Lara, thank you so much for not dooming LMAO (it kinda feels like most gw2 content creators are always so doom and gloom about the future of the game) Stay hopemaxxing
Basically, they're finally closing the pending stories from Guild Wars 1. First, the mysterious floating castle. Closed. Next, Janthir and the White Mantle. Always the toughest opponents from both Guild Wars. After this, we'll probably jump back to Cantha. A pretty good timing since they halted the Cantha story, it would be a great time to go back to it next year and tie in GW1 and GW2. After that, more Elona again. Before they finally move on to fresh GW2 content. A good move. Fan service for GW1 players, at the same time, it's a new story for GW2-only players.
Ok, now we can see what happened to (not actually) Kuunavangs brother, the baby salt spray that the random guy in Nightfall had found. Make him, the dragon, a villain with some crazy ideology trying to bring back abaddon for some wild reason. have him defeat us and succeed by the end. Next expac brings back the gods to help us. Now we have a link to their planet/ realm
Your comment sounds good to me, but isn't the blood legion homelands also gw1 nostalgia technically. Because of all the wars with the Charr and the lore. Would be cool to explore ALL of it. It's a big piece of land
Theoretically that might be possible if you only have a handful of characters. I have 30+ on my main account, and I know of people that have 60+. Not betting on it either way.
@@thomastgnome6526 I wonder if it would be possible for them to implement a system that cycles between them. Like up to 3 alts will show up in your home, but every time you load in or every daily reset, it randomly chooses from the pool. It's probably possible, but also likely a lot of work to maintain and easy to break.
@@choryllis6646 Or you can choose who to appear, your alts can be assigned in the home instance like decoration items. Only they can roam around like NPCs (if that's possible)
I started GW2 about a year ago and your content always make me feel cozy and happy even on my darkest days, so please keep up the content and thank you so much :) I can't wait for the new dlc. Housing sound's epic.
Very nice video, I'm excited about player housing too! Also as someone whose been playing MMOs for 20+ years it is really refreshing to see the widespread acknowledgement that raiding is only done by a minority of the players. For years, game journalists and a vocal minority touted the incorrect claim that raiders were the majority of MMO players, and they had too much influence on developers (who ignored their own game metrics), while resources were spent on extensive raid content most customers had no interest in doing. I have nothing against hardcore content, only the years that were wasted with MMO developers mistakenly believing they could turn everyone into hardcore raiders and designing games around that. Now with more and more Twitch and UA-cam streamers, raids serve an additional purpose of marketing by engaging dedicated streamers like Lara to give more exposure of the game. Plus, as the video points out, ArenaNet has figured out a good solution allowing the assets of raids to be available to more of their customers. After all this time, it's nice to see developers getting things right.
I haven't played in a while but this video, and a friend telling me to get back on pushed me to check out GW2 again. Before I buy the pre-release, does Lara have an affiliate link I could put in?
"Much more interesting for speed running" sums up the entire reason as to why Raids are not popular. A lot of people were interested and capable but kids in them were running around like they've popped a few to many ADHD pills.. next, next, next. Here's a hint.. most people don't want to *rush* so they never bothered after a few. This new direction sounds very promising.
I have to say, I love spears. It always annoys me when medieval-adjacent games don't have the knife-on-a-stick without a really good reason. They are absurdly effective against beast and man alike, and they are really easy to make. I'm also excited for player housing, the home instance right now is kind of meh, very spread out and not really a home.
FINALLY i can actually potentially care about all the cool "guild decorations" in the game that i never even gave a thought to before (assuming and hoping we will be able to use them in our house)
There's gardens outside.... so maybe nodes, at least a few will be transfer. Also, it seems that there's a workshop too. As scribe who fully decorated 2 halls, I recognize all decorations featured in the video (minus those round stone tiles on the floor).... so most likely scribe decorations will either become salable on the TP (cross fingers!!! would be amazing to make money out of scribing instead of being a huge gold sink)... OR account bound but usable in our homes/guild halls if you are a scribe.
They actually confirmed on the forums that there will be a new crafting profession for Homestead decorations? Very curious to see how it will work exactly! Home instance nodes are confirmed to be carrying over :)
Player housing? My deranged Reaper will be demanding many skulls and bookshelves. And Metal Legion posters. I will try to restrain him from crafting a shrine to Scarlet Briar ("I CAN fix her!"). But now he'll have to decide which murder stick to use: Greatsword or Land Spear?
GW2 is my 3rd MMO i've ever played (since it's release actually). The previous 2 didn't have Housing system, so Ive never experienced it, BUT it's pretty common to read about people really excited about it. Can please anyone explain to me what's the alure about that? The interest for those escapes me. Thank you.
...but you know no matter what, some players will still downplay every expansion and get plucked about how it didn't meet their expectations. i for one am excited for the new way they will deliver expansions in itself. but even if i didn't completely enjoy SOTOcompared to previous ones, i still got some content that were A+ like the Astral Rewards format is great and very motivating. and the new weapon mastery for new game play and prospective builds to try. my point is there are already some criticizing the content based on just the trailer (which wasn't that bad, though nothing great compared to previous ones) when it isn't even out yet. can't please everyone. i know. what i am excited for Janthir is the expansion of the lore. new Tyrian map (how long has it been?). im not really all that giddy for the housing and i predict will not engage with it similar to how i just neglect home instances. i feel like the housing is just money-maker (more than skins are already such) for A-net. But they still gotta pay their bills.
We will see just "how big" housing will be. So far it seems like just being able to decorate your home instance which is on the small side of things the bare minimum of what people wanted. On the large side it would be being able to have multiple homes at once, meaning they will be rolling out homes in the future, how often? Fast - every qtrly release? or slow- every xpac :( Also along with a "big system" having the new homstead system integrated into different game modes, being able to collect drops or plans from different areas of the games. Dungeons for instance could drop plans plus even buy more with dungeon currencies. And also give new meaning to those cheap old minis or currencies no one uses in game to spark new life on the tp by being needed for mats for decs. but again, just how "BIG" the new homsteading system is , will be a wait and see. From what they've done in the past, i can't get that excited yet. Because getting excited usually means getting disappointed!
Player housing seems cool but onowing GW2 it will cost 10,000 gold and yoy will need 60 hours kf hording items plus 60 hours of achievements and missions before you can get it 😢
Im going to be honest they kinda lacking on this expansions, feels there is a lack of creativity, idk if everything being used for GW3 but SoTo was already meh expansion and this one so far doesnt look too bright.
The #1 expansion I want to see is GW2: Controller Support, lol. Most of the time I just want to sit back with a controller and chill. I can't do that in GW2.
New to gw2 just bought the complete bundle taking advantage of the huge sale discounts i hope one day they either add a samurai class or samurai weapon in-game I hope they do that would be amazing
ya know just based on what anet said on their website vs what 3rd parties have said - they are completely 2 different things. why do i always learn more about the game from 3rd party sites then from anet directly? horrible advertising they have.
5:20 people that don't care about it at all. it will be interesting to see if they make decs drop like you said from world bosses and if thsoe drops are account bound or tradable because one way to make it somewhat worth it to raiders who don't care at all about housing is to make it a pay day from them. being able to sell drop or recipe plans on the tp is one way to keep them engaged. but again this all depend on how anet does it( cough cough fishing pong- not what was expected. 4 garden plots vs many plots in the ground cough cough) and my god i hope they didn't just add a raid wing to please them because all drops are account bound. being account bound really takes away from the opportunities this system has to grow in some aspects.
I hope they did not clone scribbing, because there are many problems with that. I hope the devs read and took notes from what many have said over the years on the forums about the issues with scribbing and how to improve the system and made those improvements in this new homestead system, but until i see it i just can't be believe they've actually done it since they ignored scribbing for years! but since its primarily a solo instance and not multiplayer we'll see if the thing they said were reasons for having issues in guildhalls is carried over or not to homesteading.
so many questions about the land spear. is it a new weapon type? will the water spear still exist? will the water spear type be renamed? or can you just equip the water spear into a land weapon slot?
First update will be amazing for sure, second update might be good if the raid is polished and the story within epic. About the 3rd and 4th update, though... I think it will still be quite "meh" like in SOTO, but hopefully the ending of the storyline will be epic enough and final map engaging. I think it will be the reoccurring fate of 3rd and 4th update to be "bad", or rather the quantity of stuff added being less and less, so the next expansion's launch can be awesome. But I'm excited for the entire expansion, I'm not complaining 😊
I expect housing to be overhyped before and close to irrelevant after release. I've never seen housing in an MMO that had any real impact. New raid is hype, they gotta bridge it for the "Singleplayer" players somehow.
I think housing is one of those systems you'll either care about a lot, or not at all! I don't really expect it to be required for anything, but some players love stuff like that
@dfg12382, I guess you missed the part of the announcement that said the new Raid will also include a open world version that everyone can enjoy, like a meta event, so solo players can experience the Raid story, without having to play in an organized instance, like current Raids and Strikes are currently played.
Eso house are great just they're more like a guild hall, like usually one member will buy all the crafting stations to put in set their in ite list to guild and another member will do buffs. Other then that houses In gw2 will only be used by ppl that like decoration, useless for everyone else. They'll only be fun if we have better decorating controls like other pc mmo's. Which I never understood why they went with the controls we got for guild halls they're horrible.
@@traveling.down.the.road56 Yea but rather than making another "you cant fail-meta" that you just grind down I'd prefer giving better entry points to organized raiding. There are a lot of players that are actually interested in raiding but they won't bother as they don't have any KPs (Like I did for 2 years with Strike CMs until I made my own static for it, but not every player will want to put that effort).
Pity there is no improvement to WvW 😮😮😮 I NEVER raid. This expansion doesn't appear to have much benefit to my game play as I do 95% WvW. That's about on average 2 to 3 hours of gameplay every day of the week.
@@HazelTrenare-yv3zn The change you are talking about is NOT part of the expansion as it starts next week and does not rely on WvW players purchasing the next GW2 Expansion. Also the expansion is released this coming August and as far as I can tell there is no real change to WvW in it.
i hope they go back and make open world versions of all the raids too, i have done most of them (apart from underworld) and i think everyone should be ablwe to access these stories, so i think they should go and backport the old raids into this system too. If Anet wants to keep certain gear drops or raid legendary armor to raids and not open world, just don't have them drop from the open world versions.
About to have a play session, saw your clip ... Great!!! Love your accent ... really surprised me with "Y'all" , said perfectly btw. Bit sad that I watched as , on the heels of Muc , now I really do have to get the expansion. Keep up the good work.
EOD was EPIC ....SOTO was pretty much meh for me that I even stopped playing after sometime..... lets hope the new expansion will spark my energy back to playing GW2
@@Laranity I really hope it will be good .... I was hyped for SOTO too but after playing for a couple of months I just lost the energy .... it was not as EPIC as EOD imo buth then again it could just be me :)
@@DespicableMe007It’s not just you. SotO started out great, but for me, it got boring almost immediately after the initial story chapter. I think the next expansion will be much better from start to finish.
@@traveling.down.the.road56 The main reason EOD was epic that devs spent a lot of time developing it .... SOTO was made in a rush and was more like a DLC rather than an expansion .... I really hope Janthir Wilds is worth buying .... I will pre order as always anyway haha
We know the IBS had a story to tell and was cut short, I wonder if Anet is reusing some of the story of the Norn/Kodan and Charr from IBS in Janthir Wilds.
My Personal Expansion thingy would be underwater stuff reworked and Focus around it plus some PvP focused stuff ..... so idk If im actually hyped about this Expansion since nothing on it i realy want xp.
@@bosqueperenne I assume they are talking making the world, characters, or both higher resolution. Basically update the game to make it look better/newer.
For the Warclaw, I heard Anet wanted to do a wall crawling mount and planned for it to be a spider. But it triggered arachnophobia and was scrapped. I wonder if warclaw will climb walls...
it's actually what I was thinking too with the warclaw. right now it's not that unique or useful, the only reason ppl get it is for wvw and only cuz no other mounts work there. but if they make it wall climbing, it would be super useful for wvw too especially for desert borderland which got soooo many insanely high cliffs. hopefully it is this!
@@Insig385 would definitely add a new dimension to WvW. If the spider had any web shooting abilities, it would also translate to warclaw pretty easily. Just connect a rope to the spear tossing ability that dismounts opponents, use it like a grappling hook. Or the gate pulling ability warclaw already has.
@@radishsam2966it's possible too if they wanna save the wall climbing for a new mount later, but fingers crossed! regardless if it'll be warclaw or a new mount in some other expac, I'm looking forward to wall climbing, that would be sooooooo sick XDDDDDD
Yes. It's the same weapon, it just can also be equipped in normal weapon slot as well. That said, you need to have 2 spears if you want to use it on land and in water simultaneously.
Man i loved Guild Wars 1 and its lore. But im someone who struggles with getting into GW2 and I've tried for years to get into it. I need to find UA-camr who will talk GW2 lore to me for 8 hours 😭
Including Lara, there’s a few other content creators who regularly make GW2 lore videos that are very good. Some of them are also very knowledgeable about the original Guild Wars lore. You could watch all of them and probably get the 8 hour lore experience you are looking for.
Not to burst everyone's bubbles but its too early to tell if anything will be good. Realistically I don't see anything really changing. Raids will still be played by less then 10%, land spears won't really be used that much, homestead just to create another gold sink with 0 real functionality (outside of faster home node gathering) the warclaw although nice to have slightly more useful skills for pve will still not be taken much cuz skyscale/griffin/roller beetle supremacy. The main thing this expansion has for it is the features at least are new and expansion worhty. Where soto felt core changes sold as features. Still a must buy(at least standard) just don't get too sucked in by hype anet cant live up to
Imagine being excited for a weapon. When you used to get classes or specs. Last expansion where lazy. I got out before End of Dragons when I saw no Ritualist even mentioned and Jade turned onto puke crystals. You people are mental. Trying to hype a fucking spear weapon lmao.
Same weapon type for all professions, not even a new weapon, just an aquatic one being wieldable on land 2 maps that don't look that "breathtaking" Recycled kodan models, just re-skinned brown to be grizzlies instead A raid that will most likely be recycled bits and pieces from story content we've already done A very disappointing housing system that will be very limited in how you can customise your house and how much use you can take from it, that will milk the playerbase for cosmetics 3/10 would not buy for $25
4:25 Woah woah, we'll see down the road if we will be able to "properly decorate" our own homes. from what anet has said on their website that is not clear, from what 3rd party sites have said- it would suggest that more so true, but still "properly decorate" will be anets take on it and probably not like other games. So if not like other games then i can't say "properly" decorate. because its def not "properly" garden the way anet did garden plots or "properly" fish they way they did fishing. the more info we get about the new system- (yea didn't know there was a "new system" from anets mouth) we will see.
*Spectacular* by 30 sec video with about 4-5 frames showing some reused assets. Come on, Laranity, you can do better than that. But I get it, you're Anet partner and you are oblige to say something positive. Heh.
I hope there will be a bookshelf where I'll be able to toss all of my lore books! :D
Yes! Please, they take so much space od my alt's bags and it would be such a neat feature to be able to show it off like that
I hope so too!! I've been hoarding them since forever, just for that!
Lara, thank you so much for not dooming LMAO (it kinda feels like most gw2 content creators are always so doom and gloom about the future of the game)
Stay hopemaxxing
Basically, they're finally closing the pending stories from Guild Wars 1. First, the mysterious floating castle. Closed. Next, Janthir and the White Mantle. Always the toughest opponents from both Guild Wars. After this, we'll probably jump back to Cantha. A pretty good timing since they halted the Cantha story, it would be a great time to go back to it next year and tie in GW1 and GW2. After that, more Elona again.
Before they finally move on to fresh GW2 content. A good move. Fan service for GW1 players, at the same time, it's a new story for GW2-only players.
I would love to go back to Cantha again!
Ok, now we can see what happened to (not actually) Kuunavangs brother, the baby salt spray that the random guy in Nightfall had found. Make him, the dragon, a villain with some crazy ideology trying to bring back abaddon for some wild reason. have him defeat us and succeed by the end. Next expac brings back the gods to help us. Now we have a link to their planet/ realm
Your comment sounds good to me, but isn't the blood legion homelands also gw1 nostalgia technically. Because of all the wars with the Charr and the lore. Would be cool to explore ALL of it. It's a big piece of land
Also we need domain of winds and dznala. I think domain will be next followed by cantha followed by dznala
i wish you could see your other characters chilling in your house
Problem for those of us with alt-itis it would have to be a really big house
Theoretically that might be possible if you only have a handful of characters. I have 30+ on my main account, and I know of people that have 60+. Not betting on it either way.
@@thomastgnome6526 I wonder if it would be possible for them to implement a system that cycles between them. Like up to 3 alts will show up in your home, but every time you load in or every daily reset, it randomly chooses from the pool.
It's probably possible, but also likely a lot of work to maintain and easy to break.
I LOVE THIS IDEA SO MUCH.
@@choryllis6646 Or you can choose who to appear, your alts can be assigned in the home instance like decoration items. Only they can roam around like NPCs (if that's possible)
Music Guild Tries To Raid series is back, lets gooooo!
for sure!!
SEASON 5 BABY
I started GW2 about a year ago and your content always make me feel cozy and happy even on my darkest days, so please keep up the content and thank you so much :) I can't wait for the new dlc. Housing sound's epic.
I was going to whine again how we should get Janthir and back to the White Mantle story, and here it is! LOL!
I love your content -- you're always optimistic and happy and it definitely makes me enjoy this game more!!!
Blizzard: Adding player housing in an expansion would be at the cost of a raid tier.
ArenaNet: _Kachow._
People have been asking for housing in gw2 for a long time. and now they are coming to put it on. It's not like Kachow either.
Very nice video, I'm excited about player housing too!
Also as someone whose been playing MMOs for 20+ years it is really refreshing to see the widespread acknowledgement that raiding is only done by a minority of the players. For years, game journalists and a vocal minority touted the incorrect claim that raiders were the majority of MMO players, and they had too much influence on developers (who ignored their own game metrics), while resources were spent on extensive raid content most customers had no interest in doing.
I have nothing against hardcore content, only the years that were wasted with MMO developers mistakenly believing they could turn everyone into hardcore raiders and designing games around that. Now with more and more Twitch and UA-cam streamers, raids serve an additional purpose of marketing by engaging dedicated streamers like Lara to give more exposure of the game.
Plus, as the video points out, ArenaNet has figured out a good solution allowing the assets of raids to be available to more of their customers. After all this time, it's nice to see developers getting things right.
I was hoping for player housing since 2016. And here we are. FINALLY
HELL YEAH LARANITY VID
I can't get excited about player housing, I'm too poor for that
I may or may not have a gold making guide you should totally check out 👀
The perfect expansions doesn't exis...
ANET: Housing, Spears AND A NEW FREAKING PVP GAMEMODE!?!??!?!
I've always wanted to go to Janthir area, this is going to bring me back to the game for sure!
I haven't played in a while but this video, and a friend telling me to get back on pushed me to check out GW2 again. Before I buy the pre-release, does Lara have an affiliate link I could put in?
"Much more interesting for speed running" sums up the entire reason as to why Raids are not popular. A lot of people were interested and capable but kids in them were running around like they've popped a few to many ADHD pills.. next, next, next. Here's a hint.. most people don't want to *rush* so they never bothered after a few. This new direction sounds very promising.
I have to say, I love spears. It always annoys me when medieval-adjacent games don't have the knife-on-a-stick without a really good reason. They are absurdly effective against beast and man alike, and they are really easy to make. I'm also excited for player housing, the home instance right now is kind of meh, very spread out and not really a home.
FINALLY i can actually potentially care about all the cool "guild decorations" in the game that i never even gave a thought to before (assuming and hoping we will be able to use them in our house)
Ah yes, the logo is definitely a spear and nothing else! Nobody has made alternative versions of it, I can assure you.
Probably first :)
There's gardens outside.... so maybe nodes, at least a few will be transfer. Also, it seems that there's a workshop too. As scribe who fully decorated 2 halls, I recognize all decorations featured in the video (minus those round stone tiles on the floor).... so most likely scribe decorations will either become salable on the TP (cross fingers!!! would be amazing to make money out of scribing instead of being a huge gold sink)... OR account bound but usable in our homes/guild halls if you are a scribe.
They actually confirmed on the forums that there will be a new crafting profession for Homestead decorations? Very curious to see how it will work exactly! Home instance nodes are confirmed to be carrying over :)
You have to play Norn if you want to play this new extension sry 😊
nooooooo
I'm excited for the next music guild tries to raid video
Player housing? My deranged Reaper will be demanding many skulls and bookshelves. And Metal Legion posters. I will try to restrain him from crafting a shrine to Scarlet Briar ("I CAN fix her!"). But now he'll have to decide which murder stick to use: Greatsword or Land Spear?
GW2 is my 3rd MMO i've ever played (since it's release actually). The previous 2 didn't have Housing system, so Ive never experienced it, BUT it's pretty common to read about people really excited about it. Can please anyone explain to me what's the alure about that? The interest for those escapes me. Thank you.
After there are dwarfs in secret of o. i wish we could make new chars as dwarfs in a nice new big city 😢
...but you know no matter what, some players will still downplay every expansion and get plucked about how it didn't meet their expectations. i for one am excited for the new way they will deliver expansions in itself. but even if i didn't completely enjoy SOTOcompared to previous ones, i still got some content that were A+ like the Astral Rewards format is great and very motivating. and the new weapon mastery for new game play and prospective builds to try. my point is there are already some criticizing the content based on just the trailer (which wasn't that bad, though nothing great compared to previous ones) when it isn't even out yet. can't please everyone. i know. what i am excited for Janthir is the expansion of the lore. new Tyrian map (how long has it been?). im not really all that giddy for the housing and i predict will not engage with it similar to how i just neglect home instances. i feel like the housing is just money-maker (more than skins are already such) for A-net. But they still gotta pay their bills.
We will see just "how big" housing will be. So far it seems like just being able to decorate your home instance which is on the small side of things the bare minimum of what people wanted. On the large side it would be being able to have multiple homes at once, meaning they will be rolling out homes in the future, how often? Fast - every qtrly release? or slow- every xpac :( Also along with a "big system" having the new homstead system integrated into different game modes, being able to collect drops or plans from different areas of the games. Dungeons for instance could drop plans plus even buy more with dungeon currencies. And also give new meaning to those cheap old minis or currencies no one uses in game to spark new life on the tp by being needed for mats for decs. but again, just how "BIG" the new homsteading system is , will be a wait and see. From what they've done in the past, i can't get that excited yet. Because getting excited usually means getting disappointed!
Player housing seems cool but onowing GW2 it will cost 10,000 gold and yoy will need 60 hours kf hording items plus 60 hours of achievements and missions before you can get it 😢
Im going to be honest they kinda lacking on this expansions, feels there is a lack of creativity, idk if everything being used for GW3 but SoTo was already meh expansion and this one so far doesnt look too bright.
The #1 expansion I want to see is GW2: Controller Support, lol.
Most of the time I just want to sit back with a controller and chill.
I can't do that in GW2.
another expansion without canach smh
Good ridance, salad boy survive and not Eir bruh
And nothing of value was lost.
I would have been happy with a couple of just really pretty gemstore skin but they full got a sims dev, what're they cooking over there?
Gw2 is getting boring all enemies keep looking the same, there just a diffrent color... story is getting tedious and the same over and over..
New to gw2 just bought the complete bundle taking advantage of the huge sale discounts i hope one day they either add a samurai class or samurai weapon in-game I hope they do that would be amazing
ya know just based on what anet said on their website vs what 3rd parties have said - they are completely 2 different things. why do i always learn more about the game from 3rd party sites then from anet directly? horrible advertising they have.
5:20 people that don't care about it at all. it will be interesting to see if they make decs drop like you said from world bosses and if thsoe drops are account bound or tradable because one way to make it somewhat worth it to raiders who don't care at all about housing is to make it a pay day from them. being able to sell drop or recipe plans on the tp is one way to keep them engaged. but again this all depend on how anet does it( cough cough fishing pong- not what was expected. 4 garden plots vs many plots in the ground cough cough) and my god i hope they didn't just add a raid wing to please them because all drops are account bound. being account bound really takes away from the opportunities this system has to grow in some aspects.
I hope they did not clone scribbing, because there are many problems with that. I hope the devs read and took notes from what many have said over the years on the forums about the issues with scribbing and how to improve the system and made those improvements in this new homestead system, but until i see it i just can't be believe they've actually done it since they ignored scribbing for years! but since its primarily a solo instance and not multiplayer we'll see if the thing they said were reasons for having issues in guildhalls is carried over or not to homesteading.
Been watching and enjoying your GW2 content for a long time. Honestly i think you should try BDO too,
It's a half expansion at most, like soto. I will not be tricked again. I'll wait until it's at an appropriate price for what we're getting (half off)
zojja > caithe?? whos next? logan? man i miss the queensdale atmosphere, i really want it in xpac 6
How could you forget the most important feature in the universe: we're getting bikini skins 👙
Hopefully they add open modes to the existing raids to make them more accessable to help remove some of the barriers put up by toxic players
so many questions about the land spear. is it a new weapon type? will the water spear still exist? will the water spear type be renamed? or can you just equip the water spear into a land weapon slot?
i hope warclaw climbs like Thylacoleo in ark. i think ark is also were they got inspired for the gryphen glide
"guild shirts two" love your accent
i want to use a spear with a shield dang it.
First update will be amazing for sure, second update might be good if the raid is polished and the story within epic.
About the 3rd and 4th update, though... I think it will still be quite "meh" like in SOTO, but hopefully the ending of the storyline will be epic enough and final map engaging.
I think it will be the reoccurring fate of 3rd and 4th update to be "bad", or rather the quantity of stuff added being less and less, so the next expansion's launch can be awesome.
But I'm excited for the entire expansion, I'm not complaining 😊
Omg ctf please!!!!!! I main pvp in gw2 lol
fuck im so excited haha
I expect housing to be overhyped before and close to irrelevant after release. I've never seen housing in an MMO that had any real impact. New raid is hype, they gotta bridge it for the "Singleplayer" players somehow.
I think housing is one of those systems you'll either care about a lot, or not at all! I don't really expect it to be required for anything, but some players love stuff like that
@dfg12382, I guess you missed the part of the announcement that said the new Raid will also include a open world version that everyone can enjoy, like a meta event, so solo players can experience the Raid story, without having to play in an organized instance, like current Raids and Strikes are currently played.
Eso house are great just they're more like a guild hall, like usually one member will buy all the crafting stations to put in set their in ite list to guild and another member will do buffs. Other then that houses In gw2 will only be used by ppl that like decoration, useless for everyone else. They'll only be fun if we have better decorating controls like other pc mmo's. Which I never understood why they went with the controls we got for guild halls they're horrible.
@@traveling.down.the.road56 Yea but rather than making another "you cant fail-meta" that you just grind down I'd prefer giving better entry points to organized raiding. There are a lot of players that are actually interested in raiding but they won't bother as they don't have any KPs (Like I did for 2 years with Strike CMs until I made my own static for it, but not every player will want to put that effort).
I just got into GW2 and your content is amazing I watched almost all of your videos and i am hooked on GW2 now!
jeez those graphics look ass :((((
I shot out of bed at the mere possibility of new raids! Amazing vid as usual.
GW2: Spears & Bears! 🐻
Does land spear mean we might also get land oysters?
stop putting oysters in the guild bank :(
Pity there is no improvement to WvW 😮😮😮 I NEVER raid. This expansion doesn't appear to have much benefit to my game play as I do 95% WvW. That's about on average 2 to 3 hours of gameplay every day of the week.
What you are talking about? The new matchmaking system is huge and caused a big impact on WvW guilds.
@@HazelTrenare-yv3zn The change you are talking about is NOT part of the expansion as it starts next week and does not rely on WvW players purchasing the next GW2 Expansion. Also the expansion is released this coming August and as far as I can tell there is no real change to WvW in it.
I can’t wait for ele’s next melee weapon
I'm hoping for a place to let our mounts roam around the homestead, but that's wishful thinking
i hope they go back and make open world versions of all the raids too, i have done most of them (apart from underworld) and i think everyone should be ablwe to access these stories, so i think they should go and backport the old raids into this system too. If Anet wants to keep certain gear drops or raid legendary armor to raids and not open world, just don't have them drop from the open world versions.
finally i get to unlock the warclaw without PvP and use all the skins ive gotten from random mount licenses :D
About to have a play session, saw your clip ... Great!!! Love your accent ... really surprised me with "Y'all" , said perfectly btw. Bit sad that I watched as , on the heels of Muc , now I really do have to get the expansion. Keep up the good work.
You mean Speartacular?
New race playable pls!!!😢
love your reactions, haha! I thought the expansion infos were an april fool's joke but nope, we're getting everything everybody ever dreamed of😂
More furry races pls?
It SOUNDS spectacular, but so did SOTO and look what happened.
EOD was EPIC ....SOTO was pretty much meh for me that I even stopped playing after sometime..... lets hope the new expansion will spark my energy back to playing GW2
I am feeling the HYPE
@@Laranity I really hope it will be good .... I was hyped for SOTO too but after playing for a couple of months I just lost the energy .... it was not as EPIC as EOD imo buth then again it could just be me :)
@@DespicableMe007It’s not just you. SotO started out great, but for me, it got boring almost immediately after the initial story chapter. I think the next expansion will be much better from start to finish.
@@traveling.down.the.road56 The main reason EOD was epic that devs spent a lot of time developing it .... SOTO was made in a rush and was more like a DLC rather than an expansion .... I really hope Janthir Wilds is worth buying .... I will pre order as always anyway haha
first expansion not called "this of that"...
"Wilds of Janthir"..? " ..nope..
Janthir of the Wilds"? ..I guess Laranthir already has that one..
where is referral link?
We know the IBS had a story to tell and was cut short, I wonder if Anet is reusing some of the story of the Norn/Kodan and Charr from IBS in Janthir Wilds.
Hope the next update brings us romanic companions like in swtor, then gw2 would be my perfect game
My Personal Expansion thingy would be underwater stuff reworked and Focus around it plus some PvP focused stuff ..... so idk If im actually hyped about this Expansion since nothing on it i realy want xp.
They confirmed a new PvP gamemode is in the works, so that might be perfect for you!
No photo mode ;_;
cope, the video
No Fungeons 😢
GW2 needs a model update before anything else...
Norns female uwu uwu 😢
whats a model update?
@@bosqueperenne I assume they are talking making the world, characters, or both higher resolution. Basically update the game to make it look better/newer.
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Man I really wish I could enjoy raids but the many insta-kill mechanics combined with (partial) colorblindness makes it almost impossible for me :(
Maybe the open world mode will be a better experience for you! I really think ArenaNet should work on adding a proper colorblind mode
Those Club chairs are wonderful.
I can't wait to sit in those!
As someone who just finished lws3 I'm thrilled to go right in there, just hope the story will be better presented than in soto
i wonder how much server space the housing will have, cause i can imagine it will be great for hosting parties
Seems like a good time to get into gw2, probably around autumn or earlier
I hope there is ends up being a thing in the homestead where you can display your weapons and armor
I hope the housing is as detailed as that of Archeage's.
For the Warclaw, I heard Anet wanted to do a wall crawling mount and planned for it to be a spider. But it triggered arachnophobia and was scrapped. I wonder if warclaw will climb walls...
it's actually what I was thinking too with the warclaw. right now it's not that unique or useful, the only reason ppl get it is for wvw and only cuz no other mounts work there. but if they make it wall climbing, it would be super useful for wvw too especially for desert borderland which got soooo many insanely high cliffs.
hopefully it is this!
@@Insig385 would definitely add a new dimension to WvW. If the spider had any web shooting abilities, it would also translate to warclaw pretty easily. Just connect a rope to the spear tossing ability that dismounts opponents, use it like a grappling hook. Or the gate pulling ability warclaw already has.
@@radishsam2966it's possible too if they wanna save the wall climbing for a new mount later, but fingers crossed! regardless if it'll be warclaw or a new mount in some other expac, I'm looking forward to wall climbing, that would be sooooooo sick XDDDDDD
i wonder if the underwater spear appearances will be available for the land spear. i'd like my kamohoali'i kotaki on land :D land shark
Yes. It's the same weapon, it just can also be equipped in normal weapon slot as well.
That said, you need to have 2 spears if you want to use it on land and in water simultaneously.
Can't wait for the lore video!
Another video full of joy ❤
I am betting the spear will be in the legendary box when this patch hits.
Maybeee! I really wanna finish it before the expac hits, so I think I’ll take the risk
Man i loved Guild Wars 1 and its lore. But im someone who struggles with getting into GW2 and I've tried for years to get into it. I need to find UA-camr who will talk GW2 lore to me for 8 hours 😭
I might be working on a Janthir lore video 👀
@Laranity if you started making lore videos I would boast your good graces through the streets of Chicago as if you were a diety.
@@Adomisk1994 hahaha that is very motivating!!
Including Lara, there’s a few other content creators who regularly make GW2 lore videos that are very good. Some of them are also very knowledgeable about the original Guild Wars lore. You could watch all of them and probably get the 8 hour lore experience you are looking for.
Not to burst everyone's bubbles but its too early to tell if anything will be good. Realistically I don't see anything really changing. Raids will still be played by less then 10%, land spears won't really be used that much, homestead just to create another gold sink with 0 real functionality (outside of faster home node gathering) the warclaw although nice to have slightly more useful skills for pve will still not be taken much cuz skyscale/griffin/roller beetle supremacy.
The main thing this expansion has for it is the features at least are new and expansion worhty. Where soto felt core changes sold as features. Still a must buy(at least standard) just don't get too sucked in by hype anet cant live up to
Imagine being excited for a weapon. When you used to get classes or specs. Last expansion where lazy. I got out before End of Dragons when I saw no Ritualist even mentioned and Jade turned onto puke crystals.
You people are mental. Trying to hype a fucking spear weapon lmao.
Same weapon type for all professions, not even a new weapon, just an aquatic one being wieldable on land
2 maps that don't look that "breathtaking"
Recycled kodan models, just re-skinned brown to be grizzlies instead
A raid that will most likely be recycled bits and pieces from story content we've already done
A very disappointing housing system that will be very limited in how you can customise your house and how much use you can take from it, that will milk the playerbase for cosmetics
3/10 would not buy for $25
4:25 Woah woah, we'll see down the road if we will be able to "properly decorate" our own homes. from what anet has said on their website that is not clear, from what 3rd party sites have said- it would suggest that more so true, but still "properly decorate" will be anets take on it and probably not like other games. So if not like other games then i can't say "properly" decorate.
because its def not "properly" garden the way anet did garden plots or
"properly" fish they way they did fishing.
the more info we get about the new system- (yea didn't know there was a "new system" from anets mouth) we will see.
Some people would sell their soul for a few pennys. Pathetic!
unless its got a resting bonus, or something else like that I don't care about home instance
Kinda crazy how hyped people can be for a weapon that should have been in the game since its very release.
*Spectacular* by 30 sec video with about 4-5 frames showing some reused assets. Come on, Laranity, you can do better than that. But I get it, you're Anet partner and you are oblige to say something positive. Heh.
My excitement is very very genuine! Raids, spears and housing are some of my most wanted features ever
@@Laranity That's the spirit. Laranity, why Anet (in your opinion) is so poor at marketing their own game, do you have any explanation?