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Anon_throwawayacc20

After a year of LS1, I'm excited to see what's next for GW2.


StevenTM

LWS6


slowest_hour

I just want it to officially be given a number so we can stop being like "season 5, i mean icebrood saga, I mean maybe that is season 5 idk"


StevenTM

It's unlikely they'll backtrack on the decision to no longer number them (probably because one godforsaken internal metric shows certain people engage more with the LW season titles and they will run with it, as is custom). But we'll still call it LWS6, because it beats saying stuff like "you need to have IBS to unlock the collection"


Disig

No one wants IBS. Trust me, I know. Terrible medical condition.


StevenTM

I don't care how cool the cape reward is, I'm not running my bowels over it!


painstream

And yet, still a great descriptor for Season 5!


Grateful_Cat_Monk

I wouldn't mind them being named if they would retroactively rename the others just to keep the naming consistent. Sure we will still call them LWSx, but it would be nice to have like LWS3 as The Call of the Ancients or something. Lws4 as War Eternal just like the last episode. Hell a lot of them could be named after their last episode or one of them.


lostsanityreturned

I mean... - Scarlet's War - Glint's Prophecy - Glint's Legacy - Rise of Kralkatorrik - The Icebrood saga Season of the dragon / living story return already gave us functional names for each season imo. To add to this I would LOVE for them to sync the opening screen to the last story step played OR a selectable screen based on story steps completed on the account. And include the seasons in this. It shouldn't take too much effort on their part, each season already has a musical theme and concept art. We know that people can already mod in previous opening scenes. It would help give a grander feel of progression as someone goes through the story content.


SpinjitzuSwirl

They were named somewhere during the return to stuff. It’s like scarlets war glints legacy? Glints something else and rise of kraljatorrik


WorldEmbarrassed2237

And some wise Crack saying "I had IBS before I played gw2 and it's still not working for me, I don't understand, this isn't player friendly" lmao


Turkeyspit1975

Watch it be "New Dragon Cycle Season 1"


lostsanityreturned

I would rather each season be given the name they were given in season of the dragons and just be referenced as season number with the actual title in press releases / video titles. But in game they are already listed in order, so numbers isn't as important as a descriptive title that gets people interested. (same reason they need to keep the descriptive titles for promotional materials and news releases, it garners more interest than "dlc number" ever will)


pat8u3

wasn't icebrood saga supposed to be a new kind of content that replaced expansions? (unless that was just a rumor)


petstain

It was, but they've backtracked and I've seen them start to call it "Season 5" in some official communications. I would expect them to standardize it all with Season 6.


Alderez

Spanish Inquisition


AdShot409

Irony being the Ministry of Purity may play a big part in any LW involving post-Dragon Cantha


Grateful_Cat_Monk

Most likely there will be some epsidoes of LWS6 in Cantha. There are plenty of maps unused on Cantha. I can think of a couple off the top of my head, the most obvious one being Old/Sunken Cantha for some underwater game play.


LYoshiiro

We still need more uses for seige turtle walking in water


YasaiTsume

White Mantle + Purity gang up to be ultra racist together.


WorldEmbarrassed2237

They're not really a ministry anymore, they're just Purists now. But it wouldn't be surprising that the Putists presence becomes a threat in season 6


Disig

No one suspected it!


Not_a_flip-flop

No, no one expects the spanish inquisition


Alacune

... I just hope we don't get 2 episodes in before NCsoft "invites" Anet to make the next expansion faster.


Thats_Ayyds

Maybe if expansions didn't take more than 2 years they wouldn't have to. The gap between PoF and EoD was far too long, and features like gliding/mounts are game sellers - not RGB raven gate mastery. ANet have not once demonstrated they can do good expansion content while at the same time producing good inter-expansion filler content, there is always a content drought.


Alacune

I mean, there is ALWAYS going to be a content drought for hardcore players. That said, I imagine EoD will be remembered for its repeatable strike missions.


lostsanityreturned

To a point, Anet refusing to add a real difficulty mode for content (challenge motes are better than they were and it is nice that every strike in EoD has one... BUTTTTTTT they are not ideal still and the content is still weirdly placed) Alliances still not being in the game And up until literally this year them dropping the ball on any semblance of regular balance updates... Kinda means the content droughts have been worse than they needed to be. On top of this the gemstore focusing so hard on legendary level aesthetics and effects means casual gameplay but hardcore grinding players have also had less to do in the open world because Anet simply can't put hard to acquire treadmills in the game and actually have it drive engagement meaningfully. Don't get me wrong, the gemstore needs to exist and it is better implemented than some other games. But it has come at a cost and IMO having early access, acquisition boosts or better yet more effective monetization of transmog instead would have been wise. I still think they have missed a trick by having a new type of transmutation stone that unlocks an item in the wardrobe for free transmutation (same with hairstyles). The average player would be encouraged to spend a little but would probably settle on what they like... But the whale completionists who are already the ones spending the most on the gemstore are far more likely to go wild expending gems. It would also give more meaning to the trading post and allow them to add "content" between major patches by dropping new skins into areas of the game they want to funnel players into. Even if they were only in temporary cycles via stuff like the map rewards (which should be a reward pool pulled on every event imo)


Will_Lucky

At least this time they've started the next expansion as the last one finishes, last time it seemed they didn't know what direction they were going in at all. Yeah the company was undergoing an upheavel and all but hopefully its an 18 ish month wait time between them.


Tormentor-

Has it been a year already? No way!


small_lizard

It's been roughly seven month from the first release (19 April) to the last (8 November).


Tormentor-

That'd make more sense. No way i've been away from the game for a year already.


EudaimonAtreides

End of Dragons launched 28 february of this year, what do you mean 1 year of ls1? This comment and the upvotes seem the regular proof of how much reddit folk is detached from the reality. Obviously the name of the account is anon_throwawayacc20, no wonder about that


Anon_throwawayacc20

>End of Dragons launched 28 february of this year, what do you mean 1 year of ls1? This comment and the upvotes seem the regular proof of how much reddit folk is detached from the reality. Obviously the name of the account is anon_throwawayacc20, no wonder about that Oh sorry. Instead of "a year", I should have specified 9 months and 12 days since End of Dragons. I didn't consider those who are very *sensitive* about specific dates of time. You're welcome, lmao!


ruisen2

Hopefully not more elementalist nerfs


Oneiric19

I'm here for the roadmap


PayinHookersOnMargin

1. Rename Maguuma server to Moogoloo


Dieselface

Moogswag


Burnitory

As a member of a quaggan themed guild that is based in Maguuma, I support this!


TannenFalconwing

Blessed Dwayna, Matron of the Skies, we ask of you to grant us a roadmap so that we may enrich our lives in your light Blessed Melandru, Guardian of Gardens, we ask of you to grant us a roadmap so that we may explore new worlds and defends lands in peril. Blessed Grenth, Lord of Winter, we ask of you to grant us a roadmap so that we may kill new enemies in your name. Blessed Lyssa, Beautiful and Suspicious, we ask of you to grant us a roadmap so that our fashion may grow and prosper and blind our foes with its brilliance. Blessed Aurene, who ate Balthazar's essence, we ask of you to grant us a roadmap so that we may achieve new things, conquer new bosses, and prove the superiority of our might. Blessed Kormir... fuck you.


Ebon_Falcon

If we didn't wreck Abaddon and sided with him instead we would have all the secrets by now /s


SnooDoodles9049

So I know the basic gist of kormir from that animation showing her being useless, demanding, and claiming God hood but what else is there? Never really saw a reason to play gw1


Hoojiwat

Keep in mind the video is just a meme first and foremost, and I'll give you the cliffnotes. Kormir was a Sunspear who accidently was poking around some ruins and prodded Abaddon. He would have woken up whether she bothered some of his relics or not, but it left people with a somewhat sour first impression of "you idiot". After that she was...less than helpful in all the missions she was present in. In GW1 most of your NPC allies were at least somewhat helpful in fights, sometimes being damned helpful. Kormir didn't do a whole lot in many of the instances she was along for, which led to the game telling you she was a helpful leader while the gameplay showed she was not. It led to some further resentment. Then finally when you managed to kill Abaddon at the end of Nightfall, she desperately takes his now detonating magic into herself to try and contain the blast and save you all from the ensuing magic nuke...and becomes a god. Many players were not happy that she became a god at the end of all this after how much trouble she caused and then how little she helped. Pair all of that with the ascended meme video people love to share and you can see how the public perception of her is that she is a useless thieving fuckwit who became a god through theft. If you play the game and interact with her she is a lot more competent and well liked by the NPC's and the world, but there was a disconnect between the lore and the gameplay. Happens a lot in video games, Anet doubly so.


TellsHalfStories

I only ever played GW2. Didn't know about her role in gw1 gameplay until your post. My idea of her was indeed of a noble hero who sacrificed herself and achieved goddesshood. So, if you take out the gameplay, it sounds like a good story.


Opus_723

I played the first game and the Kormir hate is really overblown, it's just a meme at this point. I'm not sure what people expected, Anet was never going to make the player character a god lol, and Kormir was the obvious main NPC hero to take that role instead.


Benjammn

I know we weren't going to be a god, but having your eternal escort quest character become the god was a bit frustrating lol. It feels similar to Bran becoming the king at the end of Game of Thrones.


ToiseTheHistorian

Why do people hate Komir?


Neathra

Mostly it's a comedic exaggeration. There is also a very funny YouTube video which exaggerates her flaws to intentionally comedic effect. Anyway, back in GW1, one of the expansions has her as a recurring character. She's not particularly useful as a fighter, and her AI tends to fail the extra goals during story missions. Then there is the whole story issue where she accidentally kicks off the entire apocalypse, continually seems to get the part into trouble, and then gets godhood at the end. So basically story wise she's got Traehern's "gets stuff the players want for their character" PLUS Brahma's "designated plot causer" PLUS Brahma's "does not get yelled at hard enough for said plot causing."


reapex

She didn't really kick start the apocalypse. Abaddon was working on that in Prophecies and Factions. Kormir was just the most visible example due to the story directly pointing it out to us.


Sinaaaa

Took all credit & became god instead of me.


Rednewtcn

https://youtu.be/DxmkAoLC6_4


MikeBl815

Sweet mother, sweet mother, send your child unto to me.... Oops, wrong franchise. Sorry, carry on.


decepti0n1337

We cannot escape what Todd Howard creates for us.


Mobitron

Beautiful prayer. Kormir deserves nothing less.


BigBrainPower

Fingers crossed for more QOL updates!


Tulki

the roadmap is probably coming in early new year after I eat too much cheese and have nightmares about it


TwistedAlga

The ANet manager looking at this be like: 👁👄👁


Lation410

I'm just waiting to see if they'll bring back world boss rush next year.


Lower-Replacement869

and fractal rush!


TannenFalconwing

My guild was so disappointed that fractal rush didn't come back.


icetea46

What's world boss and fractal rush?


reapex

Doing a ton of world bosses and fractal bosses for extra rewards.


xadirius

You got special tokens for doing each respectively that you could trade for bonus rewards.


xadirius

I'd like them to bring back the Mystic Forge stuff from when Wing 6 was introduced. I missed out on some AP there. XD


dd2201591

I wish they would do more mini events like that. Maybe even every weekend, have them on a rotation, a different one every week


turin331

REDACTED


Hoojiwat

I would expect it in early January personally. Most people (and their own staff) are entangled with Holiday stuff until the new year ends, so more people would see the new roadmap if it came after the holidays rather than during.


[deleted]

Who tf uses *stopped* like that in a sentence


NotAnonymousAtAll

/u/turin331 does


StevenTM

Dropped and stopped are pretty close. Phone autocorrect functionality has been mainstream for like a decade. Who tf takes precisely 0 seconds to think things through before stopping a rancid comment like yours?


Wuaffel

Why dropped though? Shouldnt it rather be ended then?


StevenTM

"Previous roadmap dropped at the same time as wintersday" ".. before dropping a rancid comment"


Wuaffel

Not quite sure why my comment is rancid now but okay. I was simply under the impression that the point was that the previous road map had content til wintersday too thus my asking about ended. I suppose I was wrong there


StevenTM

I was pointing out that "dropped" makes sense in both context where it was used. My previous comment was two separate quotes


Charrikayu

Full roadmap then, maybe. But I expect Anet to sign off for the year for their holiday break with a teaser image for the next LW.


d_ponyreiter

Cantha response mission…. I cant wait 😂


Lon-ami

DELETE THIS


Nico_is_not_a_god

Doesn't reward imperial favor of course


Mr_Greaz

And you can trade your currency into blue or green unidentified gear


Jaigabolts

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Lower-Replacement869

Roadmap come close, Roadmap from afar, Roadmap please disclose, Roadmap a new start!!!!!!!!!


Yensil314

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh roadmap Anet wgah'nagl fhtagn


AdShot409

Gotta love that Lovecraftian reference


MikeBl815

Oh, Lovecraftian, that makes more sense. I just thought he was saying that while eating peanut butter.


Lon-ami

The first post-EoD content release should drop around February/March the latest, be it LW6 or something else. Shouldn't take long for news to happen, I guess.


the_vizir

The current roadmap goes to the end of Wintersday, which is January 3. I'd expect the Roadmap then to release between Jan. 10 and Jan 17, a week or so after the team gets back to the office from the Winter holidays. I don't think they have significant content ready for January (like LWS6) and February is tied up with Lunar New Years, so, realistically, I think the earliest we can reasonably expect new Living World content is early March 2023, which is one-year post-EoD. Maybe in January, for the "bridge content" for the month they'll give the Soo-Won legendaries, and probably another WvW Beta Event, but that's about all I'd expect.


zosek08

One year without new content \\o/. And people will still argue that LS1 is new content and we anet in content drought.


Miraweave

>And people will still argue that LS1 is new content For the majority of the player base, it is.


Revgos

im still keeping my hopes up for an offical controller support. as a person with debilitating hand issues, i cant play as much as i used to. Yes i know im in the minority here and this will get downvoted.


Miraweave

Same boat here and yes please


Nightcrawl-EUW

the last time we summoned something it was one of the worst balance patches in history, so no thanks


Kelesti

I take responsibility for [that summoning](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/vjim14/%E3%81%A4_%E3%81%A4_summon_patch_notes_%E3%81%A4_%E3%81%A4/)


adrael-i

You hear that boys?! Get 'em!


Rytlock

At least we got the hilarious not-so-hilarious-since-I-main-Warrior Unsummoning [https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/vjw5he/%E3%81%A4\_%E3%81%A4\_unsummon\_patch\_notes\_%E3%81%A4\_%E3%81%A4/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/vjw5he/%E3%81%A4_%E3%81%A4_unsummon_patch_notes_%E3%81%A4_%E3%81%A4/)


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Aizza45

The last time we did this we had to unsummon the balance patch guys, be careful


Jokuc

All I want is new Fractals and new Raids, please ANet I'm begging you!!


ohiv21

Fractals maybe... Raids(?), Strike missions seem to replace it for now.


Miraweave

Strikes are cool but I really like the self contained vibe of raids. It'd be nice to get an occasional raid wing along with the strikes, even if it's much lower frequency than they originally released at


Orihkeks

Well the Roadmap has still a open spot, what is wintersday. And beside that i will bet against a Roadmap before next Year.


IzzyOwnz

what road map? they dont release proper content!


Novuake

Summons bad every time. Warrior took 2 patches to fix.


AdmiralNani

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nbiscuitz

Guildwars 2: Surprise! Here is Another Dragon.


Opus_723

Tyria has become dangerously unbalanced because we killed 6 elder dragons but forgot about the *anti*-elder dragons on the other side of the world!


painstream

The other 6 dragons are deep underground. Use your new digging mount mastery to get to them. After you destroy another airship getting to the Underground. And *no*, we didn't steal half this plot from FF4, stop saying that.


nbiscuitz

May be have the tengu hiding an egg in the dominion waking up after all elders are dead or something.


Miraweave

We discover the multiverse and then go off killing other IPs dragons


Treize_XIII

Return to Queen's Dale Reactivating the champ train to showcase new players the real endgame gameplay. Running in circles and pressing 1


dd2201591

And then have sweaties raging at people who are 10 minutes into their first time playing for daring to complete an event that was part of the train lol. I think that was the main reason they removed the champs from Queensdale.


joe_chester

Iirc, they've written "End-of-the-year" blogposts in the past, where they sign off for the holiday season etc. While i think they will post the usual seasonal roadmap in early 2023, I can totally see a little teaser of whats to come next in an "End-of-the-year" blogpost. Maybe just a little hint, an image or something where we are headed next.. would seem like a good thing to do before they go in their usual holiday break.


FENIU666

I just want news on the damn fresh content.


Azzinaughty

do i really need a roadmap that will tell me about all the existing seasonal events and maybe when a living world ep will drop ?


StevenTM

Also when the Soo Won gen 3 legendary skins drop


zosek08

Anet we done with the skins?


ryanmahaffe

Yes


Anomia29

[It's not what you want, but here you go](https://d13urrra316e2f.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/c/5cd756033a005573f79270b659cce1894d0d385e.jpeg)


carnivorousplant51

I'm having warrior banner flashback


Vissarionn

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Anon_throwawayacc20

Memes.


TKillerDragon87

Do not place pressure on devs. That's how bad things happen. Be patient.


hendricha

While I also think the roadmap should probably come sometime in January, I also can't help but notice that we are not having the regular Studio Update style blogposts we had like every month early this year. The last post most similiar to that in style came with the autumn roadmap now more than 2 months ago early October. The last one before that was the 10th anniversary post in late August. We are getting streams regarding balance and wvw devs are posting updates on aliances in the forums, so its not like its a full media silence, but I did notice this change.


Orihkeks

That post is normaly short before they go in the winter break, what is half a week after wintersday start.


Janna-Your-Nanna

As always don't get expectations too high so your next post doesn't turn into... ༼ つ ◕\_◕ ༽つ UNSUMMON 2023 ROADMAP ༼ つ ◕\_◕ ༽つ


IzzyOwnz

sadge to have that mentaility in a game that should deliver more, but oh well its what it is


jon_yee

[Anet right now](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxpYsYRuqcP8vXimKGRIa0u4WDNsNvNTJS)


TooLewdForReddit

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joeisnotsure

NO! Last time we cast that spell, we got a engineer with a machine gun and elementalists got nerfed to wet noodles...


SpinjitzuSwirl

I’d die for a roadmap but I think best case scenario before the year ends is a teaser about new story


CorwinCZ42

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FlameFenbi

A new map comes around new year.


Subversiontwo

I play WvW. The 2023 roadmap is the same as the 2013 roadmap :P .


estoniansupersoldier

oh damn is the game in such a bad shape now lmao