Guild Wars 2

First off all, Lion’s arch looks awesome and it is my favourite city. I very much dislike the gate hub plaza. As to be expected this plaza is used as a transit point by many. The plaza however is hard to navigate due to the amount of people. The portals can be identified by the two guard npc’s but they are halfway up the ramps and for the higher ramps not visable from the plaza itself. On top of that npc’s are not always loaded due to the fact(??) that they load together with other players and the place is crowded sometimes.

My suggestion is to make the different plaza’s more recognisable and not by npc’s but with graphics so its loaded before the players and npc’s are loaded. This could be cultural arches. For example an arch made of vines at the start of the silvari ramp, an arch of step stones bridges at the asura gate, etc.

My suggestion has been that when you hover over a gate on your map besides it just saying Asura gate it hsould say Asura Gate to XXXXXXX I really hate that they do not do this and make you run almost up to the gate before you see the name. I too think your suggestions are great even an indicator like instead of the arch why not make the ramps themselves the type for the race. E.G. a ramp up to the Sylvari would be the green ramp in their home town. The char can be a metal ramp, the human could be a stone one and so on. The other suggestion would be some type of color coding of the gate like they do the different colors on the PVP gates.

I also have suggested that they number the discoverables on the map so when your looking at them and missing one you could say hey does anyone know where POI 5 is or whatever. Rather than saying I have 19 of 20 POIs and I have NO clue which one I am missing. I definately +1 this suggestion.