Guild Wars 2

I’ve read thread after thread of people asking for change in GW2, saying the game will die if they aren’t made quickly. So, I wanted to compile a list of things that the community wants to see in Guild Wars 2 this year.

Remember, this isn’t a to-do list for Anet, just what we would like to see.
From what I’ve read…

General

-Separate balancing for PvE, sPvP, WvW
-Guild Halls
-GvG
-Being able to party with friends for minigames (even just for custom servers)
-More incentive to join lower pop. servers
-In-game Leaderboards
-Ascended armor/weapons
-Being able to mass mail friends/ guildies without being supressed
-Equal reward structures and achievement structures for all game modes. (PvE, PvP,WvW)
-A build template that allows you to easily swap builds as well as equipment.
-More variations in professions and more viable builds
-More armor/weapons/skins (Charrmor meow!)
-Better Trading Post UI
-More Trading Post search options
-Fix Trading Post bugs (being unable to use)

PvE

-PvE endgame (harder dungeons, and bigger rewards for difficulty spikes)
-Guild Dungeons/Raids
-Newer Fractals
-Group finder for dungeons
-Dynamic events with actual impact on the world, and punishment for failure
-Fleshed out Home instance
-Bosses that require attention to animations, not watching cooldowns
-More dynamic boss fights (requiring movement across the map, etc)
-End of PvE culling
-More missions based on your Order choice
-More open-world mini dungeons
-More guild mission types, including large scale, complex boss fights
-Revamp of the dungeons – specifically focused on making more difficult paths (at least one) in each.
-More activities (Fishing)
-PvE dueling

sPvP

-sPvP teams separate from guilds
-Rewards for sPvP outside of the mists
-New sPvP game modes
-Official duel server game mode
-Less maps based on environmental objects and more based on player skill

WvW

-More attention to WvW bugs/hacks
-More customization for commander tags
-Better squad system for better organization
-Bigger incentive to defend keeps/ escort dolyaks
-Improved WvW maps (More variations btw borderlands, size, etc)

I’ll continue to add as people comment
Note: I will not add debatable topics, and will try to be unbiased in choosing
(For example: account wide dyes)

3 more tiers of vertical progression

1. Different colors for commanders in www
2. Different colors for commanders in www
3. More incentive for players to stay and fortify keeps in www

Off the top of my head.

More depth in dynamic events where failing or winning actually makes a difference for a while and not just some lame contested wp. Also somekind of reward system for variety of events done in one day wouldn’t hurt either.

I’d like to see the home instance fleshed out further. The recent quartz node addition is a good start and is in line with what was initially promised for the home instance system before launch.

World bosses that don’t just sit there letting you hit them. Why don’t they have any other attacks that you have to adapt to? Why can’t world boss spawns be random, and maybe even some of them should move around the map to ‘retreat’?

Better in-game guild menus and tools. Even something as basic as seeing when the last time your guildies have logged in or represented would be a BIG improvement.

Being able to mass email your guildies/friends list without being supressed after 2 or 3 emails.

LFG tool that actually works.

Id like Dervs and and Rits, also some more of the game opened, new areas and mobs with less focus on mini games and more focus on the main game.

• housing
• end of culling in PvE

*Equal reward structures and achievement structures for all game modes. (PvE, PvP,WvW)
*More involved dynamic events with a branching system where you have to choose your options- with fails possible
*A build template that allows you to easily swap builds as well as equipment.
*A system like a skin npc or armor rack in your house where you can keep your various skins.
*More missions based on your Order choice

Just off the top of my head, will add more as I think of them

Sorry format went wonky on me

Joe.8142:

World bosses that don’t just sit there letting you hit them. Why don’t they have any other attacks that you have to adapt to? Why can’t world boss spawns be random, and maybe even some of them should move around the map to ‘retreat’?

Joe please, shut up… You wanna make it harder for only a rare? Random spawns? For people to lose their time searching instead of doing boss? You seriously don’t make them everyday like me

Im very happy with the current direction of the game, but if I were hard pressed to make a list -

- New Dynamic Event chains and open world mini-dungeons (open world should be priority in this game, imo)

- Revamp of the dungeons – specifically focused on making more difficult paths (at least one) in each.

- More guild mission types, including large scale, complex boss fights

- More Fractals

- Continuation and evolution of the living story system

- Trending away from zerker/DPS focused content

Mel ryuzaki.1402:

Joe please, shut up… You wanna make it harder for only a rare? Random spawns? For people to lose their time searching instead of doing boss? You seriously don’t make them everyday like me

I don’t mean random spawns as in you have to go looking, but maybe NPCs around the world start talking about this disturbance in X area. And they have to be made harder I am in no doubt about that. They are not really ‘world bosses’ they just seem like another trash mob with more HP.

The generic WvW maps for all three realms being changed so that we have 3 unique maps and Eternal Battlegrounds. So basically two new maps.

Playable Tengu
I’d like to see the tengu made a playable race, but only if they’re treated like a sixth original race (full voice acting, starting city, idle banter between tengu NPCs, a starting zone, etc).

Player Housing
I’d love to see a robust player housing system added to the game. I’d also like to see a furniture-making craft that utilizes leather, cloth, and lumber (raising demand on these materials) added to compliment the housing system.

Fishing
I’d like to see fishing added to the game. A nice, relaxing activity we can do in the open world when we want to wind down would be a perfect addition. I’d also like to see new cooking recipes (Power/Condition Duration and Precision/Condition Duration being my top two choices) stem from fish and seafood cooking recipes.

A New Expansion
I’d love to see a full-fledged expansion added to the game. I’d like this expansion to open a new region to exploration all at once, rather than a bit at a time. I’d like this new expansion to receive all the quality, care and attention to detail that went into the full game, rather than the somewhat lighter content we’ve been receiving through the Living Story updates.

Customizable Skills
I’d love to have the ability to customize my weapon skills. I hate that my guardian’s focus has better defensive skills than does his shield. I loathe that my ranger’s Hunter’s Shot was changed to a stealth skill rather than a new stealth skill being made available for those who want it.

Two-Handed Axes
My warrior is getting angry because he has to use a greatsword as a stand-in for a two-handed axe…and you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

Guild Halls and more uses for home instances!

I would love to see Guild Halls/GvG and dueling. These two additions would mean so much to me.

New zones to explore – not necessarily packed with content. There’s so much to explore just on the continent we’re currently on, so open it up for us! I know I’m probably in the minority here, but I’d love just to roam around in the world even without no grand and “epic” stories or rat-killing quests to go with it.

A way for Engineers to hide their hobosacks, even if it’s a giant neon icon next to our nameplate showing what kit we are in.

For the love of all that is holy- NO MORE HOBOSACKS

Dueling, endgame pve content, separate balancing for pve, pvp, and wvw

Personally I would like to see a few improvements regarding treating us as a player rather than a character.

- Make Karma share among all characters, like laurels do etc.

- Make dyes account-unlocks, reduce the dye drop rate to compensate.

- Turn weapon skins, armor skins etc into unlockables. Got those badges for those heavy CoE leggings? Great, you can now get that skin from a new bank tab, using it costs 1 of those transmute stones, depending on which level the item is you apply it to. Now you only have to worry about buying stats afterwards.

- Continue the story of the elder dragons, personal story or living story.

- Much more zones to explore, I love exploring, many others do aswell.

- Make ALL zone rewards scale based on character level rather than zone level, sure people may speedlvl and then go through the zones for max rewards, but is that worse than people farming for exotics/rares in Orr and other places?

- More armors, we’ve had like.. 8 dungeon sets, the basic levelling/crafted gear, some random pieces of equipment and since launch we’ve only got a handfull of standalone pieces.

- Better TP UI, it’s cumbersome to buy things, check prices of stuff, go back to buying more stuff or selling stuff. Plus, when I open the TP it opens the gemstore by default, allow the thing to remember my last opened page as sometimes I have to close the TP and then get back to it, having to search for X item AGAIN.

- More weapons, both in skins and gameplay. We haven’t seen two-handed axes, above-ground spears/polearms, crossbows and many other possibilities.

- After the dungeons overhaul, unify all dungeon tokens to one currency.

- Make all currencies UI based, rather than items. Nobody likes having 8 bank slots taken just for dungeons, among other things i.e. badges from wvw.

- More active skills, I really dislike being stuck to 2 weapon sets and 5 skills that tend to have huge cooldowns.

There’s probably more but this is what I can think of from the top of my head.

The list is gold! If half of this were implemented i would be pretty satisfied! (i mean VERY satisfied)

-Fix the god awful TP omg. We have all these things, living story and other changes but we still can’t search for back items or exclusively heavy, light or medium armour on the TP?! Whyyy!

-More choices in customization for everything: everyone looks exactly the same and all the hair is terribad and this is probably my 5th post complaining about medium armour being only trenchcoats

-Better balancing and more bug fix/polishes over all

-SAB to come back

-More weapons variety and more weapons for each class

Wishful Thinking:

-I would like a build mirror similar to EQ2 where you could store up to three builds in it and switch whenever you visited your house. I don’t care if there is a fee involved in switching but I am so tired of having to allocate my points repeatedly every time i switch.

-More professions

-player housing

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/colin-johanson-talks-dungeons-dragons-and-chairs

I found this interesting interview. So they plan to redesign all dungeons and replace some of them. Also they plan to make the living story more personal.

have big PvE events (Temples, World Bosses ecc) actually have some kind of impact in WvWvW, and have WvWvW have some kind of noticeable impact on PvE.

They pretty much already outlined what they will be working on for the rest of 2013. So anything not mentioned will probably not be seen before 2014.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

Me.

Fine, fine… I’m actually content to wait and see how things play out at this point. There’s a lot added, a lot more coming, so yeah, I plan to be there experiencing the journey as it unfolds.

Xenon.4537:

They pretty much already outlined what they will be working on for the rest of 2013. So anything not mentioned will probably not be seen before 2014.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

Again, it’s not a to-do list. It’s just what the community wants, and if by the slightest chance Anet reads this, I’ll be very happy

sorry I miss read- I thought the OP was asking for end of 2014.

PvE Dueling.

Condition caps in PvE adjusted.

Morrigan.2809:

sorry I miss read- I thought the OP was asking for end of 2014.

Yeah, had to think about how to word it. This is just what the community wants, ignore the time frame

Keep the list flowing guys! Lot’s of improvements I couldn’t think of here

And I want Halloween masks that are the other races. Come Halloween I want my little Asuran to be running around with a big ugly Norn face. Or maybe a Quaggan one. Lol.

EchenSketch.9142:

I’ve read thread after thread of people asking for change in GW2, saying the game will die if they aren’t made quickly.

LOL … I wish … haven’t seen a single server fall below “High” all month and I’ve been up at 6am looking (b/c I need to Transfer but I ain’t payin 1000 gems, screw that)

Also this list is FULL of contradictions. It has no unifying theme and half the things on it are where everything went off track in the first place (Ascended gear?? really? More vertical progression?) Is someone trolling or do people REALLY think this stuff is more important than group DE-stopping reoccurring Bugs that have existed since launch or dungeon instances breaking or the fact WvW has only 1 meta that matters (follow the Zerg) and still no real guild progression in it.

The only thing needing to be repeated here about 100 times, is:
-Separate balancing for PvE, sPvP, WvW
…b/c it’s clear that their “balance” team just isn’t taking it serious yet.

ilr.9675:

EchenSketch.9142:

I’ve read thread after thread of people asking for change in GW2, saying the game will die if they aren’t made quickly.

LOL … I wish … haven’t seen a single server fall below “High” all month and I’ve been up at 6am looking (b/c I need to Transfer but I ain’t payin 1000 gems, screw that)

Also this list is FULL of contradictions. It has no unifying theme and half the things on it are where everything went off track in the first place (Ascended gear?? really? More vertical progression?) Is someone trolling or do people REALLY think this stuff is more important than group DE-stopping reoccurring Bugs that have existed since launch or dungeon instances breaking or the fact WvW has only 1 meta that matters (follow the Zerg) and still no real guild progression in it.

The only thing needing to be repeated here about 100 times, is:
-Separate balancing for PvE, sPvP, WvW
…b/c it’s clear that their “balance” team just isn’t taking it serious yet.

This list has is not ordered to show importance. It is simply a compilation of what people would like to see in the future. Guild halls and GvG can certainly provide guild progression. It’s clear to me that you spend most of your time WvW’ing, and that’s fine but please realize a majority of the players PvE and/or have other interests and priorities.

No one is saying that their desires are more important than yours. Please don’t turn this into a hateful thread. This is a list, that is all.

Cantha! That’s all what i wanna see, seriously!

In addition to all the things they talked about in the blog, I hope they work on some form of raiding. And before someone attacks this post, keep in mind that raiding doesn’t mean gear treadmill.

Removal of diminishing returns.
Removal of limits on AoE
Removal of garbage items on the yellow/exotic loot table (medallions, etc.)
Town Clothes/items wearable in combat
Craftable precursors with an achievement title for doing so
Legendaries made account bound
Legendary components (gifts, etc) made tradable.
Free waypointing to characters home city (alleviate use of WvW as a skip to LA and encourage people to use their home cities)
Loot from champions worth killing them for.
Special salvaging kits to salvage those ascended items into the new proposed mats
Account bound dyes (all of them)
More town clothes
Removal of RNG boxes
Rain of flowery arrows for Barrage with Kudzu
Asuran white rhinestone elvis outfit in the Gemstore (because The Moot demands it)
More sources for Icy Runestones and Obsidian shards.
Weapon Master achievement required for use of Legendary of that type.

all i want to see before 2014 is things to do on a lev80 characters because there’s nothing now

Nuka Cola.8520:

all i want to see before 2014 is things to do on a lev80 characters because there’s nothing now

I’ll roleplay with you, bro.

Nuka Cola.8520:

all i want to see before 2014 is things to do on a lev80 characters because there’s nothing now

Then go play something else? Seems like a reasonable enough solution to your problem to me.

darkace.8925:

Nuka Cola.8520:

all i want to see before 2014 is things to do on a lev80 characters because there’s nothing now

Then go play something else? Seems like a reasonable enough solution to your problem to me.

and i will when something worth playing comes out if gw2 stays the same

DRAGONS!

If I knew there wasn’t going to be any godkitten dragons I wouldn’t have bothered…stop messing about with wishi, washi content with a rotating 2 weekly fashion show of fluffy pink rainbow back items and get onto the DRAGONS!

Multi-guild chat and/or custom chat channels.

PvP

Game types other than conquest.

Change in development focus from conquest to base destruction (ie: Guild Wars 1 GvG or moba-esque pvp).

Make 5v5 the standard team size for both tournament and non-tournament PvP.

WvW

Optimization.

Bug/hack fixes.

More features that discourage zerging / encourage small group (approx. 5-10 player group) gameplay.

More achievements – including some infinite achievements and easier-to-get achievements.

PvE

Ascended armor/weapons.

More stat nomenclatures.

NO (and I mean ABSOLUTELY ZERO) additional vertical progression after Ascended gear.

Improved rewards in the open world.

Journal that allows characters to go back and re-experience personal story missions at their leisure, including any new missions that get added to any point in the timeline.

Guilds

Ability to view the last time each member logged on.

Removed representation as a system.

Players now simultaneously earn influence for all guilds they belong to.

Additional chat panels for each guild you are in, allowing you to participate in all 3 guilds at once. These would be separated from the main chat tab (and each other) to avoid confusion.

PvP tab – includes the ability to play Guild vs. Guild.

More Guild Missions.

General

More skills, traits, and weapons for all professions.

More hair and face options.

More armor and weapon skins.

Additional weapon types.

Tengu race.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

PvP

Game types other than conquest.

Change in development focus from conquest to base destruction (ie: Guild Wars 1 GvG or moba-esque pvp).

Make 5v5 the standard team size for both tournament and non-tournament PvP.

WvW

Optimization.

Bug/hack fixes.

More features that discourage zerging / encourage small group (approx. 5-10 player group) gameplay.

More achievements – including some infinite achievements and easier-to-get achievements.

PvE

Ascended armor/weapons.

More stat nomenclatures.

NO (and I mean ABSOLUTELY ZERO) additional vertical progression after Ascended gear.

Improved rewards in the open world.

Journal that allows characters to go back and re-experience personal story missions at their leisure, including any new missions that get added to any point in the timeline.

Guilds

Ability to view the last time each member logged on.

Removed representation as a system.

Players now simultaneously earn influence for all guilds they belong to.

Additional chat panels for each guild you are in, allowing you to participate in all 3 guilds at once. These would be separated from the main chat tab (and each other) to avoid confusion.

PvP tab – includes the ability to play Guild vs. Guild.

More Guild Missions.

General

More skills, traits, and weapons for all professions.

More hair and face options.

More armor and weapon skins.

Additional weapon types.

Tengu race.

okay well, this guy named it all, if all of this comes out by the end of the year, gw2 will be amazing and i will once against suggest it to people who aren’t sure if they should try the game or not. but im rdy to bet my socks not even 1/10 of it will be released by the end of 2014

°ten Several haircuts, Asura, Charr, Sylvari! And Face!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/asura/Reviewed-by-Asuras/first#post2197373

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/sylvari/Bored-of-Hairstyles/first

°Guild Hall / housing.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Housing-and-Guild-halls-GvG-PvE-and-RP/first#post2405385

°Change Orr

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Changing-the-look-of-Orr/first#post2461298

°News Dungeons.

°News “Hearts” in map.

°News maps!

°News events.

°News Dragons!

°Improving race cities:

example:

Add floor has Rata Sum, with the dormitory, showers, and nursing!

Charr: Add open houses, baskets, cushions.

Norn: Add Pavilion griffin, or other …

Human: removed the wood unfinished constructions and replaced by open gardens, or other homes.

Sylvari: more houses to visit.

°News Racial Armors.
Type T0 (lvl 10-20), T1 (normal), T2 (45 60), T3 (60-75), T4 (80 gold), T5 (80 Intermediate), Legendary (80 )
Skin seemingly simple blue, green, gold in + Really create racial diversity. not to resemble at others.

°Add Maguuma/desert crystal/North divine Promontory

• Better storytelling. The storytelling in the last Southsun event was a mess. The cinematics seen in Dragon’s Bash was great, but I don’t think that kind of cinematics would work with our characters. ArenaNet often relies too much on NPCs to tell a story, making our characters to appear to be mindless working drones serving someone else (Rurik, Mhenlo, Kormir a bit, Traheanne, Ellen Kiel, Marjorie). I wish they would use their instanced content to tell a story in which our characters are the focus, not someone else.

• Better Dynamic Events. There are many great small events in the game, telling a small story even within a dynamic world. Unfortunatelly, after release the quality of events has taken a large fall. The World Bosses have always been incredibly weak – only Jormag is the “less bad” among them for having a cool looking battle in two phases, but it still has a lot of issues (and the second phase has been bugged since release, when the NPC says “The wall is down!” – dude, there is no wall, that was in the previous phase…). ArenaNet would theorically improve those bosses, but it’s hard to take them seriously after seeing how mediocre the recently introduced Karka Queen is.

• Less focus on grind. Give us reliable ways to get rare crafting materials like Lodestones and Ectoplasm. We at least can use laurels to get fine crafting materials now, but ectos are the worst grind in this game.

• Less RNG. So far the Living Word feels like an excuse to sell monthly RNG based skins. It wouldn’t bother me if we had to buy the skins with Gems, but using this lottery system as the only way to get all new weapon skins introduced in the latest updates feels extremely cheap.

• Less focus on rewards, more on having fun. I don’t want to see content only for grinders (Southsun: mediocre storytelling, but 200% buff to Magic Find) or for achievement seekers, I want to see content for people who want to have fun just by experiencing said content.

I would love to see an expansion in 2014. The feeling of “There’s an entire new world out there to explore!” cannot be achieved with the piece-meal releases from the Living Word.

More lvl 80 maps and lvl 80 dungeons.

• F5-F8 Equipment build swapping – Not usable in combat but allowing for switching of full armor and weapons out of combat with a button press like we had in GW1.
• Meaningful Player/Guild Housing with Furniture crafting.
• Guild party system allowing for 10-20 members to party up and run all current dungeon content at much higher difficulties.
• New WvW Maps – Add Supply zones that can be conquered by severs giving a bonus to supply production on the other three maps.
• Separate PvP, WvW, and PvE Skill/Trait Balancing – This is a must for the future of the game.
• All Weapons For All Classes – Allow all current classes to use any weapon in the game and crack the build flood gates wide open.
• Aquatic Skill Equality – All utility skills should be usable underwater. No exception.
• Heroes added to the game like the GW1 system, allowing people to play through dungeons on their own if they choose to.

Lethalvriend.1723:

- After the dungeons overhaul, unify all dungeon tokens to one currency.

THIS. With ANet encouraging players to run as many unique dungeons and paths as possible, should we have to choose between making gold and getting enough tokens to buy a set of gear? The new system they detailed in their blog post will lead to more unnecessary bank and inventory space being used up for tokens that players will most likely not need. Why not let players just pick the gear that they want?

My best suggestion is to allow players to unlock the rights to purchase gear. Each piece of equipment should require a specific path of that dungeon completed in order to trade in your tokens. For example, the Arah shoulderplate, boots, and a few weapons would be unlocked by completing Path 1. This way, players don’t have to complete a mountain of dungeon runs in order to get a set of armor and still reel in the gold rewards. Does anyone see any potential in this type of reward system?