All speculations feel free to add your own or comment on likely hood, ect.
1) First raid content, the giant flower monster we saw while scouting with Caithe and Canach from THIS story step.
a) the new raid will drop Crystalline Ore and all raids after this will reward Crystalline Ore.
b) Lumps of Mithrilium will be able to be upgraded into Deldrimore Stell Ingots (like they are able to already, but also they will be able to be upgraded into Xunlai Electrum Ingots by using platinum, gold, and silver ingots.
i) because of these two new materials being added to the crafting table both Jewel crafting and Chef will be able to go up to 500 and finish the last of the grand master crafts. all of these predictions rely on the a raid being included in this update, and I believe it is a fair guess considering it will be the finale for Living World season 2 and based on THIS article they would’ve had a bit of time to work on it by now.
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While I’d love for Chef and Jeweler to go to 500 with this patch, there hasn’t been any new information unearthed that points to this. I do agree that the giant flower Mordrem is bound to make an appearance sooner or later though; this episode seems as good as any a point for it to happen.
I predict that the forums will love everything Anet has to say, and there will be great rejoicing. Maybe not. lol
I’m thinking that Anet doesn’t love the reception they’re getting for Living Story Season 2 and so they’re going to make some changes to the Living Story format. While I do think Anet will be adding a profession and races to the game…I don’t believe that announcement will come at Pax.
hmmmmmm interesting. Thank you for the links! While I don’t really think we will get raids and big changes on the 13th I do think we will have either a) we will lose against Mordy and his minions, or b) we MIGHT get some answers as to were Rytlock is, or c) both a and b. I remember seeing a WoodenPotatoes video that it would be really shocking if Trahearne sacrificed himself to save the whole pact camp. As for the raid changes and stuff we’ll prob get it in a future release or for sure announced on PAX convention thingy. I have high hopes for PAX since when you really think about it on that day is panels of “some cool games” “some demos” “other games etc” and “Guild Wars 2”. Looks promising.
Considering Raids were in a very recent CDI, my guess is not this patch. They would have hyped it to some degree. Too many people are wanting it for them not to get word out so that those waiting for new content before returning can learn about it.
They’ll likely save raids for a feature patch as opposed to a typical LS patch.
I predict we will get a few instances, Silverwastes expansion, a cool boss fight, usual achievements, and it will end on an unsatisfying cliffhanger that involves waiting a few months while a character delivers some sorta message, or something.
You guys are setting yourselves up for disappointment. There is no reason to believe that it will be any different than last season’s finale. Now the announcement on the 24th on the other hand, I am cautiously excited about that. Although I refuse to get excited by anything Anet hypes anymore. Anet is all about overhyping and underdelivering. Just look at all the hype from the previous feature patch. Daily dev blogs touting how each feature was the second coming when everything about it was meh. But I really do hope they knock my socks off. We’ll see.
The pact won’t stay with us any longer while we are taking care of the egg they are advancing into the maguuma jungle ( you can already see the abandoned camp in the trailer). With the next story release, I think we will finally reuinte with the pact.
And yeah.. we will get a ton of cliffhangers.
Featurewise we won’t see anything significant, I think. That’s what the feature packs are for.
The pact won’t stay with us any longer while we are taking care of the egg they are advancing into the maguuma jungle ( you can already see the abandoned camp in the trailer). With the next story release, I think we will finally reuinte with the pact.
And yeah.. we will get a ton of cliffhangers.
Featurewise we won’t see anything significant, I think. That’s what the feature packs are for.
I didn’t see the camp as abandoned. Rather it was under assault by Mordy.
I didn’t see the camp as abandoned. Rather it was under assault by Mordy.
Well seeing how the vines have some kind of plotarmor I’m pretty sure the safest thing for the pact to do would be abandoning the camp and move forward.
90% sure it’s a cliffhanger. Don’t expect anything related to Season 3 to start till AFTER Pax…so that means in february.
January might be something related to how we will start our long cliffhanger journey to the forest maps. Till then we will have 2 LS stories to introduce us to the new season OR even just 1 LS story left, followed by a bigger break till the new S3.
I also think we will finish the luminescent set before Season 3.
We have access thru that door to the Crystal Desert. Those markings in the door are like Elona Reach, Thirsty River and Dunes of Despair. So maybe they are paths to those cities in Crystal Desert. Maybe there are three paths; 1. Elona Reach, 2. Dune of Despair and 3. Thirsty River. (So dungeon or mini dungeon perhaps?) Those places were in Guild Wars Prophecies Ascension places, where characters got all secondary professions. And last characters had to fight against Doppelganger and finished that ascension.
Now starts hardest part of my speculations:
So we might get access to those cities from these paths and in there we can learn Secondary professions, and after that all professions can start to use all kind of weapons.
I didn’t see the camp as abandoned. Rather it was under assault by Mordy.
Well seeing how the vines have some kind of plotarmor I’m pretty sure the safest thing for the pact to do would be abandoning the camp and move forward.
But maybe you are right, we will see :P
Looking at the trailer again, it does seem that the airships are gone, at least. So it’s us and whoever was left behind to tend the camp to fight off the vines.
Last seed will show that the cave is the same one that Ronan found the seed for the pale tree in. It is revealed that the pale tree had intended to usurp the power of Mordremoth and become the agent for that dragon’s power in Tyria. Scarlet had felt that having the pale tree as a dragon would be throwing off one tyrant for another, and tried to circumvent these plans by waking Mordremoth early.
The players are then forced to choose between a plan to have glint’s baby being the vessel for the Dragon’s power and the Pale Tree. This is the Point of No Return. The Pale Tree is annoyed that we don’t choose her, but acquiesces because changing the Sylvari origin story would be too hard and it gives us an excuse to travel to the crystal desert for season 3.
Event wise, the lanes leading to the giant thistle thing open up for a Marionette style battle, which fits in with the current Silverwastes meta event. This event is permanent, and for the last part of LS you need to defeat it and go into an instance where you inject some of Scarlet’s poison into a major taproot. This doesn’t kill Mordremoth, but does stop his advance.
I’m excited for the PAX announcement and anticipating the update. I just hope that there isn’t another month stretch after the PAX announcement with no content. If the schedule persists, we’re looking at an update the Tuesday after Friday the 23rd’s PAX details, and best case scenario would be a feature patch implementing parts or wholes of whatever they announce.
Worst case scenario is we get another stretch of no updates after the end of Season 2, followed by a feature patch. I think February would be the expected arrival of a feature patch, however they may push it forward as an alternative to another month with no content so shortly after the exasperating Wintersday activities.
I am hopeful though. It’s obvious that ANET is going to announce their alternative to a boxed expansion, and I’m anxious to see what they’ve come up with. In the long run, ANET has yet to disappoint me.
I am hopeful though. It’s obvious that ANET is going to announce their alternative to a boxed expansion, and I’m anxious to see what they’ve come up with. In the long run, ANET has yet to disappoint me.
They will release Elona and Cantha at the same time
I am hopeful though. It’s obvious that ANET is going to announce their alternative to a boxed expansion, and I’m anxious to see what they’ve come up with. In the long run, ANET has yet to disappoint me.
They will release Elona and Cantha at the same time
You guys are soooo optimistic. They’ll keep polishing things that don’t need polishing and use that as an excuse to actual CONTENT. They’ve been behaving like this all 2014, and it’s going to be the same in 2015.
See, they’re also great to create hype trains. The simple statement “Living World was just the beginning” erupted a lot of ZOMG’s.
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And I don’t understand why we still don’t get Kudu’s back item from Crucible of Eternity story mode, where he’s last boss.
Jesus returns, bringing an updated Constitution down from Mt. Rushmore, and a little boy hands Jesus an iPad (like the old Pepsi commercial with Mean Joe Greene…work with me here) with some saved Twitch streams showing the original human female running and idle animations…and he doesn’t cry.
ArenaNet says, “Some folks totally said you were going to cry…and possibly take NASCAR away, so we changed it?”
The only thing I’m hoping for is that we get to SEE mordy for the finale. It was really lame that we only saw zhatian for 30 seconds before we killed him.
The only thing I’m hoping for is that we get to SEE mordy for the finale. It was really lame that we only saw zhatian for 30 seconds before we killed him.
Oh you forgot about the huge outcry when they showed zhaitan in the release trailer?
The only thing I’m hoping for is that we get to SEE mordy for the finale. It was really lame that we only saw zhatian for 30 seconds before we killed him.
Oh you forgot about the huge outcry when they showed zhaitan in the release trailer?
To be fair there is a pretty big difference between the release trailer and the last second of the final battle.
Though I don’t actually recall that outcry… why didn’t they want to see him in the trailer? You should know what you are fighting, and it fits the story since he came and destroyed a whole bunch of stuff years earlier and everyone saw him then.
Less play as you want and more play as “everyone” wants
No new classes or races
The les-conics, and Rox and Braham
Lots of “Boss”
Recently returned to…
…Aurora Glade some random MegaServer™, always being asked to volunteer for that buff…
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This thread should be renamed as it’s misleading. Everyone is posting expansion and/or 2015 predictions rather than predictions specific to tomorrow’s update.
This thread should be renamed as it’s misleading. Everyone is posting expansion and/or 2015 predictions rather than predictions specific to tomorrow’s update.
The thread title is about as clear as can be. I think people are posting 2015 predictions because the OP’s expectations for the patch are so absurd that people just figured he meant his expectations for all of 2015… which in and of itself is a sad commentary on the state of the game…
This thread should be renamed as it’s misleading. Everyone is posting expansion and/or 2015 predictions rather than predictions specific to tomorrow’s update.
The thread title is about as clear as can be. I think people are posting 2015 predictions because the OP’s expectations for the patch are so absurd that people just figured he meant his expectations for all of 2015… which in and of itself is a sad commentary on the state of the game…
I don’t think my original prediction was too ridiculous, if you look at the finale for LW season 1 the ending is essentially a raid, HERE it is 6 Mini Bosses (champions from Scarlet’s different alliances), 3 Bosses (the assault knights), finishing with a multi stage final boss battle (as seen HERE)
In the same way they could easily just add the Breach event bosses in to be mini bosses, and the Legendary bosses (Example) used for “The Be-All and the End-All” as bosses before opening the plant thing discovered in Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad story step as a multi step final raid boss.
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The Xunlai Electrum and Crystalline ascended mats have been in the mat bank for a long time now (6+ months). I remember the speculation as to what they were used for when they first popped up in the bank, ascended jewelcrafting being the most popular theory. Why is this just suddenly popping up as a prediction for tomorrow’s patch, which isn’t even a feature pack but an LS episode, especially since Anet loves hyping this stuff and there has been been no mention of it whatsoever?
