Guild Wars 2

I’m just curious, with our current living world season being over. What kind of content might be provided between now and the expansion release, with it seeming to be months away. Other than profession Balancing updates, Are we going to witness Rytlock coming back from the Mists, maybe?

We don’t know yet. They haven’t said anything. All we know is that the story of HoT takes off right after the ending cinematic of Point of no Return indicating that no major stuff is going on storywise.

I think it would be great if we get some background on what Rytlock was doing in the mists. How he acquired his new powers, how he managed to get back etc.. It would give some context and build anticipation for the new Revenant profession.

Probably 1-2 months of WvW tournament.
Hard to predict other than that. Since the Zephyrites crashed their ships, we probably won’t have a four wind festival. But they can still recycle queen’s pavilion content.

SAB time, perhaps ?

I too am curious if there’s going to be a “content drought” or not. Tomorrow on the 27th is the Balance patch that’s going to happen post Season 2. There is more than likely going to be a patch released right before the expansion to update the content for it (such as the WvW overhaul).

However, what’s in between and for how long?

There’s many guesses that the game will launch directly in line with Guild Wars 2’s 3rd Year Anniversary. That’s in August.

Let us assume that they’re going to bring back S.A.B. World #3 in April this year. So that’s a 2 month gap already between the end of January and the beginning of April. Then there is an additional gap of 4 months between April and August. Right now that’s a singular content patch between now and the expansion; assuming that’s the actual release date of said expansion.

I see it as this:

-Valentines weapons re-released in February (I wanted the GS)
-Spring WvW tourney for a month in march (ew) Big Sale on storage, crafting licences, character slots, you name it!
-SAB World 3 in April?
-Pavilion back in May? Re-release and sale on Atherblade, Fused, Biconics weapons, S1 armor sets, etc.
-Dragon bash for summer for June-July (1.5 months). Re-release and sale on Southsun, Jade, and Zodiac weapons return sale on Zodiac armor.
-August is expansion launch at latest.

We are getting our Tuesday update this week and there was some talk about a bit more patching like this. Not sure if we will get a LS update progressing the story maybe a side LS?

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

I see it as this:

-Dragon bash for summer for June-July (1.5 months). Re-release and sale on Southsun, Jade, and Zodiac weapons return sale on Zodiac armor.

Dragon Bash will most likely NOT be returning at all based on the lore surrounding it. The event did not show itself in 2014 at all and for good reason. The event was a sponsored celebration of the people of Tyria’s resilience against the Elder Dragons, provided by the Captain’s Council of Lion’s Arch. During the festivities, someone -Mai Trin- murdered a Captain of Lion’s Arch and put in a partial invasion with Aetherblade pirates (Sky Pirate of Tyria).

So that bloodstain soaks the memories of the event very much, but isn’t even the main reason why it shall not return. Lion’s Arch is still in ruins! Let’s not forget that prior to last summer Scarlet Briar took a giant drill to the heart of the bay and destroyed the rest of the surrounding city. It’s just not possible physically or financially to try to support such an event. And if that’s not enough, the Dragons are getting worse as more people have died, so a celebration of laughter about them as holograms of them fill the sky and effigies burn is not something that many would cheer for. Marjory is rather kittened at the dragons right now for killing her sister at Fort Salma. So, there’s that too.

Perhaps not for dragon bash then, yet we may see return of skins to buy.

Sometime long ago when the wardrobe update happened ANet said something along the lines of;

“We hope to make all/most skins available to players in some way or another”

Will have to go burying through old update notes for that but point being… I would REALLY like to be able to have those Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings as I missed out on Dragon Bash.

Same deal with LSS1 rewards. I recon they should add those ‘un-obtainable’ event skins to the laurel vendor at least if they can’t replay the event due to lore reasons.

But yeah I liked Queen’s Pavilion and the Zephyrite thing. Never bothered with SAB despite getting stuff like the continue coin so I’d love to experience that as content filler.

I wish we could get some Living World between now and expansion. But I doubt it. Expansions are usually marked by ‘all hands on deck’-attitude which inherently means no hands left for things such as Living World. Would love to be wrong though.