Top 10 Updates Guild Wars REALLY needs.

TheRaven

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I posted this on guru a while ago and I thought you guys would appreciate it as well. Just a little something I wrote up one day when I was bored.

Top 10 Things this game REALLY needs.

Yeah, I know. Everyone wants an auction house with a built in beauty salon and extra storage lockers to keep your stuff. But that stuff has been discussed to death already. Here are 10 fresh ideas.

1. New title track: Philanthropist. You get 1 point on this track for every ecto given to another player. It only counts if you give an ecto with nothing given back to you. To prevent buddies from swapping ectos back and forth all day and earning the title this way, you can either deduct 1 point from your track for each ecto you receive free from another player, or have a max of 1 item given to a particular player count towards the track.
Items that count towards the title are Ectos, diamonds, rubies, sapphires and Black Dye.
First tier is "Charitable" - 100 high end items given away.
Next is "Generous" - 500 items
Max is "Magnanimous Benefactor" - 1000 items given away.
(Yep, this idea is a shameless way to get some wealth from the rich players )

2. Forget hero flags. What I really need is an Ally flag for all those missions where you need to keep someone alive. I'd love to just flag Danika/Togo/King Ironhammer into a nice safe corner and say "Now, you stay here and let us handle all the fighting. We'll come get you when it's safe".

3. Allow those with a minipet Kuunavang equipped and displayed to be able to use those special Kuunie skills. (Watches mini Kuunie's price soar to 200 ectos )

4. Xunlai International Currency Exchange! Let's give all these folks selling Runescape gold a place to actually sell it. Set up a currency exchange agent that will convert Runescape gold into GW gold and vice versa. Contact the Jagex corporate office and get them to set up a trader in Runescape for the same purpose. Judging from the amount of "WTS Runescape gold for GW Gold!!!!" spams I see each day, this will be a very popular addition.

5. Disco Balls for everyone. It's not fair that Dervishes are the only ones that can get down and get funky on the disco floor.

6. Can we get some heavy coats please. The female costumes are rather skimpy and while they may be perfect for the beach areas, my Warrior is freezing to death in the Shiverpeak Mountains in that short skirt she has. My Elementalist is wearing even less, but at least she can generate some constant low-level fire spells to keep her warm.

7. Need a 1 week chat ban for anyone who attempts to trade frozen ectos as ectos or wants to sell his account for 100k.

8. Idiot Indicators over player heads so you'll know who NOT to invite into your party. It could be a big green flashing "I" similiar to the "!".

9. Inclement weather. Ever get tired of the same old boring sunny days in Kryta. How about a randomizer where some days you step outside LA and it's raining or it's cloudy. Could also come with some random degen effects like Muddy Terrain or Frozen Soil. The weather routine would be run each day at 6am local A-net time and it sets the weather pattern for each area for the day. So if it's programmed to rain today in Shing Jea it rains all day for everyone who visits the area. Weather should be appropiate for the area and time of year. It will never snow in the Crystal Desert and rain there very rarely. It cannot snow in June/July/August on the American servers.

10. WARNING - PROPHECIES SPOILER: I think some of the missions need alternate endings and alternate cutscenes. I did the Ice Caves of Sorrow mission last night with a friend. We reached Evennia and Sardia trapped in their prison, but instead of freeing them immediately we instead killed every single mursaat and white mantle in the area. Next we blew up the door leading to the boat path and finished the bonus. (Yes, we were infused and the mursaat mob were pushovers). We killed all the dwarves leading to the boat AND THEN went back and freed Evennia and Sardia. During the cutscenes, Sardia valiantly sacrifices her life to save us and Evennia mourns her death at the hands of the Mursaat......Huh?.....what?.....We just killed EVERYTHING!! How the heck did she die? We need 2 endings here. If you free them immediately, Sardia charges into the mob and dies saving us. If you kill the mob first, Sardia lives.


Please note: this is a humor article. Now while, I would dearly love to see all of these things added ingame, I don't expect the devs to waste much time here. (i.e. Don't reply with "stupidest ideas ever. Those would seriously inbalance the game/take too much programming" posts)

Sigh, but I would enjoy an idiot indicator.
 
6. Can we get some heavy coats please. The female costumes are rather skimpy and while they may be perfect for the beach areas, my Warrior is freezing to death in the Shiverpeak Mountains in that short skirt she has. My Elementalist is wearing even less, but at least she can generate some constant low-level fire spells to keep her warm.

I have a lovely long coat on my mesmer. I need a longer skirt and a fichu!

8. Idiot Indicators over player heads so you'll know who NOT to invite into your party. It could be a big green flashing "I" similiar to the "!".
No, no. NOT green. You might mistake it for the "!". How about a big red "X"? Or the danger symbol?
 
I would like a trench coat for my necromancer... could make some characters look devinely evil .... plus maybe a white one for the really holy ones....

Pets that you can ride.... sure thats like WoW... but still it would save time...

Plus, (fun idea not very litteral) I would like to have my characters model me... with a cup of coffee in the morning... so maybe an emote where you bring out a steamy cup of java...
 
one i would really like to see is mini pet battles. Instead of hero battles you could have mini pet battles.
 
one i would really like to see is mini pet battles. Instead of hero battles you could have mini pet battles.

This will absolutely positively never happen. A-Net has a cute little panda minipet and it's illegal in SOME countries to depic a panda in any type of dangerous situation.
 
lol, siege turtle prices would sky rocket then. Cause they would pwn everyone else!
 
lol, siege turtle prices would sky rocket then. Cause they would pwn everyone else!

can you say interruption? siege turtles would die because they have only one attack and it takes 2 or 3 seconds to use and 10 seconds to recharge...

Kuunavang would destroy the other minipets...
 
Nice ideas... but, does GW actually listen to suggestions? anyone know?

sorry for the double post but this must be said.


ANet doesn't listen to the little people. They claim to care more about their users than the money and whatnot and they apparently back it up. However the way they back it up leads me to believe that ANet is in fact using the alleged care to gain more money because they care more for the money than users.

If you've seen any of the special mentions (Guild of the Week and the profile interview thing), they don't care about anyone if that person doesn't do something spectacular... They care about Java Leavzu Exposed because he held #1 in Hero Battles for a month or so... And all the GotW guilds are high member guilds, not little guilds that came together for Christianity and hold weekly Bible study and do weekly PvP...
 
8. Idiot Indicators over player heads so you'll know who NOT to invite into your party. It could be a big green flashing "I" similiar to the "!".

Wh-What!? LOL you cant just label people as an idiot! :p
That would be mean! :(

What we really need is freakin time lapse system so if anybody stays in the same exact place doing nothing it automaticaly logs you out. This is what bugs me the most there are like CLUMPS of AFK players near the spawn points.
 
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8. Idiot Indicators over player heads so you'll know who NOT to invite into your party. It could be a big green flashing "I" similiar to the "!".
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Sigh, but I would enjoy an idiot indicator.

EVE does it better. anyone that has a low security rating....ie: a pirate...someone you DON'T want to be anywhere near......well...they flash....RED. Forget an 'x' or '!'...they just need to flash some annoying color....and not just their character....their name too. So should you accidentally invite one of these loons....you'll see it right away!
 
Amicus Dei of [FoG];230153 said:
sorry for the double post but this must be said.


ANet doesn't listen to the little people. They claim to care more about their users than the money and whatnot and they apparently back it up. However the way they back it up leads me to believe that ANet is in fact using the alleged care to gain more money because they care more for the money than users.

If you've seen any of the special mentions (Guild of the Week and the profile interview thing), they don't care about anyone if that person doesn't do something spectacular... They care about Java Leavzu Exposed because he held #1 in Hero Battles for a month or so... And all the GotW guilds are high member guilds, not little guilds that came together for Christianity and hold weekly Bible study and do weekly PvP...


That seems to be true about all major companies. Seriously, all GW wants... are probably, 100 BIG guilds. what ever... I really love GW because our guild is SO AMAZING. It is seriously like a family. the best thing about GW is.... the guilds.
 
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