Guild Wars 2

Small aside first, LOVE the Scarlet update. I look forward to seeing her menace Tyria for a long time to come. And on that note…

The live-stream at the beginning of this newest Living World content suggested that Scarlet would continue to portal-invade maps, but at a slower frequency. Currently there is no real negative consequence (besides loot) to failing the invasion event. This makes sense though because, win or lose, Scarlet plans to withdraw anyway so she can attack another map very quickly. But once she slows down these attacks, that leaves her with available resources to leave behind and menace a map if her invasion is not successfully driven off. Lesser events could be spread throughout the map in question so that Tyria is a slightly more menacing place there, until she eventually recalls all forces to strike again.

These lesser events could simply be a slight scaling up of certain dynamic events (centaur attacks in Kryta are more powerful because they’re being supplied with Molten Alliance weaponry, for example) to roaming pockets of minions (clockwork minions roaming the brand and making it more deadly) to all kinds of other things (you guys know the type of stuff, just do that awesome thing you do).

I think this holds with the Living World idea, there should be a motivation to succeed beyond loot grinding, but rather a desire to impact the world and know that you made a difference in the world at large.

To be honest I was thinking of because Scarlet tends to mess with technology, is a zone invasion fails, the waypoints for that zone become disabled. That’d be OP, though.