Anet, I’m not an employee or a dev or anything more than a player, but given the current state of the game and living world content progress, I am suggesting the following be implemented:
End game raid content. There are lots of avenues to do this, at the moment:
New Fractals of the Mist. (GW1 Has an expansive history, use more of it! Agony resistance should probably have a rework, special to sporadic or specific fractals, but if not that’s fine.) *Hell, if you fancy, include some of the old GW2 history in the fractals. Reanimate nightmare court. Drop marionette again. Toss Orr back above the waves. Drop SAB in. Toss in Mad King, if he isn’t coming back in october. Include token rewards for the content so players can grind them for gear.
Of course, you also have Dhuum, the Mursaat, the forming of the jade sea, and -many- other features to play around with here. Gw1 lore is -laden- with ideas.
New World Bosses (Wurm was a nice example of what the game could use more of. Tequatl was a nice drop. for the effort put in, they do not drop the correct tier of rewards. Implement more bosses that require organization like wurm, but make the drops worth the challenge.
Greatly improved rewards for Existing world bosses, tied to scale up in difficulty for ‘stackable’ world bosses. (Shatterer now can drop -ascendeds-, but stacking his right claw is no longer possible. Behemoth dtops Rares regularly, but players cannot stand in front of him when his portals go up. If these events fail, all players close to the boss get wiped.)
New Dungeons. Tyria is huge, we can handle going out of our way to the far reaches for some new dungeons/tokens/sets with usable stats. Examine the metrics for underplayed dungeons, find out why they are underplayed, and offer larger rewards for these dungeons. coughhonorofthewavescough.
Eliminate boss stacking. (you did it with spider queen, love to see it with shatterer.)
Every once in a while, Rework the WVW maps. Terrain changes on Server vs Server worlds will increase replay value, require re-familiarization with the map, and add another layer of planning to commanders that may be just going through the motions. just leave them long enough to not frustrate commanders with the changes.
They dont even have to be complete reworks. A little touch up to lions arch and some random battlescarring made a huge difference; carry that into WVW.
PVP Maps. Additions to the current map roulette for PVP would be beneficial for the PVP community. Regarding Skyhammer, either remove it, or alter the breakable pane behavior and greatly increase skyhammer cooldown, to prevent domination of the map by a single necro or ranger.
[Something I want personally]
violin and music contests please
Only is probably a bad word to use, because the above entails a lot of work.
there needs to be player retention though; nothing incredibly ‘grindy’, but still holding difficulty. The time limit imposed on the current world bosses is a nice touch.
All of this can be included, slowly, with the living story, if prepared alongside it or during its intermission. Wurm is a prime example of how it could be perfectly handled.
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Most of this i dont care about, so please talk only on your own behalf.
Good ideas, especially more so since you’re not bashing Anet while making these suggestions. I would like to see one or more of these actually done in a future patch (given that I don’t have a clue on the complexity of accomplishing any of these, I won’t ask for a date).
On the reworking on the WvW maps bit, I would personally like to see more “destructible” terrain (like bridges in EotM). Of course only siege attacks should be able to damage them (like trebs, catas, or such) and would take a long time to fully destroy (say 1,000,000 hits from a treb?) and would only reset every week. These would make it so that those battle scars will really reflect the current state of the war, but then again, I don’t know the complexity of making something like this.
That would placate the small portion of the community that is having a problem, yes. I don’t think that’s really something ANet needs to make a habit of doing, though.
There will always be people on here whining about not having something. There will always be people on here saying the game is going South and everyone’s abandoning ship. Why should ANet expend their resources trying to satiate the insatiable?
Now, I do really want new Fractals and dungeons and 1 more world boss (not in any zone we currently have though). And I rather expect these things will come eventually. Right now is the feature patch, and that’s what will happen right now.
The CDI starts up on Thursday, so make sure to bring the suggestions there. I don’t think threads like this do anything, though.
Most of this i dont care about, so please talk only on your own behalf.
yyyyyou are not the community sir/madam; you are a part of it. I’m speaking to the community of veteran players that have very little to do in terms of retaining content, who are far more numerous than you.
“I don’t like it” doesn’t mean other people don’t.
Even so, I will make a small edit to the topic. Just for you. c:
I also have added “PVP Maps” to the topic.
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Most of this i dont care about, so please talk only on your own behalf.
yyyyyou are not the community sir/madam; you are a part of it. I’m speaking to the community of veteran players that have very little to do in terms of retaining content, who are far more numerous than you.
“I don’t like it” doesn’t mean other people don’t.
Even so, I will make a small edit to the topic. Just for you. c:
I also have added “PVP Maps” to the topic.
No, you are speaking to Anet on behalf of the veteran community and i I am one of them. I never said i dont like your changes, i just said i dont care about most of them.
If thats something you would like to see added, thats fair enough, but please only voice your own opinion and dont make it sound like the whole veteran community is waiting for your suggestions to be implemented.
Most of this i dont care about, so please talk only on your own behalf.
yyyyyou are not the community sir/madam; you are a part of it. I’m speaking to the community of veteran players that have very little to do in terms of retaining content, who are far more numerous than you.
“I don’t like it” doesn’t mean other people don’t.
Even so, I will make a small edit to the topic. Just for you. c:
I also have added “PVP Maps” to the topic.
No, you are speaking to Anet on behalf of the veteran community and i I am one of them. I never said i dont like your changes, i just said i dont care about most of them.
If thats something you would like to see added, thats fair enough, but please only voice your own opinion and dont make it sound like the whole veteran community is waiting for your suggestions to be implemented.
Fair enough. Edit made.
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+1 to Azure. That’s what I want too.
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