Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, I’m Desild from Guild Wars 2 Guru fame (so that my admirers can spot me out), and I would like to drop a few pointers about what the Living Story means to me.

Living story had a rough start. The very first four months of it were dedicated to flesh out the world around the the Norn and Charr homelands, with a few events popping up that ushered us heroes to the aid of refugees. I understand fully why Flame and Frost felt dragged. Getting the patch cycles and the developement teams in synch must have been a nightmare in the early days, and I’m glad they nailed it. But then a precedent was set.

After four months of setting up the narrative of the Living Story with Flame and Frost, the climax, and nearly every aspect of that particular content, was gone two weeks after they introduced the last instance of the story, the Molten Factory. Just like that. At first I thought ArenaNet would reintroduce it back (more due to my computer going busted during the last two weeks), but to my chagrin, that didn’t happen. This reoccurred again, and again, with more urgency for completionism added to every Living Story chapter. It came to a point I felt that I had no chance of actually living the “Living Story” duo to the copious amounts of achivements available to collect, and which would come back to taunt me in case I didn’t complete them in the required amount of time. The Historical tab is a testimonial to my frustrations of potencial content that once was available and now no longer. It is a bittersweet deal for me, being both an achievement hunter and a chronic procrastinator, feeling this imcompletion brewing with no means to address it.

I possibly can’t articulate what could possibly be done to address my percieved issues with the Living Story other than it being a complete imcompatibility between me and its purpose. Going to Guild Wars 1, a good example of a Living Story done right is the War In Kryta patch cycle. I missed all of it when it was first released, but now it is one of my favourite pieces of lore and content the game has to offer. The areas around Kryta felt alive whole I was going through the individual steps of the story, and the last showdown in Lion’s Arch was magical and hard as nails. And rewarding too.

All I ask, is to look back at that point in history, a and try to replicate it, or be inspired by it. That is all.

I hate statistics.

At least the fanart looked nice. Kinda…

Go suck on a lemon. Pre-patch the fight was unbearable. The sparks were unresponsive and the boss pratically mocked you unless you teamed up for peaked performance DPS. Plus the absolute need to exploit the fight with the 4-1 Spark gimmick. That’s not how a dungeon should work.

Did it pre-patch and post patch. The difference was astonishing. A four hour run turned into a two hour treck with no down-time. And even as it is, one of our members had to grab his Warrior because our DPS was just barely to get Simin to switch phases. A step in the right direction.

And the sparks look so cool now, all scorpion-ish.

When people say that the 10 Clover Recipe is better, they are full of kittens. Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

There is a bigger chance of you being screwed if you reduce your sample numbers. Using the 10 Clover Recipe, you gambled with 20 chances. Had you used the single Clover Recipe, you would have had 200 chances to gamble instead, increasing your odds of actualy getting to the average of 1:3 chances.

You got screwed by statistics my friend. Plain. And. Simple.

Same run as Kris, joined their group after they got to Dwayna. We tried and tried. We had to literaly EXPLOIT the kitten just to get her to 5% and it was still not enough. She just laughed and got back to 4o% by the time I got the sparks in.

ArenaNet can keep this confounded dungeon. Not going to take another step in that gods forsaken place until I see some tune ups in the following patch notes.