What stuck around?
No the only things that have really stuck around are the Scarlet invasions, the Karka Queen meta, the Teq change and now the new TA path. There are some cosmetic changes to South Sun also…oh and there were a few mini games added which are on rotation in LA like Crab Toss, Southsun Survival and Sanctum Sprint.
Anyone can feel free to correct me though, I may be forgetting one or two things.
No the only things that have really stuck around are the Scarlet invasions, the Karka Queen meta, the Teq change and now the new TA path. There are some cosmetic changes to South Sun also…oh and there were a few mini games added which are on rotation in LA like Crab Toss, Southsun Survival and Sanctum Sprint.
Anyone can feel free to correct me though, I may be forgetting one or two things.
That’s what I was wondering, I keep hearing about content being removed, but I always assumed it was things like the queens tourney thing (I caught the end of that) not a full blown story-mode dungeon. Really sad, especially the single-player stuff, as I don’t always have the ability to set aside a block of time for a dungeon.
Read about these updates on the old release pages and patch notes since some of the item vendors were still around and was wondering if there was actual content I could go explore.
Guess not.
According to the Devs, some of the content may make a return, either in its original form, or in another form. The next year or so will tell. Welcome back.
Oh the jp in Gendarran is still there I think, right? I didn’t like it so I haven’t checked back but I don’t think it was removed.
There were two dungeons added and removed, aetherblade retreat and molten facility, they’re supposed to be making a comeback before the end of the year as new fractals.
What has stuck so far between southsun and last month (that I remember):
- Several new minigame (sanctum sprint, crab toss, southsun survival) added to the activity rotation.
- 3 new jumping puzzles (not so secret in gendarran fields, and 2 more in southsun)
- Karka Queen in southsun. Basically you have to take the 4 camps in southsun and it’ll make a karka queen boss spawn that gives bonus chests. When karka queen is defeated new vendors show up that sell exotic gear.
- Some new achievements (marriner plaques in Lion’s Arch tied to the latest novel, speedy reader and cleaning up the neighbourhood in Ebonhawke)
- New champion loot. Killing champions now give you bags that contain crafting materials and blue/greens with a chance at some unique weapon skins.
- VIP area in divinity’s reach with all crafting stations, bank, TP and asura gates to all cities in a small room, 2 weeks access bought on gem store (personally I prefer ebonhawke, all crafting, banks and TP all close together for free).
- Several gem store weapon sets (aetherized, zodiac…). Basically you get the chance of a rare ticket in the black lion chests (or a little less rare ticket scrap, 5 scraps and you get a ticket), you can trade 5 tickets for any of these weapons. It used to be 1 ticket while their relevant living story was running.
I’ll keep adding if I remember anything else.
It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.
There were two dungeons added and removed, aetherblade retreat and molten facility, they’re supposed to be making a comeback before the end of the year as new fractals.
What has stuck so far between southsun and last month (that I remember):
- Several new minigame (sanctum sprint, crab toss, southsun survival) added to the activity rotation.
- 3 new jumping puzzles (not so secret in gendarran fields, and 2 more in southsun)
- Karka Queen in southsun. Basically you have to take the 4 camps in southsun and it’ll make a karka queen boss spawn that gives bonus chests. When karka queen is defeated new vendors show up that sell exotic gear.
- Some new achievements (marriner plaques in Lion’s Arch tied to the latest novel, speedy reader and cleaning up the neighbourhood in Ebonhawke)
- New champion loot. Killing champions now give you bags that contain crafting materials and blue/greens with a chance at some unique weapon skins.
- VIP area in divinity’s reach with all crafting stations, bank, TP and asura gates to all cities in a small room, 2 weeks access bought on gem store (personally I prefer ebonhawke, all crafting, banks and TP all close together for free).
- Several gem store weapon sets (aetherized, zodiac…). Basically you get the chance of a rare ticket in the black lion chests (or a little less rare ticket scrap, 5 scraps and you get a ticket), you can trade 5 tickets for any of these weapons. It used to be 1 ticket while their relevant living story was running.I’ll keep adding if I remember anything else.
Ah, so that’s how you get those tickets. I suppose I should buy a bunch of keys and chests with gems then (haha). Saw the VIP ticket for sale yesterday… Gem store pushing (/yawn).
Haven’t tried many jumping puzzles because they’re so kitten hard to find. Maybe I should google a few.
Edit: And I just figured out why everyone keeps typing kitten. See? I’m catching on.
I was going to check out Southsun but I wasn’t sure what there was to do there? If the Queen drops chests and you can get some important mats/etc. there then maybe its a place I’ll hang out once I finish leveling my second character. I was there once when you accessed it by ship but I’m just finding out it has changed since then.
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