Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of seeing soo many beautiful zones neglected simply because they aren’t starter or endgame areas. Countless times I have gone through Blazeridge Steppes and (apart from the waypoint where the Shatterer spawns) the zone is completely vacant of life, it’s disappointing. However, the biggest zone that I have seen being neglected is the Straits of Devastation and the worst part is you actually need those temples for the karma vendors.

So I’ve prepared a list that I believe could help revitalize the zones between levels 35-75:

• In particular with Orr, make all of the temples required to allow entrance to Arah. This will ensure that everyone who wants to run that dungeon will have to work together to capture all the temples. (may require tweaking of events to allow prolonged holding of temples)
• All zone events NEED to be thoroughly re-examined (not reset) to alleviate multiple bugs that block progress. Stuck NPC’s, disappearing bosses, and events not even spawning at all are some of the issues that may cause some players to avoid a zone all-together.
• Zone specific skins/items that are dropped from a huge meta event finale. As each zone has a particular motif, I feel that each one (as most do) should have a huge meta event chain that kinda ties the big conflict in the zone to a close. I feel that once this meta event is completed the chest that normally should drop, has a chance to give out a rare weapon/armor skin that fits the style of the zone.

So ends this semi-long list and I know you may or may not agree with me. I leave you with this one thought; focus on the core game before content expansions. The game is currently stable, yes, but the inter-workings of the event system need a severe cleansing to prevent progress from being blocked and there just isn’t enough reason for the average player to re-visit old zones apart from leveling and farming. If you have made it this far, I thank you for your time and feel free to add to my list but keep on the subject of zone improvement/revitalization.

~Raust

I certainly cosign on the events blocking progress. I have seen multiple events in the mid levels that the boss never shows or gets stuck once the completion hasn’t happened in a timely manner. It seems that these zones could be a little spruced up.

I like the idea about specialized loot or items to make them desirable.