I know the game is built on having horizontal progression and i want it that way aswell, but i feel there is too little of it. I know Karma was probably a thing meant to be used for this but it got too easy to get too fast, and the vendors wasn’t very interesting either.
Dungeon tokens are good and all but not everyone likes the dungeons or the armors designs that they hold.
The magic find progression was something that i love and wish there were more of, reminds me a bit of the title tracks from GW1 in a sense of long term progression.
Something i’d love to see more of is map specific progression, like some have already talked about above, but these would obviously need to be filled with rewards and long term goals to keep people from completing them in a week and never return like most other content currently. And i have thought of a few ideas along with a friend of mine.
Bring back some sort of “quest” system for each map (Something along the lines of http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Challenge_Quest from GW1) only instead of doing all 3 you choose one and do that and get a token for that map or map area(ascalon/kryta/orr etc) one from each map per day.
The quests for lets say Queensdale as an example could be:
- 1: Complete X amount of Dynamic events in this zone
- 2: Slay the Shadow Behemoth
- 3: Complete the dungeon in this zone (if it has one)
- 4: Slay X amount of a creature type
- 5: Kill X veterans
Etc etc.
Now once per map per day you could get a token to be used for map vendors, if they should be for each map or for each map type i had not decided on.
Now prices for these could be anything from say weapon skins, armors, weapon sigils/armor runes maybe. Infinite —> Combat <-- tonics and ofc unidentified dye packs etc. and they should be priced for value ofc so weapon skins/armors are much more expensive than the other fluff.
Now i’m just gonna use Southsun as an example of an area already in game which i’m sure was intended for being a new lvl 80 zone for players to go that could benefit from a system like this imo. And lets use http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sclerite_weapon_skins as an example of a rewards that could be gained from a token vendor on that map.
There are so many skins lately that have either been Black lion key / ticket locked or gem shop only that i feel the game itself gets so empty. I know you need to sell stuff in the gemshop to make money but it needs to be more balanced with things to do in game aswell.
