Wouldnt we all be screwed if an expansion came out?

Heh, spending 75k on armor, 20k on runes, then expansion comes out with new and better armor/runes, bah.. the thought of it makes me sick

Thats why I don't spend money on that kind of crap. I find it myself.

I don't know if you're going to be seeing "better" items, per se. Not inherently better, anyway. Perhaps situationally better, or giving benefits to different situations which you would like to leverage.

I don't think you're ever going to have to worry about your L20 equipment being obsolete.

I'd be hopeful for new missions/mobs/quests, maybe professions/skills or a joint Guild Arena concept (i.e. You've met some friends through grouping together who are in their own guild U.S./Europe and you can form a superguild for PvP/GvG purposes.

Expansions will open further chapters which are vital story evolutions of guild wars, more cut sences, more missions, more areas, more enemy armies, more rewards. Dont worry about it, your armor and shit will still be as good as it was, just not new

It will be a while before an expansion comes out, so your top notch gear will be well used by then. And im sure you will have tons of money by the next expansion to upgrade

Yeah, it would be so much better if they never added any new content to the game just so that you could feel uber in your armor...

GW is a revolutionary game. I think we can agree on that. Not totally new, but certainly different. So to think that they're going to give us the same type of expansions that other games have dumped on us is naive. I think we'll have the same reactions to the expansions that we have to the game... good job!

I predict that the first expansion might be focused on PvE like people above me, simply because that's the easiest thing to do without upsetting playbalance. But future chapters will revolutionize PvP. They'll give guilds new GvG chalenges, and perhaps even let alliances of guilds form. I'd love to see an alliance vs alliance 100 vs 100 tourney. We'll see if they go that way.

But I hope we're not going to see the creeping doom that killed DAoC and EQ.

Your going to need that 75k gold armor to get the new armor anyway, so its not a waste, its an investment.

hehe thats a nice reply, mister tastic

besides, the expansion means that there will be different items and quests, not better. so u r still uber even if u dont get any expansions

Gonna have to agree with Shagsbeard on this one, they are probably going to add to the challanges. With the level cap at 20 and no current plans to raise it arenanet is going to need to use a diffrent approach to keep people enthused with the game, and im pretty sure they wouldnt have it any other way considering all the MMO molds they broke when they created this game.

I doubt that the new armor will be any better than what you have on. I for one however will be gettting the new armor. I just love cosmetic stuff