Guild Wars 2

I see a lot of complaints that basically come down to “Why isn’t this game more like <other MMO>?” I don’t really agree with all of them, but as somebody who is interested in seeing this game be successful over the long term, I think it’s time for those of us who aren’t into hardcore content to request that it be created. And that it be created separately from the open world where we can ignore it.

Here’s what I think we need: a dungeon that is insanely hard, requires an entrance fee (50 Badges of Honor, 10 Ecto, or 1 Laurel – make sure that all different types of players can get in) and has an ending boss with a chance to drop ultra-rare, dungeon-only, brand new armor.

This dungeon should be difficult enough that coordinated groups might require months to figure it out and beat it. Beating it should also reward a title for bragging rights and some obscene amount of gold.

What do you guys think? Are there any other folks who kind of wish the hardcore folks had somewhere they could go away to where they’d be happy? And gone?

Just thinking out loud here: the reward could be a percentage of the total accumulated entrance fee. So, for example, you could charge 1 gold per person to enter. If 1,000 attempts are made before one is successful, the successful party could receive a certain portion of the 5,000 gold that has been contributed.

Or, even better, have floating rates for each: the longer the dungeon goes without being defeated (or the lower the rate of success), the higher the entrance fee and reward become. That helps keep noobs like me out and ensures that the rewards match the difficulty.

Yeah we need more elitism and bragging rights in GW2 alright. Just kidding there’s enough of that.

But that’s sort of my point: if we give the elitists their own place to go, the rest of us can safely ignore them! Since the CoF1 nerf (which I called for and was very excited about until I realized that it spilled those people out into the parts of the game that I play), there’s just been a lot of unsavory min/max Zerkerism that is all over the place.

I’d rather give those people their own place where they can focus and be rewarded and stay out of my way.