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The first wing of the first ever raid in Guild Wars 2 has been opened. This is 10-person content designed to be the hardest in the game, and offers, as an ultimate reward, pieces for assembling legendary armour. This is not more powerful armour: it is exactly as powerful as existing top-end ascended armour, but allows you to swap stats - presumably stat templates - while out of combat."Endless tiers of gear grind to stay raid relevant have no place in Guild Wars 2," reads an apt line from a raid explainer on the Guild Wars 2 website.
The raid is named Spirit Vale and is located in the Maguuma Jungle, which is a part of the Heart of Thorns expansion, so you need to buy that if you want to go there. And if you're a level 80 (or thereabouts) player and you don't already own Heart of Thorns then you really ought to, because it's aimed directly at you - and it's got an impressive amount of impressive content stuffed in.
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