Guild Wars 2

I was wondering what you guys are expecting for this mystical feature patch that has been announced, but not much revealed. We know it won’t contain any new content but instead revise some of the existing mechanics.

What do you think that could be?

I’ll start off the list of my personal hopes/expectations with the few items that have been confirmed.

• Reworked Sigils (confirmed)
• Reworked Rune-Sets (confirmed)
• Class balancing (likely)
• Ranger revision (likely)
• Account-wide WXP (likely)
• Golem and Roaming-Mastery spec-line
• Changes to the WvW scoring
• Changes to Rally and Revive-mechanics
• Removal of contested Dungeons
• Dungeons revised to discourage stacking
• Dredge Fractal revised
• Cooking and Jewelcrafting 500

All of these points have been acknowledged at some point over the past year or are reasonably deduced from previous comments or context. If I can think of any more I will add to the list.

-A lore panel that collects what has happened in the living story and the personal story and ties into rewards that upgrade a players personal home instance. Bonus points if we can customize our personal home instance and if there is a lore “codex” that gives you information on things you find out in the world like monsters, npc’s, and points of interest.

-Polymock Arena. Because there’s a lot of minis in this game and they like to give minis out as rewards for meta achievements, so why not give them a use?

-Multi-spec feature. Because they took out the respec service on the gem store.

-New Town Clothing feature and wardrobe. Because they took out most of the town clothes last Dec which may mean a revamp.

I want to add some more probable topics:

• new legendary item
• legendary precursor via crafting
• revamped commander system
• overhauled ascended system
• new PvP mode(s) including maps
• order missions / other features improving horizontal progression

Nothing.

ANet has proven that any time they don’t talk about stuff, it’s best to not get our hopes up.

Whatever they have, they’re going to let someone down. Odds are, they’re going to let YOU down. So, stop getting your hopes up. You’ll enjoy what does come more, that way.

Unless you like being disappointed. Which would suggest you had some really awful Christmas presents as a kid.

Armor of Countess Anise. (I’m not joking. I want it.)

I’m just scared that the feature patch will only be something like-

‘’New feature added! Armor type search on the Trading Post!’’

- and that’s it.

The unfortunate truth is these posts are counter – productive.

There is NOTHING Anet could ever do at this current time to appease everyone.

No patch will ever be big enough, no buffs or nerfs will ever be warranted, no content will ever be enough.

With the waste of time for a year that was the Living Story – They dug themselves a hole which will be very difficult to get out of now.

I’m only expecting the runes and sigils as well as some class balance, since that’s all I’ve ever heard them so much as mention. The rest of the stuff on your list I would love to see, but are 99% likely just pipe dreams.

Yeah, expectations are reserved for the runes and sigils, award system specs, but would want:
…More Emotes
…Increase in weapon skills/weapons in general
…Build templates (doesn’t need to be armor/weapon inclusive, just builds would be fine with me)
…Dungeon tracker per character (for story, would like to know who needs what)
…Precursor acquisition beyond toilet/super secret squirrel hiding nuts rng drop
…New Class

Akari Storm.6809:

Yeah, expectations are reserved for the runes and sigils, award system specs, but would want:
…More Emotes
…Increase in weapon skills/weapons in general
…Build templates (doesn’t need to be armor/weapon inclusive, just builds would be fine with me)
…Dungeon tracker per character (for story, would like to know who needs what)
…Precursor acquisition beyond toilet/super secret squirrel hiding nuts rng drop
…New Race

Fixed little buddy