Guild Wars 2

For the longest, I only played my main, an asuran, and the home instance was rarely visited.

Then resource nodes and a teleport stone were added, so now I am there almost every day.

Last week I rolled a human and saw a human home instance… and was blown away by the difference.

The human home instance is a little village! shops, npcs with fuller dialog and activities. hustle and bustle and the crafting nodes are more sensically placed. Overal, divinity’s reach is clearly the superior and more invested in locale of the starting cities, but….

Being an asuran at heart, I have a few asthetic suggestions:

1 move the asuran crafting nodes into the labs and have them be part of experaments. One of the lab buildings could be doing agriculture research, and there be little plots in it with the nodes. Another one doing matterials or mineralogical research, and house the mining nodes. the labs asthetics and, ideally character dialogs should be changed to match the themes of each lab

2 living lab: the asuran home is supposed to be a krewe and its lab. The player is suppose to be head of the crew. make some research! more specifically, have the labs have matterials available, perhaps for karma instead of coin? simple things like certain low level asuran themed items buyable elsewhere (petre dish delight?)

3 things to make home instances really great, have them function like a mini game that outputs various things… in the case of the asuran, it would be lab management. spending matterials and dedicating ends with chances of success in having the crew produce things, but a chance of failure. player could choose dangerous/high risk experaments that could have catastrophic failures (opening portals that summon dangerous monsters) The krew can be trained up and the lab focused for certain things, that make certain kinds of work more likely to succesd but not improve other kinds. experaments could have various timers, including quite long ones like guild construction. it looked like my krew and guests got bigger as I played through the personal story.. taht could be tied into expanding options of the lab. new members can be told (and purchased) to focus on certain things and the lab become more developed/advanced and more experaments (and rewards/events) become available.

I like your enthusiastic and imaginative approach, I always wanted to see more racial diversity in this game, something to make you proud of the race you chose, but anet arn’t interested, for them racial diversity is just a spanner in the works of the cash shop, they want everyone to be the same so that when new items go on sale they have the biggest possible market in which to sell those items, they don’t want to make something that’s only going to appeal to just one race, because then they would have to make something different for each race and that requires extra productivity, personally I think theyre doing their game an injustice and have been since launch but aint nothing gonna change, the more it does the more its the same.