Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Announced - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 26 January 2015 / 2,724 Views
ArenaNet has announced the first expansion for its MMO Guild Wars 2, called Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. The expansion adds to the story where the original game left off and takes players to the Maguuma Jungle in a new open world map.
"We’re thrilled to bring Guild Wars 2 fans their first expansion with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns," said ArenaNet president and co-founder Mike O’Brien. "The features we’ll be introducing with this expansion have the potential to once again move the MMO genre forward."
"Heart of Thorns will challenge the way that expansions traditionally treat endgame progression, and it’ll introduce new feature sets and content that reinforce our mantra that the journey itself is the goal in the way players experience and immerse themselves in an MMO," O'Brien continued.
The expansion also adds a new Mastery system and increased the maximum level cap. There are new abilities available to players for the higher levels, as well.
"We wanted to go well beyond just announcing that an expansion is coming and then let our fans guess as to what it would bring, and so we waited until we could tell them every single feature that we think sets it apart," added game director Colin Johanson. "We only wanted to reveal Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns once we felt we could highlight everything that makes it an expansion worthy of Guild Wars 2."
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