinking of is a preview when the character is in action and holding the weapon like he/she would do in a fight so you actually can see how it looks like.

Another thing is to add a timer on buffs (optional), for example if a thief uses his shadowstep, he/she should be able to know in seconds how long its left before he/she cant return anymore. Small things like that can makes huge different when planning how to setup your fight against you opponent.

Jumping puzzle of the week

This Idea is something I think would a be a carrot for people to come online and have a great time. You could add a timer and the faster one of the week get something really nice. The Jumping puzzles could be around 15-30 minutes. Could include that they incorporate that you need to do it with a friend and you need some great teamwork of some sort to finish it. Then put some ladders of maybe top 1000 in the world and arrange some prices. Everyone gets a chest with goodies in the very end of the jumping puzzle though.

Abilitys and skills

As of now the PvP(and pve) combat in my opinion do not feel exactly right, I think that we somehow needs more abilitys to make the combat more dynamic than it is. Since 2x weapon and 5 abilitys on each weapon (one autoattack) limits yourself, you cannot really stick out of the mass and do those wicked sick gameplays that I’m looking for. So maybe have 8-10 abilitys that that are insanely unique. I’d like to say though that the trait system is really good and give room for specialisation, which is a key thing for great gameplay. One reason that Gw1 had insane PvP was because of the large variety of abilitys/spells.

Also to finish this up I know that Arenanet is working hard and have big updates coming up in January and February including PvP improvements, spectator mode and things like that. But the features I’ve decided to write about is huge improvements in my eyes that would make me start playing consistently.

I wholeheartedly invite you to discuss my suggestions and give your feedback and input, I really believe in this game and can’t let it go, until it success in my eyes.

Thx for my word, see you in Tyria, and I wish you all Merry Christmas in advance!

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You can also check the reddit link down below for the sake of the discussion over there, Cheers.

Reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/150s8t/interesting_features_for_gw2/