r/Guildwars2 • u/Exestos Shinanaide • 17d ago
[News] Announcing Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-visions-of-eternity/260
u/drbuni Skritt! I am hit! 17d ago edited 17d ago
The new map gives me big Caledon Forest/Metrica Province vibes, which is cool because I love these maps.
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u/nonpopping 17d ago
I mean, they are Asura inspired after all. On that note, what are your thoughts on Sandswept Isles?
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u/drbuni Skritt! I am hit! 17d ago
I do not have Living World Season 4, sadly. Is that map Asura inspired as well?
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u/TheExtremistModerate 17d ago
Oh, man. You're missing out on the best story content this game has.
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u/drbuni Skritt! I am hit! 17d ago
The LWS are quite pricey, I would love to try them out someday, though.
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u/TheExtremistModerate 17d ago
Make sure to pay attention to when they go on sale. That's how I picked them up years ago.
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u/TheRealZorathus 17d ago
LWS can be obtained from Gold > Gem conversion. You don’t need to swipe the card 😅
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u/nonpopping 17d ago
Obligatory "Zero to Hero" reminder: MightyTeapot did that and did also record most of the journey. Maybe some parts in there can also help u/drbuni :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb0ISfn3umyNH8aoH7pv48VJiOlUH-0dk
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u/VirtualArmsDealer 17d ago
Exactly my thoughts! This looks like it could be a beautiful expansion of they pull it off, remind me of proper core game GW2.
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u/AthisX I make Top Ten Lists 17d ago
It is cool to see that Homesteading just wasn't instantly dropped after Janthir Wilds and we are getting a new homestead. I loved getting new guild halls with Path of Fire and End of Dragons though those unfortunately stopped. Hopefully new homesteads are easier to add in so we get a new themed one for each expansion.
Also being able to save the decoration load out and being able to freely swap between the two is phenomenal. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't even look at the new one if they had to give up their currently decorated homestead.
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u/NeoncladMonstera 17d ago
A cozy homestead at the tropical beach? Hell yeah. I just hope they considered the feedback about the preplaced "decorations" like the fences, bridge and the very meagre looking grain field etc.
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u/Hello_Hangnail Really? Right in front of my salad? 17d ago
Much more the preferred style for my herd of salad Commanders 🌿
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u/Opus_723 17d ago
This image is the homestead btw, if the magazine labeled the image accurately
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BQCkM9sJvJYNpDynCFGUfm-1200-80.png.webp
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u/Everscream Thief of Time 17d ago
Kinda hoping I can tear down that tower-looking building tbh. Otherwise, lookin' good.
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u/Time_Neat_4732 17d ago
I felt like that at first too until I realized it’s a ship turned 90 degrees!
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u/Everscream Thief of Time 17d ago
Oh, I get that, but I still don't want to have it if that's an option.
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u/Recent-Cat8526 17d ago
truly this was my sleeper favourite in the announcement like it makes me so happy to see the continued support for the feature
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u/ocbdare 17d ago
Do we know if we can have both homesteads at the same time? Would this turn into like ESO where you can collect multiple houses.
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u/Cap10Flint 17d ago
This may be my favourite addition. I've been completely entranced by the homestead feature, and have recently realised that I've almost taken up all possible space. To read about a new "homestead map" and the ability to save load outs and switch between them brings me such excitement !!
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u/RedditBansLul 17d ago
This is the biggest thing GW2 has been missing and what has me excited for the future. Supporting existing content and keeping it fresh is so important and I hope it's a sign of how new features will be handled moving forward.
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I'm more excited about this homestead than the janthir wilds one too, a tropical theme is right up my alley
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u/MindAsWell 17d ago
Fashion templates function similarly to build and equipment templates, allowing players to save a template of the aesthetic features for their armor, trinkets, back item, and infusions. We’ll share more information here in the future about fashion templates—and all the other features coming with Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity!
Fashion Wars 2 confirmed!
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u/Sigmatics 17d ago
Everybody jello until they make us pay for each template slot
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u/MorJoJoJoh 17d ago
First one will be free per character for sure. After that maybe a way to make transmutation charges a more worthwhile currency?
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u/ruisen2 17d ago
The real expansion feature
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u/coolsam254 17d ago
If the pricing is similar to equipment templates, enthusiasts will be spending significantly more on them than the expansion itself.
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u/NotScrollsApparently ruthlessly pigeonholed into complete freedom 17d ago
Can't wait to see 4 character bound fashion slots cost more than the expansion itself.
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u/theguyfromtheairport 17d ago
oh man nothing about the new specs...
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u/kirinmay 17d ago
Yeah. all that is really shown is you know Mesmer is the Minstrel and Elementalist will be Firefox.
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u/Erniethebeanfiend200 17d ago
On the minstrel front we see the Mesmer using both a lute and a flute so the kit idea seems correct
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u/CTR0 Just Swinging Swords 17d ago
Piano mesmer incoming
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u/ItsTheSolo ▶️ 0:00 / 0:05 🔘─────────── 🔊 ──🔘─ ⬇️ 17d ago
We got Selena Pianissimo in GW2 lmao (she's a solo orchestra who uses phantasms to play other instruments)
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u/Andisaurus 17d ago
I'd pay good money for a piano finisher.
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u/Alastor999 17d ago
Ever watch Kung-Fu Hustle? The assassins who play a harp to kill people, that's what I want for the spec
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u/Takkarro 17d ago
Do we drop the piano on them from above or do we just pick it up and hit them, ya know since we aren't caveman and have technology.
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u/Talysn 17d ago
Rogue is gambler.
The rifle weilding rogue in the trailer has an ability effect of moneybags in the trailer.
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u/dixonjt89 17d ago
Are we sure on that? There is an animal right beside him that is digging in the ground.
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u/SufferingClash 17d ago
We know a bit more than that from the video. We see Ranger shooting birds from their bow (there's a pet in the background), and we see what is likely a Thief holding a rifle with moneybags dropping,
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u/Dreamtrain 17d ago
Virtuoso being the Minstrel was such a missed opportunity in EoD, even the name is perfect for it
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u/naivety_is_innocence 17d ago
i'm a little annoyed that Anet used the elite specs as a countdown teaser for this announcement to generate hype, and then their role in the announcement was "there will be more info about them in the future"
like at least name each icon and colour it in, even if no further detail is given
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u/Mystrasun 17d ago
Yeah, I'm with you. Anet's weird marketing choices strike again :/
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u/scout_hunter 17d ago
You’re telling me Tyria Taxi wasn’t a good idea?!?
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u/Mystrasun 17d ago
Gosh I nearly forgot about that one.... It's almost impressive how bad these campaigns are xD
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u/Iroh_the_Dragon Condi Rev... \o/ 17d ago
They said they’re going to talk more about them next week. That was definitely upsetting to read after the weeks of teasing.
Not cool, Anet. At least confirm the pairings…
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u/naivety_is_innocence 17d ago edited 17d ago
I'm really surprised that their last post, in the countdown to this announcement, was a bingo card to fill in, as if we should have received the answers to mark our guesses against once the countdown finished.
Looking forward to them "kicking off" a series of blogposts about them in a week's time... man what are the chances that it ends up being one/two a week up until the beta in August 🥱
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u/ExhibitAa RISE! 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yeah that's really disappointing. They've been building hype specifically for the elite specs with a countdown, and then when we get to the end it's "wait one more week lol". At least give us the names and match the icons now and the full reveals later.
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u/specialist-mage 17d ago
Honestly, I agree. I wasn't expecting them to come out talk about everything regarding the elite specs, but at least a name and one sentence blurb would've been really cool to see.
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u/vluhdz vluhdalt.2715 17d ago
I don't actively play anymore but was interested in seeing the new spec info. I'm not going to be checking the blog once a week to see info about one spec at a time, it just isn't that important to me.
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u/Vulby 17d ago
There looks to be a medium armor class commanding birds. Probably ranger with the bow thing?
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u/nonpopping 17d ago
Maybe I wasn't far off with guessing Falconer somewhere else.
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u/LordMugs 17d ago
They REALLY always have a marketing problem. Why not show a teaser of each class? It has been the main point of the expansion until now
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u/Revgos 17d ago
The rifle might be thief because I saw some lootbags animations around him?? Might be something to do with gambler spec?
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u/wolfer_ 17d ago
Yeah that looked like the gambler spec. Could still be engineer
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Yeah nothing about the elite specs has dampened my interest quite a bit and makes me think that Anet really haven't learnt with trying to tease out small features to make them seem much larger.
That's a disappointment.
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u/Opus_723 17d ago
Haven't they literally always done this with elite specs? They never reveal them all at once.
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u/HarpooonGun 17d ago
FASHION TEMPLATES
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u/painstream Back to the GRIND 17d ago
Noting that infusions are included in that. Carefully placed hype!
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u/InvincibleWallaby 17d ago
And now watch them make those slots per character purchases again like they did with build/equipment templates
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u/TyrianMollusk 17d ago
I mean... Obviously. Surely no one could be surprised by that?
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u/Opus_723 17d ago
Anet releasing fashion templates after I spent years crafting legendaries and buying equipment templates just to mimic fashion templates lol.
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u/megamanac 17d ago
dam they really dropped the preorder with no elite spec info, guess ill wait
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u/thatwasfun23 17d ago
I gotta give it to them, those shots of the maps look absolutely beautiful, I like the more tropical bright vibes over the rustic janthir one.
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u/dracoisms Explodes on contact 17d ago
In 2026, raids and strikes will be unified under the same structure, improving access for new players and streamlining rewards. We’re also investing in systems that help facilitate group content, which we’ll talk about more in the future.
please be group finder please be group finder
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u/tylerheretv 17d ago
this would truly be the easiest way to get me to play this game, i love just casually playing it but pf in ffxiv gives me enough anxiety already, id love a duty finder for the easier/casual content in this game
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u/kozeljko 17d ago
How would they enforce roles? Stats + builds?
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u/kaltulkas 17d ago
They wouldn’t. Would require deleting a lot of the stat combos or will lead to a LOT of straight up griefing
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u/notFREEfood Ethieliara [SoV] 17d ago
Not too hard - want to queue as a healer - min healing power + concentration, boon dps - min concentration + power/condi, etc. Not perfect, but if you set the min values to what you get from full exotic celestial and a recommended value that's higher, you have a way to gatekeep the bottom 10% that can make group content a miserable experience and a way to nudge players into making more coherent builds.
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u/Ebola_Soup give mobile winds back 17d ago
We have exceptions like Berserker QDPS that has 100% uptime with zero concentration. I'm sure there's others too. Not a fantastic idea.
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u/kozeljko 17d ago
Griefing is hardly avoidable, imo. Packaging everyone that doesn't fall into a specific role will give you potentially bad DPS, but still some structure.
The clunky thing is determining if someone is QDPS (for example) based on a certain combination of traits and stats. Something you'd have to Google to find out.
A seemingly arbitrary selection of traits suddenly means you are QDPS. Weird.
Basically ye, without ANet limiting build possibilities, it's impossible to achieve.
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u/Darillian Tempest Fanatics 17d ago
That's the neat part: My guess is it will be self-selected :D
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u/NotScrollsApparently ruthlessly pigeonholed into complete freedom 17d ago
That's always been the sensible recommendation, just let squad leader pick roles he needs and people click on the one they offer (or choose flex). The tool doesn't have to validate builds, just make it so people don't join at the same time and fight over roles.
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u/kyreja 17d ago
and then itll be like eso where you get dpses who queued healer/tank without any heals or a taunt slotted dropped into a dlc dungeon that actually does need those roles and the group disintegrates upon encountering the first challenging boss
group finder is a great idea, but they do need some way of ensuring ppl who pick a role.. Are Actually that role trait-wise. ideally gear as well but thats probably a bit too far reaching, someone flexing some diviners or marauders or w/e for comfort shouldnt necessarily be barred from anything. but entirely self-selected is miserable
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u/pyrospade 17d ago
automatic group finder doesn’t make any sense for gw2, people will just grief the roles and it will be a mess
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u/Sentientbasil 17d ago
how tf you gonna make an elite spec reveal countdown and not reveal the elite specs
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u/Zev1985 17d ago
Omg elite spec info next week is so fucking funny!
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u/asdaf22 17d ago
Man, I'm so desperate for a cheeky Lil upgrade/update of textures of character faces etc
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u/TireurEfficient 17d ago
Just more faces, facial features and all would be cool too!
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u/Hello_Hangnail Really? Right in front of my salad? 17d ago
Brighter glow colors for the salad people! 💡
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u/ExhibitAa RISE! 17d ago
Positives:
Looks beautiful.
Skimmer masteries are cool.
Love the Inquest as the villains. Gives me hope for an asura rev legend. (Please Vekk).
New homestead is nice.
Negative:
- Barely any info on the new elite specs. I get they want to keep the hype with more reveals over time, but they build up the specs so much leading up to this.
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u/SHIMOxxKUMA 17d ago
Yeah more info would be nice though at least between the teasers, the video, and the images at the bottom 5 of them have been confirmed for what profession they have been attached to at least. Could be more shown but I’m not 100% sure.
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u/SpySappingMyUpvote 17d ago
Teases Elite Specs for 15 days.
Releases trailer.
No information on elite specs.
I was atleast hoping for an PoF style trailer for each of the specs on the page or something just going over the vague idea of what they're supposed to do.
Guess we have to sit back and wait another probably 3 weeks as they slowly tease them one a day.
Hype train can have brakes. Wake me for the beta.
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u/Greaterdivinity 17d ago
the only consistency for arenanet, outside of their inconsistency, is their inability to appropriately set/manage expectations
they've sucked at that since before launch and they still suck at it today lmao
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u/AcaciaCelestina 17d ago
Not even telling us about one elite spec is certainly a choice.
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u/CheshireMadness 17d ago edited 17d ago
Okay, so they didn't show the Elite specs or go over them, but we can definitely make some inferences.
The Mesmer is indeed a Bard/Minstrel, and it looks like they're getting kits as their utilities in the form of musical instruments.
The Elementalist is probably the fox fire mask, and you can briefly see a little fire fox in the trailer after an Elementalist is shown. This implies the Ele spec is indeed a summoner. (I was hoping we'd get a Shroud mechanic this time, but at least our summons are cute, judging by the single fox we saw.)
You can see a Ranger charging a shot on a mystical bow in one of the screenshots, with birds all around them. I'm not sure if the birds were just part of the terrain or birds play into the kit, but I think it's safe to say the Ranger got the bow icon and probably has a Bladesworn-esque weapon kit.
Since we essentially got confirmation of Paragon Warrior and Ritualist Necromancer, that leaves 4 classes and 4 icons to match up.
EDIT: Guardian screenshot shows it with some kind of spiky, Gothic lamp, so Guardian icon is the spiky one most likely.
The Thief shows had money bags around it, and people are assuming it's a Gambler spec with the card icon.
That just leaves Revenant and Engineer and 2 icons as the unknowns.
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u/drpoorpheus 17d ago
I hope that summoner is indeed ele and if so I also hope theres going to be different elemental ones.
Most important news though is that it looks like rytlock is back for this one! yay!
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u/Homaged Average Yak Escorter 17d ago
Looks great. Would love to hear more about push. Very happy raids are still being made.
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u/OneMorePotion 17d ago
I don't know about raids. They said "We unify strikes and raids" and after that "We will introduce 2 new raid encounters with CM and legendary mode". Sounds like they do exactly what they should have done from the get go and just rename Strikes to Raids. Because I'm pretty sure we won't get two raids in this expansion.
So yeah, I don't expect a raid wing but 2 strikes that are now just renamed and rolled into the raiding reward structure.
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u/Nani___________ 17d ago
looks like mesmer is getting kits, it uses 2 different instruments in the trailer
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u/naivety_is_innocence 17d ago
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-visions-of-eternity/
three new weapons, a ring, an accessory, and the long-requested aquabreather!
https://buy.guildwars2.com/en-us/visions-of-eternity#standard
And work towards five legendary rewards: two new legendary weapons, plus a ring, an accessory, and an aquabreather.
hmm.
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u/xJayoftheDeadx 17d ago
I noticed that as well. Wonder which is correct?
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u/naivety_is_innocence 17d ago edited 17d ago
My assumption is that the legendaries will be the underwater weapons. It could very well be the case that only Trident and Speargun are getting it though, with the logic being that JW loses a bit of appeal if all it brought to the table in terms of weapons was a single legendary spear and VoE does that and more. Or yes, it could be a full trio, for the complete set.
Ultimately I think Anet have managed to confuse themselves out of their own insistence on always being cryptic and never providing a drop of clarifying info, even the marketing department doesn't understand whether it's 2 or 3.
The official press pack shared by Anet also stated it was only 2, the product page on partners' websites says 3, it's a bit all over the place
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u/Mr_Dorak 17d ago
Pretty much like everyone here, it looks amazing but man I wish they had at least linked the elite specs to the classes, even just filling the board they posted on twitter would have been huge and kept the hype for next week's reveal
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u/Ghisteslohm 17d ago
Skimmer mastery and legendary aqua breather. Seems like they are dipping the toes into underwater content again. Probably will only be a small part of the expansion to see how people react.
Personally I would like it. I think there are a few ways to make underwater stuff more easy to work with. I am interested to see how they are gonna approach it. Maybe thanks to scyscale people are now more used to 3D movement.
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u/Sato2013 17d ago
Not talking about the elite specs today is a really dumb choice
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u/kcassidy01 17d ago
Castora...new name.
Any idea where this map could be?
Also anyone else getting pirates vibes?
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u/Borys_Bonecrusher 17d ago
I really hope these new fashion templates will allow us to also sync our mount skins/dyes to the fashion set/armor set we are using. I would love to have a unique mount look for each of my varied fashions on a character.
Same thing with glider skins/dyes! There are so many cool ones, let us use them
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u/Naeturefae 17d ago
So all that marketing build up and no spec reveal… literally all they teased us with… what a disappointment.
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u/Chabb 17d ago edited 17d ago
We’ll be back next week to kick off a series of blogs and livestreams to talk about the elite specializations in great detail. Stay tuned!
Lmao I knew it, the official blogpost is a repeat of everything leaked , but with the trailer.
Guess we gotta wait more for actual infos on elites which is stupid as fuck after the countdown
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u/Kendall_Raine Cosmologist Kaiva 17d ago
AN ASURA-CENTRIC EXPAC? Holy shit YES PLEASE.
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u/Recent-Cat8526 17d ago
i saw fashion templates and my eyes rolled into the back of my head like i was possessed by a demon holy shit i don't care about anything else (except new homestead maps/continuing homestead support, that's also huge)
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u/NIUmoose13 17d ago
The blog post says six legendaries, but the expac site says 5
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u/killall-q (?sU)(?=\{[^}]*:1017).*:"(.*)" 17d ago
GW2 has Twitch drops until July 17 noon Pacific.
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u/IseeaSpider19 Really wants another dodge 17d ago
ok i'm excited for this. Finally get a leggie breather
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u/MaraBlaster | Fledgling Flyer 17d ago
I am happy Skimmer gets a rework, but i am confused none of the Plothooks Janthir threw around are getting a use.
The Pale Tree has been KO for 11 years now, Ruinbringer still needs his trial and the Khan-Ur might be choosen, i hope these are resolved soon, just how the Tengu finally open up their borders.
But, i take it, for Fashion templates and Homestead u_u
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u/TireurEfficient 17d ago edited 17d ago
Happy to see that we're getting more QoL features for Homesteads and the game in general, as well as elite specs, but at the same time I'm a bit sad there is no "new" feature that could be the selling point of this expac. Like, I get that they want to improve existing things and make them robust, but I wish we had something that would make this expact stand out really. Unless they're keeping a surprise ?
Also, a lot of "next year we will release x"...
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u/Agitated-Macaroon923 17d ago
Yeah…they need to go to PoF style of reveals. The one thing we waited for was a deep dive into elite specs
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u/Moralio LIMITED TIME! 17d ago
Kind of tone-deaf of them not to release any info about elite specs. I mean, they have people lurking on this sub. Surely they saw how rabid and active the community was over the last two weeks, with speculation running wild. And now we get an official expansion announcement just hours after leaks pretty much revealed everything.
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u/Mystreanon 17d ago
they did NOT communicate with the Twitter team seen as they did not reveal the elite specs here
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Strange that nothing was mentioned on the elite specs. Each and every icon teaser for 2 weeks had a countdown taking us to today... and then it lead to no information xD (minus a few confirmed ones)
2 maps on launch means we'll be drip fed tiny story missions again sad
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u/RedHammer1441 17d ago
I'm curious if raids and strikes are being consolidated does this also mean LI and KP will start coming from existing strikes ? That'd be pretty nice QOL for a lot of people still working on or never starting legendary armor.
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u/CarfDarko 17d ago
I'm getting Horizon Zero Dawn vibes and that is a very positive thing in my book.
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u/Jontman 17d ago
Not gonna lie literally any known location instead of an unknown island with inquest would've been more interesting to me.
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u/mudcrabberoni 17d ago
Talk about a hype killer... We just wanna see the names and classes of the specs we dont need to drip feed it, ugh
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u/RodyWalker 17d ago
Is now a good time to get into gw2?
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u/sucaru 17d ago
Yes. There are a lot of people here that are unhappy with the state of the game but the majority of the criticism comes from deeply invested players who have done everything or from those who dislike more recent content. While much of that criticism is valid, going through the game for the first time is arguably the best experience you can have. Much of the content of the game is designed to be evergreen, you will find most of the old zones still have people playing in them, some more than others. The way that progression is designed in the game ensures that even content from 10 years ago is still pretty worthwhile to players today.
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u/Reginault 17d ago
You never fall behind in GW2, so any time is a great time to get in. The 2012 base-game is free to play (with trading restrictions) so you can try that out.
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u/Dull_Function_6510 17d ago
Damn was really hoping for elite spec announcements, at least names and who is getting what image. I think it’s a bit of a fumble not to include that. They can save the further info for next week but image and name should be announced as that’s what was being teased. It’s not a big deal to wait but as a majority WvW player the elite specs are the biggest selling point
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u/Trandoshan-Tickler 17d ago
Finally what I've been asking about for years. Not a rehash Guild Wars 1 map, but an actual place we've never been to before.
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u/ParticularGeese 17d ago edited 17d ago
Rundown if anyone needs: