I came into GW2 with 8 yrs of experience from WOW and Rift, with
thousands of hours played total. I welcomed GW2 for the non raid setting,
but there are some key things I would suggest to improve them game.
1) Disable or replace Mesmer portals until it is fixed. Period. The “mesmer
bombing” in WvW has completely ruined the experience. Worse yet,
people hacking into keeps with it is game breaking.
2) Give a better reward for winning WvW in a week. Something simple like
bonus Karma or Honor Tokens. As it stands now there is a hollow feeling
of taking first or second place.
3) Have a better way to switch out weapons as opposed to doing it through
the inventory. Perhaps Im biased as an Elementalist, but it seems it would be
much better having weapon set hotkeys that can only be used outside of
battle.
4) Out of all the games Ive played, GW2’s money grind is by FAR the worse. Past games
allowed me to make good money by grinding or questing, and GW2 seems to
be the opposite. I know one player who has thousands of gold from working the
TP, but the majority of the people are not this savvy. Why is this a problem? If you want to encourage people to play more, than allow more ways to make money so
that they can gear out alternate characters. I have 2 level 80s, but have been hesitant
to level a third as bad as I want to because of the money involved.
The last 3 are trivial compared to the first one. That is by far the most de-motivating
thing in the game.