GW2 announced new expansion

[tanithryudo]

And I haven't even finished the previous Cantha expac yet. =P

Actually, haven't touched the game for a long time. I guess compared to cutesy mobile games, the graphics just aren't really doing it for me. Hm. I really should at least finish the main story line. If I ever work up the effort. Eh. >.>

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Anyways, the last expac took like 2+ years to come out from when it was first announced. So that's probably not gonna change.

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[cashew]

Not gonna lie, watching this just makes me want to go back to play FF14's free trial (which I've dropped because of packing). I'm not sure I can even muster up the interest to care about the story at this point. Maybe you should just wait until another expansion comes out, then you'll get the earlier expansions for a heavy discount.

And agreed that mobile games have art that's cuter and more attractive than GW2 art. At the moment, other than the social play aspect, I find GW2 does nothing. Single player RPG has better story and mobile games have more aesthetically pleasing dress-up. Tabletop pen&paper games have better real-time socialization plus deeper character building mechanics. Even browser-based incremental games have deeper progression trees. It feels like GW2 isn't really offering me anything that isn't better covered by another game at this point.

[tanithryudo]

Update: Looks like it's coming out this August. Wow, that's really fast. It's like replacing the normal living story chapter that goes between expacs.

And there is even a Beta starting....today!

But...yeah, still not really feeling the motivation to play. -_-

[cashew]

Huh. Sounds more like they're packaging the living story chapters into a "smaller" expansion and selling it. Saw that the new expansion doesn't have elite specs but will make weapons from previous elite specs available for the profession. Not sure how much that really helps, since I don't think a sword/hammer wielding Mechanist is an improvement. But maybe it'll make Rangers less shitty to play. Who even knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tanithryudo]

Probably more useful for PvP than PvE is my guess.

I can see my Revenant being able to wield hammer/shield + shortbow while in either Herald or Renegade. But that's about the only char who might benefit from that mechanic.