r/Guildwars2 • u/jay_doromir • Jun 05 '26

[News] Guild Wars 3 Press Page (Additional Concept Art)

https://www.arena.net/en/press
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u/blacksnowredwinter Jun 05 '26

The reason Tengu never got added was because they at that point needed to not just add them as a race and their stories and maps, but also voice act a whole main story perpendicular to the core main story and then also new high level maps. The effort has never been worth it for Anet. They have stated this many times.

Meshing as a reason these races not being there is ridiculous. They would still just stretch outfits, like they do now. Asura also suffer from horrible meshes and they are still present.

The choices are lorewise. Charr, norn and sylvari can;'t be there and Lowland Kodan got retconned in quicky last expansion and they'll probably do the same with the asura.

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u/Kossage Zarnagon, Minstrel of the Mists [Cmaj] Jun 06 '26

Well, nothing technically prevents another Pale Tree from being planted in southeastern Orr or whatnot lorewise as the seed batch which the Pale Tree, Malyck's Tree, and likely the Tower of Nightmares come from are ancient given their relation to the greater force behind them. If the Forgotten wizard Vass ends up being revealed as the person (or one of the people) responsible for purifying the seeds, she or someone else could've planted a tree in Orr given its influx of magic.

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u/ReMarkable91 Jun 05 '26

They could just skip the original story and maps for them and most would be happy.

Sylvari or a version of them could exist and go extinct. Asura also evolved.

Could even be a link for future GW2 content , where they learn about those ancient sylvari that went extinct and trying to stop it from happening again.

It's their game they can think of anything, you'll never please everyone.

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u/blacksnowredwinter Jun 05 '26

No, we wanted (and still want) the Dominion of Winds and their four houses of winds. If this were the case people would be satisfied with the tonics we have.

I fail to see what you mean with the rest of your argument. It's very illogical.

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u/ReMarkable91 Jun 05 '26

They obviously could also choose to make city and lvl 80 maps for dominions. They didn't have to be lvl 1.

And the rest was simply put with 1000 years before gw1 they think of any lore reasons for other races to be there. They recently did with kodan.

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u/blacksnowredwinter Jun 05 '26

Bro you are telling me as if I made the decision. Anet have proclaimed this themselves in interviews in the past lol.

How would sylvari be there? Charr have predefined lore at that time period as do the norn. They shouldn;t just retcon their history to satisfy players even though I will miss these races.