Guild Wars 2

I would like to perhaps see a feature to join one of the different dragon factions. So we could become a follower of, say, the Destroyers, and it would actually alter our appearances (if we desired to have it changed to reflect our ‘corruption’). So I could, technically, join the branded. Each time I reach a certain ‘rank’ of Branded, I unlock more appearance options. So say when I first join, only 10% of me has a bit of the branded markings. As I progress and go further into this personal story against the other dragon ‘factions’, I unlock more options of branded, in ‘style’, as well as in ‘percentage’. I think it would even be pretty marvelous to make a “Corruption” mode that is like WvW dedicated to these dragon corruption factions, (one for fire, ice, undeath, water, crystal, and whatever the 6th dragon is). Even if we have just the five, it would still be pretty fun, I think. Maybe even rotate which factions are up against one another. (So perhaps a Faction vs Faction, AND a Faction vs Faction vs Faction (3 factions up against each other, as well as the other remaining two against each other, but SEPERATELY). Sometimes you’re up against just the 1, sometimes you’re up against 2). Or just have the FvFvFvFvF, but I think that would be a bit much. If there is a mode that is WvW-ish with these factions, I would also like to see the land and monsters reflect the territories corrupted by a certain faction. Even if it is just a smaller scale (perhaps like in groups of 5-10 per faction, so smaller than WvW, but larger than sPvP?)

This is all I can think of for this rant, please add additional ideas to this if you can think of any!

(If it is converted to a large sPvP type scale, perhaps it could be where people start on random corruptions (any of the 1/5), but as they are killed by other factions, they convert to that faction? So the most dominant faction wins if it converts all, or the smallest faction wins if it survives long enough so it doesn’t go forever? If the size of the 2 factions is similar, perhaps the time would be extended until the difference size is significant? The countdown can start perhaps when there is a large difference in size between factions)

Okay, all done, ending rant.

I’ve had similar thoughts but not so much factions of the dragons but the factions that are against particular races, such as the Nightmare Court and the Inquest. I don’t suppose it would work being that those are mobs and all the renown hearts and such are geared toward the primary “good” factions of the races, but it would be nice to be able to be an evil Sylvari, especially considering how evil you can make a Sylvari look in character creation.

They already mentioned in an interview or article or something that they had thought about this and came to the conclusion that your characters are trying to save the world. THEY’RE GOOD. Lore-wise I think it would be too much of a stretch to either make it that you’re evil and accidentally save the world and destroying every living thing in the world, which is apparently their aim, wouldn’t work either as it’s an MMO.
Enemy factions, while interesting, polarise the playerbase against itself.
Maybe as a mini-game though, that Branded event in the betas was a tonne of fun, just needed a little tweaking.

Silver.8023:

They already mentioned in an interview or article or something that they had thought about this and came to the conclusion that your characters are trying to save the world. THEY’RE GOOD. Lore-wise I think it would be too much of a stretch to either make it that you’re evil and accidentally save the world and destroying every living thing in the world, which is apparently their aim, wouldn’t work either as it’s an MMO.
Enemy factions, while interesting, polarise the playerbase against itself.
Maybe as a mini-game though, that Branded event in the betas was a tonne of fun, just needed a little tweaking.

I can understand, most definitely, that it can be a bit of a stretch to be in any of these factions, but maybe they can (story-wise) have it so that our characters have a tolerance to the corruption and aren’t enslaved to it? But the main point I was getting to, it wouldn’t be to join one of the factions and go against the main playerbase/story, but against the other dragon factions. The lore does say that the corrupted from one faction do fight those of other factions. I guess just a little more emphasis on this, but by playing on one of these sides?

Honestly , this would only be viable on a very small size thing , like a SPvP map that we could tag teams and would have different mechanics and all that.

But there is noway i see such big change being implemented. Too much of the ingame content would need to be changed to fit it now.