Weapons and Equipment:
—Evolving weapons and armor. What I’d love to see is a system that eliminates the need to replace one weapon or armor piece in a class with another, and instead worked more like Skyrim and similar games. In other words, I’d love to see stats or passives unlock in certain areas by doing certain things.
—Example: let’s say I have a great sword, and I kill 100 centaurs. I’d like the greatsword to then get a slight bonus against centaurs. The more centaurs I kill with my greatsword, the greater my proficiency in killing centaurs with greatswords should be.
—Or, maybe I use my greatsword mostly in WvW. So the greatsword would add proficiency in killing other player sin WvW. And so on.
—I’d love to see the same thing for armor; maybe each piece contributes to an overall armor rating that improves the more damage is blocked from this enemy or that. So the more I defend against centaurs, the better my defense proficiency against them should rise over time.
—I’d be fine if this kind of “evolving” weapon was only available at level cap. I wouldn’t want the process of obtaining them to be locked behind a dungeon or jumping puzzle or anything like that though. That’s the mistake The Secret World is making with its end game gear, and I think it’s a really bad design decision.
—Evolving weapons should still be fully transfigurable, so the skins can be changed to whatever suits the player’s fancy.
—I’d like to be able to collect weapon glow/particle effects, and be able to add them to any weapon using the transfiguration stones.
This idea is awesome, I think it’s a solid foundation for other progression features.
On the same note, I was just discussing an idea that I think would make the game pretty interesting for players that want to be rewarded for things that they enjoy.
I was thinking of allowing your character to have “Hobbies”. These would be something along the lines of Professions such as Cooking, Weaponsmithing, etc; there would be a tab for it in the Hero panel and the player will have access to it at the beginning of the game. They would be divided into 3 categories:
Spelunker— the more a player does dungeon runs the better the drops in dungeons/ more gold at the end of the dungeon.
Hunter— the more a player kills monsters in the overworld the better their drops, additionally, players can align themselves with certain “factions” and collect bounties (such as tokens) that can be exchanged for exclusive faction items. For example, if a player aligns themselves with the Quaggans whose canon enemies are the Krait, the player could collect “Krait Scales” on every kill that they could then turn in to a Quaggan Chief for exclusive faction rewards, Karma, or Gold. Also, the player will gain permanent bonuses to magic/gold find towards enemies that will stack individually from each other (the passive bonus for Risen cannot be applied to Skelk, they will progress individually from each other)
Cultivator— the more a player gathers nodes the higher their chance to receive extra gathering chances.
In order to prevent pigeon-holing, the player will NOT have to choose which Hobby to specialize in, rather, their playstyle and the activities that they enjoy will dictate how far—and how fast—they progress in each Hobby.
Even though this may not be the best implementation because of balancing issues, I would love to see things like this implemented into the game.
