Guild Wars 2

I’m going to be “that guy” here and ask bluntly:

Will the RNG be dropped in gemstore (yes, black lion tickets and ticket scraps). Cringe worthy it is, but until x-pac announcement it could be justified with game upkeep costs. But since you’ll get a huge money boost with HoT can we just send that mechanic to “The hell away and never come back”-ville and leave it there?

I expect most of my burning questions will be answered as ya’ll release info and we get closer to launch, so I’ll just ask something off the wall.

Will we get new Maguuma-themed faces and hairstyles (and maybe tattoos or horns or the like) at character creation for those who own the expansion?

question i want answered: are you going to fix the current story as well when releasing this? and by fix mean put everything back where it was. and mods, i’m not derailing, it’s a legitamate question about the expansion, i figure a big release is a perfect time to release the fix

Big #1 : How much is it going to cost???

Outside of the expectations of the new specializations, will the balance team be revisiting and repairing many aspects of PVE combat that are currently broken? (i.e. crowd control, condition stacking)

Aside from the two big questions (how much money do I cram in you? When do I cram said cash in you?) I have a question based on the lore/language thing Colin brought up.

I’m going to initially believe the new races will benefit from this, but eventually will older races get little nuggets like this going forward?

Ranked by Importance
1. Is anything being done to address the population based ppt system?
2. How much of the map is being opened with the expansion(a picture or description would be nice).
3. Are there going to be dungeons and fractals in the expansion?

Q: any new races?

Q: will there be access to other regions besides the Heart of Magumma (eg. Crystal Desert, Cantha, Elona)

Q: Will Scythes Finally return?

Q: Any masteries for previous enemies and maps?

Q: Did Logan, Eir and Zojja die?

Q: Will our Sylvari characters be able to resist the call of Mordremoth?

I understand we don’t get answers immediately here, but over the next weeks/months. I hope we get a clear answer on my biggest question soon: How will the expansion effects the “We do not want to split the community”? Will every member of my guild be able to enter the new guild hall, even when they don’t have HoT? And that is only one of the issues I see.

I guess we will get specific information about certain aspects of the expansion in the next weeks. Like a new specialization every week. A deeper insight in how the new PvP Stronghold map will work. What the specific features of the new Borderland maps will be. All these topics are great to feed the hype and get a lot of publicity. In my eyes the main reason why GW2 need an expansion, to get more media hype and get more new players. The current Living world concept could have used also for the HoT content, but that would not have stirred so much attention (and maybe money).

But an answer to my question will probably be much more complicated. And is not so interesting for the hype. So I am afraid we will not get an answer (soon). I hope Gale can pass my question (and the rest of my post) to the people in charge so they can think about if and how to answer it. Maybe I am wrong and they already have something ready to answer my question. In that case I will still think it is Gale who made it happen

Shall we have a few people living in the meantime the expansion?

Does cities will announce the demise of the fleet of the Covenant?

Did we will see a change in the NPC in the meantime?

We’ll have small shift to improve the current known world?

Will we have new racial armor?

News Dungeons?

Q: Will there be a Ranger Specialization that allows me to prema-stow my pet or replace the pet with a new set of F skills?

If so… SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Q: Will players be able to hire hentchmen or heroes (AI) to help them in dungeons, if they don’t have a full group of players? This would be nice since i prefer to do things at my own pace.

Questions?
Got some:

- Release Date?

- How are specializiations different from slotting certain traits and skills to gain a certain effect? Why specialize anyway, if you could have handed out the traits, skills and weapons?

- How big are the areas?

- How or will it influence the old areas?

- If it is a boxed expansion, how will we be able to get it? Will there be a special edition? Will it have stuff that are not consumebles?

- Do the new abilities affect the old regions?

- A rough number on new weapon and armor skins?

- What will we get till HoT is released? Can we finaly take care of LA?

Just a few from the top of my hat.

Will we get new customization parts (other than faces and hairstyles) across all races? For example:

-New horns for charr
-New beards/tattoos for norn
-New ears for asura
-New beards for humans
-New… something for sylvari, I dunno. Oh! Foliage beards, yeah!

I mean, new faces and hairstyles are always welcome, but I’ve been dying to see some new horns for charr, like deer/elk/ram inspired horns, much larger beards for norn with intricate bands and other accessories, and a wider variety of asura ears to choose from!

Sorry if this was alredy asked.

1. Specializations: if there are more than one per class, there will be a way to reset it and pick another one?

2. From now on, all the LS new content will be expansion only?

3. If the LS is expansion only and keep working as it is now, what will happen if I buy the expansion 1 or 2 months after the release? I will need to buy all the episodes with gems?

Will the Profession Specialization also affect WvW and PvP?

Since the LS is done what are we doing till release, any events planned?

When I’m creating a new char will I be able to join Maguuma or do i need to play the personal story/ living story first? — Maguuma = only 80 area?

@nadesh:

3. You can buy the Guildwars2 Heart of thorns digital or in a retail store like guildwars2.

@Silversteen.1360 thx for answer but that wasn’t the question. Probably what I wrote wasnt very clear, my english is very poor. What I meant is that if i buy the expansion some time after the release, I will need to buy the episodes for 200 gems like it is now or the full LS (or what is left of it) will be unlocked when we buy the expansion?

Another one: the expansion will give us an extra character expansion slot or we will need to buy one (or delete an existent character) to create the new class one? (I have enough slots to create the new one but i know people that would need to buy one).

Yitsul.8342:

Q: Will our Sylvari characters be able to resist the call of Mordremoth?

The trailer shows numerous sylvaris behaving perfectly “normally”.

It might be weird that I’m asking this question when there’s so much more stuff to get hyped over, but I saw that Rytlock’s Fiery Dragon Sword extinguishes itself on sheathing it.

Can we have that for the player versions? Please?

What will happen to our pets ( both ranger and mini) if/ when we go hang gliding? Will they automaticaly be dismissed and re sommend when we land or will some of them, birds for instance, be able to fallow us?

Why do they not expand into the areas gw1 people are craving for?

Will Branching Personal story content be returning?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gathering questions may not be a bad idea, but I can tell you that until we release the “deep dives” into each feature, there won’t be a lot that we can answer in response to specific questions. Still and all, a thread that tries to gather things together is perfectly fine with me!

In other words we’re not going to get any info until ANet makes it available, on their own time frame. They’ll probably do it like they did with the feature packs (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/feature-packs/). Lay down a loose set of topics with dates and slowly reveal more info.
Of course at this point we don’t have a release date so it’s hard to estimate when they’ll start and at what pace they’ll be releasing info.

Levetty.1279:

2) Will my Mesmer ever be able to run fast without focus?

This is a VERY important question dude, I have to ask people to wait on me all the time! It would be so nice to use something other than a focus, I really don’t like it other than to run fast. Pistol is more fun for me.

@Arenanet : Are you gonna optimize the game for more hardware? If not, I really have to change my AMD CPU to an Intel one so it’s important to know.

I subscribed to your heart of thorns expansion newsletter but have not got my confirmation email I was wondering when we should expect to get those. Thank you very much

I have a few questions in this topic I made: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/A-few-questions/first#post4729433

I’m sure most of my questions related to expansion content will be answered in the deep dives. I was wondering, though…

An expac might be a good chance to also bundle in some QoL improvements, or even some major (but incredibly desired) features like gear & Trait presets. Would these things possibly be added in an expansion, since you ARE looking at improving existing content as evidenced by WvW, or would it come in something like a Feature Pack?

Will level 80 still be the cap or there will be more levels after level 80 also if there are will be able to use the experience we gained until now after we reached level 80 to get to the new level cap?

adormtil.1605:

Will level 80 still be the cap or there will be more levels after level 80 also if there are will be able to use the experience we gained until now after we reached level 80 to get to the new level cap?

They told us at PAX South that the cap is NOT changing.

Darmikau.9413:

She, not he.

And it’s less of a question and more of a demand for playable Tengu. Heartbreak if we have to wait another three years for them.

I’m going to echo this, I heard there was an expansion and rushed here thinking that Tengu would be playable, but nope, more Sylvari stuff. Dang it, I even reserved the name, Tengu thinking they would be playable. T.T

I understand there’s gonna be a lot of disclosure about the new features following the announcement but here’s a couple questions I think could be easily answered.

1) Will Living Story have sequences only included in the new area or will it be still be based in the base game?

And more importantly: 2) As with GW1, does the expansion give us character slots?

Thanks guys.

- Do we have various skins hang gliding?

- No new races to play?

- Will we have new fractals?

- Living world he will continue pending the expansion?

- Cities Racial Current will they be improved?

- The Arch will be rebuilt in the meantime?

I should stop biting my nails with impatience. x)

- Will the expansion be after the fashion of Eye of the North or something more like the three GWs. So what Im saying is is this going to be all max level content or will there be a whole new story to go through from the beginning. Or will we see a combination of the two, say like a retooling of the personal story to make it fresh and have it lead in to the new content rather than where it leads now.

-If there is only one specialization per profession why would I not specialize? Does specializing change the character entirely, so if I specialize to Druid do I lose my Ranger skills and sacrifice them for Druid skills? Or is it just it gives you a new couple of skills, talents, and weapons. Im really hoping there will be at least two specializations per profession, just for variability sake.

-Will stuff like masteries and specializations be on the level of legendary weapons or GW1s more elusive titles where only the people that are really willing to put in the hours be able to unlock them? I actually like the way legendary weapons are hard to get, so having one actually matters, but something like masteries and specializations that change gameplay and add actual new content should be more widely available, they shouldn’t be easy to get certainly but I’d like to see them realistically obtainable.

-Will there be other masteries related to mobility other than hang-gliders? Things like mounts or surfing or maybe grappling hooks?

-Are we going to see new skills and traits for existing professions or races? Including new weapon types beyond specializations. Like adding scythes or spears and giving them to existing classes. And while we’re at that, will the Revanent get a specialization?

-Will there be more than one new ‘zone’? Even if the jungle isn’t split into multiple zones, I hope we’ll at least see some new cities, like maybe the Domain of the Winds, or some of the areas around Orr, now that Zhaitan is gone, those areas should be safer, like the Ring of Fire and such.

Personally…I wanna know if the Bearbow Legendary (A longbow that shoots out BEARS) is still on the table.

I wanna believe.

I also want to know if there’s going to be more additions to WvW outside of a new map. Reward track like sPvP perhaps?

Any new crafting recipes or crafting professions? Will the foods and consumables that are currently account bound be unbound so that people can start selling those items? Any recipe adjustments like Sharpening Stone Stations having a reduced amount of materials needed to craft it (Because as they are right now, you may as well just craft up a bunch of potent sharpening stones and give them out to people individually)?

Finally…why wasn’t the expansion called Game of Thorns instead?

Nadesh.7953:

@Silversteen.1360 thx for answer but that wasn’t the question. Probably what I wrote wasnt very clear, my english is very poor. What I meant is that if i buy the expansion some time after the release, I will need to buy the episodes for 200 gems like it is now or the full LS (or what is left of it) will be unlocked when we buy the expansion?

Ah, okay. Understood now.
I think, if the LS will be unlocked completely with the expansion it will end in kitten storm by the players who already paid for it and players who played the living story without spending money because they will get the feeling that they pay also for the LS if they buy the expansion altho they don’t need to.

I personally would avoid such a issue but don’t know how Arena Net thinking about this..

1. Will we be getting a free character slot with the release of the new class like we did in GW1 with dervish, rit, paragon, sin, etc?

2. If only 1 specialization per class will be available in HoT (God I hope there’s at least 2 or whats the point), will more be released in the future?

3. Will there only be 1 version/style of a guild hall that can then be upgraded, or will different guild hall styles (or skins?) be available to choose from.

That’s all for now.

Will we get scythe?

I’ve posted this as a independent topic, but for the sake of helping the devs answer, here goes:
Will people be “forced” to pay to conclude the extremely unresolved Living story as it is at this point? Or Will the living story progress with some sort of new LS for the Expansion?
What features will be expansion exclusive and which won’t? For example, how will class specializations be handled in SpvP – will they be available for all, or will the (possibly stronger) new specs only available for Expansion owners?

Will core professions get new weapons, utilities, and traits? Or to access those things, we have to choose a specialization?

Which of the new stuffs will be expansion only and which (if any) will be for all the players?

From now on, all the new content will be only for the ones with the expansion? I guess that class balance and bug fixes will be for all, but what about future maps, LS, bosses, etc. This is important bcs if they don’t add anything else if you don’t have the expansion, sooner or later it will be game over for the ones that don’t buy it.

Q: Will the revenant class get a new personal story? it doesn’t make much sense that they get the same one as the old classes . Since Rytlok won’t learn it until season 2 when he enters the mist and zaithan will then already be dead.

How do you make that announcement with 0 information about timing? It doesn’t have to be a date but is this another 5 year wait? 1 year? 2 years? If you have no idea, then you shouldn’t really be announcing anything.

I realize many of these will be answered with time, but for the record:

Q: The ones everyone is asking (when, how much, how big is the new world, can I be in the beta)?

Q: Will we be getting living story updates (or other content) between now and the launch of the expansion?

Q: Can we get some examples of the new group challenges they talk about in the launch presentation?

Q: How does Anet determine what is part of an expansion and what is part of the living world release model and what is part of a feature pack (if they are still doing feature packs and living story)?

Q: Will new dungeons/guild missions/minigames be part of the expansion?

Q: Will there be more than one new specialization with each profession? (im fine with one for now)

Q: Will you be rotating WvW maps and how will that work?

Q: What is the name of the new engineer specialization?

This was already asked sorta, but I will rephrase the question, since you have established a pretense.
For the Reverant.
Will WARRIORS that already exist on people’s accounts be able to switch over to being a Reverant?
You have Rytlock, a former warrior, now the “first” Reverant. Logic dictates that you should allow other warriors this same option.

How many specializations will there be per class? One specialization isn’t specializing, it’s just a continuation of the class. There needs to be at least two, but preferably three.

Will we get an extra character slot with the expansion?

Just made a thread with questions compiled from reddit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Compilation-of-questions-about-GW2-HoT

Q: Will we get new dances and other emotes?

I’d like to know how much customization the new guild halls will have, and what kind of functions they can serve.
I hope they’ll be at least as strong as they were in GW1 in those regards, but I’m not expecting much.
Considering how the “home instance” has turned out, in spite of their continuing support of it with nodes and what not.

I have a new question:

Will Specialization be for level 80 characters only, or will this be something that can affect the character and how they play as they level up?