Guild Wars 2

Hello, people of the forums (and most importantly, the developers!).

During a discussion with some of my guildmates, I brought up the idea of an interesting possible purchase for the gem store. Now, I know there the Tomes of Knowledge and Experience Scrolls, however, what I am wishing to implement is a tad more advanced so to speak. I believe it would be a brilliant implementation to include a service consumable in the gemstore that when used would allow you to create a new character with a few changes.

The first, and perhaps the most massive change is that this new character would have all the map completion (but not the rewards) of the character on your account with the highest map completion. So if for example, you had a character with 100% map completion, the new character would also have 100% map completion, but wouldn’t have any of the rewards, so no Gifts of Explorations on this character. To clarify further, I believe that these characters would also be exempt from receiving Gifts of Exploration or map rewards in general to prevent abuse.

The second, is much more simple, the character would be level 80. When you roll this character they would be level capped with no questions asked, as well as have all their class skills unlocked (much like you do when you go into the Heart of the Mists).

The third change is tied into the second, rather than starting in white gear, your character would start at level cap, so why should they be in white gear? Instead, they would get a set of the highest crafted gear available to their class in the stat combination of your choice, so if you rolled a Guardian, they would have the full Draconic set, as well as the matching crafted weapons and jewelry.

The final change (and the one I’m most on the fence about), is that this new character would also be missing their personal story. It will be counted as already completed, with you choosing the major parts of it at character creation. And if not, then it will be as if you never did it, allowing you to go ahead and complete it in full from start to beginning. Sort of like how a lot of story-heavy games these days have a “story mode” of sorts.

As for the cost? I think 1600 Gems would be decent for the service, especially since the service cuts out some of the major possible rewards for new characters, such as Gifts of Exploration, as well as Karma and Gold. This also rounds out the cost to a healthy $20 and makes a nice solution to the idea of a Class/Race Change feature.

Here’s Ayelet Dalca. She’s a Krytan-blooded Mesmer.

Been 80 for a while now, so here’s a repost of Ayelet just hanging around in LA.

I think another part of the problem with this suggestion is that it would “imbalance” humans as far as their story choices go since humans would get four choices; since, there are four major ancestries: Krytan, Ascalonian, Canthan, and Elonian. I personally play a Krytan, so if they only included three, most likely Ascalonian, Canthan, and Elonian since humans are all from Kryta now, my human’s story would be left in the dust.

Adding yet another confirmation of the bug.

Another suggestion, not sure if it’s been listed or not (it’s late and I really just can’t seem to motivate myself to check for it), is to have the clones mimic every attack/action you do. I realize this may be beyond what the system is capable of, but it’d be nice, and for some things it’d help with AoE. Instead of having one Mirror Blade, there are now four. Of course, the clone ones could be stripped of some of the more potent effects of some abilities, but it’d help. Especially for AoE on builds based around Sharper Images.

Human Female Mesmer

Equipment bug with “Whispers Legggings”

The bug seems to cause certain tops (tested with Inquest Vestments and none) to cause a disconnect between the body and the hips of the model looking quite awkward. Attached an image below, this was the angle/pose that showed it the best.

So, just a random quality of life change that would be nice, especially after the recent patch just screwed my muscle memory up seriously. (Greatsword Guardian, here!) I think it would be a nice small change that after you “master” a weapon, or all your weapons, you would be able to reorganize the skills as you see fit. Just a little detail, like maybe some people want their auto-attack to be on “5” by default, or maybe they want their skill order back to how it used to be. It’s just an idea, and I’m certainly not expecting it to be implemented any time soon, but it would be nice.

Just a by the way, only “Hold the Line!” lacks VA on my female sylvari. She does in fact shout “Retreat!” when I cast it.

Here’s mine, she’s a guardian who is based off of a swamp iris.

Yes, please. It is exceptionally jarring that my Mesmer is more accurate against an Orrian Tower (have you seen these things? they’re huge) standing 1200 away shooting lasers out of her greatsword than she is up close wailing on it with her regular swords. What happened here?

I’d like a lot of that stuff. My Mesmer would totally love non-butterflies, like maybe neon green mist. I don’t know, something different than butterflies. And yes, pallets of colors would be nice, as would everything else you said. The Travel Pass and Dye Pallets would require very little time to implement and the others would be something for the art team to do right now while the others work on balance.

Asura and Sylvari do share the same lands, causing glyphic items to be more common there. However, Sylvari do get their own weapons at higher levels, they’re called “Verdant” and they’re rare-only drops. They appear grown vines and leaves around a blue crystal in place of the required “metal” parts of the weapons. For example the Verdant Greatsword has a massive blue blade which can be seen behind my Mesmer in the attachment.

Here’s mine. She’s a Dual Sword/Greatsword crit Mesmer.