Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone and a good day/evening.

Most of the people who played GW1 probably know that the characters had birthdays, and whenever the character grew one year older, he would recieve a present.

See the wiki entry about it if you want to learn more: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Birthday_Present

My proposal for the birthdays in Guild Wars 2 is the following. Additionally or instead of rewarding the player with a present that rewards you with a random pet or tonic, you would recieve a golden ticket, this ticket can be used once in exchange for every skin that is currently available in the game. That way, you could get that one skin you really wanted, even if you missed out on it because you weren’t lucky enough with the RNG game or you simply missed the event.

What do you guys/gals think?

Thanks for taking your time to read this, you are awesome!

I like the thought behind this suggestion, but a lot of consideration would have to be put into limitations as to what skins it could unlock to prevent it from making prestige items an obsolete concept.

Instead of character, why not make it account?
I know a lot of people who decided to trash their first characters.
If you do it via account age, yes, you will get the “golden ticket” but it still makes the rarity and “prestige” still there.
On the flip side, if it is not done via account, you will have a few players who will receive 10-12 of those gold tickets a year.

I do not believe that is such a grand idea sorry.

Free rewards for just being on a character for a year?
Or on an account?
I find it silly.

Not to say for the stuff you can only retrieve when it is up?
I love the concept of it :s

Okay, so lets limit it to the age of the account. So, every 12 months, you recieve an account-bound one-use golden ticket that can be exchanged for any skin that is available at the black lion weapon specialist. Also, skins that are purchased with the golden-ticket can’t be traded or sold.

Other ideas as to how this system should be limited or expanded?

- account bound anniversary costume not available for purchase anywhere or anytime
or
- 500 achievement points (1st year) 1000 (2nd year) 1500 (3rd year) and so on
or
- “happy birthday 1st year” title plus “/1year” command with special party emote
or
- specially designed set of skins for all type of weapons/armors not available in any other way and unlock-able in the achievement panel next to the other skins
or
- 1000 gems (1st year), 2000 gems (2nd year) and so on
or
- 1 free character slot plus 1 experience bottle for instant level 80. The second reward
is available if the account has already at least 1 character level 80
or
- 5% reduced Waypoint and armor repair cost (1st year), +5%=10% (2nd year), +5%=15% (3rd year) and so on, available for the entire account
or
- special animation for one elite skill available for all professions
or
- …

5%, 10% etc reduced WP and Repair fees is Way Too Steep.
Only now are we obtaining 1% incremented Account Bonus Stats (MF, Gold Find, etc)
This amount should fall in line with these percentage based like items.
1% for the 1yr Birthday. 1% for the 2nd, and .5% for each year thereafter.
The problem is, if you play for 3Yrs+ on your system, the concept of the Gold Sink (the real reason we pay for WPing and Repairs) becomes Null Void and Obsolete.
This breaks the game. It is not ok to implement systems that intentionally break the game. Also, if this were to be implemented, I’d bet you anything over the next 1-2-3yrs that ‘The Asuran Council is endeavoring a New Undertaking to refurbish the Exterior of Rata Sum! All WP and Asura Gate travel will now either be raised 20%, or become fee based if they were not raised or did not have a fee required prior to this New Awesome Shiny Great Undertaking!’
Therefore rendering that now what… 20% reduction on Wping completely useless.
Taking Gold out of the economy (i.e. Gold Sink) is a Needed Function to sustain a Healthy Economy. Rendering it useless will not benefit the game, the servers, or the end Player.