Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

this is not a posting I make in order to criticize the exiting content (which is fun), but to get a few ideas out of my head about what could have been.

Consecutive chambers with mean encounters… for parties

What I loved about the Queen’s Gauntlet was that we got to explore new boss mechanics, and that those challenged us to try out different builds and strategies. What I didn’t love about the Queen’s Gauntlet was that it was all solo content.

I wanted the Tower of Nightmares to be

• consecutive chambers (slowly leading up to the top)
• that have to be played in order,
• with challenging encounters,
• getting progressively harder,
• in 5-15 minutes each,
• solo or in a party

At least one of the chambers would have been under water.

Progress would be saved on a per-character basis. Parties would be able to skip earlier chambers only if all characters in the party successfully beat those chambers.

This could have been a new permanent game mode, like Fractals are.

Rewards

There would have been guaranteed unique rewards (such as individual armor skins) from certain chambers, making sure that players would want to replay the entire thing on different characters.

Achievements

There would have been permanent achievements for progression up the tower to the top, for instance for beating all chambers with different character classes, or beating chambers on a timer.

There would also have been temporary achievements within the living story chapter for playing through any story instances.

An alternate way to the top

How I would have loved a jumping puzzle up the outside of the tower – giving players a real “feel” for how high up they go. At the top, there would have been diving goggles (yay, we got those!)
Reaching the top on the outside would, of course, not give the same rewards as reaching the top chamber on the inside.
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Maybe one day I’ll get a game mode like this – maybe it won’t go up the tower, but down a hole. (Which, by the way, would make it possible to keep adding new encounters.)

Maybe one day…

This is a very great idea. I would play and enjoy this content every day were it as you described.