Guild Wars 2

Concept: The Home Instance used to display trophies, weapon skins, miniatures and certain story achievements.

Why: Currently any trophy you earn from a world boss or raid can only be displayed in a Guild Hall with no indication of who earned it. You can currently have a massive collection of miniatures but only display one at a time. Certain story achievements rewarded readable books, interesting tools and animated displays that are precious memories but take up valuable bank slots. You can only display the weapons when equipped.

How: Like Hall of Monuments, items will not be displayed where the player chooses, but rather in set locations within the instance.

Legendary Weapon Display Rack

• earned through a quest
• displays only a set number which can be rotated to show weapon of player choosing

Black Lion Weapon Rack

• Gem Store exclusive
• can have up to 3
• can display the whole set once each weapon is account bound
• display can be rotated out to the one that is preferred.

World Boss and Raid Trophies

• upgradable trophies
• stage one shows basic trophies on pedastals
• upgraded stage is an achievement earned by collecting the trophies X amount of time and displays a golden statue of the boss.

Story Item Collections

• books can be displayed and their text accessed via book shelves
• items can be clicked to view a description or animation
• items displayed on tables or in museum-like glass cases

Miniatures

• a set number amount can be displayed in a penned in area
• display can be rotated out (generation 1, generation 2, avians, saurians, etc)

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It is not the Home Instance we have dreamed about, but it brings value to our memories as the home Instance was originally intended.

I’m really a fan of this idea. For simplicity’s sake (and hopefully that means it will be more likely to be implemented), I would be fine if we just started out with the Living World story memento section and possibly the legendary weapon rack. The living world section would contain the lorebooks that we have completed, along with various other trophies (that dwarf thumb) to get them out of our inventory without making us delete them forever. The legendary weapon rack is self explanatory.

Eventually it would also be nice to add in the world boss and raid trophies and the miniature set, I’m not sold on the black lion weapon rack yet though. Perhaps the world boss trophies could be placed when you complete all of the achievements surrounding a certain world boss, and the Raid boss trophies could be placed whenever you clear that boss for the first time?

A ‘Hall of Monuments’ would be great; it could even be in the Hall of Monuments rather than the Home Instance. There’s not much of a reason to go there, anymore, since the inception of the Wardrobe. It might be easier (less time/resources) to fix the HoM up than to work on 5 Home Instances.

Could add Armor, as well, like Cultural and Carapace, Bladed, etc. Those that require Collections/Achievements kind of things.

I’d especially love a place to add the Books, and souvenirs like the Soggy Bag I still have from Lost Shores (lol).

Good luck.