Guild Wars 2

While the regional home instances are supposed to be individual homes for our characters, the Hall of Monuments is a shared property spread across the account. Why not make more use of it?

Replace the current, (admittedly beautiful), character select screen with the HoM as a Home Screen. Have all our characters moving around inside it, going about their business and sometimes interacting. When you select someone’s portrait, the camera zooms over to show them.

Represent multiple categories of achievements inside the HoM:

• Order banners and such from the current character select screen would become physical objects in the HoM.
• Achievement gauges are illuminated on a physical display.
• Crafting stations get a visual upgrade according to your highest level in the craft.
• A random selection of minipets stored in your Collections run around.
• Trophies and other awards are prominently displayed.
• Linked GW1/2 accounts will show the big banners and maybe more from the first game.
• Even small objects scattered around can represent accomplishments.
• Flavor with a couple props or characters from the current living story.

Inside the actual game, replace the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone with a waypoint. Make the inside match the loading screen version, with all the trimmings. You can even interact with your other characters in a limited fashion, including swapping to them right from the dialog if you don’t want to go out to the Home Screen!

For an added bonus, bring back the Scrying Pool instead of filling our inventory with cinema-playing objects.

I know everyone talks about making the Home Instance better, but it’s not our only home in Tyria. This is something you would actually see on a regular basis.

I agree in the concept of elaborating the Hall of Monuments.
Honestly, I was disappointed when I found the inner sanctum to be in shambles (granted, it was abandoned but..wasn’t it beforehand too?).

well this wouldnt really work.. cus the people who never played GW 1 or like me.. had their gw 1 accounts hacked.. would not be able to use this feature.. since they dont even have a HOM…

however… i do want to see more use of the home instance.. you never actually go back there after the story is over… kinda a waste of space.

perhaps.. instead.. you could apply this to the home instance instead… give it a reason to exist.. and reflect your achievements.. (didnt they say it would do that anyways?) and yet that never happened… the home instance hasnt changed one bit since story began.. except when doing missions in it.

The HoM could easily be added to non-linked accounts, for GW2-only purposes where needed. 95% of what I suggest putting in there comes from GW2 anyway.

Home instances are different for each character, so loading all those up as you cycle through characters on the screen would take a prohibitively long time.

HoM was supposed to be an account-wide display of your accomplishments, so I say update it and put it right up front. A lot of the objects you get there could be duplicated in each character’s home instance, providing nice overlap to grow both areas.

They could even make a whole Living Story release around renovating the HoM: gathering supplies and workers from around the world, porting them in, and fending off dragon minions while they work.

i don’t get why a non-GW1 player can’t access the HoM, it’s not like they can get the rewards you get from GW1 that way.

so +1 from me, it would be great to have a use for the HoM other then a place to get HoM-exclusive skins/pets.

sorudo.9054:

i don’t get why a non-GW1 player can’t access the HoM, it’s not like they can get the rewards you get from GW1 that way.

so +1 from me, it would be great to have a use for the HoM other then a place to get HoM-exclusive skins/pets.

A non gw1 player can access the Hom, they just can’t get any of the rewards there. You need to use the HoM Portal Stone given by this npc

I like that idea, it would also work much better than the current screen for those of us that have more than 7 chars (currently at 15, have 25 more planned but no time/money for them just yet).