Guild Wars 2

Just shooting some ideas here that perhaps was mentioned before many times. (Apologies for comparing with other games as well, but needed a reference).

It would be nice to have more content that does not required PvE or PvP…

Finding Vista’s is a nice one. I enjoy just the simple explore and discovery.

Puzzles and mini games (like in Rift Online). Finding certain landmarks that has a puzzle which the player must solve. These puzzles can give a one time reward and give the user a point (like +1/10 Puzzles completed)

Having hobbies. Fishing or something like it (In Lineage 2, I use to enjoy fishing, which breaks the routine of grind grind grind… it was relaxing and a decent change of pace) Rewards can be something like ‘Hobby tokens’ which can be used to redeem dyes, boosts, novelty items, consumables, gears perhaps etc… If not fishing, something fun and relaxing that is rewarding and breaks the monotony of the daily grind.

PvP/PvE oriented though, but the challenge mini games (Like in Guildwars 1, fort aspenwood and jade quarry) (If they exist in gw2, tell me where please) Where random teams come together to play a mini game. Team members can consist of players from all servers.

The pvp/pve is fine. I enjoy it, but eventually people may just get fed up of the daily grinds. I use to play Tera. The combat was awesome, but the game only focused on fighting. So after a while… I just got tired of it. I dont want that happening in gw2.

anyways… just shooting some ideas

I dont get ppl and the Must Reach Max Level ASAP…
The game was meant to enjoy it from Level 1 to level 80. I am playing for … er… months. No I havent reached max level yet, but I am enjoying every moment of exploring each area and doing the events etc.
I personally didnt like games that make you reach max level in no time. Kills the fun of gaining a level when you do things…

Not my pic, just found it randomly online:

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Chessrook.8643:

Somewhere in a graveyard, there is a tombstone. I forget the name of the person, but the epitaph is “She thought she could outrun a centaur.”

Seriously, it’s in the game. Graveyard just east of the entrance to Divinity’s Reach. Look it up.

Clearly the devs knew about the memeness of the line.

Nice! Will check this out! Someone should make a parody video about this (If you do, or see one, post link here please ^__^)

ZannX.4058:

ftskaleem, that’s just false. You see, I was naive like you once. I thought I could buy one piece with Karma, one piece with dungeon tokens, one piece with WvWvW badges etc.

But no. Not all the stat combos are available through those means. Everything is oddly and irrationally specific to one method of acquiring gear and essentially makes all other methods useless to you. As a player, this is baffling. It trivializes their reward systems and undermines the whole concept of GW2.

ah. scene. I am only lv44 so I still dont know about end-game-catchingkitten to-get-awesome-gears… At least I know now that my planned idea would fail…
Thanks…
I thought it would have been some as of GW1… Use to collect trophies for random NPCs scattered all over to get my full sets… (buts thats something different).

I think I will casually ‘grind’ events and stuff… There are so many of them in different styles and they are mostly easy or quick.

o.O … Magic find = increase in rare drop rate? learned something ^^
cool!… if so I think perhaps there is a cap somewhere… so even if you have 100% MF, its capped at… say … 40% (just making a random number)…
so it can be that your luck was terrible during the buff, but you got lucky when it goes…
(idk… just an explanation that I could have thought of)

Somethings came across my mind and got me excited about the thought…
I am assuming (hoping) that just like GW1, GW2 would have similar expansions…
Prophecies took place in Tyria
Factions in Canthan
Nightfall in Elona
Eye of the north… in Tyria

Gw2 started off in Tyria (theme song is a remix of the Prophecies theme…)
Maybe gw2 first expansion would take place in Canthan. See how the city evolved. Echovald forest may turn back into a luscious forest. Jade sea may be an under water area. Gw2 expansion after could take place in Elona.

Hopefully, each area would have their own story (as of Gw1) and you can visit and experience their stories.

Hmm… just saying that I’m looking forward for what gw2 may have in store in the future…

I noticed that there were more than one way to get gears… so… perhaps… you can use the Karma to get one peice, the dungeons for another and crafts for another … just an example…
According the Arena net, you experience ‘end game’ from the start… so to speak…
I dont have to reach lv 80 to experience the awesome end game. Even if I reached lv80, I can go back to earlier areas and relive events I had enjoyed when ‘growing up’.
When you play the game for the fun of it and ignore reaching the MAX, you will enjoy your game and eventually reached that MAX goal with out even knowing it…

PS: on a side note… I had missed the GW1 armor system. There were no uber armors… just a 60rating armor max (for eles) and you add on your runes to it. The ‘uber’ armors were just for appearance with the same 60 armor rating.

Crucifer.2831:

I’m just going to rattle these off:
Normal Things:

1 – Inspecting…seriously…
2 – Dueling
3 – Guild vs Guild PvP on server side World PvP (Outside of WvW/Mists) ( This is “GUILD” Wars isn’t it?)
4 – Show own Character Name / Titles / Guild Name…(I Like seeing my own name)
5 – Titles …where the hell are all the Titles?
6 – Pets haven’t seen one in the entire game yet.

Real Money Items (ANet does want real $ right?):

7 – Gems to Buy new Hair Styles / Colors (Resets if you want)
8 – Gems to purchase in-game name changes
9 – Gems to purchase pets

In-game Mechanical Suggestions:

10 – THREAT I understand no one wants to see “Trinity” become the play-style but at minimum it’d be nice to have an idea on who has the agro in dungeons. I ran with a group where we had 4 DPS and a Tank and it was the smoothest run I’ve been in yet…just knowing that a guy with Sword/Board is actually taking the damage and not the little elementalist who has to be revived every other second.

11 – More complex mechanics (use the above to allow this) right now everything can be easily done at ranged…you don’t even want to be melee in this game at the moment because with no threat a low armored thief/warrior just gets demolished. This means that the entire game can be done just kiting. Not very complex mechanically at all. Threat would resolve this issue as having a tank would allow for more cool mechanics than just Tank and Spank kiting.

My Opinions on… you opinions

1. +1. But have it like from Aion. (Option to allow ppl to inspect you in game)
2. +1.
3. This is Guild Wars 2… Guild Wars 1 was indeed about …guild…wars… Although the same name, I think ArenaNet is focusing on players working together (hence the races coming together etc…) but yes… they should have some sort of structure GvG.
4. +1. At least make it optional.
5. +1. Titles though should just be for bragging rights and not give bonus effects (like from Aion)
6. … they have Pets… aka Minis… (or unless you’re a ranger)…
7. +1 Need more stuff!
8. +1 and be able to re-design your character’s look.
9. … There are… (see Minis)
10. +1. In Tera there were icons that appear on Players and Mob’s head to indicate their ‘THREAT’ and to see who had agro on who… If you get a red ‘GRRRR’ icon on your head, it means the BAM/Boss/Champion has agro on you…
11. The mechanics are ok I guess. Just different from others. The only mechanic I would like to see improved is the ability to actually dodge by side stepping rather than using the ‘dodge’ skill… I see a mob slam down his hammer. I am obviously away from the hit zone… yet I take a hit…

I agree… +1 on the idea to have that weapon set switching ‘out of combat’. Cause switching from dual daggers to staff… one of my daggers go to where my staff was in the inventory and the other dagger goes randomly somewhere in my inventory :/
Weapon switching during combat should not exist for an Ele… There are other work-arounds. Like my dual daggers give me mostly close ranged skills, when I want range, I summon my Ice Bow (utility skill…).

Funny thing… I was running away from a centaur… And it was catching up to me… I switched to Air and used my heal (when heal i get an effect depending on my element… air = swift) “I can outrun a centaur…” guess what… I outran it…
… Then I used ride the lightning assuming I would bolt even further away… nope… when backwards towards the centaur v_v…

(it died though …)

Nice! And thanks for the reply
I have to admit though. I use some of those quotes as my catch phrases when I’m with my friends… its catchy…

I think they purr or so I heard…never heard them purr though (and I dont own a char)… Probably depends on your character’s profile… but I remember on the campaign on of the NPCs were sort of purring in his speech…
well.. they are….cat like… after all…

The Asura is so small that even a tiny hill looks like a a huge mountain… ^__^

I like the sound effects and voices and stuff… I also know that the voices are random from a list… but… I’m getting pretty fed up of hearing some of the key quotes like “seize the moment” or “I can outrun a centaur”…

Some of them I don’t mind though. Suggestion perhaps is to add/change them to something you wouldn’t mind hearing over again like “woosh” or “boost!” so it sounds like a sound effect rather than a memorable quote you may get fed up of…

Just a thought.

phew… I though it was just me :/
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small interface… Could barely make out the text and numbers…
It is possible to adjust font size rather than relative size… like small, medium,large interface just changes the font size like pt 8, 10, 12… It looked like changing to small interface just shrunk the text by a percent… (as if it was an image or picture)

Elbow.1234:

Is there a way to add in custom music while keeping the original? I don’t want to replace the music, just add more of it.

As far as I read… I dont think that is possible… The play list you created will over write the ingame’s one. BUT, if you have the mp3 of the original Soundtrack then you can do so.

I think the web browers shop would be a great thing Like the Black Cloud Market on Aion.
But I also think that ArenaNet is more concern about various haters that want to hack, exploit and destroy the guildwars 2 system.
Perhaps in time there could be at least an App for your android to scope out whats on the market.