Guild Wars 2

It’s clear that this is a preliminary update – I imagine the one on the 12th, or even the one two weeks after that, will be the main update revolving around the Nightmare Tower.

So I am loving the buildup we’re getting for this. Compared to most other Living Story events which have been START – GO – COMPLETE – STORY OVER GO TO THE NEXT ONE!, this seems like it is going to have a beginning and middle before the climax.

Plus all the NPCs around Marjory’s camp – some Vigil, some Priory, some Whispers, and several members of the lesser races, even – make the situation seem really ominous. Like, even Flame & Frost didn’t have this kind of gathering force of heroes coming to find the solutions, at least not until the Vigil found the Molten Facilities.

So, good job on that! Hopefully we can see more story arcs that are longer than just two weeks, because those have been lacking since all the players complained about F&F being too long.

Talking to a Skritt there and was like yeah can’t wait for more this sounds like a great buildup.

Imho the order was the wrong way around, probably driven by the 2 week cadence thing.

What we should have got was all the build up stuff for this 2 weeks while halloween was on. Then this content and the one after combined in 2 weeks time. This patch feels like it’s only half done, which while ok from an LS story does leave a meh taste in the players mouth which is something you really don’t want to do.

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

Imho the order was the wrong way around, probably driven by the 2 week cadence thing.

What we should have got was all the build up stuff for this 2 weeks while halloween was on. Then this content and the one after combined in 2 weeks time. This patch feels like it’s only half done, which while ok from an LS story does leave a meh taste in the players mouth which is something you really don’t want to do.

There was a buildup during Halloween, it was just smaller.

The tower was masked behind a veil and Kessex was missing half of its trees. Kasmeer and Marjory were investigating it.

That is what you call a “teaser”. The Tower of Nightmares update is a “beginning”. The next patch will have the “middle” and maybe also include the “end”.

Plus I don’t think distracting your players with two totally separate Living Story events at the same time is a good thing.

This buildup is as exciting as hitting signs for a month.

Ghosn.3219:

This buildup is as exciting as hitting signs for a month.

And this is why ArenaNet stopped giving us longer story arcs.