Guild Wars 2

I wanted to start a discussion and compile a list of changes which could be done in a very short time by a developer but would make a massive difference to the enjoyability of the game.

We’d all mostly love culling to be fixed, or dungeons to be tuned, or Zhiatan to be made meaningful- but those things take a lot of effort, skill, and time. In the meantime: what have you seen ingame which could be added almost immediately but would make a significant difference in terms of having fun ingame- be it bug, UI fix, or whatever.

Do minor adjustments to engineer and necromancer traits to bring them in line with the traits of other classes.

A storage slot for dungeon tokens in the bank. (I’m not into dungeons, so they just kind of float around)

And the mail limit needs to be capped at 5- or a multi contact mail option.

Guild event message on Login, optional of course. A possible response system wouldn’t really be “low hanging fruit”.

Last Seen for friends and guild lists, please and thank you.

Trading post search based on light, medium, heavy armor.

I’ll stop now. Thanks for listening, even if you never did.

Edit: Fatfox said, “a storage slot for dungeon tokens”. Yes please.
Edit2: And while you’re at it, “a storage slot for the various gifts”, while we figure out which particular Legendary is actually doable.

Fix tooltip of skills to describe correct damage.
Fix story mode various bugs.
Fix 2 DE’s in Caledon forest that didn’t trigger properly.

Can’t wait.

Oh forgot one-

Make sure characters appear to be harvesting using the right tool. So many times I’ve seen someone hacking a tree down with a mining pick and it looks odd.

• Black Lion Trading Company icon – giving the amount of coins and items that are available for pickup.

• WvW repairing walls – don’t stop repair after 10 supplies are spent, but instead stop when all supplies are spent.

There are tons of quality-of-life improvements to the user interface that could be made.

Fix saving pet names for ranger pets.

Fix the bug that occasionally causes you to continually run when trying to pick up items. eg. the cursed hammer.

Get rid of our account names being plastered over everything. I don’t mind stuff being account based but I’d really rather my account name isn’t on EVERYTHING.

Fix the drop rates.

Add a last online tab in guilds (should have been in day one honestly..)

Storage tab for dungeon tokens/fractal relics. Make the limit at least 2000.

More skins in the cash shop. I’m talking about armor and not town clothes. You claim the game is about looks but you only have 1 skin per armor type in the cash shop? I mean really? I’m sure people would willingly buy it if there was more skins.

Increase mail limit to 20 or more. I have no idea why they thought a 10 limit was a good idea.

I agree with fixing the culling. I know it’s probably hard to try to fix but I’d like to be able to see someone 10 feet away from me. As it is right now I only really see people when they run past me. Not counting the people that are stationary 5 feet around me.

Highlight POI’s on the map when you have all but 3 of them in terms of zone completion. Anyone who has gone for map completion knows what I’m talking about.

More than everything else.

Bring back Invisible status (on contact list) on login screen.

You guys….have some strange requests. Increase number of ranks from 10-30?! How many kittenin ranks you need man?! lol

I just want to preview stuff in the TP. That’s it.

Draven.7210:

You guys….have some strange requests. Increase number of ranks from 10-30?! How many kittenin ranks you need man?! lol

I just want to preview stuff in the TP. That’s it.

For you it doesn’t matter. But for me personally it’s made my FoTM guild unmanageable.

Which would be fine if there was any reason for it at all, but how would a limit more than 10 negatively effect anyone’s experience?

Color border or other indicator on inventory icons so I can easily see rarity of item when looking at backpack, forge, and bank window.

Ability to buy more than one of an item at a time from vendor. For example, purchase 100 orrian jewelry boxes at once instead of clicking 100 times.

When crafting, an easier way to make the intermediate items. If I want to make a sword and I have all the raw mats, I would like to look at the final recipe and be able to make ingots, blade, hilt, dowel, inscription, and final sword without having to find 6 different recipes in a list of several hundred (I’m fine with having to click separately for each part, just want to do it from the same window). Cooking can be even worse with some foods.

Dungeon tokens stacking higher than 250. Most exotics take 300 or more tokens anyway. As the most expensive items (gifts) cost 500, I think that would be a number that makes sense.

Those are my biggest quality of life issues at the moment.

1 – Fix the 3 main complaints in the Audio section of the forums, which have been there since day 1.

2 – Fix the character art bugs and Makeover kit bugs

3 – COMMUNICATE. I don’t know if you realize this, but your community is howling for you to be a part of it. Be involved in these forums, expecially with those topics that just keep coming up (RNG, Grind, Mystic Forge,). Get on here and SAY SOMETHING. Take a stand, stop being silent, get off the fence.

4 (bonus points, no programming required) – Ask the moderators to never, ever again change the topic title of someone’s post to “In my view…”

Changing what people type is obviously your right as the owner of these forums, but I’d suggest being very cautious about doing so. While it’s no doubt done with a professional intent, it comes across as childish, and makes it look like you’re confidence in your product is so low that you fear criticism and are unwilling to listen to your players. Sure, remove the flame war posts and trolling, but let people keep their opinions.

Racial Ambiance
There are a large number of abilities in the game that should be different between different races. Asuran engineer turrets should not look like Charr turrets should not look like Sylvari turrets. Thief traps should look different. Mesmer illusions should look different. The only reason for all of them not to is laziness – it’s a lot of work for the art department, but one that would add some much needed emphasis on the races.

any chance of face to face trade with friends not just through mail or auction house

Add a “Consume all” option for karma vials.
Add “Sell blues”/“Sell greens” buttons to vendors.
Add a “Buy X items” option.
Make waypointing to LA free regardless of your current position in the overworld.
Make karma account-wide.

Not being able to mail my party consumables for the dungeon is a real pain. Why no direct trading system? It’s jarring not being able to pass an item to someone standing next to me. Just let us create loot bags or something :P

Remove non combat pets from the “Deposit All Collectibles” rule.

Mail

- Increase the amount of items that can be mailed at one time

- When dropping items in to a mail, make it more noticeable that the item has been dragged in to the message. Right now, the colouration difference is negligible and it can be hard to see at a glance what has, and has not been, placed in the message. (Wow used to totally grey out the item – it was obvious you’d placed it!)

WvW

- Show me where my guildies are, not just my party.

General

- Remove NPCs that are standing around with no function, directly next to bankers/black trade guys – Lion’s Arch. In a mass of people, hitting “F” to say “Hello” to some pleb that has no bearing on anything, rather than the actual target is silly!

add the ascended stats that are missing already, its been forever.

add more titles, like to jumping puzzle completion.

DrJosepi.4052:

Remove non combat pets from the “Deposit All Collectibles” rule.

No need – if you don’t want pets deposited, all you need to due is drop them in the specialized bag types and they’ll be ignored when you Deposit All.

1. pop-up upon entering LA overflow (is anyone ever NOT in overflow?)
2. TP resetting searches when closed
3. minis that don’t need to be re-activated upon map change/death
4. better way to drink all 300 of my karma vials
5. pet names
6. party leader leaving dungeon kicking everyone else
7. 2 required to kick party

i’ll add more as i think of them

Add a permanent stow option to rangers so we don’t have them pop out all the time…

Or allow us to remove them as per Guildwars 1.

Rynn.1324:

No need – if you don’t want pets deposited, all you need to due is drop them in the specialized bag types and they’ll be ignored when you Deposit All.

It’s hardly acceptable to force people to use a bag which makes selling/storage less convenient, just to workaround an easily fixable issue.

Allow previewing of mini pets, especially when TP is tweaked to allow previews.

Allow items in inventory to be set to no sell, and no collections. I don’t know how many times I’ve almost accidentally sold my pearl blunderbuss.

Storage slots for crafted cooking ingredients/other created crafting components (such as dowels), gears, cotton, etc, left over from the Wintersday event used in minipet creation (Holiday collectibles), misc odds and ends that have no place and make no sense just sitting in the inventory for an extended period.

Fix the bug that occasionally displays your email address to others instead of your account name.

More fixes to issues with armour and weapon art, namely clipping and bad placement/bizarre dimensions of weapons and armour components.

Support for color blind players to allow them to change UI/nameplate/AOE circle colors.

Possibly implement user profiles? I’m not sure how “easy” it is but it would certainly make our lives easier. If the players write their own profiles, we could look at them before inviting them to a guild, or going on a dungeon run, or any various other things to get a feel for the person beforehand. I can assure you it would save people a lot of pain and heartache, and you might make some friends you wouldn’t have otherwise.

Communicate with players, please.

Enable the preview feature for the TP

Collection tab for tokens

Make Dyes account bound.
Allow Rangers to see red dots on map to indicate enemy targets.
Give all classes a passive 25% movement option.
Allow items in inventory to go back to their original location.
Change badges to a currency so they don’t take up bag/bank space.
Remove the annoying sound effects and make them actually turn off (necros, capturing, wings flapping, etc)

Mine on this list (sorry if covered):

-Move Fractal Transit Query dialog to upper right
-“Pick up bundle while moving and keep running straight” bug
-Deposit dungeon tokens <3
-Mark minipets as “do not deposit/always-out”
-Display guilde MOTD on login (it’s basically useless for now)
-Sticky daily/monthly achievment trackers (pin open or closed)

Let’s all keep dreaming shall we?

Arcanorum Ignis.9218:

Let’s all keep dreaming shall we?

I think everyone here is aware of the likelihood of most these being implemented, lol.

On the other hand, devs won’t know what users want/need fixed if users say nothing.

An ignore overflow option. Allow me to select an option that would never inform me that I’m in an overflow (the mini map is enough) and never bring up the dialogue to send me to my home server map. I don’t care and its like that kid in the car who says are we there yet. I’ve been driving across the country for six months with that kid and he still pops up and annoys me every time I load into LA.

Nobody has mentioned account wide gold and tokens stacking beyond 250 yet?

Also, being able to link dyes from our dye list would be helpful. If I want to see what a friend’s color would look like on my character I shouldn’t have to either go buy the bloody thing on the AH or look up the code on GW2db.

Edit: Also, let us hide all of the bloody crap that keeps getting put into the upper right corner of the screen. Most of my characters have been on the same story mission for months now and I would like my screen back. And if I want to see my progress on the daily or monthly I will open the bloody achievement menu and look at them there.

i have one to add that’s a minor point of frustration…

when you go to the gold exchange and enter in how much gold for gems you want, you can scroll with the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the amounts.

Let me do this on my bank tab or in guild storage. Having to switch between windows repeatedly is not a huge annoyance, but things would be easier if I could simply scroll to deposit or withdraw from the storage areas.

oh, and gold dots on maps for guildies not currently in your party. option to turn off, of course. larger guilds, would be very cluttered. >_<

Make offhands go back into the equipment or invisible bag they came from when changing weapons.

Attic.1562:

Nobody has mentioned account wide gold and tokens stacking beyond 250 yet?

A couple of people have, the problem being that I suspect that this is not an easy issue to solve and, as such, shouldn’t really be included in this list.

It’s something that should be fixed though, even if tokens need to be converted to new tokens at a rate of 20:1 to workaround the issue.

Shiren.9532:

An ignore overflow option. Allow me to select an option that would never inform me that I’m in an overflow (the mini map is enough) and never bring up the dialogue to send me to my home server map. I don’t care and its like that kid in the car who says are we there yet. I’ve been driving across the country for six months with that kid and he still pops up and annoys me every time I load into LA.

I’ve made that suggestion in a couple threads now, but can help quantify it in two relatively (I hope) easy items:

→ Change the “you are in overflow” popup to the yellow overlay text used for XP, new sub-zones discovered, etc.

→ Allow a ‘default’ answer to the second popup through the Options tab. If you decided to go back to your ‘home’ server instance, the yellow overlay text should give warnings at, say, the 20 and 10 second mark (similar to server shutdown).

1. Do away with death penalties in WvW. Defenders will be more likely to fight to the death if they don’t have to worry about incurring repair bills for suicidal defenses.

2. Reduce waypoint costs. If you want to fill zones reducing the cost of traveling to them them and around them is an obvious solution.

3. Make all game currencies like PVP badges not take up bank space.

4. Option to eliminate the UI in the upper right of the screen for the Dailies, monthly and story missions. These take up space for no good reason.

5. Ability to quickly toggle between auto target on and auto target off so that you can use auto target to quickly attack targets but shut it off to quickly escape.

Cuchullain.3104:

5. Ability to quickly toggle between auto target on and auto target off so that you can use auto target to quickly attack targets but shut it off to quickly escape.

Not entirely sure what this means.

Risingashes.8694:

Cuchullain.3104:

5. Ability to quickly toggle between auto target on and auto target off so that you can use auto target to quickly attack targets but shut it off to quickly escape.

Not entirely sure what this means.

add a bindable hotkey option to toggle autotargeting because esc > options > click a check box is anything but fast

id actually like the same for smartcasting (fast-cast ground target they call it), it makes grenades so much easier to use but there are just times when i need to know where the edge of my range is (or the wvw jump puzzle dark room) so i leave it off because its so annoying to toggle it.

Option to configure culling settings manually. Currently a lot of the game is built to allow for users of older computers/internet speeds to play the same as someone with a ton of money in a rig and fiber internet. My internet speed and PC components are perfectly capable of keeping track of everyone at all times on a WvW map, no culling needed.

AoE Looting. Press F once, loot all nearby items.
Having to press F 10 times is unhealthy for both your fingers and your keyboard.

Allow different hotkeys for looting/reviving/talking/other interactions. Currently they’re all bound to the same key.

change halloween bags/backpacks to be account bound instead of soulbound, like the christmas ones are

Rangers

—Save name changes for pets not currently active: Would make pets feel more alive and personal :Rhaps.8540

—Allow alt+click on stow button to permanently stow pets until manually unstowed : Dante.1508

WvW

—Make siege weapons account bound

—Change color of dots on map to differentiate guildies in addition to ally and party :Fiennes.9568

—Remove item damage from deaths, engagement should be encouraged :Cuchullain.3104

Dungeons

—Change group kick dialogue to allow vetos within 15 seconds of kick request/second: Any member other than the kickee can veto to prevent kicking :vespers.1759

Interface

—Give option to tint cursor :Shuguard.7125

@op

Good quick fixes.

I’d suggest though fixing the loot you get from jumping puzzles. For us casuals make it worth doing jumping puzzles since as of now you just do it for kicks and fun not because there is some reward at the end.
A more long term fix is to had more of a ‘sword in the stone’ idea. Basically have weapons that you can get after the end of a very difficult jp. This makes it so much more worth it and it really isn’t hard to add.

Risingashes.8694:

WvW

—Make siege weapons account bound

theyve said this is not a quick fix, because the cancel build button breaks when they make it account bound

I’d personally like to see underwear and cursor(mouse cursor) color change options.