Guild Wars 2

What comes as part of the expansion? What am I buying exactly?

So far we know:

• New profession (Revenant)
• Elite Specialisations
• Mastery system
• PvE Maps (unknown number of)
• Guild Halls

TheDaiBish.9735:

So far we know:

• New profession (Revenant)
• Elite Specialisations
• Mastery system
• PvE Maps (unknown number of)
• Guild Halls

• New WvW maps
• New stronghold pvp mode
• Normal specialisations

(also available without HoT but technically only impemented because of it so you can definitly count it as well)

• “challenging group content” as we know for now

Entenkommando.5208:

TheDaiBish.9735:

So far we know:

• New profession (Revenant)
• Elite Specialisations
• Mastery system
• PvE Maps (unknown number of)
• Guild Halls

• New WvW maps
• New stronghold pvp mode
• Normal specialisations

(also available without HoT but technically only impemented because of it so you can definitly count it as well)

• “challenging group content” as we know for now

The WvW and SPvP maps are available to everyone, so I left them out since the OP asked what was he buying.

Normal Specialisations also come out Tuesday, and so aren’t part of HoT in that sense.

As for Challenging group content, I left that out since we don’t exactly know what it entails.

That’s why I mentioned that it’s included before.
If they included it with HoT only you’d take it as a feature as well…they are simply giving you the chance to test it before.

IMO HoT can take credit for those things, because these are things that were designed FOR HoT and the OP should know that with the purchase of the expansion he supported these changes as well.

He can then decide for himself if he only wants to judge the price tag by the completely new content or by everything around it.

Entenkommando.5208:

That’s why I mentioned that it’s included before.
If they included it with HoT only you’d take it as a feature as well…they are simply giving you the chance to test it before.

IMO HoT can take credit for those things, because these are things that were designed FOR HoT and the OP should know that with the purchase of the expansion he supported these changes as well.

He can then decide for himself if he only wants to judge the price tag by the completely new content or by everything around it.

No. They’re going to be part of the base game. They’re not part of HoT in that you don’t need HoT to get access to them.

You can assume that they never would have been created if it wasn’t for HoT but that’s just an assumption.

For example, they’ve been talking about new sPvP modes since before launch so you could just as easily assume that this new sPvP mode would have been created even if they never decided to make an expansion. For all we know ArenaNet designed it long before they decided to create HoT.

The specialisations definitly tie in with HoT (they also always presented it to be a feature of it)

The other things…you can’t know. It is not HoT only content, but it is included with HoT and has been advertised as HoT features.
It was simply impossible to make it HoT only, because it would split the entire community. In my eyes it is a part of what you are paying for. If you don’t think so it’s fine as well. I just wanted to mention it so the OP can make his own decision.