Guild Wars 2

I really enjoyed the Hard Mode vanquishes in GW1 and would like to see something similar in GW2. It feels satisfying to know that everything on the board is dead. It would be fine if these maps were free of Meta events and other more complicated things like Dragons or other world bosses since having only a group of 5 people in a instance would make similar events impossible; though, larger parties possibly set up through the LFG tool could be an interesting solution to that. Special items could also be obtained in this way that could relate to the eventual Legendary crafting that has been mentioned in the past. These could be items, unique crafting material or pieces needed as part of the recipe. Just in case it wasn’t clear “hard mode” would mean that the enemies would be significantly harder similar to the average foe in a dungeon. If the LFG idea was implemented which would be awesome this could work like a large raid and there could be 10+ times the amount of foes to kill of greater difficulty something like DOA runs in GW1. This would require coordination and balance like is needed now with Teqtl but longer and initiated at will instead of on a timer.

When asked about Hard Mode in an interview, Colin said that it was extremely unlikely, saying that stuff like that tend to fracture the playerbase.

When data mining, people found something like a hard mode but in the style of the liadry arena, handicap they found are those : 50% of hp, 4men run, unusable 6 7 8 9 0 skill, one life without even downing through the whole dungeon without people joinning (you hit the floor, you can no longer play and have to watch your buddies end it or die trying)and run with a lvl 70 or less.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1nit7b/data_mining_upcoming_features_from_twilight/

But it may only be for the halloween dungeon, so don’t get your hopes too high