No levels and progression based on obtaining more choices in skills would be my ideal GW3. Take the best part from GW1 and improve it.
Good idea, in theory, but how is progression then determined? Just skills? People seem to love/hate masteries and the whole Metroidvania style, so where would progression come from?
Have elite skills be big and powerful but hard to find and build defining. Not like in GW2 where we each get one elite and most of them aren’t even better than standard utility skills.
First part, impossible nowadays. The internet is much more refined than it was before, easily giving you locations of items and things. Something “hard to find” would stay hidden maybe a week before everyone knows it. As for the second part where skills are equal, easier said than done.
Crafting your perfect build should be equal parts ingenuity and adventure as you try and find and earn the high end skills you need to complete it.
Don’t implement it in the same way GW2 tried though. Locking every single minor trait behind that sort of Easter Egg hunt was more frustrating than anything. Just the elite skills.
Yes, it was stupid and bad, hence why it was removed and we have what there is today.
And to combine the two quotes above, how can an elite be build defining, yet at the same time have equal ingenuity? Either the skill works with one skill, or doesn’t. And then there are the metas, and one skill working TOO well with another skill, causing one to get nerfed, which can hurt other skills…etc…etc…
No stats on gear aside from armor value either, again similar to GW1. Runes and inscriptions are fine as long as gear doesn’t become the defining factor that determines what your build does. Make changing your build as easily done as changing your traits. No massive resource sink in getting new gear or having to carry multiple gear sets to support multiple builds. All that does is punish people for experimenting with new builds.
GW2 was a huge step backward in that regard.
But at the same time, doesn’t this also remove creativity with builds? What about the people who run pure damage builds but use defensive armor (I use to in the beginning of GW2)? How bout an area where you can experiment with stat combos for free, but out in the environment, have to attain it? Part of experimenting is failure and the loss from it.
Aside from that keep GW2’s more active combat system, but MAYBE slow it down a bit by reducing the availability of AoE attacks and cleaves. If you want AoE you should have to build for AoE, and suffer a loss in single target potential as a result.
I agree with this. If you build mostly for AOE, your single target suffers, and vice versa. Same with dmg and survivability, boons and debuffs. I like to think of it like a scale; when one side goes up, the other is going down.
Keep dodging as a mechanic. Shoot, IMPROVE on dodging. Maybe bring back Body Blocking (If the new game’s servers can handle it) and allow certain professions like thieves/assassins or rangers to jump over enemies to get to the people in the back.
Body blocking NO. just no. its horrible.
Make control skills much more rare but much more valuable. Chain controlling someone should involve team coordination, not a single person throwing out a ton of hard control effects one after another.
For rare I’m going to assume by your earlier statement in harder to obtain, which again, it won’t be harder to obtain, unless its RNG based. And there is a whole new can of worms making a skill RNG based capture.
For PVE make certain maps harder than others in terms of difficulty so the player still has a sense of progression when starting out. Maybe low-end zones are more peaceful with farms and such that get attacked by the occasional band of bandits, but higher end zones are more like Maguuma where the map is layered and complex and everything in it is trying to kill you, with only a few truly safe spots. Without levels there wouldn’t be a power difference between a single bandit in Queensdale and a single bandit in Harathi, but the Harathi bandit would have more skills to use and be more reactive to the player, and would always have a few friends.
Isn’t this already in the game? I mean, I know the skills may not all be different, but I feel this is already in the game.
For PVP just open the game with more than a single gamemode. PVPers like variety too.
There are two game modes. A third would be nice, but atm, improve on what they have before making anything new again.
Don’t feel like I’m picking on you, I just saw this was a detailed post and wanted to point at what flaws and problems you need to forsee when coming up with ideas.
In a creative process, the first step is to come up with something cool. Then the next step is think how can it be abused, and finally if it can be done at all.
