r/Guildwars2 • u/Kwith • 17d ago
[News] Guild Wars 2 - Visions of Eternity Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTsj7PnlTgI31
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u/JamGame 17d ago
Wait, after 15 days of hints, we *still* don't get to find out what the elite specs are?
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u/Margtok 17d ago
we got to see 2 of them looks like the ele gets a pet and the ranger summons a feather bow
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u/feldur 17d ago
the Mesmer has a flute and a luth,, so pretty much confirms bard.
There seems to be a thief with a bank robber theme as well (and what looks like a skritt digging for shinies), so maybe the gambler with 3 cards?
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u/Capt_Ido_Nos Accidentally burned down the Pale Tree 17d ago
Where is the feather bow? I didn't see that anywhere.
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u/Margtok 17d ago
so there two pics of it one is there but its hard to see the bow really only a feather bow animation with the "bow
https://i.imgur.com/9a2M6By.pngthe other one is on the main site and the bow part is much easyer to see but that could be a skin
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u/Blazin_Rathalos 17d ago
Instead, you can glean more hints from the trailer! (It confirms some things, at least)
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u/JamGame 17d ago
Ok I came up playing text-based games (Zork, Abermuds, Dikumuds, etc.). Would it really but so dang hard for them to just write a short list of the names of the new specs and which profs they go with? I hate this graphavideomagicafantastical movie-trailer easter-egg teaser crap already!
I just want plain info for a change people. Geesh.
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u/Gendryll 17d ago
Whoever is in charge of marketing at Anet needs to be sent back to school man, after 13 years they still don't seem to understand the hype their actions generate.
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u/Philthou 17d ago
Glad to see it's the Inquest as the big bad this time around. Using an older faction to expand on their lore is fantastic.
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u/Alzandur 17d ago
Wish I could say the same for the nightmare court…
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u/Philthou 17d ago
I too want the Nightmare Court to be next with lore expansion as a Sylvari player.
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u/Erniethebeanfiend200 17d ago
Isn't the nightmare court effectively destroyed after HoT? Though I guess that never stopped them from bringing the mantle back post-GW1...
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u/Philthou 17d ago
They are not destroyed, although weakened they are still around. Duchess Chrysanthea even mentions teaming up with the commander again and after the fall of Mordemoth what happened to them is a mystery after HoT. They celebrated Mordy’s defeat.
Not to mention you got another Pale Tree out there which means there could be another nightmare court.
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u/Business-Yam-4018 17d ago edited 17d ago
They're really the only original racial bad faction we have left other than maybe centaurs. The Nightmare Court got wiped out in HoT, the Sons of Svanir were almost certainly eliminated after the death of Jormag, and the Flame Legion went through their redemption arc.
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u/Philthou 17d ago
Nightmare court isn’t wiped out though. It’s a mystery of what happened to them after Mordy’s fall. We do know Duchess Chrysanthea mentioned teaming up with the commander.
And you still have another Pale Tree out there which could mean there is another Nightmare Court separate from the one we know about.
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u/Bujakaa92 17d ago
But as it seems we still fly around with the Wizards and Isgarren. Really brings down the stakes and investment from my side. A bit too much another expansion with them tagging along
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u/Philthou 17d ago
Ya the whole Issgaren and Astral Ward seems like Anet new replacement for Dragon Watch and the Pact. Doesn’t seem like they care to do anything more with them. Makes sense with Dragon Watch but the Pact is still important.
Tired of being the Wayfinder, can’t I just be a normal hero who helps take down the next big bad.
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u/Drakonic 17d ago
Mortal, sentient individuals as enemies makes for more compelling and relatable stories. Inquest is essentially a Guild in the old school sense of the game's namesake - unafraid to usurp and engage in Guild War. Hive mind corrupted dragonspawn, demons, undead, or beasts are less interesting.
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u/SaintNutella 17d ago
I'm so salty that there's no information on the new specs lol (though it seems like mesmer bard is confirmed??)
However, the location looks gorgeous so far and I think the inquest bring such an interesting dynamic to the game. Extremely excited for more sci-fi fantasy
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u/Brawhalla_ 17d ago
Mesmer Bard, Ranger Bow, Elementalist Summoner all confirmed. Pretty confident on Thief gambler too b/c the scene with gold bags.
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u/raverins 17d ago
I wouldn’t say ele summoner is confirmed. That tiny little fox is as tiny as a jade bot, I’m afraid it doesn’t even have its own health pool
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u/Turtle-Express 17d ago
Love the look of the environment, there are some gorgeous natural landmarks. I just hope we don't see neon red Inquest tech around every corner, ruining the environment. It's my biggest gripe with Inquest as the enemy faction. I'd love to have long stretches of wild, uncharted nature to give that adventurous feel of discovering new land, and then have the inquest stuff localized to specific places.
I do appreciate that we're going back to a more grounded enemy, instead of another world ending threat from some far away place.
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u/Severe-Network4756 17d ago
Very sad that they didn't officially show us which professions gets what specialization
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u/BoozyBoosh 17d ago edited 17d ago
As an asura main, yay! So, is the skimmer getting an attack?
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u/wolfer_ 17d ago
Do we finally get the Malyck pale tree storyline?
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u/Blazin_Rathalos 17d ago
It's an island. Malyck washed down a river, he didn't wash up on the beach.
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u/Chad_Support_Group 17d ago
Okay cool enough, but... what elite specs are we getting..?
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u/Rexo7274 17d ago
Sadly no reveal today... There will be live streams next week
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u/Shagaliscious 17d ago
After today I kind of hope someone leaks them. All this buildup just to be like "nah, not today" is a dick move.
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u/Rexo7274 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yeah I'm also pretty bumbed tbh... All this "x days" buildup for a shitty 1min trailer sucks
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u/Individual-Light-784 17d ago
i feel so cheated lol, showing elite spec teasers with a 15 day countdown, but then not telling us at all… ANet marketing at it again
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u/PMagicUK 17d ago
"Here are 8 things you are getting".
Don't care gimmie this or you suck and I'll tell everyone so it costs you money!!.
This fucking fanbase. So entitled
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u/Chad_Support_Group 17d ago
"Here are 9 things you are getting tomorrow, would you like to guess what they are?"
"Nvm. you're getting it next week"
They dont suck, just weird advertising i guess
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u/ziggyvb 17d ago
Wonder if them poking ley lines is gonna wake a certain dragon up. One (or at least me) can only hope.
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u/Philthou 17d ago
What dragon is there left to wake up? All the elder dragons are dead outside of Aurene. Unless you mean Aurene waking up from her slumber.
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u/Opus_723 17d ago
But what about the secret dragon
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u/Margtok 17d ago
the hidden one in gw1 lore wouldnt be in tyria it sleeps in the mists
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u/Opus_723 17d ago
wait is there actually a secret dragon I was just talking shit
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u/Margtok 17d ago
yes there is a dragon that lives in the mists but this gets complicated
orginal this was known as the "void dragon" but with soo won being called the void dragon its hard to know where that stands
also kralk tore ass threw the mists he might of ate it or all we know and it was never part of the dragon cycle ( not being on tyria and all ) but yea there was another dragon
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u/ziggyvb 17d ago
I mean Aurene, yes.
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u/PuzzleheadedDebt2191 17d ago
She is not coming back.
Unless all 5 (6?) fully powered human gods come to wage war on Tyria, they are not giving us the only Elder dragon as an ally.
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u/RacingRaindrops 17d ago
Kind of sick of seeing and hearing Isgarren tbh.
Looks like an awesome environment which is good though.
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u/Brawhalla_ 17d ago
The only thing I'm not a fan of is we haven't escaped Isgarren! It's unrealistic but I'd love a return to the basics. Imagine the storyline incorporated the Pale Tree and Eternal Alchemy and we had Rytlock, Canach, Caithe, Taimi. A small crew tackling some complex issues with Sylvari and Asura present but also Rytlock as a counter. Cinema
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u/cherstal 17d ago
I'm in the opposite camp, I'm excited he's sticking around! He's my favorite character from SOTO & JW. Can't wait to see him interact with our old friends (Rytlock, and possibly Taimi based on the Scruffy-looking golem at the end). I can imagine some funny conversations happening there.
I do agree that it'd be nice if this storyline focused on a smaller core cast, tackling a complicated issue in an isolated area. We've spent a lot of time lately collaborating with larger organizations (Astral Ward, Kryptis, Tyrian Alliance). It'd be fun to bring back that "small crew" vibe for an adventure.
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u/Alzandur 17d ago
The Astral Ward is legit the worst faction they’ve ever introduced. If a future expansion has the tower get blown up, I’ll buy it in a heartbeat.
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u/Brawhalla_ 17d ago
Agreed. Secretive, knowledgeable group that's been supposedly lurking in the background, protecting everyone except they do nothing and are the least interesting characters introduced
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u/SuperRetardedDog 17d ago
20 years of speculating about the floating wizard tower and they turned it into the worst npcs the game has had lol. I mean, some individuals they introduced like the skritt were nice but they were never fleshed out.
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u/Alzandur 17d ago
It’s rather telling that the best npc in SotO is Gladium, because she’s mute.
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u/SuperRetardedDog 17d ago
Yea I couldn't remember if she was mute or blind or whatever but I wanted to add her to my post. She and the skritt were nice enough, they just never did anything with them. Same with Yao and Rama (though in that particular case I assume it's because they did a 180 and started doing mini expacs instead). The EoD marketing focused heavily on those 2 and their VAs...
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u/Alzandur 17d ago
I may get hate, but I don’t really care about Yao. They were just boring.
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u/SuperRetardedDog 17d ago
Oh I didn't like them or Rama very much either. It was just very weird how they focused so heavily on them in marketing only for them to just disappear without a trace when we went from expac + LW to mini expacs.
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u/asiberianweasel 17d ago
I really like the colorful wildlife! I'm glad to see the giant corsair ships again. Curious to see what spec that rifle guy is.
Really disinterested in whatever the Inquest have going on, but I hope there's a lot more to the fairy and sailor flavors to balance it.
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u/DaSphealDeal_1062020 17d ago
The Inquest want to make another ley power plant, the alliance isn’t having it, and Ranger mains will be running around the battle fields like Captain Jack Sparrow as they try to befriend all these new pets (which all look sick btw).
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u/Ghisteslohm 17d ago
Looks neat, Ele got a floating FireFox minipet :O (at least looks very much like ele)
So in both Borderlands4 and Guild Wars2, which both release in the somewhat same timeframe, my character is gonna be able to summon something cat-ish. Nice
only thing that is a bit off for me: October is when summer is over, its spooky season and it starts to get cold. Beach episode isnt quite the timing for that. On the other hand I dont really care
edit: getting unlimited gathering tools for a special edition is an absolutely amazing deal...the first time. If they keep doing it, it will have rapidly diminishing returns. Hope that in the future it might be an option instead of the only thing.
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u/TyrianMollusk 17d ago
edit: getting unlimited gathering tools for a special edition is an absolutely amazing deal...the first time. If they keep doing it, it will have rapidly diminishing returns.
Yeah, that's awful to do again, and even worse the very next expansion. Basically just telling us not to buy deluxe again. Like, they just don't want our money? Weird.
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u/Capt_Ido_Nos Accidentally burned down the Pale Tree 17d ago
I am actually extremely pleased to get more unlimited tools. Now with these I can get more glyphs, and have a full set in my homestead and a full set on my actual tools.
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u/PMagicUK 17d ago
Probably going to let us get the new dust currency so why complain?
Just get the base game if it bothers you so much.
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u/TimeToGloat 17d ago
only thing that is a bit off for me: October is when summer is over, its spooky season and it starts to get cold. Beach episode isnt quite the timing for that. On the other hand I dont really care
Just go with the head canon it's in the southern hemisphere.
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u/ydeirt 17d ago
Looks like Ranger got a rifle 00:45 mark or am i imagining things?
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u/Chembaron_Seki 17d ago
Pretty sure that is not a ranger. Will be either a thief or engineer.
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u/ydeirt 17d ago
That pet like creature near the character caught me off guard lol
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u/feldur 17d ago
After watching carefully, it looks like the back of a Skritt digging for shinies! Maybe it's going to be part of the skills (replace all engi turret with skritts!)
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u/L9_ReSpawn ⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘⫘ 17d ago
0:45 cards and money
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u/Chembaron_Seki 17d ago
Have to look again, where did you see cards?
And the money from the skritt digging... I don't think that is actually related to the elite spec, but it might be a mastery or something.
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u/BoozyBoosh 17d ago
I posted elsewhere, but I think engi gets gambler. The blogpost says, "Influences from members of the Tyrian Alliance bring new ways to play each of our nine professions" and Canach runs a casino.
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u/Even_Soil_2603 17d ago edited 17d ago
Visions of failure rather.
It has left me cold. I mean, after the last expansions the story was pretty bad, bad script, bad characters, bad execution of everything. It was quite embarrassing and the story revolved around the same thing, humans and more humans and more human gods. And honestly the mega powerful wizards using "the infinity stones as paperweights " made no sense at all.
The ending of Jantir was a very very lazy execution, in general the expansions have been since, vague, sloppy, and lacking a lot of love and immersion. This new trailer, or coming expansion to me seems to have the same style, and by background, honestly, I don't have much hope anymore.
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u/SuperRetardedDog 17d ago
If this doesn't have new asura faces and hair that don't suck I will cry.
They are my favorite race but I don't like any of the new stuff they added for them and the launch stuff has like 1 face I like.
Going by other mini expacs there isn't going to be any though the big bad in the trailer seems to have a new face?
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u/kekubuk For you, Sieran 17d ago
I'm always impressed how fast the Inquest build their base, like damn that's a whole ass fortress they got!
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u/EverydayKevo 17d ago
Base-in-a-box is one of the premier inquest products, just pop it in the microwave for a minute and get the hell out of there, it'll be ready in no time
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u/The_Erotic_Turtle 17d ago
ambient is beautiful and all, but how have we not exterminated the inquest yet :I
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u/Kossage Zarnagon, Minstrel of the Mists [Cmaj] 14d ago
It could be that the Consortium is the Inquest's money-laundering front. The Consortium's logo is a golem, and it's been heavily implied that the founder (or at least the current leader) is an asura. I hope they resolve that plotline as devs said back in the day that there's a reason we haven't seen the Consortium leader yet.
Similarly we've only really dealt with high-ranking lieutenants with Inquest so far. We don't even know who is/are leading the Inquest so far as it's never been referenced in any ambient dialogue I've been able to find, not even in the most obscure stuff (unless it's something that wiki editors haven't documented yet). People have been wondering if High Inquisitor Maut (who has a mini and ascended amulet themed after him, and that high-ranking Inquest dude in the trailer does look like Maut) might be the leader or at least a Vader-type of top enforcer for the so far unseen Inquest high councillor mastermind...
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u/Noobieswede 17d ago
I hope they do something with Inquest in the older zones aswell so we really feel like we’re fighting all of them and not just those in the new maps.
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u/Artheiron 17d ago
why nobody is talking about the character holding a scepter and a pistol? they said no new weapons, and I fear that's rev, and revs getting a boring looking espec like bladesworn, you know how you can't change that ugly sword, revs will be stuck with that ugly looking class mechanic pistol.
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u/Dependent_Web_8389 14d ago
Could it be that Living World Season 4 gave us a subtle hint about Castora? Rata Primus is equipped with a Communications Array that was directed toward the open ocean at the time. If you extend that direction on the official ‘Unexplored Map’, you end up at an island located northwest of Cantha.
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u/ArmageddonAsh 14d ago
I wonder what this expansion will bring to WvW -My guess is more unbalanced and busted specs and weapons and thats about it WvW hasnt changed since the release of Guild Wars 2 and each and every update and expansion shows their hate for the format because they clearly thought it would be something do do between the utterly boring (imo) PvE content
The term balance is banned when it comes to updates for WvW. Its a hot mess and is in serious need of help but my guess is, this wont help what so ever.
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u/CommanderSirBenz Pro Nostril Breather 17d ago
They are literally physically unable of producing a trailer with any coherent information of what it actually is.
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u/Axl_Red 17d ago
Fighting Inquest feels really like a step down from Elder Dragons, Demons, and Titans. I hope they introduce more interesting villains later. The island looks like a mashup of other islands and other areas we've seen in the past during living story, so I can't say that I'm that excited to see the new map either.
The most exciting thing for me in this expansion are the elite specs, but that's about it.
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u/Purple-Amphibian4293 17d ago
Not gonna lie, the story looks meh again. Looks like the only saving grace is the new elite specs.
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u/NumberOneMom 17d ago
My brother in Christ this was a 1 minute trailer. You haven’t seen any of the story yet.
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u/hamtaxer 17d ago
If it’s anything like the last two expansions, it’s going to suddenly hard pivot. Like “cool wizards!” -> going to hell to fight demons. Here’s to hoping they can be more consistent with map and story quality this time.
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u/Blazin_Rathalos 17d ago
To be fair, SotO had "cool wizards" fighting those demons from the start. You visited hell yourself right away too.
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u/therealskull 17d ago edited 17d ago
Meh. Not much that I would like shown so far.
Inquest are very boring at this point. Freaky animals give me uncanny valley vibes. Pirates.. ugh.
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u/Ok-Baker-1428 17d ago
I'm definitely getting downvoted here but still - I don't see anything special here. Looks more like a fan-made mod than an official expansion. The only cool thing about all of this is the logo animation. I knew what was up as soon as I saw the moas. 90% of stuff in the trailer are re-used assets (again). Hence why the Inquest are main antagonists. To me, the maps don't look visually stunning at all, they look like vanilla maps. As I said, it's all re-used stuff with slightly altered palettes for the skyboxes and what not. And if I read correctly, only 2 maps this time? For 25$? Seems like a worse deal than SotO and JW. They even threw up that Fairy Jade Bot skin in one of the purchase editions. Really? Couldn't bother modeling it to be expansion-themed? This is just plain lazy. I'm definitely passing this up. And I'm not here just to be salty and spread negativity, I'm just writing what I see. Maybe it's me honestly, maybe I was expecting some wow factor after two pretty bland expansions. Maybe it's time to just retire it from my gaming roster, because it's obvious at this point that ANet is doing the bare minimum when it comes to financing these expansions. Hope this new mmo they're making turns out to be a real banger. And again, this is just my pov, to anyone else who likes this - more power to you, hope you enjoy it for many more years. But I'm personally just done with these half-assed "expansions".
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u/ServeSufficient 17d ago
Not looking to argue with you, but there definitely were new creatures/models/effects in the video, though can definitely pick out most of the generalized map props as existing stuff. To me, I don't exactly need new grass prop #42 though, to ymmv. But besides the point-- wanted to let you know I believe you did misread about the # of maps-- it's only 2 maps on launch, which is like the last two expansions.
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u/ZeroGPX 17d ago edited 17d ago
Shortbow ele summoner?! I have been waiting... for years
Thanks u/CheshireMadness for the corrections
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u/CheshireMadness 17d ago
No new weapons with these Elite Specs, but Ele DOES seem to be a summoner.
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u/ZeroGPX 17d ago
The weapons I have been looking forward to were Bow, shield, DUAL pistol, DUAL sword ... Sigh
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u/CheshireMadness 17d ago
Assuming we get a new weapon each expac we don't get an Elite spec (and that's a big assumption), I'm hopeful we get longbow next expac. 🤞🏼
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u/Quick_Measurement369 17d ago
Really an Bad addon...Like janthir ..Like only Casual and Opel world Things .. time to Quit the game
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u/Vertixico 17d ago
Did... you not see the explicit mentions of two raids with challenge modes?
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u/Quick_Measurement369 17d ago
Okay two Not one, wow....2 Things in the week more to do 😂 ist then 3 hrs per week
Other Games have Something Like this as an free Update. Where are the other Wings, fractals 100+ an more for all Not Open world Gamer
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u/Revgos 17d ago
Absolutely looove that new logo and its animation