Guild Wars 2

Idk if I’m late or this has been stated before but, from Hidden Arcana: Designing the New Lion’s Arch:
“The original Lion’s Arch design didn’t serve the purpose of a social hub for players as well as it could have, either. Services were sprawled haphazardly across the city, and there were few places to gather freely.”
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“The new Lion’s Arch was created with easier navigation and accessibility in mind. Rather than scattering important locations around the map, thought was put into grouping them based on how players make use of them.”

Can you tell me please how you put things grouped?
Most of players use 3 things: Bank, Mystic toilet, Merchant and Trading Post
Bank and Mystic toilet are ok, one next to the other.
But merchant? 13 seconds from WP with swiftnes and city travel
And the TP? 26 seconds from WP… I almost run out of my staff ele’s swiftness.

Seriously? Do you think this is “grouped on how players make use of them?”
At least don’t put a blog post saying how great you did it, keeping in mind players, or just add a Waypoint next to the TP… the merchant can often be saved with Myiani <3.

What’s even worse… I think the old Lion’s Arch was better in this sense… The TP was on the other side of the square of the bank…

It wasn’t quite on the other side of the square and it was a bit of a run plus you could and I often did get caught up on something running there. Now we have wide paths with few obstructions. The original LA was cramp around the bank/MF and while the crafting stations were close by it was another case of cramp conditions for a local where lots of players gathered.

The problem I’m seeing in posts like this is by making LA more friendly for large groups of players to gather, it hurt one of the reasons large groups of players gathered there in the first place. I actually didn’t spend much time in LA post destruction.

I do love the jumping puzzle.

seems everything is super close to that one wp (name slips me atm) but at the same time, not to close so everyone is crowded. People seem to love to go afk instead of moving on or loging out in though location, so it good they are not all next to each other like that.

I don’t like the looks of it. Not at all. Open empty spaces, fancy themed buildings, looks more like an amusement park than a city. Also I enjoyed that the destroyed LA had many hubs for crafting and merchants. Again, more like an actual city.
The JP is really fun, though.

Destroyed LA was far more convenient than the old or the new one. I don’t know why they got rid of all the banks (also, they should reinstate that portal to Lornar’s in the east. And the second entrance to Gendarran in the northeast that got closed back when the invasion happened, while I’m at it)