Guild Wars 2

One of the things I really like about GW2 and similar games is they are alt friendly. It can get dull running the same toon every day, plus its nice to see the other aspects of the story, other zones, etc. by running alts.

I have 5 toons – 1 an 80, the others between 20-30.

That brings me to the world explorer accomplishment. I wish this was account based rather than toon based.

This has nothing to do with difficulty or time needed to achieve this – its a major undertaking and should take time.

My issue is my main lvl 80 toon must run all the content in all the zones to achieve this. Yet I want to progress my alts through this same content. So rather than having new, fresh content for a Norn alt for example (my main is human) I am running content I’ve already seen.

This was an unfortunate design decision. When I played TSW (beta through 1 month after release when I finished all content) I lamented the fact the game is not alt friendly – start a new toon and you do 100% the same content as your first toon.

So GW2 is more alt friendly but in this case its also similar to TSW in that I will be running the same content multiple times.

I would prefer a design which allows each alt to contribute their heart completions, vistas, POIs etc. towards a global explorer accomplishment. That would eliminate the need to run content over and over.

I realize there are other things going on here – pre-req for legendary weapon creation for example – so I don’t expect this will ever change. Just wanted to toss my 2 cents in. Anything we can do to keep alt play fresh would be a nice benefit.

The problem with this is that all the content you have already done with one character would stop being available for the other, maybe that would be fine for your first 2 or 3 chars but by the 4th and 5th I think it would get very boring since you’d only have a couple of zones maybe with available content…