Guild Wars 2

Hi! I totally agree with this post. I was Europe 20th, and I was forced to stop due IRL activities, becaouse I just didn’t have 2-3 hours a day, just to complete all 16 points. The prepatch daily was fine, I did it in 40-50 min, now it needs at least 2 hours or more, and while im doing them, I dont progress in the game at all. I really enjoyed the leaderboard, but now it became frustrating and im sure not its not just me. And its not just the spvp, ofcourse the time has at least doubled there, but the two WvW dailies ALWAYS is also frustrating.

My suggestions are:
- Make two separate leaderboards, one with an activity scale which counts dailies (so the current one) and the other is the flat achievement point board, which excludes all dailies and monthlies.
- Remove achievement points awarded for dailies and monthlies, ofcourse remove them from the leaderboard too. I know this would hurt many players (including me) who did all dailies just to hold their place on the leaderboard, but in the long run it would make more sense. Tbh I always found the achievements points for dailies and monthlies a very bad idea. Someone who works half a year to reach, lets take 3th place, then his computer brakes down and in a week he drops to 120th place and all his effort was a waste of time, i think its enough reason to stop the game. (similar happened to me) Also new players have absolutely no chance to climb the leaderboard. These problems would be solved with my suggestion above (two leaderboards) or getting rid the daily/monthly points.

I would like to share my opinion and my problems with the travel costs and suggest some possible solutions to them. I have been playing this game since the release and my experience about travel costs are very negative.

First of all, I think travel costs discourage people to help each other when they are far away from each other on the map. I usually use teamspeak to communicate with my guild mates, and whenever someone asks for a help in the personal story, or a skill challenge, or a jumping challenge, he meets the awkward silence, since we don’t like to spend minimum 5 silver to travel there and back. I know this doesn’t sound too much, but if we take that, that I want to spend my time helping multiple people or I want to do 10 jumping challanges in a row, we can multiply that with 10, which makes it 50 silver, which is almost exactly 2 glob of ectoplasm in the trading post. So in this sense I don’t want throw ectoplasms out of the window, because I want to be generous or I want to have fun exploring the world with my guild mates (or by myself). I understand that the game needs gold sinks, but this is not the place, where the players want such a heavy gold sink, we don’t like to be punished for helping each other. Therefore a simple solution would be to reduce the travel costs by half. I think it would initiate social playing a lot.

Another very frustrating thing is, when we die we have to pay to travel to the closest waypoint, which minimum 1,5 silver on lvl 80. I find myself dying a lot in jumping challenges, which also breaks my armor, but that’s fine, I want to be punished in some extent. But to pay ALSO 1,5 silver on every death, that’s a bit harsh I think, paying the repair cost is enough punishment for a death.

My last problem with travel costs, that they have a minimum of around 1,5 silver on lvl 80. I find myself walking instead of using a waypoint, when I want to travel in an area. Although I don’t consider this as a major problem.

To summarize my thoughts, travel cost is not a very good place to apply a heavy gold sink, it draws back social interaction between the players, it discourages them to help each other, and forces them to NOT use waypoint system at all. (my charr sits in LA for a week now, I only travel when there is a dungeon, althoguh I’d like to visist various places in the world, but I don’t do that, since it eats my money away…)