Guild Wars 2

One of the main reasons why we haven’t seen Season 1 reappear is that is was designed for a large number of players. People often complained that there were never new maps to play on but back in the day there was a new map (even if it was only temporary…and smaller) every 2 weeks! It was a shame that all of this content would be made, run for 2 weeks, and then poof to never be heard from again.

With the new Raid Squad setup it might make it easier to bring back Season 1. Most of Season 1 would be able to work just fine for a party of 10 (actually, many aspects of it could be solo’d). The two main issues would be the Twisted Marionette and the Lion’s Arch finale.

For the Marionette…close some lanes or have them NPC only (and not fight the boss) and adjust the time accordingly. For the Lion’s Arch finale two fights come to mind. The Assault Knight battle can be scaled for 3-4 players and the party of 10 can split up among them. And the battle aboard the Breachmaker can certainly be scaled to 10. That was a fantastic fight.

Actually, the Assault Knights would be a great addition to fractals rather than raids because raids are supposed to move the story forward and fractals take place in the past, though I understand the challenge of changing Marionnette to 5 players rather than a raid group. Some of S1 was already added to fractals but I think we could do with some more

While I like this idea, I also think it’s a non-starter. All the rest of the episodic story content is designed to scale from 1-5 players so they can be done solo. Making season 1 only viable with a raid squad would be very odd in comparison.

Adding the instances that only make sense as group content to fractals, though, that could certainly work.