So as we’ve just rapped up our first year of Guild wars 2 I would just like to say wow, what a brilliant first year we’ve seen some amazing progression such as: Fractals, Guild missions, all the way to new content being added into the game every two weeks.
Now I know a lot of updates have been mentioned to come in the third quarter of this year and I don’t want to mention them. The purpose of this post is for me to give my view on what I think would really benifit Guild wars 2 as a game into 2014 and what I feel a lot of the community has been asking for.
1. So the first thing I feel needs improvement is PvP. Yes I know that PvP has had some nice updates however, I feel that sPvP is a very unfriendly environment at the moment and it has a very large learning curve. People are just not wanting to play PvP because they feel it’s too hard so on. In response to this I feel that there needs to be some in between for people, yes I know that WvW could be seen as something which could ease people into PvP however I feel there needs to be more friendly options in place. I firmly remember in Gw1 not being the biggest PvP player however I did have my experiences. From Gw1 I learned a lot through game modes such as Forst Aspenwood and Jade quary, now these game modes weren’t for the most hardcore players and often they were extremely fun, alot of the time I found myself learning the cores of PvP through other objectives be that defend the keep in FA. Now I could see a feature like this in GW2 really benifiting the community it would help people to ease their way into the PvP community and it would also help increase the overall popularity of the PvP scene which is always a bonus being the big push for GW2 to become an E-sport.
2. Still on the PvP talk, there needs to be more game modes. I know Anet wants to try and push conquest into this big E-sport however people are going to get bored there needs to be more for them to play. Team deathmatch would be an easy example yes it may not work and I’m sure they’ve looked into it but surely there must be some other game mode which they can add to PvP to bring it more attention. While still on this topic I’m sure the Anet team already realise the demand for this but people keep asking for it. Where is the GvG people are crying out for this, they are even taking it on themselves to section a certain area of WvW to do their own made GvG. Now don’t get me wrong Guild had progressed a lot since the launch of the game but could you imagine the community that GvG could bring to the game. This could bring out a large competitive scence within guilds and not to mention really enhance the comunication between players and so on.
3. Now time for some PvE, people want to explore Tyria I mean just look at the support the Cantha thread has had is huge people are crying out to go back to the eye of the north and see what has happened 250 years later there. Who has inhabited the Maguma jungle? What has happened to make Cantha xenophobic? and most of all what’s happening with the other elder dragons? These are all questions people are wanting answered.
4. Now I wont say much on this one but Guild Halls.
5. End game content. Now don’t get me wrong I hate it when people complain there is no endgame content in GW2, there is so much to do and see however, I miss the endgame dungeons and instances that GW1 had to offer. I would really love to see some difficult content such as UW where specific builds are needed to run it efficently and people get rewarded for the challenge. Now recently Anet has been increasing this especially with the new Tequatl update which will be coming in two weeks time I believe however there needs to be more of this.
This was all I could of thing of for now I would love to see what everyone else feels there is a call to arms for from the community. I love the work Anet has done so far and it only seems to be getting better and better. Hopefully a Dev can read this and maybe see what everyone else wants added into the game.
Grimble x
