Guild Wars 2

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

Also: Be sure to read the two interviews from massively and mmorpg listed below. They go into more detail as well as other items not covered in the blog post (like the types of legendaries and comments/complaints on the RNG store)

HIGHLIGHTS:
-NEW LEGENDARIES in 2013 and a way to craft precursors. New legendary weapons and types (legendary trinkets, see notes below)
-Crafting increased to 500 and ascended gear can be crafted at 500. However, it will be time-gated
-Magic find as an item stat will be removed and replaced with account-bound MF. Compensation for magic find gear will be detailed some other time [corrected]
-Account bound crafting rewards per day for completing specific content
-Champions reward guaranteed box which contains crafting loot, lodestones and unique skins
-Blue/Green items can be salvaged for MF consumables
-New skills/traits as a form of progression. As a result, there will be more ways to acquire skillpoints
-Dungeons changed to remove gold drops from bosses, but replaced with the guaranteed loot box as mentioned above. Also, there are bonus rewards for completion.

Additional notes:
-“Anyone who has started to find him or herself rapidly running out of bank and inventory space may be pleased to hear that finding more player-friendly ways to handle GW2’s tons of collectable armor looks is high on ArenaNet’s priority list.”
-Although Johanson couldn’t commit to a timeframe, new weapon types and expansion of current types to more classes is absolutely in the works. In the meantime, there will be new Legendary weapons based on current weapon types, as ArenaNet wants to provide players with more variety in looks and themes for the powerful weapons. One new type of Legendary gear will definitely be putting in an appearance this year and will likely be a trinket such as a ring or amulet. Several of the current Legendaries will also receive appearance-enhancing makeovers.
-Legendary skins coming to sPvP

note source:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/18/guild-wars-2s-colin-johanson-outlines-big-plans-and-course-cor/

Another source:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7597/Guild-Wars-2-ArenaNets-Master-Plan-for-2013.html

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

Eh…

OMG. I wrote a whole summary and I accidently deleted it.

Does that mean ascended food for cooks?

No one cares about you cooks :P

Funset.7893:

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

Eh…

?

Sounds pretty solid.

I’m especially liking the Precursor changes, Unlocking Skills and Traits (please let it be like GW1) and changes to MF.

I will add more, but I’m totally not supposed to be doing work right now…

Oh my… I like it.

I like it a lot.

Crafting to 500… thing about it, crafting exotics will now have “meaning” as far as pushing crafting up. Crafting ascended gear and weapons, but they’re account bound… this is good. It looks like crafters will be able to sell the high end materials so profit will still be there as well.

I might need to read that a few more times, but I like it so far. A lot.

Sounds like a good time to be playing, minus all of the complaints on these forums of course. Doing away with MF gear is probably the best thing ever, and changing the Legendary weapons to have the ability to change stats will be a God-send.

Hmmz, am I the only one seeing the paradox here?

Anet”

We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.

VS

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

Vol.5241:

No one cares about you cooks :P

You won’t be saying that when noone crafts you your omnom bars :p

New legendaries have got me excited.

However, I’m disappointed that they haven’t outlined improvements to the current legendary skins. Nearly half of the current legendaries are underwhelming and need some adjusting in the skins.

My speculation before all this was that first they’d fix the skins of current legendary, then they’d add the precursor scavenger hunt, and then another set of legendaries

But other than that

BRING IT ON ANET

further proof anet doesn t care AT ALL of players feedback….unless you tell hwat they want to hear of course.

Usual pattern of MINIMAL gameplay updates opposed to a lot of grinding and nerfs.

making all exotics skins useless and i bet they won t add as much ascended skins.

Tribio.8531:

Hmmz, am I the only one seeing the paradox here?

Anet”

We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.

VS

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

The game has nearly been out for a year and they have added exactly 1 new tier. I don’t see a paradox.

Tribio.8531:

Hmmz, am I the only one seeing the paradox here?

Anet”

We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.

VS

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

You mean like the Ascended gear tier we have out now?

That top quote was from, what, before the game was even released?

There are other threads discussing that sort of thing without turning this one into one of them too.

Tribio.8531:

Hmmz, am I the only one seeing the paradox here?

Anet”

We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.

VS

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor.

I think they wanted to have Ascended gear as the final tier of gear. After that, they don’t want to release anything new. So of course it seems that they are adding new tiers but ascended is the very last.

And as far as I recall, players have come to accept ascended gear and didn’t see it as too tough to get. Back in November though…

Cappy.2786:

Vol.5241:

No one cares about you cooks :P

You won’t be saying that when noone crafts you your omnom bars :p

They are becoming kinda useless after they remove the moneydrops from dungeon bosses.

kokiman.2364:

Cappy.2786:

Vol.5241:

No one cares about you cooks :P

You won’t be saying that when noone crafts you your omnom bars :p

They are becoming kinda useless after they remove the moneydrops from dungeon bosses.

They can still be used for the Magic Find, and who knows, maybe the Gold Find will affect the coin we get from the chests.

LordByron.8369:

further proof anet doesn t care AT ALL of players feedback….unless you tell hwat they want to hear of course.

Usual pattern of MINIMAL gameplay updates opposed to a lot of grinding and nerfs.

making all exotics skins useless and i bet they won t add as much ascended skins.

• Specific way of getting the precursor
• More skills and traits as progression
• Improvement on rewards
• Doing something about MF

Nope, ANet doesn’t listen at all.

ok so you will be able to craft new legendarys and ascended stuff also precursors, the forums have been asking for a form of progression new gear to work towards, craftable precursors and new legendarys and now its been confirmed you’ll dont want it?

bloody crazy i will never understand the mmo player base fully.

Ouch!!! That one hurts DaiBish!

Looks very promising, but we’ll see if they manage to put out all of this in 4-5 months.

Wolfheart.1938:

Ouch!!! That one hurts DaiBish!

Looks very promising, but we’ll see if they manage to put out all of this in 4-5 months.

Huh? o.O

I have a strong feeling that me dragging Champions over to where my friends are hanging out won’t be met with open annoyance now!!

Not a fan of more crafting, I want legendary drops. I do not like the current legendary crafting kitten :/

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries.

Loving it.

Vol.5241:

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

HIGHLIGHTS:
-NEW LEGENDARIES in 2013 and a way to craft precursors. New legendary weapons and types (speculation – legendary armor and dyes?)
-Crafting increased to 500 and ascended gear can be crafted at 500. However, it will be time-gated
-Magic find gear removed and replaced with account-bound MF. Compensation for magic find gear now will be detailed some other time
-Champions reward guaranteed box which contains crafting loot, lodestones and unique skins
-Blue/Green items can be salvaged for MF consumables
-New skills/traits as a form of progression. As a result, there will be more ways to acquire skillpoints
-Dungeons changed to remove gold drops from bosses, but replaced with the guaranteed loot box as mentioned above. Also, there are bonus rewards for completion.

Thanks Vol, you summed up everything that interested me.
Now I just hope that mats for precursors aren’t the same grind than the T6 or lodestones. Enough of need only gold to craft a legendary.

TheDaiBish.9735:

• Specific way of getting the precursor

that were useless until they dcided the bait and switch making egendary a tier

• More skills and traits as progression

Still to see how much of them and paired to how much grind……
They felt the necessity to pair ANYTHING with grind and as you can read you will need to grind your way to new skills and traits also.

• Improvement on rewards
• Doing something about MF

Nerf in drops and stuff about grinding again?

Nope, ANet doesn’t listen at all.

No they dont listen their playerbase who made it extremely clear they didn t want ascended stuff and “progression”.

And unless you show me some feedback of the proportion of the anti ascended thread then you can t say the opposite.

(but you can see in ANY site talking about gw2 how the game is defined as a grindy with no endgame).

I like everything I just read. Really do.

The only thing is, I was going to craft me a Celestial Pirate Hat of the Pirate today. Shall I now not bother with the Celestial gear anymore? I sort of liked having this project of crafting my first MF armour set. :C

So glad I waited for the new Legendary as the current ones as are so meh as most people think. Great news on making MF account bound now as well. Like the changes to dungeon loot as well !

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I like everything I just read. Really do.

The only thing is, I was going to craft me a Celestial Pirate Hat of the Pirate today. Shall I now not bother with the Celestial gear anymore? I sort of liked having this project of crafting my first MF armour set. :C

Here’s my speculation.

If you want to craft Celestial Ascended armor, you need Celestial inscriptions.

So don’t craft celestial armor right now. Just make the inscriptions.

SirusDibley.3716:

So glad I waited for the new Legendary as the current ones as are so meh as most people think. Great news on making MF account bound now as well. Like the changes to dungeon loot as well !

That’s why I have been putting off making other legendaries. I have enough to make two more but I’m just going to wait for the new ones

You can be quite sure that this time gated gear they are talking about will require the charged cristals

It looks promising on paper.

Second half…. Thief off hand sword confirmed.

LordByron.8369:

TheDaiBish.9735:

• Specific way of getting the precursor

that were useless until they dcided the bait and switch.

What bait and switch regarding Legendaries?

LordByron.8369:

TheDaiBish.9735:

• More skills and traits as progression

Still to see how much of them and paired to how much grind……
They felt the necessity to pair ANYTHING with grind and as you can read you will need to grind your way to new skills and traits also.

I like how you say we have to wait and see, and in the very next sentence say that we have to grind for them, without knowing any specifics.

LordByron.8369:

TheDaiBish.9735:

• Improvement on rewards
• Doing something about MF

Nerf in drops and stuff about grinding again?

What? Where did you get that from?

LordByron.8369:

No they don’t listen their playerbase who made it extremely clear the didn’t want ascended stuff and “progression”.

And unless you show me some feedback of the proportion of the anti ascended thread then you can t say the opposite.

(but you can see in ANY site talking about gw2 how the game is defined as a grindy with no endgame).

1. Ascended was introduced back in November. They’re simply releasing more slots of the same tier, not another tier. Unsure what the introduction of Ascended has to do with this blog post.

2. Are the actual sites saying this, or just the people who comment on these sites? Because, you know, different strokes for different folks. If there wasn’t any end-game, people would have literally nothing to do at level 80. Now, if you said traditional end-game, I’d agree with you.

Regardless of anything, some of these are issues players have been complaining about. ANet are doing something to amend them issues. How is that not listening?

Nightarch.2943:

Second half…. Thief off hand sword confirmed.

I’m not sure that they meant weapon skills, but utility. Granted we don’t have the full information about it just yet, so it could be possible.

Guildhalls? housing in general? Heroes or henchies? Or dungeons that scale so you can do it with fewer then 5… GW had it right.. you never were forced to team up there to do anything.

Inb4 precursor prices rollercoast.

Good read tho.

Albertus.6954:

GW had it right.. you never were forced to team up there to do anything.

Never did one of the end game dungeons in GW? (I’m rusty, no idea about the specific names – had to clear multiple bosses to complete it entirely)
Feel free to try that with < 5..

I find it extremely unlikely that precursors crafting is ever going to happen. If its “cheap” like many other unique weapons in the 100-200g range its going to be a big kick in the nuts to everyone that had to buy it at 500g+.

Maybe if its going to cost 1000g to craft a precursor.

Also, no mention on existing Legendaries? Still not going to be Ascended, just pretty exotics?

TriggerSad.2597:

Nightarch.2943:

Second half…. Thief off hand sword confirmed.

I’m not sure that they meant weapon skills, but utility. Granted we don’t have the full information about it just yet, so it could be possible.

I swear by the five human Gods and the glory of Sigmar that I will never complain again if that happens.

Tribio.8531:

Albertus.6954:

GW had it right.. you never were forced to team up there to do anything.

Never did one of the end game dungeons in GW? (I’m rusty, no idea about the specific names – had to clear multiple bosses to complete it entirely)
Feel free to try that with < 5..

Did them all with my heroes..

Albertus.6954:

Guildhalls? housing in general? Heroes or henchies? Or dungeons that scale so you can do it with fewer then 5… GW had it right.. you never were forced to team up there to do anything.

Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 are not the same game, and were/are developed with a different mentality.

Vol.5241:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I like everything I just read. Really do.

The only thing is, I was going to craft me a Celestial Pirate Hat of the Pirate today. Shall I now not bother with the Celestial gear anymore? I sort of liked having this project of crafting my first MF armour set. :C

Here’s my speculation.

If you want to craft Celestial Ascended armor, you need Celestial inscriptions.

So don’t craft celestial armor right now. Just make the inscriptions.

Yeah, but I was after the MF bonus more than the Celestial stats.

I have both a set of Carrion (maybe to be replaced by Rabid in the future) and Soldiers’ (maybe one day Sentinel’s) for my condineer. I don’t think I need a Celestial set, on its own.

TheDaiBish.9735:

….

same usual common denial people answered so many times i don t think need further debate.

So forgive if i won t answer.
You can find any answer you need on other topics or on Google.

I obvously am pessimistic due to the bad expeirences i had with their updates till now…

Even back in november people tried to deny they were introducing new tierS <===

1) ascended
2) legendary
3) infusions

As was really clear.

All gear found is going to be crap… So it’s still going to be about farming gold and some materials to get pair of shoes for every occasion. So I’m finally over with the game.

My eyes are wide and my ears are ringing. Seems like most of the bases I think about were covered. Pretty good news mostly from where I stand.

Pixel^, I was thinking I was going to do the same thing, craft a celestial mf set. With this change I’m not sure I’ll go that route…however, who knows when the change will go active.

My concerns still stand though when it comes to ascended gear and fixed stats, just didn’t want to see the rune/gem/sigil system be compromised by having fixed stats.
Right now it only effects backs and trinkets(every combo still not in), so not a huge issue atm. Does set a precedent in my mind though.

All in all, great news. Wow, now I need a drink…it’s early, but it’s happy hour somewhere.

I just read the full thing, all this is going to be so amazing… I just end up loving anet more and more.

TriggerSad.2597:

Albertus.6954:

Guildhalls? housing in general? Heroes or henchies? Or dungeons that scale so you can do it with fewer then 5… GW had it right.. you never were forced to team up there to do anything.

Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 are not the same game, and were/are developed with a different mentality.

And to what purpose is that mentality change exactly? To create content that a new player or those with jobs simply cant do because you cant hardly get a fractal group anymore for lvl 1 because the masses are further along or do a story dungeon for that matter? Why not let everyone enjoy dungeon content? Seems to me that scaling dungeons will draw more people in then the offering of increased gold rewards.

Albertus.6954:

Did them all with my heroes..

Oh yeah, them heroes.. Ok, they are no real players, but they do take a party spot.
(so I get your point: no actual other players were needed)

removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

I knew I had a good reason to keep all those RNG fractal rings with Magic Find I got \o/

I swear, half the rings the FotM gave me where the Magic Find types. I got multiples of all of those :’(