Big day today! Wanted to wake up, grab some coffee, and chat about EOD in general before all the other stuff. Don't miss the big show if you're getting here early-ish: www.twitch.tv/woodenpotatoes
Just to point out the next dev stream is next Friday the 3rd so not far away at all it will include the new guild hall, legendries, a new mastery and stuff on new characters.
Alternate take for rotating versus permanent gemstore stuff: How about rotating opportunities to earn them in game? Sure, less convenient for us as players overall, but lots of drive for players to enjoy short-term bursts of content to earn really good rewards. Like the "return to" achievements, but you cant replay old ones till they come round again. Less competition with Anet gem market, more drive for people to have short term goals rather than "standing around wondering what to do"
PvE Seasons. For example fractal season shows new tabs above the tier lists. One with the standard fractals which is the normal progress you've earned so far, and one seasonal tier list which put you at fractal beginning fractal 1-100 with a overarching special modifier. Just as an example for seasonal fractals: Once each fractal a mysterious NPC appears and give all enemies permanent quickness and super speed if you don't break its defiance bar. Another one could have a special ally following you which you will need to keep alive with heals as it it protects the players from some kind of radiation. You could even have a hardcore tab which means, if you get defeated you need to start at fractal 1 again for a higher risk/reward.
Living world is like Guild Wars ‘happy hour’ at the bar. You go in for the appetizers, the fun with friends for a short amount of time to keep you feeling alive from your daily slump. That said, I completely disagree with the idea of reducing the ‘new maps’ concept for living world. We should really continue to explore the unknown regions of Guild Wars, it’s fine to really hone in on the core lands of specific expansions but let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot by not allowing for exploration beyond what has been seen in GW 1. Give us brand new locations, expand on the lore and use those living world patches to fix and refine game play systems. Yes, occasionally allow the Guild Wars 1 locations to get some more information. Let’s not miss out on exploring new content.
What about expanding existing core maps? That way, you lose the disparity in map size between core and hot/pof maps, and still get to explore new places. The only challenge would be finding a way to get the story to go in that direction, even if just briefly.
I love the idea of living world revisiting the maps of their expansion and adding events, usage for unused structures. I briefly hoped that the PoF living worlds would add elaborate metas to the existing meta-less maps.
Think end of dragons should honestly start the end of Guild wars 2 story, as the main conflict from day one has been the dragon cycle and whit only 1 hostile Elder dragon left anet can either go into smaller scale conflicts of tyria or they have to come up whit new world ending threath to replace dragons. Former would inevetably be in essence just filler before they’d admid they got nothing left and new big idea would be better used on hypotetical Guild wars 3. Tho if anet would be willingly turn aurene into a villain theyve actually written her perfectly for that role; as after ending dragon cycle natrual ending theme would be what comes after and since aurene has made it clear that her motive is to preserve balance of magic, or something along those lines left unspecific in meaning tho and if she intends to share magic whit mortal races, that of course means they can abuse the system as aurenes former peers did, mayby even to a greater extent that Elder dragons did and as aurene is cabable of forseeing the future the final storyline could be kickstarted by aurenes visions of mortal races causing a catastrophy in distant future destroying the world and mayby the whole multiverse and in trying to stop it uses her crystal bloom to start to oppose the five races and their comming magic/mechanical advancment (well preferebly shed try a diplomatic solution first that unfortunatly would start a war) and player character as commander would of course defend the society that they are part of and story could also raise a question of wheter aurenes visions are inevetable or mearly a possible future, actually an ideal question to end story on after aurene fight, as hero walks of to their unceirtain future, after killing their adopted daughter who was supposed to be the worlds hope and mayby was. And as players have been crucial part in building up the crystal bloom and well whole of aurenes powerbase it would be an emotional conflict rather than against another new threath seemingly out of nowhere and story could even take us back to all the previously met factions and make alliance whit old enemies and allies while fighting our old allies now sidead whit aurene, could even divide dragons watch to those ally whit player and those whit aurene. Would be impressive finale for the story if written right and game could have mayby two more living story seasons and an expansion.
Gem gates on living world is one of the worst things for the games community. When i got into gw2 3 years ago and finished the somewhat lackluster personal story and then found out i had to spend alot of money for the rest of the story beyond expansions i was pissed. I think i probably would have quit right there if i hadnt been wanting to play this game for years as a console pleb. All the videos i watched about the topic suggested just not buying the living world which as a new player gave me a skewed perspective that the story wasnt worth really paying attention to. This was combined with the fact that a whole season of story was completely unavailable to me. I eventually did play and enjoy all the story content but this gave me a perspective that the story was not the focus of the game and as such i didnt pay much close attention to it. Watching your recent tier list videos ive realised how much of this games story ive compeltely forgotten or just didnt absorb.
I agree. I was very surprised, when I found out that I need to buy the parts ,,between" expansions. But coming from WoW I just thought ,,yee, it is a prepatch kind of thing anyway, so I won't probably miss anything anyway". Then killed Zaithan and literally jumped into next mission and suddenly there is Taimi and rest of the guys I have no idea about. I have this game from the very start, so I got some tokens to unblock a lot of the story for free, so except for LS2 I have almost all of the bits. And now playing it as it should, it is just crazy to think some people will just jump from basic to HoT, then to PoF. They will literally have no idea why they are doing stuff.
@@wisniamw yeah for sure, that will obviously just result in players not caring about the story or having to read the wiki a lot. Plus there are some really cool beats in some of the living worlds
I think this is the way to do earnable gem store skins and other sought after items: PvE Seasons. For example fractal season shows new tabs above the tier lists. One with the standard fractals which is the normal progress you've earned so far, and one seasonal tier list which put you at fractal beginning fractal 1-100 with a overarching special modifier. Just as an example for seasonal fractals: Once each fractal a mysterious NPC appears and give all enemies permanent quickness and super speed if you don't break its defiance bar. Another one could have a special ally following you which you will need to keep alive with heals as it it protects the players from some kind of radiation. You could even have a hardcore tab which means, if you get defeated you need to start at fractal 1 again for a higher risk/reward.
I just watched your tier list about best characters. I'm dissapointed. You forgot about absolutely Z Tier character. He was loyal, brave, altruistic, disinterested, modest, supportive. Maybe little bit too silent. Four legs, one tail, first letters Ga, last letters rm. I'm more sad now than dissapointed. Good doggo.
Oh and btw, the most broken achievement in the game is Spirit Crafter. Costs Nearly 2000 Gold to make an exotic backpack. The in-game equivalent of Swamp Land in Florida for sale.
The weapons you are talking about are red versions of the mystic and glyphic weapons which are the dungeon weapons of Sorrows Embrace and Crucible of Eternity. I think it is important that more weapons get a similar treatment. The funerary weapon for example have a purple glow which you have to take into account when playing fashion wars. It would be really nice if you could buy versions with a different coloured glow. Dyeable weapons are not necessary for me if they would release multiple versions of the same weapons that have different base colours. So not just a red and blue mystic weapon set but also yellow, green and orange.
I thought the little dev screen on the bottom left was actual Wooden Potatoes for a hot second lol! I was like...that is NOT what I expected him to look like!
I would love to see more added to the personal story after EoD. More race based story parts that can still tie into the overarching story but tailored to the player character's earlier choices and giving us more story that feels personal and focused instead of grandiose and big picture.
Yes, perhaps maybe even the Guilds will once again be at war. I feel like they could really do with some revitalization to character stories, and maybe a WvW or guild-wide story episode grind to bring back guild wars.
As a returning player that came back to GW2 this month (bought game at launch, last played 2014), I missed out on a lot. So seeing all the Living World/Story content that I have to buy beyond the Expansions really sucks. They should have just come with buying the PoF+HoT pack, or the EoD pack. I also really wish I could dye weapons again, 99% of weapons, especially Legendaries, I don't like because they don't match my outfit colors, and have pretty meh vfx. I'll likely be using the Cobalt greatsword for a long time for my characters.
I agree with WP on the Vindicator. Give 2 legends, pick one, or the other, or both, and change the F2 to something that really works with all legends. Gives a good opportunity to have skills between the two legends that complement each other, to encourage you to pick them both, but not force you, in case you want to combo one of them with a core legend.
Similar thought, but separate from cantha return trips. I'd really like to see a broad return to what the races have been up to since the start. The devs do put in nods where they can to what race your playing, but they rarely get to advance stories. It would be cool if we got an expansion that was like guild wars 2 2.0, especially since we are wrapping up the dragon story. It would feature storylines for each of the races dealing with their own specific concerns, and it could somehow bundle them together into whatever the next story beats for GW2 would be. If they wanted to get really crazy, they could make a second future map, which is bare, essentially transporting us to the future. They could reuse Tyria map landscapes while putting new assets and events inside Just a thought anyway. Would be nice to have a reason to return to the Grove.....
I think the inevitable backlash to making a rare item/achievement/gemstore item easier to obtain is less about “You had it for so long so you have some perceived (and unprovable) prestige” and more about “The perceived value of your wardrobe is lessened because tons more people have that skin.” One really good solution off the top of my head is to make two slightly versions of skins. If you’re a hardcore player and you got all the skins before they became easier, your skins have afterimage trails, sound effects, unsheath/mount animations, more dye channels, **weapon damage types**, whatever. And you can ONLY get those skins by doing hard content/buying on the gemstore/whatever else. But if an easier route opens so other players can get skins without the gemstore, the skins are more muted, which reduces all the visual noise some people don’t like while still allowing for a higher level of prestige. But I think it’s safe to say that’s never gonna happen.
Piggybacking off of the comment about ascended weaponry with limited stat selection; what if there was a process where we could add stat combos to a stat pool for our ordinary ascended weapons? When a new stat combo comes out it will automatically unlock for leggies but you will have to purchase the combo for ascended weapons. That way more People could have access to the stat swapping goodness without devalueing the exclusiveness of leggies too much.
I do believe the Living World model will never be able to expand on current maps or add more quality-of-life over a map as long as they keep monetizing them. Monetizing is fine, don't get me wrong, but they should do a season pass for the whole season up-front, and to include it with expansion purchases, rather than the current model which feels like new players are buying one chip at a time instead of the whole bag.
The original GW1 Jade Sea is probably one of my top 3 favorite locations/regions in a video game ever. The environment, the incredible music, the bizarre culture of humans that lived within it. Perfection. Heck, the dying of weapons causing issues? Wtf...that was definitely part of the fun...think about how cool it was to dye a Storm Bow different colors? Jesus, remember the price differences between the different colors of dye? So much fun and prestige honestly. Also, it's just silly for them to say that it would cause issues. They are completely ignoring the fact that there are already cosmetic in GW2, all you have to do is create code to allow for the visual effect to change for the player's view, but not actually change the weapon's color. So it would essentially be like a plugin vs manually changing the color with the dye. That way, sort of like ESO, you can update your cosmetic look associated with your character while not actually affecting the item when you trade it over to other players.
During one of your stream, you talked about Brain Drain not being a problem for EoD despite the layoffs and the few big names leaving. I think that's true on many areas of the game, like art or environnement design, but now that we have the full 9 new elite specs revealed and that we played around with them, I can't help but wonder if it's not a question of budget for them to feel so mediocre, but if it's because the big names that made the HoT and PoF specs are gone. Irenio and Robert Gee are not at ArenanNet for EoD, and they made some of the most complex and interesting specs, Robert in particular having made both Chronomancer and Mirage, not being there resulting in us getting the mess that is Virtuoso, leaves a bad taste for me.
Instead of creating an entirely new map, they could take an existing core map, overhaul it graphically, expand it to pof-size maps, and have the story involve that new section of the map. That way, you can kill many birds with one stone: you reduce the disparity between core and xpac/lw maps, maintain the sense of exploration, increase the replayability of core maps, increase interaction between new players and vets, and free up dev time to focus on other aspects of the game.
I agree that reworking core specs isn't enough on its own, but I hope they do continue to do this. I really like some of the spec line reworks we've had (tactics and death stick in my mind particularly) and hope we get more of this alongside new elite specs
When it comes to the Gem store, I think certain items, perhaps the most lore friendly content, could be the only items that you could earn in game. That way they can keep their money maker and throw us a bone. With the Living World being bought instead of free, over time I think it should become free in the same way the base game has. They could make it an event by recreating Something, anything from season 1 and release it for free and announce with it will be season 2 free for everyone. And every year or so the next season will become free or discounted.
I honestly just want them to add more cool armor sets, or weapons, that i can get by normally playing. Most of my characters still run around in core gw gear... i havent changed looks on most of my characters in almost a decade... almost all cool transmog is either gem store, or black lion chests. So if i want it, my gameplay is just farming gold... i really dislike that. Its not farming gems in strikes for armor, its not crafting, its not doing certain gameplay to get tokens or reputation... its all farming gold and buying it. Not fun at all. I still remember running around in Nightfall farming rubies for the vabbi armor. There is nothing like that in gw, unless i have the time to go for a legendary.
Hate the gem gate so much, the worst thing about it is that story doesn't matter anymore, people don't get to play the story linearly without owning LWS, but they are allowed to play the expansion ones and skip bridging stories. With how much focus anet gives to the narrative, this is such a weird choice. I never played the story linearly until seasons of the dragons, and I really enjoyed it. New players wouldn't get this chance to redo it linearly. Steam release is gonna be hell if LWS monetisation continues to be like that, and this is from a vet who owns all the episodes. It's so hard to get friends to join this game because of this.
I agree that I don't like legend flipping with Vindicator and would prefer if each legend took up one legend slot. I'd like it if F3 gave a skill for either (A) the opposite legend if only one Vindicator legend is slotted, (B) a combo skill if both Vindicator legends are slotted, and (C) a different combo skill if no Vindicator legends are slotted. Alternatively, the Vindicator could have 3 legend slots, the original legend swap skill could cause legends to swap from left to right, and the new F3 skill could cause legends to swap in reverse from right to left. Edit: F2 seems more likely than F3 since only Renegades have F3 skills.
with the new healer rogue, I would really love them to revisit the healer abilities of all professions, particularly the guardian's staff abilities. it's so weak.
on the .5 legendarys and stat swapping, they could just add on small step to have it attune to a stat category like vitality, then you have most of stats with vitality as a main stat to chose from.
I want to see them do space seasons kinda like drizzlewood or drytop, i like the idea of growing maps and it spaces content out so the maps remain busier, the game suffers from a player that rushes to the golden shiny chest at the end often ignoring the small little details
On the stat swapping: I wish the stat swap system on ascended would unlock the stat permanently to swap to back and forth... This means an ascended weapon can still be a the most cost efficient and legendaries are just extreme comfort. Completely unlocked ascended weapon would be very close to the monney an time spend on legendaries and would still lack the cool skin so that balances all of it out. They obviously go into the armory (all account bound stuff should). I mentioned this a few months ago on the legendary discussion and I feel more and more it's an elegant and needed solution to this now insane gap between people with legendaries and people who don't. If I had known about an upcoming thing like the armory I'd have never spend all that time and gold making MULTIPLE sets of ascended armor. For different characters of the same armor Class and obviously for the same characters with different Stats. In the world we live in now working on legendaries is the only logical step after a first set of ascended. However with my solution of gradually unlocking different stat sets for swappablity(?) On you existing ascended stuff it once again slots in as a more reasonable solution and Legendary once again becomes the stuff for the elite/HC players... Right? Or am I whining?
In the end its an business salary's have to be paid each month and in a business model where its buy to play witch we love they need other areas to make up the difference a subscription would bring in.
20:10 Mystic Weapons are not HOT content. It is base game. I love how marked made that this way, in past mystic weapons were trash weapons. Now I can use them with pride. It was not worth wearing for most of games life as it was cheap, when it got pricy it has become exclusive and worth wearing ;) I would rather if trash items increased in price instead of other way around.
Same guy complained about the rarity on Volcanus ... if you have the means to make or buy these kind of skins, you probably already have ascended or legendary gear... the whole point is the skin, the recipe could just reward you with a skin at the point. Maybe at release this stuff being exotic was worthwhile, but even making them ascended or ".5 legendary" wouldn't matter to most people.
The thing for me is the skins they do have in game that are really cool are also really expensive to do. Take the Storm Caller weapons, or the Volcanic weapons. That'll break the bank for the average player to try and go for!
Hello WP! Could you do a quick character login screen preview video? I am very curious about your characters! been watching you since your first gw2 video. Have a nice day!
Even though I have all the living story, I would love the Gem Gate on episodes gone, I have several friends who stopped the game and I feel like I'd need to give them a summary of what happened, if they were to come back, as having to buy LS on top of PoF and EoD, seems excessive.
"What to do if no new elites can be added to sell an expansion?" First thing that comes to my mind is making available dual professions or dual elites... And I already know this wont happen because it would completely destroy the in game balance by creating demigods combinations.
I love the idea of build craft and stat swapping, but the fundamental problem with doing it isn't (IMO) with how one would go about doing it (though that isn't a walk in the park), but rather with the lack of need to do it. If you are a PvE person, which the vast majority of players are. A set of berserker gear will work from 95% of the content out there. Even if we make stat swapping and build craft the smooothest, most accessible experience in the world, it doesn't matter, if there is no reason to do it. I have my own thoughts, but I'd be curious to hear how you think we can convince players of the need to stat swap, and engage with other build crafty things.
I wish I had the option to just pay a monthly sub, and then have all of the gem store items earn-able by completing in game challenges. This would just make the game feel so much more complete to me, and I wouldn’t mind paying a sub to do it.
The GemStore should take the Prime Vaulting setup that Warframe have. That would be an awesome way to handle it! On rotation with parts awarded for content you want to keep relevant
they could reduce the number of pets significantly and have different kinds of cats as skins for example and make the stats selectable. Make them pretty, give them some nice animations... Maybe a quest to raise em instead of 1 button to tame them
Wow, first time in a while I find myself disagreeing with you on something, WP. I definitely think Anet has been generous enough when it comes to living world episodes, only requiring login when they air to unlock it, or this recent sweep through all living world episodes for a revisit also acting as a free unlock. The gem cost is like one last chance for Anet to make some money on this content after giving most of the 'active' player base access for free. 'Active' in quotes because it's just asking you to login, to be aware of what Anet is up to, you know, start the launcher, see some news, log into character and check mail, grab your daily login reward, etc. Under a minute of work. Fun little holiday cosmetic unlocks in this and other games take more work than that. I understand the sentiment though. The living world content is pretty crucial for an account. If you miss free unlock, just give Anet some basic appreciation and pay. Game dev is already one of the lowest paying ways to use a computer science degree. Give them some security if you can.
I disagree as someone that lost interest in Guild Wars 2 shortly after the first new zone was added after launch. I really, really hate how Living World has to be bought if I didn't log in when it was active, I don't want to have this need to log on. If you buy FFXIV right now, you get every expansion up to Shadowbringers, and that includes all the content from the past up till shadowbringers. The annoying thing is, if I miss one chapter of the living story, I already feel like I missed it, even though I could just buy that episode and then keep logging on for the rest. It just makes me not as eager to get back in. I think that's always been the fatal flaw of Guild Wars 2. I'm downloading the game right now, but it's annoying that I don't have access to 4 seasons of content, and I have to buy it all.
@@CanadianYeti69 that's kind of fair, comparing to FFXIV across the aisle. I would just put it to you to consider your investment in GW2. It may not be worthwhile if you can't get it free, and you'll want to find what content you want to play instead. Valid to go without it if you really aren't that invested in playing out GW2 extensively. Not me, and not how I view the game though. Some of my favorite moments are exploring nooks and crannies of Draconis Mons, or descending through the crater of Bloodstone Fen on a gryphon, or the WvW feel of working through Drizzlewood's meta. Map exploration is too integral to my experience; I'm not there to hunt most of the rewards even. I don't care about pitting Anet vs Square Enix for who can deliver more per $. I want to see all of GW2, and appreciate what has been made.
Paid LWS makes no sense as the majority of active players get it for free anyways, but for every new player sitting at low start, compared to player that used to be online in (unknown for you) right moment you're unfairly put in position where you either spend bucks or get story rollout sliced and missing an already good amount of content too. Convoluted and unfair for every newcomer.
@@lizajansone7877 New players can find out that in a game with no subscription, some features cost money, and are worth it, while others are not. It's just content instead of cosmetics or qol account upgrades. Newcomers without money of their own (children) are the only ones who can really use your excuse. We're no longer in an era of families with Boomer parents raising children, hardly willing to spend even the initial game cost, having no understanding of online markets and in-game stores, or the difference between a game patch and an expansion. Today's parents should be internet savvy enough to understand what additional content is and why Anet is asking for money for it. It only costs a couple $$$. Adults can afford it. Be okay with Anet trying to run a business that pays them to work. I've really said all I need to. You're asking for too much.
@@Max_H with that POV of yours, I can answer that then LWS should be paid for by active playerbase as well - which is simple and no less effective for Anet. Either free for all, or paid for all - you'd have similar thoughts if ever tried to invite and make people stay here.
Would be cool if we get a permanent unlock for doing a monthly achievement every month that makes you go back to old maps and some ap and a chance on a free skin from the store or ingame earnable and keeps old areas crowded so 12 free skins a year shouldnt be so bad there not tradeable anyway
Talking about the BL to ingame subject, if they started with the earliest 2012 stuff and moved on I think it could work. There are plenty of ingame skins that look better than those now so they cannot be making much money if they put 'em back into the gem store
While i generally think making gem store items obtainable in-game is a good idea, i do see one very big downside. If they make the items meant for gem store purchase available in-game, they might make the items that would usually be available in-game from the start also go through this gemstore first funnel. Drops that would otherwise be obtained from strikes, fractals, bounties or whatever other (semi-) difficult content would be devalued because it goes through the same funnel. Now i do believe that the developers will not want to do this because they see value in prestige items. However i can imagine the people in charge demanding this to compensate for the potential lack in the FOMO part of the gemstore that's currently present. It is a business after all.
I think if they dedicated dev time to a Specialization Patch 2.0 instead of new batch of elite specs they could excuse themselves with other stuff - a new race for PvE. And no, they dont need to redo personal story and living story episodes for a new race - just make it a "Heroic" race (like DKs in WoW) that lorewise starts after - this way them doing lets say LS 2 wouldn't make sense anyway. For PvP and WvW they can't necessarily sell exclusive maps, but they could make a set of expansion unlocked masteries/achievements for existing specializations or classes, like Eternals in League. Or, you know, GvG as official gamemode.
I personally think dyable legendary weapons would take away something special from the legendary weapons. I love dying but legendary armour does not feel legendary to me the same way weapons do. I think maybe legendary stuff need to be set in stone in how they look :) (tho if they add dyechannels I would not really mind.. .would love blue flame incinerators hehe)
Before I even start on this video, I wanna say YES!!! Anet should triple down on Cantha. I want every square inch of that continent. I want all four old regions explored, I want new regions to the south and east explored too with new lore and races also inspired by East Asian cultures. Monkey King anyone? Finally explain that tonic maybe?
Honestly, after the end of EoD, I would rather them put the on-going story on pause. Just focus on bringing back LW story 1, bring out on producing I stances content with new rewards that you can not simply buy with gold/gemstore. In terms of new reward to earn by gameplay, I wish they would go back
To animated armor. They could for example, from time to time, release some single animated piece of armor to round up a set of strike missions release that are available if you own the corresponding piece of legendary animated armor. That they could lean in to your idea of having pieces of armor/weapon that have stat-swap but not every stats available.
Personally I'd probably be a lot more likely to buy a skin from the gem store on rotation if it was also around ingame somehow, because it'd have more presence in my mind. Most Gem Store stuff at the moment comes and goes without my noticing, and I never remember that it exists unless I happen to be checking the Gem Store for some other reason.
Early access... No thanks. One of the worst things to happen in gaming. How about they add the content to the game, for people to enjoy and earn in the game without charging gems for everything.
One of my biggest disappointments when it comes to the storytelling anet has done the past decade has been the constant trend of not wanting to wrap up or tell racial storylines in a good way before just swiftly moving on. Sylvari and modremoth? Doesn't matter the moment HoT act 4 is done. The human white mantle storyline in S3? Not enough time and with a relatively lackluster conclusion, moving on swiftly without discussing implications or exploring it further. The ancient norn battle against jormag? Well now that we've briefly discussed the spirits of the wild and had a meta event where we kill drakkar we can move on. Charr civil war? What an amazing concept! Let's give it a long meta-event based map and then tie it all back into it actually being jormag behind it all along and then we can wrap it all up. Arguably the Asura are the only ones who havent got the same treatment, but even the technorats have been snubbed of good racial storylines with Anets treatment of the inquest over the years. All just disappointing and makes you sad to think that we probably only got one shot at cool jormag related norn story, a char civil war story, etc, and that chance kind of ran out into the sand.
I wish legendary armor and weapons had better stats. I think that would stimulate more grinding and engagement with parts of the map that I don't often engage in. I think it would change the economy as well.
You shut your mouth WP, we NEED new maps all the time to fill out Tyria! LOL Later on you talk about Stat swapping, that is all available for Asc Weapons & Armor (and needs to be added to trinkets & Back items) already. Having extra stat options for them would be redundant a bit since it isn't currently expensive or arduous to do this. As for Mordrem in Cantha, you're right, there shouldn't be any there, BUT, it would be interesting if the Wardens in Cantha were during the events of HOT called and maybe got as far as doing damage and running amok in Cantha for a bit, but then it all settled down once Mordremoth was dead.
I've only notice veteran players complaining about the gem gate for living world. Every new player I've encountered had zero issue buying it. When you look at the cost vs a sub fee or the DLC that ESO does it's really not asking for me at all. This narrative is every where in the GW2 creator community. However, I don't think it's as much of an issue as creators make it out to be.
Yeah, I joined really late (season 4 was finished) and I simply waited for sales while enjoying the base game until I bought season 2 and 3, and both xpacs at a fairly reasonable price. For season 4, I believe I only spent very little money, and used gold to finish. I played ESO before and maybe when you join you have less to worry about and can just take the sub, on the long run it's way more expensive than GW2... And I don't like subs. If I don't have time to play for a few weeks because of life, I feel like I'm wasting my money.
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Big day today! Wanted to wake up, grab some coffee, and chat about EOD in general before all the other stuff. Don't miss the big show if you're getting here early-ish: www.twitch.tv/woodenpotatoes
Just to point out the next dev stream is next Friday the 3rd so not far away at all it will include the new guild hall, legendries, a new mastery and stuff on new characters.
@@aKAOTICsquirrel Why are you posting this as a reply to the comment I made it has nothing to do with it.
Alternate take for rotating versus permanent gemstore stuff: How about rotating opportunities to earn them in game? Sure, less convenient for us as players overall, but lots of drive for players to enjoy short-term bursts of content to earn really good rewards. Like the "return to" achievements, but you cant replay old ones till they come round again. Less competition with Anet gem market, more drive for people to have short term goals rather than "standing around wondering what to do"
PvE Seasons. For example fractal season shows new tabs above the tier lists. One with the standard fractals which is the normal progress you've earned so far, and one seasonal tier list which put you at fractal beginning fractal 1-100 with a overarching special modifier.
Just as an example for seasonal fractals: Once each fractal a mysterious NPC appears and give all enemies permanent quickness and super speed if you don't break its defiance bar.
Another one could have a special ally following you which you will need to keep alive with heals as it it protects the players from some kind of radiation.
You could even have a hardcore tab which means, if you get defeated you need to start at fractal 1 again for a higher risk/reward.
I keep thinking this would be a good idea.
Loving the upload times! And how frequently! Keep it up WP
Living world is like Guild Wars ‘happy hour’ at the bar. You go in for the appetizers, the fun with friends for a short amount of time to keep you feeling alive from your daily slump. That said, I completely disagree with the idea of reducing the ‘new maps’ concept for living world. We should really continue to explore the unknown regions of Guild Wars, it’s fine to really hone in on the core lands of specific expansions but let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot by not allowing for exploration beyond what has been seen in GW 1.
Give us brand new locations, expand on the lore and use those living world patches to fix and refine game play systems. Yes, occasionally allow the Guild Wars 1 locations to get some more information. Let’s not miss out on exploring new content.
What about expanding existing core maps? That way, you lose the disparity in map size between core and hot/pof maps, and still get to explore new places. The only challenge would be finding a way to get the story to go in that direction, even if just briefly.
I love the idea of living world revisiting the maps of their expansion and adding events, usage for unused structures. I briefly hoped that the PoF living worlds would add elaborate metas to the existing meta-less maps.
Think end of dragons should honestly start the end of Guild wars 2 story, as the main conflict from day one has been the dragon cycle and whit only 1 hostile Elder dragon left anet can either go into smaller scale conflicts of tyria or they have to come up whit new world ending threath to replace dragons. Former would inevetably be in essence just filler before they’d admid they got nothing left and new big idea would be better used on hypotetical Guild wars 3.
Tho if anet would be willingly turn aurene into a villain theyve actually written her perfectly for that role; as after ending dragon cycle natrual ending theme would be what comes after and since aurene has made it clear that her motive is to preserve balance of magic, or something along those lines left unspecific in meaning tho and if she intends to share magic whit mortal races, that of course means they can abuse the system as aurenes former peers did, mayby even to a greater extent that Elder dragons did and as aurene is cabable of forseeing the future the final storyline could be kickstarted by aurenes visions of mortal races causing a catastrophy in distant future destroying the world and mayby the whole multiverse and in trying to stop it uses her crystal bloom to start to oppose the five races and their comming magic/mechanical advancment (well preferebly shed try a diplomatic solution first that unfortunatly would start a war) and player character as commander would of course defend the society that they are part of and story could also raise a question of wheter aurenes visions are inevetable or mearly a possible future, actually an ideal question to end story on after aurene fight, as hero walks of to their unceirtain future, after killing their adopted daughter who was supposed to be the worlds hope and mayby was. And as players have been crucial part in building up the crystal bloom and well whole of aurenes powerbase it would be an emotional conflict rather than against another new threath seemingly out of nowhere and story could even take us back to all the previously met factions and make alliance whit old enemies and allies while fighting our old allies now sidead whit aurene, could even divide dragons watch to those ally whit player and those whit aurene. Would be impressive finale for the story if written right and game could have mayby two more living story seasons and an expansion.
25:00 I hope Dragon Amber will be part of Living Story after EOD :)
Gem gates on living world is one of the worst things for the games community. When i got into gw2 3 years ago and finished the somewhat lackluster personal story and then found out i had to spend alot of money for the rest of the story beyond expansions i was pissed. I think i probably would have quit right there if i hadnt been wanting to play this game for years as a console pleb. All the videos i watched about the topic suggested just not buying the living world which as a new player gave me a skewed perspective that the story wasnt worth really paying attention to. This was combined with the fact that a whole season of story was completely unavailable to me. I eventually did play and enjoy all the story content but this gave me a perspective that the story was not the focus of the game and as such i didnt pay much close attention to it. Watching your recent tier list videos ive realised how much of this games story ive compeltely forgotten or just didnt absorb.
I agree. I was very surprised, when I found out that I need to buy the parts ,,between" expansions. But coming from WoW I just thought ,,yee, it is a prepatch kind of thing anyway, so I won't probably miss anything anyway".
Then killed Zaithan and literally jumped into next mission and suddenly there is Taimi and rest of the guys I have no idea about. I have this game from the very start, so I got some tokens to unblock a lot of the story for free, so except for LS2 I have almost all of the bits.
And now playing it as it should, it is just crazy to think some people will just jump from basic to HoT, then to PoF. They will literally have no idea why they are doing stuff.
@@wisniamw yeah for sure, that will obviously just result in players not caring about the story or having to read the wiki a lot. Plus there are some really cool beats in some of the living worlds
I think this is the way to do earnable gem store skins and other sought after items:
PvE Seasons. For example fractal season shows new tabs above the tier lists. One with the standard fractals which is the normal progress you've earned so far, and one seasonal tier list which put you at fractal beginning fractal 1-100 with a overarching special modifier.
Just as an example for seasonal fractals: Once each fractal a mysterious NPC appears and give all enemies permanent quickness and super speed if you don't break its defiance bar.
Another one could have a special ally following you which you will need to keep alive with heals as it it protects the players from some kind of radiation.
You could even have a hardcore tab which means, if you get defeated you need to start at fractal 1 again for a higher risk/reward.
I just watched your tier list about best characters. I'm dissapointed. You forgot about absolutely Z Tier character.
He was loyal, brave, altruistic, disinterested, modest, supportive. Maybe little bit too silent. Four legs, one tail, first letters Ga, last letters rm. I'm more sad now than dissapointed. Good doggo.
Oh and btw, the most broken achievement in the game is Spirit Crafter. Costs Nearly 2000 Gold to make an exotic backpack. The in-game equivalent of Swamp Land in Florida for sale.
The weapons you are talking about are red versions of the mystic and glyphic weapons which are the dungeon weapons of Sorrows Embrace and Crucible of Eternity. I think it is important that more weapons get a similar treatment. The funerary weapon for example have a purple glow which you have to take into account when playing fashion wars. It would be really nice if you could buy versions with a different coloured glow.
Dyeable weapons are not necessary for me if they would release multiple versions of the same weapons that have different base colours. So not just a red and blue mystic weapon set but also yellow, green and orange.
I thought the little dev screen on the bottom left was actual Wooden Potatoes for a hot second lol! I was like...that is NOT what I expected him to look like!
I really hope LS6 continues the trend of "expanded" maps instead of just new maps every update.
I would love to see more added to the personal story after EoD. More race based story parts that can still tie into the overarching story but tailored to the player character's earlier choices and giving us more story that feels personal and focused instead of grandiose and big picture.
Yes, perhaps maybe even the Guilds will once again be at war. I feel like they could really do with some revitalization to character stories, and maybe a WvW or guild-wide story episode grind to bring back guild wars.
I dont know why but for a fraction of a second i thought the facecam in the corner was yours, until i realized its arenanet.
Same thing. The timing was very confusing.
As a returning player that came back to GW2 this month (bought game at launch, last played 2014), I missed out on a lot. So seeing all the Living World/Story content that I have to buy beyond the Expansions really sucks. They should have just come with buying the PoF+HoT pack, or the EoD pack. I also really wish I could dye weapons again, 99% of weapons, especially Legendaries, I don't like because they don't match my outfit colors, and have pretty meh vfx. I'll likely be using the Cobalt greatsword for a long time for my characters.
I agree with WP on the Vindicator. Give 2 legends, pick one, or the other, or both, and change the F2 to something that really works with all legends. Gives a good opportunity to have skills between the two legends that complement each other, to encourage you to pick them both, but not force you, in case you want to combo one of them with a core legend.
Similar thought, but separate from cantha return trips. I'd really like to see a broad return to what the races have been up to since the start.
The devs do put in nods where they can to what race your playing, but they rarely get to advance stories. It would be cool if we got an expansion that was like guild wars 2 2.0, especially since we are wrapping up the dragon story. It would feature storylines for each of the races dealing with their own specific concerns, and it could somehow bundle them together into whatever the next story beats for GW2 would be.
If they wanted to get really crazy, they could make a second future map, which is bare, essentially transporting us to the future. They could reuse Tyria map landscapes while putting new assets and events inside
Just a thought anyway. Would be nice to have a reason to return to the Grove.....
that is kinda funny with the vindicator, as basically they got ride of the swapping and added it on to the profession skill
I think the inevitable backlash to making a rare item/achievement/gemstore item easier to obtain is less about “You had it for so long so you have some perceived (and unprovable) prestige” and more about “The perceived value of your wardrobe is lessened because tons more people have that skin.”
One really good solution off the top of my head is to make two slightly versions of skins. If you’re a hardcore player and you got all the skins before they became easier, your skins have afterimage trails, sound effects, unsheath/mount animations, more dye channels, **weapon damage types**, whatever. And you can ONLY get those skins by doing hard content/buying on the gemstore/whatever else. But if an easier route opens so other players can get skins without the gemstore, the skins are more muted, which reduces all the visual noise some people don’t like while still allowing for a higher level of prestige.
But I think it’s safe to say that’s never gonna happen.
Piggybacking off of the comment about ascended weaponry with limited stat selection; what if there was a process where we could add stat combos to a stat pool for our ordinary ascended weapons? When a new stat combo comes out it will automatically unlock for leggies but you will have to purchase the combo for ascended weapons. That way more People could have access to the stat swapping goodness without devalueing the exclusiveness of leggies too much.
I do believe the Living World model will never be able to expand on current maps or add more quality-of-life over a map as long as they keep monetizing them.
Monetizing is fine, don't get me wrong, but they should do a season pass for the whole season up-front, and to include it with expansion purchases, rather than the current model which feels like new players are buying one chip at a time instead of the whole bag.
The original GW1 Jade Sea is probably one of my top 3 favorite locations/regions in a video game ever. The environment, the incredible music, the bizarre culture of humans that lived within it. Perfection.
Heck, the dying of weapons causing issues? Wtf...that was definitely part of the fun...think about how cool it was to dye a Storm Bow different colors? Jesus, remember the price differences between the different colors of dye? So much fun and prestige honestly. Also, it's just silly for them to say that it would cause issues. They are completely ignoring the fact that there are already cosmetic in GW2, all you have to do is create code to allow for the visual effect to change for the player's view, but not actually change the weapon's color. So it would essentially be like a plugin vs manually changing the color with the dye. That way, sort of like ESO, you can update your cosmetic look associated with your character while not actually affecting the item when you trade it over to other players.
As luminye, I ran with wooden potatoes. I bought and paid for his account that he played as Hartio Coldstream.
During one of your stream, you talked about Brain Drain not being a problem for EoD despite the layoffs and the few big names leaving. I think that's true on many areas of the game, like art or environnement design, but now that we have the full 9 new elite specs revealed and that we played around with them, I can't help but wonder if it's not a question of budget for them to feel so mediocre, but if it's because the big names that made the HoT and PoF specs are gone.
Irenio and Robert Gee are not at ArenanNet for EoD, and they made some of the most complex and interesting specs, Robert in particular having made both Chronomancer and Mirage, not being there resulting in us getting the mess that is Virtuoso, leaves a bad taste for me.
Instead of creating an entirely new map, they could take an existing core map, overhaul it graphically, expand it to pof-size maps, and have the story involve that new section of the map. That way, you can kill many birds with one stone: you reduce the disparity between core and xpac/lw maps, maintain the sense of exploration, increase the replayability of core maps, increase interaction between new players and vets, and free up dev time to focus on other aspects of the game.
I agree that reworking core specs isn't enough on its own, but I hope they do continue to do this. I really like some of the spec line reworks we've had (tactics and death stick in my mind particularly) and hope we get more of this alongside new elite specs
When it comes to the Gem store, I think certain items, perhaps the most lore friendly content, could be the only items that you could earn in game. That way they can keep their money maker and throw us a bone.
With the Living World being bought instead of free, over time I think it should become free in the same way the base game has. They could make it an event by recreating Something, anything from season 1 and release it for free and announce with it will be season 2 free for everyone. And every year or so the next season will become free or discounted.
Hey WP. You should rank all the elites, based on theme, gameplay, viability. That would be awesome.
I honestly just want them to add more cool armor sets, or weapons, that i can get by normally playing. Most of my characters still run around in core gw gear... i havent changed looks on most of my characters in almost a decade... almost all cool transmog is either gem store, or black lion chests. So if i want it, my gameplay is just farming gold... i really dislike that. Its not farming gems in strikes for armor, its not crafting, its not doing certain gameplay to get tokens or reputation... its all farming gold and buying it. Not fun at all.
I still remember running around in Nightfall farming rubies for the vabbi armor. There is nothing like that in gw, unless i have the time to go for a legendary.
Hate the gem gate so much, the worst thing about it is that story doesn't matter anymore, people don't get to play the story linearly without owning LWS, but they are allowed to play the expansion ones and skip bridging stories.
With how much focus anet gives to the narrative, this is such a weird choice. I never played the story linearly until seasons of the dragons, and I really enjoyed it. New players wouldn't get this chance to redo it linearly.
Steam release is gonna be hell if LWS monetisation continues to be like that, and this is from a vet who owns all the episodes. It's so hard to get friends to join this game because of this.
I agree that I don't like legend flipping with Vindicator and would prefer if each legend took up one legend slot. I'd like it if F3 gave a skill for either (A) the opposite legend if only one Vindicator legend is slotted, (B) a combo skill if both Vindicator legends are slotted, and (C) a different combo skill if no Vindicator legends are slotted. Alternatively, the Vindicator could have 3 legend slots, the original legend swap skill could cause legends to swap from left to right, and the new F3 skill could cause legends to swap in reverse from right to left.
Edit: F2 seems more likely than F3 since only Renegades have F3 skills.
with the new healer rogue, I would really love them to revisit the healer abilities of all professions, particularly the guardian's staff abilities. it's so weak.
on the .5 legendarys and stat swapping, they could just add on small step to have it attune to a stat category like vitality, then you have most of stats with vitality as a main stat to chose from.
I want to see them do space seasons kinda like drizzlewood or drytop, i like the idea of growing maps and it spaces content out so the maps remain busier, the game suffers from a player that rushes to the golden shiny chest at the end often ignoring the small little details
On the stat swapping: I wish the stat swap system on ascended would unlock the stat permanently to swap to back and forth... This means an ascended weapon can still be a the most cost efficient and legendaries are just extreme comfort. Completely unlocked ascended weapon would be very close to the monney an time spend on legendaries and would still lack the cool skin so that balances all of it out. They obviously go into the armory (all account bound stuff should). I mentioned this a few months ago on the legendary discussion and I feel more and more it's an elegant and needed solution to this now insane gap between people with legendaries and people who don't. If I had known about an upcoming thing like the armory I'd have never spend all that time and gold making MULTIPLE sets of ascended armor. For different characters of the same armor Class and obviously for the same characters with different Stats. In the world we live in now working on legendaries is the only logical step after a first set of ascended. However with my solution of gradually unlocking different stat sets for swappablity(?) On you existing ascended stuff it once again slots in as a more reasonable solution and Legendary once again becomes the stuff for the elite/HC players... Right? Or am I whining?
In the end its an business salary's have to be paid each month and in a business model where its buy to play witch we love they need other areas to make up the difference a subscription would bring in.
20:10 Mystic Weapons are not HOT content. It is base game. I love how marked made that this way, in past mystic weapons were trash weapons. Now I can use them with pride.
It was not worth wearing for most of games life as it was cheap, when it got pricy it has become exclusive and worth wearing ;)
I would rather if trash items increased in price instead of other way around.
Same guy complained about the rarity on Volcanus ... if you have the means to make or buy these kind of skins, you probably already have ascended or legendary gear... the whole point is the skin, the recipe could just reward you with a skin at the point. Maybe at release this stuff being exotic was worthwhile, but even making them ascended or ".5 legendary" wouldn't matter to most people.
The thing for me is the skins they do have in game that are really cool are also really expensive to do. Take the Storm Caller weapons, or the Volcanic weapons. That'll break the bank for the average player to try and go for!
Volcanic can be easily aquired if you have done Icebrood saga
Hello WP! Could you do a quick character login screen preview video? I am very curious about your characters! been watching you since your first gw2 video. Have a nice day!
Haven’t played since the end of the path of fire main story ended. Dunno where to start. What do I do ? ( sorry if stupid question)
Even though I have all the living story, I would love the Gem Gate on episodes gone, I have several friends who stopped the game and I feel like I'd need to give them a summary of what happened, if they were to come back, as having to buy LS on top of PoF and EoD, seems excessive.
"What to do if no new elites can be added to sell an expansion?" First thing that comes to my mind is making available dual professions or dual elites... And I already know this wont happen because it would completely destroy the in game balance by creating demigods combinations.
I love the idea of build craft and stat swapping, but the fundamental problem with doing it isn't (IMO) with how one would go about doing it (though that isn't a walk in the park), but rather with the lack of need to do it. If you are a PvE person, which the vast majority of players are. A set of berserker gear will work from 95% of the content out there. Even if we make stat swapping and build craft the smooothest, most accessible experience in the world, it doesn't matter, if there is no reason to do it. I have my own thoughts, but I'd be curious to hear how you think we can convince players of the need to stat swap, and engage with other build crafty things.
is EOD the last GW2 xpac?
I wish I had the option to just pay a monthly sub, and then have all of the gem store items earn-able by completing in game challenges. This would just make the game feel so much more complete to me, and I wouldn’t mind paying a sub to do it.
Hey @wooden you don't get a Thanksgiving break bring us some more quality videos please :D
Just checking in and would love an update on how ffxiv is going and thoughts about
The GemStore should take the Prime Vaulting setup that Warframe have. That would be an awesome way to handle it! On rotation with parts awarded for content you want to keep relevant
i wish they would dedicate a patch to update ranger pets
to bring them up to standard. and by standard i mean mounts and its pretty high
they could reduce the number of pets significantly and have different kinds of cats as skins for example and make the stats selectable. Make them pretty, give them some nice animations... Maybe a quest to raise em instead of 1 button to tame them
MAYBE even let the ranger use them. as very basic mounts
Maybe they could alternate between LW episodes having a new map, and being pure story.
Wow, first time in a while I find myself disagreeing with you on something, WP. I definitely think Anet has been generous enough when it comes to living world episodes, only requiring login when they air to unlock it, or this recent sweep through all living world episodes for a revisit also acting as a free unlock. The gem cost is like one last chance for Anet to make some money on this content after giving most of the 'active' player base access for free. 'Active' in quotes because it's just asking you to login, to be aware of what Anet is up to, you know, start the launcher, see some news, log into character and check mail, grab your daily login reward, etc. Under a minute of work. Fun little holiday cosmetic unlocks in this and other games take more work than that.
I understand the sentiment though. The living world content is pretty crucial for an account. If you miss free unlock, just give Anet some basic appreciation and pay. Game dev is already one of the lowest paying ways to use a computer science degree. Give them some security if you can.
I disagree as someone that lost interest in Guild Wars 2 shortly after the first new zone was added after launch.
I really, really hate how Living World has to be bought if I didn't log in when it was active, I don't want to have this need to log on.
If you buy FFXIV right now, you get every expansion up to Shadowbringers, and that includes all the content from the past up till shadowbringers. The annoying thing is, if I miss one chapter of the living story, I already feel like I missed it, even though I could just buy that episode and then keep logging on for the rest. It just makes me not as eager to get back in. I think that's always been the fatal flaw of Guild Wars 2.
I'm downloading the game right now, but it's annoying that I don't have access to 4 seasons of content, and I have to buy it all.
@@CanadianYeti69 that's kind of fair, comparing to FFXIV across the aisle. I would just put it to you to consider your investment in GW2. It may not be worthwhile if you can't get it free, and you'll want to find what content you want to play instead. Valid to go without it if you really aren't that invested in playing out GW2 extensively.
Not me, and not how I view the game though. Some of my favorite moments are exploring nooks and crannies of Draconis Mons, or descending through the crater of Bloodstone Fen on a gryphon, or the WvW feel of working through Drizzlewood's meta. Map exploration is too integral to my experience; I'm not there to hunt most of the rewards even. I don't care about pitting Anet vs Square Enix for who can deliver more per $. I want to see all of GW2, and appreciate what has been made.
Paid LWS makes no sense as the majority of active players get it for free anyways, but for every new player sitting at low start, compared to player that used to be online in (unknown for you) right moment you're unfairly put in position where you either spend bucks or get story rollout sliced and missing an already good amount of content too.
Convoluted and unfair for every newcomer.
@@lizajansone7877 New players can find out that in a game with no subscription, some features cost money, and are worth it, while others are not. It's just content instead of cosmetics or qol account upgrades.
Newcomers without money of their own (children) are the only ones who can really use your excuse. We're no longer in an era of families with Boomer parents raising children, hardly willing to spend even the initial game cost, having no understanding of online markets and in-game stores, or the difference between a game patch and an expansion. Today's parents should be internet savvy enough to understand what additional content is and why Anet is asking for money for it. It only costs a couple $$$. Adults can afford it. Be okay with Anet trying to run a business that pays them to work.
I've really said all I need to. You're asking for too much.
@@Max_H with that POV of yours, I can answer that then LWS should be paid for by active playerbase as well - which is simple and no less effective for Anet. Either free for all, or paid for all - you'd have similar thoughts if ever tried to invite and make people stay here.
Would be cool if we get a permanent unlock for doing a monthly achievement every month that makes you go back to old maps and some ap and a chance on a free skin from the store or ingame earnable and keeps old areas crowded so 12 free skins a year shouldnt be so bad there not tradeable anyway
For the Mordrum, could we not have unhinged versions like we had the risen in the LWS3 Ahrah map.
Talking about the BL to ingame subject, if they started with the earliest 2012 stuff and moved on I think it could work. There are plenty of ingame skins that look better than those now so they cannot be making much money if they put 'em back into the gem store
While i generally think making gem store items obtainable in-game is a good idea, i do see one very big downside. If they make the items meant for gem store purchase available in-game, they might make the items that would usually be available in-game from the start also go through this gemstore first funnel. Drops that would otherwise be obtained from strikes, fractals, bounties or whatever other (semi-) difficult content would be devalued because it goes through the same funnel. Now i do believe that the developers will not want to do this because they see value in prestige items. However i can imagine the people in charge demanding this to compensate for the potential lack in the FOMO part of the gemstore that's currently present. It is a business after all.
So much hype! :D
Scarper = run away ❌
Scupper = send to the bottom of the sea ✔️
When is the next streams about the legendaries masteries and kaineng?
I think if they dedicated dev time to a Specialization Patch 2.0 instead of new batch of elite specs they could excuse themselves with other stuff - a new race for PvE. And no, they dont need to redo personal story and living story episodes for a new race - just make it a "Heroic" race (like DKs in WoW) that lorewise starts after - this way them doing lets say LS 2 wouldn't make sense anyway.
For PvP and WvW they can't necessarily sell exclusive maps, but they could make a set of expansion unlocked masteries/achievements for existing specializations or classes, like Eternals in League.
Or, you know, GvG as official gamemode.
I personally think dyable legendary weapons would take away something special from the legendary weapons. I love dying but legendary armour does not feel legendary to me the same way weapons do. I think maybe legendary stuff need to be set in stone in how they look :) (tho if they add dyechannels I would not really mind.. .would love blue flame incinerators hehe)
When the video first started and I saw the webcam I thought WP actually did a face reveal
Before I even start on this video, I wanna say YES!!! Anet should triple down on Cantha. I want every square inch of that continent. I want all four old regions explored, I want new regions to the south and east explored too with new lore and races also inspired by East Asian cultures. Monkey King anyone? Finally explain that tonic maybe?
Honestly, after the end of EoD, I would rather them put the on-going story on pause. Just focus on bringing back LW story 1, bring out on producing I stances content with new rewards that you can not simply buy with gold/gemstore.
In terms of new reward to earn by gameplay, I wish they would go back
To animated armor. They could for example, from time to time, release some single animated piece of armor to round up a set of strike missions release that are available if you own the corresponding piece of legendary animated armor. That they could lean in to your idea of having pieces of armor/weapon that have stat-swap but not every stats available.
I would never buy anything from the gem store if I knew it was going to be in game eventually. That would cut their sales but maybe I’m alone in this.
Personally I'd probably be a lot more likely to buy a skin from the gem store on rotation if it was also around ingame somehow, because it'd have more presence in my mind. Most Gem Store stuff at the moment comes and goes without my noticing, and I never remember that it exists unless I happen to be checking the Gem Store for some other reason.
viewing all patches as part of an expansion is not just ff14 thing its an every other mmo thing.
Early access... No thanks. One of the worst things to happen in gaming. How about they add the content to the game, for people to enjoy and earn in the game without charging gems for everything.
One of my biggest disappointments when it comes to the storytelling anet has done the past decade has been the constant trend of not wanting to wrap up or tell racial storylines in a good way before just swiftly moving on. Sylvari and modremoth? Doesn't matter the moment HoT act 4 is done. The human white mantle storyline in S3? Not enough time and with a relatively lackluster conclusion, moving on swiftly without discussing implications or exploring it further. The ancient norn battle against jormag? Well now that we've briefly discussed the spirits of the wild and had a meta event where we kill drakkar we can move on. Charr civil war? What an amazing concept! Let's give it a long meta-event based map and then tie it all back into it actually being jormag behind it all along and then we can wrap it all up. Arguably the Asura are the only ones who havent got the same treatment, but even the technorats have been snubbed of good racial storylines with Anets treatment of the inquest over the years. All just disappointing and makes you sad to think that we probably only got one shot at cool jormag related norn story, a char civil war story, etc, and that chance kind of ran out into the sand.
I wish legendary armor and weapons had better stats. I think that would stimulate more grinding and engagement with parts of the map that I don't often engage in. I think it would change the economy as well.
You shut your mouth WP, we NEED new maps all the time to fill out Tyria! LOL
Later on you talk about Stat swapping, that is all available for Asc Weapons & Armor (and needs to be added to trinkets & Back items) already. Having extra stat options for them would be redundant a bit since it isn't currently expensive or arduous to do this.
As for Mordrem in Cantha, you're right, there shouldn't be any there, BUT, it would be interesting if the Wardens in Cantha were during the events of HOT called and maybe got as far as doing damage and running amok in Cantha for a bit, but then it all settled down once Mordremoth was dead.
first few seconds of the video i thought you had a face cam in the bottem left xP
I've only notice veteran players complaining about the gem gate for living world. Every new player I've encountered had zero issue buying it. When you look at the cost vs a sub fee or the DLC that ESO does it's really not asking for me at all. This narrative is every where in the GW2 creator community. However, I don't think it's as much of an issue as creators make it out to be.
Yeah, I joined really late (season 4 was finished) and I simply waited for sales while enjoying the base game until I bought season 2 and 3, and both xpacs at a fairly reasonable price. For season 4, I believe I only spent very little money, and used gold to finish. I played ESO before and maybe when you join you have less to worry about and can just take the sub, on the long run it's way more expensive than GW2... And I don't like subs. If I don't have time to play for a few weeks because of life, I feel like I'm wasting my money.
14:00 I will never not want ricochet back. :(
How about have gem store purchases for collections which unlock skins.
2:00 PAY TO WIN!!!!!!!
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