Guild Wars 2

Mental Paradox.3845:

What’s the point of “specialization” if there only one “choice”?
Should be at least 2.

My thoughts as well, they might just as well have revamped the current classes instead of calling it specialisation.

I don’t think we know at this point

At this point we can’t talk about anything being definitely. Although I’d say we’re hovering 80-90% on what might not be included.

Who said there wasn’t raids? No one. The lack of evidence is not evidence of a lacking. We need to wait for more details to be 100% sure

Keene.5394:

I’m OK with this as long as it is an option and not a requirement.

With the new verticality that they promised you’d probably need it.

New race is purely aesthetic. That said I’d have loved to have both, but if I had to choice a new profession would be the better choice

Chuck.8196:

sevenDEADLY.5281:

Joke? Did you miss all 40 free living world updates?

No which is exactly my point. Why an expansion when everything can be brought LW?

Because ANet is a profit driven business.
It’s a bit more complicated than that (for example box sales can cover initial development costs etc.)

TurtleofPower.5641:

My biggest question about that is there actually an option, or is druid is the only one for ranger, necro greatsword is the only one they get, etc…

It would be AMAZING if there’s options but a little less so if it’s one per prof.

It would be kinda pointless if we only had a single specialization, if we only have 1 specialization then what’s the point?

Antalore.4206:

Ragnarox.9601:

they said no paid expansion…but i think they will announce 50 euros :/

When did they say that? hope it’s true.
and no way it’s gonna be 50 euros, that’s overpriced for some few nice changes.

I didn’t hear anything about free expansion either. Also pricing would vary from place to place and depending on collectors edition or standard

If they lock it, then they’d in a way force you to level those alts

Nah it’s the sort of thing they would have announced

To clarify it seems you need to firstly enter a specialisation before you get access to these weapons, for example the ranger must specialise in druidism to be able to use a staff

So far I’ve seen a Engineering with a large hammer (maybe they’re introducing greathammers?), a ranger with a staff (druid) and a necro with a greatsword

So far the hype train is still on the tracks! Cho Cho!

No one knows at this points

Copy pasted list.

Heart of Maguuma - new region

Mastery - Gliding, Lore, new combat

Legendary - New ones and pre-cursor scavenger hunt

Profession Specialization - “almost a secondary profession if you will” – Colin,
Ranger example: Druid specialization, have access to staff weapon, new skills, new profession mechanics;
Necromancer example: ability to use greatsword. Between now and expansion more details will be released

Reverant - New heavy armour profession, (Rytlock is the first Revenant), able to use the powers of the mist / channel legends of the past

WvW - new Borderland map, keeps have themes, keeps provide abilities to a world,
earth keep raises parts of the ground for defense,
fire keep magma pools for quicker map travel
Holding objectives more important

Competitive PvP - new game mode Stronghold.
Stronghold – spend supply to hire troops and fight with the troops to invade enemy stronghold (sounds like LoL / DotA).
PvP Guild-teams and guild-teams leaderboards

Guild Halls – Provide for home based to build and grow guild and core hub for socialization

Not yet announced. Probably what you’d usually pay.

Trailer already on youtube

Not a comprehensive list but this is what I took note of.

Heart of Maguuma - new region (possibly multiple maps i.e. Kryta, Ascalon etc.)

Mastery - Gliding, Lore, new combat

Legendary - New ones and pre-cursor scavenger hunt

Profession Specialization - “almost a secondary profession if you will” – Colin,
Ranger example: Druid specialization, have access to staff weapon, new skills, new profession mechanics;
Necromancer example: ability to use greatsword.
Between now and expansion more details will be released

Reverant - New heavy armour profession, (Rytlock is the first Revenant), able to use the powers of the mist / channel legends of the past

WvW - new Borderland map, keeps have themes, keeps provide abilities to a world,
earth keep raises parts of the ground for defense,
fire keep magma pools for quicker map travel
Holding objectives more important

Competitive PvP - new game mode Stronghold.
Stronghold – spend supply to hire troops and fight with the troops to invade enemy stronghold (sounds like LoL / DotA).
PvP Guild-teams and guild-teams leaderboards

Guild Halls – Provide for home based to build and grow guild and core hub for socialization

Can we please keep this in one thread perhaps?

Guhracie.3419:

Languages! They’re going to reveal lore as you learn them!

via mastery

Flying mounts! Ok rather hang-gliders

JustTrogdor.7892:

CureForLiving.5360:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Heart of Maguuma, new maps announced.

Not a map necessarily

They called it a map.

It’s the a part I’m not so sure about.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Heart of Maguuma, new maps announced.

Not a map necessarily

Oh and don’t forget the Staff Ranger we saw in the trailer

Um yeah, I’m glad you’re excited, but this is like the 4 post on this topic.

Come on at least listen to the whole thing before spamming the forum with half-posts

So we’ve got two threads with the same content going then?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Pax-forum-update-thread

lol, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of spamming

Einlanzer.1627:

level cap not being raised. no new tier of gear.

This is going to be like a hour long, you’re not planning on a play by play are you :P

Well at least you didn’t ask for mounts or the holy-trinity. So that’s something.
Finishing would be nice, new classes always welcomed, gear grinding… eh… not my thing.

Taygus.4571:

what do you suggest they do?

How long do they save your spot for?
1 minute? 2? 10?

dc’s happen…it’s not that big a deal.

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I’m more bothered by the fact I have to keep clciking “join” to get onto a map..=.=..a queue system is a must!

Well based on the initial concept behind the join function (i.e. to play with friends) a queue system is kind a silly. However the street always finds a use, and currently the join function is used for taxi purposes. Actually I think we don’t so much need a queue as much as a new system that caters for the need at hand (i.e. to taxi people). The LFG is just not really designed around that idea.

Pockets.3201:

Free map hopping would be a bit abusable, for one.

But just think how many trees / ore I could mine! But yes abuse-able.

Iason Evan.3806:

Agreed. The “District Menu” in GW1 was several orders of magnitude better than what we have in this game. Sure, it was for lobbies only, but it would be great to have.

I seems like people want to fit a perfectly good square into a circle. Why do you want a District system? For what uses? I’m guessing it’s for things like Silverwastes or Tequatl? In that cause Maslow’s Hammer seems applicable. I’d personal rather have ANet not adapt a hammer into a screwdriver but rather just give me a screwdriver.

I don’t think ANet ever really catered to the RP community in any case

Pandaman.4758:

Wait, what? No, you can use transmuted items in the MF, it will treat that item as the base item – there’s even a little tooltip that says as much when you mouse over it while in the MF window.

I was able to infuse six spinal blade backpacks even after they were transmuted (long story short: picked the wrong stats, transmuted the items, realized half a year later where I messed up), so I know for sure you can upgrade backpacks at the very least.

Jip. In the old system you couldn’t. Since they implemented the wardrobe in feature pack 2 it uses the base item.

Pandaman.4758:

I’m not even sure why that tooltip about transmutation not working with the MF even exists, because at no point was I ever not able to use transmuted spinal blades of any quality in the MF.

Old system you couldn’t, feature pack 2 came out after S1 ended (and thus the spinal backpieces became available in game). So the tooltip is probably a bug.

Nick.6972:

Whatever we’re going to see, I can assure to you, it won’t be a traditional MMO expansion pack.

I don’t know, so many people seem to want one.

Cosmin.8306:

Well i really hope that HoT will revamp his encounter a bit , it felt a bit anticlimactic.

Which is why Zhaitan being alive is so appealing. Even if we only get a single new dungeon, or open world boss.

Janderson.4670:

Caithe also said that her wyld hunt is completed, which was to kill Zhaitan.

Which she only said because she thought(correctly or not) that Zhaitan was dead.

Malediktus.9250:

maddoctor.2738:

I can see some BL skins in my Collections but not in my Wardrobe, but I’m not sure how I got those! I think it’s a bug that items appear in the collections but not in the wardrobe, I can’t remember if you could unlock BL skins in PVP before.

Its a bug with black lion collection achievements. Sometimes weapons unlock in the collection without owning them.

I’ve got several of these myself.

Cho Cho! What’s that? Open what? Sorry I can’t hear you over the HYPE TRAIN! XD

Well I just googled “10:30 cst time” and it told me “10:30 AM Friday, Central Time (CT) is
6:30 PM Friday, in Cape Town”, so that worked for me. Should probably work for other people as well. So you know, guess its 6:30 on a Saterday as well.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Chronomancers confirmed for HoT! =/

Nope, that’s not what the chronomancers looked like

Larynx.2453:

I just gotta ask, of any term in the english language, why are they called the biconics?

Well Destiny’s Edge (that world be Rytlock, Logan and the rest) were referred to in-house by Anet as being the iconics. When they created Destiny’s Edge 2.0 (that would by Majory and the rest) they were referred to in-house at ANet as be B-Iconics (and no no its not B-Iconics as in B-Team, we’ve already had that discussion. Its B as in A group and B group) to differentiate them from the Iconics. So players started calling them biconics.

One of the issues with the living story is the lack of complicated dialogue trees. In other words most of the conversations are short, to the point and the PC is only given a single response in most cases. Which has led to several issues of players not agree with what was said or not said. However until ANet starts giving us options (even if they have no influence on events) this is something we’ll have to just get use to.

Savvon.3718:

Can I have an answer?

Does nobody really know if the xpac cost money up front?

The only ones who know would be ANet and their nearest and dearest (although I think even they might not know). And no ones talking until tomorrow.

Donari.5237:

Saturday morning is when they tell us a lot of stuff.

18:00 hours where I live unfortunately… stupid time zones.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Prepare to be disappointed. Jan 24, 2015, watch tears drop all over the forum. I hope there are a lot of mods around for the meltdown.

Sorry I can’t hear you over the HYPE TRAIN! CHO CHO! (I’ll probably end up regretting this…)

Zero Day.2594:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Prepare to be disappointed. Jan 24, 2015, watch tears drop all over the forum. I hope there are a lot of mods around for the meltdown.

You too like tears? Delicious, delicious tears… There will be lots on Jan 24th like you said!

CHO CHO! ALL ABOARD!

The only issue is if you have two weapons that would overlap when stowed (say you ranger has both a longbow and a shortbow). But I can see this working for some cases.

Doggie.3184:

Hrrm, I showed it to one of my friends I wanted to play and he said “id rather buy a rubber v*****.”

Rubber volleyball? Yeah I’m not seeing it. I even googled ‘rubber v’ nothing.

DarkWasp.7291:

I think his friend really just wants that rubber thing.

What is it!? A Vacuum? A vegetable? Oh wait, I think I get it now…

apheCS.7036:

Taken from the official post:

“Level up an existing character or explore a new race and profession with a new one. Either way, you’ll level up faster than ever.”

Explore a NEW race AND profession? OMG!!!!

Chooooooo Chooooooo!

This train is out of control! If we go any faster the air friction alone will set us on fire!

Cosmin.8306:

But both Caith and the pale tree care for the sylvari as a race, withholding this information from the leader of the pact potentially doomed the sylvari. I still believe its a plot hole , a giant one.

No it wouldn’t be a plot hole, you might argue the idiot ball though but in this case it seems debatable.

Koviko.3248:

The Priory was quick to pick Ogden’s brain, but not the Pale Tree’s? Or did I miss it?

Yeah. Well the Pale Tree plays her cards very close to her bark. I think not telling people stuff was more of an attempt to prevent the Priory from picking through the grove with a fine toothed comb (by coming off as not particularly knowledgeable in regards to non-Sylvari matters) and potentially discovering the Mordy connection which could then lead to her being set ablaze.

Well spears are stabby stabby, while axes are swing swing. I think we’ve got plenty of stuff to swing, so we need some more stabbing.

Meta does mean most effective. Granted it can also mean other things, but a variety of meanings doesn’t negative or take away from any specific meaning. The argument that meta does not refer to most effective because it can also refer to other things is not sensible (and this is exactly the argument you’re making in your title and your tl;dr). Heck that’s not even taking into account the lingua franca

Errant Venture.9371:

The hype train has no brakes?

I’m guessing ANet is expecting that their announcement will be so amazing that they’ll have a flood of new players.

Healix.5819:

$9.99 for infinite trading post storage, 4 guild banks, the ability to mail yourself, login rewards, more once per day/limited rewards and of course, abusing the personal loot/contribution system.

Too bad I’m too lazy to own multiple accounts. It actually sounds pretty nice.

Donari.5237:

Reminder, having a CDI on a topic guarantees nothing. That is laid out at the beginning. It is merely a dev/community brainstorm.

However, as the community requested that the devs pick the topic rather than randomly choosing something that might not be even remotely under consideration, it does seem at least possible that guild halls are something they have an active interest in working on and were willing to use their time discussing.

This. All we can do is hope and dream.
Given ANets policy around communicating things that they are working on (i.e. things not yet ready for release) I don’t think we should hope for any official word any time soon. Maybe we can get some in HoT.