Guild Wars 2

Okay, I haven’t actually played FotM yet. I will soon, and I do want to, but I’ve had other things I wanted to do first. These suggestions are to try to limit the effect that FotM is having on the rest of the gameplay experience.

1) Move the portal out of Lion’s Arch. I miss Lion’s Arch being a place where I could pick up interesting information from map chat, or feel like there was an actual community out there. The whole LFG chat feed is ruining the experience. If the FotM portal were moved elsewhere then Lion’s Arch might go back to being a community hub rather than a dungeon entrance. Maybe it could even move to somewhere like the straits and there might be enough people hanging around looking for groups for the Balthazar statue fight occasionally

2) More controversial, and I’d need people who actually play it to give an opinion. Limit fractal runs to once a day/ a few times a week.

Honestly, this is me wishing the FotM hadn’t been introduced. I miss the maps having players in them, and I think this dungeon destroyed that. It’s too late to simply remove them (I haven’t tried them yet so don’t actually want them removed entirely myself), but this seems like something of a compromise. It might also make people feel better about playing the rest of the game if they don’t have the niggling idea that they could be getting more loot in the fractals.

EDIT: I do want to make clear that this isn’t meant to be read as a complaint. I love the game, and I think the recent complaints have been excessive. These suggestions are intended to help improve a game I currently really enjoy, and return some of the previously great aspects to it .

3) Finally make it so people can get Ascended gear from somewhere other then those stupid fractal dungeons. Problem solved.

Aye… give a means for players to achieve Ascended gear in open world PVE rather than forcing them to repeat the same series of fractals ad nausium. That might bring some back out into the player world rather than living in a dungeon. In fact I would love to see more reasons for people to populate the open world again. With the karma increases for dungeons you dont even see folks out karma farming in Orr except in rare instances. This sadly hurts the player base that does not care for instanced PVE content. As not everyone enjoys a linear dungeon experience. I myself much prefer a non linear PVE (and pvp) style of play. Which means open world where I can pick and choose where, what, and how I kill.