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Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns was announced on January 24, 2015 at PAX South.The expansion will introduce new group challenges, new profession specializations, a new profession, and an account-based "mastery" system for character progression through the new territories featured in it, as well as make changes to current player versus player content.
A new artisan, the Mystic, can enhance the properties and appearance of the player's equipment. The expansion also raises the level cap to 70 (up from 60), and adds new skills, runes, and passive abilities for all characters, as well as a fourth slot for passive skills that unlocks when the character reaches level 70.
Players are allowed to create characters at maximum level and with the best equipment specifically for PvP play, which is unusual for MMORPGs. [14] Historically, ArenaNet hosted official Guild Wars tournaments where the most successful players and guilds competed for the chance to play live at gaming conventions and win prizes up to US$ 100,000.
Guild Wars is a multiplayer online action role-playing game developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of South Korean game publisher NCSOFT, and released in 2005.As the original installment of the Guild Wars series, its campaign was retroactively titled Prophecies to differentiate it from the content of subsequent releases.
Nightfall is a continuation of the Guild Wars franchise and so follows the same gameplay principles.Guild Wars in previous releases attempted a marriage of Player versus Environment (or "PvE") and Player versus Player (or "PvP") gameplay, starting out with PvP being the logical endgame for the Prophecies campaign, and PvP optionally interspersed throughout Factions play.
Kingdom of Sky featured a new region to explore, located high above the skies of Norrath, known as the Overrealm. It included a new level cap of 70 for adventurers and artisans, new items and quests, new monsters to fight, alternate ways of advancing the player's character (achievement points) and the ability to increase a guild to level 50.
An unabridged audiobook version of Prince of Thorns and King of Thorns was released in 2012 by Recorded Books and narrated by James Clamp. [7] [8] In 2013, an unabridged audiobook version of Emperor of Thorns was released by Recorded Books and is also narrated by James Clamp. [9] The UK audiobooks for the trilogy are narrated by Joe Jameson. [10]
Level cap increase from 95 to 100 – the players can achieve a new max level of 100 and set a new standard of gameplay. Slayer System – an ability to gain special rewards and titles for defeating large numbers of foes. Aggro Meter – a new tool to help better manage aggro, displaying it relative to the player's group.