Guild Wars 2

I have decided to give this game another go while I await the ‘new skills’ patch. I am going to start a new character even though I have played every class to at least level 30; however, I am afraid that it will just be the same thing all over again.

I vaguely remember ANet talking about how they were going to provide new events and switch out old events with new ones to keep the world from becoming too stale (which sounds really cool). So, I have a few questions that I hope someone can answer:

Have the non-80 zones changed at all?

Would my experience playing a new character be at all different even if I have played a specific zone before?

Would it be better for me to just zone to LA ASAP to participate so that I can participate in the “end game” events? (I really want to avoid doing this.)

I have not re-downloaded the game yet, because I am not sure if the levelling experience will be any different than what I have experienced before. If anyone could shed some light on the situation, I would appreciate it.

I assume the Living Event will change zones or parts of zones. Some new enemy taking over a zone and raising an army or a stronghold, new mobs, zone may change because maybe a dragon landed there and burned the whole zone into crisps etc.

It’s hard to say if your experience would be different since there are 3000+ dynamic events in the game which can be triggered by various stages of success or fail.

Would depend if you played them all the first time the first time you leveled (not likely), or if you followed through on event chains, etc. I know they’ve added a few permanent events (Modus Sceleris, Skritt Burglar) and the Living Story keeps rotating in and out more that change over time. They also added quite a few new jumping puzzles and secret areas.

Another thing you can try is playing a different race or a different order to see a completely different way for the story to unfold.

Zoid.2568:

I assume the Living Event will change zones or parts of zones. Some new enemy taking over a zone and raising an army or a stronghold, new mobs, zone may change because maybe a dragon landed there and burned the whole zone into crisps etc.

Does a Living Story event leave an impact on areas that it occurred in even after the Living Story has completed, or do zones go back to normal afterwards? If I play through an area that was the focus of a Living Story event two months ago, will the area feel different than it did before the Living Story event took place there? Also, do Living Story event primarily focus on level 80 content, or are there Living Story arcs that focus on lower level areas?

Karizee.8076:

It’s hard to say if your experience would be different since there are 3000+ dynamic events in the game which can be triggered by various stages of success or fail.

Would depend if you played them all the first time the first time you leveled (not likely), or if you followed through on event chains, etc. I know they’ve added a few permanent events (Modus Sceleris, Skritt Burglar) and the Living Story keeps rotating in and out more that change over time. They also added quite a few new jumping puzzles and secret areas.

Another thing you can try is playing a different race or a different order to see a completely different way for the story to unfold.

I guess I mean something along the lines of:

Since one year ago at launch, did the majority of those 3000+ events change or are they exactly the same?

Sadly, I have played at least one character of every race already, but I have yet to play each of the orders (though I am not very fond of the Personal Story system).

Hard to say. I’ve been playing since launch and always running into events or creatures I haven’t seen before.

Karizee.8076:

Hard to say. I’ve been playing since launch and always running into events or creatures I haven’t seen before.

How often do you run into new events? Also, where do you typically run into events that you have not seen before (starter areas, mid-level areas, or end-game areas)?

If I were to start a character and play through Queensdale today, would there be no changes, slight changes, or changes so large that it does not even feel like I have played through that zone before?

Today in Queensdale you would see hot air balloons in the zone, Queen’s champions, Aetherblade ships flying in and bombarding the hot air balloons and dropping various kinds of aetherblade mobs to attack.

Today’s Queensdale is very different from launch Queensdale. Give it 2 weeks and it will be different again

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stayBlind.7849:

Zoid.2568:

I assume the Living Event will change zones or parts of zones. Some new enemy taking over a zone and raising an army or a stronghold, new mobs, zone may change because maybe a dragon landed there and burned the whole zone into crisps etc.

Does a Living Story event leave an impact on areas that it occurred in even after the Living Story has completed, or do zones go back to normal afterwards? If I play through an area that was the focus of a Living Story event two months ago, will the area feel different than it did before the Living Story event took place there? Also, do Living Story event primarily focus on level 80 content, or are there Living Story arcs that focus on lower level areas?

Karizee.8076:

It’s hard to say if your experience would be different since there are 3000+ dynamic events in the game which can be triggered by various stages of success or fail.

Would depend if you played them all the first time the first time you leveled (not likely), or if you followed through on event chains, etc. I know they’ve added a few permanent events (Modus Sceleris, Skritt Burglar) and the Living Story keeps rotating in and out more that change over time. They also added quite a few new jumping puzzles and secret areas.

Another thing you can try is playing a different race or a different order to see a completely different way for the story to unfold.

I guess I mean something along the lines of:

Since one year ago at launch, did the majority of those 3000+ events change or are they exactly the same?

Sadly, I have played at least one character of every race already, but I have yet to play each of the orders (though I am not very fond of the Personal Story system).

Right now there hasn’t been a lot of permanent content as ArenaNet said they were mostly testing what works and what not. So real permanent content will be released in the next weeks to come and into the future. Hopefully we will see more changes to the world like that.