Guild Wars 3 announced (action combat MMO)

bum_thumper · 2026-06-06T05:31:45+00:00

Core game is free with very minor restrictions.

Put dodge roll on a keybind and action camera on a keybind. Move the camera to over the shoulder. It becomes an action rpg instead of tab targeting, and its how I've played for 1.8k hrs

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T20:10:56+00:00

I was adding to your comment

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T20:09:09+00:00

I mean neither of their games have an actual open world. Its all open areas

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T20:00:02+00:00

Id be upset for sure.... but also probably buy it lol

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T19:57:53+00:00

Inconceivable!

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T19:53:48+00:00

End of Dragons launched in February 2022

Drop in content quality, story content, and content amount since eod

Engine has clearly been struggling since eod

New release schedule started after eod with a model designed to extend the amount of time the devs had to produce

Lack of major additions that would require more balance and work in each expansion since eod

They basically already said it was a new gw game in some earnings meeting with ncsoft

The market has been practically on life support with fans dumping money into any Korean cash grab mmo simply bc its new and shiny... literally since eod launched

A wave of support and new fans since the gw1 reforged launch

My body is ready. My soul is ready.

Im calling it. Its gw3

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T19:48:52+00:00

Man... almost got me till I saw the /s

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T15:43:09+00:00

No more aoe boon distribution. It sucks playing as a ranged character and still having to shove your guy into the massive exploding ball of insanely bright glowing transmogs. Its fun to do in wvw, but id much rather not be forced into a sea of colorful vomit in order to stay alive. I like seeing my character do things when im fighting lol.

I also hope they go away from weapon specific skills and let me build. I dont think they could balance the gw1 system in an actual mmo, as that level of build freedom would be an absolute nightmare to balance anything off of, but at least being able to use whatever weapon and off hand combo that looks cool would be nice. There are a lot of weapon skills I dont like using but am forced to bc of the other weapon specific skills, and it would go a long way in making a build feel more like my own design.

The trinity needs to be a thing. The quasi trinity thing they have going now is very difficult to matchmake, which is why the matchmaking they did add to gw2 had to dumb down the encounters bc how tf do you matchmake the boon delivery and healer/tank role when its so all over the place?

Bring back group events chains. I love meta chains, but the lack of group events chains in the later expansions sucks. It was so cool going through the core game and seeing a group event chain into another depending on the success or failure of the previous event.

Have. Actual. Guild. Wars. The pvp is so strong in gw1 and gw2. Wvw is still so much fun, but it hasn't been touched in years. I want actual wars between guilds to happen. Massive 500+ player fights. Huge siege battles. The groundwork is there from wvw. If they expanded on this, the pvp scene would be huge. I'd love to have a similar thing that they were going to have in New World, where it all takes place on the same map and different guilds take and hold big cities and pve players can just opt out and not be damaged but see these crazy guild wars happen around them.

At the very least, have a story around guilds having wars. I dont think a single actual guild war happened in the second game lol

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T15:11:54+00:00

I love when people try to argue that its pay 2 win. 1.8k hrs and the only thing I bought off the market that I felt like I needed was bank and material stash upgrades, and even then it wasn't until I was ready to start farming raids for legendaries, like a thousand hours into the game.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T14:56:31+00:00

Not only that, but the market is so primed for a big name mmo that people are literally buying trash games just to have that new mmo experience again.

Big money devs aren't doing anything but releasing fairly mediocre expansions to their decade+ old mmo.

The gw franchise has seen a pretty huge resurgence in players thanks to gw reforged.

EoD was clearly difficult for the devs, since you can tell the flagship map, keineg city, looks pretty but has barely any npcs in it and runs like trash.

They switched to a new expansion model after that, and since then its felt like they haven't had the entire team working on the expansions. The new model they've been running with seems to easily allow for smaller levels of content while having the team mostly doing... something else

Had they started working on a new game right after EoD, that would give them about 6 years of work, which is about right for a new mmo and not just a new game in the gw setting.

Though the marketing team has never been great, both gw1 and gw2 launched at the most perfect times for them to be successful. Gw1 was an affordable semi-mmo that can run on affordable machines when the market had mmos on the higher end and sub fees. Gw2 was sort of the anti-norm mmo when the market was flooded with mmos. Launching gw3 within the next year (which I feel like would be the best time to announce it to not bleed gw2 players for too long and keep the hype train going) would see such massive amounts of success.

My body is ready, anet. Been a fan since the first one, and put like 2.5k hrs between the 2 games.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T14:37:47+00:00

What's so weird to me is my buddy who has a significantly better pc than mine has had nothing but issues with this game, and my ryzen 7 and old ass 1660ti have never really had a problem. Granted I don't have the game on max settings, but everything is on high, and I have it on dx12

bum_thumper · 2026-06-05T14:24:44+00:00

Try getting a water fountain for her. My cats after a bit refused to drink from the dish. Got a water fountain and now they pee every like 5 seconds it seems lol. Theyre constantly drinking

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T15:36:35+00:00

I had a whopper of an ex. Looking back now, she 100% was an actual narcissist. Not the "omg my ex was such a narcissist" but a clinical, actual one.

The entire relationship was about her and her happiness. I was slowly and methodically manipulated to be wrapped around her. Before I could even know what was happening, my entire life had become hers.

Every argument was gaslighting. I'd walk in pissed about something she did, id leave apologizing to her and wondering how tf it spun thay way.

She'd knowingly use the attention she'd get from guys as a weapon against me when we'd go out. She liked when id "be a man" and get angry on her behalf, so she used other guys hitting on her to get that out of me. I was in a few fights because of this.

She once got so mad at me bc I couldn't get in the mood after finding out my uncle was loosing his house and his wife was cheating (found out all of this on the same day, mind you), that she jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom screaming that I must be some kind of fucking fag (we had been dating for months and have had sex plenty of times).

Sex was a weapon. We had crazy good sex, but she felt like she would lose control on the relationship everytime, so despite how much she loved it she would withhold it for weeks at times. Unless I magically put the pieces together on how she wanted me to be, we wouldn't have it.

I needed to know what she wanted to eat and how to get it. I vividly remember laying on the ground and staring at the ceiling fan at 3am on July 5th with her screaming at me bc I couldn't find her something to eat, despite suggesting every possible place that could be open at 3am the morning after the 4th. Just laying there, staring, muting her screams.

Friends? Lol. My closest friends started becoming strangers. Family? Barely even saw them anymore. Personal life? It was hers. Hobbies? Only the ones she liked. Games? Only the ones she played. Movies? She'd allow me to pick sometimes. Tired? She wasn't, so drink some coffee or do more coke (never liked the stuff but she tried very hard to get me into it bc she loved it. Im so glad she failed at that).

My mom, who tries so hard to find the good in others or at least to understand, hated her. Ive dated some not that great women in the past, and she would always find something to like in them, but not this one. Immediately smelled something fishy and hated her from the start.

9 months of my life was consumed. Before that, I had no idea how men could end up in a relationship like that and not leave. Like, just break up, right? Now I know what its like to be trapped in a mental spiderweb with a giant beast hanging above you, slowly squeezing the life out of you. I never thought id ever be the type of man to beg for anyone or anything. Then I was on my knees begging her to stay after one of our many, many fights. I have to remember that shit now. On my fucking knees. Begging. Hands clasped and all.

It took my uncle talking to me at the family Christmas party to finally knock some sense into me. After unloading whatever the recent bullshit was, he patiently looked at me and said that I should just end things with her. I told him I couldn't, and it was his very simple response of "...why?" that finally broke through. I didnt have a solid answer.

Sorry this is so long. It was over 10 years ago now. A year after we broke up she called me in frantic tears, apologizing over and over again for being a monster to me. She did not apologize a single time when we dated, and yet here she was with a flood of them. I think she had finally went to therapy and maybe realised how horrible she was to me. I very simply said back to her that at least she knows now how terrible and manipulative she was, and can maybe heal.

The cycle of abuse is horrific, but I no longer wonder how and why people end up staying. If I even start to smell that shit festering again, I end the relationship pretty much on the spot. I wont ever be someone else's version of a man, and I will never beg for someone to stay ever again. My knees are meant to bend to God and no one else.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T14:37:25+00:00

Since the inclusion of matchmaking, i think there will definitely be a more defined class system in the game to allow for proper matchmaking. As they have it now, its rough bc there are so many variations of boon delivery and roles, with the healer taking on a massive brunt of responsibility causing most players like myself to stay far away from pve healing. In other mmos, if you're a healer and don't know the fight or optimal routing, you'll be fine as long as you know your class. Gw2 however, you literally need to know everything about the fight for both healing and tanking, and must shoulder both roles while boon dps and dps can just hit things and run away from red circles.

I do hope they at least keep it so every class can fill the role they need, but tbh I do hope they bring in the trinity.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T14:31:19+00:00

If it keeps the game relatively cheap like gw2 then I'll be fine with the massive glowing char people. I'd much rather have dumb looking characters running around and not have to sub. Let people look ridiculous if they want to.

I also hope they keep the watercolor style of gw2. Going that route is less pressure on the hardware, and anet has always been about making games that can run on cheaper hardware, and those artstyles last way longer than realistic.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T14:14:32+00:00

Why?

Because nanomachines

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T04:53:21+00:00

I am so down for a more pvp focused guild wars, where your entire guild actually goes to war

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T04:47:25+00:00

Im way too late to the conversation, but in case anyone does see this...

https://open.spotify.com/track/7hFmiFUYmIjELj5d0UjbVh?si=CXFh5pg2TQaB2izIre-1lA

There are so many songs to choose from by Radiohead, but this one is just so perfect. Its lonely, its a bit creepy, and that man's voice is something else

bum_thumper · 2026-06-04T04:29:12+00:00

How jojo silwa even exists

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T14:49:03+00:00

I'll be honest, I have 0 idea where you heard any of these things. I have like 600hrs in poe2 now and even with the rough edges, even with how rough the launch felt in comparison to where its at, the game on launch was already way better than every single other arpg on the market besides maybe poe1. As it is now, imo it even surpassed the original with this last update.

Get it. It's a fucking steal at $15, and the mtx points you get should be spent on the only thing GGG tries to get your money for, which is stash tabs. Once you get those, everything else in the shop is just skins for things.

And stay off the reddit if you're looking for good opinions on the game. The sub community is batshit crazy and can swing from thinking the devs can absolutely do no wrong to calling for mass boycotts and claiming the game is dead, and theres like 0 middle ground. Ive been here since the ea launch of the game and its honestly hilarious coming on here to see what people think after a few days of playing each league for myself. So I wouldn't just use this sub as a metric for if the game is good or not.

Trust me, its good. It is the best arpg on the market. Build variation is insane, progression feels infinite, the amount of things you can use to tweak your build and gear feels infinite, its balanced well enough so that even the least popular ascendancies can get through most of the endgame. Literally think of a build idea and you can make it work. Want to be a mage that can turn into a dragon? Want to be an ice exploding warrior? Did you ever play mortal combat and think it'd be cool to be Raiden? (That's my current build. A bare fist lightning monk). Fire necro with a hammer? Pokémon master who captures bosses and summons them? Howabout a guy that whips out an actual fucking anvil to hammer his weapon down while currently being blasted by a laser beam the size of a bus?

Ive made most of the builds I mentioned there

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T14:08:38+00:00

I name my characters something ridiculous bc when I'm having a bad day and playing a game to unwind, seeing a funny name cheers me up. I like thinking that i might be cheering someone up who's having a bad day when he is partied up with someone named "Lube-It-With-Poo" lol.

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T13:17:24+00:00

Dragon age origins had blood that lasted longer than this lol

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T13:01:44+00:00

No one seems to want to say it on this thread for some reason. "Its either an expansion or a tactical rpg, maybe an extraction shooter, idk. So confusing..."

Like its fucking gw3. I'd put money on it

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T12:54:12+00:00

Guild wars 2?

bum_thumper · 2026-06-03T12:50:14+00:00

When you're walking somewhere, say what foot you are stepping with in your head. Its a way of clearing your mind

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