Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears but we’ve finnaly finished our video detailing the top 10 things we think are holding GW2 from becoming the number one MMO on the market.

EDIT: We are now discussing the video here:https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/The-Top-10-Things-GW2-Needs-to-Improve/first#post1776230 on the offical forums.
There is also a rather large discussion about it on the GW2 Guru forums if you’d prefer to look there: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/81976-the-top-10-things-guild-wars-2-needs-to-improve/

Hey wonderful video and I can really find no flaw in it. I love this game and honestly would have been willing to wait another 1-2 years for release while they polished it. You could have used Aion, as well as witcher, as games with major bug flaws and how Aion is an example of what not to do as a game company when this happens. I also played WoW from Vanilla through Lich and switched to Guild Wars, not because WoW is bad, hardly. It was all about community for me, from day one Guild Wars presented an awesome gaming community sans RA, and from Vanilla onto Lich WoW seemed to import the worst of the worst. One other point putting jeweling into PvP is needed, however putting it into open world as I see a few asking for is not cool. One of the problems in WoW are griefers. Last thing I want is for some 30 yo virgin, living in mommy’s basement and not good enough for PvP is to grief me in PvE while I’m farming. Hopefully Anet watches your video and takes note. I have been a steadfast supporter of Anet since my switch from WoW and would love to continue, they employ people from my state (WA), but note I don’t play GW2 because of non-sub, I play because I loved GW1, but new games of GW2 ilk are getting ready to drop and subs or no, if they offer the feel and deliver a polished product and Anet hasn’t upped thiers off I will go. Anet I know WvW is your baby, but please start addressing issues like culling in PvE, massive boss lags and everything else Kaaboose has mentioned. This game could be so much more please don’t make it Aion.

I didn’t mention Aion as I only played it for a week before I stopped. I didn’t feel I had enough experiance with it to make a direct comparison.
I proably should have specifed I only wanted Dueling avalible in the Mists. It has no place in PvE and Anet is right not to have implimented PvP in the open PvE areas of the game.
Thanks very much for your reply as you sound like you feel exactly the way I do about the current state of the game.
Also what are your thoughts on the Personal Story effecting the open world? I really have not been able to stop thinking about that since the Balrog’s ambush by Cauticus’s guards in Harathi.

I think the personal stories reaching out into open world is great. It just adds more depth to an already immense and beautiful world the devs created. That is something I would like to say that they got so very right, the open world they gave us, from day one it was breathtaking and still catches me wondering about how awesome this world is. And to take the personal stories, which can be very nice to very slow at times and fling them into that world is only a bonus.
Also you mentioned Magic Find articles not being helpful to the overall group, but the ascended/laurel item have excellent magic find and combat bonuses.

Seems the offical GW2 forum’s aren’t a popular palce to discuss GW2! Who’d have thought.
Head to: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/81976-the-top-10-things-guild-wars-2-needs-to-improve/ for discussion on this topic.

I pretty much fully agree on this video.

The fact alone that a-net puts so much resources into making these 1-time events rather than fixing the issues the game already has is just a bugger.

Not to mention these story events would not nearly keep me playing as along a something like dueling etc. It’s literally just more of the same. A proper dueling tool of ANY KIND would be fine. But much rather away from the PvE content (eg mists only)

Seriously, they should fix their priorities in my opinion. I find the balancing and fixes in these huge patches much more satisfying than F&F for example.

But aye, user friendlyness and polishing badly needed, that’s my biggest gripe also. The reason why i left GW2 for some time was because nothing was done for these problems.

Ps. Can’t this post go under ’’Suggestion’’? Just an idea, might get more votes and comments from there!

I will make sure this is heard +1.

Ah, and also,
They should add more variety to what you are grinding.

Now i’m not saying they should add mounts or anything but these small cosmetic items which could make the world glow of life and more things to do. I’m pretty much tired of farming gear etc (Only want a legendary for my ranger) and after that i literally have nothing to do. Other than Super Adventure Box now (LOVE IT!).

But things like mounts could be added in a way that they would only be things that we could brag with (Like legendaries, those things are pretty and that’s pretty much the only reason why they are wanted). Not to mention the fact that my Signet of Speed or whatever on my ranger continuously takes 1 slot from my skill tree only for the reason of running faster from A to B.

A mount with let’s say 30% movement bonus would eliminate my need to use this only because i want running to be less of chore is just stupid.

Not to mention, charr making techical race with engines and industrial type machienery.. tell me you wouldn’t like your charr cruise around in a chopper type motorcycle…

Or something of some sort of a heavy machinery vehicle with huge metal plums hanging about…

All i’m asking for more carrots on a stick. Maybe an apple on a stick. This gear grinding without any specific reason (other than looking pretty and i consider my charr really pretty) and leveling another character (which i’m doing, it also feels dull sometimes.)

Sorry for posting another reply, wouldn’t let me edit my previous one for unknown reasons…. :P

Torguish.4786:

Ah, and also,
They should add more variety to what you are grinding.

Now i’m not saying they should add mounts or anything but these small cosmetic items which could make the world glow of life and more things to do. I’m pretty much tired of farming gear etc (Only want a legendary for my ranger) and after that i literally have nothing to do. Other than Super Adventure Box now (LOVE IT!).

But things like mounts could be added in a way that they would only be things that we could brag with (Like legendaries, those things are pretty and that’s pretty much the only reason why they are wanted). Not to mention the fact that my Signet of Speed or whatever on my ranger continuously takes 1 slot from my skill tree only for the reason of running faster from A to B.

A mount with let’s say 30% movement bonus would eliminate my need to use this only because i want running to be less of chore is just stupid.

Not to mention, charr making techical race with engines and industrial type machienery.. tell me you wouldn’t like your charr cruise around in a chopper type motorcycle…

Or something of some sort of a heavy machinery vehicle with huge metal plums hanging about…

All i’m asking for more carrots on a stick. Maybe an apple on a stick. This gear grinding without any specific reason (other than looking pretty and i consider my charr really pretty) and leveling another character (which i’m doing, it also feels dull sometimes.)

Sorry for posting another reply, wouldn’t let me edit my previous one for unknown reasons…. :P

Mounts would be great, I recall something similar in aion where they could only be used outside of combat. (for the record Aion was a horrible game, but there were some things in it that were good) They served a cosmetic purpose and also were useful in running between gathering nodes. I can imagine them being very popular when scouting targets for guild missions and gathering materials. I’ve always liked having one as it just makes me feel more connected to my character.

Indeed.

Also 1 thing this game lacks is immersion that separates them from other classes.

What i mean by this is:

Considering the holy trinity is gone and pretty much every class can do anything (almost) and it’s more of all for all, the classes don’t stand apart from each other. Aside from flashy moves, means of dealing damage/healing and equipment style, they all feel pretty bland.

What would be cool if some skills (only some) would be acquired through challenges made specifically for these classes and something like Ranger would have some ’’unique’’ pet taming pets with special skins and lower rates of respawning, pretty much like WoW (blergh.. again) has with elite pets like Spirit pets, unique skinned pets (Lion cat pet, Ghost owl or Purple lava spider) which don’t drop really anything but are just minor, fun challenges.

Let me put some examples:

Warrior – Unique skill testing challenges, achieve some unique clothing for armor pieces. Eg, hold off X amount of enemies by not dying for X time period. Would get something like shiny ‘’gold plates’’ like Sergeant or whatever.

Ranger – Unique pet taming system. Like a heavily scarred bear or even evil version of sylvari hounds. Purely cosmetic reasons, the pets would stay the same as for base stats etc.

Elementalist – Considering they have spells which utilize movement like Ride the Ligtning, gauntlet style obsatcle course.

Guardian – Protect people in various ways etc..

I don’t have a lot of ideas for these but i just feel the classes, while being fun to play and the playstyle IS quite different, they can still pretty much do anything the next one can. Some are just more efficient than others in particular roles.

This would not only increase immersion immensly, but also your characters own personality, which we mmorpg players are so fond of. I mean, i like to generate a quick backstory for my character while i create him but the fact that every lion, every bear and every pet like that is the same in every way, you just have no way to really stand out from the crowd AS THE SPECIFIC CLASS. (Aside from shiny gear).

ALSO! Titles! :P

Obtain X amount of pets as ranger/Tame X amount of ’’special’’ pets? Beastmaster!
Defeat X amount of enemies as Warrior? Warmonger!
Protect X amount of whatever as Guardian? Savior!
Repair X amount of whatever as Engineer? Tinkerer! …you get the point. :P

Just food for thought…

Torguish.4786:

Indeed.

Also 1 thing this game lacks is immersion that separates them from other classes.

What i mean by this is:

Considering the holy trinity is gone and pretty much every class can do anything (almost) and it’s more of all for all, the classes don’t stand apart from each other. Aside from flashy moves, means of dealing damage/healing and equipment style, they all feel pretty bland.

What would be cool if some skills (only some) would be acquired through challenges made specifically for these classes and something like Ranger would have some ’’unique’’ pet taming pets with special skins and lower rates of respawning, pretty much like WoW (blergh.. again) has with elite pets like Spirit pets, unique skinned pets (Lion cat pet, Ghost owl or Purple lava spider) which don’t drop really anything but are just minor, fun challenges.

Let me put some examples:

Warrior – Unique skill testing challenges, achieve some unique clothing for armor pieces. Eg, hold off X amount of enemies by not dying for X time period. Would get something like shiny ‘’gold plates’’ like Sergeant or whatever.

Ranger – Unique pet taming system. Like a heavily scarred bear or even evil version of sylvari hounds. Purely cosmetic reasons, the pets would stay the same as for base stats etc.

Elementalist – Considering they have spells which utilize movement like Ride the Ligtning, gauntlet style obsatcle course.

Guardian – Protect people in various ways etc..

I don’t have a lot of ideas for these but i just feel the classes, while being fun to play and the playstyle IS quite different, they can still pretty much do anything the next one can. Some are just more efficient than others in particular roles.

This would not only increase immersion immensly, but also your characters own personality, which we mmorpg players are so fond of. I mean, i like to generate a quick backstory for my character while i create him but the fact that every lion, every bear and every pet like that is the same in every way, you just have no way to really stand out from the crowd AS THE SPECIFIC CLASS. (Aside from shiny gear).

ALSO! Titles! :P

Obtain X amount of pets as ranger/Tame X amount of ’’special’’ pets? Beastmaster!
Defeat X amount of enemies as Warrior? Warmonger!
Protect X amount of whatever as Guardian? Savior!
Repair X amount of whatever as Engineer? Tinkerer! …you get the point. :P

Just food for thought…

They are kind of covering this in the upcoming achivemnt system overhaul. Also in reguards to putting this post in the suggestions section, I don’t think I’m aloud to as it’s a video link off site. I might give it a shot, But it’ll proably get shut down or mvoed here.

Okay I’ve opened a topic on the suggestions page. If it doesn’t get removed I’ll be ignoring this one from now on.https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/The-Top-10-Things-GW2-Needs-to-Improve/first#post1776230