Guild Wars 2 | Game Changing Studio Blog & Story Reveals | October 2023

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:16 Blog Post Begins 00:31 Through the Veil - New Story Chapter 01:26 Thoughts and Story Speculation 02:08 The Future of Nayos Speculation 04:46 Upcoming Content 05:00 Oneiros Armour Ethos 05:53 Content Timetable 09:21 Convergences 10:21 Thoughts 11:20 Wizard's Vault Refresh 12:30 Thoughts 13:33 Weapons, Skills and Balance 14:20 Thoughts 14:46 Weapons, Skills and Balance Continued 15:47 World v World and Guild Halls 15:53 The Guild Hall Reinvented 16:37 Thoughts 17:06 World v World Restructuring Beta News 18:11 Thoughts 19:31 A Plea for Player Housing 20:07 Current and Upcoming Events 20:21 Extra Life 20:40 Current and Upcoming Events Continued 21:23 Content Timetable 22:15 Blog Post conclusion 22:54 My final thought 25:54 Patron Love 26:31 Anet Partner Program Info Thanks for watching Refresher SOTO kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqq8dpihbshpiqM Extra Life www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/team-arenanet-for-extra-life-2023/

[@chilliewhk]

Back injuries are awful, good to hear of your recovery. Thank you for the content!

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thanks for the love

[@_Banjo_]

People complain that "we already knew all of this" which is funny because thats the point. Its nice we're in a place where we know whats going to happen in the future and theres structure. Though - loving the little surprises like the Guild Hall Arena changes. Adaptions on what players have wanted for a long time. Seems like such a random inclusion but much appreciated. Really means that literally anything can happe as a side project.

[@FornaxTheHerald]

I love the transparency both as a fan and content creator. The guild hall reinvention is brilliant, and I hope its the first evolution of many. There are so many orphaned systems in gw2 which could be tweaked and given new purpose. Fingers crossed.

[@brian.montero]

Thanks for adding in 'Your Thoughts' after each topic!! I find myself more interested in just hearing what you think of the updates vs the updates themselves. Much appreciated, Fornax!

[@kesamek8537]

Same here. Personal opinion is where the true value lies.

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thank you! I wanted to give a clear delineation, and opportunity to skip for those just hear for the official blog reading.

[@deadinibiza1]

I agree. There was too much irrelevant spoken content.

[@elenafunes2086]

I am still patiently waiting for Anet to give you an npc character role for you to dub. God you have such uniquely wonderful, bewitching voice. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@FornaxTheHerald]

That's a lovely thought and I would be over the moon if they did that.

[@thecountsound7266]

We have missed you! Your videos are always fantastic Krytan; watching your fashion videos five years ago is what got me into the game.

[@jessieraesbbq]

Glad you are back! I hope you are well!

[@sw-gs]

I still think that Peitha wants to become godess. Also Rifts were a test before Convergence to check how players would react to such event.

[@MisterNo1111]

Looking forwards for upcoming GW2 times, i have lot to play trou story and masterys. Looks interesting next fue months. Great video, thank you.👍💙👍

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Happy adventures!

[@Astralegend22]

The drought is over! 🎉 Very excited for the new story step, and my biggest question is will Inner Nayos be on the world map? In the mists? Or the first official New map since launch, as Tyria and the mists are the only two different ones we have. It'll be interesting if we defeat Eparch early and then have to fight Peitha in coming episodes.

[@FornaxTheHerald]

I'm hoping that Peitha survives her rebellion and encounter with us. She's such an interesting and charismatic entity, I would love to see her evolve into our guide to the cosmos. The kryptis ability to traverse the multiverse could open up so many narratives. As to the map, I would love an evolution there too. A new 3d map of the mist realms, maybe accessed via the heart of the obscure.

[@MysticScribe82]

Thank you for, yet another, informative video. Your content is always so easy to absorb and well presented. I'm sorry to hear about your injury. I'm sure it doesn't compare, but I recently fractured my wrist and it has kept me off my PC for a couple of weeks. As an avid gryphon flier, it's made me rather miserable not being able to join my guildies. Hope you make a full and speed recovery, and thank you again for the great video!

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thanks for the kind wishes and I’m glad to hear you’re back in the skies with your guildies. 💕

[@mishking9547]

Got a feeling Convergences are gonna be more like a Fractal (but with a full squad instead of just 5 people), going through a dungeon like instance killing trash leading up to a legendary tier boss to fight

[@FornaxTheHerald]

I would love this! I'm a boomer gamer who cut my teeth in 40 mans raids in wow. That kind of simple but epic style of content really appeals to me.

[@8imouse]

You are simply THE BEST content creator for Guild Wars 2 and I love your videos and your voice so much! Thank you for all your hard work! As for Wizard Vault, I'm not native english speaker and I understood what they said about it as that it will refresh every month. So I waited till September. No refresh. Okay, I thought maybe they meant month since first time you purchase something? So I waited some more, but again, no refresh. Later on I thought that either it's a bug or they meant something else 😅

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thank you so much for the love /hugs The vault will be getting 'refreshed' , or perhaps restocked is a better word, with each new content patch. Personally I would like to see items coming into the vault monthly. It's early days for this new system and we could see some tweaks (small changes) as the patches roll out for SOTO.

[@CoffeeTheFreshmaker]

Rift bosses definitely needs to have either more hp, better scaling with number of players or both, then more variation. There's plenty of mobs in the game they can "demonify". Maybe even some variation in the first event to spawn the rift boss.

[@FornaxTheHerald]

I think they need some love, if the devs want rifts to be 'evergreen' content. Fingers crossed!

[@sylvarixreaper]

FIRSTTTTT ! will always Love your Voice 🥰

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thank you! :)

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Get some rest, back injuries are the worst, take care of yourself!

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Thank you

[@_Banjo_]

Nayos intrigues me from a world map side - how will this show up? The way they describe the convergences also intrigues me. Its possible they can use these instances to expand on the realm of nayos. Makes me think of the Realm of Torment in gw1 - where the borders between maps was somewhat ambiguous.

[@FornaxTheHerald]

I would love to see the devs utilise the heart of the obscure for mist map traversal. So we could interact with the heart, it spawns a 3d map of the 'local' mist real cluster (star map style).

[@_Banjo_]

Thats an awesome idea!

[@Hentai_Akuma]

Bee tah testing 👌🏼

[@FornaxTheHerald]

Bay tah

[@xecor4450]

The only update i want is the ability to have separated and fleshed out graphics settings so i can turn off bloom separately. My personal opinion on housing is that it is the most useless feature that exists in mmos. Unless you have some kind of ability of farming or something included into it, it is a waste of dev time and money compared to what value it provides to propel the game forward. If they want to keep going with gw2 for 10 more years they have to focus on engine and graphics upgrades no matter how impossible it seems. Btw the eod elite specs still arent finished yet. All of them are buggy and have missing animations. Some skills are still clunky because they were put together with reused animations.

[@methanbreather]

I am a wvw player - and I think that killing off servers will be the final straw that breaks the mode forever.

[@methanbreather]

@@roastedbloop and gvg could be made without destroying wvw. Just with the guild arena changes. Or some changes to eotm. Or just a simple gvg map. There is no need for alliances. It will NOT fix the population issue and it will destroy server identity. Which still pulls many many players in.

[@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu]

I think it's time to update the graphics and game engine. This is one of the reasons why my friends decline every time I invite them to play GW2. As a fashion centric MMORPG, the graphics are really starting to look out of date tbh.

[@tehno_thefallen386]

Peitha can live inside commanders head rent free and with food provided I dont care.....

[@FornaxTheHerald]

lol You do you boo!

[@tehno_thefallen386]

@@FornaxTheHerald Well my commander personally has portable Fornax inside his noggin telling jokes 🤣.....

[@ryanvergara3603]

I worked 10 hours!! All i want is HOUSING!!!!!!

[@SynnJynn]

I use to play GW2 but with each new expansion , I got to play with people cause I fell so far behind.

[@relentlessnights4211]

I don’t understand ?!

[@FornaxTheHerald]

The nice thing about gw2 is the lack of a loot treadmill, once you hit max level, there is no more levelling. There is just hundreds of hours of story to enjoy, numerous maps to explore and new skill to unlock. You can even raid in exotic gear you can buy on the trading post for a few gold. I hope you come back and give the game another try.