From story to gameplay: development plans for Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet employees published a roadmap, which marked the important points of Guild Wars 2 development in 2023. At the same time, the developers answered the most frequent questions about their MMORPG. Some answers relate to what has already been done, but others are devoted to plans to improve the user experience and new content, including story chapters and rewards for battles. What can fans expect from the game in the near future?

ArenaNet representatives started the Q&A session by saying that from now on their project will receive more updates, although they are smaller compared to the previous ones, which were released every few years. With the upcoming updates the public is waiting for a history chapter, two locations in the open world, a dungeon and a test mode with rewards for activity. And although the scale of patches is getting smaller, the development team is only increasing - the specialists are constantly being recruited. Employees ArenaNet separately noted that the changes do not affect the "core" of the game, where the heroes are pumped up to 80 levels, and related to the events and maps for experienced gamers looking for something else to do in the virtual world.

One of the important areas of development is called working out the differences between classes and professions, so that each character felt really unique, especially on the battlefield. As for the roadmap itself, the first item in it is just the balance of professions, which presents more than a hundred changes. may 23 will be released story content What Lies Within, where a squad of braves challenges the underground demons, and then explore the location where the order is set. on June 6 the servers will begin a festival dedicated to victories over dragons, and June 27 will be available fractal dungeon, the essence of which describes the formula "less waiting - more action".