Guild Wars 2

So I was looking at the world map earlier and noticed a large portion of it is basically covered in water (Isles of Janthir/Janthir bay)
Since we all know that water combat is that thing that we don’t talk about

I started wondering- since Anet has already developed systems to give us arial combat skills while gliding, and mounts to navigate terrain in PoF… Why not do some combination of those if we ever go to that water area in the form of boat focused mastery lines?

Think of a personal raft/boat you could use to travel across water.

One line could be focused on movement, IE: more speed, able to cross rough water, able to travel against strong currents, ECT.
Another could have weapon upgrades, IE: cannons, and new types of shots you can eventually unlock. Naval Combat!
Maybe involve some sort of a flag line that grants access to certain areas of the bay depending on the locals reactions to different flags you can raise? (Great opportunity to have open-world boat PvP between players who raise their PvP flag)

There’s a bunch of different lines that could be done with this, and I just wanted to hear opinions on if something like this would have any interest in the community.

(And of course you’d be able to sail your personal boat across any old map with water as well)

Amazing I’d buy that.

As long as there is still some kind of underwater overhaul and expansion in the future such that boats don’t negate the possibility of more underwater exploration, then I’m all for it.

WvW Naval combat BOIIII

Uh-oh Guild Wars 2 : Jewel of The Sea

So, after desert, maybe next one is sea?

It’s been my wish for us to have an open-world underwater map
(Even though so many people against it since the underwater combat is a meh, I hope ANet will do something about this)

But first, I gotta fight Balthazar and save Tyria

Well the skimmer on POF is said to be able to skim across water so who knows

Hello On a boat!

Something like what you describe could appear when we fight/sing a lullaby to Bubbles, the underwater dragon. Perhaps submarines instead of boats?

Personal sailboats? Yes, please!!! That plus housing would “complete” this game for me.

How about undersea. There are critters in that ocean. They need to be killed.

However, first Anet needs to overhaul underwater combat. Currently under water combat is clunky and takes a backseat to land combat.

Boat travel… On go the rose-tinted glasses now.

I remember the first time I encountered this in EQ1. You had to board a small barge (tricky and if you missed as they set off you had a long wait) which then zoned. Over the horizon, you slowly closed on an enormous sail boat which took you even further; I think it may have been Kunark but I may be wrong.

Something similar could be done, I feel, with GW2…

Imagine; casinos, cabins… Bars… Heck, you could even try some deep sea fishing

We already have gliding and the skimmer mount to carry us across water. I don’t see any need for a boat other than fluff (which is a fine reason). If people would like boat fluff rather than other kinds of fluff, they should definitely cast their vote. I would prefer player housing and more armor skins (which apparently take huge amounts of dev time). So I vote “No” to boats.

Underwater combat is great.. it just needs some upgrading..

It would be as simple as making Sword, Dagger and Pistol usable as underwater weapons for different classes..
Making them a bunch of new skill bars for each weapon and class then poof.. underwater just got a ton better..
Same can be said for making spears usable as land weapons sometime..

People give underwater such a hard time but I challenge you to find one MMO that does it better than Gw2…
What we really need is a lot more underwater content being added to justify priority to improve underwater combat.

It’s annoying that Anet seem to ignore this feature in the game despite it being so good and having so much potential..
I hope LW4 gives us an ocean map.. considering how much water they’ve added with the new map there’s plenty of potential there now to give the sea dragon a little attention..