Guild Wars 2

I am about ready to purchase the Season 2 Living Story Pack and I had a few questions before I made the commitment. Any information player or staff can give me would be greatly appreciated.

1. Will Season 2 remain in the game after Heart of Thorns? Will I need to rush through the content if it is going away?

2. Will I be able to do the Living Story events at Drytop and Silverwaste or will I be too late? I would like to be able to get to farm the fossil weapons and do Vinewrath and such.

Just wondering it will remain for a bit longer after the expansion or if it will be shelved.

Every indication is that LS2 is permanently available, as are DT/SW in their current incarnations.

It may be a while before you find enough people running the SW map to do VW, though, as everyone will be off doing the new shiny stuff. The events in DT/SW are not LS-related, they’re just the mechanics of the two maps. You can farm them without ever touching LS. Again, though, they’re not meant for solo play so if you want to experience the maps with enough others around you likely need to do them this week.

As for doing LS2 in a rush, well, as I say you should be able to play it forever once you have it. But you might want at least a story run through (I could host you through that this afternoon and Wednesday afternoon if you’re NA) so you understand what’s happening in the HoT LS. Though that could spoil the experience a little for when you want to do it for rewards, and you wouldn’t be in control of dialogue speed or object interaction, nor would you get the fun of figuring out what to do next.

edit: I’m heading off to non GW2 stuff for a bit, so convert “this afternoon” to “this evening.” (Eastern time).

Donari.5237:

Every indication is that LS2 is permanently available, as are DT/SW in their current incarnations.

It may be a while before you find enough people running the SW map to do VW, though, as everyone will be off doing the new shiny stuff. The events in DT/SW are not LS-related, they’re just the mechanics of the two maps. You can farm them without ever touching LS. Again, though, they’re not meant for solo play so if you want to experience the maps with enough others around you likely need to do them this week.

As for doing LS2 in a rush, well, as I say you should be able to play it forever once you have it. But you might want at least a story run through (I could host you through that this afternoon and Wednesday afternoon if you’re NA) so you understand what’s happening in the HoT LS. Though that could spoil the experience a little for when you want to do it for rewards, and you wouldn’t be in control of dialogue speed or object interaction, nor would you get the fun of figuring out what to do next.

edit: I’m heading off to non GW2 stuff for a bit, so convert “this afternoon” to “this evening.” (Eastern time).

Thank you for your information. It was very helpful! I don’t want to rush through Season 2 since I am very interested in the story. I only thought I would have to if it was going to disappear. But now I know I can take my time doing the story before jumping into expansion content. I will keep everything you said in mind and purchase the Season 2 Pack. Thanks again! (I will add you)

Unlike Season 1 which was designed to disappear at the end of the story chapter it was released for, as the next one went live, Season 2 is 100% completely and totally permanent.

Well, more like 98%. But what wasn’t permanent is just some ambient dialogues and already long gone and has been since no latter than January 23rd 2015 (or whenever episode 8 was released).