Guild Wars 2

Gandara main shard just defeated the 3 Knights with a couple of minutes to spare, and the circles on the ground that give the individual light buffs did not appear, so we can’t access Scarlet.

Can we get some testing already?

The story good, the gameplay…. WTF

I am sorry, but i actually dozed off in the massive holographic zerg fight.
While i was expecting that, it was actually worse then i thought. No challenge, no rhyme or reason. No introduction. Just here have some gamemechanics and have them zerg away for an hour…

Okay, to be fair, there are some really nice mechanics there, but not for mass players…
Seriously, These were great dungeon bosses. But here they were just damage sponges.

Awesome Cinematics I liked the camera work in engine and for the cinematic… nothing to add here. Thumbs up, etc…

Story was… unexplained… seriously.. thats it? We as players know what is coming… new ED, but the people of Tyria again get now answers… they even tell her to shut up…
Good grief.
The couples kiss, someone is injured and yeah… i hoped for more…
It was well done. Some light hearted but predictable bad implemented extra “drama”, which was okay, given the mediums limitations (okay, here the camera was bad. Her shockwave was kinda odd… suddenly all were injured.. okay?), but otherwise…
In the end the only thing we as players got was just the big reveal in the cinematic.

Sidestorywise Not much actually. We got Ellen staying out of the way… okay… sure.. Heal-O-Tron saving our butts in battle which was awesome and Magnus staying around. Oh and Taimi, showing some kind of emotions as we talk to her after the fight…
Otherwise not much has changed as far as i know off… kinda disapointed.

The loot.. great, i think. Got nothing awesome, but i can work on my ascended armor now a bit with the lesser vison chrystals. Otherwise most went to the venodor ot getting escavated… in the end two gold and a nice mask…
I see potential here for people who stay with the event..

Replayability? I honestly am not in the mood to go brain afk for another hour. Seriously the payoff isnt nearly enough for me, to do so… It is easier and more stimulating to do everything else.

In the end i can say it was a nice one time experience for me.
Putting Scarlet down was satisfying, even though they could have seriously revealed that “twist” a lot earlier… so yeah, new ED. whoopdidu… next…

Doggie.3184:

Ugh, bad RNG strikes again.

Like hell. Norn is the precursor for Awesome. It’s amazing he got it with four trash Asura.

I don’t know.. I think I’d rather sell my asura on the Trading Post and save up the money to buy my norn…

;)

It’s your fault if you mindlessly click through everything.

ShibVicious.9681:

…but then tbh it’d probably work out cheaper to buy each person in the map an individual buff.

Someone did the math on the forums somewhere (maybe the crafting sub-forum)…

You could craft better food for everyone within a map for less money than the recipe costs.

But then again, ArenaNet doesn’t really seem to consider actual crafting costs before they implement anything.

Hour and a half buff :p

I’m not really upset by the 50s purchase, the text explains that you’ll be buying a “statue” and it lets you know the price before you agree to it.

The recipe for these though are a joke. The things needed to make this buff would cost you around 25g (and thats a low estimate) and are no better that the other buffs out there. The only people I can see these being beneficial to are the Tequatl/Wurm slayer groups, but then tbh it’d probably work out cheaper to buy each person in the map an individual buff.

Exosferatu.2961:

My theory is that Scarlet will be killed by whatever comes out under the old Lion’s Arch.

Agree! Scarlet will wake the dragon, dragon says thank you and begins it’s new life with some lovely salad. I also like that because I don’t think any of the characters should kill her.

Or more awesome: Scarlet kills Kasmeer. Marjory in a fit of rage grabs Scarlet and they both fall off the drill into the depths and die. But Anet prob don’t have the balls for that.

Whatever happens in the next update, it will be about what is inside that hole the drill is working on.

Miasma is good, because it revives regular NPCs. You know, all the heroes are forced to leave, but every time we re-enter, BAM all the dead citizens are alive again!

Exactly my thoughts
Less people in LA => Less dragon minions => Less headache

Are you implying that Scarlet is mercy killing everyone so they wont become dragon minions?

From the big Dragon that will come out when the drill finished digging. Sooo basicaly the Miasma is a " good " Thing since it gives the hero time and a reason to get People out of lions arch before the REAL evil awakes

Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2: The Molten Crusade

Guild Wars 2: Wrath of the Pale Tree

Guild Wars 2: Catacombs

Guild Wars 2: Mists of Cantha

Guild Wars 2: Warlords of Elona

wow that is a really good idea 100% agree

Grinding wheel for sharpening stones?

Much like a tray of mango pies? Set it down for group interaction.

The other weapon crafts could have similar recipes. This couldn’t be hard to code.

So I made a new character a week or so ago, and with the revelation that LA would be destroyed I opted to wait to see how that worked.

Watching the kids playing Destiny’s Edge in front of the destroyed fountain was a little weird. Watching the Vigil troops practicing marksmanship with no practice dummies, or even walls in front of them, with Scarlet’s drill in the background is just straight up freaky.

What other LA specific Personal Story instances just come weird and wrong thanks to the changes? How does the Whisper’s sneaking the girl out LA work, or the meeting of the three Orders to take back Claw Island?

On subject of refugees, has anybody been able to spot the Skritt couple? The one where the female Skritt tells the male to stay with her where it’s safe instead of going into the sewers?

Idummo why, but I actually wanna know what happened to those two.

lol k so OP wants a small group to retake an entire city. Thank god he isn’t a game developer.

No one zergs anymore. It’s too crowded.

Ironically enough, all game maps are instances anyway. We enter them whenever we enter a new map.

So really the issue isn’t actually “instanced” versus “open world” content, but how many players are allowed into an instance and what they have to do to enter.

Queen’s Jubilee, Scarlet Invasions and now this, it’s getting old and just makes me think that you guys can’t design anything better than mindless zerging content.

chemiclord.3978:

Dunno what to tell ya.

GW2 is about open world content, not instanced, and that was a decision they made very quickly upon release. You’re not going to get what you want.

Pretty sure Guild Wars 2 was advertised with dungeons and personal story, not just mindless zergblobbing. Some people want more of that content. Personally I think we’ve had more than enough of zerging by now.

Kiel is bad. The only reason she’s got votes is for the bonuses devs decided to give with her.

Evon is the right Charr. And again, I would laugh my kitten off if a Charr takes command and rules over what was a major human city.

ALL HEIL EVON!