Upcoming changes and features
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Content updates[edit]
The following features have been mentioned by ArenaNet staff and are expected to be part of future game updates and releases.
Forthcoming[edit]
- February 25th Update
- Build and Equipment Templates: Revert button for changes to templates.[1]
- Updates for Brand-New Players [2]
- Simple achievements to guide new players through the early levels toward activities they might find interesting and award useful items and AP.
- February 2020 Competitive Update [3]
- PvP
- Swiss-style Tournaments [5]
- Mini-Seasons between regular league seasons. [3]
- New Armor Set: Warlord’s Armor [3]
- WvW
- Guildrider Warclaw Skin Reward Track [3]
- New Armor Set: Warlord’s Armor [3]
- Warclaw balance [6]
- PvP & WvW
- Bonus Rewards Event [3]
- Episode 3 — Unknown date.
- Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire - in Q1 2020, story following Ryland's elite Steel Warband exploring the Darkrime Delves. [6]
Mentioned[edit]
These changes have been mentioned by ArenaNet, but lack specific details and/or a release date.
- General content
- Episode 3 and 4 - map is meta-focused with a push-and-pull feel similar to WvW in a PvE setting [7]
- Possibility of Jeweler level 500. [8]
- Expansions are not ruled out.[9]
- "Season One is always on our mind." [9]
- More Strike Missions as a ramp for Raids.[7]
- Special Tournaments [10][11]
- On Demand Tournaments [10]
- Spirit Watch revisions [12]
- Different ratings for different PvP modes [13]
- Deathmatch custom arena map intended for larger teams. [14]
- Large PvP map: 15 on 15[13]
- Possibility of PvP / WvW Festival [8]
- Matchup information made available ahead of time is looked into, but complicated. [15]
- WvW World Restructuring of servers. [16][17][18][11]
- Scaling objective rewards[8]
- Re-balance of siege [19]
- Possibility of PvP / WvW Festival[8]
- Fractals
- More raids. [9][20][7]
- Possibility of story difficulty option. [9]
- Difficulty aimed to be "more back in line with Spirit Vale when compared to Bastion of the Penitent. [21]
- Will not include new raid-specific masteries. [22]
- Possibility of repeatable Challenge Motes in Raids. [23]
- Kraitkin may be given nighttime effects. [24]
- An entire set of legendary trinkets have been planned out. [25]
- World 3 and World 4 are unlikely to be added. [26]
Automated changes[edit]
- Primary article: Server reset
Daily reset occurs at 00:00.
Weekly resets occur at:
- Monday 07:30 UTC — Raid rewards and progress reset. Guild mission rewards reset and new random missions given to guilds.
- Monday 23:30 — Bjora Marches Strike Mission changes.
- Thursday 20:00 UTC — Map bonus rewards reset.
- Friday 18:00 UTC (roughly) — World versus World reset for EU servers (the exact time varies from week to week).
- Saturday 02:00 UTC (roughly) — World versus World reset for NA servers (the exact time varies from week to week).
References[edit]
- ^ Comment by Fire Attunement
- ^ Updates for Brand-New Players by Fire Attunement
- ^ a b c d e f Call to Glory: February 2020 Competitive Update
- ^ Upcoming Balance Notes
- ^ Swiss Tournaments Are Coming
- ^ a b Looking Ahead to the New Year
- ^ a b c d e A Message from Andrew Gray
- ^ a b c d What’s Next for Guild Wars 2
- ^ a b c d The future of Guild Wars 2: “This is a statement: we’re not done”
- ^ a b PvP Features in Progress, Official Forum Post by Gaile Gray
- ^ a b Future Plans: Competitive
- ^ PvP Features in Progress
- ^ a b Comment by Ben Phongluangtham
- ^ Comment by Ben Phongluangtham, official Guild Wars 2 forums
- ^ Comment by Devon Carver
- ^ World Restructuring, Official Forum Post by Gaile Gray
- ^ World Restructuring Update 1, Update 1
- ^ World Restructuring Update 2, Update 2
- ^ WvW Work In Progress
- ^ a b [1], Full English translation for the german interview with Mike Z
- ^ [2], Post by Crystal Reid on the official forums
- ^ [3], Post by anet_ianim on Reddit
- ^ [4], post by DeltaxHunter on Reddit, Full English translation for the German interview with Mike Z.
- ^ [5], Post by mattp on Reddit
- ^ [6], Post by AndrewM on Reddit
- ^ Josh Foreman on Guild Chat #37
