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PoE.... you mean EOD? The only feature you are asking for I can get behind is housing. Through, even that, they could just do scribe 500 and add racial decorations / learning them in a journey like chef 500 I would be more than pleased. We are in SEPTEMBER, the expansion in 5 months, they have time to polish things. Nice additions even if fishing could have been just a gemstore gizmo. Very excited for boat still.

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1144759500 15:30 "With PoF there was the jackal and masteries, here it is the same but with skiffs. With this expansion, you get the exact same things: Hearts.. then unlocking your own skiff. We aren't showing hearts today to avoid spoilers" (Something like this, waiting for transcript.) So thank you a lot, you did the best choice. Skiffs looks cool and less cloudy, being more heavy. Interesting masteries, through expected more for Boat than just more health/speed/bump foes. Fishing seems interesting, at least, I know I will do the collections achievements like I did the chair of the world one. Nice Stream that ended with another Elite spec silhouette, giving us now the know trio of the next beta espec event. Instead of replying with a confused face smiley, you can actually go watch the stream. Thanks.

Sab. Want to see world 3 and 4

Definitely need more of this. Really Asura with vaporwave holograms doing some electro musics can be absolute banger. But yeah want to hear more titles from metal legion, several blood soldiers in the keep speak of titles we haven't heard yet.

Or we can travel back in time, between gw1 and gw2 and actually do the Primordius Story we don't have? The sole dragon that received 0 new troops, 0 new personality progression, 0 devellopment since 2013? Whereas jormag got its own army of ice charr, ice golem and creepy folklore features like bonneskinners and haunts? Just reuse magma elemental from balthazar shrine siren reef as primordius lava giant, use the stone summit dwarves you haven't reused since steel warband strike, more insectoid designs and hives/nests? It is not the plots or places missing: woodland cascades with surely centaur, jotun and white mantle/mursaat still waiting. Same for depths of tyria or scavenger causeway at the south east of Arah. What about the mysterious ??? Dimension/place time bauble in jahai? Can be a fractal/strike/story in itself teleporting us in a very obscure dimension with fluorescent hallucinogen shrooms and weird looking plants and rocks.

Then, I owe you an excuse. English is not my mother tongue, so when I read no brainer I interpreted it as "a person without brain" well, sorry. This is just a mechanism of association, like farmer is farm-er someone who works in farm, I just did a similar brain gymnastic with the no brainer.

Frankly, good job. Very impressive all the work you put into this. And hope Anet changes their mind about guilds and proove they haven't forgotten this content for eternity. Very nicely presented, organized.

At this point, it is a real joke and an insult. You are able to design plushies as Aurene Plush , Quaggan Plush or Charr Plush as the Trading Post Gemstore is showing. But that new one you just added to Festival rewards vendor in queens gauntlet, tab "fabulous reward" is AGAIN AN ACCESSORY, AND NOT A BACKPACK LIKE IT SHOULD BE. It is a total scam that doesn't even have an unique appearance! Really, get Primordius Plush and Krlaky Plush fixed! Remove those jokes items and readd them as backpacks! I question the logic behind the designs and makes me more and more afraid for the incoming EOD expansion! Really, a big disapointment it is no fun and ruin the purpose of the item! It feels rushed and not caring about anything. At least, give them an unique appearance! 😢 https://imgur.com/GVl0n3E

Please add checkpoints between each final boss phase in sunqua peak fractal like you did for amala in twilight fractal. The current iteration is bad and unbearable, nothing more annoying than restarting at checkpoint with the boss reseting to 100% health! Do something anet! Haha

Can players of Female Charr and Asura have the option to use the female version of an armor skin instead of the male one? For some players it may feel okay, but to me it is a kind of discrimination and racism seeing that female charr and asura are forbidden to use female skin version. This is really obvious with armor like aetherblade and many outfits. This is locking away skins. Forcing to play certain races. This option should have been in game still 2013, please add it.

What I hope a lot is that the previous story/lore is let's say, kind of respected: It has been said that Cantha heard and I think, experienced everything we had in Core Tyria/Maguuma/Elona, so zhaithan, zombies, its death, vines from mordremoth, amnoon being branded by kralkatorrik (btw don't think we had news from there), joko's fate, jormag luring us in the north, the dominion, jormag and primordius ending with thaumanova fallout bis. But we did have several notable events too: White mantle infiltration of DR then the fight of forces in the bloodstone den and lake doric, caudecus end. Us joining shining blade btw. Seeing post zhaithan death orr. Leading joko forces against balthazar... killing joko and now having free awakened on our shoulders. And helping nature lovers charr tribe to destroy an inquest base. And then, getting help from dwarves and several races around the continent. What I want to see because it was introduced: ->Would the alliance we have with flame legion-olmakhan-kodan-skritt-exalted-dwarves-asura-seraph-united legion-sylvari-norn for DRMS and finale of IBS stays for EOD and will be used or it is dismissed? -> Does the aetherblade evolved simultaneously to our aetherblades? Aetherblade started after the dragon bash murder, it got hideouts then the twilight arbor aetherpath. They were the first using siege golems that were named "aetherblade golems", and introduced holograms and damaging force fields or arcane lasers cannons (see attack on la, aetherblade fractal), very intresting design in twilight arbor featuring charr scraps shaped in the form of asura tunnels. Whereas in crucible of eternity, the inquest was very rudimentary, only starting developping some new marks. So, technicaly, EoD aetherblades would be more advanced than the ones we saw. -> Cantha Inquest. It makes sense that they communicated with core tyria facilities. And so, Inquest progress can't be forgotten in cantha. They aren't using anymore Mark I or Mark II, nor regular engineer/assassin/assistant. Since LS4E2, they should now be using Legionaire Mark, Phalanx Mark, Centurion mark, Security supervision Mark aka exterminator, Attack drones aka cubic red golems. In term if troops, they are now Inquest Bruiser, Inquest Sharpshot, Inquest Overseer, Inquest specimen specialists. There are even some using gyros, so they have scrappers. Can be a good addition to now see some inquest using photon forge: Holosmiths. Cantha Inquest cannot be clunky, basic, 2013 Inquest. I know Inquest is in cantha because during the EOD first look start countdown, screenshots of Aetherblade HQ are shown, it features asura crate, holo communicators used in the test subject ls4e2 and some red holograms. So I expect Aetherblade and by extent Inquest to have even better golems and equipments, no recycled stuffs. -> How is seen draconic energy research? Surely as a good thing since the trailer seems to show the canthan empress saying I will not destroy the technological advancement that has been made something like that. Really, hoping for more infiltrations missions like ls4e2 a bug in the system, they were really cool. Test subject, the charge, those are top notch steps. Gorrik is still with us, and no hints if he is playing double game. Should I remind that the asura personnal character almost dying by inquest blowing a cliff in rata sum for not giving them our invention? Since the earliest interviews with gw2 devs, ut is said you can't leave inquest without consequences. I expect a kill team to be after gorrik. You don't remember Arkk? The npc you put in fractal? That one was also harassed by the inquest "to collect a debt" (its life?). -> How the very racist country plot will be resolved? Again, don't see how without infiltration. A charr or an Asura are easily spottable. I really like LS4E1 daybreak step when we escaped from the great hall prisons, something simular can be done here: we arrive, and we get arrested. But a friend of our arrive and vouch for us: Annise? Someone else? -> Deep Sea Dragon is shown in Omadd Machine, you can't just scrap it and reinvent its look from 0. Its minions are known since solid ocean fractal: krakens and windriders. And surely other sea creatures that have tentacles or appendices. Can be very cool having small sea stars that jump on you, stick and bite, kinda like in pirate of carribean. They would act like karka babies, jump on you and stick. Deep sea bioluminescent jellyfishes is a cool thing too. -> Are orders present in Cantha, or it is a core tyria specific thing? To me, we should find priory at least, they have jade blocks in their reserve! -> How do canthan reacted to Balthazar's death? -> Do cantha know about all dungeons stories, and that Efram is now flame legion imperator? That Kudu is dead but has a daughter Kuda and both did deagon magics experiments? Dredge revolution? -> Knowing that the elders dragons got killed, wouldn't the empress and canthans wait for aurene with spikes? Capturing her the second it arrives? -> Zephyrites should be in cantha right? They are made of tyrian-elonian-canthan humans... -> Auris Weirdbringer. Xan we solve this plot? Its time, we have mists story and aetherblades in cantha. But well, to sum rapidly, It can be very cool if Canthan aetherblade/inquest use jades as weapons or golems, some troops being of the new engie spec. One of the strike mission should be an aetherblade hideout like twilight arbor aetherpath but more green and jade in it. In addition of the well known now, red holographics of the inquest and blue/purple force fields of aetherblade. I think bounties from PoF should be a thing in cantha, it makes senses to have researched individuals doing mischief even here. About HoT, EoD should have dynamic day time and massive meta events too. I think both can be combined to offer a nice ambiance/gameplay, certain bounties during day, some other with night. And the biggest thing: since core, at infinity coil in mount maelstrom map, the inquest tease us saying the water dragon specimen is too big to be contained based on its hologram so expect to see some inquest base with water deagon minions containments, maybe like underwater base in jinx isles in malchor's leap.

Agree, skritt themed stuffs can be cool

So, with the new [Deep Wilds Mounts license] you introduced the Exo-Warclaw. A big thanks from my heart. ❤️ Having purchased the supply drop, I didn't get today one but two exo-mount skins: I picked also the exo-roller beetle 😀 What does it means? Ding Ding Ding, 7 of my 8 mounts are now exos. And the last missing one is the one I'm requesting since a long time: The exo skyscale. I love the appearance of exo warclaw and will definitely use it a lot 😄 but now, please add the exo skyscale to end the exo mounts set. You can check the unlocks of my account: I have everything related to exo apart the glider.

So far, I counted only three new decorations: 1-Zephyr Net 2-Zephyr Banner 3-Zephyr Canopy (Aka, kind of horizontal banner) Here is a screenshot, from left to right: Net - Banner - Canopy: https://imgur.com/q3C2q11 About collisions, Net and canopy is solid, banner, you can pass through.

Fractals have 25 Fractal slots per tiers, however, we currently have only 18 different fractals. It means that 7 new fractals can be created, here are ideas: 1- Battle of Lion's arch: Closing portals/stopping misama then killing Syngergetics/statics/dynamic knight to end on the breachmaker by killing Scarlet prime hologram. 2- Mallyck journey. Cover the lost story arc of mallyck from Hot, it implies following a path in the maguuma forest fighting several mordrem foes. You found out mallyck tree, overrun by mordrems. It ends by fighting an imposant foes like axemasters in verdant brink/Hot Story can also involve nightmare court, one of the only evil faction not used in fractals. 3- A fractal implying Tengus. With cantha coming and EOD this would be a great addition, fighting creature like the jade maw or strange octopus/squid creatures, tentacles horrors in sum. To complete Solid ocean which is only jade quarry. 4- Skritt expedition inspired fractal, could see the story from another side, helping skritts fighting asura who want to capture them, finding an unexpected alliance with Hyleks or I dunno a quest to find shinies guarded by powerful foes. 5- Almorra soulkeeper recon squad when she wasn't leader of vigil and saw her warband branded. This is an awesome story to cover. 6-A fractal implying seraphs and centaurs? A stronghold? Could cover the unexplored woodland area: Centaurs unslaved humans, seraph get help from jotuns to fight them. 7-A mist based fractal. Could exploit the unused Utopia lore, involving the hub of time and random missions of stabilizing rifts, hunting for monstruosity tearing apart the place, melting several environments together like dragonfall how rift baubbles worked in jahai.

Instead of users banners being red, they are now white. It isn't better but worse now! I can't even read the user names because they are written in Light gray on a WHITE banner. Users banners could be in dark red, like how is written "Required" next to Title / content when creating a thread. It definitely need another fix. Maybe even, Dark gray user banner, with white text on it.

And that is the big error you both do, you totally missed what I was speaking of. You both took a FARMING map or spoke about EVENTS density. You don't care about hearts because you just want rewards and gold that's why citing stampede or drizzle. The Heart quest Npc is giving you the intel about what is happening what are the main occupations of the inhabirants of this area. What is living is all what you do to help it and speaking through the different nocs on the path. Those starements fell under the same umbrella as players don't wanting jumping puzzles anymore. Because it doesn't reward ton of gold or can't be farmed then it should be deleted? What a bad mentality. This have been discussed since a long time, hearts or jp, don't like them? Don't do them. Anet could even do a compromise putting Heart quests in cantha but who don't count for map completion. There is a big difference between an "active" map and a map rich of lore and living world that favorize explorations and reward explorers for researching. An event don't do the role of a quest: they reward, for most of them, bad rewards apart big meta chains or bounties. An event is a following: need escort! Escorting. Thanks for escorting! A renodn heart: heart npc giving infos. Doing multiple tasks. A letter thanking you telling you update to the situation after you passed. You make a good action that stay in time not like events that feels stuck in a fractal loop. Again, if heart quests passed the three original beta events and 3 stress tests without being removed, there is a good reason. Plus, many of events in core maps are in fact here to help you progress a quest. Even in PoF in fact. Sure you could just put lore book everywhere but will not be the same feel as speaking to an npc. I will end by citing the wiki, which everyone knows is made by in game infos and devs statements: "Hearts are reminiscent of traditionnal quests in other MMORPGs. RATHER THAN BEING GIVEN AS A CHECKLIST OF TASKS A PLAYER NEEDS TO DO IN SEQUENCE, players simply follow a list of possible actions or activities that contribute to the progress of an area's renown heart. Renown heart provide staric content in the absence of events. MUCH OF THE DESIGN OF AREAS WILL HAVE EVENTS AND RENOWN HEARTS OVERLAP ON CONTRIBUTING ACTIONS AND LORE. Hearts reflect regional, broadly accomplished, finite objectives for content, while events are dynamic, specific directives that may be encountered and consequently won or lost multiple time." I let you search about devs interviews about quests. Surely explained it somewhere in addition of what is said above. I can get the need to rush, have everything and won rapidly, but in case of exploration, slow is better. Let's be serious: you can't recover 100% of the map with events, this will create hot spots and dead aka cold spots locations. Heart do this role, an area, without events? You put a heart quest there. In every map you can take the example of there are cold spots apart for the one involved in meta chain like silverwastes, dragon stand, dragonfall, grothmar, istan. Btw doesn't prevent istan to have quests. If there are quests in cantha, no need to have 25 per maps lol, 10 and I'm happy. You know what? Even 6 I am okay with! Warning, personnal opinion there. I like as much hearts as events. But if I have achievement that tell me do 25 events in the map or do the 13 quests, will pick quests because at least, I revisit the story of the map.

To me dragon jade and canthan language. Dragon jade could be using new skills at boss using the dragonjade energy kinda like LS3 skills in bloodstone fen and canthan language like HoT with unlocking itzel and nunoch merchant. A kind of reputation system maybe. I'm losing more and more my hopes of housing along the days passing.

Please, add quests in Cantha. HoT didn't have them, and still to me today it feels very weird. Maybe because it was an hostile region, but since cantha is a friendly region, habited, I see no issues pushing to remove quests. It isn't a matter of are quests boring or not, it is a matter of what brought the quests to the game? And they do have a very important role, I send you here: Well, I will answer you: 1/Lore. Many quests feature Npcs, with unique names, even the heart quest npc has some story to tell you. Remove quests and it is easily 70% of the lore in core tyria that is removed? How so? Would anyone spot the charrs versus ghost or flame legion if there wasn't quests telling you while they are fighting each other and what actions they do to sabotage enemies plans? It introduce items and devices with names and give them a purpose. It allows the players to see the lore behind the map and how factions interact with each others. Here is a fun statistic, most of https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Destructible_objects are part of quests. It means that without those, you would know nothing about the main 5 races. Why? Because just playing the main story doesn't grant you 100% of story and lore knowledge in guild wars 2, you have to earn it, seek for the little things. 2/Living world. Remove quests and events and the map is a dead empty coffin. They are, with the meta event and the landscape the cement that allow the map to exist to have a sense in the guild wars 2 universe. All map have a purpose, a step of a story, a dragon domain, making you discovering particular enemies or the culture happening there. Would have you guessed that Olmakhan were seeking honey or fishing fish if there was no events or quests regarding those? Would you know there were farmers in Queensdale without quests? How about metrica, will you be aware of a power plant powering energy grid without anybody telling you? That some evil faction is doing mayhem somewhere? 3-Completing the story at a smaller scale seeing the involvement of locals, their all day life to see the story behind the development of the map. You can't state a breath taking living world if the world isn't living. Without all those scenes of all days life and only the story steps to follow, then, why having maps? Let all be just instances. The quests are part of the little things you can seek for, which make exploration fun. 4-Quests ARE the way to earn EXCLUSIVE REWARDS. A high number of Gizmos, minis or endless tonics come from quests. Permit them several well known one like "Inquest Position rewinder". As endless tonics, the "Endless awakened archer tonic" can be cited. They are also sources of weapons for karma. I let you explore https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Renown_heart_NPCs. Some are even offering ascended or map currencies! They complete what sell Volatile/Instable magic vendors. Btw, I doubt those will be in cantha so renown hearts can sell those ascended. 5-Quests offer good amount of Experience and can be a real help to level masteries, since they involve in many cases killing foes which reward xp. 6-If quests are part of the core map completion along vistas and Point of Interest, it is because they have role to play: The point of interest as they names indicate have the goal to make discover an unique place, just like you would find a memorial or interesting artpiece on google maps. Vistas are equivalent to panoramas, they offer good view of the surrounding, putting under the spotlight an ensemble. Quests have the tough role of linking the inhabitants evil or allies together while featuring this landscape, places visited by the player to contribute to the quest by doing various actions. So no, the game doesn't have to be simplified to level 0 for the sake of finishing faster completion. No quests or any other component of map completion have to be removed. No they don't have to be removed because some of them feels dull or boring, not every task in RL life feel interesting. No Guild wars 2 doesn't deserve losing one of its forces, quests weren't in IBS but this doesn't mean they worth nothing. They aren't in IBS nor LS4E6 or Cursed shore because those are WAR ZONES. They should be in Cantha. Cantha without quests it is easily 50% of living world and lore that is scrapped. And this would be devastating. The main story will not do everything. Here me out, if Hearts are here, I just want, if they are repeatable, that we can access the merchant after completing them one time. No need to redo it each time to access the merchant.

Yeah, hope it is the postprocessing and shaders/ reflections or they need to tone down the brightness. It is green hill zone from sonic right now.

I think one big question to ask ourselves is what would we put instead of skiff or fishing? Well, can be listed: 1-Claw/Grapling hook movement a la zelda breath of the wild to climb cliff side. -> this is kind of useless , you have skyscale, or bunny which is more accessible. 2-Housing -> like fishing, this favorize afking, passing time somewhere, not contributing to maps by doing events or farming mats but both are chill activities, one for the achievement of finding all fish/ pass time leizure the other to express your home designer spirit, I like both, but more of the housing style. 3-A new race -> This would have been a real expansion feature like revenant was for hot. A set of 4 new starter maps, not the same personal story as other until level 40 when you are sent scouting tyria. The big con is that it requires ton of work and anet don't have this amount of time nor ressources. 4-Another instanced content form -> A shot in the feet. There are already enough, and dungeon are rotting. Raid didn't get a new recent wing. 5-Dual classes -> Sounds cool but will create a black hole sized balance issue, skills balance is alreadt strugling with current skills ans specs... 6-Henchmens/Allies companions -> To me this would have been the best expansion feature. Why? Those could be used everywhere, you struggle with a champion? BOOM, they help you deal with it. They could be also called to help you in Dungeon story path, personnal story/living world/expansion steps and to fill slots in fractal T1. Doing it this way, still force players to use LFG to find other players for T2 and + fractals, raids, dungeons exploration paths so it will not downgrade or remove interactivity. Henchmens to me is a serious idea that can be thought about and implemented in game. You go in core maps and you go talk to an npc "I need you in my team!" Just like how you recruit npcs in jahai north east quest.

Well still no housing and it have more threads than boats according to forum search. But frankly, happy if they just up scribing to 500. And add new guild mission/bounty/trek/puzzle. Overdue, no new ones during pof. And who is not part of a guild today? Would profit to ton of players.

On roadmap (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-live-fall-and-winter-2021/) it is stated "We’ve also heard Tyria’s stylists buzzing with excitement about some fresh new trends. It won’t be long until you’re on your way to Cantha in Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, so look for opportunities to put your best face forward this winter" I think it means that new faces and hairstyles will happens in makeover/hairstyle kits this winter? ;D Hoping it arrives soon or with the launch of the festival of four winds if true very hyped to see the new options. Even for other races than humans.

https://imgur.com/CSVXqiT This looks A W E S O M E and hope it will be the same as what it looks in game. Very hyped to see cantha night time now. This artworks give me so much hype, the artists are awesome as always. PS, there were another one on for fanbyfan design contest: https://imgur.com/cUCI6Ai if you missed it. Seem like an imperial temple.

Frankly huge disapointment, level of birthday gift downgraded to level one gift with its mini queen jennah. Btw why queen jennah and no knut, smodur, pake tree or high councilor flax? Not gonna lie, after other gift giving amulet and infusion, both ascended, wated for a precursor choice, no joke. Or dunno, to continue the set if unique skins, a cape/glider/mount skin, all with gw2 logo on it. If the player is sensed to feel rewarded, something missed the target here.