Summary: Join Celeste, Allona, and special guest, Hunter, in their annual New Year Predictions show. See who was right last year and make your own predictions about what we’ll see in 2015 for Guild Wars 2! Audio Version Last year... Chris’ Predictions Living story release schedule will slow down, and a move to more permanent content with smaller “throw away” living story elements. We will see our first instanced group content for more that 5 in 2014. (i.e. Raid in an instance, not in the world) To go along with the raid, the capability to form groups larger than 5 will be introduced. There will be a new weapon for each class (and skills to go with it!) introduced. (Not quite wrong but wrong on the date) There will be fractal versions of the Living Story available for play through at player’s convenience. WuvWuv season two will not happen until later in 2014 (after summer) Edge of the Mists will not take off, and players will simply use it as a static staging point for WuvWuv Celeste’s Predictions More fractals, of things that are not in either gw1 or gw2’s normal purview. perhaps Dessa will be able to focus the mists into the... future! All the way to the year 2000! The feature only release scheduled for early in the year will include raids and improved player housing with a premium area similar to the Royal Pass. In a shocking move, next year’s Jubilee will also be the celebration of Logan and Jennah’s marriage. This will incur my most swift wrath. To replace Scarlet, we’ll finally get to see the Mursaat come into the Human territories. Spoilers: They’re still pissed that we opened the Door of Komalie and let the Titans through. The Inquest will succeed in perfecting a way to harness/utilize the magic of a dragon (I think Primordius is an interesting possibility) and turn one of its lieutenants on the world Due to massive complaints about the Living Story’s poor writing, it will be abandoned and a monthly quality of life update will be the norm between expansions. Legendary armor components will be found within a continent-wide scavenger hunt. Twitter Predictions Allona - “I predict the next elder dragon we face will be a dragon made of budgies!” for the reason of “It would be terrifying ... AND adorable.” Peter Fries - “I predict that shenanigans will ensue” Who was right last year Peter Fries… and that seems a bit unfair. Celeste was kinda right, in that there is a theory that one of the fractals is a futuristic rata sum. This year… Allona’s Predictions Expansion I know they seem to be moving away from underwater content, but I would love to see an underwater city … perhaps Largos! They will never allow mounts in the game New weapons and professions Season one becomes available to replay in a much abbreviated form, with none of the big events or dungeons … more of a playable recap (but with some of the rewards you can’t get in game) Secondary profession options could be added to expand build diversity and weapon options They will make a QoL update that allows you to right click a stack of items to either ‘consume all’ or ‘open all’. Hunter’s Predictions Expansion announcement imminent. With such a small team working on the living story, the majority of Arenanet have to have been working on something larger for quite some time, at the very least I think we should start hearing about an expansion within the next few months, with a demo at PAX East in March. New zones in the expansion will tend to be a lot like Dry Top and Silverwastes. A much more focused experience where people work together across the zone to accomplish a goal, unlock a raid, trigger a meta event, etc. No hearts (they’ve said as much). I think they’ll continue to mess with verticality quite a bit, Silverwastes and Dry Top have a huge amount of space underground and high in the air. As well I think there will be further zones with a lot of desert in them,
