Guild Wars 2

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

UPDATE 06-06-2014

LS becoming permanent step 1 of 3 complete, two more to go

All great ideas. I don’t know about king, but it would go a long way to making the game more player friendly and more fun.

1. Would be nice to revisit some living stories, not really needed though. I feel it only bugs people who care about lore and storylines. Perhaps it can be implemented through instanced dungeons.
2. We will get Legendary armor in the future. Not needed.
3. Very very very very very very very very very very very necessary. Very. Capture the Flag and Deathmatch would be so good for sPvP

1. Do not make crafting necessary for best gear (allow glory, karma and/or badges to work).
2. Provide more group oriented objectives in WvW (e.g. more value on each rune taken) as alternative to zerging.
3. Make PvP results impact WvW.

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

Just to address your first point, I would like to point out that if they left all the content permanent it would be the most confusing clusterbomb of a game ever created.

From beginning to end – can you imagine a world where we are simultaneously building road signs for the refugees Wayfarer Hills while the refugees have already arrived and are camping in Lion’s Arch AND have already moved on to Southsun where they are being exploited by the Consortium? All the while we have Queen’s Pavilion balloons everywhere taking players to the Jubilee while Molten Portals spawn everywhere plus we have started to open Southsun yet The Ancient Karka has already been defeated but karka are still invading Lion’s Arch?

Or how about Evon Gnashblade politicking for votes at the same time he’s bemoaning his loss while election banners are hanging everywhere and Ellen is already in the Council? Or what about Kessex Hills with the Tower of Nightmares both up and down at the same time?

Those concepts work well within a linear game where you are working your way through the story via quests and such but it simply doesn’t make sense here.

I do think the 2 week tempo feels a bit pressured and I’m happy they’ve moved towards letting the content overlap in one month chunks, but I simply don’t see how everything could be left in game within the freeform/nonlinear/multiple layers of content in zones way this game is designed.

I also like that they are bringing back some components of Living World through Fractals such as Molten Facility and Aetherblade Retreat and think that there is a great opportunity there to bring back more – I’d love to see the Tower of Nightmares return in the Mists.

As for your other points I like them! I’ve seen some developer discussion on their plans to add GvG and different PvP modes, so those things are on their way

Bombsaway.7198:

1. Do not make crafting necessary for best gear (allow glory, karma and/or badges to work).
2. Provide more group oriented objectives in WvW (e.g. more value on each rune taken) as alternative to zerging.
3. Make PvP results impact WvW.

Number one would make me so happy. I absolutely loathe crafting to begin with, and this game inspires a special kind of loathe to the crafting grind.

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

1. Not possible nor realistic. After all, Wintersday and Halloween were part of the Living Story and both altered Lion’s Arch. How would you implement both of them at the same time? And the Living Story is just that, LIVING. A lot of the stuff that has happened would not make any kind of sense as permanent additions to the game. A big complaint about MMORPGs in general is that the big bads get defeated and nothing changes. That is not exactly true for Living Story, which is good. And what would happen with Cutthroat Politics? An election that never concludes? Queen’s Jubilee, a neverending festival hosted by the Queen?
2. That would have to come with bumping up the costs of Ascended gear to 2-3 times what it is right now. And I don’t think anyone would like that.
3. They are already struggling with balancing 5v5 PvP. You really want them to try doing the same with GvG? As for Deathmatches, I would love to play DM, but I understand that observing a deathmatch is boring stuff.

1. ‘Sort’ function for bag and bank: clicking ‘sort’ will stack duplicates and group everything together (all weapons next to each other, all crafting mats etc)

2. Weapon switching for Ele’s

3. Guild Wars (guilds can choose wherever they like on any map to fight each other – the guild with most kills gets rewards)

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

0. Calling your own ideas genius don’t necessarily make them genius.
1. Don’t make it permanent. It would be wierd to still be fighting Scarlet related stuff, and hear Scarlet’s voice during those evernts if we killed her already.
2. no opinion, since as far as I know, ascended gear is supposed to be a long term goal, not something you get once, then never have an active part in the game’s economy again.
3. If GvG is put into the game, how do you balance it? How does a 20 man guild fight a 50 man guild?

Chrispy.5641:

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

0. Calling your own ideas genius don’t necessarily make them genius.
1. Don’t make it permanent. It would be wierd to still be fighting Scarlet related stuff, and hear Scarlet’s voice during those evernts if we killed her already.
2. no opinion, since as far as I know, ascended gear is supposed to be a long term goal, not something you get once, then never have an active part in the game’s economy again.
3. If GvG is put into the game, how do you balance it? How does a 20 man guild fight a 50 man guild?

1. Add an item where you can recap all instances and cutscenes of the LS.
2. Legendaries can switch stats.
3. Just make it non competitve. You can fight as a 20man guild vs a 40man guild but you don’t have to. And you will neither gain or lose something if you win/lose.

Aye to all 3.

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

1. How would that fit with the story though at a point you will have Scarlet running 4 things at once may be 5 she would be everywhere all the time. I like how they make fractals for LS from the past.

2. I think that how legendarily gear going to be earring rings etc.. too its a cool idea though and nice but it would take a lot away from the economic to remove the mat sink they make.

3. Ya that would be nice just keep in mind its Spvp so you only have thoughts combos most ppl are getting use to GvG being done in wvw and having there “OP” builds to fight in though GvG.

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Chrispy.5641:

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

0. Calling your own ideas genius don’t necessarily make them genius.
1. Don’t make it permanent. It would be wierd to still be fighting Scarlet related stuff, and hear Scarlet’s voice during those evernts if we killed her already.
2. no opinion, since as far as I know, ascended gear is supposed to be a long term goal, not something you get once, then never have an active part in the game’s economy again.
3. If GvG is put into the game, how do you balance it? How does a 20 man guild fight a 50 man guild?

1. Add an item where you can recap all instances and cutscenes of the LS.
2. Legendaries can switch stats.
3. Just make it non competitve. You can fight as a 20man guild vs a 40man guild but you don’t have to. And you will neither gain or lose something if you win/lose.

What he said
I wish I could go back and play the living story just as you play the main story. (not including Wintersday … )
And GvG? how to ballance it? Nothing more simple ….. Like in GW1 !!

I dotn think thats enough to make gw2 a king:P gw2 is good game but comparing to the game features the upcoming MMOs will have such as housing and other awesome sandbox elements i doubt this will be a good year for anet! still gw2 is my favorite MMO currently because it tried to innovate and it actually succeed that, but theres always a life time limit to every game.

Just one for now…PLEASE do smt about using a salvage kit on a rare/higher loot or misclick on a non-salvageable item and then have to select the salvage kit AGAIN!

1. If living story is permanent, it won’t be living story anymore. The idea behind living story is that it’s dynamic. For ex…..if all content were permanent, and we kill Scarlet …how can someone go back and fight her in one of her previous stories? Makes no sense. No…Living story should in my opinion be considered a BUFFER between major expansions.

2. No…that would make legendaries redundant. That’s the whole beauty of legendaries atm. + ascended is not that hard to get…it’s about 1/4 the work of a legendary.

3. Those things actually adress just a small part of the playerbase. Dunno why so many ppl cry about Guild halls…PvP..GvG..and whatever. This is a game where guilds really don’t matter that much apart from “can i get an invite to hop from overflow to main?”.

This is an MMO not a lan game (pvp and gvg). Most ppl are interested in PvE and WvW…where there are lots of numbers. The rest are just a minority overall….or are considered a hobby withing the game.

GW2 is king atm. no doubt about it….but it needs a lot of polishing and some areas need to be rethinked. Sry..no genius idea here. I only see “this is what i want for myself” ideas.

No
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Yes

greez

amrothx.4136:

1. Keep on doing Living Story but make it permanent.
2. Make ascended gear stat-switchable
3. Expand PvP with GvG, random arenas, deathmatch ….

If you do that GW2 will be king.

Peace!

1 = No
As other have said, if it’s all permanent, then it is not a living story any more, just game patches.

2 = No.

3 = GvG has already been suggested many times in many threads. It will probably show up after Guild Halls are added. “Deathmatch” is just another term for duels, which have also been discussed many times in many threads.

Nothing “genius” about any of these suggestions, all simply duplicates of other suggestions so they are not even original.