Guild Wars 2

Expectations from the Expansion

After several years of pleading, Anet finally announced an expansion and now we are hopefully less than a few months(3-6) away from it.
Now since this will be content we actually will have to buy, I really am hoping for it to bring certain elements to the game which have been missing.
Here is a list I put together:

1. Fractals of the Mist – Beyond 50
Fractals has been an absolute joy to experience but after more than a year of playing the same levels any content will get bland.
a) We really would like additional levels, beyond 50, hopefully up to 100. This will mean, new instabilities, more AR required and mobs become incredibly more difficult.
b) Rework of Rewards, higher difficulty should mean better rewards. Also please add the “Fractal Skin box” supposedly already in the game.
c) New Fractals, yes we still want Abbadon Fractal and more as well, possibly rework the Marionette fight as a final level, each person has to go to one lane etc.

2. New Dungeons
a) At least 2 new dungeons or one new dungeon with 4 paths, make it difficult but make it rewarding. Make the trash mobs worth killing, add a rare drop that comes from them or something so it’s not all about skip skip, stealth past.

3. Final Dragon Modremoth Fight
a) This needs to be Epic, please ensure it is nothing like fighting Zhaitan
b) Make it very difficult, it’s okay if players fail over and over till they find the mechanic
c) Add a severe penalty for failing, the surrounding areas experience more mobs

4. New armor sets and new weapon skins
a) Make these acquirable via content/achievements not from Gemstore

5. Guild Halls and Guild Missions
a) Allow us to deck out the guild halls with NPCs, we should be able to customize the NPCs where they stand, etc..
b) Add New Guild Mission types – Redo Guild Trek tier 3 to also award 1 Commendation, it is an extremely fun mission but sadly no reason to complete it.
c) New Guild Puzzle at least 2 more would be nice – Also add a Mega Boss at the end of Puzzle that guards the final chest( Needs to scale for those smaller guilds)

6. PVP – Heart of the Mist
a) Allow us to queue into rated/unrated matches from outside of Heart of the mIst as well.
Standing around waiting in queue for sometimes up to 10 minutes is a complete waste of time.
This was available pre-pvp map voting patch, please revert this back.

7. WvW – More rewarding
a) the main WvW maps need to be more rewarding than the K-train Eotm.
b) Rework All the Life-time achievements to be somewhat reasonable, currently many are impossible.
c) Allow Each week for us to earn Tickets, even a low amount works, Server coming 1st gets 20 tickets, 2nd gets 15, 3rd gets 10 etc so we can earn those Heroes Weapons
At current rate and how slow the WvW tourneys are, it may take well over 5 years to complete the entire set….

8 New World Bosses
a) Please add new world boss(es) to the game, doing Teq Wurm raids was just amazing trying to get world 1st.
b) Reworking existing World Boss rewards – Allow us to trade 100 Teq spoons for a hoard, make use of existing drops – there are players who have done this content daily since the fight was updated and they still don’t have a single hoard, allow us to make small progress every day and keep the random hoard drop.
c) Reworking Shatterer – All dragons need to be difficult, the fight should be reworked so it’s as epic as Teq.

9 Collections
a) Loved the addition of these but why is there no Legendary collection?
b) How about collections for some super expensive exotics like Infinite light, also sets like the Mists weapons can use their own collection, fractal collection which is there but still bugged?
c) Continue to add more please, even Dye collection, Mini pet collection.

Now I know some of these changes may be too late but a lot of them will be easy additions to the game so please Anet.
What are some of the thing you would like to be added to the game with the expansion?

I totally agree, especially about the changes with Fractals and collections (especially as someone who is a skin collector.)

I like the idea of trading teq spoons for something.

New dungeons seem unlikely :-/ actually a lot of this seems unlikely but fingers crossed because they are great points.

Don’t have any expectations except for what we have been told. That just leads to frustration and anger and posts about “lies and marketing talk”.

Keep expectations real low, hope for nothing. That way when the expansion is released your only a little disappointed with how bad it is

I like almost all of your suggestions, but teq spoons for something would cause a mass exodus of players. There is no reason to save those, and many people have sold 100+ spoons. If you suddenly converted them into a currency all the players who sold them are likely to quit.

ZilentNight.5089:

Expectations from the Expansion

1. Fractals of the Mist – Beyond 50
2. New Dungeons

They have already come out with all the major features coming with HoT; and before that more or less nailed the coffin on new updates to either Fractals or dungeons, so don’t get your hopes up on this.

I hope the rest of your hopes are satisfied though; those are things that should be coming in the XPac.

It is worth pointing out that we know that there will be a mastery-line for Fractals. Which would suggest that it at least gets something.

Dondarrion.2748:

ZilentNight.5089:

Expectations from the Expansion

1. Fractals of the Mist – Beyond 50
2. New Dungeons

They have already come out with all the major features coming with HoT; and before that more or less nailed the coffin on new updates to either Fractals or dungeons, so don’t get your hopes up on this.

One of the major features was ‘challenging group content’. Why couldn’t that include dungeons and Fractals?

TheDaiBish.9735:

Dondarrion.2748:

ZilentNight.5089:

Expectations from the Expansion

1. Fractals of the Mist – Beyond 50
2. New Dungeons

They have already come out with all the major features coming with HoT; and before that more or less nailed the coffin on new updates to either Fractals or dungeons, so don’t get your hopes up on this.

One of the major features was ‘challenging group content’. Why couldn’t that include dungeons and Fractals?

Because they pretty much refuted it; and I rather believe it’s a matter of open world group/raid content they have in mind for new encounters. All speculation ofc, apart from the fact that they’re not working on new dungeons.

Dondarrion.2748:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Dondarrion.2748:

ZilentNight.5089:

Expectations from the Expansion

1. Fractals of the Mist – Beyond 50
2. New Dungeons

They have already come out with all the major features coming with HoT; and before that more or less nailed the coffin on new updates to either Fractals or dungeons, so don’t get your hopes up on this.

One of the major features was ‘challenging group content’. Why couldn’t that include dungeons and Fractals?

Because they pretty much refuted it; and I rather believe it’s a matter of open world group/raid content they have in mind for new encounters. All speculation ofc, apart from the fact that they’re not working on new dungeons.

Where to did they say that the expac would have dungeons? I must have missed that one.

Just don’t fall for the name “expansion”. It is just a scam in order to make us pay upfront the ls 3 + feature pack. Don’t expect much.

Simzani.4318:

Just don’t fall for the name “expansion”. It is just a scam in order to make us pay upfront the ls 3 + feature pack. Don’t expect much.

I think you should read up on what a scam is.

lordkrall.7241:

Don’t have any expectations except for what we have been told. That just leads to frustration and anger and posts about “lies and marketing talk”.

Exactly why they haven’t given a price nor a release window and I really can’t blame them. The way things worded from Anet are pretty sure to succeed very well or hurt them in the long run. The hype and expectations will be so high if they screw up like they did back in pre release beta, it will make this the worst expansion release in…ever.

New dungeons/fractals

They mentioned new group content, all I am hoping for that it’s not SW style stuff.

I just want some new dungeons and more difficult bosses. Colin, make it happen <3