Guild Wars 2

“This is our dwelling, the Dominion of Winds. We keep watch from this perch as power shifts and the world is transformed. We must soon determine with whom we will fight and with whom we will ally.” -Yuki Honestcrest

The Tengu are now considered my enemy and enemy to the Lions Arch, long have we respected there beliefs, patiently waiting for them to pick a side. Now they have shown there true colours, they have chosen a side, they are now our enemy.

The Tengu hid behind there walls and did nothing when Zhaitan attacked Lions Arch…

They did nothing when the KarKa rose from the sea and attacked our shores…

Now they cower behind there walls as Lions Arch is burnt to the ground…

I approached the great wall out of desperation, begging for there help, pleading to whatever fraction of kindness they had left in them.

This was there response….

I hope that the first living world update for ‘season two’ of the living story is a Kasmeer & Delaqua wedding, no major grind achievements, no zerging, it would be similar to the ‘Zephyr Sanctum’ a fun chill event with games, lore, and a happy wedding.

It would be a nice change of pace after what will inevitably be a chaotic season one finale.

The team doesn’t seem to understand that you don’t write characters whose character is that they are gay. You write good characters who also happen to be gay. I constantly dabble in this subject with writing and roleplaying, and Kasmeer and Marjory just make me roll my eyes every time they talk because every bit of dialogue recently has been “we’re lesbians.” There’s no substance, just forced romance.

Sorry but you are super mega wrong, there is no forced romance, and to say that the writers “wrote them gay” is so disturbingly wrong i’m surprised you were capable of posting it without laughing out loud. They did not write them gay, it is so incredibly subtle, no labels were used, hell the characters themselves dont even call themselves a couple. In no way shape or form have the writers “wrote them gay”, it is simply your internalised homophobia that interpreted that way.

I think this thread needs to be locked, to many homophobes make me sad and angry.

The official Guild Wars 2 Facebook page posted a status congratulating Desolation on there world first kill, sadly ArenaNet are deleting any comment that gives constructive criticism saying…
“this post is to congratulate Desolation players on their victory. It’s extremely unfair to them to use their hard work as a platform for your personal complaint.”
That comment was directed at another person but my comment and many others despite being non-offensive and well written were deleted.
Thus why i created this thread to discuss this topic away from that Facebook post.

tl;dr: Every server/guild should have equal opportunity to compete for world firsts if it’s going to be content ArenaNet continues to add and put on a pedestal.

I find it extremely distasteful and unfair of ArenaNet to make an official announcement congratulating Desolation on a world first kill when Desolation were essentially in a one man race while every other server is incapable of doing the wurm event. With the game plagued with mass guesting and overflow problems with 99% of the GW2 community unable to gain access to this content this congratulations post is a “slap in the face” to the 99%.

I would gladly congratulate Desolation on there world first kill if every server or guild had equal opportunity to work towards this title thus creating a fair competition. I would gladly congratulate a guild of players who gathered together, learnt the fight, had the best gear, every player skilled, every player on teamspeak, worked hard, competing against THOUSANDS of other guilds across EVERY SINGLE SERVER for hours/days with little rest…. but that’s not what happened.

The reality is a lucky group of people who were lucky enough to not be stuck in a overflow and lucky enough to be on one of few servers capable of doing such content were extremely lucky to get a group of people who were lucky to have good gaming PC’s. Luckily they had few players afk and luckily everyone was willing to listen and cooperate, they were also lucky not to encounter any bugs.

This is extremely concerning to me because judging by ArenaNets comments both here and on Facebook this looks like something ArenaNet intend on continuing in the future. Completely ignoring the obvious flaws and massive negative feedback.

You can not create World of Warcraft style hardmode raids without the proper in game mechanics to support it.

The only solution that most people have come to is to make these bosses instanced, perhaps having an easier open world boss for everyone to see and complete the content, then a instanced guild mission version of the boss that is much harder and requires the coordination and effort of skilled players.

Oh you’re absolutely right! Allow me to turn back to Shatterer and keeps pressing 1 on the side. Look one big happy family.

This game needs harder content, i agree 100% with that. This game dose not need WoW style elitism and toxic abusive competitiveness.

There is no toxic atmosphere amongst these world bosses and the players participating.

Clearly you do not read map chat.

The people who get WORLDS FIRST get to rightfully brag about it, and they will keep playing and keep slaying world bosses because they are obviously good enough to do so.

If this was a fair battle between all servers then maybe i would agree, but since this was a battle between two or three servers its cheap to try and claime this as some triumphant world first victory. Thats like someone boasting about coming first in a one man race.

Don’t be salty because you refuse to participate with others and want to walk up to a WORLD boss and complete it on your own. This isn’t a single player game.

Wow, way to completely blow this way out of proportion and completely ignore everything said. I would love to participate, so would the other 99% of the GW2 playerbase, i dont want a solo boss, i dont want a easy boss, not once did i say that, not once did i ever hint at that.

Sure, we will ALWAYS want new bosses with hard mode content… but I think we are quite satisfied with the wurms for the time being.

Thus the downwards spiral has begun, people are already asking for more hard mode bosses in this thread because they got there “euphoric fix” from this kill. It has not even been a day and people are already going through withdrawals.

You call people “elitists” but you know nothing about “these people” that world bosses bring to the surface.

I know from other mmo’s that this is a toxic downwards spiral, these people just want more more more more more. It is never enough, they burn through content rapidly and are never satisfied. They get there “euphoric fix” within the first week of content being released then complain that there is nothing to do in game. They want vertical progression and expect the very best from everyone, if you make a mistake expect a barrage of abuse thrown at you.

World firsts are incredibly stupid, it creates nothing but a toxic atmosphere amongst players. Now what will these world first players do? Stop playing? How long before they start begging for another hardmode boss and more vertical progression? [scroll up it has already started] How about the other 99% of the GW2 playerbase that will never get the chance to kill this boss because of the horrible way it was implemented.

It’s also unfair to call this a “world first” when only one or two servers had the chance to compete, the overwhelming majority of servers have abandoned the Wurms because most servers dont have the option to do it. Every player just flocks to Blackgate. If every server had a equal chance to aim for this completely pointless “world first” title then perhaps you would have something to boast about.

These two new bosses have done nothing but bring the elitists of this game to the surface, so much fighting and name calling in map chat its toxic.

This game is NOT World of Warcraft, if i wanted to do hard mode raids and compete for world firsts i would go play WoW.

I thought GW2 was meant to be different from other mmos, why then have ArenanNet copy/paste hardmode raids from WoW?

I have never had a single problem with GW2, no problems during Beta testing and have played over a year with not a single problem.

Now suddenly in the last two weeks i have been getting kicked from the game back to character select and get the message…

“The game client has lost its connection with the server. Please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again.”

I do not experience any lag, there is no warning signs and my internet is flawless never loosing connection. I will be playing normally then randomly it will instantly kick me to character select, completely random.

I have tried searching for a solution but all i could see is people having this problem way back in Beta testing days.

Right now the game is unplayable, i have spent well over $1000 in this game, i love it, but i have not been able to play properly for nearly two weeks and its killing me.

Please help me, why is this happening now after having such a flawless track record? How can i fix it?

VOLKON.1290:

Arnath.2319:

It dose not matter how hard or easy something is, whether it be a world boss, dungeon or a living story instance, if the overwhelming majority of the playerbase is not playing the added content then that is the definition of failure. Therefore Tequatl 2.0 is a epic failure and i can only hope that these two new world bosses dont go down that same path.

Horsepoop. Most people don’t do high level Fractals either, but that hardly makes them a failure. I know for a fact, as a matter of fact, that there were at least three hard-capped groups last night doing Tequatl at reset. That’s hardly a failure. Saying people aren’t doing the content is a flat out fallacy.

Wrong. Fractals is different as it is instanced and available to complete at your own pace, PLUS you can do every single fractal at any level so nobody is missing out on the content. If there was an exclusive fractal that only level 50’s could run then it would be different, but there’s not, i believe the only thing that higher fractal players get that lower fractals cant is the infinite tonic.

LOL. Once again someone claiming that because Tequatl is killed at a specific time, on a specific server, most likely in a specific overflow, by a specific guild = successful content. LOL.

It dose not matter how hard or easy something is, whether it be a world boss, dungeon or a living story instance, if the overwhelming majority of the playerbase is not playing the added content then that is the definition of failure. Therefore Tequatl 2.0 is a epic failure and i can only hope that these two new world bosses dont go down that same path.

VOLKON.1290:

Arnath.2319:

LittleLepton.8915:

Arnath, I suggest you read the previous 2 posts.

Teq is being done on major servers and not small ones, yes, however bear in mind that this is the case with a lot of things. Champ trains don’t always run on small servers, some dynamic event bosses don’t get dine on small servers, it’s very common for small servers to just not do it.

Guest. Seriously. It’s there for a reason. Not everyone wants to do it, but there are tons of people who do.

If you have to transfer/guest for any content in this game then that content is immediately classified as a super mega massive epic failure.

The developers should have fixed Teq within the first two weeks of its update after seeing this catastrophe. The fact that they have done nothing and now are proceeding to add two more Tequatl clones is bringing this game to an early grave.

No, if you have to transfer/guest for any content in this game then that content is immediately classified by you as a super mega massive epic failure.

There’s a difference.

No.
All content should be capable of being done on every single server. The only time this wont happen is if the server population has dropped significantly and in that situation servers would have to be merged.

So either every single server in this game has to be merged to the one/two servers that defeat Tequatl multiple days a day.
OR
You accept that Tequalt is a epic failure.

LittleLepton.8915:

Arnath, I suggest you read the previous 2 posts.

Teq is being done on major servers and not small ones, yes, however bear in mind that this is the case with a lot of things. Champ trains don’t always run on small servers, some dynamic event bosses don’t get dine on small servers, it’s very common for small servers to just not do it.

Guest. Seriously. It’s there for a reason. Not everyone wants to do it, but there are tons of people who do.

If you have to transfer/guest for any content in this game then that content is immediately classified as a super mega massive epic failure.

The developers should have fixed Teq within the first two weeks of its update after seeing this catastrophe. The fact that they have done nothing and now are proceeding to add two more Tequatl clones is bringing this game to an early grave.

To kill Tequatl 2.0 you have to transfer to the right server, at the correct time, be in a specific guild, be in the precise overflow and use teamspeak.

And people think that Tequatl 2.0 was a success?!

If Tequatl 2.0 was a success he would be getting killed multiple times a day on every single server, that is the definition of success.

Right now i wouldn’t be surprised if less than 5% of GW2 playerbase has killed Tequatl at all.

It was a epic failure, one the greatest failures in MMO history, and ArenaNets lack of commitment to fix it speaks volumes about the state of the game.

And now they are adding two more…

All i got out of that interview is “keep playing the game because we might maybe kinda sorta possibly be working on an expansion that we might release in an unknown format in the unforeseeable future…. so until then keep playing and dont leave us!”

Sooo…

Now we have even more reason not to play the game?

Log in every few months for the big feature patch, and log out for the weeks of living story.

If i wanted to raid like World of Warcraft i would play World of Warcraft.

I should not be forced to transfer servers and set alarms in real life so i can log in at a specific time just to kill a World of Warcraft style raid boss.

This new patch is just continuing the World of Warcraft raid boss trend, except one boss is recycled, the other temporary.

I have never had a single problem with this game, but over this past week i have been consistently kicked from server, i never DC, my internet is 100% perfect and never disconnects.

This is 100000000% ArenaNets problem and it has been getting worse, the game is now unplayable for me.

I dont lag when i am in game, it runs smoothly and then BAM it just kicks me from server back to character select, first it started in Fractal runs, but now it happens everywhere i go.

sigh… all this hype about the final four releases, fist patch back from a long break and what do we get? Two boring world bosses that will either be to hard and abandoned like the new Tequatl (the most poorly designed epic failure in ArenaNet history) or something like the KarKa Queen who is easy yet no body gives a kitten about it because of its location and effort involved to spawn it.

I honestly was expecting something good in these final four releases, did they learn nothing from the epic train wreck that was Tequatl 2.0?

Xae Isareth.1364:

I don’t mean to be hatin’, but is it just me who thinks having teasers in those poems make the game sound really childish and cheap?

The only time I’ve seen stuff like this being used well was in promotions of horror games involving children. Unless the next update is about Scarlet’s child (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)…..

Well the poems have only been used twice now to my knowledge, both made by Scarlet, so its not like they are over using it.

Personally i really like it, and the fact that they went out of there way to inscribe the metronome and previously a pocket-watch and then send them out to gaming websites just to advertise upcoming content is brilliant advertising.

Its incredibly unique and clever, gets everyone taking and no other mmo is doing it (to my knowledge).

Personally, i think the quality and quantity of these next few updates will depend if ArenaNet have made a decision on if they will make an expansion or not.

The mysterious ‘E’ has warned us recently that a war is coming, plus the rumours of a massive attack on Lions Arch, Tyria will burn.

Anyone else hoping that Lions Arch gets completely destroyed? Not like mad king destroyed the fountain, or the KarKa destroyed the Lighthouse, i mean full on death and destruction across the entire map.

Maybe thats why they were selling the infinity royal terrace passes because Lions Arch will be unusable soon and we will all be forced back into our home cities.

Check out this reddit thread, very clever man has basically figured this all out already and this new poem basically confirms his theory.

Scarlet is a Champion of Primordus

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1un4tt/scarlet_as_a_champion_of_primordus/

Thankyou for the advice everyone!

I’m going to keep practising and see if i improve, i have three questions however…

1. I have never heard of “Whirl finisher in Light Field” to cure a condition before can someone please explain how this works?

2. It is suggested that i use Knights gear to help until i get better, what about Soldier or Sentinel? Since we get so much precision and ‘Right Hand Strength’ in 30 Radiance, can you ever have two much crit chance?

3. I have always been hesitant to go deep into Virtues trait line because i thought pure stat increase is better than boon duration? Is a few seconds shaved off our Virtue recharge and a slight increase in boon duration worth the 300-600 stat loss?

I agree, and that all sounds great in theory, but im not that great of a player and i never run in organised groups.

For example when i first went full zerker i went and tried it out inside the Nightmare Ends story dungeon. When i was AH i could kill everything and never die, but as a zerker i had to take on one elite enemy at a time or i would die, even then that one elite enemy would take half my health.

Then one time i got a debuff, i could not dodge, could not heal, i already used Purging Flames and Absolute Resolution but because debuffs are applied so rapidly there was nothing i could do but watch that debuff tick away and kill me, that would have never happened in AH build.

I know this all comes down to me just being a bad player, but i just dont understand how people survive in full Zerker. Even auto attacks kill you.

Tried that but its just not good enough.

Absolute Resolution and Purging Flames just dont compete when it comes to rapid condition removal that shouts provide.

Hello cuddly guardian friends!

I have a problem, i have been using the Altruistic Healing build since the launch of the game and have only recently switched to Sword/Focus Zerker build.

I love Sword/Focus, i love the higher dps, but i have died so many times now my brain has gone on a holiday to Southsun Cove and i dont think its coming back.

What i really miss the most about the AH build is using shouts to spam cleanse debuffs from myself and friends. I have been trying to find a build that will let me keep high dps yet also give me access to shout condition removal.

This is where i need your lovely help, is it better to go 30 into Honor for Pure of Voice, then use Scholar runes and zerker gear. OR. do the standard dps build and use Soldier runes?

I have been messing with build editor and what i think it comes down to is how good is ‘Elusive Power’ and ‘Power of the Virtuous’. Also i need to consider if i am capable of keeping my health above 90% to get the benefit of Scholar runes.

I dont think i will ever be capable of going FULL zerker spec and gear, im just not skilled enough. So any help would be great thanks

i dont think we should get a new off-hand until they fix torch.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Arnath.2319:

Dodge.

I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.

Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.

Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.

umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.

WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.

Congratulations!

All i need to make my legendary is Dawn the precursor, i refuse to use the magic toilet, and i will never have enough gold to buy it from TP, so until they implement scavenger hunt or craftable precursors i wont see my Sunrise

Disappointed that this was moved to the Living World forums, this thread belongs in General Discussions as the feedback is universal and not particularly focused on the Living Story.

This just shows ArenaNets complete disregard and lack of respect towards us players.

VampyreJack.9183:

Arnath.2319:

Ashen.2907:

Arnath.2319:

Refunds will come once the new skin is released, if you dont like the new skin contact customer support and be FULLY refunded.

You will get your old armor skin back.

Your refund will be gems, you spend real money on gems, you did NOT spend real money on the skin. You will never get your money back from purchasing gems.

Now take a deep breath, relax, everything will be fine you can stop panicking.

I am not panicking. I did not buy the armor. I am still curious about the source for your definitive statements.

So, source ?

sigh… i really should not be responding to trolls…

Please go re-read the devs response, the information is all there, it is extremely clear. Wait until the new skin is released then contact customer support for full refund.

really Arnath? there are many with grey areas, including myself. Here is my last post. what is your answer to my inquiry that sounds like it will be fair? considering that i invested time and money into a character ONLY created because of this skin, to compliment this skin? Hmm?. you can’t speak for everyone, and we have the right to address our concerns in hopes that devs will answer them:

my OP quoted:

First, i want to preface this with where i am coming from personally. I spent 1600 gems, and 28 gold with the release of this flamekissed armor. I spent 800 for the armor skin, and because of how i forsaw this armor skin looking on a sylvari, i spent another 800 gems on a new character slot (my 9th character). i spent the 28 gold on two different rare Midnight dyes (Fire and Ice). If they redo the skin into something i personally hate (having a background and career in art, character appearances are the most important thing to me in this game), i will be furious with just the simple refund of 800 gems. If i hate it, i would definitely want the full 1600 gems and 28 gold back (i’d eat the time i spent playing the toon and leveling with just minor dissatisfaction). I only created this character and spent all those gems and gold SOLEY because of the way i enjoyed the appearance of the flamekissed skin on a Sylvari.

SOLUTION: to avoid all the headache and hassle with dealing with customer support and the chance that i may not even be given back everything i spent in full, my solution is that you give an option to players to either a) RETAIN the skin appearance AS they bought it, when they bought it or b) use the new skin that Anet plans on replacing it with. This way there would be NO need for customer support or gem refunds. People who want to keep what they paid for get to, and people who want the new flamekissed skin they are going to design can take that instead. This is something that could be mailed upon selecting the new version of the skin, or retained if not desired.

You will be refunded your gems if you do not like the look of the new armor, ArenaNet do not need to refund you the character slot or the dyes you brought, you can contact customer support when the new skin is released and ask them but they are under no obligation to do so.

Ashen.2907:

Arnath.2319:

You were heard, the situation has fully resolved itself, there is NOTHING more to discuss, you can complain all you want but they have already announced the solution. It is done, finished, final.

You wont get to keep the skin, you will be fully refunded, everything has been solved. Contact customer support when the new skin arrives and everything is perfect. There is literally nothing more to discuss.

So, if everything has been fully resolved….

Where are the refunds ? If it has been fully resolved, as opposed to being resolved at some unstated time in the future, the refunds would have been issued.

Will people who transmuted the new skin onto previously transmuted armors such as their old T3 human cultural, get that armor back, or will they get the original, pre T3 cultural, skin of the armor ? ANet has not commented on this question and yet it is resolved according to you. What is the resolution if you have access to information that ANet has not shared with anyone else ?

Will the refund be in gems for people who bought them for the sole purpose of buying the armor skin ? ANet has not given a solid answer on this, and yet you claim it is resolved. What is the resolution if you have access to information that ANet has not shared with anyone else ?

I am honestly curious as to how you have answers that ANet has not provided to anyone else. What is your source of information ?

Refunds will come once the new skin is released, if you dont like the new skin contact customer support and be FULLY refunded.

You will get your old armor skin back.

Your refund will be gems, you spend real money on gems, you did NOT spend real money on the skin. You will never get your money back from purchasing gems.

Now take a deep breath, relax, everything will be fine you can stop panicking.

thartalion.2756:

I’m giving Anet a break since it’s Thanksgiving, but i’m still expecting an official response soon (like, beggining of next week max).

They have already responded, the situation has fully resolved itself, there is nothing more to discuss.

People just like complaining, but there is no need for another response from the devs, they have done the right thing and the sooner this thread and this topic dies the sooner we can move on to discussing better things.

Phillip.6485:

If you bought a dress from a store – it’s now yours. The store owner CANNOT take it back from you simply because a bunch of customers don’t like what you purchased.

This move by ANet is illegal and unethical.

A incredibly stupid metaphor that dose not apply to this situation, they have done NOTHING illegal and NOTHING unethical.

Stop creating multiple threads on the same topic.

I really hope they start perma banning those spamming the forums about this topic.

1. Scarlet dead.
2. Exspansion.
3. No more living story.

What they should have done is sell “enchant” type item that allows you to add the flame effect to your current armor, that way we can look how ever we like.

This would open up a hole new cash grab for ArenaNet, i would gladly buy a enchant item that made my Human Heavy Tier 3 glow with a heavenly white/gold light.

You payed for the gems. That is where it begins and ends. What you do with those gems is your choice, ArenaNet do not have to refund real money, only the gems.

suggestion, sell a item that allows players who currently have Human Tier 3 Light to upgrade it into the fiery version. That way you have not wasted the effort in making this skin.

It wont be a new skin, it will be a old skin just like the medium and heavy, they will probably pick one of the crafting skins and add the flame effects, perfectly acceptable i think.

I’m glad you made this thread i was going to make one myself about the lore of fractals.

I would like to know if we will receive any new information/lore about the old fractals?

The Blue Colossus, perhaps the most mysterious thing added to the Guild Wars universe ever, far more interesting then Scarlet, and far more mysterious then the Elder Dragons. One year later and we have received no information on this colossus and the cultists imprisoning it.

The Underwater Fractal, those mysterious human graves, were is it located in the world?

The Asura Fractal, why was it all destroyed? Why was Dessa so upset?

Will we get some answers in a future living story? Or has the lore on these fractals been completely abandoned amongst hundreds of other promised features?

I want to play this game for fun, not do algebra

Perhaps i am the only one, maybe the majority will agree with me, i feel like Agony Resistance is unnecessarily complicated.

I still do not understand how the new Agony Resistant will work next patch, im not the smartest guy, i am a visual learner so perhaps i wont understand it until i see it work in game.

However, Agony Resistance in general feels incredibly unnecessarily complicated.

When Infusions were first announced this time last year i was lead to believe we would receive a number of new infusions over the year that would have us collect them in order to defend ourselves against whatever current enemy. Instead Agony remains the only threat we must defend ourselves against via Infusions, and Agony Resistance on gear feels clunky, poorly designed and unnecessary, particularly since the original concept for Infusions seems to have been abandon.

Make Agony Resistance work EXACTLY like the new Magic Find, however you can only acquire Agony Resist via Fractal Dungeons.

It will be account wide, no more grind for alts and that would fit perfectly with the new account fractal level. Its easier to manage, easier to stack (cap it at the appropriate amount).

Once level 500 Jeweler is released and we start making Ascended gems we can fill the slots with them instead of a boring mandatory complicated resistance stat that is only worthwhile in Fractals and no where else in game.

I believe this would be the best approach to Agony Resistance. I dont see a single negative and the positives are extremely good.

Dingle.2743:

Arnath.2319:

I agree, however i am very disappointed in the lack of content this patch

One new fractal, that’s it.

This patch might just be the patch with the least amount of new content all year. This would have been the perfect time to add Ascended Armor at the very least.

It’s 3 new fractals (Thaumanova Reactor, Molten Facility, Aetherblade Retreat), 2 new boss fractals (Captain Mai Trin, Molten Berserker + Dredge Firestorm pair) and a story instance (thaumanova again). That’s probably more content than any living story to date, tbh.

Additionally, the new Mist Instability mechanic will add replay value to the fractals that already exist by messing with the gameplay.

1 new fractal
2 old fractals that should have never been removed
2 old boss battles that i assume will be the same as they were in there old dungeons

I forgot about the living story instance, but it will be short and again temporary.

Everything else is minor quality of life changes that should have been added months ago in a hotfix.

I agree, however i am very disappointed in the lack of content this patch

One new fractal, that’s it.

This patch might just be the patch with the least amount of new content all year. This would have been the perfect time to add Ascended Armor at the very least.

Is it just me or is the preview for next weeks patch unusually late this week? Normally we get the page preview few hours ago.

Maybe they are making some last minute changes to the release page.

Dr Ritter.1327:

This is great news, I hope they keep losing money so we can get a proper expansion/campaign already. Just more proof living story is a failure and not even the holy power of gem store microtransactions can save it.

Amen, praise Quaggan!

But seriously we all know an expansion is inevitable, ArenaNet HAVE to make one, they dont have a choice.

Living Story is filler content, that’s all it is and that is all it will ever be no matter how hard the devs try.

I was watching woodenpotatoes video and he said GW1 already had an expansion released by this time and that was back when ArenaNet had fewer staff!

What makes things worse is they refuse to merge Living Story with Personal Story, meaning for over a year now the TRUE story of Guild Wars 2 has NOT progressed AT ALL!

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAP5ClSbgQ

I am sure that i am not the only one who would like to see a back item created that used the Angel Wing graphics.

Currently there is almost no back items for people who wish to have a more “good guy” look. It’s all undead dragon wings and toxic spores.

May we pretty please see Angel Wings added? What other cosmetic items would you like to see added that embody the “good guy” look?

BobbyStein.2315:

smitske.4912:

I think what he means is, something I pointed out before too, that he does not understand why you decided to make a completely new villain and a story that for the most part is completely unrelated with the story we get throughout the game. This while there are so many stories on which you could have build on to that are already in the game. For example Kodan reclaiming their lands, tengu seeing the need to open up and combine powers with the current races to fight the evils, still many dragon bosses to defeat. Zhaitan may have fallen, but he other ones don’t seem to do anything at all.

Dragons being one of the big enemies but there are also smaller ones, like the corruption and battle for power between different groups that we often see in the first part of the personal stories, why doesn’t anything seem to happen there?

Reuses of Braham and Roxx is nice, but often I feel like they are just put in so that people recognize them but they play no real role, they have no real connection with the story they just happen to show up. I mean we can see them with the current one where they replace one of the vigil/whispers agents at the destroy the spore events, but they have no real use there. They seem to be just dragged in out of nowhere and that is just silly.

The biggest reason why we introduced new characters for Living World story content was because we weren’t able to separate the Personal Story and Living World timelines and characters. So while we could have used iconics or existing characters more liberally in the Living World releases, we couldn’t put them through any meaningful changes because it could potentially break continuity elsewhere.

If you create a character that has no dependencies to existing content then you have a lot fewer restrictions in how you use them. The good news is that we’re taking steps to address this very concern and we’ll be sharing more details on our solution in the coming months.

This is one of the reasons why “Living” Story has not been successful, how can you create a TRUE Living Story when you deliberately limit yourself to characters and storylines. You have us go through a story from 1-80, then forcefully remove us from that story into a completely random storyline and random characters that nobody cares about.

Living Story MUST continue from where the Personal Story left off, you can NOT have two separate storylines, this is your biggest mistake with the Living Story.

I like Queen Jennah, but i wish she had died during the Queens Speech… oh but wait she is bound to the personal story so she has immunity.

Slight change of topic, dont be afraid to learn from other MMO’s. I say this because Blizzard announced there next exspansion and have clearly copied a number of Guild Wars 2 features. I think Guild Wars 2 can learn allot from WoW when it comes to managing and implementing a story.

The reality is World of Warcraft has a significantly superior living story to Guild Wars 2, they only have patches every few months yet the story grows and the world changes accordingly, there last patch had an entire zone destroyed.

You dont need two have patches every two weeks to have a epic story.

Why is nobody talking about the most broken aspect about this class: Spirit Weapons.

Guardians are rerolling warriors because they are far superior in every aspect, and all were talking about is 5% sword damage? sigh…

I love my Guardian but i am really bored of feeling forced into a Altruistic Healing build. Its nice to see work being done on the Zeal trait line (seriously Zeal has been horrible since launch).

However one thing that i have not seen addressed is Spirit Weapons, they are broken and useless and need a complete rework. This has been talked about for months on the guardian forums yet nothing has been done to fix them.

If you are going to finally fix Zeal can you please finally fix Spirit Weapons?

Lastly, is there a possibility that Guardians can get a ‘Virtue of Speed’ considering the Symbol of Swiftness nerf, we have been one of the worst classes when it comes to this issue and this nerf to Symbol of Swiftness makes things significantly worse.