Guild Wars 2

Our game is getting old, and sometimes players want to make a new character just for something different, as simple as another class but a different race. Not sure how many characters is the average out there per account, but my circle of friends like making new characters and do spend gems on extra slots because we have fun making specific groups with a story.

My suggestion is to have a gem store purchase available to open ALL WP’s. This would not give map completion as POI’s and Vista’s would not be included; however, it would allow newly created characters the ability to participate in all events without the task of running for hours to open them up.

By simply giving WP’s, it would also allow those that still enjoy the map discovery to do so for completion, or simply just not purchase said item.

Furthermore, I would also recommend that in order to purchase an item that opens all WP’s that an account would already have to have a minimum of 1 character with 100% completion as a prerequisite of purchase. That way the exploration would still have to be completed at least once, and be an incentive to get map completion in order to purchase WP completion for other characters on the account.

I personally have done map completion on 3 characters and the grind is not appealing for the little reward it gives; however, it would be nice to run guild trek missions for example on a new character other than a main that has done them for years.

If this is possible, I am sure it would be good for sales and likely get a boost in both character slot purchase with a WP opening purchase, offered separately and even as a combo for special purchase at launch.

Thoughts? Would like to hear thoughts from Dev’s as well.

Only if characters that use that can no longer get map completion awards as well as the world completion award.

Good point. I would be fine with that.

I just want the WP’s to participate in everything without having to map complete every character, so that would be a sacrifice I would certainly pay for.

Well, keep in mind that a character doesn’t have to ‘map complete’ just to open the Waypoints that would be useful for WBs, Guild missions, etc. It’s not the same time investment as map completion (or even every Waypoint in a map).

Regardless, good luck.

Agreed Incupatus. Not the same time commitment; however, lots of time if you have multiple characters. After doing full map complete on 3 characters, I just do not want to spend the time doing it for all my others, but still would like to use them in all of what GW2 has to offer. Therefore if WP unlocks could be purchased, I imagine players would buy them, and potentially rejuvenate other long time players like me that do not want that grind anymore. Again, a prerequisite of finishing full map complete on at least 1 character would have to be complete to open the purchase ability, and once purchased as suggested by Aryiana, the reward if eventually finished would be forfeited for that character.

Thanks for the luck wish, hope the Dev’s see it and consider the possibility.

blackmac.2685:

Agreed Incupatus. Not the same time commitment; however, lots of time if you have multiple characters. After doing full map complete on 3 characters, I just do not want to spend the time doing it for all my others, but still would like to use them in all of what GW2 has to offer. Therefore if WP unlocks could be purchased, I imagine players would buy them, and potentially rejuvenate other long time players like me that do not want that grind anymore. Again, a prerequisite of finishing full map complete on at least 1 character would have to be complete to open the purchase ability, and once purchased as suggested by Aryiana, the reward if eventually finished would be forfeited for that character.

Thanks for the luck wish, hope the Dev’s see it and consider the possibility.

I would completely, 100% support this idea. I’d never use it myself (because I still enjoy getting world completion on my characters), but would be great for people who just want to play and don’t want to do world exploring over.

I’m a bit wary of putting something like that in the gem store, as it directly impacts gameplay by a bit.

Would you be willing to pay a gift of exploration for the same privilege? It would give that item some use beyond legendaries, and would literally be a gift of exploration to your next character.

It’s been asked for many times over the years, both in stand alone threads like this and in the gem shop suggestion sticky at the top of this forum. The stand alone threads have hashed out all the arguments for and against many times.

Ok, there could be new arguments not yet made, but thus far I see no new points in this thread. The hazards of devouring the forums daily for years … I start seeing the patterns