Guild Wars 2

So i came up with an epic sounding idea for players when they are dead or completely downed. So when that happens. Instead of them lying there waiting for someone to ressurect them they right after dying can get this ghost form that awakes from their dead body. And in that ghost form they can walk around and shadow their enemies and see where they went.
Now being in this ghost form won’t mean that u can pass through walls and stuff to reach other areas cause that can be cheaty in places like WvW and stuff, although that can be made to work if it doesn’t work in WvW . In zones like PvE we in our ghost forms can go through gates and stuff to see how many enemies are ahead and stuff and how to strategise next time so we wont die.
So that can work nicely in some cases.
This idea will crumble by another idea below—>: But to make it more great.
We can also have this specific set of ghost skills that replace our normal weapon skills and they can be like skills that allow u to dash through a gate and pass through it like i said above and skills that allow u to all sorts of crazy ghost stuff.
Now while in this ghost form u will be asking yourself how will you speak to others, they wont be able to see you and they will get confused by these chat bubbles appearing out of nowhere. Well i suggest when we speak in our ghost forms our chat bubble shows up on our dead body like currently.This way it will stop the cheaty way of communication and stuff.
Now some will be wondering since we have a certain amount of time to waypoint after dying we wont be able to be in that ghost form forever but we will be able to track our enemies to infinite distances and will make it cheaty. Well that can be fixed by making a certain distance at which we can go further.
Example the border of how much we can reach far will be this mistful force field that stops us from going further. It will be in a circle giant form so we cant cheat through it by going in underground places or other means. Now the entire thing wont be visible so we can’t be obscured by this giant mistful force field across the entire map it will be more and more visible as we reach it’s borders till it stops us from going to infinte distances away from our body.
Now i have one more addition to this whole ghost system. That when we die we can see other ghost forms of other players.
Now if we want to communicate to each other we wont be able to do so since i mentioned that the chat bubble appears on our dead body. Well a special chat can be implemented like map chat and stuff. That shows up as chat bubbles on our ghost forms and only other ghosts can see it. That will make things a bit cooler and logical.

And finally the final addition can be that when we awaken in this ghost version of the map as ghosts. We see ghosts of former dead mobs around us. Lets say we die in a PvE map and we see a ghost of a dead champion nearby that has been killed long ago by a champ train,
Or other sorts of mobs killed recently or in dungeons we see the elites from a past sequence of the dungeon that we killed not long ago.
Also the atmosphere of this mistful version of the map will be all misty and ghostly together with the air around us and stuff and there can be random mist portals around us that when we try to get through them they point open the map for us so we can waypoint and ressurect and live once again.

Part 2
Now this will look beautiful but the freedom will be too big for us ghosts. Therefore to prevent that there will be also dark portals with shadow fiends and other creatures
That we can fight in our ghost forms.
Now this will mean that we must have our weapon skills and remove those crazy ghost skills that i mentioned above and they will also be useless in these situations so yeah i guess we can remove that and make the passing through walls system just through press F to interact instead.
It seems more logical.
Ok so like i said we can’t be ghosts forever so when the time to waypoint reaches 0 we immadietly vapourise with the animation and our ghosts fly above in the sky, and after that our map opens up and we must choose a waypoint.
At this point we can’t cancel this window we must waypoint and ressurect. So that clears up after death.
Now i have one final optional addition. And this one is that while in that ghost form u can also choose to atack the other fallen ghost forms of the mobs. So u can basically instead of waiting around to get ressed u can kill some ghosts and get ghost items and mats. Necessary for some special items and recipes created with this addition of the ghost system.
So even after death u get to fight for one more minute in the mists and help the tortured souls stuck there.
Now if this is gonna be realized there can also be special events which include killing some evil ghosts to put other to rest and stuff.
So finally this is all that ghost content in 1:30 mins u can get to save souls in the afterlife. This crazy system will make people kill them selves on purpose just to save some mist souls and do special ghost events for the mats for those items, in that mist version of the map.
To prevent this suicidal thing from happening there can be special npcs or machines around every map that allow u to transcend into the mists and help ghost folks around instead of just dying to get there or better yet each of us can buy a special little machine from a mist merchant that allows us to transcend into the mists for a short time.
And now finally for the dungeons this can be a bit dangerous in dungeons since those ghost elites can atack u. Or they can simply be made neutral and get aggresive and atack u when a shadow fiend corrupts them so then they chase u.

Defeated people are just knocked out unconscious, they’re not really “dead”. Therefore the idea of the ghost doesn’t seem to work…

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Defeated people are just knocked out unconscious, they’re not really “dead”. Therefore the idea of the ghost doesn’t seem to work…

That can be changed. Lets say it’s a coma. When u are in a coma it’s like u are dead. Well actually no one knows how it’s really like. So why not make your own way of it.