Guild Wars 2

With the release of Revenant, in HoT, will ANet be giving us a free character slot with the expansion?

I’m hoping so.

I don’t see why they would.

The initial game launched with 5 character slots and yet 8 professions, so you’ve always had to buy slots if you want a character of every profession.

I guess maybe it would be a nice gesture towards people who don’t want to buy the expansion and immediately need to buy something else on top if it just to use the new profession, but… eh. I still don’t see it happening. At most, maybe they’ll put slots on sale at release.

My thinking was along the lines of GW1. 4 slots for 6 professions and then 2 additionals each time they released a new game because of the new professions.

I know this is similar to EotN, in that it’s an expansion, but I’d hope they’d offer a toon slot to enjoy the new content.

If they hadn’t revealed the Revenant then I wouldn’t be bothered about a new slot.

It might be because it would be great if they want to test the new profession.

That was happened in Guild Wars 1 as the new expansion came. → one or two new free character slot.

I’d imagine they’d give you at least one new character slot. If you haven’t purchased any, you’d be up to 6, meaning you’d still need to guy some to play the other professions.

Furthermore, we don’t know how specializations will work. Will they be permanent character choices much like class and race choices are permanent? If so, it might mean that someone needs more than one character of the same class if they want to play other specializations (assuming there will be more than one available with HoT).

Of course, I imagine the character specializations will be a non-permanent decisions much like traits and utilities are non-permanent. But people will be interested in trying out the new build options, and if they just turn around and not provide any means to do so other than opening our wallets, people aren’t going to like that.

So I’m guessing they’ll give us 1 free slot, but just 1.