Guild Wars 2

I personally have played Guild Wars since Prophecies, the first Christmas event actually was when I started. I remember when Factions was announced and it looked awesome, but I also enjoy Asian culture very much so it was no surprise. And man, when I got in the game with Factions, I was not disappointed. Loved my Ritualist too. All things aside though, let me get to my main point of posting.

A lot of people say that a return to Cantha would not make sense, and they are right. As of right now, we have no reason to go there, but that’s only because the reason is not perceived. A great deal of things could be happening there, who knows, we certainly don’t. This is all to say that there is nothing stopping Anet into making a reason to go there.

Now, I don’t see us going there in the near future, a return to Elona seems more likely, due to if the ED in the desert falls, then now we may have a certain Palawa Joko and his army to deal with, who is right at our doorstep so to speak.

One last thing, though many people say that they want new areas and stuff, not old areas. That is true, but we go to old places already in the game, and will continue to go to old places. For instance, we see ToA and well, it has seen better days. There are places all over the map that are “old” but are so very different that they are new. If the areas in Tyria are so different, then why automatically assume that GW2 Cantha and Elona will be the exact same? And as for future “old” areas, the Shiverpeaks and Desert expansion will easily have old areas, but again, literally two and a half centuries have passed. Things will be so different it is new.

shaktiboi.5194:

eightbitnerdy.2905:

Canach is attackable on Maguuma but does not give a post quest update or mail.

This. Canach is still BROKEN

Turns out you can’t do anything with Canach until you do Noll’s event, which of course is bugged. So you can attack Canach, but the next step can’t happen unless you have finished Noll’s step.

Honestly, I hope that infusions don’t do much outside of the new dungeon, much like how it didn’t in GW1 when you weren’t fighting mursaat and the like. As for it being a higher teir of not just rarity, but also stats, I’m not sure about it yet. To me it really depends on the availability of the new gear. If it can be crafted (which is the way it should be) in some way, then I will make them, transmute them and be on my merry way. Some people might complain about it even if it’s this way, but people will complain even if they just flat out gave it to you. However, if it is only aquired by doing the dungeon and getting lucky, then I think we might have a problem. I, for one, hate playing the RNG game when it is dealing with things that I will need for progression.

All in all, I hope that infusion means that you are protected when you go against creatures that inflict Agony, and maybe do more damage (or take less) against them specifically. That way, you can get the new stuff, transmute it and be good if you use it outside of the dungeon, instead of having to have a seperate set. To be fair however, I do think people are jumping to conclusions way before we have all the details. I mean, who knows, they might actually just give you the back piece. It’s far too soon to start assuming things.

And for the record, I always got new armor sets infused in GW1, just in case. It just felt like something I should do before I considered the armor complete.

Well when I say directly I mean actively working for him, which they could be worshipping him. Them getting pushed out of the sea only would be a direct cause of the DSD, but them wreaking havoc is an indirect cause of the DSD if that makes any sense, lol.

Yeah, I agree that it will be about the DSD. Probably won’t see it, but at least it’s minions will cause a ruckus. I think he is the only dragon (aside from the alledged sixth) that hasn’t affected the land dwelling races in a major way. I mean krait suck, but they are more a nuisance than anything and may or may not be directly related to the DSD.

I imagine this Lost Shore update will be used to introduce the Deep Sea Dragon into the world. Not saying we will actually see the dragon, but at least people will know of it’s presence. Believe it or not, some players (if not most I guess) aren’t even aware that the DSD exists, as well as NPC’s in the game even question his (her?) existence. So far, it is the only Elder Dragon that hasn’t really messed with the five playable races (other than the supposed sixth one I guess).

Additonally, a few days before the event was offically announced, there was some Greek distributor of Anet’s (Beacon Multimedia I think it was called) that tweeted about the November update during the Halloween event. Now, at least one of the things they tweeted was 100% accurate, but for clairty’s sake here is what the tweet has to say:

• 3 day event that hides a mysterious threat (I assume this is actually the one time event. In other words, it not going to be a one time cutscene, but a one time event that spans over 3 days. As in, this 3 day event will only happen once and never again. Much like in World of Warcraft where they had temporary events prior to expanison releases; only happened one time but happened over the course of a few days. Also, the game director did say the one time event would be during the weekend of the update release.)

• A new island (This part 100% confirmed, so no detail on this is needed.)

• A new PvE game mode (Probably meaning the dungeon.)

• New PvP features (The game director did say there was going to be a new map for PvP to be tested by players during this event.)

Take this for what you will, but I think they should communicate these things better. Not trying to bash them, and he did say they were going to try to communicate better. However, one time event could mean many things. They should specify if they mean if the event itself is a one time thing, or if during the event it will have a special event that is one time. Although, this event as a whole seems to be a one time thing, so who knows.