During Gamescom 2025, I visited ArenaNet at the NCSoft booth to preview two of the biggest features of the upcoming Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity expansion : the improvements to the Homesteads feature and the new Elite Specializations. What follows is an edited version of my chat with Sarah Davies (Senior Gameplay Engineer) and Cal Cohen (Lead Competitive Designer). As a reminder, the expansion will be released on October 28 for PC .

We created the decoration layout system. If you go into the menu and open the save load layouts, you get the decoration layouts UI. Now we can save your decor as a layout, so that way players can just save a layout from where they were before, switch over to this map, and load it up here. Something to note is that all of these layouts are stored local

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