Hi people,
Iam one of the Casual gamers you are aiming for.
I was very pleased you want to make a game your actions actually matters in this game.
But unfortunally it isnt.
Everything i did didnt matter at all or had no impact at the world.
I feel like that grunt you were talking about.
Please make it like you intented because this isnt like you want it.
You can actually use the living story for this.
If people dont help out it actually impacts on the world.
And even i like the cutscenes in here i still miss things to do in the living world.
It is to short what i can do.
And iam not aiming for the put fires out etc. those are very boring things to do.
Plus you can use the living story to upgrade your dragon fights. People seem to get sick of just standing there and use autoattack. even it is handy if you need to do the dishes in the mean time i can not see this is how you intent those fights.
I dont get a feel of epic porpotion at all. Make them a little harder to kill. Make it more dynamic on the world as well.
Also why not be able to kill all the undead since we kill the source in the story?
You can also introduce a new menace to the world if you defeat them.
This also works the other way around not killing them is spreading all over the world.
The dungeon fights should be really looked at. now you want mostly dps in there. and as far i have seen its mostly groups consisting out of a few warriors mesmer and a gardian. You should make fights so that it has use to have the other classes in. their special abillities matters. you might wanna go in with 5 of the same but it would be loads harder.
Again i dont mind open world raids. but improve them alot. now they are a waste of time and effort you put in.
You might wanna put a server up for this to trail and error on this.
invite some of your audience to put it to the test.
Maybe some dont have faith anymore but i know there are some people who can pull it off.
Gemstore get rid of the rng stuff in there.
Its awefull anough its in the game but if you buy something you should get your things right away you buying for.
Good things like unlimited mine and sickle and armor piece are a good example of how doing it. bad example are the rng chest and keys you can buy off. you mostly not getting worth your money.
Then reward system.
Why doing a dungeon over and over again?
You got all the tokens fine. but you skip the harder or long ones.
Make it worth while the longer dungeons. let those drop special armorskins.
the real pretty onces.
Or amor plans you can make those very nice amorpieces.
You can use the idea from your own gw1. get a piece of item you need to make that special item.
Make a hardmode dungeon who need special skills more then only dps.
Let them use CC or any other way to defeat the groups.
I can see for example you need to CC one that has a ability to heal all the enemies quickly. and another can make them invurnble and you have to interrupt his skill.
something like this. This way you can make the fights more intresting without make the dungeon compleetly different. Also living story can make a valuble asset in this one.
Reason i put so often living story in this i believe living story is used wrongly. While it could be very usefull to make new content or make a impact to the world. make the players decide if some of the content stays or not.
Then yes iam all for the living story. Then we do make a impact on the world and our decission really matters because we dont wanna get rid of some of the stuff or we do.
Not sure if this get all be reading by the folkes of A-Net i might just put a word in like WOW etc etc.. SWTOR etc etc..
There is a reason why SWTOR failed and why GW2 is on the edge of getting a failure.
SWTOR had nothing to do at the end of the story they put in. it got boring and did alot what wow already did. and i didnt like it. so that is why i wend to GW2. but in the end if you not going for your legendary there isnt much to do.
Living story as it is not is to short to get involved atm. take a look at your own gw1.
Why i liked the story. Get rid of the name thief and make it an assassin. because that is what it is. For now ill stop i really hope you can turn this around we need really some compelling endgame in any form i already put in this topic. We are not afraid to use some skills. Thank you again for hearing me out.