Guild Wars 2

Well, okay, obvious answer is obvious.

Still. I read the letter from my inbox. I have heard from other players about how the Wurm requires massive coordination, not for casuals, etc. I’ve not been playing so much recently due to life, illness, that sort of thing. I figure, there’s no point in me worrying about the wurm until I’ve at least tried the Marionette, as that is more central to the LS, or so I have gathered from the patch notes, and from word of mouth.

So I get to Lornar’s Pass and… what? Rox and Braham are stood there with a generic line about how we have to stop the weapons test, and then there are inactive portals. Ooooh, I realise. It’s not running. Except there’s no warning as to when it will run again, and there’s no other information on what I’m supposed to do. No lead-up events, no other NPCs giving any background, no signposts to anything else.

I played the last few days of the previous patch, and in that time, despite having missed the majority of the Toxic alliance stuff, I was at least able to go to the area, see the effects, kill some relevant mobs, and generally feel like there was something I could be doing whenever I logged in, however minor.

There I was thinking maybe this patch would get me back into GW2 after months of indifference, and yet within ten minutes of logging in I’m ready to log out again, wondering if the next patch will be worth it. I can’t sit around all day waiting for a boss event to respawn, and, in all honesty, I find it somewhat irritating that all the pertinent information about what to do isn’t in the game itself.

I mean, sure I can check the forums, or a 3rd party site for a cooldown. I could even get a walkthrough while I’m there. But that’s not what I want. That’s not what I used to love about GW. What I used to love was logging in and knowing I could pick up where I left off. Now it feels as though unless I am available on patch day, every patch day, there isn’t even a playerbase around to ask.

To my mind, when you have to tab out of a game to find out what to do in the game, that’s where something is going wrong. And yes, I know what people are going to say: “Casual”. If I don’t have time, why am I complaining, it’s life, etc. The thing is, I do technically have time to play. I do have time to wait out a boss cycle and then do the event. But I don’t enjoy feeling that if this is the new content, only here a limited time, that I want to do, I have to rely on out-of-game hints or other players to be able to do it.

Depending on your timezone, the jungle wurm spawns on the hour and the marionette on the next hour.
For GMT, it’s on even hour for Marionette and odd hours for Jungle Wurm. If you’re there half an hour before the event you’ll see things starting to warm up, people streaming in, etc.

Oh, but I agree with your thoughts, the story content is a bit thin and requires you to learn the spawning pattern initially and “wait around” so you can progress the story. It’s obvious how, just not doable at your own whim.

the Marionette is every two hours on the even hour- server time- like 2,4,6 etc.

It is very much worth to log in because the marionette fight itself is very fun and once you have done it once ( you do not have to succeed)
you get a pretty cool story instance in LA that gives a lot of back story for the LS characters.
you can also search and unlock Scarlet’s secret Liar and that in itself is a fascinating place.

once you have done the fight once the LS pointer on the right of your screen will update- it works much like the personal stories and dailies now and is much more useful