Guild Wars 2

I love the coming changes but they are obviously going to require A LOT of thought and work to be implemented. So I thought I would make a post about the two things that are simple solutions to A LOT of problems.

A) Capes

Capes were a ‘stand out’ item in Gw1 and were an integral part of recognizing the best of the best as well as giving you the ‘team feel’. ArenaNet would hold big tournaments for guilds and the winners and runners up would have access to a cape trim color (The edge color of your capes). I.e. Gold, Silver Bronze. These couldn’t be bought, grinded or transferred from pve.

Additionally, capes can be integrated into other sections such as some new and existing achievements.

Example:

• New player ‘Jim’ has the standard white cape, white trim and red arena-net logo.
• Jim goes on to get 5,000 kills and unlocks a duel dagger icon for the cape.
• Jim now has also killed each class 500 times and has unlocked a black background for the cape.
• Jim participates in the quarterly tournament with his team and wins so he unlocks a Gold trim for his cape.

Jims cape is now black with a gold trim and duel daggers providing a very easy way for players to see Jim is a pro thief.

B) Guilds

Any game I play (and i’m sure I speak for a lot of people when I say this) is a LOT more fun with friends! The idea of having multiple guilds is great BUT it needs to be limited to 1 guild per area of the game.

I.e. – 1xPvp Guild, 1xWvW Guild, 1xPve Guild

This would bring players together and build community. The guild rewards would be specific to it’s respective area giving players a reason to be part of a guild and community. This may be irrelevant for pve/wvw but its a hole in the heart of pvp.

I would love to hear the communities thoughts on these ideas, so please vote and/or post a reply

http://strawpoll.me/812452

<3 Aussie,

P.s. I have posted some of this in the ‘official’ CDI thread but thought to expand on that.

Dam you guys work fast!

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i don’t really want capes and i think it would be problematic wit the way game coded currently but some kind of backpieces would be nice probably

don’t agree with guilds though

what if guild does everything or wants to do everything? should they just make 3 guilds and keep hopping for certain rewards? cmon now

Cynz.9437:

i don’t really want capes and i think it would be problematic wit the way game coded currently but some kind of backpieces would be nice probably

It may take a little bit to work in the code but i’m sure there is a simple solution out there without a doubt.

Cynz.9437:

don’t agree with guilds though

what if guild does everything or wants to do everything? should they just make 3 guilds and keep hopping for certain rewards? cmon now

It may seem like more work for the odd guild that does everything but keep in mind there are almost NO pvp guilds at the moment – something HAS to be done

The cape system you propose is something I’d personally like to see, and is similar to an idea I proposed a while back dealing with medals. I think capes aren’t in gw2, though, due to some technical issues, if I remember correctly.

The medal system I proposed stemmed off the idea of the 100% map completion medal people already get. I thought it was neat and would be an interesting idea as an expansion of the achievement system, where a character accomplishing a certain feat would earn him a medal that you could choose to display next to your name.

It seems Anet is planning to add a ladder system of sorts and splitting PvP into seasons, just like WvWvW. A medal could be awarded to the top players in each ladder each season, for instance, along with any other prizes to help those players stand out among the community.

Capes are a fun idea, but I don’t see them being implemented into gw2 any time soon, if at all. I think medals, something they already have a system for, would be a good alternative.

aussieheals.6843:

Cynz.9437:

i don’t really want capes and i think it would be problematic wit the way game coded currently but some kind of backpieces would be nice probably

It may take a little bit to work in the code but i’m sure there is a simple solution out there without a doubt.

Cynz.9437:

don’t agree with guilds though

what if guild does everything or wants to do everything? should they just make 3 guilds and keep hopping for certain rewards? cmon now

It may seem like more work for the odd guild that does everything but keep in mind there are almost NO pvp guilds at the moment – something HAS to be done

there is almost no pvp guilds because pvp community is very small

TTS (guild consisting of 11 physical guilds, based on killing Teq only)has more players than entire pvp community, that is just sad

Seeing a high ranked GvG (the 8v8 competitive game mode of GW1) player in a gold trimmed cape in PvE is EXACTLY what got me into PvP in the first place. The fact that it is missing from GW2 is baffling.

Capes always end up looking horrible due to clipping and other issues, matching grass blowing etc. There is too much to put into them to make them operate adequately. I would rather instead of a cape, have really unique/special gear unique to high ranked players/tournament winners that are given out at the end of each season. I think this would overall achieve what “capes” do without having the other issues associated with capes.

As far as guilds go, sorry my friend I need all 5 for my randomly acquired funny named guilds.

I would be surprised if Capes were released only through PVP as they are an item PVE players want and would likely spend decent amount of gems to buy… having special capes like guild logo displaying or some rank symbol would be cool though.

Taym.8326:

Capes always end up looking horrible due to clipping and other issues, matching grass blowing etc. There is too much to put into them to make them operate adequately. I would rather instead of a cape, have really unique/special gear unique to high ranked players/tournament winners that are given out at the end of each season. I think this would overall achieve what “capes” do without having the other issues associated with capes.

I might be alone on this but I reallllly don’t care if my cape blows with the grass as long as that means its a classy looking item showing skill rather than a tacky glow cluttering my screen some more. Also, I don’t think it matters how fancy you would make your armour look ostrich is always going to destroy it with a rainbow of colors! haha

Taym.8326:

As far as guilds go, sorry my friend I need all 5 for my randomly acquired funny named guilds.

Haha this is the problem exactly, there is no reason to take guilds in pvp seriously which means we are missing out on a critical source of community.