Guild Wars 2

OriOri.8724:

I don’t know why everyone always wants a new race as well as more armor sets, it will be one or the other. ANet already has enough trouble making armors that almost fit the current races. It would take them even longer to make new armor sets if they also had to fit on a 6th race, which means we would be getting even fewer armors in the game.

How about we finally stop making excuses like Anet were an indie company and hold them to the AAA standard? They created one of the biggest MMOs, they’re not a small company, they’re the top and I will actually expect the quality and big features like new race. Because the company on the level Anet’s on should be able to do that and I’m sure they’re capable of that.

From expac 2 I want:

• Kodan or Tengu as a playable race
• 8+ new maps
• new elite specs (that’s pretty much sure thing)
• 10+ new armor sets in all weights
• epic dragon battle
• housing and revamped decoration and trophy system
• fishing
• reputation system with exclusive rewards
• Rytlock to finally tell us how he got his revenant powers (no more “Later cub”)

It’s quite a lot. I don’t expect it but this would be a dream expansion for me.

Interesting build. May I ask why rifle and not a hammer? I’m just curious what’s the advantage.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Did you post that before? I think it’s the first time I’ve seen it!

A year ago shortly before Wintersday.

Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMqEMf3Lnec

First of all, if we look at the new skill development and think a little, we’ll get to the conclusion that it’s highly unlikely (or probably even unrealistic) that we’ll get a new kit. With elite specs, no skill group for any profession was expanded. And if any of our skill groups were to be expanded, it wouldn’t be kits because they’re complete and groups like for example Gadgets do not even have elite.

Second of all, I certainly hope that we’ll rather get a kit skill redesign. Many people have mentioned that kits belong to the identity of engi and are similar to ele attunements. Kits are so OP in comparison to other skills that almost all our builds use at least one. Meanwhile many other skills are not that bad but mediocre in comparison to kits.

Kits were not created to be the “must have” skills. Our identity should be the toolbelt and the secondary skills. Yes, no weapon swap was decided because of them but it doesn’t change the fact that kits are overused. IMO we don’t need more.

Hey Gaile! When’s the deadline? (so that I won’t miss it again)

Hey guys! What do you get when you combine Game of Thrones with Guild Wars 2? Game of Thorns of course!

I’ve done this already a couple of times with various movies/series/games and after Heart of Thorns was released it was too good opportunity to not combine it with Game of Thrones.

So here it is: https://youtu.be/L9eNV2pJpGI

I hope, you’ll like it. BTW read the subtitles, there is a little pun

A couple months ago I also suggested an elite spec that was called Golemancer It’s a cool name. I as many others don’t want more AI. It’s unreliable, often stupid, has pathing issues… no, just no.

I’d rather have an engi that would be able to summon golem suit that would function as necro’s death shroud. If anybody’s interested, here’s my suggestion: http://realmoflevi.blogspot.sk/2016/04/golemancer-engineer-elite-specialization.html

Necrotic.7820:

I just want to know where these other 15 playable races are, I would certainly like to go start a Tengu Warrior, Skritt Thief or maybe a Hylek Ranger.

Seriously though 40 actors for a possible ten combinations? Is there a third sex option I’ve been missing?

Okay so it’s a minor nit to pick but if he’s exaggerating about ~that~ well …what else?

Other languages

Xenesis.6389:

Mike O Brien.4613:

Now we integrate the episode content with the other updates that ship in this release, and with localized text and voice-over, and we do final testing of all that.

To give a sense of the scope of this process, this update has about 1,500 distinct lines of new voice dialog, each of which must be recorded, integrated, and tested in each supported language. For the player character’s voice, we separately record each race/sex combination in each language, so that means 40 actors for each line.

Of course, we’ll give this release a name, not “July Quarterly Update”.

And we may be able to increase the pace, ramping from four bundled releases per year towards six, so we’ll move away from calling these “quarterly”.

Pay careful attention to what he says so you don’t over hype yourselves up. They still need to do the voice overs and translations. They won’t call it july cause it may not come out by july, they will move from quarterly as they try for 6 releases per year.

If anything I’m expecting it out by say hmm… “mid to end of August”, because something of something something is coming out then. Which would also look good lining up august queens pavilion, october halloween, and december wintersday, but again I wouldn’t put too much stock in that.

Just for you:

Integrate – verb (used with object), integrated, integrating – to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole

It does not mean that they don’t have the VO. It means that they need to put them together which actually implies the opposite.

Your implication that they won’t call it July update because it won’t be released in July is not based on anything. MO hasn’t said anything like that, he just said that it shall have a specific name.

Why would he call it July update then? Why not Summer update? They called Spring Update a Spring Update, not April Update – my point is that if it wouldn’t be released in July, there would be no need for him to even mention that month.

robertjan.2197:

Thanks for the info on the next big update. But does this mean we won’t get it this month????

He called it “July quarterly update”. Anything not clear?

Lanaeris.3845:

But what about tomorrow (7/12/16)? That’s what we all REALLY want to know about. This information is great and it sounds like it’s going in the right direction, but this is all we get? If there is just a gem store update tomorrow, I’m going to cry.

First of all, who are “we”?

Second of all, I’m pretty sure that “We” are more interested in when LS3 comes than what comes on some patch day.

And to answer your question, it would be unexpected if today would not be a patch day however don’t expect anything big. If they were to release something big, they’d announce it beforehand. So like people before me said, probably some new events, gemstore update, bugfixes, etc.

The thing I love about this game is that the different races didn’t go the same way as other MMOs, where it doesn’t matter whether you’re beast, goblin, cat or dolphin female, you need to have boobs.

Asura and Charr females look more authentic thanks to this and IMO the experimental armor looks a little absurd on them now.

I’m all for the difference between the male and female versions, however the current version doesn’t fit them and male version would suit them better in my opinion.

And why do you think that turret movement would different? They are also AI controlled.

GW1 is an old game. Besides back then it needed bigger publicity because of not being an established trademark. Also NCSoft often puts their less played MMOs on Steam in order to get more audience

Steam takes about 30% of each purchase. They would be stupid to put GW2 there.

We can only guess and it’s too soon to guess, so at least here’s what I want:

• At least 8 new maps
• Story that is as long as Zhaitan’s arc
• New race – Tengu
• New elite specs and specifically an engi elite spec that actually has elite mechanics that changes its playstyle
• New masteries
• New legendaries that are finished with the release of expac (how about the rest of the 16)
• New fractals, let’s say 3 new ones
• Housing and improved decoration system

IMO Anet could rather make other healing skills useful and viable instead of nerfing the only one that’s actually good.

bearshaman.3421:

And yet people keep talking about elite specs like they are gonna fix EXISTING skills and traits. I don’t know where they get this idea, one look at them shows that the most impact they have on preexisting profession skills/traits/etc is that some of them modify the class mechanic (not the case for scrapper). I find it mind-boggling that this idea keeps coming up in conjunction with elite specs. This is what patches are for.

I agree, people just don’t listen. Speaking of kits though, IMO they will need to be changed somehow or it won’t matter how many new skills they’ll introduce, the kits will be the best option for 90% of the cases. And we need variety in builds. They’ve been almost the same for a long time.

Since HoT release, I crafted HOPE, Flameseeker Prophecies and just today have finished Howl. I love them. I have 2 other already started and am finishing my 6. legendary in total. I hope that the new legendaries will start coming out again after the LS.

First of all, let’s forget about mechanics of the fights, about Zhaitan’s firework demise and let’s look at those two fights from the lore and story standpoint.

If I compare those two battles against each other, it feels like Zhaitan was much more dangerous opponent. Sure, we go behind enemy lines and lobotomize Mordy while the army is fighting his body/Mouth but it’s an infantry fight.

But to defeat Zhaitan we needed Airships and cannons! Yes, the mechanics of the Zhaitan’s fight were lame but it seemed much more dangerous, epic and in larger scale.

I’m not saying that Mordy fight was lame, on the contrary. The mind fight is a very interesting concept and the battle with the Mouth is great. And yet I hope that with the next dragon’s, we’ll return to something similar as Zhaitan’s fight.

I don’t care whether it will be in an instance or an open world. I just want a fight that will feel like that it’s not an ordinary battle that any infantry can do. Give me a flying asura fortress full of cannons, give me a chase on the charr tanks, give me a Kodan Iceberg naval fleet attack.

There are so many awesome possibilities. I believe that Anet will make other fights epic, I just hope that they will feel as urgent and largescale as Zhaitan’s fight. It would make that dragon seem much more threatening and dangerous. At least for me.

I disagree, shield remains the worst choice. But yeah, rifle could use some buff

Kraljevo.2801:

leviathan.2148:

Hello Mo, what promises are you talking about when you say that everything is ready? WE DON’T WANT PROMISES, we want info of what’s to come!

Reading comprehension is not your forte.

Please, if you don’t have anything to post that will add to the discussion and just need to insult me, send me an IM

Hello Mo, what promises are you talking about when you say that everything is ready? WE DON’T WANT PROMISES, we want info of what’s to come!

When it’s ready, why are you afraid to talk about it? And hints? Seriously? The Christmas is not coming and those (allegedly finished) features are not some gifts. Why do you want to play Santa?

I’m not speaking for everyone but I’m sure I’m not alone when I say:

We don’t need promises, teases, hype. We want to know what to expect. We want an overview of what’s to come and what’s finished for the upcoming patch.

I change my answer to “Anything new is ok with me”. Seriously anything.

Personally, I’d love for each quarterly update to bring a new armor set skin for each weight. I think that noone would protest against quarterly cosmetic releases with the huge patches.

I don’t care if they were obtainable through rng drops, map currency etc. That would be awesome anyway.

They could give each map a specific rare drop armor set skin, it could bring people back to those maps…

So many possibilities. I know that Anet needs to make money, but please, at least consider it.

Very interesting arguments, I haven’t looked at it this way.

For me SAB is not important but I always support more of an available content. So yeah, why not permanent?

Siobhan.5273:

However, Colin is no longer with ArenaNet, so he won’t be updating us. I’m hoping someone does.

Let’s hope that Mo won’t forget about Colin’s promise and will do this seasonal update blogpost. The last one was IMO a step in the right direction – letting us know what to expect.

I already did some speculation a while ago, you can read it here, if you don’t mind wall of text: http://realmoflevi.blogspot.sk/2016/01/story-after-hot.html

So, how about not 1 but 2 elder dragons? How about Taimi joining the Inquest and us needing to work with her because of her knowledge? How about Tengu? How about Joko either against the Kralkatorrik or as its hidden corrupted minion? How about an egg being used for some nefarious reasons before it hatches (ressurecting/posessing Zhaitan and getting a propper Zhaitan fight)? How about a new pact weapon – a flying Asuran fortress?

Most of it is just a wishful thinking, but still some of these ideas would be awesome.

Ohoni.6057:

And to what would you attribute them “getting easier?”

How about skill? Routine? Learning the fight? Things that you obviously don’t want to do

IMO raids were the step in the right direction. I was sceptical, but when I tried them, I saw that they were implemented perfectly. They bring incentive for the “old school” players or players who want something challenging to keep playing.

Another thing is that now it looks that all other features have been pushed back. I’m sure it’s not the real reason, since there’s a separate team working on them but it troubles me, how many people think this. Same with the esports. But that’s for another talk that doesn’t belong here.

By the way, can someone explain to me, why so many people are bothered with the fact that they are not good enough to complete the raid and don’t want to improve either? Don’t tell me that it’s because of the story. The story is not connected to the main story, it’s pretty simple – squad missing, you find out who captured them, defeat them, find out that they are someone from GW1. That’s it.

Raids are tough. Raids are difficult. It’s ok if you can’t complete them. I know that the last 3 years made many people get used to the content be easy. It’s still easy, only one fraction of it isn’t. It’s ok to not complete everything.

How the hell did I get here? So TLDR: Raids were a good idea that was very well implemented.

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

That sounds good to me, but do you risk getting encumbered? I deliberately haven’t unlocked this last on yet, because of that concern. :P

You mean with loot? Well, not really. I salvage loot when I don’t fight, so I’m good. Let’s say that you farm SW, where IMO you get the biggest number of loot per hour. If you have 5 20-slot bags, you’ll need quite a long time for it to be full only from autollot. Of course, when you start opening bags and chests, the situation is different but that’s something different from autoloot.

So no, I can’t remember, when I’ve been encumbered with loot. Maybe it was because I salvage continuously while playing. Still, it’s convenient a lot. Go for it

Before HoT release, my answer would be yes. Yes, Anet has said that they want S1 to be replayable eventually. They have also said that it requires a lot of work because it was not designed as Season2.

Now, after HoT I don’t think that it will return.

It may sound pessimistic but they are now working on LS3, new WvW and Fractal updates and 1/3 of the team works on the next expansion.

They are busy as hell and because of that I think it’s realistic to assume that LS1 won’t return or it will take a very long time until it returns. Not because they don’t want to, they do. Just because they probably have no time to work on it when they are so busy with other (and let’s be honest) more important stuff.

IMO it seems that the LS3 will focus around the egg.

• I certainly hope that we will get answers to many unanswered questions, that’s the priority for me.
• I hope that we’ll get closure, epilogue for the HoT, maybe even Eir’s funeral ceremony in Hoelbrak. That would be awesome.
• I hope that now the story will finally focus on another race than our salad friends (I’m sorry guys, I just like other races more).
• I hope that we’ll get to see more of other dragons
• I hope that Taimi goes insane and joins Inquest. She would be the perfect little villain that we would be forced to work with because of her knowledge.
• I hope for some missions in the mists with Rytlock, where we’ll see how he got his powers
• I hope for more story with Rox and Canach
• I hope for the involvement of Tengu and for indications of them becoming a playable race (that’s a big stretch, I know)

All in all, I just want more story, more lore, more answers than questions. More of everything.

With the 9. profession being added, I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume that there will be only elite specs from now on. That said, a new race would be a great feature for the next expansion. It’s always one of the most noticeable features in each MMO expansion.

For those saying that it will add nothing to the gameplay: Depends on how you mean it.

• Will it bring new mechanics? No.
• Will it bring new story? Quite possibly
• Will it bring new maps? Yes.
  This for me is something new to the gameplay.

Of course those that have only one character and play everything with it, won’t appreciate it unless they decide to switch to the new race. Despite of that, new race can bring a lot IMO.

And I agree with Rozalina that Tengu have the biggest chance of becoming the new race. Don’t quote me on that but if I remember correctly a long time ago someone from Anet has said that they planned Tengu to be playable.

• Tengu as a race have a rich lore background from the GW1.
• They are unique and we know how Anet likes to be unique and doing things different way.
• We have already seen new variations of them in HoT maps.
• Their city is close and next to it, there is just enough place for their starter map.

With that said, I would love them to be playable. And as somebody has said, with them playable and sharing body features with charr, it would provide a reason to focus more on nonhuman armor clipping issues.

I think that the quality is there, the quantity is missing. That’s what hit me while playing the new maps and story. They are on the right track. The maps are gorgeous.
The story is fine (yeah unpopular opinion) or would be even great if it would be just bigger and more.

If we could get more in depth approach like with the Zhaitan’s story, much more people would like it IMO.

What do I expect from the LS3? New maps, yeah, maps, not map. Broadening the story and answering the questions that were unanswered since season 1. The last one may be a stretch… (Who the hell is E?)

My expectations are high, I admit it. And I’ve been forgiving a lot about many things. To be honest, I didn’t expect LS3 to come that late. But OK, I’ll wait but I will expect more than I expected from the release in spring.

As others said already, for story, the basic gliding mastery and bouncing mushrooms are a must.

The best mastery IMO is the autoloot mastery. You don’t need to run around and collect loot, it will be collected automatically.

1-5 – weapon skills
R – healing skill
Q,W,A – utilities
T – elite
X,C,V,B,N – F1-F5

ESDF – WSAD
G – interact
Shift – special skill

dodge and swap weapons are on mouse keys

Thank you Gaile Third episode is already out BTW

Utility skills however are not a new mechanic But I like your idea, personally I’d be glad if they switched ai of gyros for signet effects

Hello! I’m Levi and I started a weekly Guild Wars 2 webcomic WP WHEN DEAD.

Yesterday I’ve already released a second episode. You can check it out here:

http://wpwhendead.tumblr.com/

This webcomic is however no ordinary regular webcomic. It has one special feature: In the description of each episode I give you 2 options of how the story can continue. You have 2 days to vote in the poll and decide what happens next.

The webcomic is released each Saturday at 7:00pm CET.

I hope you’ll like it

I use EG very rarely

Let’s remove all dmg from hammer. You know what? It offers too much defense, let’s remove also that. And while we’re at it, the hammer has too many skills anyway. 5? Are you kidding me? Too OP! 1 is enough – the skill that downs engi when people with l2p issue attack scrapper.

choovanski.5462:

I’m 100% pro kits and will never not run them. they are the appeal, flavor and advantage of the class.

Don’t you think that it limits your choice? Most of the other utilities are quite useless in comparison with kits. It’s not about whether you like using kits. Engi should have also other viable utilities. Again, it’s not bad that hammer doesn’t need kits. It’s bad that other weapons do.

Anet, please hire Ziggy to rework Scrapper. These ideas are great!

I have only one question: What would you do with the fuel bar if you weren’t using the gyros?

choovanski.5462:

furthermore, as hammer is the weapon that needs no kits to supplement it, and rifle and pistols need kits its obvious that it is too strong. hammer is too good currently, and that is the main issue.

Why is it bad that it doesn’t need a kit to supplement it? It’s a good thing! We have also other skills than kits, you know? Kits are not our mechanic. It would surely be nice to see more builds using other utilities than kits.

Yashuoa.9527:

Cool idea.
It would also help their survival.

One question though. With which button do you desummon the Gyro?
Because you also need a button to make them explode for a daze.

Well, technically, you despawn them with it

This sounds really good! It would definitely help gyros.

What about an elite mechanic though? If it would be also somehow bound to the fuel and actually offer more useful functionality, I’d be so happy.

HoT was released, I leveled my scrapper spec, saw that it brings no new interesting playstyle for me and returned to p/p condi engi. It saddens me, I hoped that the new elite spec will bring a new option for me to play without kits and in a new way. That’s only changed by hammer (which is great). I guess I hoped for more. Because of basically no new mechanic for me, I stopped playing it in pvp. :/