Guild Wars 2

Some patches story/achievments we have a month to finish, others we only have two weeks, and we have no way to know which is which and no way to know how to schedule our time. If you insist on forcing us to play on your schedule, then at least let us know what that schedule is.

Some of us have busy lives. Please give us some help here. The Living Story has been going for over a year now and there’s still no panel dedicated to it in the UI. How this wasn’t prioritized given how important the Living Story is to this game’s update cadence is mystifying.

Tuesday patch day.

Does that help’?

While I understand that they will never give us an hour countdown like for monthlies and dailies, it would be nice to know what “day” something ends on.

Here’s a tip I’ve picked up DragonWhimsy. Going from EST, the reset is 7pm and the patches normally hit sometime between 11am-2pm on Tuesday. On Monday night after reset if I don’t see a daily related to the meta, it usually means that, that Living Story is over and a new one will come when they patch it (along with a daily related to that meta). Not a sure thing, but it works most patches.

On the plus side, I’m happy that the daily metas are included. It may force you to log in every day to get it, but it can make up for not having the time to try to get each achievement. Also you didn’t miss much in terms of meta rewards, just 100 bags.

Funkybacon.2635:

Tuesday patch day.

Does that help’?

If you even read the OP, you would know that, no, this doesn’t help at all.

He recognizes that sometimes events last two weeks, and others for longer. Patches happen on Tuesdays, but not every Tuesday. Clearly you don’t get it.

I usually take the next release date as an indication of when the current one ends, but that wasn’t always the case either… I think honestly Anet sometimes doesn’t even know, otherwise I don’t see why they wouldn’t publish that information..

The pattern of late has been that patches come in sets of two, the first patch lasting all month, and the second adding to that patch and lasting two weeks alongside the other patch.

Some warning that wasn’t the case this time would have been reallllly nice. Even better if this wasn’t even an issue and we could see in the game UI itself.

Yeah, it wasn’t a tough meta event to complete, except sometimes lives get busy. If you’re going to have such strictly regimented schedules we have to play with, then I’d humbly suggest give us the information we need to plan ahead. It’s been over a year. The UI support for the Living Story is still pretty paltry at the moment.