Guild Wars 2

There really needs to be an option to set a main city as a ‘free waypoint’ or something, similar to a hearth stone in WoW.
Kinda tired of the personal storyline sending me halfway across Tyria just to come back; costs a lot as it adds up. Either that, or add more money rewards for completing quest steps to help offset it.

Go to the mists from your pvp menu, run through portal to lions arch, pick the race city portal you want. A little more time consuming but if the few silver is just too much then you may find it worth it.

Yeah, I’ve used shortcuts like that before; it’s not just that it’s time-consuming, it’s that I have to go halfway across Tyria for a 30-second to 1-minute cutscene sometimes just to turn around and go right back. Either way, time-spent or money-spent, it’s unnecessary and could be made infinitely better by a way to set a Waypoint as a ‘free’ one or something to that effect.

Well to be honest I think there does need to be some ‘sink’. Either the gold sink that was designed into the game, or the time sink of avoiding it. Perhaps I just feel ease of travel should have a cost.

I agree completely; but requiring you to travel so far for so little, then all the way back undermines a lot of values about the gaming being a rewarding experience. Giving the ability to set ONE Waypoint as a ‘free’ one provides you with convenience in this sort of situation. It wouldn’t remove the ‘death penalty’ or the ‘money-vs-time-sink’ aspect.
This needs to be implemented.

No, it does not need to be implemented.

Agreed. One on every map.

Not even one on each map, just ONE. Like a hearthstone.

Changeable, also like a hearthstone. Something to be able to return to your chosen place free. There are 507 Waypoints in the game atm, so being able to select ONE of them as a free return point in order to make the sometimes back-to-back travel to that location, often for personal-storyline purposes, not such an overly-invested endeavor. I mean, I’ve been doing my personal storyline and other than selling a few of the rewards, I haven’t made a single copper doing so. I understand that exploring and whatnot is how you earn money (DE’s and RH’s along the way, etc…) but I don’t feel like doing that right that very moment and only have a little time to play, I don’t wanna spend my limited play-time running back and forth for just a couple storyline progressions. If I could pay the cost of traveling to where I’m going, then return for free, then pay to travel wherever else I’m sent, then return for free again, etc… I could get a little more ‘mileage’ out of my playtime.
The option to set a Waypoint as a free one wont negatively affect anyone, and can only benefit people who would be able to make ample use of it.