Guild Wars 2

I’ve always been a large fan of player made content and the games that support it, ranging from Neverwinter’s Foundry to Skyrim’s Creation Kit. After having played GW2 since release and realizing the way it’s end game works, it’s struck me that player made content is more than possible. With the lack of a gear treadmill, it allows players in exotic gear to enjoy the full range of end game content, this COULD include content made from players!

We’re not talking anything overly fancy. I’m not entirely sure how the mechanics tool works in whatever program is used to create the game. However I can tell you it’s not overly difficult in Skyrim’s Creation Kit and in Torchlight II’s GUTS. Though perhaps it is more complex.

In the case of loot, we could look at the random bags of miscellaneous stuff that currently drop quite often in dungeons.

All in all, I think it would be a great little feature to add a surplus of content to the game. I absolutely love dungeons and feel the game lacks in that area.

We could even keep it lore-friendly! In terms of location, we could piggyback off of Fractals or have another portal nearby/next to the Fractal’s portal. Our dear friend Diessa has made a new discovery. Something along those lines!

If you feel like I left anything out please do let me know in the comments. I think this would be a great addition to the game giving PvE a great level of depth. Who knows, perhaps this could even be used to create PvP content as well!

-Ded

I’m sorry to say but I’m not too fond of this idea, the playerbase would just find a way to exploit this. I’m not sure how Neverwinter has done this but if you could explain a bit more what you’d expect in GW2, that’d be great.

also your ‘’lore-friendly part’‘:
I’m sorry to say but we currently don’t know Dessa’s origins and she’s not just an asura who decided to place an asura gate in LA and made it so that whenever you’d enter that gate you’d end up in FotM. In fact that Asura Gate was meant to belong to the Consortium (which is also the reason for it being next to their ’’office’’)Dessa is indeed an Asura researcher (probably from the past since she’s never seen any Sylvari (or at least the game implies so)). Dessa didn’t want the gate to her lab to be connected to Lion’s Arch this was all just an accident. Dessa also believes that once she leaves her lab she’ll never be able to return to the Fractals project she spends so much time on. Because of this I don’t see Dessa having a little side project to add some fun-stuff for other people or even interract with Lion’s Arch at all since she states that she thinks it’s a ‘’Pirate-filled hole’’ (or something along the lines of that, which BTW could also, yet again, suggest she’s from the past since she doesn’t seem to view LA as the respected city (or nearly nation) it is now).

in short: Dessa just doesn’t have the time to spend on this project nor the interrest to give anything to LA. (You could say the adventurers are just test-subjects.)

P.S. I do like that you want to add more content to the game of course! I’m just not sure if this is the right way… :/

if implemented right, I think this could be a great way add more content.

Yes please! Because, I’ll be frank, for the most part I’m displeased by those in the art department. Most armors and weapons are overly ornate and asymmetrical. Don’t even get me started on this steam punk ick… We need way more classical, elegant, and simplistic designs. Which it appears will only come from user generated content.

After a year, there’s still only one look I’m moderately happy with per armor class. We should have more variety than one look for an entire year.