Guild Wars 2

Knowing there were so many amazing weapons and armor from the original Guild Wars game, that we simply don’t have available to us now in GW2.

I remember on my Paragon when I bought a Voltaic Spear in GW1 and dyed it black (found a great example of one via a Google Image search – see pic below to be in awe of its epicness). It cost me everything I had at the time, but it brought me so much joy & I had no regrets. Every day I would literally smile, because I had that one weapon I always wanted. The pulsating current effect on it… the ability to dye it the color I wanted… Heck, I remember all the amazing weapons that players came up with too, via the ‘Design a Weapon’ contest (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Design_a_Weapon_Contest). We the players, were given the opportunity to make the game even more amazing than it already was, by having a say in what actually made it into the game. That was SO COOL! I miss that :-(

And while I’m ecstatic that everyone @ Arenanet are listening to us when it comes to the Revenant, I feel as though sometimes the best suggestions, especially the ones in the ‘[Suggestions] Gemstore Items’ thread (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestions-Gemstore-Items/first), can often go ignored. Yes, some of them have made it into the game from time to time – like the chaos and tormented weapon skins, and I REALLY do appreciate that, I just feel sometimes there’s so many suggestions in there that would make great content or gemstore additions, and aren’t even looked at or acknowledged.

Here’s a few examples:

Celestial Weapons (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Celestial_weapons)
Dyeable Weapons (would be a huge task, but an amazing update if it were ever made possible one day)
Legendary Dyes (metallic dyes, glowing dyes, sparkling dyes, you name it)
New hairstyles (players have even provided pictures of hairstyles they want – but nothing is added)
Non-trench coat skins for medium armor (because lets face it, at least 90% of the medium tops are trench coats)
More skimpy male armor (males get the short end of the stick when it comes to skimpy stuff)
Lord Faren and Kasmeer Meade swimsuit outfits (great gemstore additions if you ask me – picture also attached below)

There are literally 47 pages worth of AMAZING suggestions. There’s even weapon concepts that players have come up with themselves, that aren’t even acknowledged or implemented, like this one for example:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/Shatterer-Weapons-made-out-of-Screenshots/first

I mean, come on, these are incredible! That would make an epic new black lion weapons set. I know I’d be interested!

And another thread that should get some attention by Anet:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/Character-Select-Redesign/first

Arenanet, you’re doing an AMAZING job listening to us, and you’ve proven it with the Revenant by giving it weapon swap, and a whole bunch of other things lately. This is GREAT, this is what we want to see – feedback and suggestions actually being implemented. I just feel sometimes that some of the other threads I mentioned in here deserve a bit more love and attention too – because there’s SO many great ideas in these forums that should make it into the game, but go unnoticed.

PLEASE, when you have a spare moment during all the Heart of Thorns and Revenant testing, take a moment to consider all the other things that have been suggested here on these forums – because there’s a LOT of ideas worth implementing. Especially bringing back the Design-A-Weapon contest. Heck, if you brought it back now, there might even be time to let us have a vote in what new legendaries make it into Heart of Thorns?

Anyway, this is just my plea for all the amazing suggestions in these forums to get a look see, because often times it can feel like they go completely unnoticed. There’s a pool of suggestions, but an ocean of possibilities and potential, if they’re only looked at. Again, you guys are doing a great job, I just hope that all the other non-Revenant related suggestions are, at some point, looked at too :-)

Thanks again for listening to us, especially with all the recent Revenant changes. It means a lot. Let’s work together to make this game even more epic!

sadly we got washed out by the nonstop flame reskins :/.

its funny because i was talking to a guildie the other day about this, I wishfully wanting a legendary greatsword that was based around the depths of the ocean with teal to blue background …..its a shame anet to bias towards water though Q_Q

Id gladly offer up the twilight im mere few hours away from to zommoros to make it

praise be to zommoros – savior of tyria

The current ANet has nothing to do with the ANet that brought us the original Guild Wars. Back then it was about fun, now all they care about is money.
They only work on stuff they can monetize so don’t get your hopes up.

Well it is a business not a charity

still you are right they have changed and not for the best

echo.2053:

Well it is a business not a charity

still you are right they have changed and not for the best

There was a time when selling fun was a business

“Dyeable Weapons (would be a huge task, but an amazing update if it were ever made possible one day)”

If I’m not mistaken these were available in beta so i don’t think it would be a tremendous amount of work. They don’t do it because they want you to keep buying keys until you get enough scraps or tickets to buy the skins you want. Yes it’s a business but not everything should be about the money, what ever happened to creativity for the sake of being creative?

I agree with some of this – GW1 has an amazing assortment of weapons and armor that would be awesome to see in GW2.

For example – some heavy armor like Elite Platemail and Elite Templar would be ideal to release with the expansion even if it is via the gem store.
I really don’t get why they haven’t added a lot of this stuff in already. It’s not like it isn’t selling.

I would love to see dyable weapons, the Golden Phoenix Blade, and the Stormbow.q

Nothing announced for HoT to date interests me to any significant degree, but I hope some new skins will liven things up.

I’ve lost all faith for now so I’ll just return in a year and see how things are. I was so excited for HoT, but none of the changes implemented recently and the contents of the coming expansion are good for the game — in my personal opinion. And I am talking about my own enjoyment of it, which is zero now. I loved PvP and WvW. Now they’ve managed to just mess up both.