Guild Wars 2

I love running dungeons, and I’m somewhat looking forward to the HoT expansion but what I have seen literally nothing on with new content is dungeons.
It seems that almost every other aspect of the game will be has been or plans to be touched on improvement, and changes- except dungeons.
Will we expect to see new permanent dungeons in the future with new armor stats/skins/weapons/tokens in the expansion? I would really hope to think so, to give us more variety of dungeons than the same old regular 7 dungeon hop – even if it’s just an added 3 or so new perma dungeons- for people who enjoy regular dungeon running and for those just jumping into the dungeon scene it would be a big disappointment to never have any new dungeon content beyond the aetherpath in TA that removed an existing TA path.

While I certainly wish that anet would add some new dungeon content to the game, I believe they’ve stated that there won’t be any included in this expansion.

Most likely we’ll get another fractal or two from the living story, but that’s it, sadly.

If there was no mention about them, you shouldn’t expect anything. Dungeons haven’t been touched for a long time (since AC revamp) and they are most likely an abandoned project in favour of open world content and perhaps additional fractals.

On the HoT page, they have:

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.
• Explore new open world jungle maps.
• Experience new events and storylines.
• Test your mettle in new boss battles.

What this ‘challenging group content’ is is anyone’s guess.

Could be open world events, dungeons or Fractals. Heck, it could even be raids (we had a Raid CDI and they hired a raid designer a while back).

TheDaiBish.9735:

On the HoT page, they have:

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.
• Explore new open world jungle maps.
• Experience new events and storylines.
• Test your mettle in new boss battles.

What this ‘challenging group content’ is is anyone’s guess.

Could be open world events, dungeons or Fractals. Heck, it could even be raids (we had a Raid CDI and they hired a raid designer a while back).

Some people considered the Shadow of the Dragon challenging group content. It’s meaningless buzz that promises nothing.

Larynx.2453:

TheDaiBish.9735:

On the HoT page, they have:

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.
• Explore new open world jungle maps.
• Experience new events and storylines.
• Test your mettle in new boss battles.

What this ‘challenging group content’ is is anyone’s guess.

Could be open world events, dungeons or Fractals. Heck, it could even be raids (we had a Raid CDI and they hired a raid designer a while back).

Some people considered the Shadow of the Dragon challenging group content. It’s meaningless buzz that promises nothing.

I think you missed the point I was trying to make.

It was more about that they’ve mentioned group content but haven’t given specifics rather than the difficulty of said content.

TheDaiBish.9735:

On the HoT page, they have:

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.
• Explore new open world jungle maps.
• Experience new events and storylines.
• Test your mettle in new boss battles.

What this ‘challenging group content’ is is anyone’s guess.

Could be open world events, dungeons or Fractals. Heck, it could even be raids (we had a Raid CDI and they hired a raid designer a while back).

This is what I’m hoping for.

Why specifically put out a memo that your looking to hire people with experience designing raids if your not going to make raids.

And I really do hope they are instanced. The problem with open world content is that it must be rather toned down in difficulty otherwise you get people with no idea how to do the fight right causing it to scale up too much thus making it harder & possibly even impossible for everyone else.

Kepp your hopes low. If they were adding dungeon(s) they would say it straight in the face. With ‘challenging group content’ they usually mean zerg fests like Tequatl or Wyvern. Keep your hopes low.