Guild Wars 2

Have we had any news or hints when this is going to start up?
I finished my Pre-cursor scavanger hunt on Monday (sunday for you guys)
and now im sorta just milling about wondering what to do.

And i think i saw somewhere that LS-S3 is at least a couple of months away june or july at the earliest i think i saw.

No date or timeframe has been given. All we have to go on is a Reddit post from Colin saying living season updates are the sort of thing included in updates between quarterly updates.

Is today supposed to be news day?
I was hoping for some sort of announcement of SOMETHING coming.
Something …. anything… lol

Before i came to work i saw they at least updated the gem store on time :p

Shh, It’s top secret. You’ll be killed if you stumble upon this knowledge before it’s ready.

Reinate.7594:

Is today supposed to be news day?
I was hoping for some sort of announcement of SOMETHING coming.
Something …. anything… lol

Before i came to work i saw they at least updated the gem store on time :p

Today is often a patch/news day, but it isn’t a guarantee

Like a ninja i wanna duck in and discover their plans … Then return home and semi-paitently wait for implementation.

Just wish Season 3 would hurry up already.
Last story content we got was HoT that was october.

they apologized for the content drought from January-October (10 months)
Now its 4-5 months since content,
We are well on the way to another content drought.

Just some hint of how far away it is would saitiate my thirst lol

Checks GW2 website on his lunch break
See’s an update to the news ticker
See’s that its about Leagues
crys at his desk

The Hurt is real >_<

Oh well … maybe in another fortnight :-(

You should give up on this game getting updates. I think we’ve established by now that the only thing we’re going to get most of the time is rehashed festivals.

Look at the -entire year- of content drought before HoT released.

Hannelore.8153:

Look at the -entire year- of content drought before HoT released.

And look at the 4 month of content drought since HoT release!

Reinate.7594:

Have we had any news or hints when this is going to start up?
I finished my Pre-cursor scavanger hunt on Monday (sunday for you guys)
and now im sorta just milling about wondering what to do.

And i think i saw somewhere that LS-S3 is at least a couple of months away june or july at the earliest i think i saw.

At my best guess, probably nine months from now? LS3 won’t come out until the raid is fully released and that’s progressing at glacial speed. So expect a content drought until that bottleneck is cleared.

Tapioca.9062:

Reinate.7594:

Have we had any news or hints when this is going to start up?
I finished my Pre-cursor scavanger hunt on Monday (sunday for you guys)
and now im sorta just milling about wondering what to do.

And i think i saw somewhere that LS-S3 is at least a couple of months away june or july at the earliest i think i saw.

At my best guess, probably nine months from now? LS3 won’t come out until the raid is fully released and that’s progressing at glacial speed. So expect a content drought until that bottleneck is cleared.

That makes no sense, since when is LS3 related to the raids at all? Do we have any official word on this?

If we are going to wait for LS3 that long, my guess is, we have to forget completely about one of the most successful content in GW2 history… Yes, I’m talking about Super Adventure Box :/ This lack of content compared to previous years pushing me away from Guild Wars 2. Sad story..

I assume we will hear more about Season 3 in April.

I regard to content drought. New permanent content was on November 17th, three months ago. Next batch will come in March I guess. The rest of February seems to be booked by sPvP stuff.

My feeling is that the next LS season will be like the previous one. It will only serves as a sales pitch for their next expansion.

You can probably expect the next LS to appear late this spring, or more likely early this fall, followed by some months of beta weekends for the expansion’s pre-purchasers to finally culminate with the expansion’s release.

In the meantime, to keep players busy, they will give us their recurring special events like Dragonbash, Halloween, Queen’s Gauntlet, quarterly game updates, PVP tournaments, etc….

Andulias.9516:

That makes no sense, since when is LS3 related to the raids at all? Do we have any official word on this?

What we have are some statements (or clues, take your pick), so I’ll present a few (the ones I could find, anyway; I may have missed a few since it’s been a while the devs discussed this stuff at length).

Colin Johanson’s blog post about the state of the game gave us some foreshadowing for Season 3 which also revealed that the Pact Commander will be dealing with the raid’s events first before tackling with S3 plot stuff. The relevant passage:

With the recent death of Mordremoth, the Pact and its armies are in disarray with the vast majority of its troops dead or missing. Survivors have begun to regroup or gone home to mourn the dead while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north. [emphasis mine]

The raid story is thus connected to post-HoT storyline but how deeply its events will affect the actual S3 plot remains to be seen because we don’t know yet what the conclusion of raid wing 3 will be and how S3 begins. My guess is that if the first raid map in its entirety (all 3 wings of Forsaken Thicket—Spirit Vale, the upcoming Salvation Pass, and the as of yet unnamed third wing) contains plot-critical information for S3, the season will find a way to convey that information to players via NPCs, journals and such during its run so players who haven’t done the 3 wings of the first raid aren’t locked out of the story.

We know from Crystal Reid and Mike Zadorojny’s comments from last year’s Twitchcon stream about raids (important lore stuff goes from 14:26 to 17:44 in that video), from Bobby Stein’s comments on this forum, as well as from the Spirit Vale wing itself (the wiki page is still incomplete though) which kind of ends with foreshadowing stuff to come, that the 3 wings of Forsaken Thicket are basically chapters of the same plot that follow one another with wing 2 having a mega reveal and the end of wing 3 having the ultimate payoff while revealing the “next threat in the shadows” which may be connected to S3’s events in some tangential way aside from the fallout of the released magic from Mordremoth’s demise at the end of HoT.

One way to possibly connect the overall raid story with S3 is if the as of yet unnamed Pact squad leader, who has been referenced as being "worthy" to be taken beyond the wall, whom many allies and enemies have mentioned, and whom we'll likely be trying to save from the kidnappers in Salvation Pass, plays a part in Pact politics in S3 or in some other capacity, unless said leader dies at the end of the raid.

We’ll know more once we experience the overall plot and ending of the Salvation Pass wing and what cliffhanger it leaves for wing 3 to finally resolve. My guess is that, apart from the above spoiler’s possible involvement in the future, S3 and Forsaken Thicket will be thematically connected by generally exploring the aftereffects of Mordremoth’s demise: how the release of the magic the dragon had stored in its body will affect several beings and locations.

i prefer SAB

Kossage.9072:

Andulias.9516:

That makes no sense, since when is LS3 related to the raids at all? Do we have any official word on this?

What we have are some statements (or clues, take your pick), so I’ll present a few (the ones I could find, anyway; I may have missed a few since it’s been a while the devs discussed this stuff at length).

Colin Johanson’s blog post about the state of the game gave us some foreshadowing for Season 3 which also revealed that the Pact Commander will be dealing with the raid’s events first before tackling with S3 plot stuff. The relevant passage:

With the recent death of Mordremoth, the Pact and its armies are in disarray with the vast majority of its troops dead or missing. Survivors have begun to regroup or gone home to mourn the dead while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north. [emphasis mine]

The raid story is thus connected to post-HoT storyline but how deeply its events will affect the actual S3 plot remains to be seen because we don’t know yet what the conclusion of raid wing 3 will be and how S3 begins. My guess is that if the first raid map in its entirety (all 3 wings of Forsaken Thicket—Spirit Vale, the upcoming Salvation Pass, and the as of yet unnamed third wing) contains plot-critical information for S3, the season will find a way to convey that information to players via NPCs, journals and such during its run so players who haven’t done the 3 wings of the first raid aren’t locked out of the story.

We know from Crystal Reid and Mike Zadorojny’s comments from last year’s Twitchcon stream about raids (important lore stuff goes from 14:26 to 17:44 in that video), from Bobby Stein’s comments on this forum, as well as from the Spirit Vale wing itself (the wiki page is still incomplete though) which kind of ends with foreshadowing stuff to come, that the 3 wings of Forsaken Thicket are basically chapters of the same plot that follow one another with wing 2 having a mega reveal and the end of wing 3 having the ultimate payoff while revealing the “next threat in the shadows” which may be connected to S3’s events in some tangential way aside from the fallout of the released magic from Mordremoth’s demise at the end of HoT.

One way to possibly connect the overall raid story with S3 is if the as of yet unnamed Pact squad leader, who has been referenced as being "worthy" to be taken beyond the wall, whom many allies and enemies have mentioned, and whom we'll likely be trying to save from the kidnappers in Salvation Pass, plays a part in Pact politics in S3 or in some other capacity, unless said leader dies at the end of the raid.

We’ll know more once we experience the overall plot and ending of the Salvation Pass wing and what cliffhanger it leaves for wing 3 to finally resolve. My guess is that, apart from the above spoiler’s possible involvement in the future, S3 and Forsaken Thicket will be thematically connected by generally exploring the aftereffects of Mordremoth’s demise: how the release of the magic the dragon had stored in its body will affect several beings and locations.

From your post I smell white mantle and the unseen ones.

SkyShroud.2865:

i prefer SAB

LSAB with new 8bit content every 2 weeks?

Ahhh that WOULD be awesome.
Sadly i dont see any SAB coming any time soon.

Unless they release it for April Fools.
In its completely unworking state that its in.

that would be one h3ll of an april’s fools joke.
Imagine the salt these forums would have.