I’ve been thinking of a few things I’d love to see implemented in this game. They range from possibly could happen to highly unlikely to happen. Here they are (thanks in advance for reading my wall of text):
- Exclusivity of gem store items. As it stands gem store vanity purchases are easy to obtain. The thing that makes having unique looking items appealing (such as legendary weapons and T3 armor) is that they are hard/expensive to get and have certain bragging rights associated with them. Gem store items such as mini pets and weapon skins are also unique looking but are too easy to get. Give people an incentive to play the game and achieve something, other than just typing in their credit card details. For example to unlock the new weapon skins you first need to complete the living story. Once you complete the living story you can then unlock the ability to equip those new gem store weapon skins. The same thing can be done with mini pets. For instance you have to kill 200 spiders to unlock the ability to use the spider mini pet. I think this not only lets people spend money on the gem store, but also gives the player a sense of achievement. Two birds. One stone.
- Dungeons to allow for bigger parties. (between 5 and 8 players so it doesn’t get too crowded). The dungeon then scales in difficulty with the more people you have in it. I don’t like having to turn down friends when I’ve gotten a full party of 5.
- The option to lower and raise the camera height. Right now the character model is too ‘in the middle of the screen’ and when I look up at things my character and UI is taking up too much screen real estate. Zooming out doesn’t alleviate this problem.
- The ability to give our characters auras (like in City of Heroes) Changing colours and effects and emanation points (i.e glowing eyes, smokey hands, pulsating lights etc). Imagine the money arenanet could make selling these on the gem store.
- The ability to change colour of our powers. I know that powers have certain themes (i.e mesmer is purple and guardian is blue), however we’ve been told from the start that this game is all about personalising your character and story… well maybe my Mesmer doesn’t like purple!
- New hair styles from the self style kits.
- More armor skin options in the gem store. At the moment there is only 2 armor option available for each type of armor. We need more serious fantasy looks. I’m thinking of things like flowing gowns for light armor, skin tight leather armor and ornate plate armor.
- Two-toned dyes. Dyes that dye one colour and shine another colour. The midnight colours are a good example where they dye black and shine a slightly red or blue colour. More of these please!
- New weapons or change certain weapons to be class specific. At the moment too many classes can use a greatsword – they’re everywhere and overused in this game.
- More design consistency in Legendary Weapons. At the moment some legendary weapons are just plain silly looking, and others are incredibly awesome. Again, greatswords get a lot of love here, yet the pistol gets a weird clown gun that shoots streamers and honks. Ummm that’s not very ‘legendary’. Oh and the mace. A disco ball? Really? It would be great if each weapon had a silly design and serious design to choose from. My asura engineer has been designed to be rather technologically advanced looking character, the legendary pistol will completely break the aesthetic I’m aiming for.
- No more flame-looking weapons and armor I think the artists in this game are fire-biased! Hahaha! There are A LOT of flame-like weapons in this game. Citadel of Flame weapons, Molten weapons, Destroyer weapons and Flame Legion weapons. I don’t think the other elements are being represented enough in this game and I look forward to seeing them someday!
(edited by kaotiktheory.8942)
