Guild Wars 2

Similar to the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone, an item players could have and use to freely portal to their racial home city (or home instance, or future player housing).

This item would also be tied into race & creation choices, similar to these possible ideas:

• Sylvari could have something based on the cycle they awoke in, perhaps a colored leaf.
• Asura could have something related to the college they are a part of.
• Charr would carry a mark of the legion they belong to.
• Humans could have something relating to either their upbringing (noble, commoner, street rat) or based off which of the God’s they were “blessed by”.
• Norn might carry a small totem of the spirit that was in their vision as a child.

This would bring a more personal touch to each characters item they use to portal home, something I think is lacking a fair bit with so much non-personalized content.

With an item like this, people like myself would be slightly more inclined to go to the cities I like rather than Lions Arch. As of right now, it’s just inconvenient to go to anywhere but Lions Arch since traveling through the Heart of the Mists or WvW take me to Lions Arch and it’s a waste of time to then go through an Asura Gate from there when the other cities don’t even have a Forge.

I strongly second this suggestion. Most people warp to lions arch for free already, I see no reason why we shouldn’t get an insta-warp to our home city or home instance, I would absolutely prefer doing so over using LA anyways.