Guild Wars 2

So far the past 3 legendary weapons we have gotten have been based in a large part off their respective Living Story they came out with. Ember Bay had Eureka, Bitterfrost had Shooshadoo, and now Lake Doric has HMS Divinity. This begs the question if the rest of the legendary weapons we get will follow suit and if so does that mean we can expect 9 more LS’s, a possible 18 to 27 months before completing the whole set?

A lot of people are expecting either 6 or 8 episodes total in LWS3. 6 episodes makes sense because that would be 2 episodes per LWS3 team. 8 episodes makes sense becauses that’s how long LWS2 was. I very highly doubt we would get more than 7 personally.

You can expect a similar model for additional legendary weapons, but I don’t know that you need to assume they are tied to living story releases.

For example, the HoT expansion maps all had individual map currencies; there is no reason that expansion II: the expansioning, which will likely have new maps, won’t have legendaries tied to the map currency.

(Also, that you must have a 1:1:1 relationship of map:currency:legendary for the model to work.)

My thinking is that there will be at least 9 but likely around 12 as they can release episodes up to the expansion rather than have a long gap. As each teams produces their 4th episode, they’ll get absorbed into the expansion team.

Six episodes is unlikely because the expansion is probably nowhere near being released yet and I’m sure they’d want to avoid another 8 month content drought. Episode 7 will probably focus on Lazarus and Marjory.

Another thing, since the legendary weapons are based off the theme of each LS episode, that makes you wonder how many legendary weapons were actually made, or in the process, as of HoT’s launch.

I can almost guarantee we’ll not see that many episodes.
My personal hamfist is that Lazarus is Palawa Joko, plenty of reasons to believe that so that we’ll get 1 or 2 more episodes in which I think the anarchial breakdown of the white mantle will occur and Rytlock will have a trial or encounter of sorts, after which episode 8 will in fact be the next expansion if my previously spoilercovered hamfist is correct, which would take us to Elona

Amaimon.7823:

I can almost guarantee we’ll not see that many episodes.
My personal hamfist is that Lazarus is Palawa Joko, plenty of reasons to believe that so that we’ll get 1 or 2 more episodes in which I think the anarchial breakdown of the white mantle will occur and Rytlock will have a trial or encounter of sorts, after which episode 8 will in fact be the next expansion if my previously spoilercovered hamfist is correct, which would take us to Elona

Except that, with the current episode, it seems that each team has a separate story arc which will then converge into the expansion. I don’t see anything that backs up what’s in your spoilers as nothing in the season thus far has pointed in that direction.

At the current trend, episode 8 would release in October. Anet likely has only been working on the expansion in force since April after they rolled out the large update. I can’t see them announcing an expansion until towards the end of the year, and unless it’s pretty much complete by then, we’d have a content drought like in 2015.

With a longer season, this would allow more opportunities for the other legendary weapons to get released and be themed with those episodes.