Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I’ve recently been exposed to the Home Instances, due to the promotions of the mining and wood chopping nodes on your in-game store. I purchased these items hoping that it would aid with my daily gathering for quick dailies.. However, the blocking in the home instance is excessive and unnecessary in my opinion.

For example, why do you block players from going straight from the mining area of the home instance to the woodcutting area, they’re right next to each other however there is blocking preventing easy access? In order to get there, I have to go along the outside of my home and over a vine bridge which takes around 45seconds – 1min.

In general, the blocking in my home is excessive which makes it less intuitive. Players like their shortcuts, but it seems the home has none at all. If you’d like to make the Home Instance more popular / used then I’d advise making it a little more efficient for the user, starting with removing blocking where it isn’t necessary.

Race: Sylvari

Some of the home instances are better than others, for sure. They may fix the layouts since they are getting complaints about the new gem store portal, but who knows when.

However, you can go to the other home instance instead. For example, my Sylvari can go to my human home instance and get the nodes there. I know that if you have at least one of the other races, then any of your chars can go inside and harvest.

Now If you don’t have other races this may not be possible. It may require you to have at least one member of that race, or it may not. I’ve never read one way or another. I suspect you can and that it doesn’t matter but I have all 5 races and no way to check.

Unless of course you were one of the happy and fortunate people who bought a portal stone and you want to use it. That only takes you to your home instance.

I know it’s supposed to be convenient, and it probably is more convenient than most of the gathering away from the Home Instance. While you wait for them to place all nodes in just one spot, like a multi-mat Rich Vein. =)

I complained about this here on the forums the day the ore pack came out. This was for Hoelbrak and why the heck they are all the way on the other side.

In the Human instance, one of the new harvestable trees is blocked in another manner… you don’t have to go waaaaay out of your way to get it, but it us sitting practically right on top of the Krait Obelisk. (Almost as annoying as NPCs standing near a banker… you often interact with the wrong thing because they are in such close proximity).

This sort of thing makes me question the amount of thought that was put into the layout of nodes. I’ve read in the forum that some Slyvari nodes were put near the instance borders or a distance away from the other nodes. A tree put on top of a skillpoint, close enough for interaction problems.

Who would put a node on top of a skill point? Did no one run through at the end and look it over, check for interactions and to make sure each instance was relatively the same? It really makes me wonder about the level of their quality control and a desire to do a good job.