Guild Wars 2

Things GW1 did right (add to the list).

• More believable villains (like the ones here
• GW1 Cutscenes (the in-game ones / painterly dialogues don’t quite do it for me)
• Dungeons – spread out, not same place/multipath
• Lore-based quests – And no, not really the quest parts, but some story content that actually has something to do with the pre-established lore that GW1 worked so hard to create.
• Player-like mobs – That use our skills, our strategies, our combos, have our health, etc.

And probably countless others. But I’m just thinking of things that could actually be implemented into GW2 as it stands. Feel free to post your own lists too!

• prestigious skins with no stat differences
• build template
• being able to capture unique skills from bosses

1. GvG and HA
2. Missions(could just make the Story paths for each dungeon a Mission that is part of our story-lines)
3. Multiple skills per weapon(not just 5 per)
4. Build saving
5. UW/FoW

PvP
guild halls
guild halls
guild halls
raid-like adventures (UW, FoW, Urgoz, Deep, DoA)

1. Decreased importance of vertical progression in the game. One of the biggest hallmarks from the original game.

2. Better PvP rewards, modes, etc.

Totally agree with everything on here.

• Wukunlin: Skins with no stat difference – So fantastic. Max damage was max damage, you had your rarity, but that didn’t change a whole lot. All skins were available, totally awesome. Build Template: YES. SKILL CAPPING! SO MANY HOURS, SO AWESOME. Should totally be implemented…
• Galphar – I especially like the Missions, because it was meaningful progression that had little to do with leveling. And I really loved the Mission/Bonus objectives, where the rewards were modified based on how you did there. And of course, the Elite Arenas. UW and FoW would be so fantastic if they were implemented very similarly in GW2 (Open area dungeon, party wipe = fail, multiple objective lines.
• Meret: We so need guild halls. It’s what made Guild Wars Guild Wars.
• Yujin – totally agree with number 1. The game wasn’t progression based, it really was how good you were at playing, which GW2 really has pretty much destroyed.

I agree with every single one on here.

Heros and Henchmen
Sigil of capture

Dual classes and Skill captures.
Horizontal Gear progression
Ascended easily dropping from Bosses (aka 2006 GW1 Greens)
PvP Types that vary
Skins worth collecting in game
RnG like Gw1 (circa 2006 Gw1)

Dual Classes wouldn’t work here, it would require a complete rewrite of the game.
Horizontal Gear progression is something they should have had from the beginning.
The Ascended idea would be nice if the ascended stats weren’t better.
PvP Types could still happen!!!
Skins. Yeah, totally agree.
I never had a problem with the GW1 RNG.

I think its easier to go the other way.

Things GW1 can take from GW2:
The graphics.
Z axis.
….
….
….
Yea that’s it.

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Lisa.6102:

Heros and Henchmen
Sigil of capture

This…so much of this. This game is f***** boring alone, and story sucks enough so if I could get my hands on someone to talk with (as a character, not a player d’uh…), that’s be great.

Henchmen that know how to dodge.

Well, with a smart AI, things could be interesting.

The henchmen could “learn” from your playstyle and adapt to it. Or follow a certain pattern. Or you could even configure it yourself…

Ah, but what am I saying, someone (and by this I mean a DEV) would have to work for once…ah ha…

Pffff…so much ideas, so much wasted potential.

Assassin Armor. ;/

porting into the new engine/graphics, to the trash can with everything else GW2 has

It doesn’t matter, it won’t be added.

Guild halls
Dual classes

Guild halls
Awsome looking skins (make contest to create new skins)
HA
GvG
More titles
Player-Player trade (supported incase of scamming)

Ranger and Sin armors from GW1 . THERE ARE TOO MANY TRENCHCOATS

-Guild Halls (zero surprise here)
-First person camera (why not in a game this gorgeous?)

But most importantly, to me, especially as a Warrior:
-Autofollow

I cannot possibly stress enough about how awesome GW1 was for this simple but awesome feature.

Crysto.7089:

I think its easier to go the other way.

Things GW1 can take from GW2:
The graphics.
Z axis.
….
….
….
Yea that’s it.

Sad but true.

1) skill capturing (why did they leave this out?)
2) freedom of choice in skills
3) dual classes/skill crossover (aka build diversity)
4) monsters using player skills with decent AI

Better written more mature story.
Better PvP – HA and GvG.
More skills.
Better looking armor sets.
Elite instances.
Player to Player trading.
Better AI for monsters.
Better Boss monsters.
Less goofy stuff.
More teamplay.

There were huge complaints about armor in GW1, especially when it turned out that the EotN armor was all old reskins. So I wouldn’t say armor.

What I miss the most is having tons of good builds per class instead of 2-3 and all the classes being unique instead of get zerker armor, stack in melee and spam 1 regardless of whether you are a warrior, mesmer or ranger or anything else.

Cantha,duels,guild halls

My Ranger armour from GW1.

(Oh and better content, proper expansions, less dross).

Not sure if this counts but a proper fight with Abbadon because that fight in GW1 was more anticlimactic than Zhaitan.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Not sure if this counts but a proper fight with Abbadon because that fight in GW1 was more anticlimactic than Zhaitan.

/dance will fix that.

Copestetic.5174:

Xae Isareth.1364:

Not sure if this counts but a proper fight with Abbadon because that fight in GW1 was more anticlimactic than Zhaitan.

/dance will fix that.

He cheated and 1-hitted me, the sore loser.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Copestetic.5174:

Xae Isareth.1364:

Not sure if this counts but a proper fight with Abbadon because that fight in GW1 was more anticlimactic than Zhaitan.

/dance will fix that.

He cheated and 1-hitted me, the sore loser.

lol

I think we missed out on seeing Abbadon again since that chick won. Maybe in the future…but I doubt it still. We killed him, and Kormir stold’ his knowledge.

1. Energy system.
2. Lower cool downs on abilities.
Thse two go hand in hand. current system is quite boring. cool downs are far to long, and you essentialy only managing cooldowns. Sometimes I feel like I’m playin turn based game instead of action one. Shorter cooldowns would pump more action into game, while managing energy would increase micromanagment you need while using abilities.
3. Item design (mechanics wise). – Current item design is just awfull. Flat stat increases, + 9827 to awsomnes, Fascinating. Even my dog would come up with better ideas. Some runes are more intresting, but most of them fallow the same pattern, flat stat increases.
Where are the itemas that were constructed like this:
While your hp is below 50% you gain 20%.
While you are hexed, you gain +2 energey regeneration.
Etc. You got the point.
Instead of enchancing old item system, they just throwed it away and replaced it with dumb stat progression…

Elite skills that are actually elite.

Named boss monsters not just champion.

Skill capping.

Spamadan.

A non Toys R Us feeling to the weapons.

Interesting monsters and bosses with our skills for difficulty instead of the usual slapping on of 1 billion hp’s and giving them ohko’s.

Heroes and Henchies for dungeons.

Guild Halls.

Costumes bought from cash shop being unlocked for your account and all toons. Instead of a greedy and pathetic one time use only.

Alliances.

Equipment Packs http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Equipment_Pack

Elite skills that are actually elite.

Haha this too

iniside.4736:

1. Energy system.
2. Lower cool downs on abilities.
Thse two go hand in hand. current system is quite boring. cool downs are far to long, and you essentialy only managing cooldowns. Sometimes I feel like I’m playin turn based game instead of action one. Shorter cooldowns would pump more action into game, while managing energy would increase micromanagment you need while using abilities.
3. Item design (mechanics wise). – Current item design is just awfull. Flat stat increases, + 9827 to awsomnes, Fascinating. Even my dog would come up with better ideas. Some runes are more intresting, but most of them fallow the same pattern, flat stat increases.
Where are the itemas that were constructed like this:
While your hp is below 50% you gain 20%.
While you are hexed, you gain +2 energey regeneration.
Etc. You got the point.
Instead of enchancing old item system, they just throwed it away and replaced it with dumb stat progression…

There are plenty of runes/sigils with actual effects, it’s just that people don’t use most of them because they prefer straight up stat increases.

- Saved Build Templates
- Elites that don’t get forgotten on my bar
- Open, sprawling dungeons like FoW
- More complex dungeon fights. Right now, everything seems to be WoW-inspired as opposed to GW-inspired.
- Max stats available to all. Skins hard to get.
- Skill capping to a lesser degree. I like not having to purchase my skills, but capping elites was fun.
- More epic storyline

Anything that is Perm and adds to the game.

This again? Search is your friend…There’s probably 6 or 7 threads in the archived section exactly like this one.

In the meantime, I’ll bite:

GW1 was fun for what it was, but the only things I wish they would transfer to GW2 is their idea of regional servers and guild alliances.

In GW1, we could simply click a button and be in the other region to play with our friends. No guesting, no paid transfers, just a click. Likewise, going back “home” was just a click away.

Alliances were great because the small guilds could get together with another guild and have enough people to compete in PvP as a unit.

Everything else should stay native to GW1.

The rose colored glasses need to come off.

1. Every monster was a reskin of a lower level monster, and every encounter was pretty much scripted unless you were doing UW speed clears or farming greenies. And even then, you could do it in your sleep…(stand in spot A til mob X clears the top of the stairs then run to point B and spam 4321444 etc… Every time!)

2.The combat was clunky, and the fact you could only have 6 or 8 people in an instance limited the scope of the events.

3. Well over half the people I saw in the cities were busy hawking the stuff they had picked up. You could literally spend hours trying to sell your stuff.

4. End game consisted of hanging out in town chatting or complaining instead of running around the world enjoying the content. (Sound familiar?)

The way I see it is that if you prefer GW1 over GW2 that much, then go play GW1. I’ll stay here and see what they come up with next. There’s really no way I would go back.

Ashabhi.1365:

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This isn’t about GW being better or worse than GW2 and that everything from GW needs to be in this game. It’s just a list of things from GW that were right on and didn’t need to be changed or removed. You listed some yourself. Don’t get all noble on the community after you contribute to the thread. There are definitely things in GW2 that they did better than GW did. I played the crap outta GW for years…don’t need to go back. But it’d be nice to think that the mods read these forums and will see what exactly they got right and what they got wrong in the eyes of its players.

A feature that was lose somewhere durning the 2 games. It’s called PvP.

Seras.5702:

Ashabhi.1365:

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Don’t get all noble on the community after you contribute to the thread.

/endsnip

Where did I get “All Noble” on anyone? I was simply saying that first, there are already a lot of threads exactly like this one and secondly, GW1 was great for what it was, but in truth had at least as many problems as GW2 does and then listed some of them.

And I still think that if someone likes GW1 that much more than GW2, they should be playing GW1. That goes for ANY game. The fact that you didn’t like what I had to say is irrelevant to the thread.

Gandarel.5091:

A feature that was lose somewhere durning the 2 games. It’s called PvP.

Personally I think PvP has a lot more potential in GW2 than 1, simply because we have a z axis, jumping and the combat has evolved to be more dynamic. Jumping may seem trivial, but it makes fights so much more fluid because logs won’t get in your way.

Also, I think people are forgetting that WvW and sPvP aren’t the only 2 PvP modes. There’s thing like Keg Brawl or Sanctum Sprint which are also PvP mini games.

saalle.4623:

Cantha,duels,guild halls

Duels weren’t an option in GW1 either and for good reason.

pvp: I’d personally like a Guild ladder instead of per-player for sPVP. WvW castles should be captured by WvW contribution ranking instead of first comevfirst served. Tournament winners should be broadcast to the world.

pve: A Realm of the Gods, but open world (Melandru?). New skills to get from specific bosses, some of which are rare to find. Tequatl and equally difficult world bosses to be summoned by guild missions instead of timers.

skill system:
-buff damage per condition stack, reduce all condition inflicting to 1 stack per skill.
- strongly buff skill 3-4-5, nerf skill 1.
- very strongly buff elites. These should be game changers.

redhand.7168:

Things GW1 did right (add to the list).

• GW1 Cutscenes (the in-game ones / painterly dialogues don’t quite do it for me)

Heck no.

Xae Isareth.1364:

iniside.4736:

1. Energy system.
2. Lower cool downs on abilities.
Thse two go hand in hand. current system is quite boring. cool downs are far to long, and you essentialy only managing cooldowns. Sometimes I feel like I’m playin turn based game instead of action one. Shorter cooldowns would pump more action into game, while managing energy would increase micromanagment you need while using abilities.
3. Item design (mechanics wise). – Current item design is just awfull. Flat stat increases, + 9827 to awsomnes, Fascinating. Even my dog would come up with better ideas. Some runes are more intresting, but most of them fallow the same pattern, flat stat increases.
Where are the itemas that were constructed like this:
While your hp is below 50% you gain 20%.
While you are hexed, you gain +2 energey regeneration.
Etc. You got the point.
Instead of enchancing old item system, they just throwed it away and replaced it with dumb stat progression…

There are plenty of runes/sigils with actual effects, it’s just that people don’t use most of them because they prefer straight up stat increases.

Because flat stat increases are just better.

- Guild halls

- Target Nearest ACTUALLY TARGETTING NEAREST TO YOUR CHARACTER, NOT NEAREST TO THE CENTRE OF THE SCREEN (seriously ANet, wtf? it is SO STUPID)

- Competitive missions

- Gods

- Dark and evil environments

- A villain that’s bad kitten (stupid filter.. the thing poop comes out of)

Guild Halls.

^ above all else, this!

Also:
Guild vs Guild
Hall of Heroes
Dungeon/PvE Content that is unlocked for a server/region based upon whether that server/region controls an area or wins a match (think Fissure of Woe/Underworld)

Guild Halls
No vertical progression
Playing with NA
No gemstore/semi-forced RNG

Strategic gameplay.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Gandarel.5091:

A feature that was lose somewhere durning the 2 games. It’s called PvP.

Personally I think PvP has a lot more potential in GW2 than 1, simply because we have a z axis, jumping and the combat has evolved to be more dynamic. Jumping may seem trivial, but it makes fights so much more fluid because logs won’t get in your way.

Also, I think people are forgetting that WvW and sPvP aren’t the only 2 PvP modes. There’s thing like Keg Brawl or Sanctum Sprint which are also PvP mini games.

In minigames you can’t use your skill set, so those aren’t parts of PvP. I totally agre, GW2 has potential, and I’d really love to see GW1 concepts with GW2’s engine. Too bad PvP team consists of roughly 3 guys, 1 tester 1 programer and 1 manager.

Conquest is great, but it’s like farming CoF p1 on different looking maps for 1 year with no reward at all.

All of them……..