Guild Wars 2

i personally hope that they will not do anything close to what they did with LA, keep the city as it is and don’t make it a battlefield.
i know it needs change but it can be done from within what we have, drastically changing every aspect of the city pretty much ruins the game more and more…

I preferred the old Lion’s Arch because its design and materials and the feel to it made sense. The new version is just.. too shiny for me. Sure, it had more “financial backing” but it just doesn’t feel like Lion’s Arch to me. I almost wish they’d have gone more in the direction of the Original Lion’s Arch (from GW1) than the theme park version we have now.
Hopefully any “reconstructed DR” will not go down the shiny theme park road more than the Crown Pavilion already has. :P

Jaken.6801:

If they rebuild DR after that onslaught, please let us be part of the process.

• Allow us to vote on characters/architects that each have their own different vision of the city.

• Have different designs to go towards too

• Don’t go “BAM” new city. Take it and be quiet. Without any real build up. LA was badly done, as it didn’t forshadow the endresult in anyway, but instead dropped it over night. There were barely any steps in between.

• Give us more stake, than “choose a name”. This is now participation, that’s blindsiding the players with something unimportant. Heck, even the “Guildname” was nothing more than a cheap GoT reference, with no real impact or reasoning.

• Put more effort into it. We know that you are able to, since you did it with the Kiel/Gnashblade debatte. That actually felt like something.

I mean, just imagine if we could have voted on race integration in LA. As a multi-culti city, there could have been a Asura quarter, studyng the ley lin energy. Or we could have voted against it, because it would be dangerous.

So many possibilities in design choices, that could have made some interesting stories for the future.

Uhm, they didn’t just drop it. There was a long time you could see the outline of the lobster for example as only the foundation was set up.
And honestly, the redesign of the city makes kinda sense.
It’s a fortified city now, it’s supposed to be able to withstand an assault, we have defendable walls with cannons and what not, the old LA meanwhile was mostly made out of wood and possibly could have been destroyed by someone sneezing at the wrong time.

In the long run it comes down to taste, i liked the old LA but i like the new one better.
And honestly, i doubt they would rework Divinity’s Reach like LA, you know why? Lobster, Kraken and Co are there because it’s a harbour city, it has a sea theme and it makes sense!

Yeah, those of us who have read the Destiny’s Edge books know that Queen Jenna is no fool, chances are those white mantel goons will be shooting a hill that they think is DR but the real city will be behind them. Mesmer magic, baby!

Looking forward to seeing Logan again.