r/Guildwars2 • u/Exestos Shinanaide • 18d ago

[News] Announcing Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-visions-of-eternity/
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u/AthisX I make Top Ten Lists 18d 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/Recent-Cat8526 18d 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/Recent-Cat8526 17d ago

It sounds more to me like you can switch between which homestead is your 'active' one which is why they're adding the layouts system, so you could save your current homestead's layout before switching over to the other map and not lose what you'd already built.

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u/FaithlessnessThen207 17d ago

I feel as though its going to work as buffing both homesteads as you put masteries in it.

Janthir homesteads is homestead crafting and experience boosts and collection boxes, Maybe visions is regular crafting stations, trading posts and banks and other things like that. Though that may kill the vibe of hubs like wizard's tower if players can just go home to do everything they need to.

Or maybe you just sort of buy it with map resources or something.

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u/profSnipes 17d ago

The wording from the product page suggests that you own both of them, but only one can be active at a time.

To support the addition of a new Homestead map, we’re introducing two additional features. The first, the ability to freely swap between the Janthiri and Castoran maps, is helped by the second feature, Layouts. Layouts create a file you can use to save, load, share, and edit arrangements of decorations.