Guild Wars 2

Have any of you seen the House with a magical shield in LA ?
That magic shield protects it against Scarlet Armies.

Well Its part of the personal story “On Red Alert”. This just the attack of Zhaitan in the Claw island.
Gixx of the Durmand Priory sends you to find his coleague Maeva in LA.

To get to the instance you have to go to the SE of Gendarran Fields.
There you find bouncer Kinna & Cpt. Smash (the golem.)

Bouncer Kinna explains the Scarlet situation and says she knows her way around the besieged city & how to evade the Siege forces of Scarlet.
She also tells you that Cpt. Smash destroyed the tunnel linking Gendaran to LA because they wanted to stop the spead of the poison miasma.

Cpt Smash tells you that he could bring down Scarlet (probably like Ellen Kiel, Heal-o-tron, Delaquea, Kasmeer Meade, Eirrson and the others)

They transport you inside Maeva’s Shielded House.
You can see the Drill clearly outside the blue dome.
The House is on temporary lockdown, automated defences have been activated and you must figure out how to close them.

The personal story technically takes place in 1325 AE. In the Living World, we’re in 1327 AE. Sadly, however, the personal story utilizes the current maps, rather than having their own.

Captain Smash/Bouncer Kinna’s dialogues is generically the same for any personal story step taking place in Lion’s Arch – it’s the path that Anet chose to allow entering the personal story during Escape from Lion’s Arch and Battle for Lion’s Arch.

Meave’s house being on lockdown isn’t related to the Scarlet attack, but the risen scout found within near the end of the story step – as the story step remains unchanged since release (except for it using the modern map as mentioned).

Bouncer Kinna SPECIFICALLY states that Lion’s Arch is besieged by Scarlet forces
She is the one that takes you character to the event.

Just because your personal story took place in 1325 doesnt matter.
Mine happens in 1327.

Maeva’s house is just too OP to be bothered by Scarlet. hence the shield

Like I said, Kinna says that for every personal story step dealing with Lion’s Arch. Her involvement with any of them – sans one of the Order of Whispers ones – is new, added with Escape from Lion’s Arch.

And everyone’s personal story happens in 1325 AE. See this post by Bobby Stein.

BobbyStein.2315:

DragoTheWise.7256:

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Because members of Destiny’s Edge are so entwined with your Personal Story as well as the over-arching story with Zhaitan, and because the Living World plot lines are taking place at the same time all those other story threads, we couldn’t have the members of Destiny’s Edge splitting themselves between these other areas and what was going on with Living World. This is partly why we introduced these new characters.

I hope you folks are seriously not considering the LS is happening at the same time as the Personal Story, and this is just a slip up on the post. I also would hope that everyone on the team can get this stuff straight so that this confusion doesn’t happen.

What Regina means is that for players who are currently going through their Personal Story, the LW timeline will seem to be happening at the same time. Technically, they happen at different times in Tyrian history. Personal Story predates the current Living World season by approximately one year.

So when you’re playing your Personal Story and are in an instance with Rytlock, etc. the assumption is that this is happening “in the past” whereas LW events are happening now.

Our hope is to provide better distinction of these timelines within the game, but that would come with the release of a planned feature that we’re not ready to discuss in depth just yet.

The security system is still in place, a year later, as we see with Escape/Battle for Lion’s Arch, but it’s not up because of the events of the living world.

You only disable the security system in the personal story. You don’t destroy it. So why would it be gone a year later?

I find it a cool touch that they added it. It should be there, regardless of personal story.

Side topic, but I’m very curious as to what the ‘planned feature’ is going to be. I love surprises!