Guild Wars 2

So, as the title says, I have an idea about World Completion to make it account-wide.

My idea is that Anet gives us the option to unlock ALL the vistas, WP’s, PoI’s, Renown Hearts (=World Completion),… but you lose ALL the rewards (including experience, Skill Points, cash, karma, Gift of Exploration,… and the rewards for completing a map)

So the player can choose if he wants World Completion by the unlock option or by completing the maps on his own.

The requirements to activate this unlock option are:
- Having a character that already has World Completion (by exploring it on his own)
- Being level 80 on the character you want to unlock World Completion on (not sure about this one really)

I think something like this could be the solution for players who are tired of completion maps just for World Completion. People who want to complete the maps to get the rewards and level up that way are free to do so (they just ingnore the option or unlock World Completion whenever they want later on).

It’s a Win -Win and it looks a like fair deal to me. Anet can make an item like ‘Map of Tyria’ that your character (that already has World Completion) passes through to your other characters to unlock World Completion. They even can make it a GemStore item to make us pay for it.

I’d love to see what you guys think so please give me some feet back !

I dont agree with it. Even though you say you would forfeit the accociated rewards, unlocked waypoints are still a reward of convenience.

Also Heart vendors. Why should they sell their offerings to you, if you didnt help them?

Also why would you want to unlock everything in the world? Other than WPs and the map completion rewards, there really isn’t any reason to do it. Unless you don’t enjoy exploring, finding new things, and enjoying the wonderful scenery that many people spent years working on….

Miguel V.5203:

I’d love to see what you guys think so please give me some feet back !

I need my feet, sorry.

The “solution” to world completion? That assumes there is a problem to solve. But there is no problem. World completion is a goal on a character like any other. WvW exploration is a bit annoying if you are on an unlucky low tier server but hey what are you playing a game for if not a challenge?

I wonder what would happen if someone bought this item and unlocked the world on their account and then new Legendaries were put into the game that were not saleable on the trading post or that the person wanted to craft and not buy, but wasn’t able to because he didn’t have a Gift of Exploration?

The world unlock would probably be irreversible and the person would be unable to make a brand new char and explore to get the Gift.

Just give me the kitten waypoints.

The other stuff is nice and cool, but all this running is taking forever and it hinders me doing events on my alts.

I am tired of running around the world. Or give us mounts instead – yeah, I just said that.

Miguel V.5203:

So, as the title says, I have an idea about World Completion to make it account-wide.

My idea is that Anet gives us the option to unlock ALL the vistas, WP’s, PoI’s, Renown Hearts (=World Completion),… but you lose ALL the rewards (including experience, Skill Points, cash, karma, Gift of Exploration,… and the rewards for completing a map)

So the player can choose if he wants World Completion by the unlock option or by completing the maps on his own.

The requirements to activate this unlock option are:
- Having a character that already has World Completion (by exploring it on his own)
- Being level 80 on the character you want to unlock World Completion on (not sure about this one really)

I think something like this could be the solution for players who are tired of completion maps just for World Completion. People who want to complete the maps to get the rewards and level up that way are free to do so (they just ingnore the option or unlock World Completion whenever they want later on).

It’s a Win -Win and it looks a like fair deal to me. Anet can make an item like ‘Map of Tyria’ that your character (that already has World Completion) passes through to your other characters to unlock World Completion. They even can make it a GemStore item to make us pay for it.

I’d love to see what you guys think so please give me some feet back !

I think it’s a great idea, I would opt out in a second. Ran map completion two times, no way I would do it a 3rd.

Wetpaw.3487:

I think it’s a great idea, I would opt out in a second. Ran map completion two times, no way I would do it a 3rd.

There are only 2 reasons for doing map completion on alts. First is waypoints – but you can unlock all waypoints on a map within 5 minutes or so (and an unlock run that opens a path and waypoints on a way from LA to Arah dungeon takes about 15 minutes). It’s all the other stuff that takes time.
The second reason is rewards (both individual map completion ones, and the gift of experience).
Considering, that the rewards are not bad, and you can unlock waypoints with not much of an effort, there’s simply no reason to exchange one for the other.

Dawdler.8521:

Miguel V.5203:

I’d love to see what you guys think so please give me some feet back !

I need my feet, sorry.

The “solution” to world completion? That assumes there is a problem to solve. But there is no problem. World completion is a goal on a character like any other. WvW exploration is a bit annoying if you are on an unlucky low tier server but hey what are you playing a game for if not a challenge?

I think there is a problem but it’s more on my personnal taste.
I hate the hearts on the map doing them once is fun & all but having to do them on every character really wears me off.

I have done a 100% map last week and I was so upset about doing these hearts.
I really like to explore map like Orr/ southsun & Drytop as they are heartless.
But all the others map feels like a exploration grind to me.

I would remove the necessity to do the heart in order to have map exploration if it was me as this is me most grindy part of the map completion.

Although I have 9 characters all with 100% map completion I posted something quite awhile back that could help. With the upcoming expansion it would be a good time to introduce it and that would be a “Cartographer” profession. Cartographers have to make the vellum or parchment for maps and actually map out each and every area including POIs, Vistas and Waypoints. Hearts cannot be “mapped” so they would remain out of the equation but everything else would be plotted. The maps would be account bound once created and if “used” grant all of your alts everything except the hearts.

Theftwind.8976:

Although I have 9 characters all with 100% map completion I posted something quite awhile back that could help. With the upcoming expansion it would be a good time to introduce it and that would be a “Cartographer” profession. Cartographers have to make the vellum or parchment for maps and actually map out each and every area including POIs, Vistas and Waypoints. Hearts cannot be “mapped” so they would remain out of the equation but everything else would be plotted. The maps would be account bound once created and if “used” grant all of your alts everything except the hearts.

Yeah this would also be nice and looks very doable for ANET

Y’all still haven’t explained what to do about someone who does this and then is locked out of crafting a Legendary because he did it without realizing the consequences or because he changed his mind.

Until this is worked out, I don’t see ANet putting it in game.