Guild Wars 2

1) Keep the current method for legendary save one change, every account chooses one precursor. If you want more then one then use the current methods. But give every person something to start working on in the game other then just farming up currency to buy something to work on.

2) Set Ascended gear to Exotic stats with the exception of infusion for the PvE fractals. Ascended gear will only benefit PvE instances then and have 0 impact on PvP. New content comes out upgrade the infusions but have them not count while in PvP.

3) Make Fractals a little more lucrative then open world additionally make it the best place to farm for your legendary by far. New legendary or new content the best place to farm it would be in the new instances. This only works if the following is implemented though.

4) Ascended gear to run the #3 Fractals and instances can only be obtained out in the open world. For you to excel in the Legendary and newly introduced content you need the Ascended gear. To get the Ascended gear you need to be questing out in the open world.

Lastly, send out an email to all those that have purchased the game. Explain the mistake of putting gear grind in to a advertised as Horizontal Progression game in an attempt bring back players that have swore off the game and anything else AN produced. Hope they believe you and give the game another chance.

Oh look, its one of those threads.

Nah, I disagree on with almost everything you said there.

the most important thing for WvW and spvp: nerf cheese specs and make meta interesting.

How about you just give every new character his legendary of choice at character creation? And then Anet will bake cupcakes and the devs will personally go to every players house and tearfully apologize for all their so-called mistakes and beg them to keep playing (while handing out the cupcakes of course).

The cupcakes are important here.

Is this post some kind of ironic jab? Grind open world so you can turn into a dungeon rat for legendaries (assuming everybody cares)? And isn’t fractals already more lucrative than open world? lol my sides.

3) o-O

Seriously, are you just going on about a legendary and even more dungeon grinding?

From what I can get from your post I have to disagree with everything you just said.
We need to focus more on the open world and diverse gameplay, really, it will make the game much more fun for every one.
I could’t care less about those players who left the game for whatever reason- why should Anet beg them to come back? They are not a jilted lover for kitten’s sake.
( yes, I typed kitten :p )

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

How about you just give every new character his legendary of choice at character creation? And then Anet will bake cupcakes and the devs will personally go to every players house and tearfully apologize for all their so-called mistakes and beg them to keep playing (while handing out the cupcakes of course).

The cupcakes are important here.

Psh, no deal. I’m more of a muffin person. Perfect on-the-go breakfast. Nom.

I’ll try and be as serious as possible here:

1) I can’t be the only person that read this as ‘I want a free precursor!’ as opposed as a genuine suggestion to get people back, can I?

2) Meh, no particular opinion on this.

3) Yup, make Fractals more lucrative and undo everything the coming patches are trying to achieve. It’s almost like you didn’t read the blogpost, amirite?

4) They’re already going to be introducing Ascended gear into the open world and WubVWub. I correct myself: Iamrite. You didn’t read the blog post.

5) See, I used to be one of those people who thought WTFOMGBBQ?! when they brought out Ascended, thinking it went against the manifesto. However, I couldn’t see where they said they wouldn’t be introducing Vertical Progression. Also, we don’t know what the future holds. One step up isn’t a gear grind.

This thread is actually a hidden rant about Ascended Items, not about how to attract players back to the game. Three out of the four points is about Ascended/Fractals. Try harder next time.

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

How about you just give every new character his legendary of choice at character creation? And then Anet will bake cupcakes and the devs will personally go to every players house and tearfully apologize for all their so-called mistakes and beg them to keep playing (while handing out the cupcakes of course).

The cupcakes are important here.

What kind of Cupcakes? I like the chocolate ones with white cream cheese frosting.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

How about you just give every new character his legendary of choice at character creation? And then Anet will bake cupcakes and the devs will personally go to every players house and tearfully apologize for all their so-called mistakes and beg them to keep playing (while handing out the cupcakes of course).

The cupcakes are important here.

What kind of Cupcakes? I like the chocolate ones with white cream cheese frosting.

Hmm. good point. They should make all kinds known to man, and let every player choose which cupcake they want.