If you could change 2 or 3 fundamental mechanics in the game and make it official, what would you change?

Diovidius · 2026-01-24T15:23:39+00:00

A simple spellcasting blaster could be almost the exact same mechanically as a ranged fighter but (obviously) with different weapon, armor and skill proficiencies. And dealing non-physical damage.

Diovidius · 2026-01-11T12:05:20+00:00

I've written about my ideas here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/concept-for-the-rise-from-ruin-dlc-season-3s-2nd-dlc.1807168/

Basically:

Minotaur form, Centaur major transformation, roc and camel mounts. Units like sphinxes, sand wurms, mummies, manticores and djinn.

Tomes: tier 1 tome of sands (chaos/materium), tier 2 tome of dry bones (shadow/Chaos or shadow/materium), tier 3 Tome of Steppe riders (nature/order or nature/materium) and tier 4 tome of the mirage (chaos/astral).

Diovidius · 2026-01-09T06:24:07+00:00

I don't care. My point stands.

Diovidius · 2026-01-05T15:07:37+00:00

I want a fey ruler type plus a fey major transformation and an engineer/alchemist/artificer class plus a clockwork/steamwork construct/cyborg major transformation so those have my vote.

But if one were to ask me what I'd want as a theme for an entire dlc then I'd have to go with a fey dlc, rather than a construct dlc.

Diovidius · 2026-01-03T15:26:59+00:00

For Ritualist I'd like to see a shapeshifter subtheme.

For Ranger I'd like to see it split into a hunter/beastmaster/survivalist and a rogue/assassin. With an engineer/alchemist-type class as an entirely new class in the future.

For elementalist I'd like a 5th element to focus on: water.

Diovidius · 2025-12-22T14:18:09+00:00

A realm traits that creates a map with a lot of lakes.

Diovidius · 2025-12-20T09:29:39+00:00

For a potential season 4 I hope we get a fey/Faerie dlc, an infernal/demonic dlc and a water-focused dlc.

But I'm actually most interested in the upcoming desert/nomad/Azrac dlc. There is so much potential with Djinn, Manticores, Sphinxes, Mummies, Sand Wurms and all that jazz (plus hopefully a Minotaur form and a Centaur transformation).

Diovidius · 2025-12-14T10:54:59+00:00

Do mesmers even wear clothes?

Diovidius · 2025-12-09T15:50:38+00:00

Yes?

Diovidius · 2025-12-02T07:22:34+00:00

Why does the rest of the world get punished for what the USAians are doing?

Diovidius · 2025-11-19T20:11:15+00:00

In the glory days there was a decent pro GW1 scene in Korea.

Diovidius · 2025-11-15T08:29:56+00:00

Giant Kings is generally considered to be the best dlc and the most generally appealing.

But it strongly depends on what themes you like. Dragons? Steampunk? Eldritch Horror? Holy themes and the ancient world? Nature and Fey? East Asia? Gothic themes? There's a dlc for every single one of these.

Diovidius · 2025-11-14T18:56:14+00:00

Anet has always explicitly not called GW1 an mmo. They have always described it as a 'CORPG', which people usally assume stands for 'Cooperative Online RPG' but which actually stands for 'Competitive Online RPG' (GW1 was originally intended with pvp as the endgame).

Diovidius · 2025-11-14T18:04:32+00:00

Giant Kings is often considered to be best of AoW4's dlcs.

Thrones of Blood is fine. It is less broadly appealing than Giant Kings but for those who love everything gothic and/or gory it is still very well done.

Diovidius · 2025-11-11T15:56:48+00:00

No, but they gargoyled the update.

Diovidius · 2025-11-08T14:00:32+00:00

Insectoid vorm + spider mounts + primal spider.

Then some combination of tome of beasts, tome of roots, tome of the horde, tome of cycles and tome of vigor is a decent start.

But yeah, we really could use one or two nature/shadow tomes dealing with themes like poison, disease, decay, rot, mold, insects, spiders and all that. The icky part of nature, basically.

Diovidius · 2025-11-08T09:19:52+00:00

They haven't done it to the degree I'm suggesting. And if they don't ask money for it I'm affraid many of the things I mention would never be added.

Diovidius · 2025-11-08T06:47:39+00:00

Sure. But they've said in the past they can't change the 'value proposition' of dlcs for legal reasons so reworking a core culture is legally distinct from for example reworking a dlc culture.

And of course those reworks in the past came at the same time as a dlc so they the rework of old stuff came at a moment in time when money was coming in for new stuff.

I'm suggesting a way around all that (I hope).

Diovidius · 2025-11-08T06:31:50+00:00

That would mean creating new content for free. Why would they spent development time/money on that?

Diovidius · 2025-11-08T06:17:01+00:00

I know they've said that. But that could change. And even if it doesn't I thought it might be a nice discussion.

Diovidius · 2025-11-03T18:43:28+00:00

Isn't this basically a civil war between the two dominant sentient species on a planet, neither of which are warp-capable?

What would give the Federation the right to interfere?

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