Guild Wars 2

In that place where you’re defending the farm from bandits. It’s one of my favorite places to hang out, helping players get the skill point by killing the boss bandit, and then the fun of fighting off the waves of bandits that come down out of the caves.

For whatever reason there was a lot of players there tonight, and then something happened I’d never seen – centaurs were crashing in with the bandits. The battle was really getting hectic – there were probably about a dozen of us and it was just mayhem … and then, I don’t know why, but suddenly there was a giant, champion rock troll in the middle of the fight, and a flood of bandits came crashing in like I’ve never seen before.

Outside of the Shadow Behemoth fight in the swamp, which I’ve done a couple of times, that was really the longest, hardest, most epic battle I’ve ever been involved with in any MMOG I’ve ever played, and it happened around me while I was just doing the things in the game I like to do anyway. I didn’t have to seek it out, wait in a queue, or find a group or beg for inclusion in a raid.

Seriously, ANET, thanks so much. That is great, great, GREAT game design!!! It’s such a joy to log in, wander around, do things and never know when I’m going to be caught up in something really, really cool like this.

Don’t forget, you were level 15.

Love that you don’t have to raid to have an epic fight… just follow a dynamic event.

If only more DE’s (if that even was one =p) were like that.

Let’s hope they eventually make that happen.

Although I died multiple times and was cursing like a sailor doing Forlarn’s Pass’s jumping puzzle with the imps. Once I FINALLY beat it (despite just a tiny chest for a reward) I was still quite excited to finish. With the super fast respawn rates, it was just a non stop mad-dash to stay alive and kill everything while slowly making it through the puzzle. I had to time every CC/heal/cooldown I had perfectly just to make it and it was quite thrilling indeed lol.

I’m actually sort of hoping more jumping puzzles were that hard.

The giant is a separate event started around that area. The timing of it usually doesn’t coincide so it’s extremely rare. I play that area alot, and it’s only happened twice and looks to be entirely unintended.

Unintended – but awesome. Like so many of the best things in GW2.

Wintyre Fraust.6534:

For whatever reason there was a lot of players there tonight

MoPandaria launched today. So thats probably why….wait…