Guild Wars 2

Instant Map Complete Scroll gives the ability to open everything on the map that your most complete character also has open. I understand some people love going back and redoing everything on every character but I’m not one of those people. I like having multiple characters and use them as if they are each a special weapon and I’m the one wielding them (that’s why I’m all about acct bound stuff not soulbound). For me to have to go through all that work seems boring. I have a character I like to do Jump puzzles with I have one I enjoy doing dungeons with … and so forth. Map completion is boring once done and to me a waste of my time when I can have fun doing other things. And yes I have 100% complete already on my theif. Since they are making it so you can level up characters without really having to explore the map, I see this as a good way to take some boredom out of the game.

The problem with that is that map completion gives 2 gifts of exploration. Which are used in legendary creation.

Now if map completion itself gave a tome of exploration and it was coded to NOT give the gifts of exploration, then that would be fine. So that players would have to complete it ONCE to get it.

I think everyone agrees that map completion is a guaranteed waste of time..lol. Even if your having fun it still manages to feel mostly like a chore. And frankly I’m not sure there’s much they can do about that. As someone trying for world completion on a 2nd char, I agree exploration and hearts are in equal measure demanding. However I feel theres slight room for improvement, mainly how they could make it less time-consuming to discover the same regions again and again on each char. Say you discovered a WP on one char, you could port to that WP on another char that doesn’t have it discovered. However this could be an exponential cost..so the 1st one would cost like 10s, the next one 1g. Basically anything to make it feel less tedious to getting completion multiple times would be a welcome impovement.