The New Expansion

I whant new races ^^ and the 5-6 most logical races are these.

1. Dwarves (you all love these bearded fellas)
2. Charr (who whants a pet when you can play like a charr?)
3. Undead (rather smelly but it might be fun)
4. Tengu (my personal favorite ooh i would murder somebody only to play as these little birds)
5. Forgotten (only the snake types the enchanted armors suck)

the only problem would be to make the new armor for them not that hard with dwarves tengu and undead but its gonna be a problem with Charr and Forgotten >.<

Another note where do those races come from ^^ the charr come from even farther to the north so a new map is possible the Desert is a great starting place for the forgotten (not the desert that whe have now but maybe more early in the game when first humans entered the desert) the storyline would have a twist, When playing as charr you dont like seeing a punny human but when you see some undead you think meh let him walk .

And last but not least PvP with the new races would be awsome Humans, Dwarves and maybe Tengu against Undead, Charr and forgotten whell what do you think?

I love this idea! I wanna be a kickass caromi and run around really reallt fast in big balls... Yu know kinda like at riverside province... sweet.

personally, of course i would like to see new factions added to the game. Besides that, it would be good too if the game goes like fable. For example, in the beginning of the game, you are neutral. When you are given a quest, there are multiple way to finish it. Your choices of actions in the game (for doing quests) will gradually determine which factions you are going to be. The reason that i include this is that this will bring more replayability to the game and the player determines the course of the story. However, i hope that arenanet will come out with a good solution if there are unequal number of players between factions that might lead to serious imbalance of the game.

Speaking of the single player, i also hoped that the story and gameplay of the role-playing part of Guild Wars expansion will be as good as any other single player RPG such that the story is fast paced that brings intensity and as i said, the role-playing part is replayable, making the player wants to come back for more.

Moreover, it would be good too if arenanet add some sneaky type of character that can go into stealth mode, go behind enemy line and backstab somebody. Personally, i love the excitement when i managed to finish off somebody in one hit. However, i hope that it will not lead to imbalance of the game

I'd love to see a couple new professions, and as far as races go...start thinking outside the box. With an expansion comes new areas, with new races we haven't seen yet. Chances are a new race is one not currently in the game. There is going to be hundred's of new skills available for every profession, so those of you wanting that will get it. As far as PvP goes, I see seperate arenas for expansion characters if they raise the level cap, and if not you'll probably only be able to do Tombs with the expansion characters, and have seperate arenas.

does that mean if i buy chapter 2 and create a different account, i'll only have chapter 2 skills?

give the winner a cookie.

correct as everything you have is account based.

Thing I want most is upgrades and customisation for Guild Halls. From the sounds of things I might just get it too.

There are a few things I have heard from AN or NCSoft employees that are likely to be in the next chapter…

We will be getting new PvP arenas including new PvP game types and more PvE content for certain.

We will abe getting new professions OR new species OR both.

We will be seeing a change in the way that the zones are designed. Think more in line with the footprint and the furnace maps.

We will be getting observer mode sometime this coming year for certain. AN has not set a time table for this that I know of but I would guess that it will launch in conjunction with or shortly before or after the next chapter. This will supposedly also be made available to those who only have chapter one (though I did not hear that first hand).

It is highly likely that we will get more character slots. How many? I have no clue and AN has not said anything other than it’s “likely.”

There will be "new content" added to guild halls, most likely of which is some form of practice arena. Nothing more exact has been stated. I have no idea if it will be added in with the next chapter or not, we will see the ability to customize guild halls at some point.

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This section contains speculation based on official and unofficial AN responses to questions...

We may get the ability to dual wield in the next chapter as it is something that has been asked for several times and every AN response has been, "That would be cool!" And then there's that whole video with dual-wielding. That may or may not come in the form of a new profession.

More emotes will be added at some point, but I don’t have any idea if that will have anything to do with the next chapter or not.

As mentioned by someone (I think the frog) the statues of Dwana and... uh, whatever that other one is, may be seeing some use "Sometime in the near future." Whatever that means.

New character customization options “may” be in the next chapter.

I’m not certain if we will be getting new weapon types, new weapon models or just weapons with different stats, but one or the other will probably make it into the update. As vague as the responses have been to this question I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up by saying I think that there will be new weapon types.

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Here is a short list of things that we will most likely not be getting in the near future according to AN responses at different times…

Mounts

The ability to jump or swim

Additional weather effects

Leveling beyond 20

Level requirements on items

Ninja’s or pirates as a new profession

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Keep in mind that the answers that AN give us to questions are subject to change because the dev's are quick to adapt and change the game with several different options during the test stage. So, while we can guess, even they don't know for certain what all will make it in.

This list is not all-inclusive because I am not all knowing.

They said they are considering raising the max level, as 20 means little improvement.

Level requirements on armor is probably coming, because of the abuse in Ascalon Arena.

According to Gaile, Observer mode will be here for the finals in the World Chapmionship, which means about 3 months at most. She also said about character slots - 'We wouldn't give you new professions and expect you to delete an existing character to use them would we?'.

I want

* to be able to have my PvE chars in PvP areas to access my unlocked skills. So, my mesmer once in an PvP outpost can use the monk skills I unlocked with my ranger and go PvP. Once out of the PvP-area, these skills of course cannot be used anymore. So, I dont have to buy the monk skills (even if I unlocked them) for my mesmer.
* to be able to change my PvP-only-char without being forced to delete it and create a new one. Like I made a curse necro with a curse weapon in slot 1 and death wweapon in slot 2. Hey, I want to test a blood build; omg I do not have a blood weapon. Hmm, delete char and make a new one to put a blood weapon in my weapon slot.

Exact opposite, actually. We have no intention of changing the level cap at the current time. The level cap has been set at 20 for a long time, and much of the game is designed around that level cap.

Really? Where'd you hear that? It's possible I guess ... but something like this will most likely be done via a patch, not a retail product.

Thats sad!
More maps, more quests, more ways to make your chr unique in fashion... I don't really care much. There's only 1 think I expect in any expansion: that new chr. devellopement makes exisiting chr's stronger! Either by new items or more skills/levels, or both.

NEW PROFESSIONS
NEW SKILLS

gives you different options without a mindless little twit having 10 hours a day to get enough levels to automatically beat someone else.

if you have your heart on grinding out the power to be superior to someone else or getting the magic item of oh godley i shall one hit kill you power up than this game is not for you.

save your money for the next game you will like better and more fun to you when you play it whatever it is

New races=new armor
new armor+new races=longer wait for chapter 2
new armor+new races+longer wait for chapter 2=me playing heroes of might and magic 5 or other new games...


HOMM 4eva

Chap 2 should include:
-The maximum level should be higher than 20 (lvl 30-50 should be max lvl)
-Beta weapons should be brought back into the game
-More than one interface style (i dont mean setup of interface as in skill bar top, health left, energy right, etc... i mean to have an option of beta style interface and current interface)
-no ninja/rogue
-cross class skills
-1 vs 1 pvping

I dont want anymore levels. Levels are just for people with too much time on their hands. More attribute points would be nice though. I'd like to be able to have more than 2 attibutes maxed for more flexibility of characters.

I for one would absolutely HATE it if the max lvl was raised.

Quoted for freakin truth.

Level 20 is fine. The only thing a high obtainable level does is breed elitism, and we have Tombs/HoH/GvG to bring out our elitists. We don't need any more saying "omg, ur only lvl 23, haha, u n00b, I'm level 36". Just... no. No. No no no. I'll protest it.

raising the attribute points as you are saying would have to also be allowed for people who do not wish to purchase chap 2 otherwise it would be completely unfair for them.
leaving the lvl cap at 20 is good as it is easier for anet to balance out the professions and skills. Anyone wanting to raise the lvl cap above 20 should just play some mmorpg like wow or eq.

I don't play pvp, so raising my level and getting stronger is the only thing for me that brings satisfaction in this game. Given the information we have about the expansion I expect for pve it will bring more of the same: quests, maps, monsters... but a maxed level 20 chr will still be a maxed level 20 chr. I remember the expansion in LOD: 2 new classes and a new act with its own unique monsters. I never cared about the new classes, I continued my existing chr. to make them stronger.

What does this mean for me for the GW expansion? It depends on the price. If its a 20$ expansion I'll buy. If its over 30$ I wont. Because than I better get a new game with the content I like

The idea that i like the most is the one about having about 20 players goin up against a big group of monsters in like an arena. Either have like abunch of medium to hard monsters or like a few expert kick ass monsters. I also like the cross class skills.

I see how everyone wants new classes and effects like throwing people off walls and stuff .. but i dont think alot of people realize how much work it takes to make that stuff happen. It takes alot of time / skill to perfectly add those kind of things in the game ... but thats just my opinion

Yes, I'm not saying just for the next chapter. Its just something I would like to see.
Right now you can only max out 2 attributes. LIke right now my E/Me has Fire and Energy storage maxed. I'd like to be able to also max out (or at least close to maxing) another attribute like Inspiration magic or Earth or whatever. I could just take some points from Fire or energy, but that weakens the character too much. IMO anyway. It would just give us some more options for builds if we didnt have to sacrifice so much.

I love it how someone always has to bash someone else's idea with the famous remark... "Go play WoW or EQ!" Anyway about the next expansion, the game would seriously benefit from auction house. Personally, I think this should have been put in the game from the start...but I should go play WoW or EQ if I want an auction house right? I don't know kids, Uncle Johnny has run out of ideas...lol. So I leave it the future leaders of Guild Wars to pave the way to a new, better, Guild Wars (or not).

well i just wanted to make the comment that im looking forward to the expansion regardless of what it entails. if there is something like new professions (races dont really affect game play at all so i dont consider having new ones relevent to discussion) then many people would be willing to go through acention with them, or at least i would be. i have one account and have acented 7 charaters even when i eventually just deleted them to make room for my next charater. it my personal opinion, but having to acend is not a difficult task, ive done all of them with henchmen - plus if you get a group of experenced players - victory is almost always certin. once again that is my opinion. As far as expansion is concerned i would like to see more charater slots, but if that doesnt happen i'll just get another account ...

oh i have a question - does anyone know if one has a standard version of the game, when the expansion comes out if a collectors version is bought do you get all the benifits of a collectors account?
thank for any information that can be given

If you were given more attribute points, I think the attribute cap would be raised. Instead of max 12+3+1, it would probably go to like 16+3+1. Therefore, you would NOT be able to max different attributes.

auction house
1vs1 2vs2
guild storage
more armors !
MORE ARMORS !!!!!

ahhh and of course MORE ARMORS !!!!!

Update the elementalist male armors. And mesmer male armors. They practically smell gay. No offense.

Not more armor!

I do wish to have more attribute points tho

Yay to armor!

Either that or more ways of customizing. Everyone looks the bleeing same with their Knight's Armor, Platemail Armor or Gladiator's Armor. You can't customize them right, since dyeing them only changes a small part of the armor so you still have that ugly dark grey color, and you can't combine them properly since they have different basecolors which means that dye gets obstructed. Try putting on Knights gloves with Gladiators (15k) Cuirass and you'll see how the gloves are much darker in color. Ah, just dye them the same color. Wrong! Dye them both silver and the gloves stay just as dark while the cuirass practically goes blue! Dreadfully annoying.

I say shove in some more armor or give us options on dying the part of the armor you want and put spikes on them or something like that. Anything!

More Character Slots -IMO you should be able to have 7 characters, one for each profession, and one PVP character.

More Storage -Who actually has enough storage space?

More Armor -Everyone looks the same.

More Weaons -Warriors have planty of cool weapons, but I want more! Give monks a choice other than BORING Holy Rod + offhand or BORING Holy Staff. Atleast let their weapons look cool too.

And I like the Auction house idea.