Guild Wars 2

I realize gold sinks are needed in the game, however, tacking it onto the travel system is having terrible effects on this game.

I have people who will not come make a dungeon group with me because they are half-way across Kryta and they don’t want to spend the silver.

I, myself, frequently do not go to large events or help other players because of the silver cost.

Your current system punishes people for being social and is a very real prohibition on joining and playing with “too many” people an hour. Please put the gold sink somewhere else.

Make armor cost more gold, make repair bills higher when you die, make vendored trash worth less, etc. But, please remove this cost for playing with friends.

Traveling to the gib cities should be free, but for the rest, the fee is fine.

travelling to any city is free-heart of the mists-lion’s arch-any city

Considering that at lvl 80 you pay about 5+ silver just for a single broken item and traveling from one point of the world to the other is about 3-4 silver, I would rather have higher travel cost than higher repair cost or any other example you gave.

Plus you can reduce the travel cost if it means that much to you, just teleport to the nearest major city use the gate there to travel to Lions Arch and then use the LA gates to travel to the nearest major city to your dungeon.

We shouldn’t have to do that though mangarrage. Since we can do just that, it should be free to travel to any city, especially since the personal story sends you to far maps and then have to go back to the home instance to continue, just to travel even farther away. I would prefer to have all WPs free (would help promote helping other people in other areas, or events), but at the very least they need to REALLY scale down the costs and make some places free. WP traveling is making a lot of us broke.

So no one here has ever intentionally walked somewhere, when they would have normally WPed, simply to save the WP fee? Either in the same zone or a far off one?

I think upon death, the closest waypoint should be free (the eventual repair cost makes up for this). This is reasonable.

I wouldn’t be opposed that travel to city waypoints—from within or without—being free though. Seeing as (A) they are already free within the city, and (B) they are free as long as you are willing to go through a few extra steps to navigate to them (via WvW or the Mists).