Challenging Group Content
Na, it’s just in terms of announcements.
Join Mike O’Brien and Colin Johanson as they reveal all of the details behind the challenging group content you’ll encounter in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. This is in addition to other announcements not just for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns but for the core Guild Wars 2 game as well.
As in, we’ll be revealing HoT’s challenging group content and a bunch of other stuff to do with HoT and the core game.
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issn’t it just revamped fractals?
issn’t it just revamped fractals?
No, they said very explicitly in the fractals revamp blog that challenging group content is something seperate from fractals.
Let’s just hope it’s the best thing of the entire expansion :P
Let’s just hope it’s the best thing of the entire expansion :P
I’m actually hoping that the story and the open world are the best things of the expansion. However, I’m hoping that this challening group content is also very good.
Well the challenging group content should also have some great story in it. It’s interesting that they call it “endgame”, I haven’t seen the word “endgame” much in GW2-related posts by the devs. It used to be that the entire game is “endgame” but now they want to change that.
In a sense HoT is entirely ‘end-game’ since it is focused on players with characters which are max level and it’s not adding any new vertical progression.
“Join Mike O’Brien and Colin Johanson as they reveal all of the details behind the challenging group content you’ll encounter in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. This is in addition to other announcements not just for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns but for the core Guild Wars 2 game as well.”
If the challenging group content is encountered in HoT then my guess is you need the expansion to play it, and rightfully so. This would be a huge selling point for the game for previous gw2 players.
They then go on explaining “in addition” to other announcements that will affect the whole gw2 game.
From this, I understand they will be making one announcement in heart of thorns about group challenging content and at least a couple of additional announcements that will effect the whole game.
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Fractals was stated is NOT challenging group content but yes maybe we could be getting some actual challenging group content in the core game as well as the expansion cough underworld cough and FoW.
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the one thing I can say I’m fairly certain, almost 100% positive, that its NOT going to be some open world type of challenging group content. Theres plenty of open world stuff, and anet knows how frustrating and annoying it can be to make open world stuff viable.
Look at how twisted marionette was. Fairly easy to a lot of players but gods sake, if you didn’t roll into an overflow map with a decent amount of commanders shouting what to do, it was an auto fail on the platforms. even after a month of that event, it was constantly being failed.
Also, they are adding more maps (verdant brink) and its obviously going to be endgame, open world content a la SW/Drytop…
This leads me to believe anet doesn’t NEED to make the challenging content an open world thing.
Instanced content is severely lacking and could be a major selling point in HoT to bring back old players and new players hyped.
I’d say its logically safe to assume it will be instanced 5-10 man content…I dunno if they will make a 10 player party… i’d say it will be 2x groups of 5 instanced into the content and each party having to do something different in that instance. That would be my guess…
They already have 5 man instanced content in forms of dungs/fractals.
I could easily see them taking it 1 step further by adding in one more party of 5 and making some big type of dung/mission activity where each party completes a multiple paths, eventually meeting in the center to take on a final boss together.. something along those lines
Also, I believe anet is having Nike from DnT have a post-show after the announcement…. I highly doubt they would select Nike if it was some open world farce being revealed… he would probably tear it apart in the post show..
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Let’s just hope it’s the best thing of the entire expansion :P
I learned from maining a Ranger for thousands of hours not to hope when it comes to what Anet will do.
Speaking from a PVE-only point of view…