Guild Wars 2

Anyone from the second beta weekend remember that?

It was this amazing event where there were these branded crystals scattered about the map and Rytlock was out trying to take them out. You ran with Rytlock and the zerg with him, and you killed all the branded along the way.

This was my experience, then we attacked a branded crystals and I got killed. All of the sudden I had the option to spawn on corrupted waypoints(You could not waypoint there prior to this happening) and I spawned as a branded creature with it’s own set of abilities.

And then I found out that there was a bunch of other players that shared the same fate, and the event no longer said “Eliminate the shatterer’s branded crystals” instead it read “Kill Rytlock.”

And that’s when the fun really began, herding up with other branded players to kill Rytlock and this PvE event suddenly turned into an open world PvP event where heroes slowly fell 1 by 1 and the branded started getting fresh new player recruits. It turned into massive skirmishes and small-time ambushes to catch straggling players to bring in more reinforcements.

By far, that was the most fun event ever in this entire game that I have experienced in the 750+ hours that I have spent in GW2. Why are there not more events with that amount of depth?

Does anyone else remember this?

Yes! I still have screenshots of this event. I loved it! The Shatterer would fly overhead every now and then too. If you fell in water as a branded creature you would turn into a branded fish. So many people I chased jumped into the water thinking I wouldn’t be able to swim, but they were wrong. I had this one poor guy practically wetting himself trying to jump up a cliff out of the water without much success. The only negative to the event was that people were relogging to become “unrisen”. Dang cheaters <_<

That was a beta closing event. You’ll never see it again.

Irony that beta version fared better gameplay than the released version. Same goes for the login screen.. Will never see them again..

Geikamir.6329:

That was a beta closing event. You’ll never see it again.

Yeah I know, it makes me said

They might reuse the code and change it a bit for a future pvp match or something like that

Holy balls of moses, what happened to the beautiful log-in screen of GW2?

I’d pay 100g to have the old log-in screen

I was sifting through screen shots, ‘cause I couldn’t remember what gear I had on my toons (for another post) anyways I stumbled upon my bwe1-2-3 screens, fun times even though that event didn’t finish on our server.

Nappychappy.7046:

I was sifting through screen shots, ‘cause I couldn’t remember what gear I had on my toons (for another post) anyways I stumbled upon my bwe1-2-3 screens, fun times even though that event didn’t finish on our server.

Yeah it didn’t finish on ours too. We found a saturation point where players and branded couldn’t push, mainly because Rytlock 1 shots the branded players and he got glitched.