Guild Wars 2

As a roleplayer and as an MMO player there are several things that I would like to see more of in GW2.
- More PvE and improvement of PvE content.
- More customization options.
(- Oh yeah, and I firmly believe that in a world with chairs, there should be the option to sit on them. )

- The feature I’m going to talk about in this thread is Customization Options, why they are important and give some suggestions as to how they could be implemented in GW2.

Importance
- Why is the customization option important?
In MMO’s you are playing together or alongside millions of other people from around the world. For me, and for many others I believe, standing out is important. Making a character that is individual to you, a character that embodies what you want others to think of the character and mayhap the person behind the character.

- Sure, some people, like the hard core gamers, don’t care much about all the personality, but they nevertheless strive to get a particular dungeon set or something to show others that they have achieved something or overcome certain challenges. Their character are more like a trophy (or Hall of Monuments, if you like ) that shows other players that he/she has got some serious skill and has put time and effort into his/her character.

The Issue
- Just shortly, why is this an issue?
Well, I’ve seen all the dungeon sets, most of the legendaries and all that on people in the game. I don’t see anyone any longer and go “Whoa! Where’d you get that set of armor?!?” or “Where’d you get that weapon?”
- As a roleplayer I’d like for more customization options, not only in the character creation screen (in terms of more hair, face, beard, etc. styles) but also in terms of armor sets and/or Town Clothing.

- Suggestions to solutions will be in the comment below.

Possible Solutions
- Of course it would be nice with more options on the Character Creation screen, but I’ve also noticed…
- Town Clothing. And I’ve noticed how I don’t really spend any real coin on it to support ANet.
I don’t like the cutesy wootsy hoods that came, the back items and all that. They’re great gags but really, I’d like to have some items that wouldn’t look odd in Tyria, but look like they belong in that universe. Something that says, my character is part of this world, he blends in but also sticks out at the same time (if you get my point).
- I’d like for more Town Clothings which can be purchased through the Black Lion Trading Company. More clothings through there would most likely result in the roleplaying community spending a lot more coin, since it most certainly caters to them (even non-RP’ers would most likely want it as well, because there is a desire to be different and individual in MMO’s).
- Adding some sort of “Wardrobe” where we could customize our character’s looks, not only with the Town Clothings we’ve purchased but also (simply because I don’t like being limitted to Heavy Looking armor in PvE) add those looks to the armor we use for our PvE purposes. I can see pros and cons for it, but it’s nice to have the option.
- Whether it be only Town Clothings or both, I will leave for the dev’s to decide. Another solution to that is to add more armor skins (not talking dungeon, but more generic armors that we get in the world).

- Adding more dungeon sets to provide for more customization options would also be nice to see. Maybe that particular paths will drop a certain piece of gear and you can get the head, shoulder, chest, etc. in that one path (it’s a suggestion, probably needs polish since I just came with it on the fly here, so feel free to comment on it, if you like). – Maybe some new dungeons that provide a harder challenge… or enough challenge so that we might not succeed, because oh how everyone can succeed in everything in this game (good thing for casuals, but there is no “Hey, look at my aweomse set of armor. I really had to work for this”… no there is only “I got the CoF set…” – “Cool… so does kinda everyone else, I guess… nothing special about it, really.” – Because really, if you want to be like “YEAH! I had the skill, we had teamwork and just LOOK at this awesome set of armor that only the bravest and most skilled of players dare go for!”, we need more challenging content that is not a guaranteed win)

- The above stated is to get a word in for hard core gamers, though I, myself, am more of a casual player. I enjoy games at my own pace, but I like a challenge. Therefore I like to play games at the highest difficulty. I don’t always beat them when I do… it takes time and it requires skill and a lower difficulty level, but GW2 only requires patience of me. I can understand the frustration that some other hard core gamers are going through with that, and therefore I think there should be content that caters to them as well… it doesn’t have to mean that you can’t do other dungeons that are designed for more casual gamers and with rewards that look cool, but are not the status symbol that other rewards might be.

- That said, I really like the look of the armors in GW2, they’re nice and awesome without becoming overly much at the same time (like I found WoW’s later dungeon sets to be).
- It would be nice with more choices, because in the core of every great rpg and certainly the MMORPG’s, there should be many choices to make that makes your character individual, not only in personality but in appearance as well.

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More faces would be great, especially older and more rugged faces. Right now we have only faces of teens and 20s except for like 1 or max 2 of them.

Yeah, there is a lot of text, I know, but I’ve tried to break it down into smaller pieces such as the introduction, why customization is important and why it is an issue to GW2 and then come with possible solutions.

- Still, if the game is to prosper and grow, it needs proper feedback than just “This sucks. Fix it somehow!”

- Personally, I think that the forums should be shut down, not because I don’t want players’ feedback to reach the dev’s, because it is important, but because there are so many people wanting so many different things and we haven’t seen some proper content since the last time the dev’s thought for themselves (these last few Living Story events that we’ve seen is not proper PvE content. It should be something that is not always there, but is unique, breathtaking and challenging like the Lost Shores where I got two precursors so the rewards were well worth it).