Guild Wars 2

There are ruins an’ graves, an’ abandoned ancient cities all over Tyria which really add to the atmosphere of the game … but allota people just run right past em an’ and that’s a shame. I would love to see the addition of secret rooms, puzzles, doorways, an’ more tucked away in some of these places to be found by explorers.

I know we have some jumping puzzles already, but they don’t hafta be jumping puzzles, and there’s also room for trapped treasure vaults, ghosts in underground dungeons where they were left to die, word puzzles, trapped floors, or more.

I know ya can get some of this in the official, large dungeons, and I’m not asking for anything more time and resource consuming than adding a new jumping puzzle would be. I’d just like to see an extra level added to all those fantastic ruins we can explore.

I discovered a chest in one of the ruins I had to go into for the Halloween scavenger hunt that I did not know was there. Apparently there was a champion and a few veterans guarding it but by the time I got there the crowd was so thick they apparently already did away with them.

But it was a nice surprise. Of course the contents were paltry whites and blues that were not even useful to my character. I would love to see more “hidden treasures” around any of the ruins IF the rewards were sufficient enough to tempt me. I don’t mind having to fight a champion and vets in the way, if the rewards are worth the effort.

Unfortunately, so far I’ve not found many “treasures” to be worth the fight it took to open the chests.

I was surprised yesterday when I found an enormous temple in Mount Maelstrom, and it didn’t open into any kind of interior complex.

With the readiness the team have shown to introduce new jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons, I’d be surprised if a lot of structures weren’t placeholders for forthcoming new content.

They probably have a lot of such stuff ready-made and tucked away. Bringing it slowly into the game gives old-timers a bit of temptation to go back and explore, which is very important.

Oh, and rewards are being reworked continually! Dungeon and story rewards were mentioned for upcoming patches, but I’m sure the devs have considered chests as well.

We need more treasure chests in game, make it worth exploring, right now, map completion for some of us isn’t attractive enough.