Guild Wars 2

With HOT on the way, it’s a good time to address the char screen.

If you have more than 6 chars, which many many players do, you have to use the annoying scroll system. Can we expand the number of chars on the screen to scale with resolution? Or make 2 (or more) rows. You can have up to 67 characters, but scrolling through it all is madness.

Also, maybe it’s time for a new HOT-themed backdrop? Eh? Ehh…!

While they are at it… how about character crafting levels, and daily achievements? And potentially gear setup, build preview, personal story steps etc. There is so much they can implement for QoL improvements in character select (how about returning the spacebar play ability too?)

Edit: other ideas include which characters are carrying asc mat sinks, permanent tools, salvagomatics and other BL QoL items such as perma contracts

I don’t know about the build/setup of the character part but what I would like to see:

Have two rows of characters. (maybe move them to the left & have two columns)

Let me put them in the order I want rather than “last logged in” order.

Add to character info:
> crafting profession & level
> Story step they are currently on
> If they finished personal story, a unique icon similar to the map completion star

And a new backdrop would be lovely too!

People are asking for indicators if their characters have this, or know that skill, or something. The problem is, lots of people want different things to be indicated.

So, let’s go with a more general idea. How about a small series of icons that WE can control? On the hero panel, we can click them on or off, and they show that way on the character select screen.

An icon for each crafting profession and then a series of generic ones (star, circle, heart, diamond, and any other shape you might find as a marshmallow in a childhood cereal) should do the trick. We can assign our own meaning to them, without being frustrated that the indicator we want wasn’t added.

As long as we’re addressing the character screen, can we have some control over lighting adjustment? The last patch with lighting changes made my paler characters’ faces glow bright white and I cannot mitigate this with in-game lighting controls, nor computer desktop graphics settings. A new background would be a good update, too.

Having a set of 10-12 character icons on the “front page” that the player could set would be fantastic. I would like the icons all to stay in one place, frankly. Maybe just a control for sorting: “arrange by creation date” (asc/desc) or “arrange by last played” (asc/desc)?

A crafting symbol on or by the character icon would be nice, too. I know I’m not the only one who has looked at the screen and thought, “Ok, which one is my artificer?”

I want the abillity to hide characters from my character screen. xD got too many….. ^^