Guild Wars 2

it’s a valid thought and concern.. if arena net doesn’t release an expansion or a very compelling season 2 finale, with a quests menu it would at the very least have something to fall back on.. currently there is very little for me to recommend this game to a friend “hey, come over to gw2” we can.. dodge 15 times

^ 100%
I have 2 friends who are still in GW2 and we’re waiting for them to give the ok to move to a new world in another game. I myself have stopped trying to change anything, it’s all in the forum’s past, ignored. So w/e.

hypothetical conversation

hey, what’d you do on gw2 yesterday.. ?
you know exactly what i did.. you?
well, my friend, with the new gw2 quests menu.. i was sent to some far off corner of tyria.. i’ve only ever been there briefly a long time ago and didn’t even realize there was a dynamic event there.. for someone who has logged in as many hours as i have, it was mildly entertaining..
was there loot ?
there was actually a bit of loot…
. . .oh, umm.. would you like me to regale you with the epic story of how i afk/vanquished shadow behemoth for the 10043854th time?

While it’s a nice suggestion OP, the problem is that dailies (in any game, not just this one) are boring and there isn’t any real way to make them not boring. There are already the daily 5 events. Most people do those with their favorite way of grind already (champs, WvW, meta bosses, etc..). If ANet adds more events on top then that quickly becomes stale too once people have learned what they are and how you get through them as fast as possible.

Guild Wars 1 had the Zaishen quests which was that game’s daily. The difference is you didn’t have 100 people trying to do the quest with you all at once. You could solo them with your heroes if you wanted. Any sort of quests that’s handed out would have to be really random to avoid a zerg of people doing it. I’m not sure the Devs can make that sort of work for the dailies, or if they should even try.

already mentioned that everyone shouldn’t have the same quests on the same day to prevent zerging.. not to mention, unlike the wbt people probably wouldn’t be doing them at the same time anyway.. also, it’s unlikely people could streamline this system into a chore unless arena net released a list of all the possible quests to be rolled.. i’m sure dulfy would have a field day doing a guide on each and every one of them.. and also already mentioned, hopefully not a system that would roll the same quests too often

cheshirefox.7026:

already mentioned that everyone shouldn’t have the same quests on the same day to prevent zerging.. not to mention, unlike the wbt people probably wouldn’t be doing them at the same time anyway.. also, it’s unlikely people could streamline this system into a chore unless arena net released a list of all the possible quests to be rolled.. i’m sure dulfy would have a field day doing a guide on each and every one of them.. and also already mentioned, hopefully not a system that would roll the same quests too often

Ok, not the same quests for everyone on the same day. So instead of 100 people doing it with you, maybe 20 or 30?

The question I’m asking is, how much time and effort should ANet put in to revamping the daily? Would this be well received by the general playing public or would a large amount of effort put into this be seen as a bandaid covering up a larger problem, lack of new and exciting stuff to do?

I would think that most people would prefer that ANet spend their time making new maps/skills/professions/races and if ANet spends limited Dev time making quests for the daily (that will be old and boring after they’ve been done once or twice) instead of new and exciting expansion like content, that these new quests will be seen as “rearranging the furniture while the Titanic sinks.”

they already get that argument for having gem store items, so it’s really upto them

As a new player the daily’s are handy, but I can see how quests would be handy when I get more experienced and a higher level.

sounds interesting, adds more spice to the game =)

I’m all for added content and rewards.

Mhmmm some sort of hardcore content would surely be worth completing. Can we get this for PvP/WvW too?

I definitely agree, the whole grind dailies thing has become a grind session rather than a reward.

I prefer the more freeform dailies, but then when I log in I tend to do what I want to do, and having a bit of extra loot for that is nice.

That would be cool. I hope they see this thread and implement it somehow

This sounds some what interesting. I imagine what would work would be if they gave a daily for completing a specific quest chain. This would lead some players to go back out into areas of the world they otherwise wouldn’t return to after exploring it for map completion.

Some people just do dailys simply for the AP to get it out of the way and move on to the things they enjoy in the game, for me its dungeons. I personally would not want dailys made any more time consuming then they already are.

I like this idea, of maybe a new daily system. i think it would help keep players involved in the daily, monthly. Maybe even some way to let people choose from a list with rewards based on amount and degree of difficulty chosen.

kind of like zaishen dailies in gw1. good idea

Although it’s a good idea, but I really hoped “starter zone” mobs would stay in Starter zones.

Give us more reason to use the combat mechanics and active defense, by making encounters with mobs that “actually tries to kill you and is capable of doing so”, than being “there to die for you and can’t do anything”.

What makes a game is pretty much the combat mechanics and active defense in GW2 case, same applies to every other game…

Not necessary to give us daily to encourage us to dodge or anything.

i think this is areally good idea! Daily’s are kinda bland atm!

cheshirefox.7026:

hello guildwars community,
as a player of gw2 from launch, i am contemplating how far we have come in two years.. and where tyria intends to lead us.. we’ve had all manner of patches, we’ve played a myriad of content.. i am not here to question it, i am not here to demand.. i simply mean to offer a humble game suggestion regarding average content/average players..

daily content delivery revamp
taking from the games daily interface, instead of filling out 5 achievements, could you arena net possibly consider kicking that up a notch and implementing some sort of daily quest exposure for your average players.. the delivery system would take some resources, but once implemented, you could include any content you see fit.. players can choose how many of the available quests to do and be rewarded accordingly..

i do not know who this would appeal to Exactly.. some people claim to have already done everything in game.. arena net would need to develop this alongside whatever they’re already doing.. let me know what you think

below in my signature is the video commentary for this particular game suggestion.. it is not a promotion of any kind, i do not have an official channel and am not looking to harvest subscribers.. this is about guildwars2.. also there is a reddit post when i may have possibly described this suggestion better..

thank you for your time

i like the daily achievements, they give me more than half my AP lol. if they added these quests along side it that’d be cool

I also like the idea of dailies being revamped. i honestly find something else to complete when i see daily dodger in that list. tho i would not want to see them being too closely tied to the heart quests, for the reason that others have said with people having world completion. other than that it might give opportunity to revive some places on the maps that feel dead maybe?

Or another idea is to tie in the ‘daily quest rewards’ with maybe earning a collection item for an existing basic collections? Its just a thought anyway

I feel this system would work very well. I would love to see this put into the game

That’s a pretty good idea, spices up the dailies

I’m sorry, but I must add that the “daily grind” issue is absolutely a minority issue in the minds of those players…. Should the game design REALLY consider some players OCD tendencies in determining what new content should and should not be introduced?

From another point of view, you are asking the dealer to limit the supply because some junkies will use all they are able….not a very realistic request.

the idea is well in line with the standards arena net applied to their new level 80 areas. the only difference is establishing a central hub for acquiring the tasks, taking into consideration that it would be applied to all older content, and releasing it in portions that eliminates grind/gating.. i’ve covered all of this in my suggestion.. i’m interested in hearing the technical resources it would consume to implement

to put things into perspective, i’ve heard arena net praised for the new maps and they should “put a geode/badges vendor on all the older maps.” this far along in the game, pun intended, i don’t see the player community logistically taking well to that approach

I don’t know. I like the current daily system and that is completable by doing essentially anything in the game. Now I’m not one who aims to complete every single, but still average 6 per day just through regular play.

Yeah, I think that’s a great idea.

Daily is stale. Anything to support getting people out and discovering the nooks and crannies of the game is worthwhile.

They should really consider this, doing daily’s gets boring once your a higher level and keeping it dynamic makes it more fun Nice suggestion.

There are some aspects of the current daily system I do like – the fact that some parts seem to remain constant like Recycler and Gatherer.

But this suggestion seems to have a lot of merit. I’d take it a step further and suggest that it could be level based – quests assigned are based on level and that ensures that new players won’t be tasked with going into a 45 – 55 area when they are 14. And generally a level 80 will have more map completed, so they’ll have access to more areas. I’d also suggest that the rewards for this “new daily” be completely cosmetic or give things that don’t directly impact gameplay. One of the main reasons I do dailies so religiously is because of the impact it has on my play (Laurels and chance for Black Lion Salvage Kits, for example.) It’d be nice not to feel like I have to do these things, but would rather want to do them.

I’d be interested in seeing this happen!

edited apparently 45 – 55 was replaced with kitten? Weird.

*bump for continued conversation.

I think the amount/time investment of dailies is fine, but it is rather mundane. I’ve gotten into the habit of logging in, running a specific route for 30 minutes for the AP, then jet out. Not really all that exciting. It’d be neat to see ‘quest’ items, as previously mentioned. A little personal bit of story running, maybe based on class or race. Even if it’s a FedEx run or kill X things, but with some exposition.

Something other than a 30 min AP run. haha.

~Boonks

I agree with the second poster. I’m actually not a fan at all of “daily” content, both the official achievements and the various perks that reset each day but need to be collected each day for peak efficiency. I find “daily” content to be a bit stifling. I would really prefer if the daily reset stuff could stack up a bit, like for example the home harvesting nodes, instead of having to harvest them each day to get seven harvests in a week, why not have it so that each server reset it gains a “stack,” up to say seven, and you can harvest them all at once if you prefer, once a week instead of once a day. Same with daily boss rewards, why can’t you ignore a boss for three days, then on the third day fight him three times in a row for full rewards each time?

Why can’t I skip running my dailies on Monday, come back Tuesday and have two sets of dailies waiting? If the are the same thing, like Daily Gathering, then I get one reward for clearing it once, and two for clearing it twice, and only need five out of the available twenty to get one laurel, ten to get the second, and then the rest are bonus points.

In terms of overall reward it would be no better than someone playing every single day (as I currently do), but it would at least give a bit more flexibility to take some time off without missing out, or just to spend time doing activities that don’t clear daily achievements as well, like Living Story.

I don’t mind “Daily Dodger” anymore, after the Dodge Instructors were added. Now it’s an easy Achievement Point.

Lance.4623:

Daily is stale. Anything to support getting people out and discovering the nooks and crannies of the game is worthwhile.

Agreed. But I still do dailies on a regular basis as is. Gotta get that laurel! Nevermind that I’m up to over 200 now…

Watched the video embedded with the first post.
The concept sounds good. It adds more to the things to do on a daily basis and it doesnt seem like it would take a lot of resources to carry it all out.

I certainly wouldn’t mind more dailies!

interesting for sure

I think OP’s suggestion deserves attention. Directing player attention towards little-used dynamic events in little-used dynamic zones is always going to be a winner – there’s only so many times we can protect Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl.

I remember when GW1 added daily quests. It was kinda nice having that as a directional thing to do.

I wonder what effects it might have in the game now. I noticed a slight shift for dailies to start “teaching people the game”. Things like Condition Remover, Daily Dodger, etc incentivize you in a small way to make use of the game mechanics. I wonder if that could be expanded on rather, and teach not only super basic concepts, but maybe a slightly higher level of concepts. Who knows.

Hopefully Anet implements this

Seems like a valid suggestion to me. I’m a big fan of quests and I like the idea of implementing new things into the Daily Reward list.

I think it could encourage people to visit places they don’t normally visit anymore and breathe new life into old events and zones.

Yeah, the questing kind of reminds me of GW1 a bit – I definitely think that this would help spice up the ‘grind’ that sets in after a while.

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I think it’s a great idea!
I feel like gw2 really needs to kick it up a notch with content, even the smallest things (like this, for example), I think a spiced up dailies system will encourage players to do more considering how dailies now are essentially the same thing over and over again.

I find this a very interesting thing, and i would like to see more of this too, being a player since near of launch. The daily’s are very easy and putting a little ‘spice’ into it wouldnt hurt!

i agree that having daily quests sound like a fun idea and could be usefull to players looking to try out class mechanics on new chars or even older ones id be down for this

That is a good idea! and we do need more expansions

Suggestion is good, as long as they use it to revitilize all the different areas of the game, but I wouldn’t really limit it to the spectre in the Hall of Monuments, because a lot of players are new to the game, and never played the first GW

As a newer player (almost 4 months!) I’m actually inclined to agree. I know there’s so much more to explore, but a little daily quest sort of thing wouldn’t hurt at all! I’m especially inclined to the idea that the quests given out are racial based, but that is a helluva lot of work for the devs…as it is, the way ANet doles out the lore is pretty good, but imagine them giving more background lore through daily quests? That’d be fantastic!

Actually, this is a pretty great suggestion. I don’t really have much interest in LS or grinding for whatever, but I do take time to do my dailies. An additional maybe more exploratory “mini quest” or something for a daily achievement/loot might be pretty cool, and it’d certainly get me off of wvw and into the main maps more often.

dailies should include loot quests, since its loot is important to so many players.