Guild Wars 2

This game is fantastic and has lived up to much of my expectations. However, I have some feedback with the home instances…

Basically, The home instance needs to be more creative. From what I recall, the home instance was one of the items that ArenaNet really wanted to hype before the release of the game. However, especially for the Asura, my home instance is a big empty void.

Some have suggested player housing and that may or may not be viable (think of all the gem store purchases for home decor items!). But I think that something should be done to give us an attachment of some sort. Make our home instances feel like home or why bother isolating and calling it that?

You guys innovated with instanced resource nodes (I can see an upright tree, despite another player in front of me chopping their instanced resource down). Maybe you could do that for home instances? Could we see smoke billowing from the distance due an explosion? Other effects due to circumstances that are visible in the open persistent world that only our perspective can see?

And on a separate note, as I explored Divinity’s Reach for completion, I had to go through the human home instance for POIs. Let me say that Divinity’s Reach feels full of life. It’s breathtaking. And while I can’t say anything about change over time for the Human home instance, it certainly feels more alive than the Asura home instance will ever seem to have.

I hope in expansions and content to come that the Asura home instance, and perhaps all home instances are injected with a breath of fresh air, like so much of the rest of the game.

I’ve heard that they do plan to add content to the home instance. Personally I’m hoping for an actual home – a house or area of the instance that is your characters personal space.

Partially for lore reasons (they have to live somewhere, and my human noble apparently has household servants so it doesn’t make sense for her to not have a house) and partially because I think they could do a lot of cool things by letting us customise it, or doing something like the HoM in GW1 where we can use it to display trophies relating to our achivements.

I’ve also heard it will change as you progress through the personal story, and maybe that includes the asuran one becoming more populated.

I thought the same deal and remembered the emphasis that the home instance would customize/changed based on what you do. But what really happened is spend maybe 4-5 quick missions in it and never saw it again.

Would love if I could setup my own crafting stations, waypoint, vendors, TP access, building customization, and etc. Even if it were to cost me quite a bit of gold I’d love to do that.