Guild Wars 2

For some reason, I have never been a huge fan of alts. I’ve played a number of MMOs and RPGs, including the original Guild Wars, and while I occasionally level another character, I never really devote any significant play time to alts.

It’s for that reason that I think that level 80 characters with map completion should be able to reset their maps to blank. This will allow us to pursue gifts of exploration and the various map rewards without being bottleknecked into playing another character. I am literally considering making an exact clone of my main with tomes of knowledge to do map completion again, but I’d prefer not to have to burn the tomes and slot.

I know I am a rare case, but I think the number of alt-weary players is higher than you may think. I don’t see a substantial downside, as long as players have to reset the map in its entirety and can’t simply reset one map at a time to farm rewards.

Create a new toon !
They will be getting rid of the horrible trait system or revamping when hot comes out.

It’s a good chance to lvl up on low levels get lov level mats (which are worth more) whilst you do your killing of foes at a lower level.

I cannot support the suggestion you are making – too much effort from Dev perspective where other bigger things can be made with the limited resources available.

Better to make all waypoints account bound, unlocked if you reach maximum level of the given zone, all else on new alts would still be locked ofcourse for the sake of map completion reward.

None of the suggestions make content replayable for those of us who prefer not to create alts. As far as the developer effort, I don’t think any of us can adequately postulate on what it would take within their framework to implement this change.

Machiavell.7396:

Better to make all waypoints account bound, unlocked if you reach maximum level of the given zone, all else on new alts would still be locked of course for the sake of map completion reward.

That would create two(2) types of map completion, since WP’s count as part of map completion. If you unlock them account wide, you are no longer doing map completion the second, third, fourth, etc. and there fore shouldn’t be given the same rewards, like how about making WP’s account unlocked. Then when you do map completion you no longer get your Gifts of Exploration? Now do you see the problem with your proposal.

I would appreciate if this thread isn’t hijacked by alternative discussions about map completion and unlocks.