Guild Wars 2

One of the more fun elements of the Super Adventure Box is the shovel, being able to find secret locations on the map, where nothing is going on, and finding a treasure there. The open world doesn’t have this. Yes, there are sometimes hidden chests, or hard to reach harvesting nodes, but there are no spots where there is “nothing,” and then, using a tool, you find “something.”

I would love to see you guys add a shovel tool, or something similar to the game, and then adding several “dig spots” to each zone, otherwise invisible points where if you dig anywhere within, say, a 10m area you’d find a prize. It could be something simple like the loot from a small chest table, or a clump of high quality crafting mats, or some type of token, just something that would be worth seeking out without being too much.

I’d actually be okay with this, if the location of the spots changed on a daily basis (maybe just randomly chosen?) because then this may turn from being “fun” to just becoming a grind or something to farm and be exploited, especially if there’s going to be a prize at each spot. Randomly changing the locations everyday could make it fun though.

Well, there are plenty of small chests in the world and nobody really bothers to grind them daily. I don’t think the reward should be so great that you’d bother to teleport into the zone for it or camp an alt there just to mine it daily, it should just be something where if you happen to be nearby it’d be worth going a little out of your way to pick it up.

I’ll give you an example of a prime dig spot. I was doing a plateau jump puzzle in Diessa the other day, and found a route that I thought was the right way, leading along the cliffs to a tree, but it turned out this was a dead end. There was nothing there and I had to turn back and go a different way. This would be a perfect spot to dig and maybe find a small prize. If they were randomized then it would sort of defeat the purpose of finding “clever places to hide things.”