Guild Wars 1's 20th Anniversary Update

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[@WoodenPotatoes]

You'll have to forgive me any little inaccuracies on this one (like the envoy staves are from the Zcoin update, not anniversay I think) - it's been a few years!

[@975mitchell]

lets get a 5€/month subscription for a total revamped GW1. i like the GW1 skills mechanics better than the GW2 weapon/skills mechanic. with a subscription it would be feasible.

[@Aranimda]

@@975mitchell True, but the GW community hates timely fees. Most of us started playing GW instead of WoW because we don't like timely fees. So any other payment model would be preferabele.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I mean context has changed in those twenty years. I know it's very wild but you're telling me you wouldn't spend a 5$ sub to pay for a gw1 live team to return? Anet could also use the model as a testing/proving ground to shake things up for Gw3. I'm sick of my favourite franchise apparently not having the funding it needs.

[@Aranimda]

@@WoodenPotatoes Perhaps, many of use were teenagers when we played GW1 for the first time with the low income that most teenagers have. The community is much older now and probably has quite some more income to spend. I think a mandatory sub fee is still out of the question but an optional sub for premium features could be an option if it is implemented right and in a way that does not just put non-subscribers on a disadvantage. Still, I rather pay for content, features and extra's than for time. But that's just me.

[@joe77andino]

Yeah if u look at GW1 , all it needs , is a New Updated HD models for the playable characters. Even then that should only be a option .

[@DeadManProp]

How the hell are we already in our 30s?

[@XLBeats810]

Man smh. I was still in high school at my peak time of playing this

[@kyleeverett4419]

For real!

[@taelius]

In my head I'm still in first year of university. :( But our generation will be very different from our parent's I think

[@stevenmcg1986]

I know right.... 37 here. Was 18 when I started playing GW. Haven't stopped since. How did so many years fly by.

[@zenith110]

Yeah I hate it

[@Tallacus]

This is good, GW1 deserves more love, such fond memories of traveling with my first love through the Shiverpeaks back when we were such noobs one friday night it felt like we were genuine adventurers like the Fellowship of the Ring traveling through the Misty Mountains

[@windingtwilight]

That exactly, exploring the shiverpeaks to kryta was my first true moment I knew that I loved GW1. I was aimless in old ascolan and a guy invited me to his group. He knew the way to kryta and invited us, myself and some other random new low level guys to journey with him. He wasnt a runner and we were all somewhat low leveled and had to fight through mobs and dodge around patrols to make our way along the mountain side, occasionally stopping so our leader could swap to his guide map. The game felt so full and vast, and we had a real adventure. What a great and memorable exprience and game as a whole.

[@benjaminmichaels1759]

alliance battles were the sh*t. kurzick #1. plus random arena was so good.

[@Robsham1]

There's just something about gw1, a feeling that I can't really articulate, that still has a hold on me after all these years in a way that other games from my childhood simply don't match. Now I'm in my 30s and making adult money, I'd happily throw some of it at Anet for more content.

[@Shots0Clock]

Inject videos of WoodenPotatoes talking about GW1 for an hour directly into my bloodstream. I'm addicted to this.

[@doenning96]

*Anet adds a Legendary difficulty with Obsidian helmet symbol* Community gets slapped by a Level 40 gargoyle outside Ascalon

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I would pay for this.

[@doenning96]

@@WoodenPotatoes oh, absolutely

[@ReadyDaddy]

This is actually a marvelous idea, because the remainder of community would once again run 8man teams in PvE

[@doenning96]

​@ReadyDaddy and instead of disabling consumables, they can just disable the rez shrines and double the DP on death... And if bosses took 33% less damage from skills of their proffession(s)... you wouldn't be able to steamroll everything with a mesmer comp as much...

[@wwld9823]

guild wars 3 is gonna be a guild wars 1 remake with jumping

[@WoodenPotatoes]

It shouldn't take too many months to assign a /jump emote macro to the spacebar!

[@ryanlowe6753]

That's literally all I wanted from GW2

[@jsedge2473]

We can dream

[@ffdgasfdasgjdfgf]

better than a guild wars 2 remake 😂

[@bsstyle123]

@@ryanlowe6753 ya that with improved graphics and new area with skills.. maybe an additional passive skill system for more innovation with builds would be fun too

[@TheJanissary90]

GW 3 should bring unique systems of GW 1 rather than become missmatch of other mmorpgs and fail miserably.

[@omercora]

Greatest pvp game of all time. Nothing ever came slightly close :(

[@LightbulbUK]

I loved GvG so much. Wish they'd put it into GW2. 10vs10 would totally change up ranked PvP.

[@Steph1]

Alliance battles and HoH were also absolutely amazing

[@omercora]

The feel when you held the HoH multiple times… Like your guild would be famous. Even the random arenas were so much fun. Class/skill and unique build variety is just unmatched. EoE bomb, Ranger Spike, IWAY, KD/AS.. Even its minimap was the best :(

[@Steph1]

@@omercora the IWAY era was the golden time of GW 😍

[@ambrant7422]

Personally, if they ever put out new content, I'd be thrilled to see 2/4 party zones. Running around with 8 characters is fine, but i loved the intimacy of the smaller groups!

[@daviddriggers2174]

A fun challenge and a fun way to work as a team.

[@JinxdCrow]

As a co-founder of Legacy, thanks for the shout out 💙

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Dude it's great stuff!

[@JinxdCrow]

@WoodenPotatoes thanks dude, glad to hear it. I may not be as active anymore on the site and the discords but I really love how far it's come and how much people still love to use it years later.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I've found many good threads on there, really. It's much better for google crawling than discords or reddit, and more visible than the wiki discussion pages. It has a lot of real value imo.

[@johnsutton237]

Offline Mode, and allow the modding community keep the game alive forever!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Despite talking about this in the remaster video, I legit didn't even consider it for this one. Hah! I think I'm just stuck on the idea of "This game can go on"

[@RLMemeLord]

offline mode has been recently declined by gw1s makers

[@_Banjo_]

I would have a concern about this potentially opening up security issues in both gw1 and 2. Though... a remake could strip away a lot and be built from the groundup

[@velDANTe]

this actually amazing idea. for once someone is talking sense instead of demanding pointless shyt like remasters or remakes.

[@RPGCrash]

if they come out with an offline mode i can die a happy man

[@JinxdCrow]

Would like to see an auction house, all remaining mini pets and discontinued items reintroduced into the game as well as numerous QoL updates

[@majones117]

GW1 has given me so many memories. I absolutely loved playing this game and loved coming back to it.

[@Lina-ph6ki]

Me too!

[@AlienShine]

I want a proper sequel with the systems from 1.

[@velDANTe]

and? you will never get it! because you are powerless. and poor. nobody cares, bro. gw1 is long gone. forget about it

[@archmagejohnpaulii6287]

jealous of the alternative reality that got that gw2

[@velDANTe]

the only thing gw1 needs is an offline mode (with 12 heroes and adding your other characters as mercenaries), so the game can still be played and preserved for future generations.

[@jamesdow211]

I'm amazed nobody has made private GW1 servers and clients yet IMO

[@RyuDouro]

Nah we can already do this. We need things we cant do.

[@thebigbucktheory5488]

What about pvp though

[@velDANTe]

@@thebigbucktheory5488 in every mmo that has both pve and pvp sooner or later pvpers become an extremely loud minority. 90% of players played the game almost exclusively for pve. then the other 9% played a bit of both, and only around 1% were hardcore pvpers. pve outgrown pvp

[@thebigbucktheory5488]

@@velDANTe I agree but guild wars sort of addressed it with pve/pvp skills speration but that's just what I like.

[@peterdreck8446]

Only thing I need: guarantee that servers stay online for as long as GW2/GW3 are supported

[@ReadyDaddy]

they already said that servers will be up indefinitely. Multiple times.

[@RLMemeLord]

Imagine they invent a time machine and bring old arenanet back to release a proper GW1 sequel.

[@Lihinel]

Might be as realistic as the other suggestions.

[@RLMemeLord]

I dare to hope so

[@Intactzz]

Loving the GW1 content! (music is quite loud though)

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I can drop it a few dbs going forward, i've been slowly raising it till i get a message about it, and you're the first!

[@LeiosLabs]

@@WoodenPotatoes It's quite loud. It's actually hard for me to hear what you are saying sometimes. Still great content!

[@Intactzz]

It's a tough balancing act because the OST is just so damn good haha@@WoodenPotatoes

[@windingtwilight]

I was thinking the same thing but its hard to complain when it's Jeremy Soule lol

[@_Banjo_]

add the "deposit mats to material storage". Also have various vendors take from the bank. Inless they already did this. I just remember finding it super jarring going back

[@captainthursday]

I REALLY wanna see them turn Piken Square into an outpost in Pre. I mean, it wouldn't be a huge difference, but it would make Charr farming just a little easier now that you don't need two people to open the gate. Imagine just walking out and you're immediately right in the Northlands.

[@ghostymytoasty7007]

Personally, I want a HM mode and all it's implications to be added to pre searing only available to level 20's. Currently there's not much to do when you hit level 20 in pre-searing, sure you can do the charr boss run for the 200th time but by this point you basically 1-2 shot the bosses so it's not exactly difficult or interesting content. Add an HM mode, crank the enemies levels way up so you are forced to team up with another person to be able to beat the charr bosses. HM mode means different drop tables for enemies, which includes tomes, sure make the drop chance lower, but imagine how cool it would be to once you hit level 20 you can start making an actual build in pre searing by slowing farming out tome, how you could join a party but because you have Power Spike you can interrupt a crucial skill being used by the enemy. The charr bosses would then also have a low chance of dropping elite tomes, but as level 24's (with all the patrols of level 23's with monks nearby) it would be super difficult to even reach them let alone kill them. HM mode also means the enemies are level 20 and thus max gold weapons are now a possible drop. The golds should use the OS system so you can't extract insignia's on them which will mean there's still a huge demand for the "perfect" weapon, this would also allow for gold armor drops with stuff like +3 fire magic, or super vigor on them which would also be very valuable. If it's not too off the table add new HM daily quests like vanguard dailies to incentive people to go out and quest together in HM, again if it's not off the table you could even add something like a proto zaishen coin system where the reward gives you a trophy and if you collect 10 of them you can use it to increase your bag space or buy a bigger equipment pack. The bag space in pre is never enough I feel like. To go a step even further add in some prestige armor to pre searing but instead of rare mats it uses this HM quest currency there's unimplemented armors like on Elementalist Aziure that'd be really cool to see back in the game but if that's not an option just adding elite charr hide armor would be cool stretch goal for people to work toward. In a perfect world the HM daily quests would be quite difficult and require different sorts of 2 man party comps to beat so you can't just tome 8 of the best meta skills and never have to engage with it again or at very least require you to take along someone who could do it. I'm talking about quests like maybe one where you have to defend an NPC, or one that is time based requiring a speed boost, or one that is mostly casters so it's important to have interrupts, or a quest where the enemies have lots of damage mitigation but no healing so you need to bring condi skills, or a quest where the enemies have a crucial enchantment to strip , make quests that really play strongly to the "build craft" part of this game, sure maybe you can't beat the quest now but if you just get "1" more tome drop you can unlock a skill you think will help. It's just a shame that in pre searing you have so many worthless skills and then you hit level 20 and now it doesn't even matter because you 2 shot every enemy. Since you can't profession swap either this would mean your secondary choice is suddenly WAY MORE important in a 2 man party so you can now bring some crucial skills to completing missions. Just my thoughts on whole thing I understand your opinions on the whole tranquil aspect of pre-searing WP, but I feel like there's a lot they could do that wouldn't take too many resources for them to accomplish to make pre-searing fun and engaging to play with.

[@ghostymytoasty7007]

My wishlist for balance patches: Nerf's 1) Nerf mesmer untyped damage, or give it chaos damage type 2) Nerf splinter weapon so it doesn't scale so hard with channeling magic 3) Nerf UA it's simply too good of an instant choice for a monk to run Buff's 1) Buff paragon especially spear/motivation lines 2) Buff warrior, maybe make strength increase armor penetration by 1.5% or 2% rather than 1, warrior doesn't stand out vs derv or assassin very well currently. 3) Reduce the cooldown of every assassin dagger skill except the spammer trio, feel like this would give better flavor into dagger spammer builds if other skills could be more effectively spammed.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Dude this presearing stuff is a cool idea and you have opened my eyes! I agree with your nerfs, too. I would give death blossoms aoe slashing damage, too.

[@taylortran1481]

They could add in an update to be able to "buy back" from merchants. Helps with accidental sell. Would be a nice feature to have.

[@garfield2095]

man, the music on your narrative is spot on. Some old Prophecies tunes ❤ I'm turning very melancholic

[@KoenRH2803]

If GW1 gets a faithful remaster, I’d probably revisit it again (fingers crossed it would be playable on Mac tho)

[@jonathanbuyno9461]

You can play with Bootcamp👍

[@TEERACK]

The War In Kryta and Winds of change getting npcs added with quest that let you replay any quest you've already finished so that you can do the gw beyond content endlessly would be cool. It really sucks how some of the content you can never go back to unless you make a new character. I know there are quest to change the mobs, but there are things like the defense of LA and the final conflict at Shing Jea Arena you can never repeat without doing it all over again on a new character.

[@deldrimor146]

wayfarer's reverie is already 10 years old?!

[@windingtwilight]

WP, id love for you to sit down with guys like Peter Kadar and GuildWarsReborn and have a podcast style discussion on the 20th anniversary and beyond for GW1 and continue this topic! Im actually excited to see what GW1 has to offer going forward Somehow even more so than GW2. On that point, like you stated in the video, I dont blame you for wanting to spend your hard earned cash on GW1 more than what GW2 has to offer. It isnt because it's classic, its because its proven itself to be worthwhile even beyond its time. Something that Guild Wars 2 has done, yet let us down many times more than GW1. But thats another topic altogether

[@lolololalala8225]

20th sounds like something you should give some special attention. But I doubt we well get anything.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I think it's fair to expect something given both the 10th and 15th had special attention.

[@Farwind]

I agree that giving people henchman heroes too early would be a bit of a problem. but considering the game is in maintenance mode... I don't think it's that big of an issue. I agree about it just being the iconics though, there's just way too many henchman. I'd love having unlock quests for the henchman heroes, but that's probably asking way too much. Honestly, if they sold a prophecies heroes pack and a factions heroes pack, I'd buy them. That'd also take care of any complaints about mercenary heroes.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh that's a really good idea! Sell heroes of prophecies and heroes of factions as their own things, and have it all together in a complete collection edition that the new players will buy (on website/steam)

[@relentlessnights4211]

Some years ago, I went back and played some gw1 to get the heritage light armor. Such a great skin. During my brief time in gw, I got lots of help and ended up playing with someone who had mained the game since launch ahaha wild stuff. I ended up going right back to gw2 bc I figured if I was going for things might as well be in the main game. I might go for a full playthrough for lore… if not I’ll rewatch your videos while playing gw2. AND yes gw3, def needs a video of concepts, ideas, hopes and dreams. Glad be here with you.

[@nerdy_dav]

I'm old enough to have gamed on the commodore 64 ... GW will always hold a special place in my heart. To this day it is just still so unique. GW2 is great. But just didn't quite hold me like GW..

[@KhannUurrr]

I think a new Dragon sword like the Vampiric one, but with the Zealous prefix maybe, and its green or purple maybe instead of red would be cool. Also letting weapon mod items (of the same value ofc) stack would be a HUGE QoL update

[@nijjijjion204]

This music is so nostalgic for me its cazy, it's this music and DAoC soundtrack no other game makes me feel like it... maybe its just with age.

[@clementguitard6653]

both games are my favorites !

[@nijjijjion204]

@@clementguitard6653 Yup Guild wars and DAoC are in my top 3 games of all time.

[@rarausa405]

First and foremost, I'd LOVE new vendors for mods. It might also be interesting if they added a 'hero-only' type of skill, elite or not. Kind of like PvE skills, but for heroes. Regardless, I continue to enjoy and regularly play GW1 alongside GW2. It's so hard to believe it's been 20 years. Go GW!

[@thestormseeker]

Hey WP, as someone who has created a successful remake/remaster of an old game (Black Mesa), the work needed to redo GW1 would be monumental (large team, multiple years). We can but dream though. Fond memories of Mehtani Keys, I was sad they didn't add those areas in the Istan map way back.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh shit I played your game and loved it!

[@thestormseeker]

@@WoodenPotatoeshah that's awesome, maybe one day a play through XD. I developed some of Xen whilst watching your GW1 playthroughs in the background :D

[@hardy83]

I would pay for an easier difficulty mode in GW1 just so I can experience the story easily. Like nothing even needs to drop, maybe basic gear. As much as I love WPs walkthroughs it'd be nice to easily do it myself and I SUUUUUUCK at GW1.

[@dcostin84]

Good builds, hero’s and consumables are all you need.

[@snowblood74]

@@dcostin84 True, but none of these are easily accessible when you just start out.

[@Steph1]

Just start in Elona and ask for some gear in kamadan. People love giving noobs stuff that helps them. You can also make a mesmer/monk which is probably the easiest character to get through the game with

[@YutabengthaKahan]

Welcome back, good sir. Missed this type of content from you. Exciting times ahead for the franchise if the recent news is true. Glad you are doing well!

[@CovertC]

Good video, enjoyed it. Additional Realm of Gods zones was pretty much where DoA came from, with Mallyx being the God fight. Shame, as we had a number of good suggestions (back in the day) on GuildWarsGuru (later GWLegacy). However, maybe opening a new zone periodically would be a good idea (using the core professions). This would open the door to further rare mats and newer armor sets (which would require artists, so may not be feasible). I can but dream! Iron man title (or zero death GWAMM, which was fun to complete) would be the easiest to implement and would be something to crow about. Stackable mods would be a plus as well, which would save space. Finally, skill update would be dangerous (though would be interesting). We just have to cast minds back to Izzy's "pro" updates, which invariably caused more pain than fun..... I still hurt from Holy Wrath's nerf. And damn... 2005 only seems like yesterday :(

[@TheTimperium]

Beautiful video. GW1 is an absolute gem.

[@gamingmarcus]

Agree so much on the balance aspect. For the past 10 years the meta has been to just dump as many mesmers as possible into your team, and the fact that Ritualists have completely outclassed monk healers tells you all you need to know about the state of balance. Shaking up PvE might honestly be as easy as taking away the armor penetration from mesmer skills. Just do it. E: ah, nvm you mentioned it later

[@willpkay]

Loved listening to every single minute of this video. Even just the speculation about changes to GW is super exciting.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Thanks, that means a lot!

[@willpkay]

@@WoodenPotatoes You're welcome! As a massive GW1 fan (I'm online right now opening Zchest with >7k hours invested) I really do enjoy listening to your commentary. It's very well considered not least because you clearly have a very detailed knowledge of the game. I think for a die hard fan like me the most appealing updates would be the legendary hard mode, and access to discontinued collectibles. I still haven't got my hands on a collectible edition of prophecies and access to the bonus items from that would be a dream.

[@willpkay]

I came back to listen a second time

[@Jbills]

The esthetic of GW1 was sooo much better than GW2

[@TLTQNemesis]

I would love to see something like a draft set for your profession as you go through a dungeon where you start with maybe 4 skills (3 from your main profession and 1 from your secondary) and then as you go further through the dungeon you get the chance to add a skill to your bar maybe have there be like 6 levels to the dungeon 3 with main profession skills 1 with a secondary, the penultimate level being an elite skill choice to replace a previous skill from a selection of skills from either your primary or secondary profession and then the final level being a boss level. Make it que something like random arenas where you get matched with random players, personally I would love to see parties of 6 rather than 8 as well (if the rewards are at the very end it would make botting the area invalid). Would add a ton of replayability and they could create some cool rewards with it as well (I like the idea of adding more off profession weapon sets to the game personally like the anniversary weapons).

[@jgray-bo5fc]

Did anyone think the music update to the login screen was interesting? Do you think this might be a pre-update to login screen selection? Or a failed attempt?

[@windingtwilight]

What?! When was that?

[@jgray-bo5fc]

@@windingtwilight Feb 15th Update, mentions it's for 6 years of no downtime but seems suspicious

[@jeremycahoon6840]

Love the idea regarding an armor update/rework!! Eles, Monks, and to some extent, warriors and paragons, need some love

[@Zhinarkos]

Food for thought. I'm highly sceptical about any future for gw1 but these are strange times in the video game industry - big studios are spending huge amounts of money on games that people are less and less impressed by and indie studios are getting more and more attention, remakes and remasters are coming out left and right, paying for gaming is becoming subscription-based instead of retail - the whole landscape of what gaming looks like has gone through so many evolutions now that it starts to feel like history is repeating itself, in more ways than one. Oh, and when it comes to Z coins, bag expansion is definitely 1# on my list of things to buy. I just like how loot and farming feels in gw1 and better inventory and bank space is a part of that. I mean I still reminisce about the hours of silly green weapon farming - it wasn't even that the stuff I was farming was that valuable, I just liked the experience of getting rare, unique drops. gw2 lacks that aspect in a severe way.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Totally! I've found the inability to skin and auto-customise all my gear (gw2 legendary style) has made the items feel very "real" to me. Not sure what that's about, but I like it.

[@maxschmidt5608]

+100% 👍

[@relifed]

Would you be up to do some kind of new player guide for gw1? I've tried to get into it a few times, but I always feel a little overwhelmed by it. And searching for any information on it just seems to get me all kinds of advanced info that I can't really figure out how to properly apply as a mostly new player.

[@michaelbird9148]

I don't want new, but I'd love some balance! How amazing would it be to have some obviously underpowered stuff or early game content that wasn't iterated on much because of Anet needing to move onto new content. As for new items and weird stuff, I'd love for it to not be completely broken and obligatory (the fast casting shield, for example). Personally, I sure hope it isn't all connected to GW2. The whole point of this is that these games are different and Anet has opportunities to embrace both alongside each other.

[@next_lvl_]

Two elites on enemies would be freakin' awesome. Also I just love seeing gw1 content in this year.

[@_Banjo_]

i hope duplicate mhenlo's are called Headmaster Monk

[@Myrmexx]

damn you made me install it again..... :D owwww the good times ive had in this game.Pre searing player here ...i feeeeeel old.

[@8bitalanjames]

Brilliant video. So many great ideas!

[@GrubySzymek]

I think new profession would be great surprise. Revenant for example even fits if you consider the lore of it.

[@davisj7973]

Officially starting this game again Friday! Arenanet, listen to this guy!!!

[@danearistygerian1421]

Since lats week I have been continuing my GW1 journey, and it is actually soo nice as a GW2 player, to experience the past of Tyria

[@daviddriggers2174]

Man I got to go back and play through The game again.

[@clementguitard6653]

exactly the same feeling !

[@backpackbattles4176]

Ok I guess I’m gonna come back to relive my childhood

[@GuildWarsBuddy]

okok, I re-installed it. The -image took 30 mins! Changed the guild message to reply to your question. So many birthday vouchers.... You suggest a lot of good ways to add life to the game that requires little work on Arenanet's part. The weapon mod trader is the one I think is the most required. I think all my heroes use bonus items from the pre-order of eye of the north... remember the /reward thing that I would spawn them in your inventory?

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Haha nice with the reinstall! It kept auto demoting but now that you've been online I think it'll stick when I next swap it. And yeah those bonus items were a godsend, my assassin still has a bunch. Edit: If you spend the vouchers on year 7 (with the new exclusives) good luck!

[@fabbles]

Thank you for the blessed guild wars 1 content!

[@noelpopel]

Does anyone know if wp speeds up his audio? Sometimes it's really hard to follow as a non native speaker and i have to slow it down :D

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Just music volume I think in this one, usually no there is zero speed up.

[@williammacgilchrist7029]

Thanks for your video, Imo they should add inscription like +10 creatures or shields, like they do with +10 charr armor shields in eotn

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I'd like that as well, all the weird mods and things.

[@NotTheWheel]

I think the success of Classic Era in WoW and OSRS runescape has proven you can run multiple versions of a game at once and it doesn't take away players - it gives them more options to play the same game they love in different ways when one version is sort of finished with content for a while you switch to another.

[@barterr8042]

For the 20th Anni. I would Very much like to see the epilogue storyline for Nightfall that they abandoned to work on gw2. If not that then some storyline to fill in that 250 year gap.

[@Spiaar]

Just logged back in, mannnn! The nostalgia. There is still 4 Districts in Kamadan though!!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

And embark beach, gtob, pre searing all have lots too!

[@Hizenburg]

I wish they'd add a Piken Square or great wall in pre but the guard will only let you in if you are level 20. Once you have access you can form a 12 man party and there is a Charr dungeon.

[@Ray01360]

Henchmen as heroes would be cool to unlock along the way. Or even as you ascend. Honestly, after ascension in Prophecies and Factions, being provided 7 heroes of your choice would be awesome. Then having the ability to unlock the rest would be cool.

[@AIUS975]

Only game I would come back to play games again..

[@doenning96]

I'd love to see a return for Miniatures for the 20th anniversary. Proofs of Legend can be traded for a Proof of Triumph or decade weapons for those who don't have them. Maybe the devs can incorporate a "Proof of Memory", which can be achieved through specific missions/Elite areas or PvP arena games, which could be traded for currently unavailable minis (Panda, Kanaxai, Ghosts, etc..) That way, they're not ABUNDANTLY available, still very limited, and only available during this time of year...

[@unichromeirl4453]

Guild Wars 1 is a really cool challenge. The builds that give you ability to solo or low man areas is great fun and so rewarding. I think the game is tough a shame it was abandoned. Considering how much content they put out with a smaller dev team and short period of time was incredible. If only they went back on their decision and started updating the game again with new content.

[@arianekunzli9903]

Thanks WP ❤️ Community should engage in more of this kind of content which inspire public debates about GW1 There so many low hanging fruit out there which at little effort for ANet team, could result in hype, in new social medial content and in new engagement. Isn’t this what every IP holder wants in entertainment world ? It’s a pure business sense that GW1 and GW2 have remained connected over the years and are still valid for each other. It’s such a lost opportunity for ANet to keep ignoring all those “low-hanging-fruit” opportunities which would NOT cost a lot in development but would result in so much value for the community and their IP longevity ! Reworking some of the anniversary skills which no one uses OR adding new skills would be a great start. I actually went back to GW1 after many years of pause only because I was excited to capture those new anniversary skills and had tons of fun with it 3-4 years ago. All the ideas you propose here WP are great and they should be heard by ANet team ! Let’s keep this discussion ongoing in GW community ! Thank you again WP

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Thanks man I'd love to read more discussion! Maybe there can be a good post on the GW legacy forums or the subreddit too. As much as I would like it to be true, I doubt YT comments have much interest of validity to the powers that be.

[@thecasualgamer1457]

Hey, I have not been watching your videos since last time I played GW1. I actually prefer 1 to 2 now, but I haven't played for a long time, partly because I never got the hang of it, and never actually mastered it. I've played since 2008 or 2009, and still have not finished EoN because I'm deadset on not being runned. Amyway, I wanted to say that, coming from my stupid self, having skills that ignores armor, defence and damage logic in the game is to a large degree what broke my immersion (that and the fact that I'm broke - still). So if they are doing anything, I hope they would 1) fix travel pathing, 2) rebalance according to your "ignore armor" point, and 3) increase base movement speed out of combat. I don't really care about the economy, because I don't have either the gold or the farming skills to participate, but I see your points there. Thank you for engaging me again, want to download it again and play now

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Oh travel pathing is another good one! It's a bit of a mess for sure.

[@vlavla4467]

overcast should not be removed from the GW1 elementalist 15th anniversary elite skill. Make a build around having overcast. Edit: also +1 on the weapon upgrade vendor, I have too many upgrades in my inventory to have on the ready. Also +1 on having overcast grant armor pen (or doing something to give the ele armor pen).

[@EagorOfCarim]

Second Wind is a really fun ele elite that's all about maintaining a lot of overcast. Another good take on that concept would be cool, though I think we'd also need even more regular ele spells that benefit from overcast somehow, the selection is slightly limited currently.

[@LordVaxis1221]

On the topic of a “Legendary” difficulty. Adding a second elite to mobs would be fun but how about limiting player skill bar to 7 or 6 skills but allowing the second elite as well. Could make for some interesting new build options while keeping things from getting over the top?

[@Saul909]

A consumables seller (for pcons) would be great and add a plat/ecto sink.

[@TheKevinwinz]

My life would be complete if they model GW3 after GW1, and we can all experience HoH and GvG fresh again

[@marthdaeglin]

Wait, they're releasing a prequel to Guild Wars 2!? How will the game survive this! Okay, more seriously this is a great time to point out that anniversary releases to an otherwise very much "maintenance mode" game ought to garner LOADS of brand loyalty.

[@silenceihealyoou16]

I’d love to see GW 1 classic. With some gameplay, bug fixes, to not copy first release mistakes. Fresh start, fresh guilds. No bilion of cons. Just a solid difficult gameplay with another players.

[@Somebody374-bv8cd]

Your mention of utopia reminded me that age of empires 2 (a 1999 game) got an expansion just last month in feb 2024. It has actually been getting expansions since it's remaster came out, prior to that it was, like gw1, just kept alive by die hard fans. Now AoE2 has a larger playerbase than gw1, not to mention it's an old RTS, its easier to make expansions for it, but hey, who knows, maybe gw1 can benefit from a mini xpack of sorts.

[@MagicalMike2]

Just casually ID's a superior vigor rune at the end there. How much are those gonna be worth now? Bonkers. Anyway some fun ideas, in particular some reason to get me back to playing GW1 seriously would be nice. In practice, I don't really know what would, but some of these things could. In particular, earning the henchmen as heroes would be fun - even if they were just skins for the current heroes. I mean, I did spend all that time before earning their primeval armor sets, so I could see it being incentive.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I really loved getting armour for the heroes, but eh... it's art so maybe a non starter.

[@Shadamehr100]

I've just started Guild Wars, early post Searing right now, I'd happily pay for 20th anniversary new playable content even though I'm a long way off from playing it ! (I'm surprised how small the GW Shop is btw !). As an obsessive GW2 player I was bitterly disappointed with their 10th anniversary event, which consisted of go out and repeat old content for some skins... at the end of it my only thoughts were "Is that it ? *That* was 10 years in making ???". I was craving for new playable content. This was during the year long new content drought between the launch of EoD and the start of Gyala Delve.

[@Aranimda]

I hope to once get the old Ether Prism skill back. I remember having a ton of fun with it in Fort Aspenwood Glyph of Lesser Energy | Ether Prism | Healing Breeze | Jamei's Gaze | Heal Other | Heal Party | Life Bond | Aura of Restoration When cast right, it basically was a Elemonktalist with infinite energy. Timing was a bit tricky because when you got low on energy it was very hard to get back to casting. But the build was axed twice, first by the change of Ether Prism and later by the Siege Turtle attack removing enchantments which brought an end to bonder skills in Aspenwood. Still, it had some real use for the old skill. The current Ether Prism is useless.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

That's a nice balance request I had no memory of that build/use at all at this point.

[@Aranimda]

@@WoodenPotatoes No, because I made it up myself. The old skill was perceived as useless so ANet changed it. But the changed skill is even more useless and killed my niche usage. I just had a ton of fun with it because the Luxons did not notice it was an Elementalist that was healing and bonding the party by spamming expensive monk healing spells.

[@duskyfiend273]

I would LOVE to see a few new armor sets. Specifically lux/kurz for dervish and paragon.

[@IamaQuadChannel]

What about ZM/ZV dailies/weeklies but it's like codex arena where it's a bunch of rotating limited skills so players have to theorycraft to get builds together for the mission. One for fun thing would be for your level to extrapolate above 20 based off your exp. I.e. it does nothing except show how seasoned your character is, and maybe a title track that goes along with it? Idk.

[@Jaszunai]

What's the best way to get into Guild Wars 1 now? Has anyone made guides for the games that cover all the anniversary updates?

[@themagicalblingbling]

I had absolutely no idea about the "new" runes to expand bag space... Guess I should start playing again...

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Yeah same I totally forgot about them! It's proper satisfying to expand them.

[@alisardius1577]

The only reason i would go back would be if they made it facepalm simple to get last 14 HoM points for gw2

[@Hans2241]

Or the enemies got a second class :D

[@TuscanBrick]

All it needs is a new expansion and maybe some updated graphics (and mobile support if possible) to bring back a large part of the OGs

[@AkantorJojo]

Here is my top x of things I wish they do for the 20th aniversary (also inlcuding how likely they are to occur): 1. New Skills 1a) new PVE skills (tied to factions

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Nice! glad you like the tying skills to factions idea as well! I also wonder how many devs they would need to pull this stuff off.

[@AkantorJojo]

@@WoodenPotatoesMy hope would be that if they have people already familiar with the code all the stuff above would be a matter of weaks (?) for one or two people to add. What appears "complicated" to us players might be quite simple to add for programmers, given they know their code. It's just everything regarding balance that I think is a huge amount of work. THis comes from two sources: if they want to implement "new effects" this will be almost impossible. But as long as they stick to using mechanisms already implementet it's almost as simple as "coppy & paste" + "change the numbers". But to get everything right they need the support of the community: 1. for ideas. 2. for sorting out bad ideas 3. for playtesting that they did not suddenly break something. But I'm hopefull that this effort would be worth and could be done, if they are willing. However I also think, if we'll see more than one point implemented, they almost surely have to add something to monetize. Otherwise it makes no sense from a busines perspective. So whatever they do, is either the equivalent of at max 1 months pay for one person, or they need a way to compensate for the equivalent of about 1 years worth of payment for one person - as this would enable them to asign one to three people for a more significant amount of time. (but for that to work out, they would need around 2k players to be willing to pay at least 20$. More likely 3k players... Not sure if that is realistic...)

[@Steph1]

I just want a 50% run speed bonus while out of combat, or a mount (which is effectively the same). That way I don’t need to use Charge! and Fall Back! all the time. The amount of walking is just so high 😩

[@Alexsu1]

Dream: graphics improvement update settings, new PvE mission content, new profession, new skills, PvP revamp, let's go!!!

[@arminachtduizend975]

Logging back in sounds like a hassle. Probably havent logged on for ages and think account only had 1 backpack of free space over whole account or less. However you are lighting a spark to have a look.

[@Ragucci25]

I've watched this and the remaster video and my only thought is what a fucking pipe dream this all is.😊

[@Lina-ph6ki]

I would pay for an expansion to GWs 1 and also for the new elite area or god realm that is talked about here. I would be so happy if that come out. I also do buy the costumes and am very much into the cosmetics. What I really want is a costume that gives all characters a mask similar to the standard ranger or sin. I would buy that immediately, which for me means dropping a lot of $ for my many accounts because I'd want all my characters to have access to it. I also love all of the ideas in this video!

[@Rejosc]

Since the DirectX changes to GW2 were recent enough, I wonder if similar changes to gw1 would be worth the effort seeing how they have developers with that skill set. If it even applies.

[@TirOrah]

On balance changes, I agree with things like an armour rework and updating stuff like Motivation and Smiting Prayers. But, as someone who likes to play bow ranger, I would also be eternally grateful if preparations activated faster in PvE, much like how they made ritualist spirits much faster to summon in PvE. Currently, it costs 2 seconds to use a preparation and this can cause me issues when playing with people. Did I have to run somewhere to pick up a drop while my melee buddy (who can pick up drops as they go) storms off to the next group? Congrats, I'm now behind and the fight might be half done before I'm ready. They also nerfed a bunch of bow attacks before the balance patches stopped. I think this was due to Ranger Spike in PvP? Well, for whatever reason, some of these skills weren't split for PvE and PvP. So now I have stuff like Marauder's Shot, which disables all non-attack skills for 10 seconds. ...Like preparations, most of which only last for 24 seconds. I can use that attack three times and then I have to wait until my preparation recharges; if I mess that up, then I screw my build. Bow damage is, by and large, underwhelming in PvE. It always feels like I have to sacrifice something to get somewhat competitive damage and having wonky bow attacks doesn't help. I'm much better off running any other physical weapon and that fucking sucks. /endrant On an extra Hard Mode: On the one hand, it would be an easy way to generate a lot of content for us old-timers. On the other hand, I think people tend to forget how absolutely *cracked* some HM enemies are. The game was never balanced around HM and boy is that obvious. Nowadays, we run around with incredibly optimised 7-hero team builds, including an ST ritualist that can somewhat spam party-wide damage reduction. Take away that ST ritualist and you should notice a difference. I feel like an even harder 'Legendary Mode' would only require even more of such optimisation, thereby pigeonholing you even more into the builds that we already use to steamroll things now. However, if it were to be the same as HM is now, but with consumables and such disabled like you mention, that might be harder without giving up any and all room to experiment.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

The preparations one is really great balance feedback, exactly what I hoped to read thanks!

[@TirOrah]

@@WoodenPotatoes Glad it was useful! I just thought of another one as well: making the infusion (against Spectral Agony) character-bound instead of armour-bound. I don't know if anyone else in the comments has said it, but it's annoying to me that I'll buy a new armour set and my first thought is, 'Welp, time to do Iron Mines again...'

[@Matt123Chez]

What I would like to see them add is the ability to buy inscriptions, prefix and sufix with zaishen coins

[@tomieedzsi]

The real question is why Anet haven't hired you yet WP to be a Guild Wars consultant???your ideas are radical, i love it!!!!

[@barbarahitchko9688]

Appreciate your time. Thanks😊