I would like to agree with and add some suggestions. I am enjoying the game but this is the suggestions forum so obviously I’m going to just list things I would like added or changed so,
-Duelling
-Better LFG system: I made this suggestion a long time ago. It was to do what other games have done. Have a LFG window like we have, and make it server wide. when you type /lfg or activate it through the window you get the option to type in what kind of group you are looking for. “AC/CM/CoF explore”. This is a small addition to what is already there and would make it so much easier to find a group and not force someone to sit around Lions Arch waiting for a group.
-AFK flag: type /afk (message). you get a tag after your name showing people you are afk, if someone whispers to you they get the (message) you typed as an auto reply.
-More Emotes: This makes the game more personal and would help immensely in WvW where emotes are the only legit way to communicate. There are many times when I would like to express myself and find myself typing in an emote I would have typed in while playing EQ2, only to have there be no emote for it.
-Transmuting Named Items: This is a minor one, I think it would be nice if named items did not get a suffix (from sigils/runes) after being transmuted.
-Loot rewards: In high level meta events with chest rewards, it is better to fail the last stage of the event and keep retrying because chest loot is not rewarding. I understand loot is being looked at in dungeons and just want to make sure it gets looked at in event chains as well.
Farming: this goes along with loot above. Some people do not enjoy farming, yet currently it is the only real option to get what you want except for dungeon token loot.
I had the impression that GW2 did not want people to have to farm. Racial armor/weapons, cool looking mystic forge weapons, legendary weapons all require farming. A big part of the game is looks and some of the best looking weapons are the mystic forge and legendary weapons. These weapons take a rediculous amount of farming to get. Either farming for the mats themselves or farming for mats to sell to get the mats you need.
In my opinion, there needs to be more ways to earn loot and/or money. I love to WvW but the income from it is so poor that i’m forced to do things that I dislike, like farming, in order to get cool looking gear. I can’t even salvage the gear I can buy with karma in WvW because the last time I checked it was unsalvagable.
-Let jewelry be salvaged: I spent so many ectos and orichalcum ingots on all this jewelry and not that ascended is comming out we’re all just going to get a few silver back? At least let us have the chance to get 1-3 ectos back from an exotic piece.
-Wield/sheathe styles: Currently all daggers are welded downwards which is a viable wield style. I would like the option to hold it the other way, which is also a viable style. Also, currently with any weapon option besides dagger/dagger, the dagger is sheathed on the opposite hip which would be very hard to draw and wield in the current manor.
On a similar note, pistols are inconsistant in the way they are sheathed. Some hang in one direction on the hip, and some in the opposite. I think there should be an option for the player to pick which way they hang as it just seems awkward to me if you end up with two pistols each hanging a different way upon the hip.
-Lose Magic Find: I really dislike having this stat in any game I play.
-More Types of SPvP games: I played SWToR before this and played Warhammer for a while and about a months worth of WoW. All of these games had battlegrounds and this was my favorite part of all of these games to the point where that is where I spent most of my time. I hardly play SPvP here in GW2. I just made deer status a little bit ago. Just one game style gets boring no matter how many different maps you put it on. I also dislike how it is so separate from normal gameplay. I have people in my guild and in game who I’ve talked to and they mention how they loved PvP battlegrounds in SWToR and that is what they did most of the time too, but they have barely touched it in this game, or haven’t even tried it because it is so separate.
Even if new gametypes are added that renew my interest in SPvP, I feel kind of jilted spending all this time there but not being able to bring anything cool back to my PvX character. I’m not sure exactly what can be done about it now. Maybe awarding tokens based on SPvP rank that can be used to cash in for experience and gold to be used in PvX. This could be done retroactively so people who have already risen to high ranks wouldn’t get the short end.