If you could add one feature..

I know I haven't played much and am still under the 20 mark, but one thing I would like to see added is perhaps an entire area that is underwater...with events and everything down there.  I know Lion's Arch has a decent sized area underwater, but unless I am just missing it, I didn't realy see much in the way of fighting underwater or areas with missions to be completed and such down there.

 

Water is one of the new improves overe GW1, just like Jumping.  There are lots of Jumping puzzels, but what of the underwater realms? 

Of course, as I said, I may have just missed them.

Galen

There is such a thing.  Colin talked about it in an interview with Sardu:

Over and over and over again, everything that we saw was slapped in. It wasn’t a feature, it was just something you could do, and the gamplay wasn’t very fun when you were underwater. Usually when you were there you wanted to get out of it as fast as you could. Or you had some breath health meter where it’s like you’re down there and have to get right back out again.

So we were like, alright, if we’re going to do this we either do it completely or we don’t do it at all. There are maps in the game that are primarily underwater. Entire maps as big as this one here [Referring to the Cornucopian Fields map showcased in the current demo build for level 28 characters] and they’re completely filled with dynamic events that chain across an area, and they’re all underwater.

Underwater is just as important as everything that you do on land. We have entire personal story chains that take you down under the ocean. So we did all of that with skills to take into account the fact that we really wanted to make that a core feature and part of the game.

Article linky:  (Look about halfway down the web page)

http://www.guildwars2hub.com/comment/1250

I think Asura gates don't preclude airships.  The gates get you instantly from one place to another, but airships would provide military and scouting uses.  They definitely could put them in game.  Imagine a DE where you had to board airships and have open deck combat mid-flight..pure win.