Guild Wars 2

Basically I was out of the game for a long time due to personal reasons. I had to stop playing just before the first big event involving new content. Now I am back and I see that some event called Dragon Bash is in progress and there will be a new one soon. So I was wondering will this content stay after the end of this event? The question may sound stupid but I was wondering because I don’t think any dev want to throw his job down the drain after just one use. Obviously the Xmass event is no longer available but what about the rest?

All the Living Story content is one-time only. Some things like the Dragon Bash festival may return on an annual basis but at least certain parts will change.

For example there’s a murder mystery storyline included in Dragon Bash and it’d be pretty silly for the same person to be murdered again next year so that will probably change. (Unless they do it like the Dragon Festival in GW1 where they hold a re-enactment of the incident as part of the festival.)

But don’t worry if you’ve missed some/all of it. If you’re interested in the storyline you can catch up via the main site and the wiki and there will be new stuff coming along that you can join in with.

So far nearly everything they have added has been temporary.. I don’t understand it either.

What about the rewards? Are they giving some kitten legendary weapons or its some eye candy items only?

Hicks.6021:

What about the rewards? Are they giving some kitten legendary weapons or its some eye candy items only?

Legendary weapons ARE eye candy. They are still not any stronger then exotic level weapons. If you mean by upwards progression no they have not added in any for some time but they have adding in a good bit of side ways progression in fact i think dragon bash was the first live event that did not add a new armor type. Winterdays was the boon/h/t, Madkings day was the P/C/MF , F&F is the V/t/p South sun part 1 was the H/c/t, South sun part 2 was the T/c/h. I images we may get a set from dragon bash or it will be lumped into the next event.

Ok mate, thanks for the answer!

Dante.1508:

So far nearly everything they have added has been temporary.. I don’t understand it either.

Yep, its very sad.

To be fair there have been a lot of permanent changes too, but they usually aren’t included in the Living Story event. Although some are, like the new outposts and events on Southsun. And the whole point of the Living World updates is that it keeps changing – they never said all of this new content was going to stay in-game and I’m not quite sure where people got the idea that it would.

If you want a full list of everything that’s changed since you were last playing you can check the update notes on the wiki. That includes all the permanent changes as well as the Living Story stuff.

The permanent stuff added in these patches are:

• Bug fixes and Balances.
• Leftovers from the event that took place.
• PVP related stuff.

It’s a shame, since the actual story of the event doesn’t defer in form from an actual personal story side-quest.
I made a topic about this.