What would be the worst thing to introduce in the near future?

A lot of people are interested in seeing new things or changes in the near future of this game (such as new elite specializations, home instance changes,new races, etc. )

What would be the dumbest, most pointless or worst thing Anet could implement or introduce in the future?

Personally I think underwater legendary weapons with no upgrade to underwater combat?

Or introducing a playable Choya race XD

more balance changes

@Valgar.9576 said:Personally I think underwater legendary weapons with no upgrade to underwater combat?Dont see anything wrong with that.

Worst to happen ? Even more power creep, LS5 going directly into LS6.

Apparently not time gating stuff is awful design. So please I hope they time gate everything from now on so people keep playing the game.

The dumbest thing? Honestly... err I got a few let me get the list.

1. Housing, and not what people think when they think housing. Im not talking like new housing stuff im talking just the existing form enhanced (The players home instance with some perks.)
2. NOT continuing with guild halls or expansion of guild stuff.
3. A human like new race (Largos) As we already have three, unless norn get overhauled to be more like they are in lore.
4. Turning cantha into a anime weeb fest. (My biggest fear going forward.)
5. MOAR TIME GATES (See skyscale for reference)

More "challenging" monsters by merely adding more HP, damage, and hard CC.

No changes to Stability.

More power creep.

more mounts with time gates and collections

Killing another dragon

Simplifying gameplay would be the worst.

In no particular order:

1. Making content even easier - as 80% of current content is boringly easy already after you've fully developed and geared up your character; you are effectively locked into the remaining 20% of content (DLC maps, fractals, raids, world bosses, some champions and legends in core Tyria maps) and have to repeat them endlessly, what gets old pretty quick.

2. Adding more specializations instead of fixing balancing issues with the current one

3. Adding more races instead of adding more relevant high-lv content

4. Adding subscription fee or going in pay-to-win direction

5. Issuing no expansions, sticking to only LWS content

6. Continue to create "farm-heavens" like ishtan and silverwastes, absorbing most of population into few most profitable locations

7. Overall, continuing to gear balance towards farm instead of enhancing gameplay, issues with power-creep are also included here; i.e. making killing of one mob an effortless task, and instead setting timegates with number of mobs you must kill to achieve something, thus reducing gameplay to "press X to win activity" when you need to simply repeat "press X" action a few thousands of times to get your carrot - that's one most hideous mmorpg design pattern turning a game into a mind-numbing chore

8. Endorsing zerg-stile gameplay which make the gameplay effortlessly easy and thus boring, while at the same time makes your personal contribution feel almost non-existent and you to feel you are not needed here; zerg also makes impossible to correctly evaluate situation due to non-stopping visual effects spam covering all screen, so you can't really see what happens and react properly, what creates an irritating random-death fest when you just run around, spamming skills, getting downed out of nowhere.

@"Rauderi.8706" said:More "challenging" monsters by merely adding more HP, damage, and hard CC.

Oh, yes, so much this. The challenge is good, but it needs to be challenge through an interesting mechanics/combat stiles and AI of the mobs. For example, I've often seen a lot of newcomers complaining that mobs in GW2 are very boring to fight - most of them just stay in front of you and hit you. Mobs need to move around, using different evades and remote attacks too, or kite you etc - and each individual mob must be relevant, you must not be able to simply override their mechanics by showering them with your over-blown DPS.

More time gated content. If I wanted to be forced to wait to get something, I'd play a mobile game.

Fishing .

1. Vertical gear progression through adding power to legendary runes. Or in any other form.
2. Any kind of subscription or optional tiers that segregate the playerbase even more.

Anything that would make the game kitten on its original manifesto even more than the current iteration pretty much.

I don't want to think about the possibly "worst thing." ;) There have been enough things to criticize. How about we focus on the good stuff instead? There is plenty more of that I would like to see after the latest episode. :)

In the near or any future: a level-cap raise, the MMO killer.

Worst thing... more outfits.

Henchmen.

/popcorn

Legendary Mounts

More timegates :trollface:

GW3 that has no connection to GW2.

Too much time and money wrapped up in GW2 to drop it for the next "chapter"

A map with timegated movement. You can take one step a day but you can pay some gems to take additional steps.

@Thundabolt.8541 said:Legendary Mounts

What would that even look like? Like they can jump higher or move faster or something?

A "classic" version of the game as it was at launch, but only the open-world PvE part of it.