Guild Wars 2

With Sky Pirates coming out tomorrow I had a look at the wiki for some information about the event. One thing in particular that caught my attention was the inclusion of a WvW Aetherblade cache. Now, I’m a bit annoyed that WvW is what decides when I can finally complete my World Map but we’ll take those last 2 towers and last 2 keeps eventually. It’s the eventually part that worries me.

I’m on Fissure of Woe, and if you pay attention to WvW goings on you’ll know we are always second from the bottom of the EU rankings. I haven’t seen anything saying otherwise so I’m going to assume the Aetherblade caches are temporary content. This week, us and Vabbi got matched up against Ruins of Surmia, and because they are 2 tiers above us we are not doing so well.

Let’s assume that by some miracle, we capture a keep in the Eternal Battlegrounds and get access to Obsidian Sanctum. Are we going to be able to get to the cache? I’m not being funny here, but people already kill me in there just because they don’t want me to get my 10-12 Commendations. Hell, last week we had a 5v5 skirmish at the spawnpoint with Blacktide for no reason. I ended up running past that and not being able to finish because of people attacking me in the dark room.

It may be premature to worry about this, and maybe it’ll come to nothing but I’d hate to miss out on Caching Out because I’m on a server that doesn’t care much for WvW.

I do have concerns about it being in WvW, but on the other hand there’s not actually any physical rewards for Caching Out, just the achievement. You can easily get the meta without these two achievements, so the downside is just not getting those two achievements. Poor consolation for a completionist, but there it is.

As far as I know, the Aetherblade Caches are indeed temporary. Only the Sea of Sorrows Scavenger Hunt and the jumping puzzle will be permanent.

I’m a bit concerned about this too from the point of view of players who do not have the higher level maps unlocked. Most of the JP’s are located in fairly high level maps, and it’s not likely they’ll be able to reach there in time before the event is over.

And let’s not even mention the players who LOATHE jumping puzzles too. I’m bracing myself for the howls of outrage when news of this gets out.

Well, the Sky Pirates of Tyria page has stated that the caches will only be around from June 25th to July 9th. I’m forming a JP group with some of my guildies this weekend to reach/knock off these for the achievement.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m a bit concerned about this too from the point of view of players who do not have the higher level maps unlocked. Most of the JP’s are located in fairly high level maps, and it’s not likely they’ll be able to reach there in time before the event is over.

And let’s not even mention the players who LOATHE jumping puzzles too. I’m bracing myself for the howls of outrage when news of this gets out.

FYI to everyone, the jumping puzzles are only required for Mad Cache and Blackout Cache. Vexing Cache can technically be skipped with a mesmer friend who can do any jumping bits, but actually has very little jumping if you’re patient enough, and wait for the platforms to reappear. Perhaps Mad Cache can be done the same way, but with a lot more portals. The rest have no jumping sections…Troll, Cantle, and Shipshape don’t require you to actually do the puzzle.