GW2 Suggestions Thread

Many people find the GW series too limited because of the path one is forced to take.
Compared to WoW, the game is only one road leading to an end. What you would be wise to add was a more free-roaming world with several paths to choose, and maybe add alternative endings for quests and the game itself, depending on which path you’ve chosen. To make the dungeon exploring more like the one found in WoW, but it an own twist, would also help the game to feel fresher.
Another element that would make the customization part of GW2 a fresh breeze would be armor drops that players could wear instead of being limited to a set variation of armors. Armors for special achievements would also be a nice addition.

An important feature to add to the free-roaming effect could be more interactive shops inside buildings. Maybe even a poker bar where one could play poker and bet money. The cards would of course have pictures which relate to the GW universe.
Interactive cities with buildings and guards and NPCs who have set routines would complete the overall feel of an interactive world instead of the inactive NPCs represented in the previous games.

Mounts are highly wanted in the GW universe, and if you removed all the portals and just had the old “Fast travel” ability in addition to mounts, the outcome would be even better than the one present in WoW.


Furthermore it would be interesting if you introduced new professions in addition to the present ones, and as Aeon_Xin said - don't tie body type to class(armor tied to class is OK):

- Whip mastery -
Where one could have a character who’s got a Castlevania feel with different types of attacks which affect different types of monsters. Abilities in addition to different attacks which affect different monsters could be stunning and poisons which are brought out by the whip itself or applied poisons.
This mastery could also have a talent called poison brewing for making poisons to apply to ones weapons.
The effects of the poison and the anti-monster abilities are in addition to runes etc.

Suggestions for a name for this profession could be:
- monster hunter
- viper(because of all the stunning effects and the poison, like a viper’s hunting abilities)
- soldier of fortune

- Gun mastery/ gunman/ bandidos -
A profession where one relies on one or two guns or one big gun(like a hunter with different bows: one ranged and one for close combat).
Talents related to this profession could be a talent where one specializes in better aiming, resulting in more hits and a bigger chance of getting critical hits.
Another talent could be one where you get to make different sorts of gunpowder and the bullets which add different effects to your shots eg.
- Silver bullets - many dark creatures suffer more damage
- Exploding bullets – your bullets will explode on impact, often resulting in critical hits
- Swift gunpowder – your bullets move 10% faster
The effects of the gunpowder and the bullets are in addition to runes etc.

It would also be fun if every profession had a talent like poison brewing and gunsmith to add new effects to skills.


Important list:

- a free-roaming environment
- new professions
- new playable races
- armor as loot/drops
- weapons with your character’s name on it eg. “Jin’s Blade”(maybe as a reward for a really hard quest a NPC could produce such a weapon, and you could choose the components)
- more interactive NPCs and environment(open houses and castles etc.)
- A JUMP BUTTON
- the ability to walk up/down steep environment
- Guild Wars Poker
- better dungeons
- mounts in addition to "Fast travel"
- several paths to choose in PVE
- interactive shops
- dressing room - Shft click on an item to see how you would look with it equiped
- AND MOST IMPORTANT: AN AUCTION HOUSE

It is so hard to get one's findings sold just by spaming the channels. One may stand there for hours because the channels are so filled with spaming, that it's almost impossible to read the different auctions before another one pops up. Add an auction house like the one in WoW, but with the ability to add comments and prefered/alternative payment.

Complete character customization, and interchangeable armour.

Characters are too limited, and I'd like to change so much more than just hair and body type. I'd like to completely create my character. The sims body shop could do it, so I don't see why it shouldn't be possible for GW character creation. Perhaps leave it as a choice. You can choose from pre-defined characters, or completely customize your own...

Armour at the moment is too limited. I'd like to see armour that you can buy one bit of, and then add another part of a different armour. If I could do it now for instance, I would take my mesmer, and I would use the rogue's top, but the bottom half of what was the virtuoso armour. (The part that is currently part of the top, not the bloomers...) That way even armour would be far more customizable, giving so much more scope for individuality. The armour is simply not designed to look good mix-matched, which I think should change for GW2.

I agree! I'd like to custom my characters a lot more ^^

I can't say I have the patience to read through all of these suggestions, so I don't know if this has been posted before.

I love the way the armor system works in GW, I love the max. armor part, armor traders and ascended armor and I think there should be something alike it in GW2. But I suggest we take one step further. Let there Boss Armor (whatever to call it...) that can only be found via killing certain monsters, and as I said before I love the way things are now. So therefor I think they should be quite extraordinary, but only when it comes to looks. You could of course make some sort of index to it... What kind of norn would be able to wear the armor of an asura...

Just something I thought up, hope it's usefull

I think they shod have armr drops that can be put together like one boss drops a set of metal shoulderpads and another one drops a tabbard and a third one drops a leather huaberk then you go to the armor crafter to get them put together into a new piece of armor, but thats just a dream.
Another thing i wish they had is that you could make a character different from the rest in wheight and height

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I know, I know, "the language police are here" and all that. Honestly, just offering some help. This is not intended in any way as a put down of the ideas presented.

hi,

i think it was not mentioned before.

- add dwarfs as a playable race
- add tengu as a playable race (Maybe in an addon like GW2:Cantha)
- add centaurs as a playable race (Maybe in an addon like GW2:Elona)

Add some kind of gunslinger/mechanic profession with guns, grenades, mines, mechnical robots.

Maybe restrict certain professions to certain races (i.e. Gunslinger only for Asura / no Necros for Norn) or bind professions to regions (ritualist can only originate from cantha and only from races who live there like humans and tengu)

Please make GW2 work out of the box together with wine in a Gold or Platinum state unlike GW1 that has only a silver state.

Kill all forms of grinding.

Since new games use better technologies i don't see a problem in using a scanned in picture of your own face on your character, with some technology to project and adjust your face onto the character, that would make everything way more realistic... it shouldn't have too ofc but it would be nice if it could no?

This would be neat, except...

We all know some genius will scan in some genitals for their fav char "Sir Pecker" or "Alota Fagina". Best to keep the imagery under control from the outset than wait for reports of abuse (unless they plan on putting a XXX rating on the game, and fully enforcing it). The game is currently rated for teens, and there is a reason you can't strip beyond your undies.

They had this addition in The Sims Deluxe, you could scan your face and place it on a character, but due to abuse they changed it for The Sims 2. The changes made everything custmizable through sliders. You could change the size, height etc of lips, eyes, nose, chin and basically everything else. This way you could make a character that looked exactly how you wanted. It could be you, or anyone you know, or even someone you just imagined.

This circumvents the whole genital scanning issue, although it is possible to make a character so ugly you WISH you were looking at someone's genitals instead...

I think this would be a great addition for character creation, that way our characters would be truly our own. The technology exists, so we all know it's possible.

i would love it if they used that... anyway about the abuse of the technique... ye i was thinking of that too when i wrote my the first post: if A'net decides to put that in they'll need to find away to stop those folks... but don't have a clue how they'll be able too

NOOOOOO!!!

Ok, perhaps I'm getting emotional about this, but I really don't see a good reason why there should be restrictions. I wanted a Night Elf Warlock in WoW, but they said no. I wanted a Ranger/Necro in GW, and they said: "Sure, enjoy!"

I think most people will adopt the races and classes that fit together well, and that make more sense. But I see no reason to enforce that! In short:

Restricting certain professions to certain races is racial discrimination!

Why not make it that females can only be monks, elementalists, mesmers, and rangers, and males can only be warriors, sins, dervishes, and paragons.

thats absolutely sick

no!!!... that'd be sick....

To think of it, I can think of only one good reason why you'd have class/race restrictions, and that's roleplaying. And I like roleplaying.

Sooo....

Why not have the same profession have a couple of different names depending on race, but otherwise be the exact same profession.

For example:

Monks becomes Shamans for Charr and Norns.

Ranger becomes Druid for Sylvari and Charr.

Warrior becomes Mechanic for Asuras.

Paragon becomes Cheerleader for Norns.

So you can still play any Race/Profession you want, and keep the roleplaying aspect alive as well.

I forgot to mention, I meant that as sarcasm.

Because I don't want race-specific classes or class-specific races, or specific anything. I want to be able to choose to be what I want to be.

Explain to me why you can't be a Night Elf Warlock in WoW, for example?
It seems very arbitrary.

ok instead of restrictions there would also be the possibility of different quest archs.

i.e.: (only a assumption) Norn have very high respect for the dead an their ancestors so it is very unlikely to see a Norn Necro but not impossible. Norn Necros are Outcasts in Norn society, they are tolerated (read: not killed) but not accepted. So a Norn Necro would have (maybe radical) different quests and quest agents to resolve the main storyline.

Make certain quests only available for certain professions, this could led to a better replayability.

No class restrictions.
No race restrictions.

I'm happy with the rest. I think it would be cool indeed if some race-class combos were outcasts. Kinda like the Necros in D2. Different quests would be awesome, of course...

And you could also have titles associated with roleplaying, so that you don't have to play your warrior-monk as a paladin, but if you did, you could get a title for it...?

But that's me going nuts.

What matters is:
No class restrictions.
No race restrictions.

Let me be a Norn Cheerleader if I want to.

OK, some suggestions..even though some may have been suggested before.

To tackle some issues with the current GW:

1.Trade/Auction. A definite given. Others have listed ideas on how to improve this so I wont go into detail.

2. Separation of PVP/PVE skills and influence on each other.
Specialized skills for benefits in the PVE world.
Influence of PVP on PVE should be limited to the rez shrines as we see them right now. IF our country has favor, we get the gods avatars to bless us. Keep this for GW2 but this should be the only interaction IMO.

3. More community interaction by:
1. Quests that offer different results of completion depending on which class you take. As someone suggested earlier in this thread, when facing a river or a body of water that is in thier path, each profession has different ways of overcoming the hindrance. Or as in Factions second to last mission, by taking certain NPC's with you allows you to avoid different obstacles based on that NPC's abilities. If each profession has a highly specific skill or ability they can use (outside of what we are familiar with in the current GW), it could open playability to missions and quests if the result could be different each time you play.

2.I love instances since you can take your own time with a quest or mission and not feel rushed or slowed down by others or them by me. However I do agree with others that it would be nice to see others randomly when questing. I know this is already being implemented in GW2, but I still really wish this idea to be implemented in the fullest.

Things I would like to see:

New Armor/More options for armor. Variety in this is area is something I feel GW is lacking.
Also, more options and variance on looks of the characters.
Seeing similar armor on others isn't an issue. Seeing your twin in similar looking armor is kinda a drawback that you aren't unique in your choice as much as you may try to be different. Again, as suggested before, have the 5 armor pieces that make up the set, but add necklaces, bracer, robes,should guards, and other addons to the base armor set to improve the odds of not having similar looks to others. Sure there will be popular ones based on the look of the armor and even based on what the stats are, but if it adds to variety I am for it.

Interactive and dynamic environment. Night/day...fall,winter,summer,spring...rain/snow/wind/hail
Fields of grass/wheat that change in height, blow in the breeze, get trampled, cut down by attacks.
Move rocks/boulders/logs, cut down trees to change, even though temporary, the environment you are currently visiting.

Shops:
Not a big fan of the crafting idea, but (as a gold sink or alternative to id kit/salvage kit) take items to an NPC that can id items for you or salvage them for you.
To keep it from being too expensive, the prices for id and salvage are based on your exp with salvaging/id'ing items with the NPC. For example, someone taking an item to get id'ed will pay a base rate of 50g to have all items id'ed (max 10 items for that amount of gold); And this goes towards their Treasure Hunter Title. You can have more id'ed at a higher price if you have more on you. After reaching a certain rank, you can have the price reduced since you are a well established customer and hunter of unidentified items.
Same thing can go for the salvage of material. After dealing so much business with the Salvage merchant, to cost he charges you goes down (for being a repeat and loyal customer) and the success of what the NPC can extract for you goes (with the merchants experience with you).
Now, this is not to replace the id kit or salvage kit, but an alternative to carrying a kit around with you, if not an attempt to make the towns more "busy" with people using NPC's to conduct business.

1. More magical attributes on armor and weapons...like Diablo 2(a huge list of magical stats)
2. Rings and amulets
3. Level restrictions on armor and weapons(well atleast armor) I once saw a lvl 10...run through Fort Ranik i think(the one were you have to open a gate for Rurik) He obviously had max armor...probably from Droks. Yes it was fortunate for the team, but it was still stupid. And i also see low lvl players asking for max damage req 9 weapons. A level restriction(to were you cant use it till that level) would fix all of that.
4. Guild Wars has plenty of types of weapons and especially armor, but they need more magical stats, not just 3...We need more variety in those types of weapons and armor
5. a feature to were you can look at someone else's equipment on your own...with out that person 'calling' it. Yes i know thats on WoW, but ya know what! its cool isn't it? use it!

Well thats about it, this is kind of an update from my other post.

I don't care to see my GW1 characters in GW2 ('cause they'd be so different), but I want something real dang nice and will actually be useful (for maxed lvl characters in GW2).



From the 2007 June nerf wishlist:

I hope in GW2 every class will be able to do basic things, like condition or enchantment removal (see phoenixtech's suggested skills), but different classes will be better at different things. Eg, every class could have access to knockdowns, but they would all have disadvantages to their knockdown skills (elementalist - large energy cost, necro - sacrifice life, monk - one of your allies loses an enchantment, etc.), except say the warrior. Skills within the same class and attribute that have the same purpose should be tottaly balanced. For example, there should be 3 types of hexes:

(Ensign was talking about something totally different btw, I'm just using this as an example for what I'm trying to say)

I think GW2 should have a ranger minionmaster!!! And the necro could be for individual hexes, life steal, and mellee shutdown. And the mesmer could be for AoE hexes (imagine a mesmer mesmerizing a group of stupid monsters with a cheap card trick!), energy steal, and caster shutdown. If GW2 even has any of those classes.

I want 10 skills on mine skillbar!

another quote:

Yes, of course. In the end, it's what the community wants that counts. But still what I want counts in the lot, right?

On that topic, I agree that voting would be great, so here's a website with a way to add suggestions for GW2 and to vote for them. Not my making, but I think it's a great idea. Go there, and participate. The link is to my page there, with links to my ideas. Go vote for or against them, give feedback.

In other words, let's all work towards making GW2 a great game for all of us!

http://www.nikiwiki.com/Gw2/index.php?title=User:Alaris

Here's my reply to this. I do know some things about Warcraft history having played Warcraft III and the expansion, though admittedly I don't know nearly as much as Warcraft enthusiats that have played all 3 Warcrafts plus WoW, or those who are interested in the lore.

However, even you admit that Night Elves can take something so dark in their hands, as Illidan chose to. And as far as I am concerned, he did so as an attempt to save his race. Soooo.... why can't I as a WoW player choose to follow Illidan's ways? Perhaps I too find that the goal justifies the means, no?

My opinion, which means that you don't have to agree with it.

I have strong doubts the devs will consider your small secluded unlisted (and thereby unknown to the majority) site as a valid voice of the GW community. The most democratic polls are those on the sites with the largest GW playing population, which are no doubt the listed ones.

Some simple things...

* Abililty to walk. I hate to sprint/jog/run all the time
* Make characters more customizable. GW2 is going to be a HUGE game, even bigger than the current one so we need a lot of customization options or else we're going to see copy's of ourself running around everywhere.

Nothing more... ArenaNet didn't let me down the first time, I'm pretty sure they wont when GW2 comes .

I'm not going to waste my ideas on this forum, but those who know me and are impressed with my work are welcome to see my new work in the NikiWiki.
http://www.nikiwiki.com/Gw2/index.ph...tegory:Concept

You can vote on topics, which really doesn't mean much to me, but if you have ideas to discuss than maybe I can work with you.

http://www.nikiwiki.com/Gw2/index.ph...166CF0BF86B565

Woohoo!! this is exactly what i meant, if they implemented this GW2 would be the next-NEXT-generation MMO

VOTE OR DIE!!

OK, when a guild establishes themselves, one of their goals is to get a guild hall.
However, IMO, the guild "halls" don't look as such. They are guild islands to be more exact. Even more so they "halls" are the maps the guild will fight at during GvG matches.
So for GW2, please have HALLS for the guilds to use.

The basic idea is to have an indoor/outdoor area in which the guild members can hang out and interact with other members.
The outdoor area will have a portal that leads to the halls "battle" area where th GvG takes place. The indoor is just for meetings, get together for fun, alliance battle grouping, GvG prep, and just a place to hang out.
Keep the NPC's that we can currently purchase, but lets add one more.
Guild musician.
Tying into the music downloads that we have available from directsong, guilds that buy a musician can "buy" music for the musicians to play. Whether it be the holiday event music, exploration music, or if possible, specially made music for the guilds to use as a theme song or party music.
Lastly, thematic elements to the guild halls.
Using some primary professions as example:
Necro hall..lets have some random NPC minions running around, bodies lying on tables as part of minion experiments/curses training...ghost floating/haunting the hall
Elementalists...more "wizardy" with training and proving grounds of spell...multiple environments of cold, heat, water, air, earth to show the elementalists various study of the world around them
Monk..kinda "shrine"ish/temple"ish" where devotion to healing the body,mind, and spirit take place.

just a start with these ideas.

Well, of the next 5 posts, 3 were pointing to the same site...

You were saying?

I second that!
But even if there are class restrictions, I'll be fine if humans can play any class

With GW2, the devs have decided to make a real entry in the MMORPG world, as well as to expand beyound the current limitations in gameplay, which are (besides the obvious lacking of Z-axis):
PvE: after having finished the strongly predictible storyline, on which the player has no substantial impact and is forced into a totally predefined role, players are left to repeat the same missions over and over again; outside the storyline repetitive farming and trading for estethics and gold are the only possible occupations; instancing made the whole even more predictible and produces the lonelyness of a single-player game; no creative liberties are given to the players; the smooth and excellent skill combat system aside, it feels either like playing a rich hack&slash game or a very poor RPG;
PvP: limited to strictly regulated small-sized matches, for trophees, titles, guild publicity and outposts in which the "owner" has no authority; no geopolitical stakes, nor any RPG-value whatsoever; feels like playing sport games for sport prizes.

Thus, as great as GW1 is, it lacks sufficient complex interactive liberties, necessary to keep roleplayers attached. There is no doubt no more complex and interactive gameplay, than one that allows a great freedom of action between human players. But so far GW failed to offer this kind of deepgoing interactivity, for it lacked 2 key elements: "persistency" and "open PvP" (="world PvP", according to wikipedia.org).

Having summarised the major shortcomings of the present, I shall follow it up by contributing to the suggestions for the future.

Open PvP: the largest part of the explorable persistent world should allow players to attack any other player; in order not to rob past achievements, victims will only drop inventory items, that have been acquired during the recent visit to the area where they are killed (meaning that any item, that has been taken into an outpost at least once, cannot drop from Player Characters).
Reasons for implication: imposing peace through game mechanics is most artificial and generates ragequitters and "lamers" exploiting flaws to "player-kill" anyway; player characters should be able to assassinate other player characters and innocent NPCs for roleplaying reasons, such as: honor, conquest, robbery ( somebody, please think of the pirates!) or terror.

Soloable PvE: with the level 20 cap being removed, everything can be made soloable, for those who level up above the local mob level; parties have the advantage of being able to tackle on higher lvl mobs earlier.
Reasons for implication: finding a player group is often too much of a hassle and there's nothing more boring and unsatisfying than having henchmen and heroes take out the enemy for you.

Afterlife (not for "structured PvP", such as GvG, HA, TA & RA): when players are NOT resurrected by a Resurrection Shrine, another player or an NPC, they are sent to a persistent afterlife world (UW, HoH or RoT, depending of their past actions), in ghostly form, which prevents them from entering areas where mobs drop rare materials and golden drops. To earn the right to return to life in the Mortal Realm, players have to complete instanced quests.
Reasons for implication: People will finally experience the fear for death and the thrill from avoiding death by an inch. Also, rivalling players will see their victory morally rewarded when their slain opponent doesn't return in the following minutes.

Incapacitation: when maximum health drops under 10%, the affected character falls on one leg and stays down, until maximum health recovers above 10%. While incapacitated, the affected character gets lower aggro priority from hostile NPCs, than non-incapacitated characters.
Reasons for implication: slightly more realistic, all the while still calculateable; to allow players to inflict defeat without death upon others; to give players a chance to save another from peril.

Interactive Ecosystem:
• places where alot of killing occurs attract specific carnivore mobs to the location;
• when a species is often farmed, its percentage of the total local mobs will diminish and another local species will increase in percentage;
• neutral creatures may turn hostile towards bleeding or crippled players.
Reasons for implication: more organic mob spawns and influencible behaviour will only make PvE more interesting.

Advanced Armor Dyability: each individual armor piece is divided into 2 separately dyable areas, which cover the whole armor piece together; no area cannot be dyed and there are no differences in dye results between professions.
Reasons for implication: players should be able to compose a uniform dress across all professions if they wish to.

Persistent Bundles: in "open PvP" lands, carriable bundle items can be found. These bundle items can be carriable explosives, or artefacts (such as GW1's Scepter of Orr) that grant one occult powers for as long as they are carried in hands. Bundle items cannot be stored in inventory or storage and cannot be carried out of the "open PvP" zone; as such, nobody will be able to keep hold of such an item for too long.
Reasons for implication: to give PvP-loving roleplayers more objectives to strife for; this would see great fit in player-to-player roleplay.

Portable Storage: a Portable Storage Box is an item that can be purchased and carried into one's inventory; if dropped on the ground, it turns into a selectable object, which offers 3 options:

1. "Open Portable Storage" (allows storage place for up to 100 items)
2. "Pick up Portable Storage Box" (turns the Portable Storage Box into a "bundle" item, that can be picked up, carried in hands and dropped on the ground)
3. "Return Box to inventory" (this option is only avaible if the Portable Storage Box is empty)

When taken out of one's inventory, other players can break into one's Portable Storage Box.
Reasons for implication: extra space to carry items found on a journey, at the risk of loss if not carried over to inventory, Xunlai Storage or Merchant; to allow players to have their own portable treasure chests, for long trips or other necessitating situations, and to give robbers somethin' to rob.

Restorable Settlements: in the persistent lands, players can restore ruins, fortifications and siege weaponry of past settlements, for use as local base of operations. Trade NPCs (such as merchants and crafters) come to populate restored settlements. Occasionally, hostile mobs come to attempt to raid and wreck the settlement and kill its residents (for example: Forgotten legions raid Player Settlements in the Crystal Desert). These occasional mob raids are to be fended off in similar way as Thunderhead Keep had to be defended in GW Prophecies.
Reasons for implication: serves as a cooperative project for adventurers who seek for epic battles; something to rally a tight community against a common enemy; if valuable NPCs (such as unique armor crafters) take up residence in the settlements, players have something substantial to defend.

King of the Mobs: high-level Guild Leaders are given a Master Quest, which tells to capture the throne from the leader of an "evil NPC army" (Margonites?), inside a stronghold in a high-level "open PvP" area; once the throne is captured, the Guild Leader has limited control over this "evil NPC army": as long as the throne is under a guild's control, the "evil NPC army" is allied to the guild and guests of the guild, on World Map display the Guild Leader can assign a detachement of "evil NPC army" units to any persistent area he wishes (maximum 100 units per area, maximum 1000 units avaible for assignement per 24 hours), where they will replace part of the local mob spawns (unit levels are scaled to local mob level, but the units are slightly more resilient than local mobs), until depletion of the detachement.
When a guild holds control over a throne, the objectives for other guilds taking on this Master Quest are to: fight a way through the "evil NPC army" units guarding the stronghold and capture the throne from any "owner guild" members defending the throne room (the "evil NPC army" units guarding the stronghold should be enough of a challenge for a prepared "assaulting guild", for the "owner guild" might not be with enough members online at all times to mount a defense at the throne room).
Reasons for implication: there needs to be an opportunity for machiavellian players to enjoy the control of a dark NPC army and show their acquired might (especially if NPCs quote the name of the "owner guild" alot), by causing a minor nuisance to the persistent world.

The following 3 suggestions are about the few features from GW1 that need to be left out in GW2, as they are not beneficial to long-term enjoyment of the game:

No Map Travel: Map Travel virtually shrinks the in-game world and detaches the player from it; with persistency implicated, Map Travel would act as an anti-persistency factor as it prohibits encounters while "map-travelling"; allowing players to intantly travel to any destination is way too artificial and prevents a more natural population spread.
Key locations can very well be linked together by roleplay-compatible means of transportations, such as Teleports and Portals
(locations, that are not part of the storyline, should not be linked through teleportation, because the "so-casual-that-I-really-need-Map-Travel players" don't have time to visit those in the first place anyway ).

No Compass (except for GvG, HA, TA & RA):
• the Compass actually reduces fun, as eventually combat comes down on playing Asteroids with the moving dots and the triangles on the Compass;
• without Compass, players will use more immersive approaches, such as scouting and observing mob behavior;
• without Compass, players will experience the thrill of potential hostile encounters behind every corner;
• without Compass, ambushes and surprise attacks will be possible in World PvP.

No Ctrl/Alt-vision through obstacles: without Ctrl/Alt-detection, players will investigate graphical indications to find objects and closely watch the scenery to locate mobs, and can attempt to hide from other players in persistent areas.

I'm cool with a high level cap, but none of this unlimited stuff. I want a goal to work at.

Max item levels. I really like how there's max weapon damage/abilities, max armour bonus, and what not.

More facial customization. EA Sports does it, Sims does it, I know it can be done, please do it .

Maybe make the plotline more flexible, but keep a PLOT LINE. The worst thing about WoW is the 30-odd levels of aimless wandering in the early game. You aren't trying to accomplish anything, you're just shuffling around doing unrelated tasks for random people. I need something to get hooked on.

Auction House of course, it kinda goes without saying.

Two-handed axes/swords maybe.

Loving the skill over grind, strategy based game you've got going here, so make sure any changes you make preserve these characteristics! Unlimited level changes the entire game concept in a bad way, and sacrificing fun and action in combat for the sake of realism (look at attack rate and spell interuption in WoW) just isn't cool.

After several weeks of hard work, I'm pleased to announce NikiWiki:Gw2 - the first site dedicated to the development of new concepts for Guild Wars 2!

Do you like the idea of an in-game auction house? Perhaps you hate recent talk about no level cap? Maybe you have a great idea for a new character race? That's exactly what NikiWiki:Gw2 is designed for!

Some GW fans have already done a fantastic job helping us through the site's initial stages and have come up with some great new concepts. Come vote on their ideas, post your own new concepts, and even post other peoples ideas (just make sure you reference them)! Let's all help to make Guild Wars 2 the game we want it to be!

Note: NikiWiki:Gw2 is not meant to replace forums, it is designed to organize concepts for easier access by players and developers. It also has these distinct advantages over standard forums:

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I havent read the pages before, so if it has been said before, dont flame me.

A lot of ideas I would have seen in GW arent possible due to game mechanics, I hope this will be possible in GW2, since they are still building the mechanics from scratch now.

Basically current GW copes with certain flaws:
-Scammers
-Botters
-Spammers

Some of these ideas should tackle them.

1) Player Rating System, similar to the one used on guru auctions. To stop scammers from scamming and ruining the game for a lot of new people that worked hard for those few k's they get scammed out of. Only people that just made a trade with a person can give credits, to prevent whole guilds flaming people. No more scamming in GW2.
2) Advanced Quest Log, a log that shows quests that you have completed already, including conversations (similar to Elder Scrolls logs), also shows current quests ofcourse and quests that havent been started yet, but have been unlocked on you account (another character might have found the quest already). It's part of the 'gotta catch em all' concept that drives a lot of players and should further increase the replayability of GW2.
3) The fabled Auction house, I'm sure anyone suggested this before and all know what its about.
4) Integrated wiki-shell, basically all pages on some official wiki should be written in a certain format, this format can be read by GW2 to make ingame wiki-windows possible. This greatly speeds up the time that new people get to know GW2, all questions about stuff can be found in the ingame wiki, that is accesible to all.
5) Similar to the player rating system, something can be done to prevent botting. Every time a player interacts with a NPC or player, it gets automatically 'humanity'-points. If it keeps interacting with the same NPCs it will get negative points every time. If it has too high negative points, the account gets flagged. Ofcourse farmers would also get negative points, especially when they keep using the same routines. But most farmers get bored after spending hours doing the same routines, botters do not. So as long as the threshold is high enough, regular farmers should be safe. Or ANet has found something for GW2 that negates farming totally.

/notsigned
Very annoying to be backstabbed by PvPer while PvEing.

/notsigned
It takes playtime away from the real game that you have to invest in these afterlife quests. Maybe fun for once, but very annoying in the long term.

/signed
Can give a new twist to PvP

/notsigned
Robbing is not a good idea for a mmo. (And not for rl as well)

/notsigned
This means players will lose valuable play time just by traveling over and over again. I love the current "discover-once-warp-many" system.

/notsigned. No hide-and-seek in PvP. Besides, the compass is useful for giving orders to team members.


At least keep ctrl-alt highlighting available in towns/outposts. Disabling could be something for explorable area's, but I'm still not convinced this is a good idea at all.

My responses are based on what little we know of GW2.
Also, have you thought about putting these up for voting on nikiwiki?

Open PvP will be implemented, but I think dropping items from your inventory is not that fun. Perhaps you get points for kills that gives you some rewards once you get enough.

Soloable PvE will be implemented, so you can take a companion or not, into persistent areas. Instanced areas will most likely involve groups. Fortunately, popular demands point towards higher levels not being much stronger than lower levels, so that the game mechanics are about flattened at higher levels. That means that being twice the level of someone else won't let you solo the area. You'll still need a crazy build to be able to do that. PS: henchies and heroes are pretty good (often better than PUGs), especially if you learn to control them using flags.

/not signed on Afterlife quests
Will quickly get too tedious.

Incapacitations could be fun.

/signed for Interactive Ecosystem

/signed for Advanced armor dyability, especially for the 2 (or 3) color system

/signed for Restorable Settlements

/not signed for No Map Travel
Leave my map travel alone! Greatest invention ever!

/not signed for No Compass
Go in options, and disable it yourself. Leave my compass alone!
/signed for stealth units that don't show on the compass, and need to be located visually. Also signed for some skills to make you disappear from compass.

/not signed for No Ctrl/Alt-vision
Leave my vision alone! However, again, signed for stealth items and/or mobs.

I'd like to re-take the discussion in the beginning of the post.

I feel that all the things that have been showed from the next GW2 are oriented only to players that have left GW and for other MMORPG Wow-like games.

Me, as a current player, feel sad because that Anet seems to be forgeting us. We like GW, that's we are playing it rigth now, if we like Wow-like games, we will playing Wow, or any other free-copy of it.

Please, Think twice to make all that announced changes in the current way so you will be able to get new players, but also, do not loss the players that enjoy with GW.

A lot of us, is in GW as an evolution of D2, we were hard players in Bnet. We love map-travel, we love instantation, we dont think that fishing, mining and all this Ultima online stuff is important, and many other characteristics that GW have inherited from Diablo-kind of games.

Sorry, for this post. But, I'd like to enjoy with GW2 as much as I'm doing and have done with Gw.

I think that ANet's position so far was to make changes to improve GW2 by adding things that people want. They are very away that their customers are their bread and butter, but even loyal customers like me look forward to some changes.

For example, I've bought every GW out there (incl. GW:EN when it comes out) and I have spent a total of 0$ in other MMO's (if you don't count D2, DS, and DS2, which are not MMO's anyway).

But I would like to see persistent areas that you can explore solo (as long as you still have instanced missions and instanced quests you can solo using henchs and heroes), Z-axis movement, and unlimited levelling (as long as higher levels are mostly cosmetic). But my impression is that the solo areas, persistent areas, and persistent PvP will be added to GW, rather than replace it.

Moreover, GW2 will also most likely be written with casual players in mind. If mining and fishing are implemented, for example, it would not be necessary but rather added as something RPG'ers can do to get into their roles. I predict that map travel and compass will never be removed - those who don't want to use it can do just that.

But all these things are changed made to the requests of GW fans, as ways to improve their experience, and otherwise to keep as much as possible from what made GW such a success.