Hey I have been playing GW2 since launch and with the influx of suggestions lately I thought I would throw my hat into the ring.
1.BL Weapons
Black Lion weapons are both among my favourite things in the game, but also my most hated. They are a measurement of real world wealth and luck over in game achievement. But I like them, I like that they are valuable skins worth a lot money on the TP. Not to mention most look really, really cool.
My problem with them is two fold. First of all A-Net, please stop putting weapons linked to the story steps in as BL weapons. These skins had the potential to be neat memories about at good old days. Instead they are just another BL weapon. Which is kind of sad.
Second, making some of these skin sets seasonal would be amazing. Maybe even lowering the BL ticket cost for a week or something. I know this happens for the Halloween weapons, but maybe the Luna festival ones could pop back to the for front during the Luna festival and stuff like that.
2. Racial Cities.
Why don’t any other racial cities get any love? Adding some minor activities and NPC’s during the main festivals could bring a new perspective on Festivals like Wintersday (Holbrak would be great to see at Wintersday given what happened in GW:EN). This happened a bit with the Black Citadel at Halloween and it was pretty fun and great to see people going to normally pretty empty areas of the map.
Having smaller racially specific festival would also be nice. Just a few that come to mind:
Norn claim Dragon Bash to raise moral and rally against Jormag. Numerous events centred around the Sons of Svanir trying to ruin the celebration.
Charr have begun to open up to other races about with their Iron Legion day. The date would correspond with the release of GW1 and celebrate how the Charr reclaimed Ascalon. Activities based around learning about Charr lore past and present, while keep human celebrators calm.
Asura, I could think of something fresh here, but let’s face it, everyone loves SAB.
Things like this makes the world feel more alive and less human focused.
3. Gliders (this one is a hypothetical suggestion)
I love gliders. I love that gliders can be used everywhere. They are cool. But I do have a minor qualm with them and a slight worry about the future. My qualm is that they are only obtainable through the TP. My worry is how these TP only skins will be affected by any newer tools that are released in the future (if they are released).
On some level it makes sense that gliders are TP only considering F2P players can’t use them. There is nothing worse than getting a drop as a F2P player and realising that you have to pay to use it.
What will happen if there is a new expansion that makes gliders useless? It would be pretty useless if there was an underwater expansion, or one that lacked verticality (crystal desert). So my suggestion here would be to make glider skins into all purpose tools. You buy a glider skin and it morphs into a sail when you need it or something.
4. Unarmed combat.
People chime in with this from time to time, but might I suggest a simpler solution that trying to balance an unarmed slot? Make a new weapon, gauntlets. A one handed universal weapon that lets the player have unarmed attacks. There could also be an empty skin for it to let the player use it as just a fist.
So what do you guys and gals think of this? I am just alone, crazy and rambling or am I on to something with some of these?