Guild Wars 2

I heard new raids are coming in this expansion. I was wondering are there new dungeons since none have been added for 3 years…

Not sure if you’re serious? Dungeons got stuck on the back burner and the team disbanded over a year ago and with the release of HoT they cut back the direct gold reward by 2/3rds to discourage running them.

Fractals are now the “new” instanced party content they are developing for besides raids.

Basically the 4 new maps are dungeons.

No, the dungeons got abandoned as a project, because Anet devs would rather introduce new shinies than fix old ones.

Behellagh.1468:

Not sure if you’re serious? Dungeons got stuck on the back burner and the team disbanded over a year ago and with the release of HoT they cut back the direct gold reward by 2/3rds to discourage running them.

Fractals are now the “new” instanced party content they are developing for besides raids.

Actually I am quite serious. I have not played GW2 since April last year and just have returned and I expected new dungeons with a new expansion. I am a bit disappointed if it is only 4 maps of content and raids. I did expect a full content expansion considering the price of it.

Quin.9740:

I am a bit disappointed if it is only 4 maps of content and raids. I did expect a full content expansion considering the price of it.

Explore the maps before you judge it. They are huuuuge. Tangled Mess… I mean Depths, basically feels like 4 maps stacked onto each other. Last night I jumped, more like fell, into kitten (stupid profanity filter, “a deep and dark hole”) and found that giant underwater caverns. Felt like ending up in Blackreach in Skyrim.

Quin.9740:

Behellagh.1468:

Not sure if you’re serious? Dungeons got stuck on the back burner and the team disbanded over a year ago and with the release of HoT they cut back the direct gold reward by 2/3rds to discourage running them.

Fractals are now the “new” instanced party content they are developing for besides raids.

Actually I am quite serious. I have not played GW2 since April last year and just have returned and I expected new dungeons with a new expansion. I am a bit disappointed if it is only 4 maps of content and raids. I did expect a full content expansion considering the price of it.

Nope. They’re done with dungeons. And are even actively discouraging people from running them by reducing rewards (they literally stated this publicly). Also, raids aren’t even here yet, and only the first wing will be released “soon.”

We loved dungeons, they bring pleasure and money. If the reward is not returned-we to leave the game. We were not given anything in return, except for the study map (which is uninteresting and boring)

I played almost 2 years and my most favorite content was dungeons. I really enjoyed running it. And now? No new dungeons, no new fractals, raids will be “soon”, and old dungeons and fractal ruined. GG Anet, you really make me regret about buying HoT

Anet said dungeons have been abandoned as future content. with the exception of fractals. they said they “felt we made a complex set of circumstances for dungeon content, that got done in the most boring way possible.” (quote is paraphrased). basically stacking zerkers killed dungeons. anet is against stacking. they want you out and surrounding bosses and dodging attacks etc. but all that happened in dungeons is zerker stacking and so we lost dungeons. that said I look forward to raids and new raids and living story updates in the future. I don’t do fractals because of agony resistance. I feel that it should have worked like luck. i.e. eat an agony resistance and get a permanent bonus on your character. rather then requiring a set of armor useless everywhere but fractals. take it as a cautionary tale. we lost content because stacking=fun killer, and I agree with this.

I feel like dungeons are meant to be played as major steps in the personal story, done while leveling.

It’s a lot more immersive when you can easily group together with other people doing their story mode of the dungeon, rather than just rushing through the dungeon burning everything down in tight corners of the room. After all, these dungeons are all very story-driven. Hence all the dialogue cutscenes that fit in well while in the personal story while leveling.

Dungeons are dead, long live our new Fractal and Raid overlords!