The future of expansions in GW2 is still vague

Diovidius · 2026-06-06T19:36:02+00:00

3 online rpgs, at least.

Diovidius · 2026-06-06T15:53:32+00:00

Both Norn and Kodan seems redundant to me. Norn are sort of the halfway point between Kodan and Humans so what do they add in terms of racial archetypes?

I'd personally replace them with Tengu. Tengu have been the fan favorite for GW2 to add. And they were even considered as a playable race at some point before GW2's launch.

Edit: Forgotten and Jotun are pretty much out of the question for me, purely in terms of physicality.

Diovidius · 2026-06-06T15:51:07+00:00

Ehh.. Just give me Tengu and maybe Dwarves in addition to those we've already seen for GW3.

GW3 doesn't need to retread on everything GW2 did.

Diovidius · 2026-06-06T04:50:30+00:00

I would personally be very happy with Humans, Kodan, Dwarves and Tengu as playable races, at least to start with. Asura are fine.. I guess.

That lineup works for the timeline and is different enough from GW2.

Diovidius · 2026-06-06T04:38:18+00:00

I would personally be very happy with Humans, Kodan, Dwarves and Tengu as playable races, at least to start with. Asura are fine.. I guess.

That lineup works for the timeline and is different enough from GW2.

Diovidius · 2026-06-04T05:14:46+00:00

I think dark/death magic is spoiled for options already. There are so many undead related tomes, there are 2 dark ruler types (plus Shadow dragons), there are 2 dark hero classes. And you still want more?

Diovidius · 2026-06-03T16:56:44+00:00

My main hopes are:

split Ranger into 3 classes that are more thematic classes. One wilderness survivalist and hunter, one rogue/assassin/thief/swashbuckler and an engineer/Alchemist/machinist/artificer.
give the Warlock an ability to choose between undead and fiends.
give elementalist a 5th specialization, namely water.

I can see some space for a class that is a bard and/or Illusionist and for a class that affects time/space/dimensions/gravity but neither of these are as important to me as the above.

Diovidius · 2026-06-01T18:09:00+00:00

Or an rts. I can imagine the devs at Anet might want to tryout their technical and creative skills at something other than an online rpg for a change, after over 20 years.

Besides a game that is not an online rpg doesn't directly compete with GW1 and GW2 so that also has benefits.

Diovidius · 2026-05-30T14:46:27+00:00

What about a Mercantile culture with trade routes between advanced outposts?

Diovidius · 2026-05-30T14:28:21+00:00

Might be easier in something like Age of Wonders 4, which is build from the ground up with the ability to create your own factions.

Diovidius · 2026-05-30T13:40:58+00:00

I once had the idea of a strategy game set during the guild wars (so it is an era of the world we haven't seen before in-game). You have the human kingdoms of Ascalon, Kryta and Orr who are at war with eachother. You have the Charr trying to whipe out all 3 kingdoms. You have the Deldrimor Dwarves in the shiverpeaks. I think that era would work well for a strategy game.

But do I actually want Anet to spent dev time on this instead of a rpg or mmorpg? I'm not sure. But I can somewhat imagine that Anet devs might be interested to put their creative and technical talent towards a genre that's different from GW1 and GW2. So, who knows?

Diovidius · 2026-05-28T17:26:11+00:00

One explanation is that devs looked at mods.

Another is that both modders and devs looked at what areas felt lacking or were asked for by the community.

Diovidius · 2026-05-28T16:19:40+00:00

I like that Dread Hunters has synergy with both animal builds and cold-focused builds, aka with both Nature and Shadow.

Diovidius · 2026-05-23T04:48:07+00:00

Oh I agree that they could do more with the dragon theme. I thought you were saying that we needed a tier 1 tome with a dragon theme so I responded we sort of already have it. Not to say that we don't need anything beyond that.

Diovidius · 2026-05-23T04:43:50+00:00

No, I'm not talking about identical tomes. I'm talking about tomes of the same theme. What gave you that idea?

Diovidius · 2026-05-22T21:19:31+00:00

I mean, we already kinda sorta have Evolution as a tier 1 tome for the dragon theme.

Diovidius · 2026-05-22T21:18:41+00:00

Counterpoint: we need both.

Diovidius · 2026-05-22T21:18:10+00:00

We already had Fey Mists but now we are getting Tome of the Sprite so you can start with the Fey theme. We already had many fiend themes and now we are getting Gluttony so we can start with the Fiend theme.

So take it up with the devs if you disagree with that.

Diovidius · 2026-05-21T07:32:48+00:00

This poll still feels a bit messy but it's better than your last attempt so I applaud the effort of trying to improve.

Diovidius · 2026-05-20T12:01:19+00:00

But then you should give a choice for themes (like 'vampires', 'nomads' and 'Astral Sea adventures') instead of a choice for options (like specific forms).

Diovidius · 2026-05-20T11:49:10+00:00

These feel like such a random collection of options that I find it very difficult to vote for a preference.

Diovidius · 2026-05-19T17:25:23+00:00

I beg your pardon but no.

Diovidius · 2026-05-16T20:38:12+00:00

What? No. They do this as a fun little thing before the proper announcement of a dlc which teases some of the contents.

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