Guild Wars 2

Hi all

I’m gonna try and keep this short, about a year ago, could be a a little longer than that, I quit playing GW2, there wasn’t much new, everything was expensive and I didn’t really feel like grinding over and over and over and over to get new stuff, also my friends quit playing.
Anyway now i’m back and the first thing I noticed was that Lions Reach was totally different than I remember it, the last thing I remember about playing the game is that there was an event going on, not sure where it was but there were a lot of poison enemies and a lot of events, one of the bosses was a big kitten spider.
I think that’s the last event I was a part of, I remember there being one in Lions Reach but I think that was before the one I mentioned.
Anyway to keep it short I was just wondering if someone can fill me in on what’s happened since the last time I was around, I know there is a expansion coming and that there are ‘Elite’ classes now, Chronomancer etc, but it would be nice to know what else is going on so I can catch up.
Thanks in advance!

You can peruse the Releases in the link above of the same name. And/or use the Wiki link above to read the entire Season 1 and 2 Story.

Welcome return, and good luck.

Btw…I think you mean Lion’s Arch, but there is Divinity’s Reach, as well.

Ok so the event you’re describing is most likely Scarlets attack on LA. the attack ended with us killing Scarlet in a giant drill that she was drilling into the planet with. She hit a leyline or some such crap (it really doesn’t matter) and woke up the jungle elder dragon Mordremoth. He’s like Zhaitan but he makes plant zombies instead (not using creatures just plants though). Anyway, we go into the dry top/silverwastes to farm… that’s about it… We attack Mordremoth with the combined firepower of the pact fleet that destroyed Zhaitan. After the pacts first volley of cannonfire Mordremoth wrecks the kitten out of our stuff and we’re screwed. Also it turns out sylvari are pawns of the elder dragon Mordremoth as well! And some of the sylvari have gone evil and what not.

OH YEAH
Rytlock was sucked into the mists and at some point in the expansion he comes out as the first Revenant.

It sounds like the last even he remembers was the Tower of Nightmares, or the subsequent events in Kessex Hills (big spider). =)

Yeah I meant Lion’s Arch, got it mixed up i’m afraid.
I remember Scarlet’s attack but also that event in Kessex Hills, just not sure which one came first but it was during one of those that I quit, not sure if it was during or right after that event though.

I’m not sure that anything has changed with regards to the focus of the game, but perhaps your expectations were unreasonable too.

There’s no way any company can make enough content to keep you playing forever. So in order to keep people around for new content, you end up having to work toward goals, whatever those goals are.

For some they’re items, for others achievements. Some people play to get better skins, some play to complete collections.

But the bottom line is, you’re going to have to do something repetitively in an MMO, no matter what MMO you play.

There have been a lot of stories;
You can now replay living story mission but you may need to pay gems as you were away;

I still do not have the yak slapper title.

ps Welcome back.

Vayne.8563:

I’m not sure that anything has changed with regards to the focus of the game, but perhaps your expectations were unreasonable too.

There’s no way any company can make enough content to keep you playing forever. So in order to keep people around for new content, you end up having to work toward goals, whatever those goals are.

For some they’re items, for others achievements. Some people play to get better skins, some play to complete collections.

But the bottom line is, you’re going to have to do something repetitively in an MMO, no matter what MMO you play.

I’m aware that things will be repetetive but what kind of ruined it for me was that weapons and armor that were somewhat cool costs like 30-50g maybe even more while other stuff could cost twice as much, maybe even three times as much, there was a legendary sword on sale for 9999g, and at the time besides being very good at flipping the only way to get gold a little faster was grinding this one particular dungeon, can’t remember the name of it, and that’s what killed some of the fun for me, either spending hundreds of hours playing to get one armor set or grinding the same dungeon a few hundred hours less to get the same thing.
Besides I wasn’t asking if anything game wise has changed, but just in general what has changed because Lion’s Arch is not the way I remember it and I don’t know what other maps have gotten a makeover.