Guild Wars 2

Item: Water of Lethe

Surface Effect: Makes a character forgot where they’ve been. Map is re-fogged. For purposes of exploration, character is reset back to the beginning, as if they are a brand new alt that was just Tome’d to level 80 and outfitted. Beginning waypoints unlocked as with a brand new character.

Internal Affect: Character gains experience, map completion rewards, Gift of Exploration, just as if they were a brand new alt.

Not affected: Level, gear, Mastery Points, completed stories/chapters on that character*, pet charming, anything not directly tied to unfogging the map, unlocking waypoints, etc.

• special attention paid to the chapters that unlock HOT and LS3 areas. If user has already unlocked the first wp in Verdant Brink, they should be able to replay that chapter to reunlock it, or have a portal scroll for use identical to the ones for the LS3 areas.

Edge cases: Hero Points. They are part of world completion, yet should not be reset. However, maybe they would work like Mastery Points when visited by a new alt – already unlocked.

Targeted audience: Users who want to re-explore the world from the beginning with an existing character. These users are less likely to buy a character slot.

Acquisition: Gem Store item, included as a possibility in Chest of Black Lion Goods (login reward), Black Lion Chest. In the same loot tables as Revive Orb.

Personal reasoning for request: I love exploring Tyria, and I use the unfogging/get the waypoint, etc to guide me around. I’m also using that to gather leather and cloth for an ascended leather armor set. I’m at the point where I have my set of favorite characters – race, profession, skills, etc. I’ve bought several character slots.

I’ve done the new alt, tome’d to level 80, decked out in full ascended everything, only has the starting waypoints thing.

Rather than recreate my mains as alts for world exploration, I would like to send my mains out on a journey of rediscovery.