Guild Wars 2

So the title says it all.

All I want here is for you to put the top three areas of this game that you personally would like to see Anet spend their time on and 1 that you wish they would spend less on. No paragraphs, just 1, 2, 3, and 1. This might help Anet get some direction as to what the player base really sees as important to the future of this game. I know they try hard, but if we don’t tell them what we want them to prioritize, they just get flooded with feedback.

Please keep this thread simple, respectful, and constructive. Really this is to help, so please no derailments.

My list:
Prioritize:
1)Profession Balance: Fix useless utilities, and nerf the OP “meta builds/classes” to match the other classes.
2) More permanent content, especially new utilities
3) Fix outstanding bugs in content: In Dungeons, WvW, utilities, etc.

Spend Less Time On:
1)Living Story: Less temporary content that feels rushed

1) Bugfixes & rework of condition damage
2) Balance & better implementation of condition dmg
3) A giant patch opening up the worl for something nice and premanent
Including all of the following:
-New proffession(s)
-New PERMANENT area(s) (and I do not expect it to be a southsun improvement… Start with the maguma jungle, then the Crystal Desert in 3 months, then the ring of fire a furter 3 months on…. And just DO NOT STOP!
-New Weapon type(s)
-New Race(s)
-New Dungeons
-Underground and Sky maps.
-New conditions and a usefull way to use them… & restructure of the conditions mechanics!

Spend less time on:

Well nothing ….

This question has been asked before. By a dev. And answered. In a long thread.

I will answer it again anyway. Not that it matters anymore.

1) Account bound Wexp
2) Profession balance
3) Permanent content

1) Features
2) Bugs
3) Optimize engine

1: Pictures
2: Blogs
3: Videos

Why these 3? It’s about the future of the game we play and love.
Anything less is the law of silence and we’ve had 19 months of it.

1. Slider to reduce/eliminate the unsightly particle blur.
2. More small group content.
3. New explorable areas.

1. gameplay ( class balance and NOT drag down everything, skills rework, add more weapons skills, useless trait rework, prevent the fr**king stat farming, rework many game mechanism: condi – boons, rework AI skill not not only have brainless pve dodge fight.. etc )
2. gameplay
3. gameplay

oh and

gameplay, because.. well, its quite important after all.

1. Quality content that is permanent.
2. Existing weapon expansion to all professions.
3. Risk vs. Reward addressed. Exploration should be rewarding.

My signature, but lets be real lol

1.Permanent content
2.Reward
3.NO MORE LS

1) Fixing bugs
2) Make a proper profession balance
3) Fix the way we acquire ascended stuff

To please just go ahead and put the dagger into WvW and stop leading us on……..

1. Customer Service – Worst I’ve seen in any MMO.
2. WvW. Your PVE is a kitten farmfest. Hardly a way to fix it now.
3. Read the forums. People tell you what we want and you guys do your own thing.

1. Guild additions
2. More fractals levels and adding more than 1 stability to the higher
levels
3. Fix Koss on Koss to look like the icon

Easy peasy, but i fear i may only get the first choice
1, UW and FoW content
2, I want to be able to guest on US servers so i can play with my podcast buddys
3, An iphone/android app so i can guild chat when commuting etc

More time on:

1. Optimize the game. Seriously guys my comp has a video card too. I literally burnt out the CPU on my old comp trying to run this game; it’s time to optimize.
2. More skins that we can unlock through gameplay.
3. A complete QoL overhaul for guilds including halls.

Less time on:

1. The gem store.

1. Balance pvp and pve (wvw only to some level for classes)
2. New content
3. Current bugs
The number one thing i do not want them to focus on is the forums. Its just a waist of time that would be use soo much better on other things.

I only want ONE thing: toroidal progression. Because Horizontal and Vertical Progression are so last week.

1. sPvP (balance, ladders, game modes, …)
2. Challenging small group PvE content
3. Reward overhaul across the whole game. making things more content specific and less RNG and tradeable or gem store based (so everything revolves around gold farming).

Spend less time in:
Zerg / extremey massive content

Prioritize:
1. sexy armor for female human and norn
2. sexy hairstyles for female human and norn
3. sexy female NPCs

Spend less time on:
1. Fixing charr armor.

1. GvG
2. New PvE areas to explore
3. WvW

1. Fix the exploits in WvW.

2. Get back to balancing Dungeons you said every dungeon would be receive a balance, then Living story happen and the project was abandon.

3. Guild Halls, come on man what’s taking so long to intro this feature..

1) new zone, new race, new class, new weapon – seriously we are getting bored with the same skills and class for over 1 year of release

2) skin locker – the more gem store skin release, the less likely people will buy when they finally understand it is not worth to spend when more and more useless skin part are in bank taking up space.

3) expand personal story to season 2 – fighting dragon should become the permanent story content for a player, as GW2 is all about fighting dragon. It is good to have LS as an introduction to more dragons in the future, but fights the elder dragon missions should stay all the time.

lorazcyk.8927:

Prioritize:
1. sexy armor for female human and norn
2. sexy hairstyles for female human and norn
3. sexy female NPCs

Spend less time on:
1. Fixing charr armor.

Are you secretly an Arena-net Dev?

Let’s see here in no particular order

• Guild overhaul. Make it easier for guild leaders to manage their guild and guild members to be part of more than one guild.
• Dungeon boss encounter and mob rework to make other builds viable as not all the mobs will just stand there and take your DPS.
• Bug fixes. Because nothing is more infuriating than getting a game/mechanic breaking bug.

• balance trait/utilities so that i can feel like there’s some reasonable choices in this horribly stagnant game.
• introduce new weapons/skills every now and then. 1 new skill per class in 18 months of release is a joke.
• remove downed state from PVP zones

• split the game between PVP and PVE as two different game modes.
• profession re-balance for each game mode
• gear re balance for each game mode.

then we can talk about adding PERMANENT zones and dungeons
then we can talk about GVG map for WWW
then we can talk about new sPVP map mode ( capture the flag instead of king of the hill… hello…. )

1. optimize the engine of the game for (much) better performance
2. balance all over the game (gear, damage, AI, rewards, …)
3. improve possibilities to quickly play together for the fun like in GW1 (meetup with friends and just have a good time doing something together)

1. More traits and utility skills to diversify build structures

2. Remove daily achievements from spvp
The presence of daily achievements in spvp culls in too many farmers who are not there to be competitive at all.

3. “Quickly” re-add a reward system for spvp
The 2014 March 18th patch was as if arena-net is trying to steer us away from spvp

4. Eliminate the DR system entirely
Ascended/Legendary or even just re-tweaking a poorly setup exotic set is time consuming and requires grinding. We don’t need a DR system that punishes us for that grind.

1. Dyeable weapons
2. Account bound Dyes.
3. Make previewing your outfit actually look the same as it is in reality (I included a pic below of what my outfit looks like in the preview, versus what it actually ends up looking like. Hint: it looks completely different)

Zaoda.1653:

1. Dyeable weapons
2. Account bound Dyes.
3. Make previewing your outfit actually look the same as it is in reality (I included a pic below of what my outfit looks like in the preview, versus what it actually ends up looking like. Hint: it looks completely different)

Well that’s just the different lighting… if you find an evenly and neutral colored lit place, probably it could look the same. Not sure if a place like that exists though.

1. Optimize
2. account bound dyes and wvw exp
3. Optimize
I hate how it mostly runs off of cpu like show the gpu some love

1.) New sPvP modes
2.) Profession balance
3.) Quality of Life interface improvements, I.E party system, commander tag system, guilds, and trading post. All feel rushed, buggy, and/or terrible.

1. Sort out the overflows
2. Give me an option not to pick up banners placed by other players
3. Better search functions on trade post

1. Account bound WXP
2. Account bound WXP
3. Account bound WXP

ToT.7018:

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2. Give me an option not to pick up banners placed by other players
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And an option not to pick up bundles (especially on engineer)

And an option not to accidentally talk to NPC’s

1. PvE
2. PvP
3. WvW

• Roles & Balance (make the CC and Support roles work better).
• Better Boss mechanincs (especially champions and legendaries in dungeons).
• Fix all the bugs.

1. Start Focusing on Merging Servers or ways to stop this exodus from certain servers that in the example of Underworld, it did lost thousands of players in less than 24h.
2. PvE, this is incredible important, if we’re not PVP players, we feel this game as almost nothing to offer us. Please stop making PvE based on “Zerg-Trains” and try reward more players for spread more around the maps, actually maybe improve loot chances or luck when we’re playing with parties at normal PvE maps.
3. Try to make Living Story to add Permanent Content instead of this temporary things, Living Story ending is the END OF PVE, it’s one of the last things trying to still make PvE interesting and always new things to explore.

1. Condition damage in PvE, specially in larger zerging events.
2. A way to save/recall multiple builds/gear loadout for our character. To keep balance make it so that it can only be done in cities (maybe talking to a trainer and ask to change to your secondary build) and to help support the game, make it so we have limited slots for builds on each character, and have more unlocked with gem store.
3. Underwater combat revamp. I’d start with at least allowing us to have separate builds for land combar and underwater combat. It’s annoying, to say the least, when half of my flamethrower engineer’s traits become useless when underwater because I can’t equip the FT kit there.

In no particular order:
1) Profession Balance
2) Creating more permanent, instanced content (10-person raids would be awesome)
3) Guild Halls

focus on
1.) bug fixing & balancing
2.) expand the map (and I mean at least 1 region, not a single zone)
3.) Vanity related issues (i.e. clipping problems, new armor, etc.)

stop focusing on herding users to the gem store!!!

1. Permanent content
2. Permanent content
3. Permanent content

1 Profession balance
2 …profession balance
3 seriously, fix the profession balance

Celtic Lady.3729:

1. Permanent content
2. Permanent content
3. Permanent content

1. This
2. This
3. This

1) QA – Day one bugs on most patches that halt progress is unacceptable.
2) Permanent Content – This one speaks for itself.
3) Proper rewards – I don’t want to see a new armour set in the gem store that I can’t earn from the content you just added.

1) Dynamic event overhaul. Ensure that they impact the world more substantially, make it feel like your actions were important to “controlling” how Tyria functions, and impact the player base in a way that makes them want to do them.
2) Larger, higher quality content releases
3) More character progression options, such as advanced professions

1: New dungeons. Not annoying like TA Aetherpath though. Molten Facility was great

2: New profession skills and make bad profession skills better for more variety.

3: More weapons for each class to use

Prioritize
-New sPvP game modes
-New WvW content/mechanics
-Permanent, non-zerg, group-based endgame PvE content

Spend less time on:
-Living Story

-Better Armor for Charrs.
-Get male chars better armor! (No matter what race!)
-Race Changer please