I planned my vacation around this and my capt ask me what i had plans for and i told him to waste my life down a game expansion. He asked what game. i told him. and he told me to send him a friend request...small world.
I am jelly. I'm the only nerd I know irl. Probably because I don't try anyway, and everyone I know plays console. They... THEY DON'T KNOW THE MASTER RACE!!!
Much more impressive presentation than Heart of Thorns was. Holding onto as much as possible, and releasing it ALL at once is much better to create immediate excitement, and furthermore the quite low wait time (2 months from announcement) is just icing on the cake. The previous expansion was announced more than half a year before its release. Presenting it his way, so shortly before its release is much better IMO. Even the video is a comprehensible 20 minute on average to the 1 hour the previous one was, which I find better. No time wasted on details, it's just presented as how it is.
This has been the most professional and most sincere MMO expansion announcement ever. Thank you guys for your hard work! I'm not really a PvE type of guy but this thorough presentation got me excited about playing the new specializations in the Crystal Desert and in WvW soon.
HoT was better hyped up imo. Revealing tidbits of the expansion throughout the year really built up the expectations. It also permitted people to come back to the game to prepare for the expansion. I'm kinda disappointed at how fast everything goes on this one. HoT had the awesome effect to bring my guild back together. But now I feel like my guild is going to fit with the area we're going to explore : a desert... yeah, I was really looking forward the waiting hype to get my friends back xD
Tabootrinket I've seen from many games that the worst way to build hype is by releasing bite size info. Look at capcom and the hype difference between hot and pof
Honestly if I told 2007 me, 7th grade me, that this game and its creators will shape my life, I would have absolutely believed it. I became an art student because of the amazing things I saw in Guild Wars 1. Everything that the game is right now is more than I could have dreamed. They always go above and beyond and for that, Thank You.
I never had any hype for the HoT. Not even a little. It's like back then they just gave us small bits every week. But this time they really hit it out at the park. You all covered everything we NEEDED to know, showed us the new places and ALL the new specialisations in one go! AND THE RELEASE DATE IS THIS SOON!? I have never been this ecstatic for the expansion before! And I can say for many that we all cannot wait to get our hands on the expansion!
I wish expansions were free especially since you cant do a lot of things without buying them. if you have no expansions the game is basically like a trial mode
I quit GW2 a long time ago, skipped HoT but after seeing this... I think I might come back and enjoy all the content you guys have put into the game in my absence. Thank you for bringing back my joy for MMOs. Edit: Holy shit Thief gets Bountyhunter??? Sold, that's it, I need nothing more.
2019 here, a few days before another announcement. At the time we don't know what this announcement is going to be, but I am hoping it is another expansion. If it is simply Season 5 then my hope is that Season 5 gives expansion-level content.
OMG! I was sat right on the tip of my chair while watching this! LOL As Legendary Player since Christmax 2005 (gw1) and continued with GW2 this Expansion means a lot to us! Thank you for all your HARD WORK, I'm sure you guys are doing all the best you can. Great Job and keep on the good work of Art while Gameplay!
I see this attitude a lot but I don't get it at all. It's not like WoW invented the fucking idea of riding a mount, lol. If it's done right (and is not just a passive speed buff) then I'm all for it, and it seems like they've done it right here.
we call them nosayers,you should laugh at them now hahaha,finally we won the big forum war with those nosayers that were always against mounts cause of "reasons"
Sort of? That was a "plasma saber." It was part of the plasma weapon set released months ago through their micro transaction loot box system. Those weapons can be a pain in the ass to get because you have to buy multiple keys, but at least they are just skins so there is no "pay to win" element.
I live a couple miles away from ArenaNet headquarters and I've always wondered if I've seen Mike O in the store or something and just thought he was some random dude living his life.
I'm still getting so much Golden Sun vibes from the storyline's direction. In the first Golden Sun we were out to destroy what we thought was destroying the world, whereas in the second we realise we were actually doing that exact thing ourselves and have to sort of "revert" the effect. Basically spot on the same thing as the elder dragon situation right now! Edit: Refering to the Elemental Lighthouses.
Seriously, it's been a long time since I was excited about an MMO expansion, congratulations to ArenaNET, this time you have managed to do something amazing and fantastic im completely excited to play this expansion.
Wow... that's all I can say! I was hyped for HoT, but PoF... Not sure what to say honestly. And that we get it so fckn soon?! My body is ready! So hyped!
I was pleased with the new HoT specs, but these new ones seem wayyy more fun for the most part. Lots of Condi though, not a fan of 'gearing up' when I'm an altaholic
I'm a returning player, I deleted my old lvl 80 and started up at the beginning with an engineer and I can't remember the last time I was sitting at work tapping my foot waiting to go home and play. As an older person in his 30s I rarely get super excited, except when I'm with a lady or I'm close to winning the lottery, GW2 has brought some new found youth to a man who's prime is just about to pass. You guys made a product that make me happy and for that you will have my love forever.
Holosmith, weaver and renegade are 99% sure to be hybrids with the new 4 state set with main power and condi and minor ferocity and prescision^^ the holosmith will be and absolut dps monster^^
Blizzard couldn't even bother to make a second version of WoW. Arena Net made such a great second version and constantly creates amazing updates AND they don't ask for a monthly subscription. 30 DOLLARS FOR THIS EXPANSION!??!!? HOW cheap is that!? You just can't name me a better video game.
The difference is that in 5 Years Guild Wars 2 had one big expansion, while WoW had 3 (in the same time span) I stopped playing GW2 with the start of HoT since I felt they butchered the lore of the original GW-Trilogy and forgot how to write interesting characters (considering all of the original directors and most of the story-team leaving, that was no surprise). Nowadays I still play WoW (after 13 years) and GW1 (after 12) although the latter stopped getting updates early 2007. With the release of Path of Fire I am planning on getting back, even if it's just to see what happened to Elona considering how we left it at the end of Nightfall. And the subject of 'naming a better video game': If you have fun with GW2 and love it the way it is, nice, great for you, but the world of video games is a vast plane and it appears that you never really tried to cross it.
Now this is how you bloody market an expansion. I'm definitely hooked. Only concern I have is any gating of story content like HoT did behind masteries. But I've wanted mounts since the betas of GW2.
probably next week, the ending of ice brood saga happens in a few hours. And both hot and pof announcement happened a week after the finale of the living world seasons.
Blizzard lacks the interest and soul to make something good with WoW these days, A new MMORPG Champion is rising and that's Arenanet with Guild Wars 2. They have the interest and soul to make GW2 the best MMO we have today! Thank you Anet to begin such a humble MMORPG Gaming company, please never be as greedy and stupid like Blizzard is today.
Legion is actually quite good. The raids are really cool and flexible, way better than GW2;s. Same goes for dungeons/m+ vs dungeons and fractals in gw2. GW2 has a beautiful world to explore, but WoW has better high end group content.
If you have played WoW from Vanilla to Legion, you can easily see the lazyness pattern and greed that Blizzard have had for the latest expansions. WoW today is more like a single player Game if you isn't playing high end PVE with Guilds and high end PVP, and very few people are actually playing WoW high end now days so many good Guilds have been Deleted or ain't active. WoW should've gone free to play years ago, the only thing that still do that WoW ain't F2P is that the majority of WoW players have Stockholm syndrome towards WoW, even I have been one of those players.
I really wish gw2 the best but I don't think they'll rise to new heights. There are also plenty of people (I'm looking at gw1 veterans) how bash it in every possible way.
No, the thing taking down WoW is FFXIV. Guild Wars is going in a completely different way that feels 'wrong' to many hardcore MMO players. GW2 is a phenomenal casual MMO, but their whole 'no progression' thing is keeping as many players away as it attracts others.
Cautiously optimistic. Really hoping the final fight doesn't end up the disaster that fighting Mordremoth did. Please change that by the way. The penalty box is a dumb mechanic, and the gliding phase is way to hard to find and stay in.
After repeatedly getting knocked out of the air by rocks i couldn't even see i gave up .The story and writing are so bad i totally ignore the "plot" anyway .Which just leaves running about doing busy work. And to be honest I haven't bothered doing much bar do living world stuff because if i don`t ,then I`l have to pay for it later. New stuff is nice .But better writing, characters and some choices that actually affect stuff would be a lot nicer.GW2 has the most watery generic writing & characters I have ever seen. Skyrim for all its flaws at least got the feeling of the world across. GW2 has no soul, feels like everything was phoned in .
Their game play mechanics pander far too much to "hardcore" gamers, usually meaning jaded cynical journalists and "seen it all" youtubers. But the vast majority of their players are casuals that only want to get through the story, not beat their face against a brick wall.
Because pandering to hand holding scrubs leads to boring gameplay - do you not remember how much fun the fight against zhaitan was? oh wait it was fight a few adds and shoot a cannon for 10 mins.......You should strive to git gud not have the game dumbed down to where you can play 1 handed while shoveling cheetos down your throat with your other fat greasy hand
Pandering to jaded try hards leads to a narrow player base and ultimately franchise death. I never said the Zhaitan fight was fun. I played that dungeon when in the first year when it was actually hard and it was still easier than Mordremoth. The fight is dumb. The penalty box is a stupid mechanic, and the gliding doesn't work half the time. I would be fine with the devs implementing a "hard mode" for guys like you, if for nothing else than to keep the WoW kids out of the normal game, but leaving a broken encounter broken and telling players to suck it up is bad game design and bad business.
Holosmith (guess): Wield all weapons at once! F1-F5 will get overcharge-mode like ele, so 3 kit-engi will get not 30 but 60 skills they can chain together! Also F, G, H and J will get effects based on what weapon you carry, what you have in target and which cardinal direction you face...
Wolfger Silberbaer i agree with dervish slightly even though specializations are basically new classes, but dont ever hope for a new race. Think about it; new personal story until lvl 40, hours voice acting, new tier armors and all previous armors must fit with that body of that new race. Its a lot more work than people think Maybe some day would be cool to see tangu tho
We'd have to go to a new unknown place to get a new race. But maybe there are Dwarves hiding out somewhere, who knows. Plenty of new races to fight but to be able to play one would be a giant part of the story/lore/history and thus would probably take a whole expansion just to explain. But maybe if it's already explained in GW1 (wouldn't know) then why the hell not give it to us!
You're so focused on the number "5" but we need to remember that these maps are all 2-3 times larger than the largest Tyria/HOT map horizontally and rival HOT maps vertically. You also underestimate the impact of elite specs. Elite specs will affect EVERY game mode. PVP, WVW, PVE, Raids, Fractals, you name it. It's a game changer.
Not a fan of the mounts... hope the maps are no labyrinths like in HoT...classic clean and easy to navigate maps with Hearts and great sights is what I want.
I'm fine with mounts but I definitely agree that HoT maps were just a bit too cluttered. Especially Tangled Depths, that one was by far the most frustrating map to navigate imo.
Hearts were added back into the game with the new maps from Living World season 3, and have already been confirmed for Path of Fire. I can't speak to the rest, but I will say the map design in season 3 was much, much improved since Heart of Thorns.
I am still on the f2p version of the game, in order to be caught up do I have to purchase both HoT and PoF or do I only need PoF? If the latter would I get access to HoT content?
Nice to see Arenanet learned how to do an expansion properly. Good price for standard edition, loads of interesting new content, big maps with unique landscapes, et cetera. Hoard your materials, gold, and hero points!
This actually looks really good. I was disappointed with the direction the game went in HoT but I might come back for this expansion. I love the desert areas in GW and I hope they bring back a dervish like class as well.
farm leather in lake doric super easily. You're just one of these lazy punks that I sell my leather to because you can't be asked to do the work yourself. Not gonna complain, I made 100+ gold in 2 days and didn't even farm longer than 4 hours total in that time
LOL don't be an idiot. #1 it is the worst farm for gold, frac 40 is significantly better. #2 it isn't even a good farm for leather. You're better of farming F40, SW, BF, or MR's and then using the gold to buy leather. Just do some math. Or are you winging your assumptions like John Smith?
I wish things like Mithril and Silk weren't so abundant and easy to get in a variety of ways. I haven't bothered mining a mithril node in a very long time. Time is money, and in that 10 seconds you waste on the node you practially lose money with the cost of the orichalcum pick included lol. FIX ALL PRICES!! FIRE... THAT GUY WHO MESSED IT UP!
Not sure how to feel about the Ranger specialization. Not much was said about it except that you combine with your pet. So your skills change presumably based on pet type. What about stats? If you combine with a "tanky" pet, will you be able to absorb more damage? If it just changes your skills, it may be more beneficial to not combine at all, especially since the pet can revive you. If you combine, you can't be revived by the pet.
They sure sounded like they didn't seem to care. It's put at the end of the specializations section. Little to no info. Just "it works well". As a Ranger, I'm feeling no love from Anet right now.
I'm not asking for everything, just a good description. It felt like they were really excited and even went into a little bit of detail when talking about the other classes while Ranger was just "You can combine and It's great." In the preview they show the Ranger transform and the monster just... died. The Ranger got no description aside from "it can combine with a pet".
Story wise i can't wait, you guys have taken mounts to a whole new level! The zones look incredible! the focus on classes seems to work well and some of these just look real fun to play. So mobile with unique quirks. Looks great! cant wait
I plan on coming back for this expansion, however I want to play a new class I played since launch as a guardian but I was thinking mesmer, necromancer, or engineer, which one do you think I would enjoy most of those 3, I also love being a support player
I'm glad they took a step forward from releasing the last expansion and learned from their mistakes. I think this is an amazing way to reveal an expansion and especially knowing it will come THIS SOON! HoT was a bit of a mess with the reveal showing bit by bit and just killing us waiting to see our favorite professions elite spec, but this time they nailed it. If the game goes on like this for years to come and improve as much as it did the last year, I'll be glad to stay loyal to it!
So.... is Arena net going to fix the current balance issues between the core classes and the specialization classes before adding in the new specializations????????????
I planned my vacation around this and my capt ask me what i had plans for and i told him to waste my life down a game expansion. He asked what game. i told him. and he told me to send him a friend request...small world.
I am jelly. I'm the only nerd I know irl. Probably because I don't try anyway, and everyone I know plays console. They... THEY DON'T KNOW THE MASTER RACE!!!
lmao I sense a raise in your future young padawan.
Much more impressive presentation than Heart of Thorns was. Holding onto as much as possible, and releasing it ALL at once is much better to create immediate excitement, and furthermore the quite low wait time (2 months from announcement) is just icing on the cake. The previous expansion was announced more than half a year before its release. Presenting it his way, so shortly before its release is much better IMO. Even the video is a comprehensible 20 minute on average to the 1 hour the previous one was, which I find better. No time wasted on details, it's just presented as how it is.
... Unlike EoD, apparently.
Proud to be a player since Guild Wars 1 Prophecies !
restore balance to the world?!?
oh my god.. aurene is the avatar!!
Soinetwa underrated.
I appreciate this so much
So she was born in the jungle... Jungle = Nature... Nature = Earth.. The next avatar is supposed to be from the Earth kingdom. Genius, Soinetwa!
So, does it mean, that the Fire nation attacked again?
I thought my Tempest was the avatar.... I think Aurene is just the leader of the spirit world
This has been the most professional and most sincere MMO expansion announcement ever. Thank you guys for your hard work! I'm not really a PvE type of guy but this thorough presentation got me excited about playing the new specializations in the Crystal Desert and in WvW soon.
THATS how you hype up an expansion
i already bough the 80 Euro version of it :D
failure for who?I liked it
While HOT had it's share of issues, it was an amazing launch. There weren't many issues with servers at launch which is rare for MMO launches.
HoT was better hyped up imo. Revealing tidbits of the expansion throughout the year really built up the expectations.
It also permitted people to come back to the game to prepare for the expansion. I'm kinda disappointed at how fast everything goes on this one. HoT had the awesome effect to bring my guild back together. But now I feel like my guild is going to fit with the area we're going to explore : a desert...
yeah, I was really looking forward the waiting hype to get my friends back xD
Tabootrinket I've seen from many games that the worst way to build hype is by releasing bite size info. Look at capcom and the hype difference between hot and pof
*Watches entire video patiently, almost tears up. Cancels Destiny 2 pre order. Get's ready to spend another life time in THE CRYSTAL DESERT!*
The expansion is 30 dollars, keep that pre order up buddo!
uh, why ?
Shouldn't have preordered it in the first place xD
Destiny 2 is just like destiny, a game that will be forgotten in no-time.
should have cancelled sooner
Honestly if I told 2007 me, 7th grade me, that this game and its creators will shape my life, I would have absolutely believed it. I became an art student because of the amazing things I saw in Guild Wars 1. Everything that the game is right now is more than I could have dreamed. They always go above and beyond and for that, Thank You.
All aboard the hype train /o/
i hate trains...
CHOOOOOOOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Chooooooooo choooooooo!!!
yeeeee!! Choo chooo
CHOOO CHOOO!
Wait... Restore balance to the world? The fire nation attacked? This sounds familiar :O
yes... Where have I heard this before... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Maybe checking my _avatar_ will reveal more
I never had any hype for the HoT. Not even a little. It's like back then they just gave us small bits every week. But this time they really hit it out at the park.
You all covered everything we NEEDED to know, showed us the new places and ALL the new specialisations in one go! AND THE RELEASE DATE IS THIS SOON!?
I have never been this ecstatic for the expansion before! And I can say for many that we all cannot wait to get our hands on the expansion!
CeeeX How much is Anet paying you to say that?
CeeeX I've never been so disappointed about a game announcement in my life.
idk looks pretty dope
Oh? What makes you think that?
CeeeX i doubt that this will be mich better than HoT. I've hoped they will inteoduce another major city like kamadan but i guess i will disappointed.
Finally GW2 is trying to reach a level of original Guild Wars. They even have returned Palawa Joko! GJ!
Joko is the GOAT
I never played GW1 but I've heard a lot about this guy. I'm happy they're giving new players a chance to meet this guy.
I wish expansions were free especially since you cant do a lot of things without buying them. if you have no expansions the game is basically like a trial mode
Easily the best villain in Guild Wars history. You should read up on him.
You know, when a charr toon is getting ready to face Balthazar, I hope they say something like
"I've always wanted the title of Godslayer"
Is that the Livia voice actor making the introduction speech? :)
Well goodbye to the sweet outdoors, hello my computer for the next 8230748346 million years
I quit GW2 a long time ago, skipped HoT but after seeing this... I think I might come back and enjoy all the content you guys have put into the game in my absence. Thank you for bringing back my joy for MMOs.
Edit: Holy shit Thief gets Bountyhunter??? Sold, that's it, I need nothing more.
2019 here, a few days before another announcement. At the time we don't know what this announcement is going to be, but I am hoping it is another expansion. If it is simply Season 5 then my hope is that Season 5 gives expansion-level content.
They said a while ago that they would go from season 4 to season 5, without DLC
OMG! I was sat right on the tip of my chair while watching this! LOL
As Legendary Player since Christmax 2005 (gw1) and continued with GW2 this Expansion means a lot to us! Thank you for all your HARD WORK, I'm sure you guys are doing all the best you can. Great Job and keep on the good work of Art while Gameplay!
Commander and Mentor willing to help out with any battle or dungeons in GW2, you can find me in-game as: Good Egg Of Wisdom. Thank you and GW2 ROCKS!
All aboard the hype train. Mounts is what I wanted for years!!
Mounts are for WoW fak off Anet
I see this attitude a lot but I don't get it at all. It's not like WoW invented the fucking idea of riding a mount, lol. If it's done right (and is not just a passive speed buff) then I'm all for it, and it seems like they've done it right here.
Eric Friman yeah it's just like the gliders used for getting around places we couldn't before which is perfect
I fucking love GW2 but I hate mounts more than anything and it should stay out of Gw2, waypoints do their job just fine
we call them nosayers,you should laugh at them now hahaha,finally we won the big forum war with those nosayers that were always against mounts cause of "reasons"
Preordered immediately. All aboard the hype train!
DID I JUST SEE A LIGHTSABER ON HOLOSMITH?! 20:22
Sort of? That was a "plasma saber." It was part of the plasma weapon set released months ago through their micro transaction loot box system. Those weapons can be a pain in the ass to get because you have to buy multiple keys, but at least they are just skins so there is no "pay to win" element.
In theory, yes~
Yuen a
Yuen yes its lightsaber since they bend the light they got it as starting weapon which is cool in my book
I live a couple miles away from ArenaNet headquarters and I've always wondered if I've seen Mike O in the store or something and just thought he was some random dude living his life.
Everything will change. It's like GW2 is turning into a completely different game and it's going to be awesome!!!!!
I'm still getting so much Golden Sun vibes from the storyline's direction. In the first Golden Sun we were out to destroy what we thought was destroying the world, whereas in the second we realise we were actually doing that exact thing ourselves and have to sort of "revert" the effect. Basically spot on the same thing as the elder dragon situation right now!
Edit: Refering to the Elemental Lighthouses.
bruh golden sun is my childhood
Seriously, it's been a long time since I was excited about an MMO expansion, congratulations to ArenaNET, this time you have managed to do something amazing and fantastic im completely excited to play this expansion.
All cool ! but what about CAPES? i need a cape in my Warrior to look like Guts from berserk
This past year was the best year in GW2 lifespan. You made errors in the past, but you have come back with a vengeance.
As the prophecy dictate, when you almost kill Abbadon, Kormir will come down and killsteal it.
Spoiler: this time Trahearne will come back to life just long enough to killsteal Balthazar and become the new god of war.
@@arkhamcreed4326 would have been cool
YES THANK YOU for revealing things at once and not let us wait for long! HYPE!
Is it possible to use the Mounts outside of Path of Fire? That would be epic!
Deloron idts for now...maybe eventually they'll roll them into the core game just like they did with Gliding..my guess at least
it is,it has already been stated by devs and potato
they will be
Guild Wars fan since 2007
Wow... that's all I can say! I was hyped for HoT, but PoF... Not sure what to say honestly. And that we get it so fckn soon?! My body is ready! So hyped!
Dasvovobrot "my body is reggie " ;D
I was pleased with the new HoT specs, but these new ones seem wayyy more fun for the most part. Lots of Condi though, not a fan of 'gearing up' when I'm an altaholic
At 17:57 is that a speargun on the warriors back?
Anet, you ruined my day at work. I now have no motivation to work!
Otherwise excellent job
I'm a returning player, I deleted my old lvl 80 and started up at the beginning with an engineer and I can't remember the last time I was sitting at work tapping my foot waiting to go home and play. As an older person in his 30s I rarely get super excited, except when I'm with a lady or I'm close to winning the lottery, GW2 has brought some new found youth to a man who's prime is just about to pass.
You guys made a product that make me happy and for that you will have my love forever.
And the release is so close
I love how the reward guy with the glasses explanation for all the new specialisations was "it can do x...which i think is cool"
Uhh as long as literally every class doesn't have to play Condi I'm in.
Can't stress this enough.
Firebrand and Scourge are definitely condi, but everything else could be power (looks to make sense), we'll have to wait and see
Mirage is rumored to be condi but that that might have changed.
Right? I wish it wasn't a meta and what worked best, but if you wanted to be power it would be the same as Condi and not get shunned.
Holosmith, weaver and renegade are 99% sure to be hybrids with the new 4 state set with main power and condi and minor ferocity and prescision^^ the holosmith will be and absolut dps monster^^
5 new zones (biggest ever created), mounts, and brand new specialization plus more? I AM IN!!!
Blizzard couldn't even bother to make a second version of WoW. Arena Net made such a great second version and constantly creates amazing updates AND they don't ask for a monthly subscription. 30 DOLLARS FOR THIS EXPANSION!??!!? HOW cheap is that!? You just can't name me a better video game.
FFXIV
FF is P2P and focused completely on pve also has a completely different combat system,so much that i dont think you can even compare the two.
The original GW :) but I get your point !
Necrotic Reaper
I can name a hundred games better than that one.
The difference is that in 5 Years Guild Wars 2 had one big expansion, while WoW had 3 (in the same time span)
I stopped playing GW2 with the start of HoT since I felt they butchered the lore of the original GW-Trilogy and forgot how to write interesting characters (considering all of the original directors and most of the story-team leaving, that was no surprise). Nowadays I still play WoW (after 13 years) and GW1 (after 12) although the latter stopped getting updates early 2007. With the release of Path of Fire I am planning on getting back, even if it's just to see what happened to Elona considering how we left it at the end of Nightfall.
And the subject of 'naming a better video game': If you have fun with GW2 and love it the way it is, nice, great for you, but the world of video games is a vast plane and it appears that you never really tried to cross it.
Now this is how you bloody market an expansion. I'm definitely hooked. Only concern I have is any gating of story content like HoT did behind masteries. But I've wanted mounts since the betas of GW2.
the ninth day of the twenty-secondth month?
we have to wait *THAT* long!?
Palawa joko and Balthazar....i played nightfall in Guild wars 1, and dear God am i exited!!!
better develop a gw1 expansion
Ahhhhhhh...maaan...I remember the excitement I felt during the HoT and PoF expansions...when are we going to get some more info on the next expac?
probably next week, the ending of ice brood saga happens in a few hours. And both hot and pof announcement happened a week after the finale of the living world seasons.
No new races? I've been wanting kodan since the first day the game came out :(
Kodan? When going to a DESERT of all places? Sure send friggin' polar bear people in a desert! What could go wrong?
You sir are cruel to animals.
No new races, no new classes nothing even worth ever playing. Worst xpac ever.
lol what?!
+The Prismatic Vision fur has nothing to do with environment.
Mightylink You know in bitterfrost frontier you can get a kodan combat tonic right? Its not a race but jet lets you fight as a kodan. Permanent too.
What's the new weapon of the mesmer?
Brecht Loos I was thinking the same thing. I think axe though. It looks like axe.
Yeah it's the axe, reddit confirms it
Derwish? No? Why?
Dervish is already incorporated into the Guardian. So is Monk.
Delete gay guard and take back dervish
How dare you insult my main class. A bet you main Ranger, you filthy peasant!
Oh how I wish we could have the dervish back.
but does it wield a scythe? If not, its not a dervish.
Elite Specs starting @14:00 the first up is -
Guard = Firebrand @14:43
Necro = Scourge @15:24
Thief = Deadeye @16:08
Mesmer = Mirage @16:43
Warr = Spellbreaker @17:23
Ele = Weaver @18:12
Ranger = Soulbeast @19:09
Rev = Renegade @19:38
Engi = Holosmith @20:18
Enjoy!
Where did this Anet go? 20 minutes and announced so much...
Well, Anet is now better than even then :P
Any toughts about armours for pets? Optional and more dance moves? grappling skills for warrior? ( Las Vegas)
SOOO HAAAARD HYYYPEEEE. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY F*CKING MONEY ALREADY😱😱😱😱
So when is Warrior rifle going to be buffed?
Blizzard lacks the interest and soul to make something good with WoW these days, A new MMORPG Champion is rising and that's Arenanet with Guild Wars 2.
They have the interest and soul to make GW2 the best MMO we have today!
Thank you Anet to begin such a humble MMORPG Gaming company, please never be as greedy and stupid like Blizzard is today.
Legion is actually quite good. The raids are really cool and flexible, way better than GW2;s. Same goes for dungeons/m+ vs dungeons and fractals in gw2.
GW2 has a beautiful world to explore, but WoW has better high end group content.
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah no.
If you have played WoW from Vanilla to Legion, you can easily see the lazyness pattern and greed that Blizzard have had for the latest expansions. WoW today is more like a single player Game if you isn't playing high end PVE with Guilds and high end PVP, and very few people are actually playing WoW high end now days so many good Guilds have been Deleted or ain't active.
WoW should've gone free to play years ago, the only thing that still do that WoW ain't F2P is that the majority of WoW players have Stockholm syndrome towards WoW, even I have been one of those players.
I really wish gw2 the best but I don't think they'll rise to new heights. There are also plenty of people (I'm looking at gw1 veterans) how bash it in every possible way.
No, the thing taking down WoW is FFXIV. Guild Wars is going in a completely different way that feels 'wrong' to many hardcore MMO players. GW2 is a phenomenal casual MMO, but their whole 'no progression' thing is keeping as many players away as it attracts others.
What am i gonna do with my twilight as a warrior now ? waiting for the next expansion to use it again ?
Thank you. Now take my money...
Will the mounts be usable in the vanilla zones too??
Waaaaaaaaaaaaait....
Did Rytlock, per chance, get blinded because he saw the other still-powerful human gods in the mists?
And as we know mortals looking at powered-up gods go blind and stuff.
I hate to spoil your fun but in the demo gameplay the whole blindfold thing is explained...
Yeah I saw. I was doubly disappointed: I was wrong abt this theory AND I didn't play it yet.
The weekend preview coming up should be the same parts as shown in the demo.So at least we will be playing that part soon.
The Prismatic Vision he got so blinded that he doesn’t need his blindfold any more
Will I be able to channel the renegade and herald as my two legends?
Cautiously optimistic. Really hoping the final fight doesn't end up the disaster that fighting Mordremoth did. Please change that by the way. The penalty box is a dumb mechanic, and the gliding phase is way to hard to find and stay in.
After repeatedly getting knocked out of the air by rocks i couldn't even see i gave up .The story and writing are so bad i totally ignore the "plot" anyway .Which just leaves running about doing busy work. And to be honest I haven't bothered doing much bar do living world stuff because if i don`t ,then I`l have to pay for it later.
New stuff is nice .But better writing, characters and some choices that actually affect stuff would be a lot nicer.GW2 has the most watery generic writing & characters I have ever seen. Skyrim for all its flaws at least got the feeling of the world across. GW2 has no soul, feels like everything was phoned in .
Their game play mechanics pander far too much to "hardcore" gamers, usually meaning jaded cynical journalists and "seen it all" youtubers. But the vast majority of their players are casuals that only want to get through the story, not beat their face against a brick wall.
Because pandering to hand holding scrubs leads to boring gameplay - do you not remember how much fun the fight against zhaitan was? oh wait it was fight a few adds and shoot a cannon for 10 mins.......You should strive to git gud not have the game dumbed down to where you can play 1 handed while shoveling cheetos down your throat with your other fat greasy hand
Pandering to jaded try hards leads to a narrow player base and ultimately franchise death. I never said the Zhaitan fight was fun. I played that dungeon when in the first year when it was actually hard and it was still easier than Mordremoth. The fight is dumb. The penalty box is a stupid mechanic, and the gliding doesn't work half the time. I would be fine with the devs implementing a "hard mode" for guys like you, if for nothing else than to keep the WoW kids out of the normal game, but leaving a broken encounter broken and telling players to suck it up is bad game design and bad business.
Mordremoth fight was too easy in my opinion. It was only really challenging as a thief.
Holosmith (guess): Wield all weapons at once! F1-F5 will get overcharge-mode like ele, so 3 kit-engi will get not 30 but 60 skills they can chain together! Also F, G, H and J will get effects based on what weapon you carry, what you have in target and which cardinal direction you face...
No new race. :-( Crystal desert, but no Dervish. :-( I guess if it's cheap enough....
Wolfger Silberbaer i agree with dervish slightly even though specializations are basically new classes, but dont ever hope for a new race. Think about it; new personal story until lvl 40, hours voice acting, new tier armors and all previous armors must fit with that body of that new race. Its a lot more work than people think
Maybe some day would be cool to see tangu tho
We'd have to go to a new unknown place to get a new race. But maybe there are Dwarves hiding out somewhere, who knows. Plenty of new races to fight but to be able to play one would be a giant part of the story/lore/history and thus would probably take a whole expansion just to explain. But maybe if it's already explained in GW1 (wouldn't know) then why the hell not give it to us!
Wow I literally started tearing up when I saw those mounts! This looks great!
The new undead look disturbing.
Way creepier than the risen...
yeah
Well.. they're undead, so they have to be scary and disturbing.
well luckily any enemy under 50ft tall can't be seen when in combat with particle effects covering the screen so I'm fine with disturbing
customizable mounts please?
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Really? For just 5 maps, mounts and some more specs which the game doesn't need?
You're so focused on the number "5" but we need to remember that these maps are all 2-3 times larger than the largest Tyria/HOT map horizontally and rival HOT maps vertically.
You also underestimate the impact of elite specs. Elite specs will affect EVERY game mode. PVP, WVW, PVE, Raids, Fractals, you name it. It's a game changer.
Agreed. Some of the strongest specs atm are the elite specs after all. No idea what B. Baller was talking about lol :p
The first word in that name says it all.
Is there going to be any graphical upgrades to the expansion ?
Nerdgasm...
Maaan these maps does not looks like a complete clusterfuck like the jungle, i might actually enjoy this :D :D
Not a fan of the mounts... hope the maps are no labyrinths like in HoT...classic clean and easy to navigate maps with Hearts and great sights is what I want.
but we already have like 20maps like that? no ty
I still haven't finished tangled depth because of this. Maps are too big with only 100 players in it and they're all scattered across the map.
Nah I want them to keep the verticality
I'm fine with mounts but I definitely agree that HoT maps were just a bit too cluttered. Especially Tangled Depths, that one was by far the most frustrating map to navigate imo.
Hearts were added back into the game with the new maps from Living World season 3, and have already been confirmed for Path of Fire. I can't speak to the rest, but I will say the map design in season 3 was much, much improved since Heart of Thorns.
I am still on the f2p version of the game, in order to be caught up do I have to purchase both HoT and PoF or do I only need PoF? If the latter would I get access to HoT content?
HoT and PoF, but you dont need HoT for PoF. You can buy it in a bundle for 50$/€
hcp so I can purchase PoF to upgrade my account, and purchase HoT at a later date for its content? That is great!
yes
why is this showing up on my recommended I haven't played gw2 for like 5 years haha
Because Google is the smartest AI to ever exist and works in ways us mortals cant even fathom
If you see this oh mighty Google, I am just joking
will we be able to use mounts in normal tyria like we can with gliders?
GIVE US BUNNY GIRLS RACE!
We already have that they are called asura
SHA-HINEY!
It's not a bunny it's a jerboa
Nice to see Arenanet learned how to do an expansion properly. Good price for standard edition, loads of interesting new content, big maps with unique landscapes, et cetera. Hoard your materials, gold, and hero points!
So you rehashed Nightfall, replacing Abba with Balthazar. I guess Livia is gonna be the new god of war and is going to be Kormir Jr.
This actually looks really good. I was disappointed with the direction the game went in HoT but I might come back for this expansion. I love the desert areas in GW and I hope they bring back a dervish like class as well.
Was hoping this would make me want to come back, but it doesn't look like it has anything interesting about it for me.
i want to purchase with my gem, why it is not on the trade market. i did not see it
FIX LEATHER PRICES!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE JOHN SMITH!!!!!
farm leather in lake doric super easily. You're just one of these lazy punks that I sell my leather to because you can't be asked to do the work yourself. Not gonna complain, I made 100+ gold in 2 days and didn't even farm longer than 4 hours total in that time
LOL don't be an idiot. #1 it is the worst farm for gold, frac 40 is significantly better. #2 it isn't even a good farm for leather. You're better of farming F40, SW, BF, or MR's and then using the gold to buy leather. Just do some math. Or are you winging your assumptions like John Smith?
Not a good leather farm LUL
They added this to Black Lion chests a week ago: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Advanced_Leather_Rack
I wish things like Mithril and Silk weren't so abundant and easy to get in a variety of ways. I haven't bothered mining a mithril node in a very long time. Time is money, and in that 10 seconds you waste on the node you practially lose money with the cost of the orichalcum pick included lol. FIX ALL PRICES!! FIRE... THAT GUY WHO MESSED IT UP!
Will you able to use mounts outside the Path of Fire maps?
I thinks so.
Is most of the content provided by the expansions lvl 80 content? Or are there new zones for lower levels?
Not sure how to feel about the Ranger specialization. Not much was said about it except that you combine with your pet. So your skills change presumably based on pet type. What about stats? If you combine with a "tanky" pet, will you be able to absorb more damage? If it just changes your skills, it may be more beneficial to not combine at all, especially since the pet can revive you. If you combine, you can't be revived by the pet.
AlienFreak69 noone cares about that boring class anyway
AlienFreak69 I know I was waiting for Hunter specifically, and then I was like that's it????!
They sure sounded like they didn't seem to care. It's put at the end of the specializations section. Little to no info. Just "it works well". As a Ranger, I'm feeling no love from Anet right now.
Well they're not gonna tell you EVERYTHING now...
I'm not asking for everything, just a good description. It felt like they were really excited and even went into a little bit of detail when talking about the other classes while Ranger was just "You can combine and It's great." In the preview they show the Ranger transform and the monster just... died. The Ranger got no description aside from "it can combine with a pet".
Story wise i can't wait, you guys have taken mounts to a whole new level! The zones look incredible! the focus on classes seems to work well and some of these just look real fun to play. So mobile with unique quirks. Looks great! cant wait
6:18 since when were there sniper rifles?
4-5 years. I think that's the Predator Legendary.
sheeit
I plan on coming back for this expansion, however I want to play a new class I played since launch as a guardian but I was thinking mesmer, necromancer, or engineer, which one do you think I would enjoy most of those 3, I also love being a support player
Bilbo Baggins support try necro then
so do i have to get through all the grinding in HoT before i can play the new expansion + more grinding?
most of us dont have hours to grind
What's the pants Armor the deadeye is wearing? Is that new?
Elona, Palawa Joko, Crystal Desert..damn the Guild Wars 1 nostalgia just kicked in, i guess im back for some gw2 :D ty anet
So is the mount skin mostly gonna be gem store item? Or we can actually get some as in game content reward?
Will this expansion actually be shipped finished this time?
no elite for the warrior
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I'm glad they took a step forward from releasing the last expansion and learned from their mistakes. I think this is an amazing way to reveal an expansion and especially knowing it will come THIS SOON! HoT was a bit of a mess with the reveal showing bit by bit and just killing us waiting to see our favorite professions elite spec, but this time they nailed it. If the game goes on like this for years to come and improve as much as it did the last year, I'll be glad to stay loyal to it!
Will there be a new raid ?
Omg! Ive been waiting for this map ever since I first started playing gw2. This is like bday and Christmas together... even better
less than 2 months? That was the biggest surprise to me. I was expecting an entire year's worth of wait.
Why cant i buy it from shop, it doesn't let me
So.... is Arena net going to fix the current balance issues between the core classes and the specialization classes before adding in the new specializations????????????
so mounts will only be usable in the new desert area?
Vinchino they will be usable in all maps
THIS is how you should have done HoT.
I'm not a fan of Scourge, but I'm definitely excited about the content.