Guild Wars 2

Please bear with. I’m trying to categorize and keep together the requests I would like to see eventually in the game. These enhancements have been used before in other titles and would greatly enhance the gameplay. Sorry If i repeat myself as I suffer from Hypoxia.

-Guild UI-

1. Crafter Exchange: the ability to see and place requests as messages to offline players for items to be made by crafters of 400 skill level of the same guild.
2. Personal Note: the ability to place a personal note on self in the roster indicating the need for a certain type of resource to finish crafting personal armor sets, runes, sigils, weapons.
3. Alt Tracking: on the main guild page so that others in the guild will be able to mouse-over your account name and see a tooltip with the names of all of your characters representing that same guild.
4. Calendar Events System: so that the guild master and the officers you are currently representing can more easily schedule events for the guild. Complete with “will you join” “yes” “no” “tentative” as answers.
5. Beacon: this is a concept a friend came up with. Place a beacon on oneself so that people looking at the roster or main page of the guild list can see if you are lfg for dungeons, heading to a particular zone and for what purpose (events and the waypoint location), or heading to a zone for completion. The world map would show your beacon to guild members wherever you may be. It would help people come together more easily in the guild because some people just don’t have guild chat as their focus particularly while fighting. One could toggle the beacon on or off when lfg and everyone else could toggle the beacon system on or off on their map to make it easier.
6. Guild Warband: it’s been suggested multiple times but it’s definitely needed. The ability to mark on the map an icon above the head of an officer or guild leader to better see him while we are warbanding, and the ability to create a squad like warband for pve for clearing out whole zones. (preferably without spending 100g and causing other people on the map problems)
7. Guild Alliance System: Where guilds can communicate between two guilds in the chat window, and allow for grouping with the suggested calendar system. Preferably with the ability to turn on and off the other guild calendar events.
8. Guildies on Map: The ability to see guild members on map without grouping. A toggle perhaps if the Guild Warband isn’t a good enough idea.
9. Guild Voting System: For problems that people can’t always have meetings about, there should be a voting system in the UI to make it easier for guild leaders to get answers on problems guilds face sometimes. It would simplify trying to match often sparatic real life schedules where not everyone can meet up at the same times to vote.

-General UI-

1. Egg Timer: To help with Real Life, and to help casual gamers and full time gamers alike I would love to see a timer or alarm in game that one can set to make sure appointments or events one has to stop playing for a bit aren’t missed by accident.
2. Mini Button: a small button off to the left or right of the buttons used for combat to switch minis, have it track the minis in the mini storage.
3. Armor Switcher: a small button located near the top of the healthbubble that would allow for the easy switching between trait builds and armor sets and weaponsets on the fly.
4. Dual Trait Builds: the ability to switch between trait builds. (this isn’t just useful for those who would like to switch between pve and pvp easily, it’s also very useful for those who would like to switch between travel and non-travel options. There are certain builds I personally use that allow me to run faster and give me escape options that I would never have on when I am serious in combat. I’d like to switch between these two builds without having to open the H window and click on each item to change it (such as happens in dangerous places like Orr very often).
5. Chat Window Whisper Pane: a pane in the chat window that has a tiny list of names of the players whispering me on the right and for each name listed there the second part of the window on the left displays the conversation, solely used for whispers.
6. New Defeated Players Icon: Some of us are a tad color blind and can’t noticed the slight difference between a defeated player and a downed npc, please make it so that the defeated player icon is completely different from the one used for the npc.
7. Preview Pane for TP: Would love to know how the item looks before buying it without having to find a website that has some nonblurry screenshot or a model viewer.
8. Chat Window on load screen: Would love to see this happen at some point. The long load screens between zone problem aside, I would like to not have to pause conversations with guildies because I’m loading into a zone. I’ve noticed that the settings screen often can be pulled up between load screens so I can’t imagine why one couldn’t have the chat window or party ui available while the rest of the game loads normally.
9. Buff Item Button: Somewhere on the right top of the button bar I would love to see a button to easily use the items one normally carries for boons. Food, oils, potions. It would be nice to be able to access those without opening inventory directly each time.
10. Social Networking Posts: Being about to take a screenshot and post it as a FB or Twitter post instantly from inside the game would be fantastic. It would certainly make it easier for people to see the finer fun points of your game.
11. Login Notifications: A small window above the chat window on the left, that only popsup for a few moments when a friend on our friends list logs onto the game.
12. Account Name Hidden in Friends List: The acct name in the friends list window is sometimes so long that the nickname given to the player on the list is completely disappeared. With windows often keeping the same size or being fixed to one side only, it’s difficult to recognize new friends by their acct name.
13. Self Icon On Map: should pulse when the world map opens and or is moved to look at some other part of the map.
14. Map or Reading Animation Would love for the characters to open a parchment and appear to be examining it when the map is open or when the mail window is open to show others a simple representation of what one is doing. If the mail could be a postage stamp on it of somekind different from the map that would be neat as well. One could even expand this to include a pamplet and a paddle for the TP window.
15. Map Personal Notes: Maps especially bought ones should be able to be written upon. If it’s to be more realistic we should be able to add our own notes, permanent ones, to the map for our own uses to help keep track of resources and locations of gardens and chests while in game.
16. Petition System: For new ideas or for fixes to an existing problem. This would go a long way to repairing many of the items people find troublesome. If fun is the goal of the game, then knowing exactly how many customers feel about whether some new update is fun or not would be helpful in determining if in fact it’s a tiny portion of your playerbase complaining or the majority of the players complaining about a particular system.
17. Currency Per Character: The ability by mousing over the gold in the inventory screen or possibly on the bar that’s hopefully going to be added to the map to show how much coin each character has in it’s inventory without switching.

Crafting UI

1. Leather Combining: Would love to combine lower level leathers into higher tier leathers all the way up to tier 5. This would eliminate alot of waste as many of the lower tier leathers end up being vendored as the market is manipulated to make them worthless in the TP. (similar to the combination of jewels.) Without the need for waste in the current mystic toilet system.
2. Crafting Pre-requisite Tracker: The ability in the craft window to make pre-requisites to items from the item’s selection in the window. For example, making a pistol frame, a pistol barrel for a pistol. Or making a the planks and ore bars from the dowel window.
3. Legendary Tracker: An interface to track the materials for a legendary much like we track events in a zone. A checkbox would activate this and from this we could select which legendary to track. Each material would be a minibar and one could flatten it if one needed to in order to read zone event trackers more easily.
4. Sigil or Rune Salvage Kits: Kits with the sole purpose of removing sigils or runes without destroying or damaging the item those runes or sigils are in.
5. Crafting Lists: If we could have the option to turn off permanently all of the lower level recipes in the recipe list.

Loot

1. Real Stealing Obviously this would be for the thief class. Could we have a mechanic where when we use the steal ability it actually gives us an extra baggy filled with coin, crafting mats, and the occasional rare crafting mat?
2. Lottery: In many games there was a weekly lottery where a giant chest was opened per server and people who signed up for the lottery could participate and receive items like currency (gold perhaps), weapons, jewelry, armor (Rares and exotics?!), potions, food, crafting materials (Tier 6 perhaps?). These lotteries generally gave people something for signing up each week. I’d love to see that in this title. Rift had a mini scratchoff game. Lotro had a general drawing lotto weekly.
3. Fishing and RP Props: Would love for fishing to be added to the game complete with new recipes for fish and seafood for multiple purposes. I would love to see that fishermen would be able to fish up supplies, food, gear (like rings and jewelry), bags of treasure, parts for crafting all dependant on the level of the player not the zone. It would be great to have props to place down to enhance the fishing experience or to use for role play, like picnic basket and cover, lounge chair, parasol, fishing chair with lurebox and poles, lanterns, camp fires, and tents. This would greatly enhance the gaming experience. You could even make these items craftable items or buyable items in the store.
4. Bags o’loot: Saw this in one of the human zones where bandits had bags just lying around all over their hideout. I would love for this to be a common thing found amongst the hoarders of Tyria. Bags of Tier 1 – 6 loot should be common. Even if they were given 12 hour reset timers to prevent abuse that would be better then nothing and it would be so much fun to find these stashes in Tyria, almost as much fun as finding those gardens protected by veteran trolls.
5. Currency Bar & Currency Storage: a bar of the current currencies you have in your bags like karma, commendations, gold. Toggle the ability to see those currencies on a small bar like near the map. Commendations (as well as all future currencies added to the game) turned into a currency that’s in the virtual wallet rather then a bank item that takes up a slot.

Please move these posts to the forums list of all suggestions

Bump again to see if a mod will merge this thread with the stickied suggestions thread.

dude u r awesome .. i agree on 100% of these suggestions

i also thank u for taking ur time doing all this…

its a lot of work

wizix.2468:

dude u r awesome .. i agree on 100% of these suggestions

i also thank u for taking ur time doing all this…

its a lot of work

Thanks so much! I appreciate your input. I did this just after launch in the hopes that some of these things would be put in but alas most people ignored my post.

I know we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but these suggestions are great.

nice,but you forget to mention GvG and a Guild Lottery

mujtaba.8167:

nice,but you forget to mention GvG and a Guild Lottery

Actually as I never experienced those I didn’t think about them. They did exist in games I’ve played like AoC but I never participated because I never had fun with those.

But yeah, for those who enjoy PVP GvG would be great. I’d love to see those types of things too especially the guild Lottery especially since they have the problem with flagging guild leader’s accounts for sending gold to a player who’s won the guild lotto. It would certainly fix misunderstandings.

Vayne.8563:

I know we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but these suggestions are great.

Thanks I appreciate it!

tigirius.9014:

-General UI-

1. Egg Timer: To help with Real Life, and to help casual gamers and full time gamers alike I would love to see a timer or alarm in game that one can set to make sure appointments or events one has to stop playing for a bit aren’t missed by accident.
2. Mini Button: a small button off to the left or right of the buttons used for combat to switch minis, have it track the minis in the mini storage.
3. Armor Switcher: a small button located near the top of the healthbubble that would allow for the easy switching between trait builds and armor sets and weaponsets on the fly.
4. Dual Trait Builds: the ability to switch between trait builds. (this isn’t just useful for those who would like to switch between pve and pvp easily, it’s also very useful for those who would like to switch between travel and non-travel options. There are certain builds I personally use that allow me to run faster and give me escape options that I would never have on when I am serious in combat. I’d like to switch between these two builds without having to open the H window and click on each item to change it (such as happens in dangerous places like Orr very often).
5. Chat Window Whisper Pane: a pane in the chat window that has a tiny list of names of the players whispering me on the right and for each name listed there the second part of the window on the left displays the conversation, solely used for whispers.
6. New Defeated Players Icon: Some of us are a tad color blind and can’t noticed the slight difference between a defeated player and a downed npc, please make it so that the defeated player icon is completely different from the one used for the npc.
7. Preview Pane for TP: Would love to know how the item looks before buying it without having to find a website that has some nonblurry screenshot or a model viewer.
8. Chat Window on load screen: Would love to see this happen at some point. The long load screens between zone problem aside, I would like to not have to pause conversations with guildies because I’m loading into a zone. I’ve noticed that the settings screen often can be pulled up between load screens so I can’t imagine why one couldn’t have the chat window or party ui available while the rest of the game loads normally.
9. Buff Item Button: Somewhere on the right top of the button bar I would love to see a button to easily use the items one normally carries for boons. Food, oils, potions. It would be nice to be able to access those without opening inventory directly each time.
10. Social Networking Posts: Being about to take a screenshot and post it as a FB or Twitter post instantly from inside the game would be fantastic. It would certainly make it easier for people to see the finer fun points of your game.
11. Login Notifications: A small window above the chat window on the left, that only popsup for a few moments when a friend on our friends list logs onto the game.
12. Account Name Hidden in Friends List: The acct name in the friends list window is sometimes so long that the nickname given to the player on the list is completely disappeared. With windows often keeping the same size or being fixed to one side only, it’s difficult to recognize new friends by their acct name.
13. Self Icon On Map: should pulse when the world map opens and or is moved to look at some other part of the map.
14. Map or Reading Animation Would love for the characters to open a parchment and appear to be examining it when the map is open or when the mail window is open to show others a simple representation of what one is doing. If the mail could be a postage stamp on it of somekind different from the map that would be neat as well. One could even expand this to include a pamplet and a paddle for the TP window.
15. Map Personal Notes: Maps especially bought ones should be able to be written upon. If it’s to be more realistic we should be able to add our own notes, permanent ones, to the map for our own uses to help keep track of resources and locations of gardens and chests while in game.
16. Petition System: For new ideas or for fixes to an existing problem. This would go a long way to repairing many of the items people find troublesome. If fun is the goal of the game, then knowing exactly how many customers feel about whether some new update is fun or not would be helpful in determining if in fact it’s a tiny portion of your playerbase complaining or the majority of the players complaining about a particular system.
17. Currency Per Character: The ability by mousing over the gold in the inventory screen or possibly on the bar that’s hopefully going to be added to the map to show how much coin each character has in it’s inventory without switching.

1. I like this. very useful and nothing I would add to that.
2. If anything, have a few slots with the town clothes section and have it rotatable back and forward with that button.

-Continued-

3 & 4. combine these with the new planned build saving system they put on teh back burner and I’m sold.
5. you can just make a new chat pane tab and have it whisper only. Yet it needs a way to notify you other than highlighting in red + what you were considering thrown in.
6. better accessibility is key! Go for it AN!
7. Already done. But this thread is months old.
8. PSO 2 has this but it lags and deletes text due to latency. AN needs to do a better job than them. I’m for it! Thanks for reminding me on this one too!
9. Man I miss this! it could use the mouse wheel left right clicking (scroll click) or something. Ragnarok Online has it and that game is old as dirt. It was for anything that could be used as a stack or a heal (or both). Anything with selectable strength really.
10. I don’t have a use for this, but I know many that would!
11. This exists. Ever seen combat log? You can toggle it in there on chat tab options. Yet, it needs to get out of there and more in a visible place and option.
12. Quite a pain no?
13. Not sure I will need this. The map allows you to center back on you already.
14. Great for RP! I love it!
15. I want this! Features that orrmaps.com has we need.
16. Aren’t petitions not allowed here?
17. Already done last major update.