[Suggestions]QoL (Quality of Life) Ideas - [Merged]

[Mungo Zen.9364]

> @"Veprovina.4876" said:

> Suggestions are fine, but when they're so focused on losing money for Anet, you have to realize that it's unlikely to happen.

 

How can you be sure that it would be a net loss for Anet?

 

How much actual revenue do you think Trans charges are generating? Would it be more or less than Self-Style Hair Kit? Seeing as they made the reusable Hair Kit, which sells for 2500-3000 Gold on the TP, I think this opens an avenue for a similar item for Transmutes.

 

It may actually be the safest way to add this type of item to the game, as a Ultra Rare drop from BLC that can be traded or sold on the TP.

[Veprovina.4876]

> @"Mungo Zen.9364" said:

> > @"Veprovina.4876" said:

> > Suggestions are fine, but when they're so focused on losing money for Anet, you have to realize that it's unlikely to happen.

>

> How can you be sure that it would be a net loss for Anet?

>

> How much actual revenue do you think Trans charges are generating? Would it be more or less than Self-Style Hair Kit? Seeing as they made the reusable Hair Kit, which sells for 2500-3000 Gold on the TP, I think this opens an avenue for a similar item for Transmutes.

>

> It may actually be the safest way to add this type of item to the game, as a Ultra Rare drop from BLC that can be traded or sold on the TP.

 

Read my previous posts, i explained it all there. It's not about *current loss* or how many people are buying transmutation charges.

It's about potential loss that would have happened when people who are now buying charges - buy a pass type.

 

With a (let's say) month pass type transmutation, there's no reason for anyone to buy individual ones. There's even less incentive to do so with a permanent one.

So a person with a month pass will inevitabely use it more times than they would buy transmutation charges in that same month. Depending on the price of the monthly pass - this can be a slight or a big loss compared to consumable ones. And permanent ones are a loss entirely. Look at this from 10 years perspective. You buy a permanent pass **once**. It can't cost as much as your house otherwise "huge backlash - how is an item that expensive, not everyone is rich blah blah, why isn't this for everyone". And if it's cheap, people never need to spend money on charges again. Over time that's devastating.

 

Bottom line is, none of us do market research for Anet, but the fact that they sell a permanent self style kit, but **don't** sell permanent transmutations should tell you enough that someone somewhere calculated that enough people buy charges per month that making a permanent or temporary one would stop that influx of money or cut it down. Also, look at the nature of what's been sold as permanent. You can change your hair. How many people actually do that often when most of armors remove your hair entirely. Hair kits and the "entire" kits are only some times visible, transmutation charges are **always** visible. Like i said. Look at this from a perspective of 10 years. It's easy to think, ooh that's not much money so what if i buy a temporary pass... Well it's not that simple.

 

I mean, if they do put a permanent transmutation kit in the gem store, cool, good for you guys! I have no horse in that race, i'd never buy that, nor do i buy charges now (not that i'm ever short on them anyway). All i'm saying is, you're looking at this from a skewed perspective and expecting maybe too much.

[Wisely.4819]

Well, I made the suggestion for anet to see, some folks agreed, that's really all I wanted from this. I would like it, think it would be cool and would buy it. Unless you're an anet employee, you really can't tell whether they will or will not introduce it and how much it would affect their revenue. I have to say some folks are strangely adamant about opposing QoL gimmicks.

 

I hope anet will consider this item/idea!

[Fuchslein.8639]

> @"Wisely.4819" said:

> Well, I made the suggestion for anet to see, some folks agreed, that's really all I wanted from this. I would like it, think it would be cool and would buy it. Unless you're an anet employee, you really can't tell whether they will or will not introduce it and how much it would affect their revenue. I have to say some folks are strangely adamant about opposing QoL gimmicks.

>

> I hope anet will consider this item/idea!

 

If you look at the Endless Contracts, that's a pretty realistic suggestion.

I hope someone from Anet sees that.

[melandru.3876]

what do some people mean they can't be farmed in pve?

create new character, map complete the 6 capitals (5 racials + l.a) that is 30 transmutation charges under 1 hour if you somehow fall asleep halfway

 

repeat as many times as you need

 

 

inbefore anyone takes the 30 over-serious, no it's not realistic.

then again with experience, and mounts you should go through the maps quite fast

[Algreg.3629]

> @"Wisely.4819" said:

> Well, I made the suggestion for anet to see, some folks agreed, that's really all I wanted from this. I would like it, think it would be cool and would buy it. Unless you're an anet employee, you really can't tell whether they will or will not introduce it and how much it would affect their revenue. I have to say some folks are strangely adamant about opposing QoL gimmicks.

>

> I hope anet will consider this item/idea!

 

I doubt many would oppose it really, but you think the idea did not cross their mind? Anet probably believes they will get more money out of you and likeminded people with their current model. Whether that is correct, I have no idea. A company will usually act with its own best interest in mind, not yours.

[WinterSolstice.7829]

I just had a fun idea that seamed half reasonable.

Suggestion: A kitty room in Eternal Battle Ground (WvW).

How?: To keep people from just going there to AFK off the bat, would need a more difficult sort of standard to access it.

Solution: To access they'd need something like either all weekly buffs of assisting capturing all big objectives such as keeps and Stone Mist Castle, or be holding all of them at the same time (like when only one world is silly active and flipping the entire map). Would also be reasonable for fancying up a catmander mini accessible there or other things themed after catmanders for the player to get/work toward.

[Eldor.4201]

Dear ArenaNet Team,

 

Guys… I’m getting old. And it become harder for me to see boon durations, conditions on boss, or cooldown counters. In every MMO I’ve played before, I place target frame right next to player frame, so I can easily see that I’m taking damage and/or I have to burst dps boss. I place both player and target frame right above my action bars, so I can easily see my avoidance abilities and/or dps abilities cds are up. If I’m healer, I place party/squad frame close to the center. If I have to track my boons (for ex. Engineer’s Explosive Temper trait buff), I place boon frame right side of my characters head. If I have an additional power bar to track, I place it close to target frame…

 

Long story short, I use a compact UI and gather every frame I have to see during combat, at the bottom of my screen. In Guild Wars 2, we have to check 3 sides of our screen during combat. GW2 is an action-paced game, and in action paced games, players should focus to the center of screen. I tried to use larger scale in the game, but then I realize I cant see the game:)

I know that you are working on next xpack, and you are busy. I’m not suggesting that you can allow addons for this. I’m just suggesting that, PLEASE, let us place and scale this beautiful game’s UI elements separately. And if there is a reason why you are not doing it, please let us know.

 

Kind regards,

[Zappa.9052]

I would like to see the entire interface reworked, it's been a long time (since the beginning, I believe) that we have this old interface.

[hugo.4705]

I would rather see wanet deleting definitely transmutation charges. It is just annoying and infuriating to not be able to pass freely from a skins suit to another. Especially if you are Rper or enjoy heavily fashion wars, one of the main aspect of the game. Better to release wardrobe template to save look right now, I prefer paying one time 500 gems for storing 2-3 looks I can switch between freely when I want than regularly buying charges for the sake of changing my chest and pants appearance. The discussion about it is easy in another gamemodes or they have to sell them is plainly non sense, and the system alreadry proven to be faulty. We had before transmutation crystals and stone but it was about merging equipments, then we got charges that are the same but know for skin instead of armor piece. There are plenty way to monetize the game, and no doubt they can find another one if making transmutation free: Selling skill appearance, minions or turrets or pets appearance, selling extra hairs and personalization contracts and so on.

[hugo.4705]

> @"melandru.3876" said:

> what do some people mean they can't be farmed in pve?

> create new character, map complete the 6 capitals (5 racials + l.a) that is 30 transmutation charges under 1 hour if you somehow fall asleep halfway

>

> repeat as many times as you need

>

>

> inbefore anyone takes the 30 over-serious, no it's not realistic.

> then again with experience, and mounts you should go through the maps quite fast

 

Not everyone has constantly 5 free character slots (taking your case of earning 30 charges), taking me, only 1 slot left not gonna sacrify my 7 toons for what, 6 charges for each? Your answer prove the system is wrong, better reworking pve to make charges easier to obtain in that gamemode. Rewards tracks on the contrary in wvw as example make you swim in charges and tomes of knowledges. I even consider 0 charges earned by characters: cause when leveling, you may want to already spend those 6 to look more decent even if you aren't 80. If you meant, killing your alt in loop just for 6 charges, it's sad, really. But it is already the case to farm bl keys, which is another bad system too btw.

 

You shouldn't earn charges or keys by map complete or killing in loop each week your alt but by doing every world boss during the day or after doing a certain numbers of daily event or dungeons would be better and making more sense.

[hugo.4705]

So yes gonna buy that infinite transmutation kit.

[melandru.3876]

> @"hugo.4705" said:

> > @"melandru.3876" said:

> > what do some people mean they can't be farmed in pve?

> > create new character, map complete the 6 capitals (5 racials + l.a) that is 30 transmutation charges under 1 hour if you somehow fall asleep halfway

> >

> > repeat as many times as you need

> >

> >

> > inbefore anyone takes the 30 over-serious, no it's not realistic.

> > then again with experience, and mounts you should go through the maps quite fast

>

> Not everyone has constantly 5 free character slots (taking your case of earning 30 charges), taking me, only 1 slot left not gonna sacrify my 7 toons for what, 6 charges for each? Your answer prove the system is wrong, better reworking pve to make charges easier to obtain in that gamemode. Rewards tracks on the contrary in wvw as example make you swim in charges and tomes of knowledges. I even consider 0 charges earned by characters: cause when leveling, you may want to already spend those 6 to look more decent even if you aren't 80. If you meant, killing your alt in loop just for 6 charges, it's sad, really. But it is already the case to farm bl keys, which is another bad system too btw.

>

> You shouldn't earn charges or keys by map complete or killing in loop each week your alt but by doing every world boss during the day or after doing a certain numbers of daily event or dungeons would be better and making more sense.

 

you do not need 5 character slots

do the maps on 1 character, when done just delete that character and create a new one

it's the same as black lion key farming (rip those days) just for transmutation charges.

 

capitals map very fast when you get the hang off it, mounts only speed this up

 

[AHITCZ.5694]

Seeing the salvage kits on sale, was thinking of an all-in-one salvage kit pack, where you can store all your kits. It can be like those portal tomes we have for LW.

[Dragonborn.9038]

I just want the soulbeast effect to be dyeable, I hate having to prioritize the color green on my chars cause of its color

[hugo.4705]


 

Eternal Alchemy, please give us a way to convert Black Lion chest goodies into something else or another consummable more useful! It's always the same things I obtain in those chest of black lion goods! Enough! 38 REVIVE ORBS. 12 REPAIR CANISTERS. 11 MERCHANT AND BANK EXPRESS. 3 SALAVAGE KITS. 2 TRADING POST EXPRESS. 125 FREAKING USELESS MYSTIC FORGE STONES!!!

 

Since you removed the only item I was interested in from BL chests (Self style hair kit) and that my only source of goodies is those useless chests of black lion good; and assuming that there are players around here that surely have way far more quantities of those useless items; I ask you to add an Npcs to allow converting those BL items into another BL items such as this self hair kit, black lion statuettes or transmut charges as example.

 

For 125 useless forge stones and 38 revive orbs I estimate I can at least receive in exchange 40 self hair kits and 30 bl statuettes hmm?? If my totally useless stuff above is converted to gems, it represents 9500 + 420 + 385 + 385 + 900 + 100 + 6250 GEMS so in total 17940 GEMS so amazingly and riduculously rich but hehe, in fact 0 right now!!! Even let's say, you want to only give me half for them, it's still 8970 GEMS, oki maybe one third? Still 5980 GEMS.

 

So What I am asking to put in place is at least a system of conversion respecting the original cost of each items: (This is using gemstore price)

Transmutation charge = 30 gems unity

Merchant Express = 35 gems unity

Bank Access Express = 35 gems unity

Instant Repair Canister = 35 gems unity

Trading Post Express = 50 gems unity

Mystic Forge Stone = 50 gems unity

Box o' Fun = 80 gems unity

Black Lion Chest Key = 125 gems unity

Revive Orb = 250 gems unity

Self-Style Hair Kit = 250 gems unity

Black Lion Salvage Kit = 300 hems unity

 


 

By this chart, with 6 forge stone I have 1 self hair kit. With 5 express trading post I have 2 bl keys. With 10 transmutation charge, a salvage kit.

This is also a fair system, it is using the prices indicated on the gemstore itself to determine how many item you can have in exhange of yours.

About "the players gonna have ton of bl keys rapidly oh god gonna break the economy!" just false alarm. What's the matter? You have 50 keys and then what? You gonna burn them through chests to get what, 1 or 2 rare item?

 

Also Honestly, getting 50 statuettes out of them (assuming one statue guaranteed or in each), it's normal, because you trade those gemstore goodies against other goodies. Those items listed above doesn't fall from sky regularly, 4 items thanks to daily reward each month, let's imagine you are extreme lucky, it is 4 times salavage kits, so 1200 gems, for keys it means 8 keys. If you have only charge it is 120 gems almost 1 key, if you have forge stone, 200 so 1 key. Pretty fair if you ask me again, not everyone gonna roll only salavage kit each time, look at my bank, mostly revive orb and mystic stones. Let's say I rolled 2 stones and 2 orbs , 600 gems, equal to 4 keys.

WARNING: 8 keys OR ZERO, it you drop 4 transmut charges (extreme bad luck), you only have 4 transmut charges, cannot be converted into the key. In most case, players will have at least 1 keys per month from the chest of black lion good kinda guarenteed.

 

I'm asking devs to consider this new system: You remove Bl keys from map completion and story steps . Each week, the players will not be able to have a bl key apart if they drop an orb or a salvage kit in that chest of black lion goods: No more need to kill a character or create a new one each week and that's the good thing, because even the player without free slot and not wanting to kill their character will be able to earn a key. Instead of that weekly key in personnal story, put a weekly key as reward of a new weekly rotating achievment: Either do X events, do x world bosses, do X meta events, participate in X activities, run X dungeons. This will revitalize those contents. This is a guaranteed weekly key, so 4 in total in one month.

 

The calculation is simple: Your earn 1 key each week for doing a weekly achiev. And each week, you have that rng drop of chest of black lion good that can give you 0 or 1 key (more chance of 0). And you have 4 weeks, so apart if you drop transmut charges only, you can have a key at the end of the month by converting the 4 dropped items. It is 5 keys per month or 8 keys if you are extra lucky.

 

I really want a system to get rid of those pointless items filling my bank.

[Frostfang.5109]

The ability to change guild name!

[velvetbat.9073]

Dear Arenanet,

Please give us more guild slots!

 

I'm always lacking guild slots and I hate leaving friends behind because I need to leave a guild to join a new one. :C

The game exists for 8+ years now, so during the time, many guilds have started and then became inactive... but I want to keep in touch with those guildies who do still log in. (And sometimes inactive guilds become active again after a while, like one of my old wvw guilds who went on doing active raiding during the summer thanks to covid lockdowns :D)

Also, there are now plenty of different ways to experience the game (fractals, pve raids, pve raid training, roleplaying, open world, spvp, wvw, gvg, roaming, or wvw groups making their own 'alliance'guild for better communication, language/nationality-specific guilds, etc) and so 5 slots isn't always enough (esp. with the point above of in-active guilds where you still want to stay in touch).

 

So please, I beg you, give us more guild slots. <3

[PietroTheOtter.3092]

Can we have longer character names?

People usually have a problem with them, charr mostly.

Charr usually have long names, so it would be good if at least charr could have a bigger limit regarding the number of characters in the name.

Like, I bought 800 gems today to get the name change contract but before actually buying the contract I checked if I could actually change my charr's name in what I wanted. Turns out the name I wanted exceeds the limit by 1 (and it is honestly frustrating, cause it would have matched his in-game RP name). So yeah, good that I didn't buy the contract yet, but still...

Please, increase the limit and thanks!

[Tavalah.1985]

As a roleplayer, I have a real problem with the 10 mail limit for ALL of my characters. I have to try to shift my RP partners to Discord if they get chatty in mail. Could you please, at least make it 20 for each character? I understand the restrictions on mail to keep people from spamming, but couldn't we have a whitelist feature? I have 3 accounts (2 paid and 1 FTP) and it's really annoying when I'm trying to send items to myself and I get the "excessive mailing" flag.

[medivh.4725]

Can make a /G1-5 command for easlier communication? Currently is guild by guild and is manual

[Mcintosh.8427]

New music tracks for guild halls please?

If you plan on them being tied to achieves or guild hall unlocks in the future, could you at least give us some basic core Tyria ones in the meantime? it's been years with the same stuff...

[Super Hayes.6890]

Isn't there a golem in the home instance that lets you change music? Something like that would be nice for guild halls. It could be updated easily once implemented. Just add tabs for new music add ons. I second the OP.

[Dark Red Killian.3946]

> @"Super Hayes.6890" said:

> Isn't there a golem in the home instance that lets you change music? Something like that would be nice for guild halls. It could be updated easily once implemented. Just add tabs for new music add ons. I second the OP.

 

Yes they have this it is a golem that is unlocked in Draconis Mons story. Would be a good implementation to Guild halls

[hugo.4705]

> @"Super Hayes.6890" said:

> Isn't there a golem in the home instance that lets you change music? Something like that would be nice for guild halls. It could be updated easily once implemented. Just add tabs for new music add ons. I second the OP.

 

Yeah but also, this system already exist and work perfectly in sun refuge: You have a D-Jey golem npc allowing you to play a ton of different themes way more than mox from draconis story. They basically just have to copy paste that npc. No issues cause sun refuge, like home instance or guild hall are instances, it is compatible. I would like to have the sun refuge one in home instance too.

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PJKT_D33-J4Y