Guild Wars 2

A thread where everyone can post what they wish from the next expansion pack.
Please don’t bother here with little stuff (ex. balance of a certain profession skill), as they can easily be done with a patch or two. Only big stuff allowed!

I know that HoT has not been officially confirmed as an expansion yet, but all clues are pointing to it, and we can safely say that 95% likely it is! (and I can’t even begin to imagine the reaction of the community if it isn’t)

Let me start:
(/takes a big breath)

At least 8 new maps! Seeing how it took an entire season to make just two of them, I’ll try to be realistic and not ask for much. Eight areas means 2 or 3 new zones, which are good if you think how the game started with 4 for leveling and an incomplete for end-level (/coughOrrcough).

World V World overhaul! With 3 of the 4 main maps being identical, and all of them being exploited to zerg fests, an overhaul that would encourage strategic attack and defending would be the most welcome!

Fix the original Personal Story! If it’s a let down for many new players coming to the game, this should be the ideal time to fix it! I would suggest more cinematic camera angles with no art background for the talking cutscenes, and a few video cutscenes added to better introduce the characters and enhance the important moments. Those would involve calling back the character voice actors, and seeing that our characters haven’t got a new line since launch, i think this would be the perfect time!

Intro Cinematic! I don’t expect anything on Blizzard’s level of quality, but I can’t deny that cinematics like these help you get invested much better to the world and conflict of the game. In the world of movies they say “Show! Don’t tell!”. (In the world of games they say “Play. Don’t show!” but given the limits of the engine of an MMO, A-net should ignore that rule.)

New weapon type! The clever thing to do would be to make amphibious weapons, and allow spears out of water, and daggers underwater, wile allowing professions with no access to those, to have access to other existing types they should had. (Maces for engees)

PVE rebalance! I’m obviously asking to fix the zerker gear problem, where it’s so much more useful than the other stat combinations that it’s making them absolute. In an expansion people are expecting great changes in the gameplay, so it will be perfect chance to slip this among them.

NO NEW LEVEL CAP! No new level cap…

1. Raids
2.Class balance
3.New class, weapon, race.
4.Gameplay revamp
5.Quaggon football(use Quaggons as ball)

POLYMOCK

For one I main an asura, and two every time I wonder around in DR I hear the ambient stuff associated about some poor bookah loosing in polymock to an asura I weep a bit inside.

Also wouldn’t mind the other race specific activities that have been referred in the game ambient dialogue and by NPC’s since launch (the Charr one in particular could be interesting).

That said, there are probably ton more important things, but still why do norn get to be all special with their Keg Brawl and you even took Golem Chess away from us. C’mon, it didn’t have to be part of the new heart but not being able to play it at all is a huge shame.

At least 1 new well made dungeon.

Another thing that would be nice would be some new cultural skins, I know this is probably not going to happen though.

- GvG
- GvG
- GvG
- GvG
- GvG

Mounts

Dervish and i will be happy.

I’m writing a wishlist of what I’d like to see in the next feature patch or expansion- a lot of my wishes are about polishing the game and improving player experience.

1) More “difficult” world boss encounters like Teq and Tri-Wurm
2) Increased skill/weapon flexibility. It would be great for each weapon to have two sets of skills. When it comes down to it, I don’t mind too much if there’s more choice!
3) Improve the current state of armour clipping issues (and hair/beard clipping). This would require a lot of work and a massive overhaul of all armour pieces.
4) Allow us to show a non-outfit headpiece whilst wearing an outfit!
5) I’d love to see a new race and two new classes.
6) A new zone with at least 5 new maps, diverse enemies and a really different “feel” landscape and environment-wise from what we have already. I’d love for there to be new lore and new intelligent creatures to learn about.
7) New mini-games/activities. I’m not massively keen on SAB, but it would be nice for it to be a permanent feature in-game.
8) More Dungeons and Fractals. Generally more endgame.
9) Scavenger hunt for new Legendaries… I have a feeling this might actually happen considering how they mentioned it (I don’t think it was scrapped, just postponed until the expansion)
10) New craftables- lots more variety when it comes to skins. It would be nice to see 500 crafting for Jeweller and Chef.

warbignime.4610:

1. Raids

Yes, so much potential here.

Wait… so we can really dream on this expansion? How about the return of Mix and Match and our favorite town clothes? Next is No Hobosacks!!!! Mounts!!!! The removal of race only armor restrictions. It’s like GG, just give us what we’ve been asking for over a year. I don’t even need an expansion right now.

Trixie.7614:

At least 1 new well made dungeon.

1) Tengu
2) Guild Halls
3) being able to sit on chairs

If those were released, even if not in an expac, I’d be able to die happily.

I’ll bite, and a lot of these are also game polish type things:

1) Precursor scavenger hunt. I have a couple legendaries but I know a number of my guildies find the precursor to be the one thing holding them back, primarily because they are adverse to gambling.

2) More end game meta events akin to Breach and Vinewrath, where coordination is necessary but you don’t need half an hour plus of set-up (think successful Triple Trouble and Teq events). Something that breaks the zerg while keeping folks focused on the same goal.

3) 1-2 additional professions. I entrust ANet to create new balanced contributors far more than myself. I was a big Ritualist guy, but this one’s on them.

4) 8-10 additional zones. Considering the game launched with roughly 30 zones and they’ve been able to add 3 zones for “free”, this seems like the right wheelhouse. Preferably these zones will span beyond the Maguuma Jungle a bit.

5) Story that simultaneously fleshes out other parts of the world and lore. If the entire expansion is single mindedly focused on Mordremoth, I think it’s a wasted opportunity. Other MMOs have been able to juggle a couple storylines effectively in their XPacs.

6) Additional skills that can be leveled up, similar to the Kurzick/Luxon abilities and the racial abilities in EoTN. This adds a level of vertical progression for those of us that like that without breaking the game or making players feel obligated to grind.

7) The basics, including additional armor, weapons, etc..

1) Centaur playable race, or any new race (hope is not high on this one)
2) Race change service in gem store
3) Dueling-Open world
4) Staff for the Ranger
5) WvW updates
6) New Legend skins options for current Legends (drop down menu like the stats)
7) New Utility/elite skills, Trait updates.

Female Idle animations readded to the game.
Tribal armor readded to the game.

AKA — Stuff we already had but was removed.

1)Polymock!!!! cmmon anet you removed it from the original release…years passed and we are still waitng!!!!!

2) Tengu!!!!! pact fleet destroyed, our friends in danger, sylvari…..sylvari everywhere!!!!!!!!!
We need a new ally to defeat Mordremoth and all his minions!!!

3)Guild Halls!!!! we have no place for guild parties, time to add it!!!

4)Well if we have to fight Mordremoth pls Anet pls make the battle more epic and fun than Zaithan battle xD

5) More cinematics!!!! Some cinematics you made are amazing so for new missions add more cinematics

6)Tengu again, ye i just remind you to add the Tengu race

7) Some kind of housing

8)More things like the magic broom or the flying carpet (let’s call them mounts without speed buff……just for fun!)

9)More vertical progression in new zones

10)Well for last thing…SAB, we want SAB back, we want it permanent!!! Moto for president!!!!

At least 1 new playable race.
At least 3 new professions (1 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy)
An actual new map location, not little nibblets.
About 750 gold added to the accounts of each of the 99%ers to make up for abysmal economy.
Guild halls and player housing.
Real mounts, beasts of burden, not a stick and a rug.

If the Devs are ready to announce an expansion or some other large content release, I suspect it would be almost ready. I mean, that is their policy….don’t announce until the verge of readiness.

Thus, it may be too late for any ‘large’ wishful suggestions. /shrug

If we are getting an expansion, I do not expect new races or classes. I kinda want them to reserve this type of stuff for a campaign style expansion much the same as Factions and Nightfall were in GW “1”.

One to two new dungeons, some new zones. New things to do in said zones other than map completion and jumping puzzles. One to two new legendary’s. Mainly, I’d like to see them fix some of the things that are wrong with core game. Specifically, WvW. I’d like factions in the game. Right now, they are making the sylvari the antagonists of the world. Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about that just yet. We’ll see I suppose.

bird.5920:

3) being able to sit on chairs

My memory might fail me but I believe someone from ANet addressed sitting on chairs ages ago, basically by saying that either they would need to specifically animate sitting for each unique type of chair and bench in the game (Charr might have also been mentioned) or have only one type of chair/sitting animation for chairs in game. Either way without tremendous work relative to just minor cosmetic benefit or making all sitting instruments uniform in the entire game it probably will never happen.

Jak.8627:

If we are getting an expansion, I do not expect new races or classes. I kinda want them to reserve this type of stuff for a campaign style expansion much the same as Factions and Nightfall were in GW “1”.

Assuming they will ever make a campaign style expansion for GW2. So far nothing points in either direction but seeing as they just recently updated the leveling progression of the entire existing game I find it hard to see a full campaign with GW1 style character restrictions on it happening and them having to build yet another basis for the game.

Not like GW1 style standalone campaigns would ever work in a persistent shared world anyways in my opinion, but hey maybe they can figure out a way to pull it off. We’ll see in a week I suppose.

I like the idea of WvW overhaul.
I would love to see new PvE mechanics with more sandbox elements
I would love to see many new skills for each class
I would love to see new pvp mode
i would love to see housing

1. Dervish. I beg you!
2. Ritualist
3. UW/FoW/Something like this.
4. GvG & Guild Halls,
5. More Weapon Skills (options for each weapon skill slot).
6. More weapon variety for all classes.
7. New weapons. So many great trident/spear skins, really hard to show them off.
8. A challenging 2-3 party dungeon/raid. Emphasis on challenging that actually requires strategy and not zerker.
9. New PvP modes. Would LOVE to see the recreation of GW1 RA Maps/Deathmatch.

So… how many times are we gonna let our speculation run rampant, then blame Arena.net when it doesn’t match our self-hyped desires?

Seriously, how many times are the fans going to do this to themselves?

New pets . . . specifically one with the jellyfish mist heal on land please. That’s all.

Or the ability to mix, match, alter, or add to my pet’s abilities? That would be cool too.

I’m actually hoping that we will get a feature patch before the Heart of Thorns expansion that will give us the guild halls (along with more guild missions) already. One can dream, right?

For the Heart of Thorns expansion I hope/expect:

1. At least 4-5 new zones, all rich with secrets, DE’s and lore like the original maps.
2. A new profession.
3. A new race.
4. A new weapon for each profession.
5. New utilities and/or weapon skills.
6. New stuff to do in WvW, maybe even the promised unique borderlands.

We’ll see.

1. Rewards revamp. It’s just so kittening hilarious and brings me close to unsinstalling the game every now and then, that a drunk monkey pressing one button has the same chance to get the rarest and most valuable items as those super-skilled-guys runing everything solo with one hand tied to their back.
2. Find a solution for the condition dmg dilemma (cough pointing to an old suggestion thread of mine cough )
3. no Sylvarie driven story (yeah I know, it’s called “heart of THORNES”, but this is a wish list, right?)
4. New Dungeon(s), maybe for bigger partys of let’s say 8-10 ppl
5. Cantha (plz plz plz)
6. Bug fixing
7. New Heavy Class so it’s 3-3-3

All the things you mentioned :-) And a removal of the race only armor restrictions would be really nice!

kind regards

Kite.2510:

PVE rebalance! I’m obviously asking to fix the zerker gear problem, where it’s so much more useful than the other stat combinations that it’s making them absolute. In an expansion people are expecting great changes in the gameplay, so it will be perfect chance to slip this among them.
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First: It’s way to late for wishes right now.

Second: PvE is balanced. Zerker-Gear gives you way better damage but less defensive. Do you really expect same damage with other types of gear? And also everybody has access to berserker gear. If you are not able to play with it you got a lack of skill which obviously means it is balanced. Less defensive → more damage per second ; but requires more playerskill.

New zones. The Maguuma Wastes could easily accommodate 4 Brisban-sized zones.

Mursaat/Seers. Or at the very least traces their civilizations ever existed.

I don’t really have a big wishlist, I’ll just let them make the surprises. I do hope that they won’t increase the level cap and just add most of the expansion as level 80 content, perhaps with a few new things for people that are levelling (new race + zones for them?). We’re probably getting one or more new/old weapons for classes since they have been hinting at it with the LS story. Hopefully they will also add one or more extra PvP game mode(s) and do something for WvW. Apart from that I’ll just see what happens.

I personally wouldn’t mind a level increase, so if they did that, not about to cry about it. I don’t think they’ll do it though, and if they do then the people with legendaries will probably have them scale.

One thing I would REALLY love is alternative weapon skillsets. Either as a flat swap all 5 skills or with the ability to change out individual abilities for weapons. The latter would be cooler but harder to balance. Regardless, DESPERATELY need more options in combat and a way to just freshen up the core of the game.

Rid of ranger pet
Something new in wvw
New pvp game modes. This capture the point is boring
New weapons
Let everyone use more (or every kind of) weapons
New race
New prof

I will just see. Anything is very nice. And Even though my wish list has grown very long. I’m not gonna say I want this or that.

I’m just going to be happy with an expansion. A Lot. Really.

Only thing I do NOT want is level cap for players change, I have 15 lvl 80’s in ascendeds (and some exotics) I prefer no new grind to lvl x with another grind for 3-5% extra dmg which will ben nerfed again to balance again. Most people scream I have ascended, but due to the ferocity nerf and the other nerfs which have been done you’re doing the same damage as you were doing with exotics before…

But an expansion: yes please,
(I would appreciate:
-new dungeons, 8 man/12 man? Level scaling dungeon fighting mursaat? 3-5 paths apart and/or consecutive? (as fractals?, earning keys to open level bound"Uber-reward chest")
-new race
-new proffesion
-new areas
-new personal story
-new JPs, vista’s
-new fractals
-new and old armors unlocked for pve (thinking about the "lost"pvp-skins)
-new weapons, daggers underwater, spears, crossbows, 2 handed axes
-guild halls
-new legendaries
-new….. wel just new I guess… the works,
- more trait points or secondary proffesion? we’ll see
-NO LVL Changes: getting lvl 100 will be useless, and the grind would be not worth the effort IMHO. I’m very against raising the cap! I prefer actual ascension.
lets get HOT map completion!
Legendary armor l80, changeable stats armor. Ascended level, just more versatile. Also see: Legendary (weapon).
Legendary rings l80: changeable stats, ascended level, just more versatile.
Ascended crafting: jeweler and cook… (agony resist food (so i can try out new builds in fractals??)

Improvements on the reward list so we will not get 2 blues and 1 green anymore from an exotic chest, I’ll be happy with scaling 1 up, so 2 blues 1 green → 2 green, 1 yellow. And I know this will mean exotics and ascended drops (maybe even legendary???)

I’m in for another 6k hours if it turns out nice.

Kite.2510:

PVE rebalance! I’m obviously asking to fix the zerker gear problem, where it’s so much more useful than the other stat combinations that it’s making them absolute. In an expansion people are expecting great changes in the gameplay, so it will be perfect chance to slip this among them.

As far as I support it to stop this “Berserker”-Meta we currently have (and encourage build diversity), there won’t be a simple solution. The second, berserker gear gets, let’s say nerfed for example, another stat-combination takes the throne and people will propagate only using this one.

Kite.2510:

A thread where everyone can post what they wish from the next expansion pack.
Please don’t bother here with little stuff (ex. balance of a certain profession skill), as they can easily be done with a patch or two. Only big stuff allowed!

I know that HoT has not been officially confirmed as an expansion yet, but all clues are pointing to it, and we can safely say that 95% likely it is! (and I can’t even begin to imagine the reaction of the community if it isn’t)

Let me start:
(/takes a big breath)

At least 8 new maps! Seeing how it took an entire season to make just two of them, I’ll try to be realistic and not ask for much. Eight areas means 2 or 3 new zones, which are good if you think how the game started with 4 for leveling and an incomplete for end-level (/coughOrrcough).

World V World overhaul! With 3 of the 4 main maps being identical, and all of them being exploited to zerg fests, an overhaul that would encourage strategic attack and defending would be the most welcome!

Fix the original Personal Story! If it’s a let down for many new players coming to the game, this should be the ideal time to fix it! I would suggest more cinematic camera angles with no art background for the talking cutscenes, and a few video cutscenes added to better introduce the characters and enhance the important moments. Those would involve calling back the character voice actors, and seeing that our characters haven’t got a new line since launch, i think this would be the perfect time!

Intro Cinematic! I don’t expect anything on Blizzard’s level of quality, but I can’t deny that cinematics like these help you get invested much better to the world and conflict of the game. In the world of movies they say “Show! Don’t tell!”. (In the world of games they say “Play. Don’t show!” but given the limits of the engine of an MMO, A-net should ignore that rule.)

New weapon type! The clever thing to do would be to make amphibious weapons, and allow spears out of water, and daggers underwater, wile allowing professions with no access to those, to have access to other existing types they should had. (Maces for engees)

PVE rebalance! I’m obviously asking to fix the zerker gear problem, where it’s so much more useful than the other stat combinations that it’s making them absolute. In an expansion people are expecting great changes in the gameplay, so it will be perfect chance to slip this among them.

NO NEW LEVEL CAP! No new level cap…

I’m starting to think it’s just Living Story content.

But I would like the following:

1. Violin in the gem store
2. Underworld as an AR dungeon, high end, endgame
3. SAB 3 \o/

That’s pretty much it.

warbignime.4610:

5.Quaggon football(use Quaggons as ball)

OMG you’re so mean! Leave the Quaggons alone T^T

1. New continent or about 5-10 new zones
2. Raids
3. New profession
4. New crafting options
5. New race
6. 5-10 new dungeons
7. Reputation farming with benefits
8. A new level cap (not a must)

People who are awaiting a new continent will be disappointed.

Organized group content, like raids, that’s challenging, fun and competitive reward wise

AND/OR

Solo content that’s challenging, fun and competitive reward wise

Who cares if they add anything if they are not going to fix bugs.
They have a lots of bugs in dungeons, fractals, pve.
Reward system is awful. So if they add new stuff, the kitten will be the same…
If they add new stuff there will be more stuff that they will not be able to fix.

The game will be the same after 1 month, when you complete everything new.

I just started to think… What will happen if they don’t announce an expansion next weekend, what if there isn’t an expansion at all… What if there is something else cool but not as “cool” as an expansion? I mean, oh the horror! I am starting to picture me how much complains the forums will have and even though this new stuff they are going to announce is realy awesome it still won’t be good enough becouse we all on the forums have hyped up an expansion so much that it is what we know will come.

Anyway…

I agree with OP’s points. And I wanna say I realy realy hope that there won’t be any new level cap, I don’t wanna leave this game.

1. Supported GvG mode
2. Build Templates (like GW had)

1. We would stop getting kitten kitten’d by non-content living story updates.
2. GW1’s, 8v8 GvG/HA
3. PvE content that you cannot faceroll
4. Stop forced achievement farming for most optimal gear ( sinister (condi(duh)) )

1. SKIP button for cinematics…
2. Heroes/Henchmens

I’d like them to move away from Achievement point hunting = content.
Log in today and get your achievement points! Yay!! I’ve missed nearly 8k worth of dailies and like 3k worth of monthlies I’m not all that interested in AP tbh.

But realistically having a wishlist..

1. Elite Areas – Underworld/Fissure of Woe/Domain of Anguish/Urgoz/The Deep
- These areas were great and loved by many, they already have the quests and the map designs.
2. New harder fractals – If we don’t get an elite area, see FoW/DoA etc as fractals. Maybe the Foundry of Failed Creations as a fractal. Twould be epic.
3. Guild Halls – Including GvG, Incorporate a guild arena (practice arenas), NPCS + Crafting stations – Don’t force guild merits for these so smaller guilds can have them too.
4. New zones with world bosses – World bosses are obviously an activity people do daily. But the spam 1 to win concept is dull and boring. The new SW boss is pretty good and doesn’t require too much coordination but it takes “some” it’s not just press 1 and win. More metas like this would be good – However ones that are on fixed times so people know when to go and it becomes a routine.
5. New personal story – The game is ever changing. The personal story at this point in the game doesn’t reflect the rest of the world.
- Implementing a new personal story to better reflect the current world and having the old personal story like a “history” story.
6. Cantha – purely because it was my favorite

1- Guildhalls
2- More customization of home instance (maybe get an actual home)
3- Greataxe (2h axes) Spears (on land) as weapons
4- Polymock
I welcome whatever other changes they have in mind except for those that break the game further. (looking at you FoTM “fix”)

Playable skritt.
PvE condition overhaul (removal if necessary).
New maps.
Anything to change WvW a bit (it’s getting somewhat stale for me).
An attempt to balance WvW (balance world populations mostly).

Absolutely no to raids.

I would expect there would be significant changes to WvW and significant additions to PvP.

As for PvE, new maps definitely. New heavy class. New playable race. With the sylvari being turned on, I can see the tengu here. New dungeons. etc.