Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone. As we’ve all likely seen in recent weeks as the game starts to mature and more and more players reach high level, the lower / mid level zones are becoming more and more abandoned. Compound this with so many people running Fractals, it has become tough to get groups to work together in certain areas (especially the lvl 30-50 range).

The developers have expressed interest in getting more people to utilize these zones, but why would anybody if they’ve already completed it on their favorite characters? Farming crafting materials? That’s about it.

So I propose that at certain time intervals, a player can visit an NPC in each zone and reset the progress on all of that zone’s “Hearts”. The effect would be that each heart would now be recompletable for the same rewards that were earned the first time. Players can go back and use them for Karma, XP and a few silver but also for the fun of it. I for one know that I’d like to go back to Wayfarer Foothills on my main and redo the Bunny Spirit task or the River Drake poachers quest in Bloodtide Coast.

To head off the potential criticism that “people would just farm the easiest quests”, there would need to be limitations. Maybe you can only reset a zone once a week. Maybe you’d need to complete EVERY heart in the zone in order to reset again. I don’t know what would need to be done but there are ways to prevent abuse.

I think this would be a big help towards repopulating the lower level zones, balancing the population out and giving non-Fractals players more content to enjoy.

Love this idea. Will post an idea to build off of later.

Rather than this, I’d like to see more dynamic events which can have the whole chain completed without other players on the map.

I like the idea of resetting heart quests as well. I have 4 characters that I’m leveling simultaneously, so the time I’m going to spend in low level areas is going to be considerable. These areas do tend to be pretty empty!

Maybe making them all into dailies, perhaps?

Or make some of the hearts/quests repeatable like they did for some in GW Factions.

I’m glad people think this is a good idea. I think it would go a long way towards repopulating the lower level zones which would be one of the biggest boons to the community and could be a viable alternative to farming gold and Karma in Fractals or Orr for gear.

It really kills multiple birds with one stone: redistributes the community and it functionally adds more content.

I’d say instead of Full resets of hearts have it a repeatable heart where you get a progress bar again when you are in the area and every time you compelte a progress bar for the heart after the first you get a small reward. Perhaps only allow them to be repeated on a daily/weekly basis. I would not recomend giving the full original reward to prevent bots from farming “easy” hearts.

I dont think this would really repopulate much , since i dont the majority would be interested on stopping farming fractals where they get better gear to do this.

But i dont see how this would be a problem , and this does give an option to players , so i support the idea.

Edit: Note:

I support the original OP idea , making this daily or anything that would induce/force player to it , i strongly disagree.

I’d prefer for them to completely remove hearts after the starter race maps, and turn all the heart events into dynamic events.

Drake Brimstone.3706:

I’d say instead of Full resets of hearts have it a repeatable heart where you get a progress bar again when you are in the area and every time you compelte a progress bar for the heart after the first you get a small reward. Perhaps only allow them to be repeated on a daily/weekly basis. I would not recomend giving the full original reward to prevent bots from farming “easy” hearts.

Farming is easily preventable. Make full rewards on a weekly/daily timer. Or make it so you need to finish a full zone before you’re allowed to reset again.

Having the rewards be so drastically nerfed would harm this idea. Hearts are already a pretty inefficient method of farming compared to running Plinx or Fractals. Making it so that you get smaller rewards would be a kick in the teeth on top of it.