Guild Wars 2

I’m wondering if there are indications of how long the HoT missions are story-wise, and hopeful Anet will actually produce more of a timeline then merely the year of events…

Because it’s very vague. Verdant Brink/the mission after torn from sky takes place the day after the crash from everything I can gather, but how about the rest? And the living story season 2 events as well.

For example, how long has Caithe had the egg overall? Or Zephyrite crash to HoT start?

I feel this is the one area which Anet had trouble in it’s story-telling, it’s hard to guess/tell how much time has passed between events sometimes.

I can allready answer you one thing:
We won`t get any clear timeframes between the things that happen. We only get a rough order in which they happen.

They clearly abolished the idea of giving us an exact timeline. Like telling us so many days or month have happened.

On one hand it gives them more freedom, as they are not ristricted to a proper timeline anymore (and allows them to have LS and LW work independently. Like LA rebuilding and LS2 + HoT at the same time).

On the other hand it is really frustrating for us, who try to keep the order of events in some way understandable and logical.

We can agree that the rebuilding of LA just happened. It happened somwhere after LS1 and date XY (as HoT has no real timeframe, it could still be destoryed as that happened), however it will certainly be rebuild with LS3, which will bring us there in one way or the other (I am pretty sure we will get some Consortium shenanigans in the future and Evon needs to get his revenge).

However everything else. As long as they avoid dates or mentioning any timeframes, it just happens.
We won`t be able to put a date on it.

Before we were able to pin it down to the releases, which were more or less in a reasonable order, or we were able to suspend our disbelieve, to make things fit (big marionette for example, being a one time event, even though gameplay wise it happened over and over. Canon is, we hold it off, while alternate timeline shows it destroying everyone)

Now, it is all thrown out of the window, because we are missing crucial information.

The story right now is just a little window we look through into the world of Tyria.
That is why we magicaly know mordremoths name, even though we were never introduced to it. it happened off-screen.

it is not good storytelling, but unfortunatly that is all we got.

For order
here my basic idea:
HoT starts with the end of HoT, which means that Caithe took the egg and went deeper into the jungle.
We arrive back in the silverwastes camp —> head towards verdant brink —> meet and help Lanthier —> meet and help the Itzel —> find Eir —> enter Auric Basin and meet Caithe, the Exalted and Faolain —> Do their trials —> hear about Rata Novus —> meet the Nuchlock on our way —> Learn nothing really in RN —> follow Rox and save DE —> Kill the Dragon

while that happens, everyone we meet does something at the same time, so all events that happen, are based around the idea that we get to an in the open world and start them.
They happen independently from our PC doin the story (unfortunatly we also do not have any saying in them. Like planning the attack on the mouth of Mordremoth)

We arrive in Auric Basin, help a little and then we leave everything to these people.
(Which in my opinion is a big flaw in the story. luckily everything works out at the end).

Unfortunatly we have nothing, but a rough order here. These are sidestories, alongside the mainstory, so if anything the timeframe we are looking at is enter Verdant Brink to Mordremoth is dead
Everything happens in that undisclosed timeframe, which could be days or month right now, till they give us another vague date.

Agreed on a flaw in the story about the Pact. the PC is the leader of the pact now, yet besides the first one or two missions, basically does NOTHING to lead.

I wish they’d at least say month wise… because as it stands people are trying to fit end of LS2 to HoT… using the real life gap in there as well (Like, the Pact fleet spent all this time gathering forces before deploying). I find a dev statement on things works the best.

This came about from me and a friend talking about timeline stuff, Like a survivor from the zephyrite crash being ready and able to adventure and active combat (guessing around a week or so between crash and HoT)