Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer/flameshield – I am not saying make the current skins easier to get, I am saying add new ones.

http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/guild-wars-2-the-kitchen-sink-post/2/

“Rewards will be for the level of the dungeon. That being said, the armor and weapon sets that you can get as rewards for finishing a dungeon are completely unique in appearance so a player of any level might be interested in the dungeon rewards.”

I do hope Anet recalls his quote and take another look at dungeons to see about improvements in this area. Right now, you just get a boring yellow helm at +5levels of the story mode of the dungeon you do. It is still a useful piece of gear, but uninteresting to look at. And you don’t get anything but tokens for doing the explorable branches. This is leading to people, for the most part, waiting until level 80 and picking the shortest path to repeat over and over. Instead of exploring all the paths as they become available from 30 to 80.

One thing that I would like to see is, if you do all of the story/explorable branches at least once, you get a full set of usable yellow gear at the level of the dungeon. For example, if you did all of the AC branches, you would get a full set of yellow lvl35 gear with a unique skin.

That way, you would have an incentive to do the dungeons at the appropriate time as part of your story progression to level 80, because they do actually link with the story in an interesting way, instead of waiting until level 80 to grind something out .

Again, this thread is not meant to advocate making the prestige skins easier to get. That is a separate issue. If they want to have something for 80s to work on in the long term, leave those as is. Maybe add a new set of skins that fit the theme of the dungeon.

But right now, there is not a lot of incentive to do AC at level 30-35, CM at 40-45, TA at 50-55 ect. I think a system for getting a set of gear, to keep to you up to date and looking cool, as you progressed through the game would be a great incentive to do all of these challenging dungeons as soon as possible.