Guild Wars 2

A lot of the problems many have in the game are derived from the inability to customize. Weapons are particularly lacking in this regard since you can’t even change the color. At the end of the weapon spectrum when all players will inevitably all have legendary they will all be seen carrying the same not so legendary weapon.

My suggestion, and I don’t know how realistic it is, is to change the way crafting works to make it more of an artistic process. Real crafting if you will as opposed to throwing 4 parts into a grinder to extract one object. Now, I’m not saying the crafting window should be an Adobe Illustrator window with a pencil. However, why not let our exploration of the world, and the gem store too since you can profit from this too in many ways, let us gather elements that we can add to our “crafting wardrobe”.

For example, let’s say that I’ve found/buy the secret to make a particle effect that I can apply to a weapon. I would now require to gather the ingredients necessary to apply that effect to any weapon I want. “Legendary materials”, if we talk about “legendary”, would be what is available to make “legendary looks” rather than 1 model of sword for all. Even only changing the color of an object or a particle effect would go a long way. It could go with the sigil in the case of the weapon. A fire sigil could produce a fiery particle effect of any of the color you have unlocked.

Shape modification would be more complicated I guess but maybe there is something, however small and modular that can be done about it that could let us be more creative and unique in our crafting of what we craft.

As a side note, since we are talking customization, why not sell new pet/minion skins on the Gem store? It would be nice to have a wolf looking different or a traditional skeleton as a “bone minion”. Again, all this to widen customization and a way for you to sell stuff that many players would like to buy.