Guild Wars 2

Some of my guildies are thinking of buying HoT when it gets a kitteneaper. Now i was wondering, how will this affect my gameplay with them? Is there any idea yet of what features will come to the game for people who don’t buy the Expac, compared to those who do? Will they be able to access our guildhall, do they get speciliazations, do they get the mastery system?

Donno about guild halls they dont get the new specilizations and they dont get the mastery system.

Some of the things on new WvW map will be locked aswell
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG5oUKqbIVM

check 11:10 onwards on that link

Not giving the new players the specilizations seems like a bad idea. Won’t this result in balancing issues?

Baseleader.4128:

Not giving the new players the specilizations seems like a bad idea. Won’t this result in balancing issues?

The specializations are not upgrades. They are just adding new things to the profession, not making them stronger. So it shouldn’t effect balance between the different versions.