I agree with the OP, the living story in this game has become, well, stale, and I feel like I’ve been logging in less and less lately. Frost and Flame & Super Adventure Box were my favorite patches, and a few since then have been enjoyable, but lately everything seems to be some new unsolo-able instance which us late-comers can never complete for lack of other players whom have already completed their meta.
2.Existing weapons for new professions
3.New weapons
4.New areas (Cantha, Crystal Dessert, or Magumma Jungle)
6.New skins (add some flavor with new weapon sets every month?)
7.New armor skins (this does not mean out them in the gem store)
8.new profession (hint third heavy class)
9.New profession specific armor ( make our characters feel unique out in Tyria, it sucks that rangers, and engi’s, and theirs can all look the same…)
10.More permanent content
+1,000,000 to this. I would much prefer less frequent updates with better, permanent, rewarding content (no more repetitive instances every 2 weeks): new areas (Crystal Desert, please) & dungeons, guild raids, guild vs guild battles, player housing, harder (but optional) content for those who want it, hard mode on dungeons, easier content for casual PvE wimps like me :P … and what happened to being able to save builds like in the first Guild Wars?
Just my 2 cents.