IT HAS A COLLECT ALL BUTTON?! New Homestead Information - GW2 News June 25rd 2024 

The most important thing about having a stable for your jackal is that there is a new animation for petting your mounts. You can pet the dog.

Proud occasional jackal user here!

It's cool they gave the early preview to someone that seems to actually play the game and not just someone that wouldn't appreciate it at all.

This might honestly bring me back. As a more casual player, this endgame is far more fitting for me lol.

The bee you turn into to fly around should be the jade bot if you have the EOD expansion.

My Reaper is going to go full Palawa Joko with statues to himself EVERYWHERE!

this is way more complete than i ever though good job Anet

Just imagine all the mukluks of the rainbow doing the robot in the homestead.

As the official decorator of my original guild, I can tell you that decorating is a nightmare when you want to make stuff a bit fancy and that the limitation of the number of objects you can place in a given area is way too small. If they improve one of those two things for homesteads, they got to do it for guild halls in a near future. They can't seriously make an improved version of the decoration system and not apply it to guild halls. EDIT: 13:26 OH YES! I'M WEAVING!!!!

They are exploding everyone's expectations again. Damn Janthir Wilds really seems to be a great expansion feature wise. If the map and the story are good, this is gonna be one of the best

As an asuran surpremacist, I hope later down the line they add some more magitech decorations.

they really either don't add it or they go full throttle

Since it is an instance, I hope they update the Home Portal Stone so you can hop in with a parked character then log out in it so they can pull double duty as npcs.

The jackal has a faster base movement speed, can cross most of the gaps I would use my raptor for, and can turn on a dime. Why *wouldn't* I use my jackal?

I hope the home portal stone gets updated to allow you to port to your homestead.

Collect all button is insane

WildStar had great player housing, I loved exploring to see what crazy creations other players could come up with... I really miss that game :(

3:24 And cue the patreon sound that made me think "Ah, yes, the magestic sound of a Low Land Kodan calling for its people". XD

The most sacred Spirit of the Wild for Lowland Kodan; Honeybee

I loved the player housing system in Dark Age of Camelot. Yes, the housing was instanced.. but it was instanced by village. So x-number of people would have their houses grouped together in a small community. So something like THAT would have been amazing. A little less isolated. You know, get to know your neighbour.

"With an armour stand, you can make a statue of their character that inherits your current fit-dyes and all." **Friend comes into my homestead instance** Them: "Why is there nothing but statues of bikini girls in here? 🤔" Me : "you want to farm these nodes or what?" 😒

11:25 LONG LIVE THE BEES!!! Only someone as old as I am, will get that reference.

You can't even glide in the home instance, so this'll be a big improvement.

I was a housing decorator in FFXIV for years. Holding onto my personal house and helping decorate some guild houses has been one of the last things keeping me connected to the game. If this turns out as good as it looks, I'll be ready to move on. I've never liked how FFXIV requires a sub to keep your house.

They need to have the outfit statues interactable where you can copy your current outfit onto them or copy the outfit stored on them onto you! it would be an awesome way to implement a wardrobe outfit saving system that they've desperately needed!! They could even make it so you could interact with other peoples outfits in their instance, it would be a neat way to share outfits as well. everyone needs to submit this as a request so they do it

I do wonder about one thing though, so I have the teleport to home instance stone from the game store, and I wonder what’s gonna happen with that. If it keeps the current functionality despite homesteads just being better, I’m gonna feel really ripped off lol

Ranger pets space too please

Scribe is a grind. But in Second Life, I'm a builder, decorator and land developer and this new feature sounds AWESOME!!!

Im not even that much of a builder but damn I want my comfy homestead NOW

i'm not weaving today, i'm beezing

Im not sure if thats already implemented in the guild hall decoration system or if it was shown in the video and I missed it but it would be a nice addition to the building tools if they include some basic MS Paint/Office/Explorer or whatever you wanna call it features like copying, cutting or grouping decorations - heck even make templates with a structure of decorations for later use or if you want to make a section of repeated decoration items but not have to put them down individually. Also a snapping to a grid feature would be nice for precize placement options if you want to put in alot of effort.

I'm waiting for home instance jumping puzzles and race tracks. :P

This looks fantastic! It makes me very happy that we'll (eventually) be able to re-size guild hall decorations! Some of those were stupid expensive to build and came out so tiny they were pointless. Others, like the massive glowing gift boxes, could stand to be much smaller.

The statues need an interaction that lets you apply the transmutation and dye from the statue to your current armor. Like fashion presets.

This is so much more than I ever would have expected. Plus confirmation that our home instance cats get to come along!! That's really all I wanted! My only thought is that as much as I love the bee, jade bots exist. The bee makes sense for people who maybe don't have EoD or a jade bot unlocked, but if we do have a jade bot I would love to be able to use my jade bot skin instead!

Looks like guildwars 2 is getting a planet zoo decoration tutorial. Love the homestead

20:56 lol I love how Muk just shouts out Flutegirl when there's fishing, knowing she's most likely the only one who does it nowadays. (Seriously, I don't think I have really seen anyone do fishing since EoD came out lol). Also, ANet really listened to the community with this new player homes. I love how almost everything Muk had wanted for the player homes, the video confirmed it all.

For the first time in a long while i am superhappy. I was scared Anet would go the short way and just give us decoration to place like in guildhalls. I wanted more, i wanted exactly this, where you can use an item for what ever purpose you want. Make it supersmall or bigger or tilt it and so on. That is really the freedom i hoped for, and we actually got it. I love it!

This sounds cool but memory serves me properly & if I recall right is that GW1 had it for armour, weapons and pets, The Hall of Monuments

As a lot of people, i was really happy when they say that finally housing was coming to gw 2. But i wasn't expect that housing will come with homestead instead. I can already imagine how some homestead will be incredible and how many will do some puzzle jump in their homestead too. I can already imagine myself spending hours to come visit homestead from players that i know and don't know. It's a really good job from arena net here.

Muk, even if all your alts can't be in your homestead you can probably create a statue of all of them as the janthir announced mentioned that homesteads will be accountswide

The one thing i would really like to see is a billboard/sign or something to display titles, there are so many niche and rare titles that i will never equip so it would be cool to be able to show them off somehow.

The big worry I have with this is how many systems are built into the map instead of using the decoration system. Each feature like that increase workload to create new plots to pick from, It's what happened to guild halls and the reason we only have Desert mountain, Desert Cave, Desert, and Island to pick from. We need variety in plots for this to be a success. Snowy areas, tropical areas, underground areas, city areas, any kinda biome they got needs a homestead to pick from. All home instance nodes should become placeable decorations. This would mean they don't have to place every possible home instance node into every homestead they make in the future. Atm there are 57 home nodes. Not that many to place around in a single homestead, but let's say we want 30+ homesteads to pick from. The work they got increase exponentially. Alternatively, let's say they go through that and made 30 homesteads, now any time they introduce a new home instance node, they got to pick a place for it in each of the 30 possible homesteads. It's not that big of an issue, but it builds up when you add more features. Stables are going to need implementations in every homestead, a landing for the skiff will too and requires water in every homestead (though these two features would be fine to not exist in every homestead). However, it would be much better if we could just make our own stables with the decoration system. Have a Raptor bed decoration, have a Skiff port decoration, etc... It would increase customization and reduce future workload for ANet.

I am wo hyped for this, I can't even put it into words. Not because I am speechless, but because there is just so much amazing stuff I want to point out. It's already everything I wanted and so much more. I am hoping - but don't think it likely - they will let us invite players who don't own the expansion themselves. I would love to do some cosy gaming with my best friend, but he is not going to spend 25 bucks on a game that he likely can't play due to a disability. At least not unless he can test it out first and make sure he'll get 25 bucks worth of entertainment out of it. It might actually be great advertising if anet let us do that, but I fully expect that the homestead will only be accessible from a janthir map, so my hopes aren't very high. A girl can dream, though...

What I want is a basement or an attic where I can put boxes and boxes of junk

The best home system I ever had the privilege of enjoying, IMO, was also part of a Guild system and in the open world of a well set up system that allowed near sandbox level of placement options. It was one of the greatest features in SWG before Sonie killed the game so they would not have to compete against it.

Muk going on a brief rant about how you can't use your mounts in your home instance is pretty funny, considering you can't even glide in the place. They're core game instances through and through. I'll say, the homesteads are now decidedly at the top of my list of things I'm excited about with the new expansion. I'll spend way too much time getting it to look like a mess, but it'll be my personal mess. Also love that they didn't go the traditional crafting profession route, given how much of a pain scribe is to level.

As someone who is not much of a decorator/builder and who has neglected the home instance since launch (and its nodes), I'm mostly uninterested but I am kicking myself, as I usually do, for essentially foregoing the free daily loot. I can see myself either doubling down and not caring even harder or if there's any QoL available even to players like myself, maybe finally being engaged by it. We shall see.

My Jackal is actually my go-to land mount. I prefer it over Raptor because it goes as fast but doesn't have the "weighted" feel for starting and stopping.

So eventually, we'll be able to have guilds where everyone has unlocked an Eternity and they all contribute it to be displayed in the guild hall, and then a decorator will be able to make a huge Eternity flower in the Guild Hall Foyer. Or maybe make a furnace powered entirely by Incinerator daggers.

This has everything I want and more when it comes to characters and weapon displays. The only thing I am sad about is that you can't place your nodes where you want.

I'm gonna spend so many hours in this. I LOVE housing. This is what the game needed for me. I'm so happy

4:35 That is a lie! The Jackal is the best pet for consistently getting up lonv inclines. Sure, the only place where this might come in handy is when you want to get out of the Drakkar arena back to the surface, but still! The Jackal has at least one use case!

GW1 Hall of Monuments has stuff you have said you want and some of it is being added into this, I hope they add more from the GW1 HOM here

I have a house in Eorzea and a house in Tamriel. Trust me when I say this housing system is something to get excited for.

I hope build templates become a thing. I love this kind of thing but I suck at building. If someone has Their place build up and I love it. They can share it and once we have the materials we can make a replica of it.

I would love to get crafting stations that you could add into your homestead. Not revealed but that would be my wishlist item.

Very pleased with the size of the homestead- not some tiny house and backyard.

Alt characters making an appearance?! I've been dreaming about this since forever!! :D

This looks great! I was a little worried when anet stared hyping it up as the greatest player housing system in mmo's. I've seen too many game companies claim that x feature will be the greatest thing since sliced bread only to fail miserably, but this homestead looks pretty darn good.

Cant wait to see the Best Homestead Competition.

... I use the jackle all the time. It's the best ground mount for uphill climbs or for quick teleports from node to node when doing some gathering. Raptor sucks on the uphill its leap is slower than the teleport, and the roller beetle is better for long distance travel. Springer is the one I never use.

I consider myself a hardcore PvEer, but I myself always loved the housing systems from games like DC Universe Online, FF14, New World, etc... This looks sooo promising.

This reminds me of the crazy skate parks i made in the old tony hawk games on playstation, which were pretty fun!

22:34 sadly I doubt it. The long charr tonic changes not just your character, but every character (except every 1/3 npc for some reason). It’s my understanding it’s a visual effect applied to your client rather than your character. A charr can dream though.

Only 30 characters? But I have over 100!

I hope they will implement the housing system to the home instances as well.

It'd be good if fashion statues work both ways, you could both apply your fashion to it, or apply the saved fashion on the statue to your current character/armour set. We all know how painful it can be to recreate your look whenever you want to change your gear.

As someone who spent more time in Fallout 4 building elaborate settlements than actual story and as someone who spends more time in Starfield building ships and outposts than story (especially since Creation Kit came out), I feel like I may be spending more time in Homestead than out in the open world. lol

I heard that you can attribute a glyph to the Collect All option.

Can I make a cobblestone driveway out of Chak Garent Eyes?…

Maybe you'll be able to port right back to where you were, like the Mistlock Scroll. Then you could leave your alts in the Homestead.

I got a full home instance and im so showing off my first leggie i ever made Pharus.

As someone with mostly Sylvari characters... I still use the Asura home instance most of the time. 😂

OMG Decorations! WOOT!

Please Mr. or Ms. Anet make new tab next to guild tab , or make portal scroll so we can go in homested in 1 click, tnx and keep moveing forward ;;DD

Engineer is Engin-here

Sorry Phill. But the home nodes in the Grove are very close to each other. lol I find my run in it much quicker than any other home instance o.o

Kind of sad that scribing didn't been fused with the home decoration profession. So, there'll be 2 distinct professions focused on decorations incompatible in both places... scribing can't be use in home instance, and home scribing can't be use in guild halls. 😩

2:20 an intelligent game journalist?? now THAT!!! is new...

My Glyphs of industry are going to less useful with the collect all box option 😅 but oh well, love all these QOL features they've thought about with the homestead.

Again a missed opportunity here. Homestead should have been a PvP islands where you can build cannons and start grudges with your neighbors. xD

This is actually an interesting addition and might...might get me to buy the last two expansions. We've been asking for a proper housing system since the GW2 beta...finally it looks like we have a system that looks interesting. The big question is how much does a floor cost, how much does a wall cost? If simple things are cheap and bigger showier things cost a bit more we will have people using the system make all sorts of crazy things...which is what they want. But if walls cost crazy rare resources, it will be a DOA system.

To give more example of home instances being old code, you also can't glide. So vanilla gw2, not even updated for HoT.

Jackal: Atleast I'm still used by people in PoF and for my dodge/barrier, and cool skins. Skimmer: water is my domain. Warclaw: I rule wvw. Springer: I am easy to acquire and rule the high grou...(sees Soto). 😢 Soto and skyscale: 😂

But most important... What about the home instance cats?

it would be cool if we can change character to one of the alts directly from the homestead

so, can you use scribing/guild hall items here? I haven't gotten the opportunity to customize a guild hall, but i have a bunch of items I picked up in pugs i'll never use. I know it says that this can go to guild halls, but does it go in reverse?

i do use the jackal more than anything!!!! just after the skyscale, and its above my griffon WHICH I use a lot. I dont like that much the raptor. so thats not true MUK.

I wonder if we can make statues of shifted forms (ie reaper's shroud)?

If that bee's not also a jade bot skin I guess Anet just doesn't like money

I definitely use my jackal more than the warclaw.

I have two questions. Can we bring someone who is behind/not on JaW yet to visit our homesteads? And if we change the appearance of our characters will the statues update or keep the old visuals? because it would be nice to create characters like Jora and other fan favorites, poste them and then change the appearance back (or delete the alt after farming your weekly key)

I want to know if I will get my volatile magic if I use the COLLECT ALL BUTTON. I spent a lot on those glyphs.

WOW!...wow wow woooooooooow! THIS is really HUUUUUUUUGE. I love it!

if any guest could drop a statue of their characters in your home instance, you'll be filled by requests of doing that, and half ot those requests would be mine, rest assured.

@Mukluk - It will require research notes :p :D

I want New Kaineng Night City elements to bring some modernity to old wilds. I will decorate it with holo-dancers and norn, humana nd sylvari female characters. Entry 1g per night of fun.

huh just realized that the 20th of august is a saturday

I played Fortnite just to create worlds. It even gave me a ban. To enter your choosen world you were in an area that gave xp. Creating was all I did, that was my spot to start and just like Gw2, I set the game up and walked the dog and play, stuff like that. They banned me for abusing the system to get xp. I was sooooo mad. Don't give xp than! Honestly I always missed creating stuff. This could just be heaven for me. Than Mukluk had to mention reasearch notes... Didn't think about those yet... So I can't wait. Looking forward to this a lot! Yihaaaaaa