Guild Wars 2

So as my eyes start to wander towards upcoming MMOs and what they have to offer I’ve asked myself what would make GW2 the perfect MMO to keep me luvin long time. Not that I don’t think it’s an already wonderful MMO, but we all have our wish list that we feel would make it better. I’m curious, what would be your top wish list items to make the game better?

For me (in order)…

1) Player (and Guild) Housing, I’m talking SWG quality housing… why can’t MMOs capture this feature? The HOURS of added gameplay for the OCD player (like me) and GEM STORE potential here for Anet is literally limitless…

2) End game guild level content, aka 10/20/40 man raids… though how well this would work out in a game that doesn’t have a holy trinity… hmmm

3) Yes we have WPs, but movement speed enhancements for PvE… especially for repeated world exploration for my alts, but also as eye candy. This could include, but not limited to: Mounts (duh) or a limited sprint on button push

4) Double jump…. why do so few games offer this.

Jasmine.8195:

… or a limited sprint on button push

4) Double jump…. why do so few games offer this.

Would be interesting to get more uses for that endurance bar

Jasmine.8195:

So as my eyes start to wander towards upcoming MMOs and what they have to offer I’ve asked myself what would make GW2 the perfect MMO to keep me luvin long time. Not that I don’t think it’s an already wonderful MMO, but we all have our wish list that we feel would make it better. I’m curious, what would be your top wish list items to make the game better?

For me (in order)…

1) Player (and Guild) Housing, I’m talking SWG quality housing… why can’t MMOs capture this feature? The HOURS of added gameplay for the OCD player (like me) and GEM STORE potential here for Anet is literally limitless…

2) End game guild level content, aka 10/20/40 man raids… though how well this would work out in a game that doesn’t have a holy trinity… hmmm

3) Yes we have WPs, but movement speed enhancements for PvE… especially for repeated world exploration for my alts, but also as eye candy. This could include, but not limited to: Mounts (duh) or a limited sprint on button push

4) Double jump…. why do so few games offer this.

I definitely respect that this would make the game more fun for you. It would kill it for me thought not each point equally. I enjoy PvE in moderation not as a main activity. That is the devil with this game. It has so many quality modes and that pulls different clusters of gamers in so many directions. Really, these days what is the primary mode (the anchor mode) for GW2? Historically, you would say sPvP. Would you today?

1) I like this but I would want guild houses and personal houses to be actually useful. DAOC did a great job balancing appearance with functionality.

2) This is what would kill it for me. Raids just are great when you have tons of guildies and are really serious. But for a casual, a raid tends to be too much time, wrong time, too hard to put together. And then there is the issue that raid quality PvE should have epic loot. I personally, think the more casual Tower of Madness was perfect. Raids would send me running for an exit faster than almost anything they could do. Pick up open raids are fine so long as they don’t last for hours and the mechanics are not so challenging that a PUG can’t do them.

Hard PvE is for another game IMHO.

3) Mounts are fine so long as they never see the light of day in PvP and WvW. It would be too fast to respond and would make the maps feel small. Small groups do well when you have to hunt them down and go off the focus zerg objective to do so.

4) That would annoy me. This game is already twitchy enough with dodging.

As you can tell, I bought the game for pvp and wvw. I prefer non-MMO PvE frankly.

Oniyui.8279:

Would be interesting to get more uses for that endurance bar

Excellent point, double jump = another potential use for endurance

Bombsaway.7198:

I definitely respect that this would make the game more fun for you. It would kill it for me thought not each point equally…

….Hard PvE is for another game IMHO…

…As you can tell, I bought the game for pvp and wvw. I prefer non-MMO PvE frankly.

Fair enough, it’s just my personal wish list. I love WvW and 100% agree mounts would have no place there. As for raiding, adding it doesn’t mean you would have to participate in it… it just means they’re catering to a larger audience.

In fact, I’d like to add continued development for WvW to the wish list – which should not suffer at the cost of adding raid content. I would think these would be separate design teams anyhow so it shouldn’t.

I’d also like to add permanent new map content (even if that means cutting back on living world content), especially for the areas on the map already that we cant explore (hellooooooo Crystal Desert). And since we’re not paying a sub, the money angle for Anet is you offer the raid content AND new map content as a purchasable xpac. Yes you opted out of this for living world content instead, so I’m asking you to reconsider that choice (again as part of my personal wish list).

@OP, I agree with everything you said but I would also like to add..

1)flying mounts that can take you to new far away lands.
2) Some form of holy trinity
3) Raids
4) If raids aren’t possible instead make a different 5 man for each lvl of FoTM that way you will truly feel as though you are progressing.