Guild Wars 2

I woud like to see:

*Custom chat channels - I miss having an in-character chat channel, for example
*The ability to move a chat window out of the main chat ’dock’
*Appearance clothing tab
*Sitting on chairs
*No NPCs in my house, if Lord Faeron wasn’t still in the house, I might use it more
*No limit on the players I could invite into my Home district. Group size limits RP. If I want to hold a party without emotes spamming players the other side of DR, I should be able to.

Just a few ideas.

Funset.7893:

Gear grind. The reason I do not play the game anymore.
I am fine with everything else, but the ascended gear was the final drop in the glass.

I was trying to get the mats for Bifrost, but when it dawned on me I either had to fork out £160+ for the Legend, or hope that it would drop sometime before the start of the next decade, I lost heart.

No decent guild management tools or anywhere private to gather for meetings, makes it hard for guilds to build a sense of community. Why can’t guild leaders open their home instance to members, in the absence of guild halls?

Looking forward to 2014 and more exciting, enthralling and immersive RP!

Roleplaying is a great way to breath life into your character and is an ’end game’ activity that keeps many players in one game for years. Our story arcs can last for years, with new and exciting offshoots popping up regularly.

It is definitely not for everyone, it takes concentration and consideration for fellow Rpers, a sense of humour is required too.

With the minstrel in LA, the animations and art are already in game for guitar or lute. I’d have thought it wouldn’t be too difficult to introduce.

Gets my vote!

1 - As an elementalist I want to use my staff for my skills, not chucking flames, water and lightning from my left hand.
2 - To be able to move skills around on the tool bar.
3 - Guild halls, can’t come soon enough!
4 - I would like Lord Faren to no longer be sitting in the sofa and get out of my house in Salma District
5 - Foundary system (STO/NWO): player created dungeons and quests.
6 - Party size hurts RP, allow home instance owners to invite as many players as they wish.
7 - An appearance/wardrobe system so that my light armour wearers can dress more appropriately for colder climes, or wear some leggings without frills and bows; so that my heavy armour wearers can occasionally wear a coat against the rain and so on.

With the decision made, where will their quest lead them?

Do you want to be part of the story that takes it’s participants across Tyria? Visit www.sea-guild.org to find out more!

I too would like to see an option to choose where a guild hall is accessed from. This would be very important for RPers. Seraph guilds would want to be based in DR, Charr legions in BC, Sylvari in the Grove. Some might want to be based in other areas entirely. My own guild might want to be based in LA, currently, but I’d love to be able to pack up the contents and move to another area, if it was appropriate.

What is the signifance of a black raven and an eagle? Our adventurers are puzzling over hints and clues and whether the Priory representative is as friendly as she seems.

As a roleplayer you might like to consider Seaverse. As our age limit is 18+, we are mostly active at peak times and quieter at others, as most of us are working or studying earlier in the day.

We are currently mostly RP focused, with only one evening a week that is a fixed PvE night, but we do do dungeons and fractals and members frequently ask in guild chat if anyone wants to group up.

We are a small guild, 21 members, and our intention is to remain small as this makes RP easier to manage, involve all and keeps drama levels at zero. We have an ongoing story arc, based around a group of adventurers, as well as an Asura group.

If you are an RPer, Piken Square was chosen by GW2 RPers as the unofficial EU RP server.

If you aren’t an RPer, this is still one of the most active servers with a lively population across all playstyles.

Unless otherwise marked as German or French, the predominant language on all EU servers is English.

It waas made available a second time, so I’m sure we’ll see it back in the store.

I’ve found this crafting guide to be the best. If you don’t have time to blast it all out at once, you can do it in stages.

IndigoSundown.5419:

The community did embrace horizontal progression. The "nothing to do" posts didn’t start until after people got their "looks," which didn’t take that long. ANet grossly underestimated the amount of skins needed to fuel a cosmetic endgame. Also, transmute stones encourage the adoption of a single "look" for a character. A wardrobe feature would have encouraged people to pursue multiple sets of cosmetics.

I’m happy to give them credit for innovations like the elimination of ninja-ing nodes, the elimination of kill-stealing, and marvelous things like "Deposit all collectibles." However, the "cosmetic endgame" was not their finest hour.

I would visit all corners of Tyria, constantly, for the option for new armour and weapon skins. But with my bank filling up with armour pieces, there is little point. We need an appearance/wardrobe system to store all the skins.

If housing and guild halls were added, I’d also spend time collecting crafting materials and doing quests to learn a recipe to weave a specific rug or to add a picture to my gallery. I’d then spend a lot of time decorating a house and guild hall.

I played SWG until it closed, three things kept me there, the awesome RP adventures we had, the crafting system and tweaking the decorations in my houses. I loved the seasonal events that had items as rewards that we could drop anywhere in our houses.

I have to say that I’m still quite enjoying the Living Story and have faith that we are yet to be suprised with Scarlet’s reasons and why she is the centre of the story. However, I would have preferred it if the LS was around the dragons. One dragon a year would guarantee six years of story. But would players then be complaing: "Oh no not ANOTHER dragon LS!"?

The start of a new month and our story arc moves into a new plot. Our GMs work hard to bring our members exciting and immersive clues and plot twists to follow. They could teach the devs a thing or two about how to keep us interested and involved

Whether you are a new RPer, or experienced, there is a place for you in the Seaverse!

www.sea-guild.org

My problem with Scarlet is that I can’t get past the fact that she seems to have been voice modelled on Queenie from Blackadder.

That aside, as any good RPer knows, character development and progression can improve characters and add more depth to them. I’m hoping that this is the case with Scarlet.

Piken Square is the unofficial EU RP server and also does well on the leaderboards too. It’s active and there are people in all areas of the map.

I would like, please:

Guild halls
Personal housing
Wardrobe/Appearance system
More emotes
Sitting on chairs

We are an active guild looking for more RPers/PvEers who are mature, sociable and active in peak EU times.

Until the time guild halls are put in game, I wish that the guild leader could invite ALL her/his guild members into her/his home instance. This would make meeting and social events much easier to hold.

As a busy guild leader, if a thread title doesn’t hold server or NA/EU etc, or preferred playstyle, I don’t even click on the thread.

Also make sure that your mailbox isn’t full. You can only have a maximum of ten mails, whether opened or not.

I really appreciate the CDI plan. Especially as my first ’real’ MMO (no not that one) had zero interaction from the devs for the first 2 years. Towards the end of it’s life, dev communication was vastly improved, but the thing that shocked me was a dev saying ’we had no idea you guys played the game like this’!

This was after one of their fan cons, about 5 years into the game, when someone logged into his account at the show, with a dev, and took him on a tour of what the players were actually doing. Several issues where fixed after that and several systems were improved or added.

Hopefully, Arenanet will have a better idea of how we play the game and how we use the world given to us, as a result of the CDI . There are so many different playstyles: PvE, PvP, Crafting, Roleplaying and they all want different things, (as well as many of the same, of course).

I hope this initiative will sieve those things out and add things that all playstyles enjoy, as well as fixing issues that affect all those playstyles.

GW2 is a beautiful game, with a largely open world and it could be even better with just a few things added/improved.

Seaverse is primarily an RP guild, but there is no requirement to RP and we do dungeons, LS etc as well.

We number 20 members, who are friendly, active, but mostly at peak EU times.

However, you must be 18+, willing to represent for 75% of your online time .

Visit our forums to find out more!

Good luck in your search for a new online home.

Currently planning the intro event for our newest RPing member.

We are also looking for PvEers who might like to try some RP, but there is no requrement to do so.

I love the way Arenanet manage the updates and releases. So much better than a down time for 2 -3 hours, 2 -3 days a week, which always seemed to coincide with EU playing times, that I’ve experienced in most (if not all) of the other MMOs I’ve played.

A great idea! I would also like to be able to customise it with suitably nautical furniture too. It would be a fantastic RP resource.

Personally, I’d rather have my own customisable house. However, if I could customise my home instance, the first thing I would do is remove the NPCs from within the houses, but not the tavern.

It annoys me that Lord Faren is sitting IN the sofa in one house and two others are loitering in another

Very hard to choose.

As a guild leader, I know how valuable it is having somewhere for guild members to congregate for meetings and socialising, I’d have to say guild halls. Playing mini-games together, like Belcher’s Bluff would a be a fun party event.

On a personal level, I spent hours and hours decorating/rearranging my houses in SWG. I also spent hours as an Architect making furniture, both to sell and to decorate other players’ houses with.

All over the game I see furniture, paintings and items I’d love to place in a house. A shelf unit containing every drink in the game would be awesome!

Player housing, I can lose hours placing, decorating and moving items in a house.

Don’t look for an end game. A true MMO is one that doesn’t have one, otherwise we’d reach cap and that’s it: game completed.

Arenanet are pushing this even further with the Living Story concept that introduces new events every fortnight and expanding the story as they do so.

Just as it takes time to get to know a new place to live/work and make friends, so it takes time to settle into a new game. It takes time for it to fall into place. Be patient, follow the advice above and find a class you enjoy.

For me, the big draw to a game is the roleplaying possibility and can we build a long story arc for our RP concept in GW2? The answer was a resounding yes.

You say you like to solo, but don’t rule out joining a guild. Making friends and helping them when they get stuck, learning challenging dungeons together and grouping for extra guild influence, all add to the flavour of the game.

Good luck in finding your feet, it’s a beautiful and enjoyable game, in my opinion.

I’ve played many MMOs and thought the design and art work wonderful, when each launched, but the graphics dated quickly.

However GW2 knocks them all into tricorn hat and I think it will be a very long time before the graphics look outdated.

Sometimes I just stop and pause, then take a look around and really notice the view. It’s absolutely gorgeous. How about a few coffee houses dotted around, where we could sit on the chairs and watch the world go by?

Never had an issue with the population on Piken Square and it’s also the unofficial RP server.

Why not guest to each of the suggestions for a few days at a time before deciding?

If this were to happen, then I’d like to see detachable chat tabs, so that we can have the option of seeing two seperate channels at once.

I’d also like to have custom chat channels.

I would have played it from launch.

Why? Because I’ve always disliked fantasy games, but this one has proved to be the exception to the rule.

I keep note of who attends our events. I go on the theory that if members want to be part of the guild, they will attend events.

If a member doesn’t attend a single event in 90 days, they are removed. Of course, should they become more active, they can rejoin us.

If you are interested in RP, Tarnished Coast is the unofficial US RP server.

For those reading this in the EU, Piken Square is the equivalent.

I’d much rather a system that a guild can work towards together. Influence seems the logical ’currency’ to me.

There is still the option to buy influence with gold, as well as a guild being able to work towards it.

Adding a basic guild hall and then expansions via the guild upgrade panel, would be something I would love to see.

A new crafting profession: Carpenter, could allow us to create items for our guild halls. I would like to see the ability to furnish and decorate a guild hall with free positioning on all three axis and not fixed placements.

This system could be expanded to personal housing, with an upgrade that allowed ’doors’ that matched the guild size. This feature would need some kind of eviction process for inactive members, though.

A guild hall and a personal house.

There is a new POI in Gendarren Fields, added with the first Aetherblades event.

Don’t you get scaled up to 80?

Vick.6805:

I don’t know that you can say one type of color combo is “better” than another, as it’s all up to taste, but one thing that I don’t think Serisho’s mentioned so far is that your character’s skin color (especially for Sylvari, but also the human and norn skin colors) can affect which colors look good, just like they do for everyone IRL.

So true! I was lucky enough to loot Celestial and spent a few minutes debating whether to sell or use it. I decided to use it, only to find that the colour looked awful on the Light 4 skin tone of my main character.

Welcome to Piken Square.

There is RP in Hoelbrak fairly regularly, but Divinity’s Reach is the largest hub with regular events, as listed on the GW2 RP site I linked to earlier.

But if the time you are posting at is your regular RP time, you might want to keep in mind that possibly the majority of players are in bed! I know that we have only 1 or 2 members who are around at that time as we have careers, families, Uni etc that mean that we have to get to bed before midnight!

I suggest you keep a look out, both in the guild recruitment forum here as well as on the RP site, for a guild to join. That is often the fastest way of getting in to RP.

As a UK player, I can assure you that English is the dominant language of the server

Why not guest over and see?

Piken Square (EU) is the unofficial RP server and it’s also well populated.

There is an offsite RP forum at GW2 Rpers

Lots of advice in this thread with colour codes as well.

An update in regards to my situation:

As advised by support, I revisited the areas required for completion. In Kessex Hills there are 2 POIs related to the Tower of Nightmares and one POI in Gendarren Fields, all three were added after I completed those areas.

Whilst I received the rewards for the original map completion requirement, I had to get those three POIs before I could trigger the title.

I completed the map a couple of days ago. I received the Gifts of Exploration, but not the title. I put in a ticket and have been advised to visit all the map areas again. I haven’t yet had time to login and do so, to see if that works.

Perhaps it’s worth trying in relation to the gifts too?

So many long and insightful posts on likes and dislikes!

I will keep mine short:

Zephyr Sanctum was my favourite, I thought the art work was spectacular on top of an already stunningly beautiful world. I’m not good at jumping puzzles, but was boncing around like a gazelle once I got the hang of it.

Least favourite is Tequatl, I’ve found it impossible to complete. Initially it was because I was in an overflow and EU overflows have chat channels that are full of every EU language (no issue with that), but all the different instructions in several languages caused chat to be spammed away. I just lost interest. Maybe the revamped dragon events should be a hard mode option, with related rewards, in a seperate instance.

My overall dislike is having to grind to complete acheivements and to attain enough of the related currency to buy any skins. This is because there are so many other things I’d like to be doing too. Oddly, I don’t mind zergs, I see this as the community working together to acheive an end.

What I would really love to take away from some of these events are guild rewards, gained through influence, such as a guild airship, or darkthistle tower.

DST ended in Europe last weekend, so it’s easier to calculate