Announcing Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure
Announcing Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure
The fourth expansion for Guild Wars 2 launches on August 22, 2023.
My first read on this is to be pretty excited; the new dailies system looks interesting, more accessible skyscale will be good for newer players, etc.
This news make me excited for two reasons.
First one is, because I heard about the new addon here in the fediverse first, before I even saw the announcement on the official website. Nice to see, that the fediverse, especially its content aggregators at the moment, is growing and some specific gaming content is arriving. :D
And the second one is of course the announcement of the addon itself. Looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the new story and new maps and the skyscale improvements sound nice. And I'm happy to see that legendary armor will be accessible to non raiders. The changes in the weapon system sound interesting, too, but I hope they get the balancing right. I mean, there was a reason that you couldn't use every weapon of every elite specialization. On the other hand this could lead to some cool new synergies and builds. Not sure though which weapons I'm going to combine with my mesmer main. :D
Wait, there's an add-on? Tell me more?
Yes, the OP has linked the announcement trailer. :)
If you're into gw2 specifically, there seem to be 3 communities (two active and one basically dead I think) in the fediverse -
Yes, thank You, I’ve already subscribed to one of them. :)
I'm pretty hyped, I love the communication from them! I've still got so much to do from icebrood and EoD, time to dive back in I guess!
My only worry about the sky scale is how they talk about buffing its movement, it sounds fun but it's also already the most powerful mount. Hard to imagine a use for our bunny or raptor if we're zipping over queensdale on our dragon. Guess it matters less if everyone's got it, no more leaving new folks out.
Are they buffing base skyscale movement speed? Because that's the use case for the raptor, it's faster than skyscale over flat surfaces.
Only use my springer gets nowadays is when a boss has a CC bar to break at the start of a fight, eg matriarch.
As far as I can tell, they aren't buffing the speed, but it gains a lot of new utility. Being able to mount in combat sounds quite broken, and will apparently not be possible with the other mounts.