Guild Wars 2

New season July 1st, festival until then.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready/

I think the picture officially confirms we are getting a new zone in the maguuma jungle!

Watch people still complain about it. omg its so far away blah blah QQ…

I for one am excited!

Let them QQ, keeps them indoors and out of trouble.

I really am looking forward to the new areas as well. Should be a fun summer.

Vesuvius.9874:

Watch people still complain about it. omg its so far away blah blah QQ…

I for one am excited!

Yeah it’s just over a month away. Hopefully that means they’ve had lots of extra time to put in to it. They really need to put more time on the patches and not worry about pumping them out so frequently.

Corpus Christi.2057:

2 years after the game’s premiere – it’d better be a portal to a new, permanent explorable map! #fingerscrossed

Brisban Wildlands has 2 impossible to access Zone portals currently. Big hint at where it’s going to lead.

Two months of a bland festival. Well, only 3 days to go

EDIT: I take that back. Just over one month

Really hope for a high level jungle setting. I love Maguuma jungle in GW1 and can’t wait to go there. Please let this be the case!

Lankybrit.4598:

Two months of a bland festival. Well, only 3 days to go

EDIT: I take that back. Just over one month

The Bazaar is one of the most beautiful and interesting zones in the game, mate. I’m glad I’ll be able to enjoy it for another month.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Corpus Christi.2057:

2 years after the game’s premiere – it’d better be a portal to a new, permanent explorable map! #fingerscrossed

Brisban Wildlands has 2 impossible to access Zone portals currently. Big hint at where it’s going to lead.

So Maguuma Jungle, you say? Could you give me a wp location of those portals? I’ll log in into the game just out of sheer curiosity.:)

Thanks in advance!

Season 2 HAS to blow people away, every update is going to have to be as big as the Battle for LA….it cannot be set to the same standard of season 1

there is too much waiting around with no “new” content to do and people are going to forget about the game :\

especially with gigantic games coming up like Wildstar, Destiny, Warlords of Draenor, and what hasn’t been revealed to be coming out yet at E3…which we will know by july 1st

Inb4 people start complaining about this somehow.

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

^ Well if they add new zones (which it looks like from the teaser) it is rather likely that it would be permanent. I also seem to recall someone quoting that they would mainly have permanent stuff with season 2.

^If thats true lordkrall I will be an very happy panda. Crossing fingers

rincewind.9528:

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

all S2 content is permanent now….not sure about achieves though

Dat looks like a new zone portal. Me likey.

Looking forward to it….

rincewind.9528:

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

I can see this being a problem for other updates and the Queen’s Pavillion (why can’t this stay open again? It doesn’t make any sense. In real life, this would be the equivalent of spending hundreds of millions of public funds to build a giant iconic sports stadium then tell the taxpayers ‘no, its only open once a year’).

But for Zephyr Sanctum. They’re travelling merchants, they wouldn’t be travelling merchants if they just stayed in one place all the time, would they?

Jordo.5913:

rincewind.9528:

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

all S2 content is permanent now….not sure about achieves though

LS2 is all permanent content? Now that’s interesting.

Xae Isareth.1364:

rincewind.9528:

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

I can see this being a problem for other updates and the Queen’s Pavillion (why can’t this stay open again? It doesn’t make any sense. In real life, this would be the equivalent of spending hundreds of millions of public funds to build a giant iconic sports stadium then tell the taxpayers ‘no, its only open once a year’).

But for Zephyr Sanctum. They’re travelling merchants, they wouldn’t be travelling merchants if they just stayed in one place all the time, would they?

Lol. That pretty much happened in South Africa.

Xenon.4537:

I think the picture officially confirms we are getting a new zone in the maguuma jungle!

I wouldn’t get my hopes up just yet. Just because they posted a pick of a portal doesn’t mean a new map, at least not right away. I hope we do get a map with the first patch, but I’m not gonna hold my breath.

Jordo.5913:

rincewind.9528:

Oh well, honestly I had hopes on playing without time pressure for a time.

I see that they will keep making this temporary content, but I hope that they do not pump it so frequently. I hate playing pressured by time restrictions.

“PLAY NOW. FAST! FAST! GOT THOSE ACHIEVS AND REWARDS OR YOU GONNA LOST IT FOREVER!!! DONT TAKE A BREAK OR YOU GONNA MISS THE STORY!!!”

But, I guess that I’m a minority here… in all aspects… maybe it’s just not the game for me.

all S2 content is permanent now….not sure about achieves though

I highly doubt that. I know they said something about more permanent, but that doesn’t mean everythings permanent. Also, didn’t they say something about the second half of last year being more permanent too? And see how well that turned out. I think all we got was the collapsed tower.

Good, good.

The thing that I regret more about S1 is that I missed chuncks of the story.
Like the final battle against Scarlet.

And the Zephyr Sanctum can be made an seasonal festival. They can come back every year. Or maybe every six months or something like that.

Don’t get me wrong, but judging by what has happened in those 2 years of GW2 life, I wouldn’t get your hopes too high, after second thought.
After all, if it takes two years to, possibly, open a new explorable zone, and then again, by current state of affairs, fill the game up with cheap and poor quality-wise content the whole year, it’s nothing “phenomenal”. It’s “ok”, but is it enough for the people that have been lamenting over the game? Quite justly, I have to say.
We shall see what the future holds for us.

skullmount.1758:

Jordo.5913:

all S2 content is permanent now….not sure about achieves though

I highly doubt that. I know they said something about more permanent, but that doesn’t mean everythings permanent. Also, didn’t they say something about the second half of last year being more permanent too? And see how well that turned out. I think all we got was the collapsed tower.

http://i.imgur.com/JL4js7E.jpg

Read lady avant’s chat….in game dev symbol

i will post here as well

“Starting with episode 1 (not this next one), ALL living story release will be permanent. Festivals and whatnot will still be seasonal.”

this was taken before the crown pavillion patch….so she is stating the crown pavillion will not be permanent

That portal doesn’t go to Cantha, that much we know. So while I’m happy for new content, everything is ho-hum until we can visit our most beloved Asian themed land.

NCSoft knows that if they let Anet release a Cantha expansion, Wildstar and Lineage II is dead. GW2’s player population would explode, and the servers would melt.

I hoped for a while already they would release new zones with the LS update, and now after a dev said that most LS2 stuff will be permanent i really expect some new zones. However i hope also they don’t listen again to the “elitemode, make everything harder” crowd and give us another Karka Island.

Jordo.5913:

especially with gigantic games coming up like Wildstar, Destiny, Warlords of Draenor, and what hasn’t been revealed to be coming out yet at E3…which we will know by july 1st

Don’t forget the new Blockbusters like “World of Never Heard Of” and “Generic Asia Grinder 4711”.

Jordo.5913:

skullmount.1758:

Jordo.5913:

all S2 content is permanent now….not sure about achieves though

I highly doubt that. I know they said something about more permanent, but that doesn’t mean everythings permanent. Also, didn’t they say something about the second half of last year being more permanent too? And see how well that turned out. I think all we got was the collapsed tower.

http://i.imgur.com/JL4js7E.jpg

Read lady avant’s chat….in game dev symbol

i will post here as well

“Starting with episode 1 (not this next one), ALL living story release will be permanent. Festivals and whatnot will still be seasonal.”

this was taken before the crown pavillion patch….so she is stating the crown pavillion will not be permanent

I remember reading through those but don’t remember that one.

Just because they show a portal, doesn’t mean that there is a new permanent area with new content. Just pure speculation and wisful thinking by many.

Blude, presenting it in such a way would be pure teasing then. Certainly a case of bad marketing. :P

Asmodeus.5782:

Blude, presenting it in such a way would be pure teasing then. Certainly a case of bad marketing. :P

It’s a portal INTO Lion’s Arch, where you can access the new content

Blude.6812:

Just because they show a portal, doesn’t mean that there is a new permanent area with new content. Just pure speculation and wisful thinking by many.

Yes, totally.
But I’m really really wishful for Maguuma Waster being introduced, and hopefully not just 1 map, but 2~3 maps with some level ranges, maybe not released at the same time, but in till the end of the Season 2 for sure.

Blude.6812:

Just because they show a portal, doesn’t mean that there is a new permanent area with new content. Just pure speculation and wisful thinking by many.

I don’t think it is. Besides the link above that says that all the new LS content will be permanent. One of the most demanded and desired things in the CDI’s was new explorable maps.

Other devs have talked about “expansion sized content” coming as well. That says to me at least, that areas will be expanded as well. So, IMO, new maps.

Can we delete the month of June so I can see this sooner?

Finishing the tutorial in Wildstar was a challenge. I actually made it through, but later on it did not get any better, to my amazement. :>

Asmodeus.5782:

Finishing the tutorial in Wildstar was a challenge. I actually made it through, but later on it did not get any better, to my amazement. :>

The game opens up around 17 or so. Mobs are tougher, more content such as adventures and shiphands, first dungeon is at 20 I think, etc. Not to mention the sickest encounters in raids…

Asmodeus.5782:

Finishing the tutorial in Wildstar was a challenge. I actually made it through, but later on it did not get any better, to my amazement. :>

Yeah, that was my feeling as well. Got to the second actual map (I think it was. as dominion, the map after seeing the giant robot thing firing its laser.) and was already bored with it. Gotta remember to contact support and try to get refund, or at least cancel the payment option.
But lets not get off topic.

I still doubt we’ll get a new map with the first release, or if we do, it’ll be only a small map. Theres no guarantee that the pic is from the first patch, and that its to a new zone. It could lead to a dungeon (though probably not true one, more a ls one like all others before), since dungeons also use the same map change/portal thing.

Doggie.3184:

Can we delete the month of June so I can see this sooner?

You want more temporary content with poor story telling and more cash shop grabs in the form of dresses and mini pets? Wrapped in a nice big zerg sandwhich garnished with zero skill and mutliplayer accountability?

Coming right up!

No reason to play for another month. Thanks for the honesty Anet. See you guys in July.

Lankybrit.4598:

Doggie.3184:

Can we delete the month of June so I can see this sooner?

Nah, that’s a whole month of Wildstar, cupcake!

i see what u did there

Solo.9027:

No reason to play for another month. Thanks for the honesty Anet. See you guys in July.

Haters gonna hate

cesmode.4257:

Doggie.3184:

Can we delete the month of June so I can see this sooner?

You want more temporary content with poor story telling and more cash shop grabs in the form of dresses and mini pets? Wrapped in a nice big zerg sandwhich garnished with zero skill and mutliplayer accountability?

Coming right up!

Do you think the Dev is not telling the truth, then? I think if they state it is permanent, it will be permanent. Otherwise, there will be a rough road ahead.

But, that’s just me. =)

1 Month of Wildstar! FOR DA DOMINION!!

Permanent content!!?!! Thank you!! Temporary content has been my only gripe about this game. I would love a full on expansion. Why not guild wars 2 factions? Add a new race? I would buy another $60 game. Just don’t add a bunch of skills like you did with gw1 and have balancing issues all over again. But if this is a portal to new land I am happy.

I’m looking forward to this.

I didnt jump into living story until marionette, but I really enjoyed it, the saving citizens and the knights.

I’m enjoying this pav…so I’m looking forward to seeing season 2 from the beginning!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

cesmode.4257:

Doggie.3184:

Can we delete the month of June so I can see this sooner?

You want more temporary content with poor story telling and more cash shop grabs in the form of dresses and mini pets? Wrapped in a nice big zerg sandwhich garnished with zero skill and mutliplayer accountability?

Coming right up!

Do you think the Dev is not telling the truth, then? I think if they state it is permanent, it will be permanent. Otherwise, there will be a rough road ahead.

But, that’s just me. =)

I think that a random person with an ANET tag discussing unreleased information could be misinformed. I’ll wait for official word on the release.

Corpus Christi.2057:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Corpus Christi.2057:

2 years after the game’s premiere – it’d better be a portal to a new, permanent explorable map! #fingerscrossed

Brisban Wildlands has 2 impossible to access Zone portals currently. Big hint at where it’s going to lead.

So Maguuma Jungle, you say? Could you give me a wp location of those portals? I’ll log in into the game just out of sheer curiosity.:)

Thanks in advance!

There is one in Vandal’s Claim (from what I’ve been told) hidden and blocked by the bandit “castle” there with the level 80 champions. The second one is in Lionshead Outcrops on the other side of the broken bridge. One leads West, the other leads North.

Asmodeus.5782:

Lankybrit.4598:

Two months of a bland festival. Well, only 3 days to go

EDIT: I take that back. Just over one month

The Bazaar is one of the most beautiful and interesting zones in the game, mate. I’m glad I’ll be able to enjoy it for another month.

Would you be so kind explaining me where these zones are ??
So far i just found a stairway up to the airship and a circle with zones to zerker
some bosses for a blue item and 29 copper.

I would love to see the zones you are talking about

Kurrilino.2706:

Asmodeus.5782:

Lankybrit.4598:

Two months of a bland festival. Well, only 3 days to go

EDIT: I take that back. Just over one month

The Bazaar is one of the most beautiful and interesting zones in the game, mate. I’m glad I’ll be able to enjoy it for another month.

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Would you be so kind explaining me where these zones are ??
So far i just found a stairway up to the airship and a circle with zones to zerker
some bosses for a blue item and 29 copper.

I would love to see the zones you are talking about

The Bazaar is in Divinity’s Reach.