Guild Wars 2

I have enjoyed these events, especially the last, One Time Epic Event. Looking back now I feel like this was a great event, and I would like to thank ArenaNet for that.

Phase 1
This was for me personally, and for many with me, a laggy event, which was a shame. At least, in the first couple of minutes. After that, I simply went to another place in the map with less people and the lag was gone for the most. As someone who wants to capture everything from these one time events, even the smallest cutscenes, I loved that I could record these cutscenes aswell and include them in my video. Here is an impression of the Phase 1 Event:

http://www.touchofdarkness.com/videos/view-123-guild-wars-2-the-lost-shores/

Phase 2
A lot less laggy and a lot more fun, and I am glad that we went to the new map and could do some events there, I enjoyed killing those Karka’s and I had fun being there together with my girlfriend and some guildmates. I didn’t upload a video of this yet but I will do that sometime later.

Phase 3
This was the big finale and it was worth it. My girlfriend said it would be in that mountain which was “locked” on saturday, because she could see some Karka’s just sitting there. I told her it’s probably a breeding place for them, which we are going to kill.

Once the event started it was a lot of fun to begin with. I did get downed a few times but I got back up quite fast, and I revived loads of people myself during the whole event. I recorded everything from start to end, 2,5 hours and 180GB of footage, and I am going through that now to upload bits and pieces of it. Not sure if I will ever upload the whole 2,5 hours, but who knows. Here is a video of the ending event, including the last cutscene:

http://www.touchofdarkness.com/videos/view-134-guild-wars-2-ancient-karka/

And here is some more regarding the Lost Shores:

http://www.touchofdarkness.com/videos/category-7-lost-shores/

So, looking back to these last three days, I think it’s safe to say for me personally that I loved this event, and I am hoping there will be more like this. We were at war with those Karka’s, and it truly felt like a war and I am glad I was apart of it. The only lag I experienced was from my own doing, I set everything to “Best Appearance” and I ran my recording program for 2,5 hours. If I wouldn’t have done that, I would probably not have experienced any lags at all, but I love recording everything from these one time events.

Even if I wouldn’t have had the last big chest, I would have loved this event. The whole 2,5 hours felt great, at some points a bit boring but still the joy was a lot more than the boredom. I am not after the loot, although I like it, I still care more about my playing experience rather than some loot. So I am stunned to see so many complain topics about some loot. Is that really the most important thing? If so, I think some people should consider playing another game, if that is all they care about. But ofcourse it’s easy to say for me since I did get my loot.

Here’s two videos of the “One Time Event”, there’s two parts of them covering everything we had to do:

http://www.touchofdarkness.com/videos/view-137-guild-wars-2-lost-shores-one-time-event-ancient-karka-part-1/
http://www.touchofdarkness.com/videos/view-138-guild-wars-2-lost-shores-one-time-event-ancient-karka-part-2/