Guild Wars 2

I just completed HoT Storyline and I’m enjoying the jungle so much.
But now I’m just excited to see where my adventures and story will lead to next!

Please make LS3 amazing and make it quick!
I enjoyed LS2 so much and HoT story was fun!

I hope we get to go to Ring of Fire on next expansion, or Crystal Desert.

T_T Can we have SAB back and permanent now?
Wait, can we please have LS1 back as permanent content too?

Don’t worry, you’ll see LS at probably Q3 of 2016

I’m sorry but its late and I’m really curious. Long time prophecies player so I should probably know this already but what is LS 1-3?

doogal.9368:

I’m sorry but its late and I’m really curious. Long time prophecies player so I should probably know this already but what is LS 1-3?

LS equals Living Story, and the numbers signify which season of LS.

Me too, unfortunately I don’t think I will live to 120 to see it released though.

And the drought of content would likely make me die of boredom far sooner than that.

i want juicy LS3 (and LS1 finally finished for story book), skirtless medium armor skins and teef buffz

gimme naow plz

…..HoT was released only a month ago.

They just did a “content” update (HoT). Give the schedule of content updates in the past, espcially the period before HoT, we’ll get LS3 around next November.

we will be lucky at all if we even get LS3 in 2016 .more then likely which is a big if with this company . we might get LS3 in November of 2017 if we are even that lucky the way this company is going

Hannelore.8153:

They just did a “content” update (HoT). Give the schedule of content updates in the past, espcially the period before HoT, we’ll get LS3 around next November.

You’re saying I’ll have to wait another year to earn my $50 worth of content?
This is a nasty and disheartening business practice.

Hakuryuu.8634:

Hannelore.8153:

They just did a “content” update (HoT). Give the schedule of content updates in the past, espcially the period before HoT, we’ll get LS3 around next November.

You’re saying I’ll have to wait another year to earn my $50 worth of content?
This is a nasty and disheartening business practice.

yup pretty much the case . and i would be shocked to hear even news at all about LS3 in 2016 . some how i got the feeling they are looking for a easy way to end LS altogether judging from what i seen in the last few years

Assuming that the information we’ve been given earlier is still correct and plans haven’t changed since then, devs have stated that the Forsaken Thicket raid as a whole will give us hints about the plot of Living World Season 3, foreshadowing stuff to come about a threat lurking in the shadows. We’ve also been told that there will be three raid wings for the Forsaken Thicket raid which are tied together lore and chronology-wise (Wing 1 leading to W2 which finally leads to W3 where the supposed lore mega reveal will take place). Now that the first wing called Spirit Vale has been released, there are still two more wings left for Forsaken Thicket before we can jump into the story of Season 3 if the devs follow these original plans.

I haven’t heard of any estimates of when the remaining raid wings will be released, but I’d expect at least one of them to show up by Q1 of 2016, depending on how complex mechanics the wings, particularly W3’s final boss and thus the final boss of the entire Forsaken Thicket raid, will have. Wintersday is coming soon, so that’s going to keep the non-raiders occupied for a time while people will also be leveling their Core Tyria and Maguuma Jungle masteries, going on the legendary journey, as well as unlocking their alts’ elite specializations in the meantime. There might even be a WvW event coming in the interim for all we know.

With that said, I’d expect Season 3 to show up by late Q1 or early Q2 with the current schedule. The lines for it have likely already been recorded during the production of Heart of Thorns (although some actors might need to rerecord some lines if the dialogue is tweaked when story edits are made), and based on twitter comments at least the lead composer Maclaine Diemer is also working hectically to compose new music (whether this music will be used for, say, raid wing 3’s events or for S3 remains to be seen, but my guess is for the latter).

It’s going to be interesting to see if S3 will offer (part of) a new map similar to S2 in the beginning of its story or if we’ll visit the existing jungle/core Tyria maps for a while similar to S1 before revelations will lead us to explore new, uncharted territory. The story of HoT left a lot of loose ends, after all, so I expect the narrative to resolve some of those dangling plot threads first by giving us a proper denouement and then launch us into the next adventure proper when the new threat rears its head.

I thought I read a post saying the next LS was coming in like January or February of 2015 O.o

ZachAttack.3957:

I thought I read a post saying the next LS was coming in like January or February of 2015 O.o

Probably not. Since its November of 2015.

I would not be surprised if they were to abandon the concept of regular release of living story to concentrate on regular release of expansions packs instead.

Creating LS requires a lot of work for very little return economically, while an expansion pack require a little bit more work, but is much more profitable moneywise.

Colin repeatedly stated, even right before launch, that LS S3 would be releasing. I don’t believe there was a set-in-stone schedule, but it didn’t sound that far off (a few months).

Unless they’ve changed direction in the last month, I don’t think the Living Story has been abandoned for expansions.

I still look forward to every other Tuesday for a patch/release, as they have pretty much kept to that cadence.