Guild Wars 2

I have made a personal decision not to purchase the pre purchase of HoT. The only reason is a character slot not available on the cheapest (albeit expensive for what you get) version.

So I thought about what playing Gw2 might be like without HoT and….well I’m happy to say no different to right now and I like gw2 right now.

You cannot miss something you never had so no revenant? I’ll live, no guild hall? Nothing new! Specialisations? Never needed them.

No calm down all, I know you are all getting ready to type “WHAT ABOUT THE NEW MAPS!”

I’ll get to that now. I am currently doing map completion on 13 chars and it is possible that the new areas in HoT (once purchased) may be needed to complete world map. So for me it would not be worth me buying HoT if it makes my mapping harder. So as you can see it’s quite a personal, yet easy decision for me.

Would I risk buying it if anet changed the basic edition to include a char slot? Only if HoT maps are not added to map completion.

So there are my thoughts, hope you enjoyed them :-)

Hot maps won’t be included in map completion.

Players without HoT will most likely not be able to participate in many, if not all, future free living story updates as many of them will probably take place in HoT areas.

Vayne.8563:

Hot maps won’t be included in map completion.

Really?
I thought that made sense for one off maps, but for a whole expansion?

Maybe i’ll get a chance to solo shatterer once HoT comes along ^^
Frankly i’m in the same boat, so far none of the feature/class/specialization from HoT are to my liking and with the fiasco with the HoT pre purchase i’m gonna just stick with vanilla

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Vayne.8563:

Hot maps won’t be included in map completion.

Really?
I thought that made sense for one off maps, but for a whole expansion?

No. Because that’s unequal work for the 2 groups of people (those that finished the maps before the expansion and those that didn’t) as well as making map completion and the old Legendary weapons impossible to make unless you buy the expansion.

The only difference is that you would have Revenants running around you, occasionally, during events. Gaining the benefit of their buffs and area skills.