Arenanet said they would present some of what they plan on doing in the future (expansions/living stories/lore/) at PAX together with the challanging group content Now instead of waiting on that why not get a little ahead and tell them what we would like to see for the future of gw2?
Anyone following is my look on the future of what I would like to see, feel free to comment and share your own views of where you would like GW2 to go.
First of all where will this expansion bring us lore wise?
Will we see the defeat of mordremoth or are we having another LS season to wrap it up? I will start after the defeat of mordremoth, if they put another LS inbetween to get that done thats just fine by me too.
There is the HoT release and anout 2 months of buggfixes which will inevitably be needed. After those 2 months another LS should start (aka they ought to be already working on it so they can deliver at a faster pace, by now the tech should be there and they should be sufficient familiar with it to get this done).
The first LS after the whole mordremoth thing should be about the 5 races, 10 episodes and 2 per race. To fight mordremoth they abandoned their problems, we had to convince them, now he’s gone and they need our help because the issues they had are still there.
- Norn and charr are pretty straightforward, they need help in their wars against the sons of svanir and ascolon ghosts respectively.
- Humans some more corruption under politicians, perhaps some sleuthing etc, a lot has been left untold after the human personal story and I would like to see this advanced in this LS.
- Asura are close to human ones, arcane eye and possible corruption, working with the inquest, stealing taimi’s device for bad things, can also get some inspiration from the PS of asurans.
- Sylvari, well there is alot to say post mordremoth, they will have to rebuild a lot, many have died undoubtfully the trust is broken between them and the other races so there is a lot that can be told here post mordremoth.
So that LS season 3, small break after (perhaps some intermediate holiday events depending on the timing) and then another LS season building up to the next expansion, on which they should have started working pretty much after this one came out. Perhaps there is a place between LS seasons to add a feature patch, but I don’t know if there is space for that with enough features to give that they are not putting in the next expansion.
Perhaps first an overview of what I would like to see in another expansion:
- New race : Tengu
- Story line that picks off after LS season 4, that LS prepares the opening up of the tengu because they are attacked by primordus and cannot deal with it alone, the story of the expansion is the campaign against primordus.
- 1 New specialization for all classes
- Completely new weapons for these specializations, they have no problem reusing it so its not as if there should be 9 new weapons, 3 would be a minimum however.
- New maps, Tengu city, tengu lvl 1-15 and IMO also tengu lvl 15-25 map, all of course consistent with previous maps, so with the hearts etc. On top of this some level 80 maps where we are going to attack another dragon (although I’m not certain which one, probably Primordus)
- Real player housing, players can buy space in the world itself where they can completely build their own houses and customize them
- More guid hall places
- Expanding on group content
- New masteries
- Dueling would be a nice addition too but it would take a very strict ruleset
And probably there will be some more ideas later.
Now I said add tengu, but this will bring about a whole new set of problems namely story wise, what are we going to do with tengu players? Are we giving them the complete zhaitan story and all the previous living story seasons? Or are we going to let their story start only at the time we are currently at, and thus all story up to LS season 4 is not for them? They should in this case at least get a really big PS before it merges with the other races in the fight against mordremoth. Some things obviously can be recycles like getting into an order. So lore wise this will be a hard nut to crack.
Now a bit out of order but living story season 4 should be all about the tengu opening up because they are being attacked and need help. Above I said tengu zones in the expansion, perhaps we can introduce the low level zones bit by bit in the LS already. They open the wall in LA you get in the level 15-25 map and meet your first tengu, being attack by little destroyers etc. The further the story advances the more you get to see of them, the city should be part of the axpansion though IMO. The new weapons can also be easily introduced here as being weapons that are “typical” tengu and can later on be learned by the player characters.
Well this is pretty much how I see it so feel free to comment ^^
(edited by smitske.4912)
