Guild Wars 2

Gaile was right to close that thread in everyway possible you can’t judge a beta before it has happened. As for the big announcements its on the 29th not the 28th.

Fractals was stated is NOT challenging group content but yes maybe we could be getting some actual challenging group content in the core game as well as the expansion cough underworld cough and FoW.

Barab.9016:

Dwarf playable race

All the dwarves were turned to stone and are busy fighting Primordus so I doubt we will ever get them.

Its the 2 top men at the company what big announcement could it be its the release date.

The fact the orders make up the pact I am completely sure they will play a huge part in the story and I doubt Anet would forget to make the player character go to see their orders but maybe now with Destinys Edge 2.0 we will just see the orders in the maps and in the story instances.

Elitejelly.7462:

Wwefan.4982:

Mike and Colin last time they were on stage together they revealed the expansion could we get a big announcement next week lets wait and see.

I suspect that a release date will be announced here because there aren’t really any big gaming cons that I see them going to, maybe PAX AUS in October, but I don’t think they have a big demographic there to have such a huge announcement there. It would be weird to have such a mic drop moment on a POI/blogpost.

I’m going by the fact they are getting 2 of the biggest developers at Anet Mike O’Brien and Colin Johanson to reveal the group content they must have a release date too.

latinkuro.7304:

I hope they stream it on the official gw2 twitch stream for those of us that are international players.

They always stream conventions don’t worry about that.

Belzebu.3912:

Wwefan.4982:

Mike and Colin last time they were on stage together they revealed the expansion could we get a big announcement next week lets wait and see.

It was already announced that it will be the announcement of the Challenging group content.
I can’t post the link now but it was tweeted last week.

I know I just wanted to point out that there could also be a big announcement.

Mike and Colin last time they were on stage together they revealed the expansion could we get a big announcement next week lets wait and see.

It will be releasing HoT this year and with pax just one week away I am confident we will get a release date with the last feature of HoT challenging group content.

Whichever one is ready to be revealed.

They don’t need to do it challenging group content is for the hardcore players people who want it.

Pifil.5193:

October 15 is a Thursday. I’d expect a Tuesday release.

Just because tuesday is normally patch day it doesn’t mean Anet needs to release the game then they can release it when they feel its ready.

JediYoda.1275:

all the mini games that were promised in the original release that we still don’t have 3 years later.

these are coming with the expansion as adventures this was confirmed months ago they just havent spoken individually about the mechanics of these.

As long as the open up FoW and UW again I will have no problems I just really want to beat those missions.

No simple as that you want into the beta weekend pre order like everyone else.

Zalladi.4652:

Aww, that title had me disappointed – I thought a new blog had been released (Might want to change it to avoid similar instances ).

Nah blog for PAX will probably be next week as PAX Prime is in 2 weeks wow Anets a busy bee this month.

Lux Dominatoris.3941:

Well, so far they said that the content in open world like the Wyvern is not the CGC, the fractals update is also not the CGC, there was a thread CDI on raids, they filled a job position regarding raids and the details will be announced as said above by the biggest names on the 29th.

I don’t know why but I have randomly regained my faith and hopes after this teaser to call it so. It’s really, IMO their last chance to lay down AT LEAST the basis on which to build this CGC. They can’t really go bad… I hope at least.

There’s a saying in my country, “the hope dies last” so I still have ~2 weeks of hype for myself in this case.

There’s a saying in my country “A Scotsman never gives up hope we only give up on trying”.

Well they are getting to 2 big names to announce this feature so we can only start to speculate.

Masteries best progression idea I’ve seen in an mmo, elite specs reaper rocks, Dragonhunter maybe could feel more like a support class, Chronomancer I haven’t tried it but once I do I’m making a mesmer called Doctor Who and finally Tempest its okay but I mainly play it for the water overload and this is no joke its so much fun travelling around in a bubble. Really that’s it adventures are awesome map bonuses are awesome. I hope we find out what the ??? items are.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

HotHit.6783:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Heart of Thorns is not an expansion, it is a stand alone by its very nature as will be all upcoming “expansions” to Guild Wars 2.

Whatever version you buy, you will never be required the base game, not for now or in the future.

Incorrect. Heart of Thorns does not function without the base game and is not balanced to suit a player without the base game. It doesn’t require you to buy the base game because it is being given for free with it. It is no different than Eye of the North.

With this cleared up, expectations should be compared to the price we pay. We are asked to pay the price of a full game for HoT (and probably every boxed addition to GW2), so the game can be compared to what we got in GW2.

Even though I think that we actually got too much with the initial release of GW2, getting significantly less than that will be very unsatisfying.

Only time will tell.

I highly doubt we’ll get the same volume of maps, even if this was to be considered a full game, “Pact Tyria” has many maps that sorely lack character. Dry top and Silverwastes are small maps, but their designs are rich and I predict we’ll get 4 or 5 full size maps with the same density of love.

You don’t get the base game for free, it is calculated into the price of the package. I can’t buy the expansion, because there is no expansion. I can upgrade my account with what new content HoT has to offer, but in the end, I will just give up on a lot of content I bought with the package.

There is nothing for free when buying HoT, which is a full game and not an expansion.

Dry Top is sort of OK, even though the event density is less than satisfying and variety is meager.
Silverwastes is just the same base copied over the map several times with some flavour events at the end. It is hardly “dense” or innovative. It is entertaining, for some time. Enough action to overlook that there is harldy anything really happening there.

Looks like we are getting more of the “more action less meaning” part in the expansion. They should have gone with the old Orr design where you felt like fighting through a battlefield IMO, not this mindless event grinding we see everywhere nowadays.

Actually the base game is free the expansion its self is £35 or $50 as Anet have stated many times including the base game for FREE allows new players to join GW2 and not have to pay more money to get the expansion.

Stop comparing the beta to the end product we aren’t seeing every map in the betas how many times do devs need to state this we are seeing 25% of Verdant brink for betas to stop Anet ruining the story.

Aww are you leaving your breaking my heart stop moaning Colin stated very clearly in the beta weekend blog that we aren’t seeing all the maps we are just testing the 25% of verdant brink. Secondly elite specs are not meant to be new classes they are meant to be sub classes to give players more class progression after level 80 and finally Revenant will be starting at level 1 but we really don’t know how elite specs will be added whether its with expansions or living story updates in all honesty I would love every couple of months we get a new elite spec for each class but its up to Anet.

Yes well map rewards will be in lower level maps but the story and new maps and possibly the challenging content will be level 80.

Fox.3469:

Since it’s for beta characters only it’s obvious we won’t keep the rewards.

As this is a new system coming with HoT it needs to be tested just like every other system.

Really one question for me is will I be able to play this track in the beta oh and could this mastery affect jungle stuff as well as central tyria stuff.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Zalladi.4652:

I like the sound of the Pact Commander Mastery, although I hope some players don’t use the suggested “special icon” to troll newer players rather than help.

You need more faith in our community! Guild Wars 2 players are the most helpful players in any online game I’ve ever played.

In game yes they are lovely on the forums and reddit well lets just be grateful the pact commander mastery is an ingame feature.

Will every mastery be available to play in the beta.

Chuck Zitto.2367:

Based on what I have actually seen in video of the new elite specials guild halls new spvp map new wvw maps etc.. Most of the stuff actually looks done and just needs polished bug fixes etc. The one thing thats been worrying me is how much of the hot pve stuff is finished cus I havnt seen much of it. I actually feel like we are not to far off.

We aren’t seeing all of the PvE stuff in the beta just 25% of the first map I’m guessing this is to keep some mystery.

There will be many panels keep an eye out on GW2 twitter from now till Sunday.

I will be trying everything.

Valento.9852:

It’s interesting they market and consider this the first BWE, when we already had a BWE for staff revenants. :P

That was called a test weekend this is the first official beta weekend.

Human for me maybe sylvari its a toss up between the 2

No pre purchase is your only way to get into the betas sorry.

Again we can have an elite spec test weekend before the second beta depending on how much information we are getting at gamescom hopefully we will get hardcore content and then they suprise us with 3 elite spec reveals.

They could do a revenant style weekend test before Beta weekend 2 and we can test the remaining elite specs.

Beta characters are on a ghost account that copies all your data on your origional account but its basically a seperate account on your exsiting account which means if you open your daily chest on your beta character when you go on your main character you can get that login reward again.

Colin said thats betas will be the 25% of the new map we see and very likely the rest of Tyria. They don’t want to spoil story steps so everywhere else for the jungle will be locked off.

EdwinLi.1284:

I’m curious about how much of the HoT Story missions we will have access to.

From what was said it sounds like Arc 1 of HoT being the entire Arc 1 leading to Arc 2 like they did with GW2 Beta when we were given access to the first arc of GW2 Storyline but at the same time they could also mean only the 1st mission only.

Just chapter 1 I’m guessing the one we saw in the previous beta but it could mean the story steps in Verdant brink.

As it was just announced a day before this news I doubt it will be in.

Tjaja.1945:

I guess this beta weekend will probably work similiar to the last one. So there will be made a screenshot/duplicat of our account. Can we get some information when exactly? So we can prepare better, e.g. put some ascended armor in the bank to use it on the beta chars.

Actually no they learned from their mistakes of the last closed beta so we will probably get armor and weapon choices we are happy with.

emendez.3705:

there will only be 2 bwe like this but that doesnt mean other smaller scale betas will not happen.
and by small scale the ones you have to be invited to betas lol

I doubt that they will do these kind of betas as they have said all betas from now on will need you to pre purchase HoT. Its an expansion not a whole new game like release more than 2 betas shouldn’t be needed.

I doubt it will be more than 2 if the release only needed 3 then an expansion should really only need 2.

Yes as long as you have a beta slot.

Emm the PvP map and WvW map but you can’t do the guild based stuff in the WvW map also I don’t believe guild halls will be available for no HoT players as they are in the jungle I could be wrong but seeing as guild halls is in the jungle and the jungle is only available for HoT owners chances are non HoT owners can’t go to the guild halls.

Maybe they are not revealing everything about the expansion as long as we know the basics of the features we really don’t need to know every little detail.

Emtiarbi.3281:

Wwefan.4982:

Arewn.2368:

I guess this means no new elite spec announcement till the 11th at the earliest.

Why does it mean this last time I checked anet said nothing about not revealing anything next week just wait till next week actually begins before saying this.

According to the blog post, they will reveal a feature of HoT the next week. It seems like we will have to wait until 11th for the next spec teaser (hopefully)

Again why can’t they reveal an elite spec next week did a dev say they aren’t revealing an elite spec no remember Anet like to suprise us just don’t give up hope.

Arewn.2368:

I guess this means no new elite spec announcement till the 11th at the earliest.

Why does it mean this last time I checked anet said nothing about not revealing anything next week just wait till next week actually begins before saying this.

I have a question for sir Colin will adventures be in orgional tyria for the beta or are adventures jungle exclusives.

I want to try the new bonus map system being added and some adverentures and maybe find out what those ??? rewards are.