Not sure if these suggestions were made but I find the lack of lvl 80 exclusive content depressing..
I think more level 80 content would make the game a lot more appealing to continue playing after reaching max level.
For example…
- Add a reputation-type system. Once you hit 80, you can earn reputation with different races. Once hitting the max reputation, you can use the other races cultural armor, you are awarded a title, maybe some other goodies. It should be a good grind to get this. To expand on this, maybe a player who reaches max reputation with all races has a special vendor opened up to them with exclusive gear and a fancy title.
- Exotics way too easy to get at 80. No real notable gear grind whatsoever outside of the farm for legendary weapon. (Aside from grinding for other gear for vanity purposes) To combat this, maybe add stronger exotic armors that are harder to get, but of course have better stats?
- Cursed Shore is the only lvl 80 zone (Yea there’s the 70-80 in northern shiverpeaks but that doesn’t count as it’s a 70-80) and one zone for lvl 80s is very.. problematic. That zone is fully explored within a couple hours. The events are extremely repetitive, and the rewards are sub-standard. Beyond Cursed Shore farming, you have explorable mode dungeons (some are overtuned like crazy, others way too fast and easy) and then the pvp. WvWvW pretty much makes any melee class redundant, and PvP has no real ‘unique’ rewards exclusive to pvp. It’s just a grind to wear the same armor you already have. What? =/
- Trading player to player. Self explanatory.
- Repeatable heart quests with increased monetary rewards at lvl 80. <- Cannot stress enough why this is needed. A daily income of gold, something more to do at 80. Maybe tie these in with reputation system.
- End-game gear is way too quickly and easily acquired. I hit 80 on my warrior, within a couple days I’m full exotics. That wouldn’t be a problem if I had more to do at 80, but once I’m geared out, what is there to do? WvWvW? The items from that are horrendous, the grind needed to get said item is pretty stupid.. I played for an hour of WvWvW, racking up as many kills as possible and only accumulated around 10 badges of honor. Each item costs like 400?
- Karma Vendors are redundant. Why farm 63k karma for a rare lvl 80 weapon, when you can get an exotic? Yea, vanity but 63k is quite a lot. 500 karma, 600 at most from events. You’d have to do around 105 events just for that item. Now, each event takes about.. 30 minutes or so on average. So 105×30 = 3150 minutes or 52.5 hours of grinding the same events over and over again for one item. For purely vanity purposes. Those hours could be spent farming for your legendary.
All I can think of so far.
