Guild Wars 2

Great comments everyone, thanks

I share the concern about seeing less people around as they World Complete their alts. Bringing players back to lower-level areas should be encouraged. But when I read the comments of people who have World Completed several times, I do wonder what they’re actually bringing to those areas. It seems like a lot of rush-rush, get it done fast.

As for it being easy mode and lazy – well, yes. Guilty as charged. I would like an easy way to get another character up to Level 80 with all the map unlocked so I can just jump in and play him/her. Mind you I don’t think it’s cheap. You’d be burning a Legendary crafting component that you can’t get back, and you’d already have done World Completion at least once. You’d also be missing out on a lot of Karma, gold, loot etc.

Hadn’t considered Hero Points by the way, very good point. I included unlocking hearts and vistas because I wanted to exclude their rewards from the process (no karma/XP for you!) but Hero Points are pretty crucial of course. Maybe leave those open? Or any other suggestions?

As simple as that, really I suggest to add a consumable option to the Gift of Exploration. The character which consumes it has the entire map unlocked – waypoints, POIs, vistas, hearts and all – but can then no longer earn Map or World Completion achievements.

This would allow players to unlock the whole map for an alt without having to travel everywhere and do everything again. The cost: you obviously need to do World Completion the old fashioned way first, and you no longer have the Gift to make a Legendary.

What do you think?

Oh no, not in the gem store. You’d have to obtain them like now, through actual wolrd completion. It just gives you the choice between using it as a Legendary component or using it to unlock the map for an alt.

Maybe add a consumable option to the Gift of Exploration? Eat the gift to unlock the entire map for that character. Map and World Completion achievements no longer attainable on said character.