Guild Wars 2

I have had a long break from the game and just got back one week ago. As I missed a lot of discussions, content added,story etc I was wondering if there were any serious talks(from devs, media ) about raids in GW 2 , especially now with HoT.

no
and hopefully there never will be.

Man, I get that Raid should definitely not be the focus of their content creation, but at least one big raid would be awesome.

And yeah, there was a word on a call for raid building experience. Might be a clue to future challenging content.

As of yet, no. However, they did say that they will be discussing the challenging group content in HoT soon.

They were also advertising for a Raid Designer a while back. Take what you will from that.

Them talking about challenging raid content, them hiring a raid designer and them having a CDI to talk instanced raids leads me to believe we will be seeing instanced raiding in HoT.

Fernling.1729:

Them talking about challenging raid content, them hiring a raid designer and them having a CDI to talk instanced raids leads me to believe we will be seeing instanced raiding in HoT.

This ^.

Open world content is flawed.

It is flawed because it must be toned for simplistic minded people. Otherwise you get simplistic minded people screwing up the event for everyone else because they cannot figure out how to do an event or even learn via watching a youtube video on it.

Raid content would solve this via letting the more hard core among us choose who they bring into an encounter.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Fernling.1729:

Them talking about challenging raid content, them hiring a raid designer and them having a CDI to talk instanced raids leads me to believe we will be seeing instanced raiding in HoT.

Open world content is flawed.

It is flawed because it must be toned for simplistic minded people. Otherwise you get simplistic minded people screwing up the event for everyone else because they cannot figure out how to do an event or even learn via watching a youtube video on it.

Short version:

You end up with the kitten that happens in Silverwastes

As long as the raid content can plausibly be completed without agony resistance (or ascended gear in any form) and doesn’t reward anything more powerful than ascended I’m completely fine with them adding it.

Will I play it? Probably not, because of time and commitment constraints. Would I play it if not for the constraints? Probably yes.

I personally would love to see raids added.

I don’t like it when people say the world bosses are raids because they are not. Just because you have more people doesn’t make a raid. I can literally go to any World boss and just auto and get gold rating and complete it. That doesn’t make a raid.

I’m personally looking for bigger challenges and even more importantly fresher challenges in group content.

Fractals Helps with that a lot but even fractal go fairly stale and hits a roof for when your agony gain starts to fall off.

And for someone like me, who doesn’t need dungeon tokens, Or the little amount of gold that comes from it there is literally no reason for me to do dungeons.

And GW2 has the perfect setup for raids the fact that you don’t need healers or tanks would make for a perfect 10 – 20 man group content. You could make things bigger and better. And raids would make for an amazing feature that would add a lot of meat to the new expansion

Kentrey.3251:

I personally would love to see raids added.

I don’t like it when people say the world bosses are raids because they are not. Just because you have more people doesn’t make a raid. I can literally go to any World boss and just auto and get gold rating and complete it. That doesn’t make a raid.

I’m personally looking for bigger challenges and even more importantly fresher challenges in group content.

Fractals Helps with that a lot but even fractal go fairly stale and hits a roof for when your agony gain starts to fall off.

And for someone like me, who doesn’t need dungeon tokens, Or the little amount of gold that comes from it there is literally no reason for me to do dungeons.

And GW2 has the perfect setup for raids the fact that you don’t need healers or tanks would make for a perfect 10 – 20 man group content. You could make things bigger and better. And raids would make for an amazing feature that would add a lot of meat to the new expansion

I agree with u