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Check out the trailer for Living World Season 3 – Episode 4: Head of the Snake on the official Guild Wars 2 blog.

Couple of notes:

  • The Standard and Deluxe versions of Heart of Thorns are on sale for a limited time, so check out the linked blog post for details.
  • If you don’t own HoT, you still can “bank” the episode by logging into the game while it’s live and saving it until such time as you acquire HoT.
  • If you want to “bank” Episode 3, log into the game before Episode 4 goes live. I’d suggest you do it now so you don’t forget.
    • BTW, when I mention banking, I think the vast majority of us are going to play through the content when it goes live. But circumstances can differ, and someone who’s unable to play, or who wants to save the episodes for a more convenient time can do so in the ways outlined above.
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just saw it. sucks the video isn’t available yet though…

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Yup. I totally called that date haha!

And I can’t wait! Yippyyyyy!

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It’s on my birfday

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I wonder where the new map will be located. Judging from the screenshots it lies in or at least near Kryta. Maybe we’ll finally be able to go to Lake Doric

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The video is available now and… OMG – are they giving Divinity’s Reach the LA treatment? Oo

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Phew! I’m on holiday the week after..

Not seeing a new map, so maybe this is quite a beefy episode in which case. We do seem to be all over the place with this Season. It’ll be interesting to see how everything comes together.

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oh my god! I loved it! I’m in love with Quee Jennah now! (well as much as a gay man can be anyway)
also DR under attack? omg omg omgmgomgomg
can’t wait to play it.

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PRAISE THE WHITE MANTLE! DEATH TO THE FALSE QUEEN!

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So Freaking Hyped ! and was that bloodstones being shot at DR? amagahd!!!!!!

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So presumably this is the end of the White Mantle storyline (at least for now). And it looks like Divinity’s Reach is the location for the final battle which I have to admit I didn’t see coming, as much as it seems obvious.

Phew! I’m on holiday the week after..

Not seeing a new map, so maybe this is quite a beefy episode in which case. We do seem to be all over the place with this Season. It’ll be interesting to see how everything comes together.

I didn’t see a new map in the video but at the bottom of the article there’ a screenshot of a town which I don’t recognise. Of course that could be related to the raid, but to me it looked more like an open-world style area.

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So presumably this is the end of the White Mantle storyline (at least for now). And it looks like Divinity’s Reach is the location for the final battle which I have to admit I didn’t see coming, as much as it seems obvious.

Phew! I’m on holiday the week after..

Not seeing a new map, so maybe this is quite a beefy episode in which case. We do seem to be all over the place with this Season. It’ll be interesting to see how everything comes together.

I didn’t see a new map in the video but at the bottom of the article there’ a screenshot of a town which I don’t recognise. Of course that could be related to the raid, but to me it looked more like an open-world style area.

Is that pic 3? Yes, have to say I don’t recognise it either

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Oh wow, I asked when Divinity’s Reach would be destroyed almost a year ago. Was it planned all along or did I plant an idea?

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i think the new map would be one of the sides of DR, since they’re attacking the walls.

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That’s not a town in the game yet. Meaning we’re going to see a location just north of Queensdale open up possibly.

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Finally got to watch the trailer…

…uhm. So DR’s getting trebbed with giant bloodstone crystals. That not reminiscent of anything, now is it? Not at aaaaaallll….. /sarcasm

Time to whoop some White Mantle rump.

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Time to bring back #Dismantle?

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Would be nice if DR actually fell, though I don’t get my hopes up. As a person who never cared much for humans in this game I found the trailer boring. Seems like we’ll get an episode of Minister Everybody-knew-I-was-evil-from-the-start (who’s pretty comically incompetent at everything he does) vs Queen Logan’s-waifu, none of whom I could care less about, and story-wise none of which non-human characters should care about. Hope this get’s wrapped up quick and we can get back to Lazarus (yea, I too almost forgot we had a mursaat back) and actual dragons, or that I’m mistaken in my assumptions.

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Posted by: Donari.5237

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Who is the blonde human man at :24? Just a random Minister, or should I recognize him? Surely it’s not Faren with a hair change

I am super happy to see this, I have some RP storylines that have been dancing around the plot involving the Caudecus propaganda. I have high hopes (likely to be dashed, I know), that we’ll get another world-changing event like LA had, something that can fuel RP for a long time to come.

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It seems DR is getting attacked at the eastern side.
There’s a large lake on the eastern side, which would make an attack from that side unlikely. Which is exactly why the White Mantle would attack there, The Seraph wouldn’t expect it.

Also that lake is only there because of a large dam, and we see a large dam getting destroyed in the trailer. In one shot we see catapults firing at Divnity’s Reach from an area that’s similar to Queensdale, but it’s not Queensdale. Not only that, we see what looks like a drained lake. There’s even a small town with docks, yet no water. From the direction the bloodstone projectiles are impacting DR (see last pic) it definitely seems the attack is coming from the east.

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Remember the last time the humans had to defend their main city?

Perhaps history is repeating itself….>:p

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Finally got to watch the trailer…

…uhm. So DR’s getting trebbed with giant bloodstone crystals. That not reminiscent of anything, now is it? Not at aaaaaallll….. /sarcasm

Time to whoop some White Mantle rump.

Those crystals from gw1 were searing cauldron crystals. Completely different things. But since theyre used for bombardment it might as well be the same thing

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Remember the last time the humans had to defend their main city?

The last time they had to defend their main city was from Scarlet in Season 1.
So yes I do remember, the humans repelled the attack and won.

Or do you mean the city before that? Ebonhawke? Which they also succesfully defended.

Or the one before that? Ascalon? Which the Charr will never be truly able to fully conquer thanks to the Foefire.

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Posted by: LanfearShadowflame.3189

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Finally got to watch the trailer…

…uhm. So DR’s getting trebbed with giant bloodstone crystals. That not reminiscent of anything, now is it? Not at aaaaaallll….. /sarcasm

Time to whoop some White Mantle rump.

Those crystals from gw1 were searing cauldron crystals. Completely different things. But since theyre used for bombardment it might as well be the same thing

I’m aware. I did play GW1 for 9 years. That’s why I used the term “reminiscent.” As it seems very similar to what we have seen before. Regardless of what’s actually launching the things (or what they are made out of. Do we know what the searing crystals were made out of? I don’t recall).

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It’s clobberin’ time!

EDIT: This was posted as a response to another thread about the LSE4 announcement, so it’s a bit out of context here.

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Half price HoT…interesting!

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Aaaaand another major city that’s going to burn to hell…

Please, just PLEASE… don’t touch my Storage——>Dwayna Statue——>Trade post area.

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Yep. We did ourselves no favors having so many different potential placements for a thread about the episodes. Thanks for sharing those links, Donari.

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i don’t think they’ll completely destroy it, more like just open one of the walls and then we’ll stop them

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Indeed, there have been attacks on cities before where the city wasn’t destroyed and still usable afterwards.
LA – Karka attack
LA – Aetherblades attack
Divnity’s Reach – Scarlet attack

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Is the info being emailed out this week as well, for both ep4 and the half price offer?

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Ok, so I looked, I really looked, but I think I was parsing for “Episode 4” and not the episode’s title, “Head of the Snake.” In the meantime, someone else made a thread, so we’ve engaged Merge-o-Tron™ and we have one big ol’ thread here in GW2 Discussion on the topic of the next episode of Living World Season 3!

Thanks for your understanding of the merged thread, and my apologies for starting an unnecessary new one.

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I wonder where the new map will be located. Judging from the screenshots it lies in or at least near Kryta. Maybe we’ll finally be able to go to Lake Doric

They already said there will be no Lake Doric map.

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Is the info being emailed out this week as well, for both ep4 and the half price offer?

Yes, we’ll be e-mailing. If someone has opted-in for our communication, they will get an e-mail. Thanks for asking. (If you want to forward to friends, I suppose you could do that. We only send e-mails to people who have given us permission to do so.)

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I wonder where the new map will be located. Judging from the screenshots it lies in or at least near Kryta. Maybe we’ll finally be able to go to Lake Doric

They already said there will be no Lake Doric map.

And yet the attack is clearly coming from the exact same area where Lake Doric is (was?) located. Though the lake is probably being drained because we see a large dam being destroyed in the trailer.

So even if Anet said that we won’t go to Lake Doric (I have seen no such statement) they didn’t technically lie. If the white mantle blow up the dam and drain the lake, there technically isn’t a lake anymore. The area will be drastically changed and probably have another name altogether, but it will still be in the same location that originally was Lake Doric.

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Any word about a new legendary coming out next Patch?

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And yet the attack is clearly coming from the exact same area where Lake Doric is (was?) located. Though the lake is probably being drained because we see a large dam being destroyed in the trailer.

So even if Anet said that we won’t go to Lake Doric (I have seen no such statement) they didn’t technically lie. If the white mantle blow up the dam and drain the lake, there technically isn’t a lake anymore.

I believe there was a post from a dev on reddit that stated we were not going to get the lake Doric map.

Where that post is?….idk

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Ok, so I looked, I really looked, but I think I was parsing for “Episode 4” and not the episode’s title, “Head of the Snake.” In the meantime, someone else made a thread, so we’ve engaged Merge-o-Tron™ and we have one big ol’ thread here in GW2 Discussion on the topic of the next episode of Living World Season 3!

Thanks for your understanding of the merged thread, and my apologies for starting an unnecessary new one.

Sorry didn’t mean to steal anyone’s thunder, was just excited and wanted everyone to see. <3 you Gaile!

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And yet the attack is clearly coming from the exact same area where Lake Doric is (was?) located. Though the lake is probably being drained because we see a large dam being destroyed in the trailer.

So even if Anet said that we won’t go to Lake Doric (I have seen no such statement) they didn’t technically lie. If the white mantle blow up the dam and drain the lake, there technically isn’t a lake anymore.

I believe there was a post from a dev on reddit that stated we were not going to get the lake Doric map.

Where that post is?….idk

http://imgur.com/0CbSZmd

Here’s that post, with the important line marked.

Note how they aren’t saying “Lake Doric” isn’t coming, but how -that map- isn’t.

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And yet the attack is clearly coming from the exact same area where Lake Doric is (was?) located. Though the lake is probably being drained because we see a large dam being destroyed in the trailer.

So even if Anet said that we won’t go to Lake Doric (I have seen no such statement) they didn’t technically lie. If the white mantle blow up the dam and drain the lake, there technically isn’t a lake anymore.

I believe there was a post from a dev on reddit that stated we were not going to get the lake Doric map.

Where that post is?….idk

http://imgur.com/0CbSZmd

Here’s that post, with the important line marked.

Note how they aren’t saying “Lake Doric” isn’t coming, but how -that map- isn’t.

Indeed, all they said that the map we saw in the leaked pictures is not the map we get in Episode 4. Because it’s a very old and scrapped map.

They never said “We are not going to lake doric”.
We just aren’t getting the old and scrapped version we saw before.

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Ok, so I looked, I really looked, but I think I was parsing for “Episode 4” and not the episode’s title, “Head of the Snake.” In the meantime, someone else made a thread, so we’ve engaged Merge-o-Tron™ and we have one big ol’ thread here in GW2 Discussion on the topic of the next episode of Living World Season 3!

Thanks for your understanding of the merged thread, and my apologies for starting an unnecessary new one.

Sorry didn’t mean to steal anyone’s thunder, was just excited and wanted everyone to see. <3 you Gaile!

Are you kidding? No apology needed! You’re on it, and I love that. (I just missed the whole thread, which is on me.) Thanks for posting — it’s great to see the excitement and the anticipation!

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I’m quite curious how much the sneaky devs are giggling at us right now for how they so neatly pulled the wool over our eyes with their well timed comment about the old Lake Doric map on reddit.
Would pay for being at their office and hearing their comments to eachother.

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Please for the love of sanity, destroy DR but DO NOT make us go through another city being rebuilt. Leave it destroyed!

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don’t forget there’s always the chance that the cinematic in which we see the direction of the attacks, might not be realistic, and they might have not calculated that.

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Please for the love of sanity, destroy DR but DO NOT make us go through another city being rebuilt. Leave it destroyed!

You want one of the playable races without a capital city?
That is insane.

Even if it’s getting destroyed (there’s no guarantee of that, DR has been attacked before)
of course they’ll rebuild it. And they should, the devs can’t leave one race without a capital city, it wouldn’t make sense.

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Is it confirmed that there will be a new, open world map in Chapter 4? If not, would someone official like to tell us?

Also, do we all have to support Queen Jennah if we want to do this? She’s about the last person I want to assist in staying in power…

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oh I’d like a confirmation for a new map too, crossing my fingers…

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Looking forward to the new living story…is there any ETA on the skill balance update?

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