Guild Wars 2

The home instance is a great Idea and those nodes u win or buy from the auction house would be great if it wasn’t faster to just go outside and mine ores directly…

I love the home instance, how it gets personalized, but the one thing that always bothered me is that you have to teleport and load at least two times to get in (= most people won’t bother going there ever again once your personal story is done).

Why not create a home instance teleporting stone/item? Like the one we have for the Eye of the North (hall of monuments)?!

If I could access my home instance more easily I would definitely spend more time there! Selling my stuff mining my ores etc! It would be more convenient for players and leave room for you guys to provide additional paying content for it! (more ore nodes, a garden to plant selected ingredients, an npc that sends you to lions arch, etc… There would be a lot of things to do there!)

However I don’t see anything related to the home instance work if players get bored because they have to spend 2 minutes to get there.

Well if you stayed in the races cites and not just LA you would only have to tp once at most but most ppl need to be in LA soon to changes lol.

Jski.6180:

Well if you stayed in the races cites and not just LA you would only have to tp once at most but most ppl need to be in LA soon to changes lol.

Well compared to a stone, even being in DR would mean running to Salma’s or wp-ing there. both take the same amount of time, so I count that as a loading screen too

A stone would make sense and would promote the use of the home instances, maybe with the small adjustment, that the exit portal works as the portal in EotN, it portals you to the last place you where (though I don’t mind if it leads to the racial town, we allready have the HotM to go to LA/replacement Vigil keep without paying.

mercury ranique.2170:

Jski.6180:

Well if you stayed in the races cites and not just LA you would only have to tp once at most but most ppl need to be in LA soon to changes lol.

Well compared to a stone, even being in DR would mean running to Salma’s or wp-ing there. both take the same amount of time, so I count that as a loading screen too

A stone would make sense and would promote the use of the home instances, maybe with the small adjustment, that the exit portal works as the portal in EotN, it portals you to the last place you where (though I don’t mind if it leads to the racial town, we allready have the HotM to go to LA/replacement Vigil keep without paying.

I think we should look to GH to be more with a “stone” like tp more then a players home instance. I am hoping that LA falling apart we may see GH become something to provide the old service that LA gave ppl. A home instance is more about looks then use where you can show off to your friends what you did i think the home instance should get more from the LS then it dose now and we may see with the end of a full arc of a LS that the home instance gets a new effect.

Rata Sum for the Win.

Crafting, Bank, Black Lion, and Home Instance all in one place.

Why not have a portal in LA (or the next capital) that teleports you directly into your home instance, that you also have to exit from. I think having a personal teleportation stone that you carry around could be abused, and as the home is instanced, makes it seem like the world is less populated if too many people start spending too much time in there.

CameronJames.4897:

Why not have a portal in LA (or the next capital) that teleports you directly into your home instance, that you also have to exit from. I think having a personal teleportation stone that you carry around could be abused, and as the home is instanced, makes it seem like the world is less populated if too many people start spending too much time in there.

How could it it be more abused then the HoM stone or the button in the pvp window to travel to the mists. Obviously, you can’t use it when in battle, same would go for such a stone, but it would do the same thing, nothing more or less. so nothing abbusive imo.

mtpelion.4562:

Rata Sum for the Win.

Crafting, Bank, Black Lion, and Home Instance all in one place.

Shhhhhhh!

I like my non-crowded everything-I-need-in-one-spot, thank you very much.

If 1-4 silver coins and 2 loading screens keeps you from returning to the empty, useless home instances of GW2 then a convenient teleportation stone will probably not be an effective remedy to your crucial dilemma. Selling junk to merchants is the main problem with this suggestion.

Here’s the problem, there are merchants inside the home instances. People pay real money for gems to buy black lion keys in order to open black lion chests, which could reward permanent contracts. One so happens to be a permanent merchant. It costs good gold to buy, plenty of luck in the RNG game, and ArenaNet made them so that only the summoner of the merchant could use them. There are also merchant consumables in the gemstore.

Even if these teleportation stones returned the player back to their original spot like the HoM one, this advantage alone would conflict with those items. One in the gemstore, the other a rare contract in BLC’s. Even if they sold this “Home Instance stone” for gems, those who paid serious gold for their permanent merchants would be screwed.

That’s a no no.

Truth is that even with the overpriced nodes, the living story fluff, and the boring NPC’s that are not interactable.. the home instance will remain useless (except for roleplayers probably) to all even with 1 less loading screen, lol. There’s no room for player housing in the home instances, where will your garden be located.. infront of the orphanage next to the candy corn and the hazardous probe that the orphans play next to? An NPC that sends you to LA when it takes the same amount of loading screens.. just 1-4 silver coins extra.. to get there?

The problem with the home instances is that there’s nothing of value inside of them besides that drinking minigame, living story nodes, the place of power, and.. buying watermelons for 16 copper. Not how long it takes to get there when there’s a freaking WP infront of the gates.

The Eye of the North only has Kimmes the Historian, he doesn’t allow the player to sell him junk just provides the HoM rewards. The Eye of the North is also buried in Icebrood territory with the ice elder dragon Jormag lurking just around the corner. ArenaNet felt it was appropriate to place the rewards there and gave us a teleportation stone, no advantages.

Turn off the ability to sell to the merchants in home instances = less appeal
No actual room for even GW1 HoM-esque player trophy rooms in the home instances = less appeal
Absolutely no reaction to the personal story beyond slapping silent NPC’s in corners = less appeal

You’d be paying gems/coins to avoid 1 loading screen and a coin fee AND wasting an inventory space, even if the stone was free. Using waypoints is also a gold sink, why skip the silver fee?

See my post as a “this could be a good idea to START improving the home instance” rather than a “this is what’s bad with it” ; )