Guild Wars 2

A list of added content:

-ram mastery
-5 new ranks in repair mastery
-reinforcement mastery
-New siege in WvW is a possibility but not an immediate item on the table.
-Masteries will continue being added.
-Rank max is diamond legend at 10k ranks
-Bloodlust in the borderlands is the new “Orb” mechanic. It doesn’t not have a release date yet. 5 objectives in the borderlands lake, 3 of them give an orb buff if held together.
-Clarification that treb mastery 5 drains 10 supply per shot.
-Treb mastery 4 drops 20 sec healing zone and water field.

I will expand the list as more is seen, please discuss these changes below.

New info about rank (at least for me)
Rank 10 000 = Diamond Legend.

:D

Asudementio.8526:

A list of added content:

5 WvW ruins in the borderlands, when you hold 3 you get a buff.

This is all that really matters. Did they go into details? Can you elaborate please? I can’t watch it at work, its blocked, those kittens!

Nope they didn’t. Kinda of a waste of time really.

It was a huge island in the middle, with a huge castle/tower

The ruin we saw looked beautiful and like it could be a fun place to fight. I’m anxious to know when it’ll be added.

Looks like a way to break up the zerg as well, not enough information from the stream to pass positive/negative judgement but I’m excited for the changes at least!

“I want to show something that a lot of people are really excided about, meta events in WvW”
Shows one of the 5 capture points located around the lake. Doesnt even show/tell what you get if you capture it. Shuts down stream.
Oh well, I would call this “getting scammed” if I would have paid for the game and some Head developer told me to watch the stream. Oh well…

No, details were sparse. They didn’t go in depth about anything other than the current in game masteries.

Watching it made me acutally more kitten ed.
I think It’s time to move to PvE since that’s all they do in “Guild” Wars 2.

Will be really cool especially if they do not allow siege in there.

Xsorus.2507:

It was a huge island in the middle, with a huge castle/tower

There was a sentry point where you were talking about. Sentry in a tower?? Maybe they just redesigned the temple of storms area to match the new “orb areas”

bringing spvp into wvw — point capture/defense

…well maybe the spvp team will get to work on wvw now and increase the amount of attention anet gives to wvw??

They realty trolled a lot of ppl it was great! Looks like they are adding in a good bit in the BL.

did anyone take a screenshot from the castle in the back, while he trolled us showing his armor?

style.6173:

Will be really cool especially if they do not allow siege in there.

I think I saw a bit of siege half built up top, so they probably allow it.

I would like to add that they likely skipped over the questions about bloodlust and the objectives because they are unsure all the details in their final implementation. Though if they didn’t want questions they shouldn’t have shown any of it, just saying.

Aevis.4061:

did anyone take a screenshot from the castle in the back, while he trolled us showing his armor?

I can’t verify but it looks like hills is getting some design changes.

Johje Holan.4607:

Asudementio.8526:

A list of added content:

5 WvW ruins in the borderlands, when you hold 3 you get a buff.

This is all that really matters. Did they go into details? Can you elaborate please? I can’t watch it at work, its blocked, those kittens!

He didn’t go into a lot of detail. There were 5 capture points spread evenly around the lake (one looked underwater) of the borderlands. If your realm captures at least 3 you are granted an unknown buff called “bloodlust.”

He showed one capture point near bay which was a new colosseum ruin which demonstrated that they’re slightly changing the borderlands map.

So….

No new map.
Nothing about GvG
Adding sPVP into WvW
No Golem Mastery (hehe)

Well done…. good way to kill the WvW.

Looked awesome. No kittening walls! Just capture points. Will be an awesome place for guilds to fight all day!

Really?

Capturing the 3 points while you hold the Garrison should open DF – > A place to farm Real Coin for WvW’ers w/o taking out the WORLD VS WORLD.

It would also be a place for PVE’r’s to ~want~ to go to, while giving us PvP’ers a place to farm PvE’ers.

I strongly feel the WvW team really doesn’t understand what the WvW Population wants and this “content update” is nothing more than a band-aid.

They didn’t remove the water from the mini-map but when he ported to the objective in the water the lake was drained and re-terrain.ed

Consider me trolled. It was kind of funny. They also added some trees near the South East Tower!

Who doesn’t love trees?

Johje Holan.4607:

Asudementio.8526:

A list of added content:

5 WvW ruins in the borderlands, when you hold 3 you get a buff.

This is all that really matters. Did they go into details? Can you elaborate please? I can’t watch it at work, its blocked, those kittens!

Asudementio.8526:

I can’t verify but it looks like hills is getting some design changes.

From the angle, it looked more like the new symbol in front of hills. Although a redesigned hills makes more sense than an entire new castle right there.

edit: Actually with others mention, that the lake was drained, that could’ve been where the island of storm currently is.

Mystery.7392:

So….

No new map.

Did you even watch the stream?

EDIT: in the screenshot above he is currently STANDING WHERE WATER SHOULD BE (via the mini-map) but is on a new “Colosseum” of sort which works towards Bloodlust in the Borderlands (new name for Orb?)

Amins.3710:

Really?

Capturing the 3 points while you hold the Garrison should open DF – > A place to farm Real Coin for WvW’ers w/o taking out the WORLD VS WORLD.

It would also be a place for PVE’r’s to ~want~ to go to, while giving us PvP’ers a place to farm PvE’ers.

I strongly feel the WvW team really doesn’t understand what the WvW Population wants and this “content update” is nothing more than a band-aid.

that would be so awesome lol

Amins.3710:

Really?

The 3 points should open DF – > A place to farm Real Coin for WvW’ers w/o taking out the WORLD VS WORLD.

It would also be a place for PVE’r’s to ~want~ to go to, while giving us PvP’ers a place to farm PvE’ers.

I strongly feel the WvW team really doesn’t understand what the WvW Population wants and this “content update” is nothing more than a band-aid.

I do think WvW needs a darkness falls area openable by say, holding garri and all 5 ruins? portal shows up in garri? It would be like the obsidian sanctum and have pvp enabled but be a place where a lot of money could be made.

I do like the reorganization of the orb mechanic though because it will lend itself to both small-group play and forcing people out of keeps if the buff is done right.

Zulubeast.8519:

Looks like a way to break up the zerg as well, not enough information from the stream to pass positive/negative judgement but I’m excited for the changes at least!

Not so sure about that, since all 5 of the cap points are in a circle in the middle relatively close to eachother.

Or it will result in a zerg running in circles around those rings.

Mystery.7392:

So….

No new map.
Nothing about GvG
Adding sPVP into WvW
No Golem Mastery (hehe)

Well done…. good way to kill the WvW.

No need for new maps when we have space in the old maps that needs to be used.
You know GvG has nothing to do with WvW its a crated thing by the players and it may be best to keep GvG out of WvW in the long run.
WvW is about capping points its the same as in Spvp just in WvW you have a wall to help you most of the time its kind of nice for the open filed ppl to have open filed objectives that are more then just wxp etc…
You kind of have Golem Mastery as is just worth a lot of points max guard def / attk effects Golems.

Urrid.4593:

Or it will result in a zerg running in circles around those rings.

it could but even that would allow for open field fighting given proper organization.

Zinrae.3769:

Zulubeast.8519:

Looks like a way to break up the zerg as well, not enough information from the stream to pass positive/negative judgement but I’m excited for the changes at least!

Not so sure about that, since all 5 of the cap points are in a circle in the middle relatively close to eachother.

Not sure how the dynamic would work but I would assume you can de-cap from other servers, meaning you can’t just zerg each one down because it will just be flipped again by another server.

Jski.6180:

Mystery.7392:

So….

No new map.
Nothing about GvG
Adding sPVP into WvW
No Golem Mastery (hehe)

Well done…. good way to kill the WvW.

No need for new maps when we have space in the old maps that needs to be used.
You know GvG has nothing to do with WvW its a crated thing by the players and it may be best to keep GvG out of WvW in the long run.
WvW is about capping points its the same as in Spvp just in WvW you have a wall to help you most of the time its kind of nice for the open filed ppl to have open filed objectives that are more then just wxp etc…
You kind of have Golem Mastery as is just worth a lot of points max guard def / attk effects Golems.

New maps or at least updated map aesthetics would be hugely appreciated by a great deal of people.

GvG has everything to do with WvW because it affects WvW in its current organization.

Asudementio.8526:

it could but even that would allow for open field fighting given proper organization.

WTB commander tag system worth a kitten .

What organization? Call target? Mumble? Really?

Asudementio.8526:

Urrid.4593:

Or it will result in a zerg running in circles around those rings.

it could but even that would allow for open field fighting given proper organization.

People will build trebs and shoot the circle 24/7 im taking bets guys !

Urrid.4593:

Asudementio.8526:

it could but even that would allow for open field fighting given proper organization.

WTB commander tag system worth a kitten .

What organization? Call target? Mumble? Really?

Yes call target and voice coms. Does the commander system need a revamp or update? yes but that doesn’t mean the use of guild groups, squad chat, voice coms, and call target are not a form of organization albeit how crude it is

Asudementio.8526:

Jski.6180:

Mystery.7392:

So….

No new map.
Nothing about GvG
Adding sPVP into WvW
No Golem Mastery (hehe)

Well done…. good way to kill the WvW.

No need for new maps when we have space in the old maps that needs to be used.
You know GvG has nothing to do with WvW its a crated thing by the players and it may be best to keep GvG out of WvW in the long run.
WvW is about capping points its the same as in Spvp just in WvW you have a wall to help you most of the time its kind of nice for the open filed ppl to have open filed objectives that are more then just wxp etc…
You kind of have Golem Mastery as is just worth a lot of points max guard def / attk effects Golems.

New maps or at least updated map aesthetics would be hugely appreciated by a great deal of people.

GvG has everything to do with WvW because it affects WvW in its current organization.

They are updating the maps.

Yes the players organization not Anet i have a feeling Anet will be adding GvG in more of an Spvp setting if its any thing like GW1 where you have what guild is better then others. In a way you can nearly pull off a GvG in spvp but ppl tend to want higher numbers.

Zinrae.3769:

Zulubeast.8519:

Looks like a way to break up the zerg as well, not enough information from the stream to pass positive/negative judgement but I’m excited for the changes at least!

Not so sure about that, since all 5 of the cap points are in a circle in the middle relatively close to eachother.

agree

you can leave a single person to prevent flipping for a short time while that person calls out a zerg appearance. then your zerg wanders over to fight.

…just like spvp. w/o a 5 player limit.

well, warriors running shield and double endure pain will at least be useful for something, no one else can have like 10 secs of extreme damage mitigation without using invulns.

So the end result was expecting something new…..soon. Where have I heard that before?

kittennit.7648:

People will build trebs and shoot the circle 24/7 im taking bets guys !

No one even trebs bay anymore (effort meh) so what makes you think anyone is going to treb those rings past one week?

Random thought: I wonder how much “water gate” garrison has changed…

style.6173:

Asudementio.8526:

Urrid.4593:

Or it will result in a zerg running in circles around those rings.

it could but even that would allow for open field fighting given proper organization.

As long as ANET restricts siege in these areas. Otherwise, it will not be fun.

Siege will likely not be restricted if i had to guess.

Anything that promotes small group play or open field combat is good in my perspective. Atleast the new points don’t involve PvD.

And to the people saying they added sPvP in WvW… take a look around. The whole WvW map has always been capture and hold points. Some just have walls around them.

Asudementio.8526:

Jski.6180:

Mystery.7392:

So….

No new map.
Nothing about GvG
Adding sPVP into WvW
No Golem Mastery (hehe)

Well done…. good way to kill the WvW.

No need for new maps when we have space in the old maps that needs to be used.
You know GvG has nothing to do with WvW its a crated thing by the players and it may be best to keep GvG out of WvW in the long run.
WvW is about capping points its the same as in Spvp just in WvW you have a wall to help you most of the time its kind of nice for the open filed ppl to have open filed objectives that are more then just wxp etc…
You kind of have Golem Mastery as is just worth a lot of points max guard def / attk effects Golems.

New maps or at least updated map aesthetics would be hugely appreciated by a great deal of people.

GvG has everything to do with WvW because it affects WvW in its current organization.

If Anet wants to make legit GvG, it will be an addition to custom arenas. WvW was never designed for it.

i wish they would make skritt and centaurs mercenary camps

Oops :P

EDIT: Higher res version

Mif.3471:

Oops :P

Thanks for the image mif! may i post it? in the opener?

Mif.3471:

Oops :P

ohhhh snap.. BRING ON OPEN FIELD FIGHTS BABY!!!!

Asudementio.8526:

Mif.3471:

Oops :P

Thanks for the image mif! may i post it? in the opener?

Don’t see how I can stop you