Upcoming changes and features

Note: This page is about features still in development. Information is subject to change on release.

[edit] Content updates

The following features have been mentioned by ArenaNet staff and are expected to be part of future content updates.

These changes have an announced release date or have been described by ArenaNet as in development with an imminent release date.

Dungeon overhauls, including rebalancing them, adding new fractals, awarding more tokens, and making them "more fun to play".^[1]^[2]
One-time dynamic event that come to a conclusion across the world.^[3]
New Infusions and Ascended item types to the game.^[4]
Content updates.

These changes have been mentioned by ArenaNet, but either lack specific details and/or a release date.

Activities: includes bar brawl, polymock and a shooting range.^[5]
Foes: More variations to creatures. ^[6]
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.^[7]^[8]
Loot & gear: More Legendary items in the future and an update to existing Legendary weapons, to increase their stats from exotic-equivalent to ascended-equivalent once ascended weapons are added to the game.^[4]
Social: Improvements to group finding tool.^[9]
Structured PvP:
- New maps.^[10]
- Objectives other than conquest.^[11]
World versus World:
- Improving the commander functionality: Being discussed, but not being worked on yet.^[12]
Dueling: The ability to duel other players in world.^[13]
Super Adventure Box ^[14]
- Each skill slot will have two upgrades ^[15]
- Bombs and slingshot work as bundles because their future upgrades will cost more, allowing you to choose cheaper ammo.
- There are plans to update World 1, introduce World 2, and add a hard mode.
- Super Adventure Box will be added to the leaderboards.
- New super skins will include dagger, torch, rifle, and pistol.
- There are a total of 30 skills planned throughout the four worlds.
- Super Adventure Boxes might be added to the other cities (See Moto for notes).

00:00 UTC — Resets daily achievements; certain objects respawn: chests (e.g. from Jumping Puzzles, except for those in World versus World), and event-related interactive objects (Carving Pumpkin, Magic Snow).
00:00 UTC — Resets diminishing returns for repeated completions of the same dungeon paths.

Tuesday and Saturday (time varies) — Next tournament map rotation.
Friday ~18:00 UTC — World versus World reset for EU servers. (The exact time varies from week to week.)
Saturday ~01:00 UTC — World versus World reset for NA servers. (The exact time varies from week to week.)
Sunday 00:00 UTC — Guild mission rewards reset.

As of May 14th 2013, there are no current plans for an expansion.^[16]^[17]^[18]
An official smartphone application was planned, but is not currently being developed. ^[19]