ArenaNet:Guild Wars 2 suggestions/Upgrade Components

Upgrade Components
Currently there are upgrade components for a player's equipment to increase its effectiveness in certain ways. For example, a player can upgrade an axe with a barbed haft prefix and an enchanting grip suffix to make a barbed axe of enchanting. However, these upgrades are statistical based. I have a few suggestions on this. Firstly, a visual upgrade to the equipment to accompany the statistical one would make things more unique and make players feel more individual. For example, the barbed axe of enchanting could have jagged edges and a glowing aura or, a shocking sword of sword mastery could have a lightning animation on the weapon and glowing runes along to blade. This would be seen as a "cut" above the rest. Secondly, additional benefits from the upgrades could increase the games strategic diversity. Perhaps combining it with critical hits. For example, the barbed enhancement could inflict the bleeding condition upon critically hitting or, the icy enhancement could induce 66% movement reduction.


 * Why this is a good idea
 * Would increase individuality in the game
 * Can increase strategic possibilities
 * Would be a new feature to guild wars and (from what I have seen) is not currently in use by any other game


 * Why this would not work
 * Requires a lot of time and effort to produce such content
 * The balance of the game mechanics needs to be taken into consideration, again requires a lot of time and effort to maintain

Fu Yuan 16:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)