Guild Wars 2

1.) The DR mechanic and it’s impact on players who wish to farm
2.) The lack of new and varied armor sets
3.) Rewards for time and effort

edit: (Any chance you can also open a topic for the economy/BLTC?)

PvE:

• Condition damage Cap (making condition builds viable in parties)
• Class balance ( balance between access to boons, defense and overall damage)
• RNG (loot luck of some people is to good to be true, compared to others)

1: World boss loot. These are GW2s equivalent to traditional raid bosses, yet the loot they drop is terrible. Teq revamp was a step in the right direction, imo.
2: RP. Player housing, more emotes, chairs you can sit in, ect.
3: Temporary content/living world

Class Balance and why many classes don’t seem to carry their fair share of utility or damage and thus don’t get the same attention by groups looking to do PvE content.

Player/Guild housing.

Quality of life improvements such as account wide dyes, the option to buy skins for cultural/dungeon armor at a discount if you don’t want the stated gear, getting more value out of laurels, improving the loot drop rate for gear off hard encounters (like tequatl where I’ve ran him 20-30 times and have only 2 sunless runes as my reward).

PvE:

1: Loot RNG
2: Class Balance
3: Rewards (For anything in the game)

So many stuff I want here.

1) More guild functions such as guild castle etc.
2) Expanding current possibilities (eg more weapons/races)
3) LS and how its tied together but doesn’t show

1. Armour design – please remove armour restrictions. Let everyone wear light, medium and heavy armour – it would allow so much more costumization.

2. Living story – Are you actually able to produce the same content as expansions such as new races?

3. sPvP – why do you refuse to add more modes?

PvE:
1. Ascended Gear
2. Alt Friendliness
3. Grind / Farming Requirements

PVE:

1)New armor skins
2)New zones and more lore
3)Higher difficulty and higher reward content ( e.g. Hard Mode).

1) Class Balance
2) Builds Balance (all builds to be equally needed/wanted on all aspects)
3) Continue the living world, affecting the world… not the gem store only.

PvE:
1. Expansions
2. Time Gating
3. Grind (or as Vol put it much more eloquently: “rewards for time and effort”)

WvW:
1. Rewards
2. Balance (1v1)
3. New WvW specific skills (i.e utilities available to every profession)

1) Living World/Temp content
2) Grind and RNG
3) Content difficulties and timers

1 – RP/Lore (They’re kinda entangled)
2 – Alt friendliness
3 – PvE specific class balance

1: LS and why it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere as far as an actual plot/story.
2: Personal Story, specifically changing it so it doesn’t include a dungeon.
3: Quality of Life improvements such as larger stack sizes.

1. Housing (Personal instance / Guild)
2. Town Clothing/“Wardrobe”
3. Legendary items (upcoming accessories, armour)

(Edit: Mysterious man with microphone approaches: “Cantha?”)

1) Rewarding skill not luck/farming
2) Improving the storytelling
3) Improving boss/mob design
4) Guild functions

PVE
1) Class balance, build variety (especially in dungeon, fractal), even more specific
2) New armor outside of gem store
3) Closet

For PvE:
1. The Living story compared to an expansion worth of content
2. PvE locker for skins (Y so many backpack items)
3. The difficulty of achievements rewards in pve compared to pvp.

1. Ascended Gear/max gear
2. Cosmetics and their usability (the half-finished town clothes system, the expansion of the achievement skin unlock system to other skins, etc.)
3. Guild Features esp. Guild Halls

1.) the lack of storytelling / depth in open-world events
2.) generic item drops
3.) lore releases in form of blogs instead of ingame

1.) No mystic forge armor sets!?!? (I’d like to spend time making armor and not weapons or backpieces)

Vol.5241:

2.) The lack of new and varied armor sets

3.) The lack of dyeable weapons and backpieces

Edit: I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks there is a lack of armor skins and the means to obtain new skins.

PvE:

1. Combat mechanics overhaul. Making it fun with more depth.
2. Story and character development. How to make it more appealing.
3. Rewards. Ways to reward for time, yet not make it the primary focus for people to play pve.

PVE
1. Skins – I like the “Skin Bank” that is used for achievement skins. Can you do this for all skins going forward.
2. Town clothes – Can you treat town clothes as skins above?

PvE
1. Living World
2. Guild Functions
3. New, better quality rewards (example being, better reward drops from bosses, new armors/weapons added)

1. Armor/build variety
2. Control builds and their place in dungeons
3. Living Story

1: Rewards (specifically LS ones and holiday/events. Why no AP rewards panel usage for LS rewards and the obscene requirements for holiday stuff)
2: Living Story/Permanency (content wise)
3: Alt unfriendliness

1) The direction of dungeons.

1. The direction of this game, and why it changed/what is going on.
2. The excessive amount of grind added and RNG gambling via the Gem Store and drops.
3. Diminishing Returns and how it is hurting the players and not helping anyone.

Those are my three main topics.

PvE:
1. RP (house, townclothes, emotes ..)
2. Skins (new armor and weapon skins, without gem shop and wearable for characters below lvl 80. without the use of transmutation stones)
3. new explorable maps

1) Living Story — multiple posts are out there, not only concerning the frequency with the updates, but the contents of the updates, ranging from thoughts on the quality of the story/lore, the actual mechanics of the various instances/missions included, to the number of achievements that must be completed in a finite amount of time to obtain the shinies.
2) Ascended Gear — while personally its inclusion in the game doesn’t phase me one way or the other, given the number of threads on this topic, it is definitely controversial and bears further discussion/review. With the cat out of the bag, so to speak, I don’t believe it could be removed from the game completely, nor do I think that’s necessary, but further discourse on how it could be obtained would assuredly be welcomed.
3) RNG — with each LS update, holiday, festival, etc., has come the quest for new shinies, whether they be backpacks, weapon skins, minis, helmets … but the backlash over those items being locked completely behind RNG chests/random drops/based off of mats from random drops (Halloween recipes) has, at times, reached near deafening levels on the forums. Coupled with many of the items being account bound has left many folks without an option to obtain them at all, since they’re luck is either atrocious or they refuse to spend gold/gems on getting the chests in the first place. How the new shinies that become available in-game is definitely something that could be looked at, as well the drop rates for different mats, rares, exos, percursors, etc.

PvE:

1. Risk vs Reward: mainly the fact that open world zerging bosses while spamming your autoattack is on par reward-wise with dungeon speedclears and ridiculously more rewarding than Fractals

2. Addition of new dungeons/fractals

3. Dyeable weapons

1) alt friendliness and time gating with regards to laurels and ascended gear.
2) HM equivalent. A harsher downscaling from the current downscaling above the area level to several levels below. If downscaled more, then get better drops.
3) merging non city maps in some way, an underflow system so that areas are more populated.
4) bring back the Guild Wars 1 costume system, a wardrobe system

For pve

1) RNG
2) RNG
3) RNG

Concerning CRAP rewards for everything I do

1: Making encounters in PvE challenging in new ways. (Making our builds matter more)
2: Ascended gear (or the grind for power)
3: Game compulsion/addiction (And how GW2 could become a ‘good’ MMORPG from an ethical point of view)

PvE:
1. Future of stat progression with respect to gear, levels, skills, titles, etc.
2. Temporary vs. permanent/cyclical content
3. Improving AI to provide dynamic combat experiences

1. Build diversity in PvE, i.e. making max direct damage (berserker gear) no longer the only optimal time/effort choice for most PvE content (particularly dungeons).
2. Similarly, Condition caps.
3. New Armor skins and skin wardrobe.

PvE:

1. DR
2. Flesh out more profession’s roles prominently, potency/viability of certain roles still do not come up to snuff— potent healing role still not quite there.
3. Ghost town zones nobody does anymore unless linked to a world boss(Southsun Cove 99% abandoned pretty much imo).

Honestly, I don’t really have a lot of questions about where Guild Wars 2 is at the moment, mostly because I don’t play much anymore due to a frustrating lack of bugfixing on my favored skillset.

I do wonder, though: Why not ask each profession and eventually race, individually, about their concerns? The issues of an Engineer are likely not the same as a Warrior, after all, and asking each class individually to speak their concerns to you would do much to avert the feeling of being ignored (accurate or not, it’s how some people feel).

And I guess here’s the suggestions for topics/questions I can come up with for PvE:

1 ) Living Story – What’re the chances of more permanent effects on the game world? Will further villains be as two-dimensional as those of the past, or will a higher standard be set? Will the Living Story continue to be, effectively, almost exclusively for level 80s?
2 ) Dungeons – Any more work on these on the way? They’re still not something I particularly enjoy, and I hate that the final stage of the Personal Story is forced into one. Any intent to perhaps change that last bit?
3 ) Like so many others, I am mildly concerned about class balance…especially after watching teams of heavies steamroll content that would give a varied party hell.

PVE
1. Guild halls/player housing and how to do this.

2. Class balance (pick one class, and discuss the skills, traits, bugs, pros and cons in depth over all the different playing areas, www, pve, dungeons and pvp. I suggest starting with ranger, engineer, or necro as these seem to be the most problematic in certain areas. If you do one profession at the time, it will be easier to focus. Also, do not start with warrior or guardian as these seems to be in the best place atm)

3: Cosmetics (dyable weapons, scars and tattoos, town clothes usable in activities, town clothes usable in battle maybe with special title for completing things in town clothes)

1. More Dungeons & End Game
2. Less Restrictive Time gating (ie. fewer daily tasks, more weekly/monthly)
3. More Skills & Traits

1. Ascended gear and Alt Friendliness
2. Two week cycle of living story
3. Charr armor

1) Hard mode dungeons (if ever)

2) Time gating (particularly dungeons, but overall as well)

3) Party system improvements (LFG too, but LFG is still new and probably got its discussion still going on)

Player housing.

I’m sure I could think of couple of more things. I’ll add tomorrow if I do. It is late.

editing:
Alright, adding two things!

Borrowing this term from few posts down since it’s better worded than I could think of: Expansion level content.

Last but not least: Roleplaying features.

In no particular order:

PvE:
1. Class balance and performance (e.g. serious long-standing bugs in need of fixing) – this includes the utility of pets
2. Horizontal vs. vertical progression now and in the future
3. Living story vs. more permanent high-level content

WvW:
1. Class balance and performance again
2. Matchup system and server balance
3. Downed state and the rally mechanic and their place in WvW

Edit: thought of a better (and less vague!) one.

1) Testing / Test server / speed of releases vs quality etc.

2) Class balance

3) Guild improvements

Expansion Level Content – When can we expect to see an expansion of the personal Personal Story (not the Living Story), complete with voiced dialogue, branching stories, Elder Dragons, etc; new, fully-developed zones (Crystal Desert, Ring of Fire, etc) akin to those in the game at release (vistas, renown hearts, dynamic events, etc); and/or new races?

Weapon Skill Customization – Will you ever implement customizable weapon skills (i.e. the freedom to swap Hundred Blades out for something else that fulfills a different function, thus leading to multiple builds utilizing the same weapon type)?

Player Housing/Home Instances – Is there anything beyond resource nodes being planned to make the Home Instance feel more personal and a worthwhile place to visit? Is Player Housing being worked on at all? Or is it just “on the table”…a concept that can be developed later but isn’t currently being anything other than potential content?

Alternate Question
If this question isn’t off the table (I imagine it is, but I’d be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t ask), I’d like to ask why the philosophical shift from “fun” to “grind” is so jarringly overt. The content in the game at launch and the content being churned out via Living Story are nothing alike, and I’m wondering if the daily log-in metric has trumped the “if it fun” metric.

I can’t imagine the developers risking a kitten storm by addressing this issue, but I feel it’s the most important issue with regards to this game’s future. It’d be a tough subject to discuss, as it may involve “hard truths”, but I think we deserve what path this game is going to be taking going forward.

1)Class balance
2)Build Balance
3)Gear Balance – do something so that Zerker is a CHOICE not a necessity.

PVE

1) Ascended gear, especially armors & weapons.
2) Living Story
3) Overflow system, especially concerning Tequatl and other open world raids.

1) Guilds – Management tools mostly (but guild halls too I guess)

2) RNG/DR – Despite doing a variety of content (dungeons, farming, events, etc) with 300%+ MF I see the amount of rares/exotics in a week as a “lucky” person sees with no MF in a day. How do we fix this without taking all the fun out of getting random stuff and saturating the market.

3) Player home instance – I want to be able to put collectibles (like Sanctum model) in my home instance. And a trophy wall to display back pieces/items I’ve earned but am not using. Display case maybe?