Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet, please turn Hearts into Dynamic Events.

Here is an idea: You go to the farm as a level 2, the Farmer says “Our cows are hungry” and players can decide to feed them or not. Same Zone, but different event the cows are not hungry anymore but the farmer says “We need to water the crops!” and so the players can decide to participate on the event by grabing water buckets and watering crops.

These are examples of heart tasks turning into events in human zones. I really think all hearts should be random events depending on situation.

Currently newbs think hearts as quests and generally find hearts more interesting than events when they first start. The current heart system teaches newbs that this is questing and this is what gw2 is about… I think changing hearts into events will teach newbs gw2 is about the events instead and gives them something new everytime they re-explore the area like what other events do. It teaches them exploration is key.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

ArenaNet, please turn Hearts into Dynamic Events.

Here is an idea: You go to the farm as a level 2, the Farmer says “Our cows are hungry” and players can decide to feed them or not. Same Zone, but different event the cows are not hungry anymore but the farmer says “We need to water the crops!” and so the players can decide to participate on the event by grabing water buckets and watering crops.

These are examples of heart tasks turning into events in human zones. I really think all hearts should be random events depending on situation.

Currently newbs think hearts as quests and generally find hearts more interesting than events when they first start. The current heart system teaches newbs that this is questing and this is what gw2 is about… I think changing hearts into events will teach newbs gw2 is about the events instead and gives them something new everytime they re-explore the area like what other events do. It teaches them exploration is key.

The only reason hearts exist are to transition players into the concept of events. In alpha there were no hearts, but people complained that they didn’t know what to do. Hearts helped direct people around the zones as they did events. I despise hearts but I get their purpose.

Well there are 303 hearts in the game right now. Making them into dynamic events instead of hearts will take some time. Do you think they should do this before the expansion comes out? Or maybe do it after, while they are busy fixing the inevitable bugs and (hopefully) working further on the next stage of the game, moving further westward towards where the dragon is.

imo, vanilla Tyria isn’t going to get big updates anymore. The game and the devs attention is moving outward into the expansion areas and beyond. I doubt they are going to take a substantial amount of time to rework the old content any time soon.

hearts were put into the game so players got bread crumbs to follow and alot of them are placed were events do tend to spawn to get people to run there and do event.