Guild Wars 2

This current episode, episode 3, gave me a really worried feeling about the living story. In this release all we practically got was an episode instance with achievements tied, and thats it. You could say the backpiece as well, and it is cool, but honestly I think it was added to give people something to do since it does require a lot of materials and crafting professions.

Im starting to not like the idea of living story episodes, simply because its like all the content we get is focused on story instances, when there needs to be content to please other people. There was pretty much no open world content added to this besides the parts tied to the episode which were part of the story you were doing.

What Anet needed to do was add more to the open world. Why? Because these episodes are isolating from the rest of the community. I love the idea of open world and actually miss it. Season 1 did a ton of open world stuff. But was lackluster in its living story instances. Why can’t they do both?

The tower of nightmares was a good example. It actually had a decent living story instance, instead of a short one that takes 30 seconds. It also revamped an ENTIRE map and added a cool open world type dungeon mechanic.

This patch should have kept this episode and revamped the Iron marches further. So that okay, were done with the episode, lets explore some of the new activities to do in Iron marches. That at least gives more options. The first episode of the living story season 2 was perfect because we got an awesome living story instance, and a zone of new open world stuff to do.

Well for one they decided back in like December of last year that they were going to be splitting off anything not associated with the current story patch into it’s own large patch after the season is over.
Secondly the instance focus is due to the fact that they are trying to design all the content to be playable infinitely further down the road. Meaning everything has to be do able solo. And we all know how much people complain about having to find 4 people, in an MMO mind you, for one story dungeon at the end of the PS.
And thirdly given the size of anet not every single patch can be a new map and story, The tower of nightmares happened over months, just for one temporary instance that would later blow up and change the map in a minor way and added a few more events. They even ditched the nice chest that you could get in the region for dragonite and other rares. They have to spend Larger amounts of time on these new patches because unlike before they cant just sweep the unmentionables under the rug, seeing as they want to charge money for these ones.

Patience is a virtue.

Hold on the complaining until the LS2 is over, not when it’s still in its beginnings.
(Btw, yeah, we didn’t get a revamped map, just a whole new area ).

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top doesn’t have the big zergs we had last year.. and were quite fun imo.
I also find it a pity, but I’ll just keep doing events in Dry Top.

Xcorpdog.2840:

Well for one they decided back in like December of last year that they were going to be splitting off anything not associated with the current story patch into it’s own large patch after the season is over.
Secondly the instance focus is due to the fact that they are trying to design all the content to be playable infinitely further down the road. Meaning everything has to be do able solo. And we all know how much people complain about having to find 4 people, in an MMO mind you, for one story dungeon at the end of the PS.
And thirdly given the size of anet not every single patch can be a new map and story, The tower of nightmares happened over months, just for one temporary instance that would later blow up and change the map in a minor way and added a few more events. They even ditched the nice chest that you could get in the region for dragonite and other rares. They have to spend Larger amounts of time on these new patches because unlike before they cant just sweep the unmentionables under the rug, seeing as they want to charge money for these ones.

“Well for one they decided back in like December of last year that they were going to be splitting off anything not associated with the current story patch into it’s own large patch after the season is over.” What they said is theyd do LS then feature patch, LS then feature patch, and with the midseason break coming we could be getting a feature patch or some type of festival.

Also, thats completely irrelevant to there being nothing else to do besides the instance. Like I said, the first episode did this very well. We had open world content to do in dry top with all the achievements you could do and the dynamic events you could do, and you also had that lovely instance. This is not true by any means in episode 3 and thats what I am criticizing.

I think my terminology was throwing people off. I was using the word episode in two meanings. One way was to describe the release and one was to describe the new instance we get each release. Im talking about that there is nothing to do besides the instance we got this release, no open world, etc. Sorry about the confusion.

SkylightMoon.1980:

You could say the backpiece as well, and it is cool, but honestly I think it was added to give people something to do since it does require a lot of materials and crafting professions.

That sounds like it’s bad to have something to do… ^^"

Thanathos.2063:

SkylightMoon.1980:

You could say the backpiece as well, and it is cool, but honestly I think it was added to give people something to do since it does require a lot of materials and crafting professions.

That sounds like it’s bad to have something to do… ^^"

Be honest though. They put the backpiece in so people had something to do. Thats why it requires so much work. Its filler. The backpiece isn’t even good looking. They have done this in the past. When they don’t make enough content they put something grindy in here like this lol.

I want content to keep me busy. Not a reward that I grind materials that are already in game for.

Player A: LS is bad, we need more group stuff in open world.
Player B: LS is bad, no one likes zergfest.
Player C: LS is bad, we need more solo content.
Player D : LS is bad, I can’t play it with my friends/guidies.
Player E: LS is bad, we need more challenge content like Laidri.
Player F: LS is bad, the fight is too hard, plz nerf it or I quit.
Player G: LS is bad, no story at all what so ever, so boring.
Player H: LS is bad, no one cares story, it is so boring.
Player I: LS is bad, why no rewards? There is no point to do it at all.
Player J: LS is bad, another backpiece? another gemstore skin? pffff
Player K: LS is bad, we want more skins.
Player L: LS is bad, who cares about skins, we want stats grind!
Player M: LS is bad, what are these shinny pink gears? Such a P2W/ grindy game.
Player N: LS is bad, there is nothing to do.
Player O: LS is bad, there are too many things to do that I can’t do them all within 1 hour.
………………
Player Z: LS is bad…it is so bad that I don’t even want try since I know it is going to bad and I hate this game because everything they do is so bad…but yes, I am just login everyday yelling at map chat to let all you fan boys know this game and LS stuff are bad since clearly you haven’t realize it

So after few hours reading the forum, this is what I found….

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

I’ve never seen it hit Tier 4. I logged onto it last night for the LS and it was at T1 during the dust storm. If I’m just having bad luck with servers, than sorry for the misinformation.

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

I’ve never seen it hit Tier 4. I logged onto it last night for the LS and it was at T1 during the dust storm. If I’m just having bad luck with servers, than sorry for the misinformation.

I think the saying is “it sux to sux?” Sry your the one who putting out misinformation badly or your playing at the off times for a lot of ppl or your simply very unlucky and or a leech type where your jumping in at times about when it should be going to T4 or T5 and simply not getting in. A lot of the maps are going to the high tears and ppl are working on pushing each map but though maps are full and you need to be there early in the start of a maps sandstorm reset to get any where. I mean what the point of doing things if your not willing to put the work in?

You are, I always see it T4 and it’s a very active map.

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

I’ve never seen it hit Tier 4. I logged onto it last night for the LS and it was at T1 during the dust storm. If I’m just having bad luck with servers, than sorry for the misinformation.

I think the saying is “it sux to sux?” Sry your the one who putting out misinformation badly or your playing at the off times for a lot of ppl or your simply very unlucky and or a leech type where your jumping in at times about when it should be going to T4 or T5 and simply not getting in. A lot of the maps are going to the high tears and ppl are working on pushing each map but though maps are full and you need to be there early in the start of a maps sandstorm reset to get any where. I mean what the point of doing things if your not willing to put the work in?

I’ve “put the work in”, but everyone else is just zerging the events and getting Tier 2 or Tier 3. I log on before the hour to put the work in, but I rarely see another soul doing the events. I’ve logged on various times of the day looking for a populated map, but I’ve still yet to see a Tier 4. I’m not leeching, because I log on before the turn of the hour to find maps where people are going to try for Tier 4 but I’ve yet to find one with enough people to even attempt it. Unfortunately for me, these being events, require more than just me. This is like trying to say that you are a good player because you beat Tequatl. Anyone can beat Teq if the server has enough coordinated players, but if you log on and only have 5 or so players it doesn’t mean you’re bad it means that you are unlucky.

Its quite amazing how quickly these posts go into tangents. I liked dry top when it came out. Episode 1 was really good.

The only problem I had with dry top is that its focus was too narrow. The only function of the map focused around the tier merchants. There needs to be a 2nd or 3rd meta event when the map gets bigger. Other maps have multiple meta events. I hope to see this map really progress. If it only has 1 purpose to it, and that is the tier merchants, that won’t be good in my eyes.

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

I’ve never seen it hit Tier 4. I logged onto it last night for the LS and it was at T1 during the dust storm. If I’m just having bad luck with servers, than sorry for the misinformation.

I think the saying is “it sux to sux?” Sry your the one who putting out misinformation badly or your playing at the off times for a lot of ppl or your simply very unlucky and or a leech type where your jumping in at times about when it should be going to T4 or T5 and simply not getting in. A lot of the maps are going to the high tears and ppl are working on pushing each map but though maps are full and you need to be there early in the start of a maps sandstorm reset to get any where. I mean what the point of doing things if your not willing to put the work in?

I’ve “put the work in”, but everyone else is just zerging the events and getting Tier 2 or Tier 3. I log on before the hour to put the work in, but I rarely see another soul doing the events. I’ve logged on various times of the day looking for a populated map, but I’ve still yet to see a Tier 4. I’m not leeching, because I log on before the turn of the hour to find maps where people are going to try for Tier 4 but I’ve yet to find one with enough people to even attempt it. Unfortunately for me, these being events, require more than just me. This is like trying to say that you are a good player because you beat Tequatl. Anyone can beat Teq if the server has enough coordinated players, but if you log on and only have 5 or so players it doesn’t mean you’re bad it means that you are unlucky.

That the thing if ppl are “zerging” the events then its still a very active map its just the groups you play with during your time do not seem to know what they are doing.

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Jski.6180:

Morsus.5106:

Vol.7601:

Is Dry Top old news for people already?

Dry Top was old news the day it came out. It’s small and offers no incentive to play on it. I played it during the story releases and went back to my regularly scheduled gaming.

Dry top has a crazy way of letting you jump all over and events that are going on all the time with a races to beat a timer it often is getting to T3 even on the lower OF and on the full its getting to T5. If it was old news it would never get beyond t1 maybe t2 if your lucky.

I’ve never seen it hit Tier 4. I logged onto it last night for the LS and it was at T1 during the dust storm. If I’m just having bad luck with servers, than sorry for the misinformation.

I think the saying is “it sux to sux?” Sry your the one who putting out misinformation badly or your playing at the off times for a lot of ppl or your simply very unlucky and or a leech type where your jumping in at times about when it should be going to T4 or T5 and simply not getting in. A lot of the maps are going to the high tears and ppl are working on pushing each map but though maps are full and you need to be there early in the start of a maps sandstorm reset to get any where. I mean what the point of doing things if your not willing to put the work in?

I’ve “put the work in”, but everyone else is just zerging the events and getting Tier 2 or Tier 3. I log on before the hour to put the work in, but I rarely see another soul doing the events. I’ve logged on various times of the day looking for a populated map, but I’ve still yet to see a Tier 4. I’m not leeching, because I log on before the turn of the hour to find maps where people are going to try for Tier 4 but I’ve yet to find one with enough people to even attempt it. Unfortunately for me, these being events, require more than just me. This is like trying to say that you are a good player because you beat Tequatl. Anyone can beat Teq if the server has enough coordinated players, but if you log on and only have 5 or so players it doesn’t mean you’re bad it means that you are unlucky.

That the thing if ppl are “zerging” the events then its still a very active map its just the groups you play with during your time do not seem to know what they are doing.

So the ten or so people I see zerging mean the map is populated? Good to know that. I guess as long as we have ten people playing the game, we’re all right too? (I’m sorry if I implied it was a big zerg, I meant more like 10 people.)

Fuin.8361:

Dry Top doesn’t have the big zergs we had last year.. and were quite fun imo.
I also find it a pity, but I’ll just keep doing events in Dry Top.

Ton of people hate big zerg only content too XD