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Path of Fire is the Next Guild Wars 2 Expansion - Guild Wars 2 - MMORPG.com

Guild Wars 2 News - Today's a big day for Guild Wars 2 with the announcement of the game's next expansion, Path of Fire. It will begin right where Season 3 ended without breaks with Season 4 starting immediately. "This new expansion is all about content".

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Xingbairong

Since there are 5 new open world zones, does this mean that there will be a new level cap?
Also is there a date announced yet or not?

Haven't played GW2 since pretty much the launch, but thinking of getting back into this game.

Coolit

That was a much shorter stream than I was expecting, looks cool though!

Loke666

That was fast.:)

No, no new levelcap. New elite speccs and mounts was the main points of it, beside we get into Elona again (which is nice).

And, yeah. 22 september, they said next weekend is a free trial.

Aeander

I was not expecting it to be in less than two months. That is absolutely insane. Bravo!

Loke666

And I finally get my sniper (even though they called it "deadshot" or something like that. Just keep Will Smith from it and I'm a happy camper there.

It seems like they learned a lot on how to present things from HoT that was announced way too early.

But I can't see a charr or norn on that bunny mount, the thought make my brain hurt...

Lurianar

Loved the reveal. For a PvE player, this was surprisingly bulky. Five new zones and the addition of mounts should give plenty of content for a while.

I'm not convinced by the new specialization, although Warriors and Engineers are nice.

PvP crowd must feel disappointed, though. But if like me you're part of the PvE crowd, PoF is definitely something to look forward!

Nepheth

That was fantastic. I'm soo hyped. I was expecting late october or november. We will wait only 2 months and it is great! The waiting for Hot expansion was soo frustrating. This is so amazing...

iGumballStar

So for the people who are going to ask about price:
If you don't own Heart of Thorns, you buy base game + HoT + new expansion = 50 dollars.
If you own HoT = 30 dollars.

Very reasonable in my opinion.

Loke666

Lurianar said:

Loved the reveal. For a PvE player, this was surprisingly bulky. Five new zones and the addition of mounts should give plenty of content for a while.

I'm not convinced by the new specialization, although Warriors and Engineers are nice.

PvP crowd must feel disappointed, though. But if like me you're part of the PvE crowd, PoF is definitely something to look forward!

Yeah, I hope they have a PvP reveal later because it needs a buff even more. WvW been kinda lackluster a long time now (I rarely play the small scale so I can't really say anything about it's state).

Sasori_jap

Yup, it comes sooner than expected and i am officialy HYPED

Loke666

iGumballStar said:

So for the people who are going to ask about price:
If you don't own Heart of Thorns, you buy base game + HoT + new expansion = 50 dollars.
If you own HoT = 30 dollars.

Very reasonable in my opinion.

Yeah, 30 bucks have been rather standard since the really old days.  Last time they messed things up.

BillMurphy

Mounts are more than just a way to get places faster. I appreciate that a great deal. Looks fun.

azurrei

Mount Mastery??? Have fun being knocked off/slowed on your mount every 5 feet until you have the mastery leveled up - nothing in this announcement got me excited to try this game again after the HoT disappointment. Maybe I'll pick it up for $10-15 during the inevitable BF sale just to see it, but meh. Not even any of the new elite specs for the classes I enjoyed sound interesting... oh well.

Loke666

BillMurphy said:

Mounts are more than just a way to get places faster. I appreciate that a great deal. Looks fun.

Agreed but I think they could have done something with mounted combat as well. The way they showed it you get 1 attack and then the mount is gone. I want a lance.

Then again, it is something that can be added later, it did look fun to ride them.

winghaven1

Can we get a horse mount?

TheDarkrayne

Absolutely loving this. Mounts.. at fooking long last. I hope you can use them in every zone.. With mastery attached to unlock it of course.

I hated HoT with its confusing and twisted zone design. This one looks much much better. Less focus on platforming.

GW2 just got reinstalled.

azurrei

TheDarkrayne said:

Absolutely loving this. Mounts.. at fooking long last. I hope you can use them in every zone.. With mastery attached to unlock it of course.



I hated HoT with its confusing and twisted zone design. This one looks much much better. Less focus on platforming.



GW2 just got reinstalled.

I agree with the Map design - looks wayyyy less annoying the big question is how annoying is it to move around on the mounts - based on GW2 history my assumption is it will be obnoxious but maybe they learned something...

Loke666

winghaven1 said:

Can we get a horse mount?

I think there were 5 mounts: a raptor, a steroid pumped bunny, some kind af levetating manta, a Jackal. I forget the last one.

You lock them up with mastery points, they have different abilities.

I assume we see a horse eventually when the mechanics is in and I think it goes without saying that the gemshop will be filled with mount skins.

Nasa

PoF is a standalone game so you can buy it for $30 even if you dont own HoT.

Tiller

Spoiler alert

Renoaku

When is proper housing, gardening, and farming coming? 

Like I understand its instanced, buying those nodes totally blows when you cant customize or place anything lol...

Also still no world timers on the maps and its been years?

Loke666

Wait, I don't remember Tyria and Elona to be so close and I thought the Crystal desert were in Tyria? It certainly felt like they were 2 completelly different deserts in 2 different continents?

The top vid in Tillers shows a map and by looking on it it seems like you can walk between the 2 continents... Is this a retcon?

Loke666

Renoaku said:

When is proper housing, gardening, and farming coming? 

Like I understand its instanced, buying those nodes totally blows when you cant customize or place anything lol...

Also still no world timers on the maps and its been years?

There is a tiny bit of customization as you play, like if you save the orphanage or the other place and you can pick up a few additions like the snow leopard kitty that get into the zone after you find it. But that is about it.

The game originally planned a better housing system but it have not been added so far. Then again, it is a lot of work and I think they can spend it better doing other things at the moment.

The world timers they should add for the larger world bosses, something like GW2 temples timers that pops up 5 mins or so before the spawn window opens if you select the UI to show it. Minimal work that gets more players to the massive events. There I agree with you 100%.

I like to see better housing in the game eventually myself as well but give it one or 2 expansions more first, and improve the WvW first. Besides, I like to live in Shin Jae island.

Gaia_Hunter

Loke666 said:

Wait, I don't remember Tyria and Elona to be so close and I thought the Crystal desert were in Tyria? It certainly felt like they were 2 completelly different deserts in 2 different continents?

The top vid in Tillers shows a map and by looking on it it seems like you can walk between the 2 continents... Is this a retcon?

They are connected - Crystal Desert is to the North of Desolation, which on itself was the the northmost  area of Nightfall in GW1.

You could travel between Crystal Overlook (Nightfall) and Arid Sea (Prophecies) by talking to an NPC if your account had both chapters.

Albatroes

Took them long enough to add mounting to the game...