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Guild Wars 2 Expansion Buying Guide 2025: Which one to choose?
This guide provides an overview of all Guild Wars 2 expansions available until 2025, including Heart of Thorns, Path of Fire, End of Dragons, Secrets of the Obscure, Janthir Wilds, and Visions of Eternity. It discusses the key features of each expansion, such as maps, mounts, elite specializations, and story content, to help new players decide which one to buy first. It also addresses the Living World seasons and how they fit into the overall Guild Wars 2 experience.
1. 🎮 Introduction: The common question of new Guild Wars 2 players
- ✅ Many new and returning players ask which Guild Wars 2 expansion they should buy.
- ✅ The goal of the video is to answer this question and guide players through the different options.
- ✅ It is not necessary to buy all the expansions at once.
00:00 - 00:44
1. 🎮 Introduction: The common question of new Guild Wars 2 players
- ✅ Many new and returning players ask which Guild Wars 2 expansion they should buy.
- ✅ The goal of the video is to answer this question and guide players through the different options.
- ✅ It is not necessary to buy all the expansions at once.
00:45 - 02:25
2. 🗺️ How expansions work in Guild Wars 2: Level 80 content and horizontal progression
- ✅ Expansions are level 80 content. You must first level up your character in the base game, which is now free.
- ✅ The base game offers a decent sample of Guild Wars 2, including a trial Raptor mount.
- ✅ Unlike other MMOs, old content in Guild Wars 2 is still relevant due to horizontal progression.
- ✅ All expansions offer relevant things, whether it's story, maps, rewards, or content.
02:26 - 03:37
3. 📦 Buying expansions gradually and understanding the Living World seasons
- ✅ It is recommended to buy the expansions one at a time.
- ✅ Guild Wars 2 has six expansions and five Living World seasons.
- ✅ Living World seasons are like small expansions with story, rewards, and maps.
- ✅ After the third expansion, the game changed its expansion formula, releasing smaller and more frequent expansions.
03:38 - 05:57
4. 🌿 Heart of Thorns and 🔥 Path of Fire: An excellent starting point for new players
- ✅ Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire are recommended as a starting point, as they are bundled for the price of one expansion.
- ✅ Heart of Thorns: Takes place in the heart of Maguuma, with intricate and vertical maps.
- ✅ Adds nine new elite specializations and four raid wings.
- ✅ Allows you to improve the glider, allowing you to glide infinitely.
- ✅ Path of Fire: Takes place in the Crystal Desert and Elona, with huge and beautiful maps.
- ✅ Introduces the Raptor, Springer, Skimmer, Jackal, and Griffin mounts.
- ✅ Also adds nine elite specializations and raid wings.
05:58 - 08:11
5. 🌍 The Living World seasons: Additional content and the Elder Dragon Saga collection
- ✅ The Living World seasons add content between expansions.
- ✅ Season 1 is free, but the others must be purchased separately.
- ✅ Seasons 3, 4, and 5 add exclusive maps and some of the best stories in the game.
- ✅ Season 4 adds the Roller Beetle mount and the SkyScale ability.
- ✅ The Elder Dragon Saga collection includes Heart of Thorns, Path of Fire, all paid Living World seasons, and End of Dragons.
08:12 - 09:26
6. 🐉 End of Dragons: A favorite expansion with replayable maps and diverse content
- ✅ End of Dragons takes place on the continent of Cantha.
- ✅ Mixes the best aspects of Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire.
- ✅ Adds nine elite specializations, a new sea turtle mount, fishing, an unlockable boat, and a customizable jade bot.
- ✅ Includes legendary weapons and four independent raid bosses (soon to be renamed independent strike mission bosses).
09:27 - 11:27
7. ✨ Secrets of the Obscure: SkyScale flying mount and weapon mastery training
- ✅ Secrets of the Obscure is the first annual expansion.
- ✅ Takes place in the sky on the Maguuma High Ridge.
- ✅ Allows access to the SkyScale flying mount.
- ✅ Includes weapon mastery training, which allows you to use weapons from elite specializations exclusive to the first three expansions in any other elite specialization.
- ✅ Adds two launch maps, a patch map, two independent raid bosses, and a quest to obtain legendary armor.
11:28 - 13:02
8. 🐻 Janthir Wilds: Player housing and improvements for the Rockclaw mount
- ✅ Janthir Wilds takes place in the northern region of Janthir.
- ✅ Adds player housing.
- ✅ Includes a new legendary spear, a legendary backpiece, a new race wing, two launch maps, and two smaller patch maps.
- ✅ Improves the Rockclaw mount with a double jump, spear throw, chain ability, and sniff ability.
13:03 - 14:06
9. 🔮 Visions of Eternity: Elite specializations and improvements for the Skimmer mount
- ✅ Visions of Eternity takes place on the Isle of Castor.
- ✅ Includes a set of elite specializations.
- ✅ Improves the Skimmer mount, allowing it to fly.
- ✅ Offers stellar open world content.
14:07 - 15:00
10. 💰 Tips for buyers: Choosing the right expansion and waiting for sales
- ✅ It is recommended to start with Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire.
- ✅ Consider End of Dragons to go to Cantha and try fishing.
- ✅ Choose Secrets of the Obscure to get a flying mount quickly.
- ✅ Opt for Janthir Wilds if you are interested in player housing.
- ✅ Select Visions of Eternity to experience the best open world content.
- ✅ Don't forget the Living World seasons for a complete story experience.
- ✅ Wait for sales to save money on expansions.
15:01 - 15:44
11. 🤝 Channel support and thanks
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to use the creator's affiliate link to support the channel when purchasing expansions on guildwars2.com.
- ✅ It is reminded that expansions purchased on guildwars2.com do not work with Steam or Epic accounts.
- ✅ Viewers are invited to visit the creator's Twitch stream to ask questions.
- ✅ Viewers are thanked for watching the video.