My name is Barron, im from an Oceanic guild on Sea of Sorrows. This is my first every MMO. I started out, and it was such a learning curve. Although the beginning was very rocky, and the transition from other games to this style was a big leap, I quickly realised how much potential a game like this had.
At one point I had lost hope, and I thought the game would never change, then all of a sudden, the Devs have started to listen to people, started to fix things that needed to be fix. Started to make this game a place where I want to keep playing for a loooooong time.
My main focus is WvW, my guilds main focus is WvW, our allies from Titan Alliance……yep, you guessed it…..their main focus is WvW.
So I thought I might try some suggestions to see what sort of feedback I get from the community, as well as the devs.
1. Maps – There are 4 maps, 3 of which are the same. I much prefer the BL’s over Eternal, but it can get very monotenous doing the same strats, trebbing from the same spot etc. Some diversity would be greatly appreciated! A military man with a nack for making maps could really dish out some fantastic genres. That along with the imagination and devs at GW2 headquarters could make for another 2 excellent maps! Some more specific murder holes/shrubbery for guerilla tactics/island warefare/alot more walls, mazes, trees etc for Line of Sight (LoS) combat; examples.
2. Current Servers – There seems to be alot of lower ranked servers with hardly anyone online. Would it be possible to kull off a couple? Maybe make a server devoted strictly to PvE? Give that server the full bonuses of a winning WvW server, but dont allow it to change, or for the players to WvW or PvP?
3. Paid Transfers – It is definitly something that needs to be done! But I understand there is a time and a place for it, and that time is not rite now. But I am hoping it comes soon!
4. Commander Icons – The ability to sell these back to the vendor? Instead of allowing people to buy them with gold, maybe have it so they recquire a certain amount of badges, full WvW map completion, a high number of WvW kills, plus a gold value. Coming from Titan Alliance on Henge of Denravi, constantly (more thanks to the instant transfers back then) there were people who had obtained commander icon who literally had no idea in hell how to lead nor command, and were from other servers, and ran alot of our PUGS off cliffs, wrong ways etc etc. Still to this day, there are people who have obtained the icon because they are accountants or just plain trading post savvy and run around in WvW not having a clue what they are doing :P A bench mark for acquisition for such an icon would be awesome. For those that want it for a completion, there should be a PvE one available, that can only be bought with gold? You can have one or the other. Maybe the PvE one can offer special bonuses to the group or surrounding players? Obviously cant be used in WvW
5. Outmanned Buff – I appreciate the magic find etc. But what use is it? Some different stats would be awesome! Off the top of my head I think 10% speed increase, 5% damage increase, 5% armour would be cool and wouldnt give anyone much of an overbuff, but would really help.
6. Some more siege – Arrow cart, catapult, balista, trebuchet, ram. Siege Towers?
7. Weapon Variety – What about katanas? Halberds? Bardiches? Scimitars? Tomahawks? Crossbows? There are tonnes of medieval weapons, yet we are very limited to what we can use. Most classes use almost the exact same armour and weapon sets.
8. Guild Partying – An option to show location of everyone in the guild. Similar to the current party system, except maybe they would be an amber coloured dot. Maybe an option that can be set for the guild ranking system, so only higher ranked officers etc can see guildies locations?
Thats about all I can think of just off the top of my head. For alot of people, WvW is the only reason we play this game. For alot of us who play WvW, we feel there can be alot more added to keep people interested and fight off attrition. I totally understand there is a massive amount of work to do, and we may be the minority. But you cant do anything about something unless suggestions are made! So hopefully others read this and add to it, hopefully we can come up with some things that catches the devs attention and they decide they want to help us increase the longevity of the game!