Guild Wars 2

The concept is already partially implemented in the form of the downscale system, it just needs to be expanded upon.

Once a player reaches 100% completion (probably the best achievement to use) they will get the option at character selection to “refresh” their character in New Game +

This resets the map uncover, skill points, hearts, etc. but does not change your character itself.

You keep your max level, gear earned, etc. (so you can still go do dungeons, and play with friends anywhere)

This simply undoes the “singleplayer” aspect of the game so players can progress through it again.

Some additions that may work with the system are:
– New 100% completion legendary materials (Gift of ???) allowing players to get closer to their legendaries
– Resetting the story, allowing players to make new decisions and gain rewards from story paths they could not get from their first playthrough (Vigil, Order, Priory)
– New end-game “tokens” for exchange to 1 exotic stat item, and 1 unique skin item for each new game + completed
– Perhaps reworking non-power based statistics (magic-find) into a passive buff a player gains when completing each 100% completion (removing magic find gear)
– Possible “game-modifiers” when players enter new game + that add new, interesting, challenges to playing in lower level zones.

This allows players to re-experience the content on a character they want to play (for players who aren’t altaholics) and gives some rewards for playing through the game and experiencing the zones again.

While I understand why you think this may be a good idea (NG+ is a favorite of mine in console gaming), it has no place in an MMO. Your choices such as The Order you join should remain permanent. Leave NG+ to Star Ocean (my favorite rpg series).

I’m sorry, but after spending tons of hours getting 100% map completion, I doubt many people are going to want to refresh their character and start all over. I sure wouldn’t want to.

But here in are some good points, that would be really good.
New Game+ is optional

But if it would allow players for example to replay their personal Story again to be able to maybe change some decisions being made, then this would be really great, for when you didn’t like the outcome of some of your decisions being made, because you didn’t like the missions and story parts of for example the chosen sub race like Skritt, grawl, Quaggan ect. that you have to choose or if you didn’t like the outcome of your personal fear that you have to answer to the mothertree avatar of the sylvari.

Being able to change the order that way would be also a great thing to get a normal legit way to earn all 3 armor for 1 character, without having to use any transmutation tricks…this game is all about fashion and looks, so players should be able to wear everything they want, including order armor sets!

Being able to make again the hearts would be a nice way to get again money, exp and karma, and it would also help to bring all the people back into the older maps to refresh them with live permanently.

New Game+ would also help in getting for your character multiple pact weapons, so that you can equip yourself also with a full set of them, what is especially needed for any class7character, whose buil conssist of using 2 1H items, like dual sword, dual dagger, or any weapon combo with shield/focus, torch and warhorn, because it looks totally silly, if you have only 1 pact item in your hands and not 2…it looks with other words said unsynchron. With 2 pact weapons in your hands, for example dual daggers with both being pact daggers, it would look much better, but you get always only 1 token for beating zhaitan..so you have to repeat this part, to be able to get a synchron weapon setting for pact weapons if u need 2 and new Game+ would be a good solution for this….you want 2 pact weapon,s do somethign for it..replay the game and beat zhaitan again…this either..or play with a group leader, that hasn’t beaten zhaitan yet and get by this way again a token….
One of these 2 solutions must get into the game ASAP.

And if this would be usable to remoe also magic find als items ect. then I personalyl would find this also good, if this would motivate players to replay the game to increase by this way your general magic find character-bonus.
Example every beating of the game with a character increases the permanent MF Bonus on that Character for 10%, it would also help in renewing the game with life and people wouldn#t hong out permanently only in the normal dungeons or fractals of the mist

I’m for New Game , but I wouldn’t name it so, I would call it in GW2 “Rebirth” or “Ascended Mode”, that players can find at the final spot, where Trahearne made his ritual of purgation to clean orr from zhaitans hatred, there where this huge well is, that you can there start the New Game by laying yourself into the well and to purify yourself from all your sins, beliving in your gods, eternal achemy, spirits, dreams ect. that this will help you in becoming a better person in next life.

Adding also new content for this say “Ascendend Mode” like Ascendend Weapons and special ascendend equipment that you can get only in this mode (skins) would surely also motivate additionally people, to do all this as part of long term evolution content for GW2.
Something to do, if you really have nothing else to do anymore, except playing WvW or SPvP …

New Game+ isn’t only something for Console games, it is only so, that Console Games so far are the only games mostly, which use this kind of feature to add into the game more long term motivation and replayability.
While MMO’s don’t, their LTM and replayability came mostly so far always from implementing new Add Ons instead.

ANet wants GW2 to become the best MMORPG, so why don’t offer gamers just both options?? Nobody is forcing anyone to play a NG+, as long as all the rewards from there are optional and not anyhow better, than stuff you can get in the normal 1st playthrough.