Guild Wars 2

OliverLogan.7145:

Ursan Blessing

“Rank 10 Ursan lfg”

50 man Ursan-zerg steamrolling WvW

Too bad Ursan is a PvE only skill – it would have changed AB forever

Necromancers

15charr

Bump, for the players can share your ideas.

1. The simple but highly fun/ customisable skill system, or a different skill system with the same qualities.

2. The much superior party-driven content. GW2 also needs better/ more party support and party-interaction mechanics. Spamming healing AoEs around our allies (and having them miss if they move out of the way) is not exactly that fun, and outside of that, we can’t interact them outside of rezzing. GW2 group content doesn’t feels like I’m playing in a group, but more like 5 random players are playing parallel to each other in the same field.

3. Separate skills/ character building from gear-grinding. Don’t restrict builds to current gear. GW1 did that by having only cosmetic gear-grinding. I don’t mind mind a bit of gear-grinding, AS LONG AS I can customise its stats to fit my build any time I want, without that costing me time, gold or anything else.

4. The UI.

Definitely the customizable UI.

I kinda miss it most of it, except for the great things GW2 has. Open world, beautiful maps, dodging and way more active gameplay instead of standing still. Even the jumping puzzles are a very nice, sometimes an anoying touch.

Prince Rurik? Just kidding. lol

I liked prince Rurik too, he was a good guy.

@ topic

Would be nice to have a npc where you can chose skills that you can use, the only thing you need to do is have the skills points to purchase that skill(s) and be happy!

This is a topic I love.

I miss a lot from GW1:

~Ritualist+Dervish – These classes were just ultra cool/different.
~All of Nightfall/Elona – The story, lore, introduction of heroes…it was just awesome.
~DYE-ABLE WEAPONS
~All armor sets – Even the basic ones looked good.
~Pre-searing – Really cool introduction to GW1.
~Aspenwood/Jade Quarry – Had some really fun games here, PvP in general was nice.
~Underworld/Fissure of Woe – Nice high level content, pretty difficult.
~DoA – A way to earn some money/cool weapon skins, required coordination.
~Obsidian Armor – Really cool looking armor (in my opinion of course).
~Chaos Gloves – Glowy hands ftw!
~Updates – Every couple of months they would do major updates to skills/mechanics/professions, made things fresh and people would make new builds accordingly.
~The number of skills/elites that were available.
~Guild Halls
~HARD MODE – Double chest drops + better drops in general, yes please! Although this made some content almost impossible without cons/good players.
~Crystal Desert – Idk why, but I just liked it.
~Vanquishing – Destroying everything on the map = xD
~And of course Cantha!

Skirtless Armor
At LEAST 30-50% of the amount of skills and ability to change weapon skills.
Guild Halls
Cantha and Fort Aspenwood sPvP.
Longbows and Scythes for Assassin/Thief.

For me I would bring back the fully customizable UI. I prefer to have my chat on the right side of the screen and the bottom clear of litter. It includes things like bringing back the ping/connection dot as well.
I would add more but a lot of it has been said already.

the 4 weapon set lots it’s a must for Warriors an Rangers and it makes life easier.

The ability to rearrange the skill bar.

I don’t mind the attack skills being defined by the weapon but I’d really like to change the order!

Capping elite skills from mobs. Just that simple

I would bring Elona and Cantha.

/nuffsaid.

Hey devs! I’m sure you spent a lot of hours in your life playing GW1 too, so, would be cool to hear what you most enjoyed from GW1 too, come on! share with us xD.

All I wanted from GW2 was GW1 but with an Open World. I loved the diviersity of builds we had, capping elites, Missions for grouping, GvG and Guild Halls. There’s so much I’d bring over from GW that GW2 doesn’t have that it’s actually easier to say what not to bring: Henchies/Heroes.

Primary/Secondary Profession system.
It gave each character a lot of depth and longevity.
I played GW for years with just a mesmer.
Me/Rt, Me/N, Me/A, Me/Mo, Me/E, Me/D!

Good gameplay and PvP.

-Costume/hat Maker
-Guild Hall
-Minion Master
-Weapon dye
-Armors and Weapons
-Hair style/color
-Necromancer
-Awesome Title names
-Fireworks
-My cool mini pets
-Emotes
-unique Dance for each profession
-repeatable Story mission

While I am convinced that anything I put down here has about a 0.0000000001% chance of coming about, here it is.

GW1’s skill system would be amazing! Twin professions, skill hunting, ect. Yes, I know, I know. I too would not wish to be the unlucky sap that had to balance GW1 for it’s 8 year lifespan. However, as many have comented. It gave GW1 depth, and made it interesting.

Also, GW1’s separation of some PvE and PvP skills. This by far had to be the one thing that I gave endless Kudos to GW1 over other MMO’s. It irks me to no end when a skill that was useful in PvE is nerfed because in PvP it was to powerful.

I’d love to see 8 man parties again.

GW1 mesmer.

gw1 Diversion >>> gw2 Diversion

Tyqer.6413:

The old skill system. (Or just Elites/customizable skills that really change things hardcore.)

^This by 1 million, was it unbalanced probably, is Guildwars 2 still unbalanced… yep.

My second choice would be Dual classes…

Does Cantha count as a feature? My initial excitement for GW2 was the desire to see Cantha re-imagined.

Kichwas.7152:

I would bring Elona and Cantha.

/nuffsaid.

djlowballer.7460:

Does Cantha count as a feature? My initial excitement for GW2 was the desire to see Cantha re-imagined.

In my opinion the chance they bring Cantha and Elona back it’s very High, I think they are waiting for the “right” moment to release it.

1. Henchmen for all instance we have. I loved to do dungeons in GW1 with my own, with henchmen/heroes.
2. Repeatable Personal Story.
3. Dungeons with their mechanic. I don’t understand why devs made such dungeons in gw2, with fat mobs. I hate fat mobs, it’s mmorpg stupid thing.

Actually many things from GW1 I would love to see in GW2.

Kreslin.6832:

1. Henchmen for all instance we have. I loved to do dungeons in GW1 with my own, with henchmen/heroes.
2. Repeatable Personal Story.
3. Dungeons with their mechanic. I don’t understand why devs made such dungeons in gw2, with fat mobs. I hate fat mobs, it’s mmorpg stupid thing.

Actually many things from GW1 I would love to see in GW2.

I have no cons about GW2 dungeons, it’s ok the way they are for me, but, I agree that would be nice to have henchmen/heroes allowed for dungeons in GW2, but only for dgs, not to open world, world events.

I very much miss the build templates. Even in PvE I like to run different builds (multiple builds for dungeons alone depending on the team I run with) bot for fun and functionality. A simple feature that allowed me to save a load traits and skills would go a long way for me. I don’t care about the costs (make it an item I have to buy and consume) just don’t make me go all the way to LA, reset my traits, manually set all my traits and skills, then go back to the area to play the game. Takes me out of the game for nearly 30 minutes just to do everything.

A few things:

1) Being able to wear costume items (town clothes) as armor, such as sunglasses > helm.
2) Guild Halls.
3) Saving builds.
4) More than two weapon swap tabs, even if only two are usable in combat.
5) Guild Wars 1 emotes and dances! I’d deffo buy the latter, if it came to that.

Build templates
Being able to view through another player’s eyes while dead
Some of the guild functionality
More PvP modes
First person point of view (mostly for screen shots)
Enemy party composition for instances (it wouldn’t work in open world)
Henchemen for dungeons

That’s my wish list.

To those wanting henchmen/heroes for dungeons… fancy yourself handling Colossus or Dredge fractals as the only player with 4 heroes? I shudder at the thought. xD

One wish, would be for future campaigns in GW2 to become far more challenging and repeatable, the personal story was really a meek attempt – both lore-wise and as a challenge.

Idea for future campaigns/personal stories;

- repeatable
- normal mode/hard mode or call it story/explorable if you will (better rewards)
- achieving titles through completion of parts of campaign/entire story (e.g. I am Commander of the Pact, but why isn’t that a title?!? Heck I even killed Zhaitan and that log took all the credit for it… I got a commemorative weapon – which was nice – but no title)

- and of course, bring back Cantha! And just bring us word on what this expansion is all about too; I doubt you have the time this time around to tell everyone ‘when it’s ready’ and hold off with news and tidbits. If you want to retain a decent player base, give us some info asap.

The way professions worked and skills synergized. Not necessarily talking about having a Holy Trinity here but there were definitely some interesting things you could do in GW1 if you paid enough attention that would truly separate the bad from the good. There’s nothing like that in GW2. Everything feels like a cakewalk.

Kurzicks – Luxons .. I always had great fun playing that.Eventhough the same map each time..i just couldn’t stop doing it.

Districts. All open world PvE zones are no longer on servers but instead are all on one server that can create districts as needed.

Broadicea.8294:

PvE class balance.

haahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha. The balance in GW1 was in all aspects of the game bad, except the Dragon Arena.

I miss those chests that required a key and area specific RARE itemskins.

the guild interface
alliances
Player to player trade, I hate the TP and its fee
Good PvP
Having actual builds!!!
I miss monks

No Stealth………………..

ErgoPhoenix.9784:

~DYE-ABLE WEAPONS
~Crystal Desert – Idk why, but I just liked it.

These two, and your shield! that shield looks reaaaaally cool =P

Costume Maker !!
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume_maker

and first person camera view for screenshots

Companions. The best thing in GW1 was you could make a party of AI people and do anything. I miss that.

The ability to get items from killing monsters.

Since I know the Devs are sensitive to bringing up GW1 apsects in relation to GW2; I will keep this short and sweet.

Please allow me to target enemies even when not a group. I want to be able to press one key and be right back in the same target, instead of pulling deers, randoms.

Disasterous.

EDIT: The more I think of it, the more I want to really express what I hailed from GW1

1. Spectacting after dead
2. Guild Halls
3. Certain Weapon skins Dyable
4. LFG window that I could pull up and see who’s looking for what (without the spamming)
5. Costume Makers
6. Underworld, Fissure of Woe
7. Districts were fantastic (How am I supposed to know where to guest to find the most populated map, i.e.; Kessex Hills)
8. Cantha
9. Party of 8 in certain areas
10. Crystal Desert
11. Guild Alliances
12. Skill Variances
13. Trading with players directly
14. Guild Capes

Basically everything that’s listed here and:

- The camera. The way it is so smooth and goes through walls… I miss not having fights with my mouse over where I’m trying to look.

- When I press F12 I want to be able to press C for characters or enter to exit..

- An interesting story.

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

Soccerspeed.7165:

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

I posted that two posts above you….

Antara.3189:

Soccerspeed.7165:

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

I posted that two posts above you….

Oh hey. so it would seem. hidden in the list of things. I apologize. You said it first. Let me reword my statement.

Frankly I’m surprised there are not more people asking for this here.

Soccerspeed.7165:

Antara.3189:

Soccerspeed.7165:

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

I posted that two posts above you….

Oh hey. so it would seem. hidden in the list of things. I apologize. You said it first. Let me reword my statement.

Frankly I’m surprised there are not more people asking for this here.

That’s because we have asked, begged, yelled, screamed, stamped until we are blue in the face, and still don’t have a basic feature that comes with even F2P games.

In conclusion, we have given up on a LFG tool because it’s never coming, like a lot of other things we have been waiting forever for.

Datastar.5329:

The way the skills and classes/dual classing worked and trinity

This, although I don’t care one way or another about bringing back the trinity.

The dual class system, massive skill pools, build craft, and depth of possible strategy were what defined GW, and every single one of them is missing in GW2.

EDIT: Just felt the need to state that I am violently opposed to re-introducing henchmen and AI companions. They ruined many social aspects of GW, and enough of GW2 is solo-able as it is.

Aeonblade.8709:

Soccerspeed.7165:

Antara.3189:

Soccerspeed.7165:

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

I posted that two posts above you….

Oh hey. so it would seem. hidden in the list of things. I apologize. You said it first. Let me reword my statement.

Frankly I’m surprised there are not more people asking for this here.

That’s because we have asked, begged, yelled, screamed, stamped until we are blue in the face, and still don’t have a basic feature that comes with even F2P games.

In conclusion, we have given up on a LFG tool because it’s never coming, like a lot of other things we have been waiting forever for.

Actually, they’ve officially stated that an in-game LFG tool will be ready before the end of 2013.