Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I am a relative newcomer to Guild Wars 2, having started this past summer at the beginning of Living World Season 2. I’ve since become interested in going back and playing Season 1, since I feel like I am missing out on part of the lore of the world. I would be willing to pay for it in gems, but I cannot find any way to purchase it, since it isn’t in the Story Journal.

Is there any way to access Season 1 if you started playing after it ended? If not, might it possibly still happen? I doubt I’m the only person willing to drop money on it. I’m surprised Anet hasn’t jumped on the opportunity to sell already-made content

Currently there is no way to replay it. Most of season 1 was big temporary open world stuff that sometimes required most of the map to work together.
Bringing that back in a replayable way means that they need to rework a lot of it. We don’t know when (and if) they’ll bring it back (we just have no idea what the developers are working on), but you can read an (extensive) summary at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_1

Unfortunatly the only way to get in S1 is to read wiki basicly. I hope they will at least add a character that fully tells the story of what happend. A nice scène where much can be seen. From the forming alliances to the destruction of allmighty Lions Arch. This should be like a veteran. I do not know a character like that, just give it to us:P

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-story-journal/

“Also, because Season 1 of Living World was not built with the Journal in mind, it will not be available in the story Journal on initial launch when Season 2 begins. We do hope to add Season 1 to the Journal in the future”

That’s all we’ve heard on the matter. Hopefully season 1 will eventually be released via the Journal, but we’ve not got any sort of solid release date, nor even a solid guarantee that it’ll happen.

To put this seemingly very odd decision in context their original idea for GW2 was to have the base game available permanently and then run regular 1-time only ‘special events’.

They tried that once (Lost Shores) and it was an absolute disaster. Even with the overflow system (basically the same as the megaservers we have now) piling everyone into one map caused a lot of latency issues so even for people who got to play the whole thing the experience was more like ‘run forward until the game froze, mash your skills, wait to see if you died, disconnected or got “lucky” and the event just moved on without you, then repeat from there’. On top of which there was no time for bug fixes, if you missed any part of it you were stuck etc.

So after that they shifted to things that could be played at any time within a short time period. For the first Wintersday for example they had Tixx moving between cities every few days with a different version of the Infiniarium available in each location. That was better but still quite confusing and meant some people kept missing bits.

So they changed it again, they brought in the concept of the Living Story where everything in an update became available at the same time and could be played any time during a 2 week period.

It was only after almost a year of that they finally conceded it would be better to just release permanent updates and brought in the new system for Season 2.

They’ve said they are going to go back and make Season 1 available again, but because it wasn’t set up for the new system it’s going to take some time.

Also a lot of the Season 1 content was zerg-based, so making it replayable solo or with a maximum of 5 people group will need some serious rebalancing and redoing.

I think they’re just re-doing the instance-based content and leaving the zerg-based stuff as-is. It’s too bad, but I don’t see any way they could make those things work in a story journal.

Tbh, I kinda miss all those server-wide zerg events in S1. They really brought servers together during community events.

i’m another newcomer and i want to know what happend in season 1 too

starting from season 2 at once is little … confusing. you just don’t understand what’s going on, who are all this characters and who are all these other people they talking about. Scarlet? never heard before..
before i have start dig about s1, i thought that “ruined lion’s arch” is a normal state for that area

seriosly… don’t realy need exactly playable season 1.
movies will be enough for me – walk through videos on youtube, trailer-like videos but detailed (around 10 min per episode), or in-game scenes.. may be even comix ^^

ps: what about season 2 story? will it stay available to play or will gone like season 1?
may be i have hurry and finish it till it yet possible?

Check this link out, it summarizes the whole of living world season 1.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_1

just started playing GW2 aswell im very interested about the Living World stuff, I heard alot about the Living world story from people and I started to reading it on the wiki, and i was thinking of collecting gems to buy the episodes and then i realize its only season 2 is available, i really dont want to jump up to season 2 without knowing the first part, I read that they are working on adding season 1 to our story journal but we still dont know when: :https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Living-World-S1-coming-to-the-journal/first#post4369782
I hope they would add that up soon so i can start playing Season 2 of the living world, at the moment im enjoying playing the game and its personal story.

Yeah well if you’re a lore junkie you’ll be busy for quite a while with the personal story (be sure to experience it with at least one character of each race and choose different paths at the forks – there are over 200 episodes there if you calculate all different missions) and 100% world exploration (be sure to talk to the NPCs to understand what’s happening where).

@Tom Gore.4035

I am finding it hard to resist creating more character and explore the lore in LS more, you are not making it easier! Shhh! :p

I know, right? My char slots are all full and I’ve still not played even half of the PS missions…

Tom Gore.4035:

I know, right? My char slots are all full and I’ve still not played even half of the PS missions…

Im currently on 8 slots. 1 for each class. So still got a ways to go before im close.

Just returned and finished playing Living World Season 2. I also wish there was a way to go back and play Season 1 somehow as I missed it. Appreciate the link to help with the lore and reading up on it, just much better to be able to actually play through it.

Other than missing out, and not being able to play through the Living World stuff we missed, the game is pretty friendly for those of us returning after a long hiatus.

They can create a server with a pass gem buyable acces, and on this special server the saison 1 event are replay (and every two week the saison 1 chapter switch) ^^

Kaminali.2863 – I wish, that would be awesome

Not only does season 2 evolve from season 1 but there is also a lot of references to GW1 as well. If you haven’t played GW1 and are really interested in the lore of the world this guy narrates some pretty good videos about what you need to know from GW1.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00553A085339802C

Yeah. Lore-wise Season 2 was a major improvement over Season 1. S1 just felt so detached from the world and introduced all these factions and enemies no one had ever even heard about before. And the most cartoonish villain ever, with no history in GW1 or GW2 to back on.