Guild Wars 2

The one thing I’m missing recently is more variability in daily quests. It used to be that the daily selection was a lot less reliable, and I’m not sure the current semi-fixed setup is anything but boring, long term.
It also evokes heavy feelings of WoW’s daily-quest system, which I’m not sure is something you the devs want to base your implementation on.

But, given the frequent patches there’s a very good basis for more variety! So here’s my suggestion:

• Each day still offers 12 dailies of which 5 have to be completed.
• 2 dailies are still sPvP-only, 2 are WvW-only, but there needs to be less guaranteed dailies here. Let the system randomly pull them, some days WvW is to capture a tower and build with 30 supplies taken from a camp, other days it’s to kill 10 enemies and a structure. Same in sPvP, no guaranteed daily. Sometimes it’s daily-<map>, sometimes daily kills, daily point defence, etc.
• Then, 6-7 dailies are pulled randomly from the “main” pull. Fully random, not even guaranteed Gatherer.
• And lastly, 1-2 which relate to the current patch. Daily Silverwastes Defender and Daily Silverwastes Escort could be some for the current zone for example, but there should be a pool of 4-6 dailies for each patch, of which 1-2 are randomly taken.

This way, the dailies are less samey. Currently (and this is why I posted) I haven’t even looked at the daily window in nearly a month. The quests are so similar each day that I really don’t have to. And that’s a shame, as the variable daily system has some very good upsides compared to fixed daily quests but it currently squanders most of them.

I can see where you’re coming from, but I also think that the Dailies need to be stable enough so that players who only do PvP or WvW are able to complete their Daily purely by doing the game mode they like. If more of the random dailies get taken up by Living Story specific dailies, that would make it harder for them.

Incidentally, Daily Gatherer is no longer a guaranteed Daily.

Yeah I noticed that. I think the specific issue with WvW and PvP I’d rather see fixed by expanding the amount of dailies available (and number drawn) for them.

Ideally, we’d then see something like 15-16 dailies drawn from a very large pool, mixed between WvW, sPvP and PvE, with a guaranteed 5+ pertaining to each mode, but not fixed. That is, if daily kills (which counts for players, does it not? If not it should!) is in the pool, that satisfies one slot for PvE, WvW and sPvP (but not one of the 1-2 for Living Story).

Current system is fine and working well.

I’d prefer the developers invest their time and resources in something else.

I die a little every time they revamp an existing feature that’s functional.

Honestly I would prefered for them to put a cap on the amount of daily achievements you get get per day. I mean while there are 12 available, once you get 5, no more achievements will be given but the overall daily rewards will be 10 instead of 5.

Yes I know they are not making us to do the dailies but some of us are achievements hunter (or are driven to get the big reward from reaching the 5k mark) and they are so time consuming.

People should be coming back to it due to how fun it is, not for the daily goal they had set up.

I thought the Halloween Dailies were great. Having a permanent Living Story version of that might be a good idea.

Daily Kills does count player kills in PvP/WvW, yes.