Guild Wars 2

Got an interesting idea.
You know how in some places in the environment you can click on some sort of stationary instrument and play it using your number keys?
Well imagine that implemented into things you can equip and pull out when not in combat. Be it a harp or some kind of stringed instrument or other instrument that fits the lore. Imagine being able to pull out an instrument and play it. This could be very fun. People could form bands in the game – things like that.

Maybe you could learn certain songs from songbooks ingame and if you play them correctly you gain experience and level up in your musician crafting – who knows there’s plenty of room for realistic ideas.
For an example: Maybe you find a random songbook as a rare drop and when you play it on your instrument you gain a certain amount of xp depending on difficulty.

My ideas for the more technical stuff are:

Different skins for instruments – maybe made through some kind of crafting – Musician
Rare or exotic drops
Each dungeon reward NPC in lions arch having instruments themed of that dungeon bought with the dungeon reward tokens just like armor and weapons.

Players can turn off whether they want to hear other’s instruments so people who don’t like the idea don’t have to hear others play. Or so you can’t hear annoying people spamming a sound over and over. Or give the option to mute an individual.

In conclusion: I believe this could be a harmless way for something new and fun implemented into the already beautiful game world. And I strongly believe it would not be too much of a hassle for the programmers to create because instruments are already in the game, just not moveable and in item form.

Much love, and thank you for any positive feedback, constructive criticism, or ideas.

I think any Idea that introduces "a harmless way for something new and fun " is a good idea. Small things can make a game very addicting, Just look at facebook and all their mini games that people spend hours on everyday.

The Instrument idea sounds very much like what LOTRO has and during the time I was playing, I did notice alot of players performing in main towns and I found it very amusing to watch.

I think it will be a nice addition to this game (If possible) because it’s something you can do on your own and dosnt involve having to attack something or be attacked.

Great idea! I’d love to have an in-game ocarina myself.

Middlebud.7295:

Great idea! I’d love to have an in-game ocarina myself.

Ooh I never thought of that instrument! that would be great

Let’s just add the Bard profession and cut to the chase.

I would like to fifth(?) this. The little details are everything to me. Something like this is something I’d sink hours into for my own vanity and/or role playing needs.

+1 to this. I spent hours on LOTRO playing the lute. They had a really awesome community database of midi files that you could download and play with a simple command in game. Many a time I charmed dwarves with Bad Company, Blind Guardian, Whitesnake…