EXPANSION NEWS, SPEARS ON LAND And RAIDS ARE BACK!? - HUGE Guild Wars 2 News!
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MightyTeapot spelled such a good point as he said that GW2's strength is open world, but it wasnt in SoTo. It really has to change for the next expansion. But the new teaser makes hope. I really like the new map style...
They should absolutely combine strikes and raids into one system and add difficulty tiers. Also some QoL would be to make an interface similar to that of the fractal one for easier navigation to/between encounters.
adding difficulty tiers for raids is the number one thing they need to do aside from improved lfg... Like why would casuals bother with raids if they are meant for only the hardcore groups. In a game like this, every player should be able to experience all content, even wow knew this.
With the exception of Forging Steel, Strike Mission and Raid are just 2 different formats of content and entrenched in their own reward system. Strike mission reward system in particular is also the largest highest source of mystic coin income that ArenaNet uses as an incentive to always own the latest expansion - basically you either own the latest expansion at any given point or your mystic coin income is decreased by a whopping 10c/week. So not seeing this happening.
@@jgsource552that is not all the problem. A lot of people want more engaging/hard solo content in game. Why the hell all the nicest stuff are meant just for groups?
@@boutch1993 Solo content without a group in an mmo? Idk about that lmfao. The best thing we can hope for that is what you want is another expansion like HoT where the open world is difficult(personally I enjoyed soloing the veteran hp bosses)... Now in terms of raids/strikes, those should never be done solo haha
@@boutch1993Hard solo content? Try pvp or wvw. Much more engaging than any champion or veteran mob you could fight in the open world.
I think the biggest thing they need to address if they want to do a strikes+raids overhaul is the groupfinder. It's legitimately the most terrible one I've interacted with in any MMO. There's a reason any regular endgame players organize on 3rd party places like discord. THIS IS A PROBLEM. It's all well and good for people already doing it but a resource like that should be usable IN GAME, and since it's not that content appears dead to a lot of the people that look into it in hopes of trying it out.
They need to:
1. Fix the group finder to be good.
2. Add a third difficulty to make tiers of challenge easier to balance
3. Add commander functionality to group leaders or make a way to earn tags so more people are empowered to organize groups
They need to get rid of all the unique roles before they can do group finder well. FF14 can do it because you only need tank, dps, and healer and you can queue for it. GW2 has hand kite, oil kite, pylon, lamp etc. It's possible to have queue for boons heals and dps, so they will have to strictly do it that way.
that's what worries me, they drop a new raid wing but don't do anything to lfg or add raid finder, so when it gets released it will only be played by the already existing (and small) raid community and will be mostly ignored by the rest, leading them to believe that the playerbase doesn't want instanced pve and then just killing it (again)
litterally. if GW2 got a actual functioning group finder like WoW or FF14 it would make the game 10x better personally
It almost felt like Soto should have shifted the Nayos stuff to a second annual expansion and expanded on a Kryptis war there while laying hints and openings in the battle for Tyria in Soto. Would've been less thematic whiplash between updates too.
Kind of the same problem the squashed IBS storyline had where it started so strong and deliciously creepy with Jormag but then smashed Champions in there and did our boy Primordus dirty.
Lol I just said in game today: "They'll never make land spears, it's been 12 years." Well call me a fool!
Please, say this: "They'll never make tengus playable race, it's been 12 years"
😂
"They'll never do player housing, it's been 12 years." I beg, it's not too late to fit in to this expac, get us some of those cool little huts and fill 'em with our nodes
@@bertoandon9681 Although I would love player housing, it is actually too late to fit it into the upcoming expansion. Such an addition would be way too much to add in the last 3 months before release. And huts are not what I would want. Race themed houses is what I want. But if it's in there it'll be in there already.
@@EyesOfGehenna Oh I don't think I meant the devs should cram it in, I think I meant this person should say it in game before all the features are announced soon to retroactively magically will it in. I would agree about the huts just not racial we've already got that, rather architectural. I want variations of free and gemstore/wizards vault "skins" across Tyria: A classic Krytan castle, a cutsey Sylvari meadow teeming with Quagan, whatever the Orrrians were into, a repaired Zephyrite ship returned to flight, a secluded Exalted tower, an Elonian desert palace, a Canthan pagoda with a little Koi pond, a cool inner Nayos looking thing like from the last map expansion (for the freaks). The possibilities are endless but I think like mounts where you go "that's okay but I want something cooler" and you buy a ton of skins: You gotta start off with something "okay", like a hut. Then they cash in when we want more
So would you like the Wizard's Tower to be like Dalaran in WoW: a movable hub for multiple expansions? NGL, that would be cool.
Exactly yeah
Gotta be honest, I read about the suprise we have been asking for for 5 year and my guess is legendary aquabreather. It lines up pretty well with them releasing the last legendary accessories and runes and sigils.
Ye I think players hoping it is a new raid are huffing high amounts of hopium
Could also be the Big Nose Ted boss in a new format of Straid missions! Ah the possibilities...
WHAT! LAND SPEARS?!?!? my dreams are coming true
LAND SPEAR + SHARK SPEAR = LANDSHARK SPEAR
GET HYPE!!!! 🦈
had a Gut feeling it was going to be Isles of Janthir like 3 months ago. too obvious, we will get some assistance form aurene for the last time.
Are you dissapointed in your dreams?
them being ethical is a point of attraction
agreed with them on that. nice to see they see it, too
around 19:00 yes, absolutely
absolutely
Being ethical usually leads to a better environment for creativity and consistency, so I hope for the best.
Regarding map design in SotO, 60% of it is empty sky/void :/ I hope the new maps will feel more complete and interesting
I want a legendary skyscale that hovers and does all the normal things and yet blasts off like a griffon.
One of my biggest gripes with SOTO was the god awful performance of the open maps, EoD was generally fine, had some hiccups(especially when inside the KO strike), but Soto was a whole new lever of frame drops, the hub being one of the worse offenders, I do really hope anet puts in a little more elbow grease into performance problems next expac
I think it is do with the ridiculous size of the maps, particularly Amnytas. Its Desolation-size, but a square box rather than a pizza box. Same reason that KO can perform weirdly when you look towards the city: loads of space with assets to fill. It seems to be a limitation with engine. SotO maps were build like this to accommodate the Skyscale gameplay, so I do not think it will be as bad.
EDIT: might have something to do with water on platforms - SotO maps were the first to extensively have that. Notice that Nayos has far less of it and performs far better than Skywatch Archipelago or Amnytas.
I doubt all the classes will get spears - what wouldn't surprise me is adding spears, tridents, and then merging Harpoon Guns with Rifles. Then they spread them out - giving rifles to some classes that didn't previously have them.
9:35 wow Wizard's tower is about to get real laggy in a few years.
Spare a thought for the poor sod whose job is to add a Spear skin to every Black Lion Weapon collection...
Do you truly believe they'll retroactively go back and add that many spears?
I doubt it. Too many achievements to fill out.
Hope they give a tad bit more other than just spears to make up for the lack of elite specs. Something like sigil reworks and/or 1 or 2 new utility skills per class to mix up gameplay and help with balance.
Regarding Teasers and April's Fools: They did mention "One Last Job" for the Dragonhunter and about a Dragon in the Mists. Honestly, I think the Raid wing will see us fell a Dragon again as the endboss!
- "The alleged discovery of a dragon in the Mists has brought the dragonhunter elite specialization out of retirement for one last job."
Do you think they will add the Paragon from Gw1 back into here? Landspears sounds the same, and they do have the desert areas already for paragon
this is such a low-hanging - yet very juicy - fruit !
@@NordpeakConsulting Its the same thing if they said they would make a scyth a weapon and not jsut a staff skin..... DERVISH
@@thesagejiraiya07 If they added Dervish or Paragon I would be so insanely happy it'd instantly bring me back to GW2 permanently
bro, if there doing land spear, they better make it a main hand only weapon so you can weild a shield with it. that would be SO satisfying to have access too!
I'm waiting in eager expectation, but so, so hype for the idea we might get new raid wings. It's been so long!
if raid is gonna be made as sponge bosses it wont be any fun
If the new fractal is any indication.. sponges on the way 🤡
@@ruffwm that new fractal is a mess it was before risky to lfg for t4 when surf was daily, so now with ppl who dont even touch cms you can straight up skip it aswell
Suddenly my precoursor shark spear value went up with 200% 😅
The precoursor was like 30g for years and now its like 200g+
Oooh can't wait for the new raid 😁😁 3 veterans, a bridge and a single boss with 80 million hp and 3 abilities. Super hype for the quality content
I wonder if what they are doing with spears on land is not just slap a new weapon on every class, but a step towards unifying underwater and land combat. Maybe they'll - eventually - adjust functionalities so that *all* weapons can be used both on land *and* underwater.
Underwater longbow
I will start playing this game again religiously if they add the Paragon class loved that class so much in GW1
they have some of it no warrior, same thing with monk/spiritualist was diluted in guardian
@@Deimophobos True I guess but if they did make a dervish elite spec that uses a scythe or a paragon elite spec that's all I'd ever play even they were terrible.
I feel like tying a story into other expansions is perfect. I Think having smaller goals that lead up to a larger threat or goal is perfect to help structure future content around. Something similar is the dragon threat, pof did it so well with the threat of balthazar brought in.
Spears are such cool weapons, I hope we can get some nice movesets and skins like more halberds/glaives and the like.
Probably copy paste from the underwater skills with slight tweaks. Expect nothing from these rented developers
I think the Astral Ward is good platform for the player to be send on missions. Already has characters and factions from all over the world that could be a setup for a loads of plots. Would be cool if during the missions some kind of mystery developed that players could piece together over time.
Speargun weapon type is replaced Crossbows and are used underwater and on land.
I believe they could be making spears, tridents and speargun some kind of utility combat weapon that has the same skills for each profession. That way the balance would be easy to maintain
2 to the power of 3 is 8.
New raid will have 2 bosses: eye of janthir regular version and eye of janthir special version.
Yeah this sounds like the copium phase is over and were back on hopium again.
This video starts out strong and then really goes of the rails into ungrounded speculation at the end
I'm excited for the expansion: Janthir Wilds!
Spear confirmed. This is sparta!
Oh man I’d love land tridents!!
The new article just said the new feature will "give players a new way to spent time in tyria" ...so it's not wing 8 after all :( sounds like player housing, and now I'm really sad
7:40 - I agree I'm okay with new characters, but since the story is so short, they could have easily cut some characters, or at least sidelined for another time. Zojja especially we wanted to see more of, and the game could have stood to revolve a lot more around eparch, isgarren and peitha. Funny general guy (the one dude peitha tricks into helping) could have 200% just shown up for, like, half a story beat. Frankly, they needed to make this expansion span over two different expacs.
It would be nice if they would take into account ALL the mastery skills they have had us gathering and allowing us to use those for advantage (why you earn the mastery) in the next expansion.
If they make spear a land weapon I really hope they also add a new gen 2 and 3 legendary weapons for it, because they skipped out on underwater weapons for those generations
I can't believe it yet, almost a decade waiting for Spear as a normal Weapon... and never happened, I can't let me get carried until I see proof, and I want it on my Warrior at least, it's all I ask. I used to play with the Banners in the older versions as they seemed a Spear and you could take them as weapons, but then it changed. Now we got the Staff and it is not the same TBH (but still close tho)
Throwing spear ele as a support weapon with burning would really remind me of para xD
I'd love to see a new raid wing it would be so fun to learn a new raid wing without any players knowing the strategies yet, strike missions have this but I prefer the difficulty level or raids it feels just right where as normal mode strike missions feel too easy and cm strike missions feel too hard
im SO happy
i think there isa high chance they will add mechanic to have [spear mode] so either melee or ranged skill set swap
How about being able to join an instance from anywhere in the world?
Right now if you open a dungeon on LA you have to be in LA to join, if you open a dungeon on its map you have to be on that map to join... I hate having to TP around to a bunch of places to join instances from the LFG.
Wish they could get rid of some of the Invisible walls and increase the resolution of certain textures in older parts of the game.
I wish for more cutscenes honestly. I feel this could make stories so much more epic.
If wing 8 comes out I think I have to come back, at least fo a little while xD
Terrestrial speargun is the only way Ranger is going to get a gun.
Also I gave up on a new race coming to GW2 when I realized the amount of VA that would need to be done for all the Living Worlds and expansions would be astronomical.
I really wish the raid wing theory is right. I grew to love raiding a lot in the past 2 years and Anet's tendency to introduce some end game content and then dropping it entirely later on. I think its a real shame that dungeons, fractals (which they lately went and finally added onto after years), and raids were done in the way they were.
28:24 I think SoTO is just a draft, or test rat. They wanted to play around with this new style of yearly expansions and they wanna do it in a setting/features/content that they can fuck up on without too much backlash if it does fail.
I am not one to complain.. GW2 is the only game i play. I can only hope they may improve the tier 2 obsidian effects. I agree with your summary of SOTO.
I'm still blushing that peitha called us a "not a snack but a whole meal" UwU
What I would like to see is to make strikes and raids easier and YES like you said to combine their them and their rewards because there is a lot of rewards locked behind that content. Yeah I know there are some easy strikes but there are some difficult ones. Make all strikes and raids easier and let there be a CM that is weekly. I personally never even tapped into raids because 1. I never see groups on lfg and 2 there’s a huge learning curve on them. Cm for those sweaty gamers and the rest for the casuals like us. Weekly CM rewards and daily strike/raid rewards. This way you can easily find groups on the lfg like you can for fractal dailies.
Kind of cool to get a new expansion every year, but I think they can't sustain that hype pace without neglecting the overall map/story content in the process. At the moment they're trying to graft expansion'like contents on Living World'like basic stories. The Soto's maps are insanely beautiful (except the last map part), but the quest line don't give them justice.
If removing its "expansion related new content", SotO is story-wise barely a stand alone LW season. Could they have added HoT or PoF's kind of contents into a SotO'like expansion? Not in 100 years! No heart quests, it have a very basic story with very repetitive events.
As usual, Anet have amazing modelers and level artists... but the writers and quest makers are way too rushed (talent is not in cause) OR restricted by the direction (like cutting quests/events to rush out expansions). A good story with plot twists is essential to keep the gamers excited and immersed.
Maybe they should have kept their LW format (with more updates to get deeper and more polished stories spread over 1+ years)... and sell the expansion'like contents as a one-map pack (full of tuto quests) if definitely dropping full expansions. But without LW seasons, we'll get many very low quality expansions between "big expansions" to fill the gaps and it's sad.
A good showman/woman can entertain a crowd for hours, even on a bare bone empty scene. The SotO's maps are amazing scenes... but the crowd been far from entertained as it should.
need to add playable quaggan race lol
JAnthir WildlandS....the meta boss will ofc be a landshark
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LAND SPEARS!?!?!!?
I wouldn't mind a mainstay hub across expansion but I despise the esthetic of the Wizard's Tower
Kirin Peak Wing 8 COPIUM
Holy shit new raids xD might be time to return to gw2
legendary aquabreathers?
The real constraints in the limitations of the performance system. No encounter can have abilities that are uncounterable.
Boons having such a high impact on play performance is also an issue, a major one at that since any encounter has to be designed in such a way that the assumes that people have no to low Boons else it'll be too tough. Then the adverse happens and if you do have the Boons the encounter is supremely easy. To solve this the Boon system has to change. It should be something like 75% player power and 25% Boon power rather than 25% player power and 75% Boon power.
The Boon application itself is also a MAJOR pain point as the limitation on the range of applying Boons means that everyone has to be in a tight area.
Utility skills being mutually exclusive with whether to use them for damage or utility is also a major pain point. If an encounter requires you to use Skills then it must have a low damage requirement and if an encounter has a high damage requirement then you're unable to use the utility portion of the skills.
You can see this last point in HT and Verus CM, the encounters are simplistic in that all the mechanics can be sorted without the use of Utility since the Utility Skills have to be blasted whenever possible. Anyone can go stand in a circle to prevent raid obliteration and ANet is unable to make it so that people have to go and stand in a circle while using something personal to reduce damage to prevent dying if there's also a high damage requirement since that damage would then be missing.
Encounter design will never be able to solve these pain points as they need a redesign of a basic system. Thinking that it can is a delusion.
GW2 Expac coming almost in the same time with WoW. Kind of interesting.
yo could they be adding all surface weapons/skills to underwater combat too tho? maby we finally dont have to do shit dmg in underwater fractal :P
Maybe all underwater weapond on land with some reworks 😁
Lol "no spearguns" - Engineers deleted next expansion confirmed
Bring dev streams back for showing the next xpac as we had them for EoD!
Imho: Trident is just water staff and speargun is just water rifle. Spear is the only weapon they could do that would be interesting and new imo.
Yeah true
Still waiting for my two handed axes...
If there's anything good about SoTo, it's that they're reusing polishing old combat related things like the new core weapons, Elite spec weapons for all, and Spears for land. Hard instanced content is reused story stuff.
Like Raids are AMAZING, but if reusing story stuff means more frequent instanced content, I kinda favor not having raids.
But what raids have that strikes dont is the transition between boss fights and if they can bring that to strikes, then we dont need raids honestly.
ha I can finally use my legendary spear on land!
Wow beta start June 5, eyeing an August release for the new raid
Damn TeaPot! That beard looking thick. Keep it going. Good look
I hope for better group finder.
Illuminati raidwing 8 confirmed!
They should not call strikes raids. It's not the same thing at all.
Nearly 13 years post launch and still no new playable races.. not even the OG Tengus
I NEED TWO HANDED BATTLEAXES ANET PLEASEEE
Gen2 UW coming soon
You mean I can finally be a Lancer. Bruh awesome... I've been wishing for this for ages
Now waiting for the Great Axe and Dwarf playable race and I can be a true warrior
w8 and spear, I skiped SOTO entirely but now we are talking (maybe)
If they bring back raids, I might come back to the game. Otherwise, I don't really see anything compelling me to play GW2 anymore.
I'm certainly not going to get on any hype train for a Wing 8. If anything, Anet has consistently proven over the years that they do not want that to be their core audience. They have consistently left raids to wither on the vine. It is far more realistic that the content they have planned is aimed at content the core audience already engages in. Ideas like overhauling the LFG and revamping the world content loop are far more likely and would be aimed at far more relevant groups of players.
I still think strikes could be raids. Just have those three levels of difficulty.
Strike, Strike CM and Raid.
And as you said, if they introduce actual raids that you can explore. They NEED a story mode. It's a waste of resources to make it and only 1% of the playerbase can see it. Make a story mode that takes place "after" the raid.
I'd PAY for them to do that to older raids too.
I think it's a revisted form of player housing.
Underwater will also be on land!!!! ... that's what it means right?
Lets go! local threats instead of a another end of the world story
SotO review like ToF CM feedback? Soon TM
if engi doesnt get spears, im gonna .. IM GONNA!!!!!.... probably speargun.. like we need more ranged..
GWIII. Z axis & combat like now, but in a World that feels as huge as WoW = big bucks. (Dailies need to go too.)
Along with just DE'n gear for mats. oof (& the TP needs to change drastically toward a WoW model.)
Paragon confirmed?
Better work life balance... so they can have more time to be cringe on Twitter.
Big hype yipee
I honestly wish they would work on re-vitalizing existing maps and content. We have soooo many damn maps and currencies that it dilutes down the community. No one even does the original dungeons. Why not increase the rewards for them (increase gold, mystic clovers, mystic coins...)? Or better yet... re-work them?
The majority of the community doesn't care for raids at all. Highly toxic, very time consuming, and if someone doesn't know the mechanic... gg. The guild I'm in is actually struggling to even do them at all. The same can be said of CMs as well. Time is valuable so rather than deal with the headache your time is better focused elsewhere.
Why is it that we need an oligarchy of squad commanders to experience much of the end game content progression faster or at all? That in itself creates and instigates a toxic environment. Empowering people over others should be avoided at all costs for everyone to have a healthy experience. I think someone should look into an experience that is different. A queue system that people pick roles for if possible. If you don't understand what I'm talking about spend some time doing WVW, raids, or other end game content that requires grouping with someone as the lead. Neverwinter Nights Online has their issues but they did have this feature for their dungeons.
the teaser looked like janthir bUT the architecture looked canthan in a rolling krytan-green landscape... obligatory tengu cope here, more likely it's janthir
Human Gods vs Elder Dragons
We're way pass that now.
@@DeanCalawayhow? Maybe I don’t have enough lore knowledge
hard no to completely discrete characters....there's no way to get players invested at all in characters that are contained to one yearly expansion. plus, it was bad enough to just completely ghost all our friends in soto - would be a shit story to just drop every character from previous expansions because there might be a player who both a) cares enough about the story to care if they've missed prior character development and b) decides to only buy and play the latest expansion immediately, skipping everything before it and refusing to even look up/watch previous story.