From what I can understand, a lot of the Guild Wars 2 content is supposed to be centered around finding a group, especially within dungeons, and developing a rapport with that group. Well, possibly, not immediately since there are bigger things to do, you can plan on a partner system? It’s in a lot of other games where they call it blood bonds or lovers or whatever, but just simply, it’s another player (or group of players) that you get a bonus for when you’re playing with them.
Hopefully without the romantic or sexual connotations, cause that makes people uneasy.
Maybe have it so that 1 – 4 other players can share this and that you can only have one set of. So no having it with 5 different groups of 4 people. Potentially a list of bonuses that you can choose one from depending on what you want out of it and maybe be able to switch it up, I don’t know. Just something that rewards you for finding a good group and sticking with it.
I wouldn’t want this to be game breaking or make it so that you –need- to play with them to be effective, but it would be a nice bonus for people who do play with others semi-regularly.
I shirk from the idea of a marriage system cause that’s limiting both in terms of lore and in terms of people’s comfort. This could be something similar in idea, but potentially different name.
Now what if someone leaves or there is a fight or if you move to a different server? Allow someone to break it (or break from it in the case of more than one person in it) but, say, wait a week or a month before they can make another or something.
I dunno, again, I’m not looking for something game breaking or that would make it necessary to make this to do basic content like a dungeon. However it would be a nifty incentive away from PUGs.
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