Guild Wars 2

I am trying to come up a different approach and solution to innovate Guild Wars 2 into a better gearing system.

a. Kill the “Level” indicator
Why?: Max level, your character at level 80 means nothing now with your gears which are constantly changing between exotic, ascended and legendary in the first 2 highest gear tiers.

b. Character “Level” scaled on what you wear.
Why?: It is pretty much like iLevel but I know a lot of casual players would hate discrimination for dungeons run. “Only ilvl 82+”. So instead of ilvl in number, go by Tier level. This is like hiding the actual number and only shows which Tier your character is in and it gives a better coverage of player that can run those dungeons. You won’t know when you will hit Tier 15. If you did, it would be an achievement.

*Character Gear Tier Level: *
Tier 1 (ilvl 01-10)
Tier 2 (ilvl 11-20)
Tier 3 (ilvl 21-29)
Tier 4 (ilvl 30-35) Ascalonian Catacombs requirement
Tier 5 (ilvl 36-39)
Tier 6 (ilvl 40-45) Caudecus’s Manor requirement
Tier 7 (ilvl 46-49)
Tier 8 (ilvl 50-55) Twilight Abor requirement
Tier 9 (ilvl 56-59)
Tier 10 (ilvl 60-65) Sorrow’s Embrace requirement
Tier 11 (ilvl 66-69)
Tier 12 (ilvl 70-75) Citadel of Flame requirement
Tier 13 (ilvl 76-80) Honor of the Waves, Crucible of Eternity, Arah requirement
Tier 14 (ilvl 81-85)
Tier 15 (ilvl 86-90)

c. New character vs High level character.
As we already know you really can’t powerlevel in GW2 until you are legible to run dungeons in group. So this changes won’t matter nor will for WvW or PvP. Everything is still go by experiences gain to hit another Tier level. Once you hit higher tier level you can begin to wear the new base Tier level gears and work your way up to unlock higher Tier to wear higher Tier armors and weapons.

Alternative, you gain bonus experiences if you explore 50% of each zone before you move on into another zone.

For High tier level character, you can strip your character naked and back to Tier 1 level anytime. Just saying.

So you can’t make a new character and wear Tier 13 gears right off.

Gear powers your character. Naked = you’re nothing but a layer of skin.

d. Keep the same Experience gain bracket / bar.
As I said, this can be kept to gain and unlock higher Tier gears.

e. Okay, so my character is in Tier 14 gears, what happened if new bosses added?
For example, new Tier 15/16 bosses shows up and they are pretty much require some character with Tier 14 or better to be able to kill it or to survive the fight. But the minimum to run that dungeon is Tier 13. Yes you can go ahead run the entire party as Tier 13 but it will be TOUGH!

Experience gain unlock to allow you to wear higher Tier gears as you go.

f. How would gears set in which Tier?
Example of 6 slots for now, I don’t want to include trinkets and other weapons (too long to calculate)

5 pieces of Exotics which they are all rated as 80.
1 piece of Ascended rated as 81
Final: Tier 13 (lvl80)

2 pieces of Exotics which they are all rated as 80.
4 pieces of Ascended rated as 81
Final: Tier 13 (lvl80.6666667) round it down to 80.

1 pieces of Exotics which they are all rated as 80.
5 pieces of Ascended rated as 81
Final: Tier 13 (lvl80.8333333) still round it down to 80.

0 piece of Exotics which they are all rated as 80.
6 pieces of Ascended rated as 81
Final: Tier 14 (lvl81) CONGRATZ full Ascended set

g. Why of all these ideas???
1. it gives meaning to upgrade to Ascended / Legendary gears… It’s only 5%, it is almost pointless why we need those gears (~500gold?) today, everything can be done under Exotic gears… why Anet?

2. Allow better gears ratio! 10% stats increase not just 5%…

3. Allow to release newer gears with same stats set in higher Tier!

4. More room to create complicated bosses in different Tier!

5. Everything is scaled.

6. Unique MMO, innovate!

7. Level CAP is the OLD SCHOOL!

8. Better market activities, people will be buying up more lower tier gears to survive in higher tier zones (still scales but this is for new characters).

9. Encourage to visit every zones, less skipping.

10. Tier achievements! Why not!

11. Soft gear progression! You can still kill Tier 15+ with 13 but it will only be harder.

Suggestions are all welcome, I know there are flaws.

Good idea, but too much programming for them to make a change like this. They won’t even add more skills, for crying out loud

petespri.6548:

Good idea, but too much programming for them to make a change like this. They won’t even add more skills, for crying out loud

True… but it has to do with balancing across with other classes. Some long testing.

:c but we are funding them… some part of the community needs some soft progression with meanings and goals. Otherwise everyone at the end would be like… the point of getting better gears?

In addition: The ratio level gain is nothing change much. Just only get rid of the Level display and shows as Tier gears you’re wearing. (Not showing the highest you can wear). The indicator is live showing in which tier you fit with your current armors.

Simplify this for too long to read…

1. Shows live “iLevel XX” instead of “Level 80” on your panel.

2. The “iLevel XX” changes depending what you wear.

3. “iLevel XX” is a bad idea to encourage discrimination in dungeons party. “ilvl 81+ only”…

4. Instead of “iLevel”, go “Tier XX” base for more coverage.

5. “Tier XX” again changes depends what you are currently wearing on your character.

6. “Tier” base gears allow gear progression with meanings for future contents.

In addition: Your character is unlocked up to Tier 13 gears and currently wearing Tier 13 gears. If you join up dungeon of Tier 4. You will be scaled at the highest in Tier 4. Those who are actually in Tier 4 (new characters), they will scale on the gear statistic.

This brings more variety and different in power even you’re under the same Tier with other players.