Guild Wars 2

Seeing the teaser text like going into random rooms to face dangers and so on and the video showing what seems to be a huge interior space, I have a huge hope that it won’t just be one instance to enter.

My personal wish is that it’s open world explorable content with what we see which appears to be vertical stairs, ramps, jumping puzzle areas, mazes, and so on …. and then the final fight towards the final boss being an instance…

the teaser seems to say theres multiple instances of different battles in rooms, which means there could be open world content to move around to these different “rooms” ?

I don’t really enjoy exclusively instance content, i love open world explorable content. To have both would be extremely fun

If what you’re saying is that you hope that you can get inside the tower without having to go inside an instance, then i agree with you. It would be pretty nice to do some open world exploring in the tower without having to instance, with other sections being closed off for instances in their own.

Zayd Akira.1942:

If what you’re saying is that you hope that you can get inside the tower without having to go inside an instance, then i agree with you. It would be pretty nice to do some open world exploring in the tower without having to instance, with other sections being closed off for instances in their own.

Yeah sorry for being confusing xD thats exactly what i meant! At least even if we dont fight any epic battles just being able to climb and jump around the tower going to diff instances will be fun too

The tower could be an open world instance itself. Think of the tower as the Crown Pavilion and the private instances as some kind of Queen’s Gauntlet.

I would be extremely disappointed if it is a private instance. This looks like a very good opportunity for a more communal experience with continuous meta events and a final world boss finale.

Open World? Sry to dissapoint but if this is going to be open world, it will be a massive zerg event. You can see it with the last update. Normal events in Kessex that are buried by massive zergs, even if they aren’t intended to be zerg events.

I hope it will be open world, but I’m pretty sure it will be instanced as always.

Heinel.6548:

I would be extremely disappointed if it is a private instance. This looks like a very good opportunity for a more communal experience with continuous meta events and a final world boss finale.

Yup I’ll be disappointed if this is more instanced content, but I think it will be.

More content I won’t bother with….

The tower might be a good place to add some diving goggles….

Instance or zerg. What’s your poison?

If it’s instanced than I get to do organized runs.
If it’s a zerg I get to stand in the back and push 1.

Either way I get to enjoy a shower of worthless blues and greens.

Open world, you say?

“Abandon the tower! Fall back!”

“Where are you going, you rotting cowards!? Defend th—”

“NONE CAN STAND BEFORE THE MIGHT OF THE SWARM!”

[Insert image of the Nightmare Court being overwhelmed by zerglings with Asura/Norn/Human/Charr/Sylvari heads pasted over their own heads]

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Open world, you say?

“Abandon the tower! Fall back!”

“Where are you going, you rotting cowards!? Defend th—”

“NONE CAN STAND BEFORE THE MIGHT OF THE SWARM!”

[Insert image of the Nightmare Court being overwhelmed by zerglings with Asura/Norn/Human/Charr/Sylvari heads pasted over their own heads]

ALL SHALL SERVE THE SWARM!

Countess Anise as the Queen of (Shining) Blades.
I approve.

Seems like would be a quick answer for a Anet dev. I don’t get why they can’t post quick answers, especially if they’re actually reading through the threads…

my bet is it will be instance, now if its going to be a zone instance like we have for kessex ( 100+ ppl pre zone) or 5 man dungeon instance, we will have to wait and see. if its true open world then expect lag up to the eyeball as everyone crowds the tower. Is that what you really want?

It would be nice if Arena Net put anti-zerg monsters similar those that are in Temple of Lyssa and Temple of Grenth if they plan to turn the entire tower to an open world. People begging to be resuscitated are hilarious.

Kingmutez.4931:

if its true open world then expect lag up to the eyeball as everyone crowds the tower. Is that what you really want?

Seriously. It boggles my mind when i read people say they won’t do instances and want open world. This essentially translates into “i just want mindless zerg content”.

“No. The tower interior itself is not an instance, but there are small instances within it.”
From a Dev’s Twitter, which can be found here.

In other words, it will probably be similar to entering the Crown Pavilion, but instead of having a giant zerg fighting all of the open world bosses, you’ll be entering instanced rooms instead that contain the monsters within, taking from the release page, “Enter rooms within the Tower of Nightmares to brave special encounters—but beware! Things are not all as they seem.”

lol what my thoughts and hopes were, I’m not sure if you got the wrong idea, but was to have a balance between open world and instance like you have those instances rooms to jump into or whatever

but I’d like to see open world for traveling like climbing and exploring this tower and running into mobs of course maybe some zergs but then have most of the legit important content as instances u enter. especially the final boss fight which is mentioned would be a real five person dungeon

I wouldn’t mind a crown pavilion thing either but I just find open world cool and more realistic and free

but no I don’t think it should only be a choice between five ppl or Zerg there should be a balance and blending

So the tower will be like the Labyrinth where a blob goes around mindlessly hitting the 1 key and at the top is an instance to solo or group?

I haven’t gotten to play it cuz I have school but update notes sounds like what I was hoping for ^^ open world tower with multiple levels and events while there’s instanced chambers to enter and a final story heart of the tower dungeon

takatsu.9416:

I haven’t gotten to play it cuz I have school but update notes sounds like what I was hoping for ^^ open world tower with multiple levels and events while there’s instanced chambers to enter and a final story heart of the tower dungeon

Stairs, ramps, mazes, instance boss on top of it. Exactly how you wished Only problem that I’ve found so far is that the 3rd Level of the tower is a little bit crazy T_T