Guild Wars 2

Anet said something about a big free patch that adds new spells to class’ existing spell list.

What is the progression on this development, and whats the ETA for this big addition?

There was a news post that mentioned introducing new skills from a few months back… No date was set but considering the post is about what’s to come in 2013 i think that’s the aim: to start including new abilities by the end of the year.

Colin Johanson

We’ll begin regularly adding new skills and traits to the game for each profession to expand your characters and builds! You will be able to earn these new traits and skills by unlocking them. To go along with this, we’ll expand the content and options to earn skill points to help encourage players to experience different challenges and content throughout the world. These skills and traits will be designed to be balanced with the existing skills/traits we currently have in the game, and will simply compliment and expand the range of abilities and tactics available to each profession. Both WvW and PvE players can acquire skills and traits, and additional means of earning skill points will be addressed for both core content areas.

The regular addition of skills and traits that you can earn as you play provides us an extremely stable, easily expandable reward system that fits neatly into the pillars of progression and advancement that Guild Wars 2 are all about. Your character will be able to grow and change for years to come without invalidating everything you’ve earned so far.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

I hope new abilities are difficult to unlock not tedious time wasting.

ETA : before the end of 2013.

Maybe next patch? Maybe the one after that. No one really knows except the development team.

Maby never?Like we will never get an expansion instead we get ascended gear.

marnick.4305:

ETA : before the end of 2013.

Maybe next patch? Maybe the one after that. No one really knows except the development team.

Next big mechanics patch is Oct. 15th – given that it is full of refinements and changes to existing spells, UI refinements and so on, I think it’s very unlikely that one will have new spells in it (I believe the “new skill animation” people are talking about is actually a UI refinement – one of the new “floatys”).

However, I would be unsurprised to see them start adding new skills in the patch after that.

I do hope that if they do time-gate getting the new abilities, they make it so that there is some sort of reasonable catch-up mechanism this time. Whilst ability replacement is theoretically a lateral power increase, rather than a vertical one, in reality, there will always be “killer” or “must-have” new skills for certain builds and classes, and if they are hard to obtain, that’s just another way that players who don’t play 2+ hours a day every single day could be left behind.

That said, however they do it, I am much more excited for new skills than I am for new gear or dungeons or the like, and I hope the ways of getting them are fun and slightly challenging (preferably not forced-grouping, i.e. dungeons/fractals, though – if that’s the easiest and quickest way, fine – if it’s the only way, that’d be terrible, and god no to Teq-style encounters to get them – skills should be for players to get, not raids).

“Summon a dredge Ratnik to fight by your side”

20 second duration
5 seconds casting time
180 seconds cooldown

Summoned dredge is level 1 and will use the skill ‘Destruction of clarity’ when killed, releasing a violent storm of particle effects.

I can’t wait!

Pariah.8506:

“Summon a dredge Ratnik to fight by your side”

20 second duration
5 seconds casting time
180 seconds cooldown

Summoned dredge is level 1 and will use the skill ‘Destruction of clarity’ when killed, releasing a violent storm of particle effects.

I can’t wait!

those times should be increased by a factor of 100 cept for duration.

Each new skill will cost 100 skill points to unlock.
Because they are EPIC

If its like the past updates,it will be reskin spells.

xephire.8324:

Maby never?Like we will never get an expansion instead we get ascended gear.

I’m pretty sure Ascended gear came out late last year. You know, within 3mos of the game’s release? You know, because any intelligent person would have anticipated the release of Ascended weapons once they released Ascended accessories last year?

Spoiler Alert: At some point Ascended armor will be released. Better pre-write your posts about how terrible GW2 is and that all the content is just another gear grind. Will save you time in the future. Oh and put as many smilies in there as possible, it really distracts from your constant negativity.

2013 is slipping away quite quickly now. I’m not exactly betting on them holding to their statements.

Draknar.5748:

xephire.8324:

Maby never?Like we will never get an expansion instead we get ascended gear.

I’m pretty sure Ascended gear came out late last year. You know, within 3mos of the game’s release? You know, because any intelligent person would have anticipated the release of Ascended weapons once they released Ascended accessories last year?

Spoiler Alert: At some point Ascended armor will be released. Better pre-write your posts about how terrible GW2 is and that all the content is just another gear grind. Will save you time in the future. Oh and put as many smilies in there as possible, it really distracts from your constant negativity.

Because clearly the one thing that needed and still needs effort put into is the establishing of a geargrind, there are no other glaring problems that would require dev attention ASAP :^)

man I want more spells to use!!