Hey Lilith and Tree, I just want to ask that you do not take my occasional negative attitude on some of the goings on in Gw2 to be reflective of this event. I am but one of the 8 mentors who are running this event. Also this event is nothing that will be intruding on the wonderful group of teachers that you guys have organized. It is a once in a couple of months type of event. I did not know whether the teachers in the Dungeon Mentors thread wanted to collaborate but I believe that for next time we could get more then 4 parties together on the same day if we were to work together?

All that aside though, I try to get onto the Gw2 forums as much as I can and for some reason I always disregard the stickies. I posted this a second time for players who have the same issue.

Once again as Kane (Ragingdragon) said we did not mean to step on anyones toes and I believe that for the next event we could have both [Noob] and [ARES] collaborate to get a greater number of Mentor runs if you guys agree.

WElcome to the community Extulsionist! Happy to run a bunch of dungeons with you

Knights of Ares will be holding a dungeon teaching event this saturday at 5:00pm Server Time (5:00pm PST) 8th Febuary. We will be running 4 dungeons at the same time all starting with Ascalonian Catacombs and proceeding with higher level dungeons that will be decided by the groups. Each Dungeon group will have 2 Knights of Ares Mentors leading/teaching them. This allows one of the leaders to concentrate on explaining the mechanics and the other to assist with the dungeon.

At this moment we have 3 spots in each dungeon group with a total of 12 spots. Anyone who wants to join our groups people make sure to have Teamspeak 3 installed. We are opening our private TeamSpeak 3 server to the public so it is easier for players to learn. You do not need to have a microphone as you can just listen Our Ts3 Server information is: TS3WDC02.TrinityGames.com:9988 (case sensitive and at the moment it has a password which will be removed on the day).

The Dungeons that the groups will run include Ascalonian Catacombs (AC), Crucible of Eternity (CoE), Twilight Arbor (TA), Citadel of Flames (CoF), Sorrows Embrace (SE) and Honor of the Waves. If you are interested in these dungeons post below and be online on the day of this event. We will try to do most of the dungeons however some may be skipped to save time.

This event is to allow new players to learn these dungeon first hand from an experienced mentor. If you wish to join this event please make sure to post IN THIS LINK and be online on the day of the event.

Knights of Ares will be holding a dungeon teaching event this saturday at 5:00pm Server Time (5:00pm PST) 8th Febuary. We will be running 4 dungeons at the same time all starting with Ascalonian Catacombs and proceeding with higher level dungeons that will be decided by the groups. Each Dungeon group will have 2 Knights of Ares Mentors leading/teaching them. This allows one of the leaders to concentrate on explaining the mechanics and the other to assist with the dungeon.

At this moment we have 3 spots in each dungeon group with a total of 12 spots. Anyone who wants to join our groups people make sure to have Teamspeak 3 installed. We are opening our private TeamSpeak 3 server to the public so it is easier for players to learn. You do not need to have a microphone as you can just listen Our Ts3 Server information is: TS3WDC02.TrinityGames.com:9988 (case sensitive and at the moment it has a password which will be removed on the day).

The Dungeons that the groups will run include Ascalonian Catacombs (AC), Crucible of Eternity (CoE), Twilight Arbor (TA), Citadel of Flames (CoF), Sorrows Embrace (SE) and Honor of the Waves. If you are interested in these dungeons post below and be online on the day of this event. We will try to do most of the dungeons however some may be skipped to save time.

This event is to allow new players to learn these dungeon first hand from an experienced mentor. If you wish to join this event please make sure to post below and be online on the day of the event.

OKay so Idk if those contacts are even real because this whole thing seems like a joke guys.

I mean its 100% copy paste. I did more editing on my 3rd grade assignment that I copied from Wikipedia.

Romek.4201:

this guy is asking for a new PVE map with all the events and stuff – not wvw

why so hard to understand?

I think it might be hard because he posted in the LS forum that is focused on a new wvw map. Best thing would be to move this to the Living Story general forum.

I think I read somewhere that you will be able to choose to go into the EoTM if you like. Personally if that option is available then I see alot of the people bored of the old wvw maps will just be playing there. Seems like you might get more loot and better map design.

If that option is available then I’d be in there rather then the old maps really.
If that option is not available then it kinda means the LS has a flaw in it.

Either way I do see what the OP is trying to say. I hope the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages.

Hey Dramen, Kane!

I just want to point out here that the best way to get in the front of the line for these dungeon mentor runs is to join http://knights-of-ares.enjin.com/

If your a guildie we have over 15 officers/mentors who teach dungeon everyday. Its a great way to skip ahead of the line and not have to wait for the next public mentor dungeon event.

I just sent u an invite Jade ^^ Welcome to the guild buddy

Welcome to the family NoobGod \o/ Glad top have you join us

Great to have you guys with us !!

Welcome to the guild Nyanerg. Invite has been sent

Hey Dylan!!

Dragonbrand is an awesome server! You made the right choice buddy. Knights of ARES are also in Dragonbrand and we are a really helpful community. We esp like to take in new players because we believe that players who join from early on are the players who stay with us. We would be glad to have you join our ranks. We have “Mentors” who are experienced players who help and answer questions anyone might have. They also lead and teach dungeons. We have everything else that a successful guild has including ts3, website, forums, loads and loads of events but if you want more information on our community check us out at our post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA/first#post3015787

We have all the jazz at Ares including ts3. We also hold events bi-weekly for members to do some map completion and level together. Which is pretty fun. We have Mentors who are experienced players ready to teach and lead dungeons and answer any questions you have. Check out our post at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA/first#post3015787

Hey Corinth,

We have a strong PVE background but we also hold PvP and WvW training nights. For more info on our guild visit our post here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA/first#post3015787

Hey talyp

We are active, have ts3 and all that jazz that comes with all other successful guilds. But we also have a mentor system where we promote experienced players who are ready to help out with dungeon teaching or any questions that members have. I thought for your interest that I should point that out. If you are looking for a community check out everything else we have at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA/first#post3015787

Hey Cicatriz, our community would love to have you join our guild. We like to keep our guild to a medium size and our peak time is CST about 6pm-12pm although we still have 10-15 in the mornings. We are really active and require 99% rep which means people can have their personal guild banks. We have loads of events and we are known for our strong background in PVE but we do weekly wvw and pvp. Way more information on our guild at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA/first#post3015787

Hey Ray, you already have a few guilds to choose from but heres another to consider. We have a great mentor system for experienced players that help anyone who has a question. Check out our guild post at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA

Knights of Ares welcome anyone from any server as we are known for our dungeon runs and PvE events. However we do get out to our personal PvP arena and WvW weekly. If you wish to try out the guild, we can send an invite to you and your friends. We actually don’t put any pressure on transfers as most of our events we can be guested to and we know how expensive transfers can be. Anyway we have a post that has more detail on our lovely community. Post there if you wish to get an invite ^^ and as always Have fun.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Knights-of-Ares-Dragonbrand-NA

Happy halloween. The golem and most other stuff arena.net gives out I throw out after a day if it doesnt do anything. Yeah I think everyone was waiting for a dungeon to come out when the mad king came out on the 30th. Unfortunately we were all let down.

Good luck and Have fun

Markadis.9012:

Loving the new Living Story. Much much better then what we have been seeing this last 11 months.

Pros

• Stomping the downed player- I really am enjoying showing off my finisher. I would like to see this in all the High level zones, along with downed NPCs be a little bit more difficult to take out .
  • For example, some NPCs rez quicker, some do knock backs, some summon help, etc.

• Solo Story Instance- This was fun, and I liked the mix of cinematic storytelling and combat.

• Zone Touchup- THIS WAS HUGE. The fact that the zone is green on your mini map, and how the whole zone changed caught me by surprise. I loved it, and I hope to see more of this in future LS updates.

Who are u showing your finisher to because I really dont care for other peoples finishers. Nor do I care for the mine which I’ve seen a million times.

The 3 minute convo between Logan thackery in the bar a few months ago crushes this one into pieces.

I dont get whats so HUGE about a landscape change? If that tower was a JP or a dungeon…that would have been impressive.

Thank you scar, Thank you so much. Get ready to see more of this people.

In short Scar, there was a dungeon last year where you killed the mad king, unfortunately for some unknown stupid reason they removed it this year. So in a nutshell. This year halloween is the 10 min instance which then tells you to go into the labyrinth (enter one of the mad king or bloody prince doors). In there you don’t really have any story or anything. Just some events that give you some loot.

The game doesn’t tell you the stuff you can do for halloween and idk why but, if you want to try out all the content best to use dulfy. Google that and she has all the recent content coverage/guides. I know what your thinking, how stupid that we need to use a guide/outside source to not miss out on the content….

You made my day

Gotta love the “its not the design flaw that gets implemented over and over its the idiotic players who use the design flaw”.

Idk what your all on about this is the best idea that has entered the forums since Gw2 idea was thought of in someones mothers basement +5 billion to OP Also I will send you food when I log in

For every 20 complaints theres this 1 post that says they love Anet. What does anet do? Deletes the 20 complaints and listens to the 1 post. Nek minut they loose 19/20 of their playerbase. You know its going to happen.

Toxic Tower Facility

+1 this idea needs to be implemented.

although 25% is a bit hight for x2 buff. I think it should be 50% to get nothing, 5% to get double and 45% to get posion

I am ready to rate this event a 3/10. Not only did they remove content from last year but the only thing they changed was the 2-3 min instances

no there are no titles

Nexi.1297:

angelpaladin.7921:

The title say it all here another patch that has very little story content (10min instance) with a mind numbing zerg after the fact. The sad part is I enjoy zerging down bosses but all we have done since Scarlet was introduced is run from one zone to the next zerging bosses.

Yor’re getting it totaly wrong:

Of course A-Net could have given us a spore invasion, the need to discover the source, a magic anomaly in Kessex Hills, a quest to unvover the origin of this anomaly and further story development until the disguise is unraveled.
Zerging and grinding would have been just a filler for completionists until the next update is going online.

But fortunately ANet knows that time is money, so they decided to save us from wasting our time by skipping the time consuming story part…

Well I personally can not wait for GTA 5 to come out on PC. Oh and this is related because arena net is going to loose more and more and soon you will be as dead as all other failed MMORPG. Don’t wait till you die before you realize that your hurting your game.

Big Tower.5423:

Hay, i just had to give feedback about this really great patch! I love how the enemies can be stomped, and the instance was fantastic, spesific classes, and useful spells and combat imfact of the classes! ;.) that’s really cool! The area was also fantastic designed and the new skills is perfectly balanced, however it wasnt competly perfect, as living stories in the patch, it got trouble with telling players what to do, becuse after the great instance you just get put in kessex’s hills and no idea on what to do. And its about a little to mutch open word teamfights. But great patch guys!

I see your new to the living story. Coming in from WvW I see. Keep that hopeful attitude up Its great to see that atleast the new pve players start off with lowest of expectations. They wont be too disappointed

I would love to see the people defending Arena.net 2-3 months down the line. We all have to admit at one point or another we all defended arena.net from all those complaints. However we all have a tipping point.

The people here that are disappointed are not raging or crying or whatever. We are giving our opinions on the same lame content thats been released for the past few months. We are sorry for those naive players who are still full of hope to have to read this. This isn’t aimed at you. It is aimed at Arena.net. For those of you who are still defending arena.net I’m not going to ask you to wake up or realize anything. I hope that you will continue to be hopeful. It just sucks when your expectations get crushed every single time.

I guess I’m not the only one who is getting bored. I came home today and I would usually log in but I’m sad that I don’t have anything new to do.

Sir Morgan Malory.2069:

If you don’t like zergs there are 4 other maps other than Kessex where these events take place. The new content looks great. But with no use of the games combat mechanics it gets boring really fast.

Its just the same formula as the last few months. What I mean by that is the same formula. It is in the title of this thread. We got a short instance with the bloody prince —> We got a short instance with ToN. Content for Halloween was Dynamic Events with health sponges —> Content with ToN is Dynamic Events with health sponges. It might be great for those who need the gold or like to farm, but people who play the game for fun get over it fast. Is it that hard to throw in a new Jumping puzzle for some, a mini dungeon for others?

• Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it would be wiser to have a little bit of Zerging, Instance(Story), Dungeon, Jumping Puzzle and mini games. ****

^think that should be the formula for the upcoming patches. Little bit of a carrot for everyone.

Stormcrow.7513:

displacedTitan.6897:

If any of you honestly believe they made that tower with no plan to have us enter it you need to go back to first grade where they teach you some basic critical thinking skills.

Critical thinking has not been in Anet offices since beta….

I like this one. More interesting then ArenaNets latest patch

Hey Angel, after you got bored and left, I think Nysc left, then Lavish bailed and then me. I agree with what you feel. I hope Arena.net reads this and the 50 other posts. I doubt it though.

They have some internal issues regarding management or something I believe. I also dont care if I get infracted. Should focus more on the game content then trying to protect their reputation everytime someone calls them out on their mistake. Boom yeah that just happened.

Has anyone here seen my faith in ArenaNet? I seem to have dropped it somewhere.

Deth.4109:

Arrow.3856:

Oh god this patch is so boring

thats related to my topic how?

Fixed it. Now it relates

Delvoire.8930:

displacedTitan.6897:

If any of you honestly believe they made that tower with no plan to have us enter it you need to go back to first grade where they teach you some basic critical thinking skills.

It’s not critical thinking skills that is lacking… it’s a more simple concept called Common Sense….

We’ll be able to enter it in a month or two. Get used to zerging for the next few weeks.

I logged in 20 mins…left :/ At least I didnt have expectations this time.

guys dont be too eager…they put the skins people like into RNG boxes

Oh god this patch is so boring because its zerging and the tower isnt a dungeon

Going to keep this short. Logged on after a week of not being on. Found the instance alright. I landed into a Zerg after I left the instance. Decided I’ll leave the grind to when I can be bothered. Joined up with a few guildies where we started to do the achievements for about 10 minutes. We had 3 people leave because “Its not really fun”. Being kind of a hunter for achievements I realized, they were right and I left. Wont be logging on for anything but guild events.

This is the exact same thing as Halloween. Its a small instance that takes 5-10 mins and Dynamic events with commanders who lead 50-100 people. Just got so bored in the 20 minutes I played. It’s a game and I’m supposed to have fun…I just didn’t. I hope the rest of you are.

sigh…

I hope its not just the 2 min instance and the Event zerg for content….

Theres like 4+ different teams so they all clash with the ideas etc. Some go for group instance some go for solo…I would say something but fraid to get infracted

a t s e.9614:

And it will be for warriors only .

with zerker stats only

ThiBash.5634:

Funny how a side character is much better written than the main villan Scarlet…

lol yeah I really felt like bloody prince hated me when doing his instance. With scarlet it was like ummm what?

I don’t read the stories and this is all I know from what Scarlet is and what she is upto etc. This is most likely relating to most people in game…

Scarlet is a sylvari who had some Asuran sensei. She betrayed her sensei and became evil. Took on the name of Scarlet. She is angry at something not sure what. She somehow controls the aetherblades who follow her because of some reason? She tried to invade Tyria but we killed her over and over. and over. without actually killing her. She is a God because she is immortal. She attacked the queens speech because she couldnt beat liadri. Her training grounds are in caledon forest.

Thats all I know of what Scarlet is. Due to the story or lack of story Scarlet doesnt mean anything to me. She is just a poorly introduced plot device. I would have wanted someone that was already in the game to be introduced as evil but hey…thats what I know.

StinVec.3621:

If this update has been intentionally downplayed with almost no info at all and the livestream then being canceled, and I patch-up later and log in to find Largos or Krait as a new playable race…I will literally crap my pants.

I was once like you. Hopeful, expecting the best, interested in what awesome update was going to be next. I was disappointed over and over. But I never let down and looked forward to the next one. Unfortunately there was way more disappointment then anything it was pretty bad. Until I realized its better to expect nothing and have my expectations met then expect greatness and be disappointed.

I love the livestreams, feels like a sneak peak into the patch. I don’t feel too lost when I watch a livestream but when I don’t idk if I’ll be missing any content

Dont log back in. Keep yourself upto date with the LS but dont come back in for a few months. Hope that when you come back its a different world and not just the same place with LS just a publicity stunt