AlphaWolvesGamer.5790 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 (edited) I don't know how everyone else might feel about this, but I - for one - would love it if they allow us to purchase different Home Maps for us to choose from instead of having to be stuck with the home given to us through story. I'd gladly pay $20 for a Norn themed Guild Home in the Shiverpeaks. I want to have an area like Eir's house where I can call my own. I'm somewhat doubtful that Anet would put anymore thought than the one default map into player housing, but if it was possible to change which house we have access too through the Black Lion Store, I'd love to see what sort of homes they could map out and give to us. Considering SOTO didn't have any gimmicks that could be marketed off of like a personal home instance, I am curious how Anet will handle player housing. Edited June 19 by AlphaWolvesGamer.5790 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artemis.8034 Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 I hope the housing is like Rift, best housing and decorating experience ever! There was a place like a giant instanced shopping mall where you could go and purchase all kinds of neat furniture decorations throw pillows swimming pools lamps everything!! And the best part was it was interactive you could have a party have people over and they could use your stuff. Like they said in Rift, create what makes you happy! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quench.7091 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) 23 hours ago, Artemis.8034 said: I hope the housing is like Rift, best housing and decorating experience ever! There was a place like a giant instanced shopping mall where you could go and purchase all kinds of neat furniture decorations throw pillows swimming pools lamps everything!! And the best part was it was interactive you could have a party have people over and they could use your stuff. Like they said in Rift, create what makes you happy! I can't say that everything was perfect in Rift, but they had some really cool ideas from what little of the game I've experienced. From what I remember: You could find different housing instances in the form of items. The maps could be used for custom PvP arenas. Player home instances could be made public and have a public browser that is sorted by the number of players currently within the instance. You could browse the instances of friends and guild members, as long as they have the option for these groups to join enabled. Items are resizable and can be rotated in 3 dimensions. Items could be placed above the ground without needing to stack items on of each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1W9e9gswk Edited June 21 by Quench.7091 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valdergare.5619 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 If it's not too late...A bookshelf for our collected books. Interacting with it would being up a clickable list of all our books... /salute Valdergare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curunen.8729 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I like the aesthetic of this expansion, the wild nature theme and region. Glad mesmer spear looks good so far. Housing however - my personal fantasy is the Mary Poppins handbag, to fit everything in a tiny space and enjoy less IRL (not including property rental). The game already affords me this fantasy with the player inventory, so housing is like actively against my core philosophy and that kind of thing causes more stress, even if it is virtual. But I realise this is a minority thing so housing should be great for most players. For me though I will be paying £20 to unlock spear on mirage, hopefully worth it after the disappointment of rifle... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazazel.7501 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I hope that they make the warclaw feel good to use, and that I don't spend every moment wishing I was on my skyscale instead. I also hope that they provide some benefit for players who also unlock it via WvW. Possibly a skin or an additional minor mastery skill? Something to throw a bone to players who already unlocked it, and to encourage new WvW players to still engage with the existing warclaw unlock quest. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batalix.2873 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 (edited) The team really stepped up their game for spear design this expansion, good job. While I think this game is still a year or two out from a point where I would want to play it again, this and SotO (albeit, a rough start) combined are moving in a more coherent direction than we have seen since PoF. The next thing you really need to be working on: Revamp boons/condis. Both have been utterly trivialized in the fantasy/flavor/function they offer. On the side of boons, the homogenization of support roles makes boons feel at best totally inconsquential on DPS-support, and "all the things go" on pure support. And on the side of condis, you are continuously forcing weird, unflavorful mixes of condis onto weapons simply to make them condi, be it "all condis go" on jobs like Mallyx Rev and Scourge, or weird forced condis like Engi confusion mace or bleed spear. Additionally, both of these systems have been experiencing a lot of "dartboard" application, where a lot of abilities seem to have an arbitrarily chosen boon or condi tacked on just to give the players something. Both of these systems need an overhaul to bring back some differentiation in how support and condi DPS feel and function. My proposals: a. For boons, heavily pull back and/or remove group-wide DPS buffs: alacrity, quickness, might, fury. At minimum in instanced content, but also maybe some more focused design for open world/WvW. Limit these to player-only boons so DPS can be more self-sufficient and play with different ways to optimize their individual DPS. And then expand further into profession/espec/weapon-specific damage-buff boons like you have been implementing on certain SotO/JW weapons. I would do this first, and then reevaluate how to approach differentiating heal/defense boons after that issue has been dealt with (I think those pose less of a problem but could probably be cleaned up a bit as well). b. For conditions, just create new types of condi damage and redistribute condi damage differently. You can only recombine torment/bleed/poison/fire/confusion so many times, and there is definitely more design space for new condi types in the game. An electric/zap condi would make certain Engi weapons feel more coherent. I think Rev, Ele, and Necro could benefit from some slight frostbite damage on chill. And Guardian and Druid could get a "holy/light" counterpoint to torment. The condi damage game is becoming really boring when half the time all anyone does is run their typical fire, torment, and/or confusion build and then slap on sigil of geomancy/earth. It needs more variety/choice, and new condis would go a long way. c. Refine roles a bit. I appreciate the attempt to make more condi melee jobs with spears, this is a good addition. But the power level on condi ranged jobs (the easiest DPS to play) needs to be pulled back more. And in general, too many power/melee jobs have a crapton of boons tacked onto their skills; it is okay for them to lean further into selfish DPS and away from support. d. Reconsolidate the boon/buff UI. There should probably be three rows: condis, boons, and other buffs/debuffs. The boon list just gets too long. Edited June 24 by Batalix.2873 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aelin.9317 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 Happy with ele spear after being disappointed with the pistol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarafyna.2136 Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Please allow a wider range of housing options. Like a nice house from Selma District we can "build". or a house from Hoelbrak. The current photo of whats on the land is not that pleasing. Something to think about. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeers.2053 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I like all of what is announced but, Are we getting Strike Missions? seems like 1 raid this year is not Enough. At least give us 1 or 2 Strikes and make the end boss a strike also. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 6 hours ago, Lukeers.2053 said: I like all of what is announced but, Are we getting Strike Missions? seems like 1 raid this year is not Enough. At least give us 1 or 2 Strikes and make the end boss a strike also. No strike missions in this expansion but a raid is like 2-3 strikes depending on how many bosses there are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeers.2053 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Yeah but Raids are weekly encounters, and it will come out during first quartely. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysty Meadows.1425 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 (edited) With the new homestead addition, or mini guild halls as many call them (Guild hall decoration system will mirror the homestead deco system, so all they did was make gh's smaller and call them homesteads) you will need a new crafting skill, and mats, so ala SOTO I am figuring all meta events etc will be the source of obtaining these mats? And going forward this will be the norm? If so, me personally, I'm done with expansionis. But one players choice is hardly noteworthy. Has any mention of how many hours of gameplay is being added? Will the new mount be needed like Skyscale was for SOTO? IF so, then again no interest. EOD, and SOTO were huge bugfests. Ach's not able to be completed, updates/fixes were slow to arrive. I think the best plan is wait for launch, read the reviews and go from there. Edited June 27 by Mysty Meadows.1425 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic.1897 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 I don't think you asked your questions in a way that will get you any answers lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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