Guild Wars 2

I remember this idea (or something similar) being suggested a long time ago (6 months or so?) as a new game feature to use when opening new areas of the map, where the dynamic events focus around helping establish and found homesteads or villages. I’m going to try to track down the link to that discussion, because it was related and really good…

I’ve posted there as well, thanks! Folks should still feel free to reply to this thread if they have a recommendation, though.

I’d like to find a friendly, sociable, and casual guild to find some folks to RP with, or to join on whatever other PvE we might be doing. Any size is fine, all that matters is that the members are friendly and willing to join me/have things for me to join. I’ve never really been in an active guild since the GW1 days, but I decided I’d like to do some RP and have some guildies to do things with. If you guys have any recommendations, I’d love to hear them! Thanks!

I want to second niteskate: I love the Living World, and think it’s an amazing thing for a game to have.

So, instead of repeating some of the great points being made (and I think that there are great points being made in this discussion), I thought I’d spitball some ideas that could be expanded on by others. These aren’t hard recommendations, just ideas to spark discussion.

I don’t think the devs should be afraid to break free of the bi-weekly update schedule if it means they could plan something bigger, more excited, and more polished. If they announced that the next several LS updates would be 3 weeks apart, building up to an even bigger expansion that would expand the world and lore in a meaningful way (which is what I hear many folks asking for), I think it would be met with excitement! Many fans of GW1 miss the shear amount of maps, lore, and newness that was added with the two expansions, and, while the LW is an amazing way to have new stuff more often, I think something somewhere between a normal LW update and a full-on expansion would make a lot of people happy. (Elona and Cantha should eventually come, but we’re willing to trust the devs to take their time to do them right, at their proper time).

For something more specific: A series of updates could expand the lore about one of the more mysterious races, including those established in GW1. There’s so much we could learn about the Seers, the Forgotten, the Largos, the Kodan, the Jotun before their fall, or any others I’m not listing. This would add some connection to the first game, which old fans would love to see, and introduce new players to the larger world/lore of Guild Wars.

And to round it out at three: Something along the lines of the alliance battles from Factions could be implemented, but with a computer faction against a player faction, fighting for control of zones on some specific region’s map. If the players failed, the whole region would become overrun, and remain that way until players fought them back, even after the official story moved on. If such a defeat happened, it would change the environment in the long term, and take real time for it to go back to normalcy (and some permanent changes should also happen, within reason). This would have higher stakes than just “Scarlet’s minions are attacking X,” as there would be more drama; an actual front line, an ebb and flow of victory and defeat that players could see on the map.

Here are just my imperfect ideas, that I hope will give others ideas, and provide good discussion.

Thanks! I’ll follow the suggestion.

My question was more about if anyone had experience with having friends on other servers, and if being on a different server had any effect on how convenient it was to quest with them. From the sound of the wiki’s explanation, though, it seems rather straightforward and easy.

I’m considering buying the 1800 or so gems to transfer my characters to a new, more RP active server (I’ve heard good things about Tarnished Coast in this regard). However, I’ll be leaving some friends behind on the old server who I would still want to play with. I’ve heard that it’s possible to “guest” on another server with someone, and I’d like to know how this works, and how easy it is to continue to play with my friends.

I really dig Tess Kelas as an asuran name. Carroxes and Leroxes are neat as well. I have no idea of their back story, but I picture them as team of close siblings who bicker and disagree on everything (Guardian magic is about as far as it gets from Necromancer magic).

My asura is Docent Tanna.

The explanation: I wanted to have a unique title, and “docent” is an academic title used in some European countries. Tanna was being seriously considered for a professorship at the College of Dynamics, but was snubbed for the position due to petty internal politics. Her achievements were impressive enough that they couldn’t get away with giving her nothing, so she was given the title “docent” (permission to lecture, but only by invitation, so they can shut her out). She decided she’d had enough of Rata Sum politics, and decided to use her magic skills to adventure around as a Guardian. She uses the title proudly now, as she thinks it shows how much different (read: better) she is than the feeble-minded college elites. I’ll admit to flexing the lore a bit with the title, but I liked this back story too much.