Guild Wars 2
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bytes
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You go to your class trainer and buy them, nobody in the world bothers with unlocking traits.
Zaphid
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In case anybody wants to watch live:Twitch
I think the announcement is supposed to happen in about an hour
Same level cap, same gear, new stuff is alternatives specifically needed to progress in the expansion
New maps are supposed to be very vertical
Mastery system: account wide system that gives you point for world exploration and PvE accomplishments. As a reward, you get to play Far Cry (Hangliders from vantage points)
Professions (classes) get specializations, Rangers get Druid, access to new skills and mechanics. Necros get greatswords, but didn't say the name ...
New class: The Revenant - Rytlock in trailer, ritualist in heavy armor
New Borderlands map
I think the announcement is supposed to happen in about an hour
Same level cap, same gear, new stuff is alternatives specifically needed to progress in the expansion
New maps are supposed to be very vertical
Mastery system: account wide system that gives you point for world exploration and PvE accomplishments. As a reward, you get to play Far Cry (Hangliders from vantage points)
Professions (classes) get specializations, Rangers get Druid, access to new skills and mechanics. Necros get greatswords, but didn't say the name ...
New class: The Revenant - Rytlock in trailer, ritualist in heavy armor
New Borderlands map
What Zaphid mentioned.
New expansion.
No new levels, no new gear levels.
3 new maps, 3 levels of maps to roam in, root ground treetops.
New pve zone mastery (wvw copy, eq aa) earn points by doing pve stuff, gliders climbing masteries etc. This includes building your mastery to making precursors for new legendaries.
New sub professions, rangers with staff can become druids, necromancers with greatsword can become deathknights?, comes with new heal, elite, utilities, weapon.
Brand new profession Revenant, ritualist 2.0 in heavy.
New wvw borderland map will enter rotation.
New spvp mode stronghold like Ft Aspenwood?, gvg included.
Guild halls.
New expansion.
No new levels, no new gear levels.
3 new maps, 3 levels of maps to roam in, root ground treetops.
New pve zone mastery (wvw copy, eq aa) earn points by doing pve stuff, gliders climbing masteries etc. This includes building your mastery to making precursors for new legendaries.
New sub professions, rangers with staff can become druids, necromancers with greatsword can become deathknights?, comes with new heal, elite, utilities, weapon.
Brand new profession Revenant, ritualist 2.0 in heavy.
New wvw borderland map will enter rotation.
New spvp mode stronghold like Ft Aspenwood?, gvg included.
Guild halls.
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Aren't the new "classes" other than Ritualist going to be super limited? I mean, it's only one weapon per class it looks like. Hunter with staff=Druid but that means you have no swap if you want to stay druid, so only 5 abilities? They have an engineer with 2H hammer that looks like quite a bit different too, that was nice. Wonder how it's gonna work out with classes that already have most weapons, like Warriors(Dagger I think is the only weapon they don't have? Dagger warrior kinda sounds like rogue though). Paladin and Mesmer I guess would be bow/gun.
We'll see I guess. No release date, not even a vague one it seems?
We'll see I guess. No release date, not even a vague one it seems?
Mr Creed
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I'm expecting weapon switch and all the main profession features to stay. To me the secondary profession sould like a package of a new weapon and selection of skills that are (supposed to be) balanced with the main profession in mind, but opening up new playstyles for that profession. The upside being that over time they can make more, different secondary professions that enhance a character in different directions, without that becoming a messed up design nightmare because there are too many simultaneously available skills to balance around.
Overall the announcement sounds good but it is standard expansion stuff, remains to be seen if they can actually add interesting long-time motivation.
Overall the announcement sounds good but it is standard expansion stuff, remains to be seen if they can actually add interesting long-time motivation.
Randin
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While no entirely new weapons seem to have been announced, in both this latest trailer and the teaser one from the living story, I thought I spotted characters using spears. Could be that's what warriors will be getting.
Kinda surprised they didn't announce a new race as well, though.
Seriously. I should at least feel some glimmer of hope that they'd salvage this game, but I don't. The simplest explanation is the people who made GW2 are not the people who made GW1
Mr Creed
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Well GW1 wasnt a MMORPG to begin with, so of course there are many differences. I loved the skill variety and Heroes in GW1 but that's just a different game/genre. That and a decade of changes in the gaming landscape are reason enough for being vastly different games even if they had the very same people. Bonus question, if you consider GW1 as part of the MMORPG genre, is Path of Exile one too? Their shared towns and party-instancing setup is very similar to GW1.
On topic of the expansion, I dont really expect radical changes from HoT. They'll just be improving on their (in their own eyes) proven formula and said as much about dozen times during the presentation. Them putting some lessons learned during the first two years into practice and good polish is all we'll get. I did enjoy GW2 enough that a greater variety of content and more medium to long-term goals that arent solved with gold would be all it takes to get me to play more.
On topic of the expansion, I dont really expect radical changes from HoT. They'll just be improving on their (in their own eyes) proven formula and said as much about dozen times during the presentation. Them putting some lessons learned during the first two years into practice and good polish is all we'll get. I did enjoy GW2 enough that a greater variety of content and more medium to long-term goals that arent solved with gold would be all it takes to get me to play more.
Cantatus
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It would've been nice to see them go into more detail on group content. They kept saying "better challenges", "new types of group content," "harder boss encounters", etc. but really didn't explain what exactly this entails. I appreciate we'll have new ways to advance our characters, but if it's still the same sorts of old clunky dungeons we have to grind in, my interest is going to be lost just as fast as it was after I hit 80.
bytes
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They're obviously trying to build up some hype over the next weeks so Anet won't come out and put everything on the table. Still, the amount of actual information we got was pretty barebones and vague in a lot of aspects, you could feel the confusion from the PAX crowd when O'Brien just threw some keywords at them and expected a big reaction.
And this guy shouldn't do presentations in general, it was really awkward watching him on that stage.
And this guy shouldn't do presentations in general, it was really awkward watching him on that stage.
Mist
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Maybe the class specializations will actually allow you to have real healers and real tanks!
God fucking forbid we aren't just zerker DPS zerging everything in every area of the game.
Stosh
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Oh god yes. That guy had the charisma of a bowling ball. If I was deaf and didn't know he was talking about games, I would have assumed he was an accountant giving bad financial news.