[How the new daily system in Wizards Vault reduced my enjoyment of GW2 [Merged]]

My guess would be that the changes to the daily system were primarily made to slow down people with multiple accounts and muti-boxers, while at the same time making players grind an extra hamster wheel in order to keep them playing.

[Let us armor mix with all weight classes?]

On 2/16/2018 at 1:11 PM, Odinens.5920 said:

I just want to know why ALL light armor legs " (for female characters) seem to be "skirts" or "robes" or "dresses?" I just want regular pants...

P.S. - there may be some, but I sure haven't found any.

Elegy, requiem and seven reapers as far as I know are the only ones without a butt-cape.

[One Hand Build]

I broke my mouse hand a while back and it didn't stop me from playing. I changed A and D to turn instead of strafe and mapped utility amd elite to E, Q, shift+E and shift+Q, heal on C. I would set the mouse in the centre of the screen and enabled the ground targeting to stop at max range. I played staff/staff mirage and dont belive I missed out on much during the months my hand was healing.

[New Hairstyles, Hair & Eye Colors]

The conversion rate for BL statues is 1g, since you can exchange a statue for 1 bl coin and sell it for 1g. A hair style kit is 7 statues, so 7 gold. If you don't have the statues, you are better off buying 7 bl keys for gems than the kit itself.

[Permanent Golem summons and other ways to augment racial skills?]

Making racial skills better than the proffesion skills would make optimal builds include race skills, which would mean that many people wouldn't pick the race they like, but the race with the best skills. That this will not happen was shown when the devs changed the HT temple when people realized that a sylvari racial could be used to skip some mechanic.

 

On the front of pet skins: giving them would make it harder to balance pet specialisations, because of the "i bought a skin, now i can't use it because it got nerfed" argument or making pets stronger because they would be more proffitable. It would also show favour towards pet specialisations as they would have more costumisation options than non-pet specialisations.

[To Greater Heights]

You can also turn in the statue to the statue collector in seitung. If you turn in all 4meta statues, you can buy 5 more chests per week to increase the chance.

[Suggestion: Give people with Frostfang the option to trade it for the new axe]

By this logic, people with bifrost should be given aurenes staff since its iridescent themed. Same goes for incinerator and rodgort since they are fire themed so primordus, kudzu is plant based so mordrimoth and sharur is orr themed, so zaithan.

[Add a Few Mini Games !!]

Adventures?

[Add rare infusions to black lion chests?]

Technically there are infusions in BL chests during festivals. There are guaranteed chests that can drop them. 

[Ebonhawke desert gate]

I use spearmarshals plea to go to the gryphon sanctuary in Vabi. Entering a PoF map unlocks the waypoint at it's entrance so you can go from vabi to crystal oasis in a few minutes, depending on loading screen.

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spearmarshal's_Plea

[Addressing the "Who Can? To Who Can't"]

15 hours ago, Cuks.8241 said:

Having raid group composition dictated by buff/boon coverage is bad. Blizzard found that out somewhere after Woltk if I remember correctly, when the great stat and buff homogenisation took place (I might have missed an expansion).

On the other hand its mostly just in player's minds that all these compositions are required at all in this game. We dont have some hard raiding here. I did a W1 training run not long a go. When tank asked about toughness at the start, a few of the dps had quite decent toughness and our ele dps had so much toughness, the tank had a problem getting all that toughness together 🙂 We 1 shot VG, Gorseval we failed once so people got a grasp on the immobilising spirit mechanics and Sabetha took a few tries so all players grasped the cannon mechanic. You dont need to min max for this.

While I absolutely agree that roles are not good for the game, the problem is the shift in game design from HoT raids to the EoD strikes. HoT raids were designed for groups without specific roles, but the players introduced them in order to cheese and skip certain mechanics by healing or outdpsing. The greens at VG being an example for the former and Gorseval for the latter. This shift in group composition was of course noticed by anet and they took it into account when designing later content most notably the EoD strikes that are very hard if not impossible be completed without these roles. With this, we now have a major discrepancy in the core philosophy of encounter desigh and consequentially proffesion desigh. Going back to the original design philosophy would require a major redesign and in some parts direct undoing of design choices made over the last few years, which is just not possible at this point.

[There should be mech skins in the gem store]

1 hour ago, Linken.6345 said:

That depends totaly how they implement it.

If you for example have to buy a mech skin to be able to reduce the visibilty of other peoples mechs then it is targeted at none mech players aswell.

 

So players would have to pay to change the skin of another players mech or reduce their visual noise?

 

The only way to reduce visual noise of the mech is to properly balance mechanist, thus reducing the number of players who play mechanist. 

[There should be mech skins in the gem store]

I don't think giving mech skins is a good idea.

1. Mechanist is an elite specialisation meaning it's 1/27th of all specialisations. Giving mech skins would mean mean that they would have to come up 26 or at least 8, if they would do this only for EoD specs, additional things that are simmilar like different auras or spell animations, since most don't have a pet to skin. Otherwise this would imply favouritism towards one elite spec.

2. It would make mechanist more profitable compared to other specs. This would increase anets interest for as many players as possible to play mechanist, severely affecting the balance of elite spec.

3. At the same time it would give mechanist players a solid argument against any potential nerfs. Something in the form of: "I have payed for a mech skin and now I can't use it because mechanist sucks."

[Hard Mode, a GW1 throwback with endless possibilities.]

Just play in common or uncommon gear if you find the game to easy.

[Suggestion - World of Ruin]

Here's an option that is already in the game: use lower tier equipment. Noone said you have to use ascended, exotic or even rare gear. Yes there is a lack of stat combinations in the lower tiers, but those can be viewed as extra chalanges to overcome.

[Which themes would you like to see in a new expansions?]

I would just like an enemy that is pure evil. No redeeming qualities, no tragic back story, just evil. A simple and straightforward story of good versus evil.

 

I'm pretty sure the first part will be an insurrection by the kestrels in Arborstone, since all we hear is how it has become a den of iniquity 😆 Then, since the domain of the winds is probably going to be the next part, we go there and find out it's under the domination of some tyrant and we kick his butt.

[why is there no solo end-game content?]

It's got a lot to do with the power creep. There are mini dungeons and similar stuff in the game, but they have been trivialised by the power creep. But on the other hand, thanks to the power creep dungeons and low level fractals are now available to solo.

[Character Adventure Guide Frustrating for Co-Op]

I'm guessing, she's stuck on a lower tier of the adventure guide. If the level difference is the resault of the adventure guide, just have her look at the guide and complete those acheavements, like spamming a skill or dodge.

These is also the account xp bonus from kills, that might be part of  your problem.

[Leveling up too fast, any tips?]

Many of the adventure acheavements can only be completed in certain maps, so if you skip those it's probaby possible to stay in tier 2 acheavements.

Or clear maps by level. Starter zones first, then the 15-25 maps and so on. 

[What about addtional action bar?]

An invisible bag at the bottom of the inventory is what I do to avoid unnecessary searching for commonly used items.

As for an additional bar I'm guessing it would make abusing items like gunk or ash leagon stealth kits too easy.

[Seriously, it's time to hand us the Skyscale]

Skyscale saves you a lot of time in the long run. You will make the initial time investment back in a few weeks.

[Jade Bot Skins]

56 minutes ago, Heisen.2315 said:

The skin or the default model?

The default model does, so I'm guessing the skin does too. Only tried it with might/magic trophies, not sure about the rest.

[Jade Bot Skins]

It also pops up for a second when a scavenger protocol triggers 🙂

[Pure OW PvE idea for legendary armor]

45 minutes ago, Woof.8246 said:

Well , there's a notion around here that denying people a qol effect , will force them to join content

Noone is forcing anyone to do anything. They are offered a chance to improve their quality of life by engaging in content. If they don't want to engage in content they can't have the qol that brings. I don't see a problem in that.

[Pure OW PvE idea for legendary armor]

40 minutes ago, Woof.8246 said:

Well we must find a pattern to why new people are discourage from joining in the first place, rather than expecting  the existing community to step out their shell , by denying them a qol effect

Are new people discouraged thought? I believe a new player would think that those with legendary equipment have been playing for a long time and have earned it.