Guild Wars 2

Ellen Kiel needs a bikini…
I sort of drifted off with that idea.

Guardians work well for learning.
Maybe find a group that can help you out, ask for them to run a few hearts with you.
How are you playing your thief currently?

I agree wholeheartedly
Just because we are in the Pact doesn’t exempt the possibility of “in house” problems within each Order we could fix.

FaultWeeyam.4302:

Atlas.9704:

Make Countess Anise the Queen.
Okay I’m done. That’s all I need.

THANK YOU!!!! So i’m not the only one who thinks so….

(fistbump/hi-5/whatever)
When I first played and saw Anise I thought “Yeah she’s a nice looking queen—-oh it is the gal in the center? Huh, well she has a cute cat and nice eyes.”
Anise just has that voice I wanted in a human Queen.
Plus redheads rule, but that’s a minor point.

Sounds a bit like the random acts of_kindness I do when in Queensdale and the Ascalon territories.
A potion here, some food I’ve made there, emails abound, and I stick around the tougher Skill Points to lend a hand. That blasted Outlaw near the ranch probably would hate me if he were real.

I’ve maxed out nearly all the crafts except for Tailoring and Leatherworking I think.
What would you need? I’ll gladly mail what I can, too bad I’m not on TC or else I’d happily be there….hiding in a nearby part of the map because I don’t do well with groups.

I’ll say this much about IoJ from the PoV of a mostly PvE player: This server is scrappy (in the determined sense) as heck.
If you ever love the feel of the resistance fighter, the underdog at times, and actually want to remember Commander names and various players or their guilds this is the server for you.

In the brief times I’ve played (mostly to keep our walls up and trebs running) I’ve been able to follow specific people that I remembered from last time. In no way did it feel like there were 70 vs 70 fights where my contributions would be nil.

I’ve seen battles where we hold our own on the Eternal Battlefield, get flanked on our Borderlands, pull enough bodies in to defend that, come back to the fields and we still hold.

A lesser server would have crumbled under such stress.

AlietteFaye.7316:

alcopaul.2156:

with this dps meter, surely my guardian won’t be accepted to any parties because i specced him with support.

dps meter is good in games like diablo III because all the characters do there is to dps. Guild Wars 2 is not diablo III or dps only game.

but it’s good to have for personal use.

Is this a joke or no? There is literally no reason not to go full DPS for GW2 PvE. Support and Tank are a waste of time that just make everything take longer. I hope that they change this, but in the current implementation of dungeons, there isn’t a single fight where having better DPS wouldn’t make it a lot easier and a lot a faster.

The player enjoys doing support.
If you don’t want that person in your party then list it as such in the LFG site.

Dangerkips.6035:

skittlebob.4850:

Requesting yet another DPS meter? In this forum??

You brave, brave soul.

Indeed, you’d better run for cover OP. There’s a deluge of angry scrubs comin your way.

Awww don’t run, c’mon aren’t you specced enough with DPS or such to handle such a zerg?

We don’t need tools (players or otherwise) to make this a job. It’s a game, it is GW2 not Math Blaster.

I’m all for separation, but if we don’t get that then at least push WvW closer to PvP than PvE. Game mechanics-wise it is a bigger and more involved form of PvP anyways.
Skill balances for PvE should be separate to those two.

Verdelet.3812:

This world has lived in shadow from a pair of demon’s wings
But none here fear the future or the darkness that it brings
The monster puts on quite a show, expecting us to yield
But there’s just one course of action when we take up sword and shield

Bash the dragon! Smash the dragon!
Drive it right back into its den
Bash the dragon! Smash the dragon!
May it never rise up again

---

I have a crazy love for this song already. Hope it’s played in-game during the event at some point.

Agreed, I love this song and do regret having to visit extended family during most of this. Though if I time it right I’ll be able to hit the good parts of this festival.

I wondered how they were going to do a Dragon celebration. I just saw the video and muttered to myself “ohhhh Dragon bash!” Then had a hearty chuckle at their song.

ColinJohanson.2394:

The Moa race is a betting game taking inspiration from the 9-rings style betting mini-games from the original festivals in Gw1, but with a little more action involved for each round of bets. The bonus: this activity will remain in the game permanently in Lion’s Arch after the Dragon Bash festival ends.

Permanent betting game?! ABOUT TIME!

I’m hoping a variation on the word Leviathan.

Killed a Shark, got one, checked price, evil chuckle commenced.
I’ll wait for the price to go up when the event is over.
Or I could keep it forever.

Shanna.4762:

How much I miss the iconic places in GW1 and how amazing they could be here.

Get some scuba gear, you’ll be able to find those places.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Wildstar, for example, I will never play. Exclamation mark quests is reason enough for me to not even give it a try.
And the world in the distance doesn’t look like concept art, which I also now need. I want to be able to take a screenshot anywhere I like and have it look epic.

Please tell me Wildstar at least won’t have subscriptions?
If are doing subscriptions then I might as well leave the list for beta testing.

Slightly useful in a zerg when some folks don’t pay attention to the fact you ordered Hammer to smack them down.
In PvE they are useful meatshields if traited right, but yes they will die quickly if grouped on. That just means I and the weapon put damage into some creature I can finish off after it kills my weapon.

All that attention on the weapon spares me from losing health. So they do have possibilities, but for certain situations.

Thank you, I am so glad I’m not the only one who passes on these one shouldered outfits!

Gandarel.5091:

Korsbaek.9803:

why would charr not be guardians??

guardians dont get there magic by the gods or faith in the gods but from faith itself so the faith can be placed in anything(one being your warband or legion)
but i gess there would not be alot of guardians in the charr tho

Amongst the charr, the weaks shall die. Guardians serve the purpose of defending allies, but by charr standards, if you can’t take care for yourself, you will be outcasted or left to die.

There might be some, because guardians can fight well, but charr guardians aren’t the regular guardians.

Charr are also fanatically loyal to their warband and the Legions.
A Guardian’s power comes from either faith or intense desire to protect their own.
So it is reasonable a Charr Guardian would make a shield for his warband, take the hits, allow his band mates a chance to hurt the enemy, and finally smash his mace through the offender’s head.

You messed with that Charr’s warband, you paid the price.

Seems legit.

Back to the Flame and Elementalist part of the discussion. Charr hate the Flame (Gold) Legion, but they are practical as well. If some Charr Elementalist can rain down artillery on enemy position or heal his warband and hold his own well enough they’d accept his position. Yeah its possible a few might worry he could go Flame, but at the moment his weapons are pointed at the enemy so that’s good for now.

GW2 makes me think about being the drifting hero. When I read books or watch shows about a travelling hero writing wrongs and then leaving I think of this game.

I also see it as my way of finally getting over this shy period of play, but I enjoy running around too much to consider joining guilds.

I like the story so far, but I do wonder why Canach’s plan to save people is to tick off the animals.
Won’t that cause some folks to die?

Didn’t think this one all out did you buddy, ah well either way its fun to see him fall.
I also like the small tidbits like the journals in some settlements. The pacing is a bit better than Flame and Frost, but I will also admit that the hunger for a ‘bigger’ storyline is growing.

In Lion’s Arch two women (Human and Sylvari) watch a Norn couple walk by and they have the following conversation:
(Human): “Did you see what she was wearing?”
(Sylvari, apparently interested): “No….I was watching him.”

cesmode.4257:

What intrinsic value are you finding in the game?

I just tend to do whatever is near me at the moment and see where it gets me.
I have one level 80 character who can go anywhere so if I farm chances are I use him.
The others I tend to experiment with because I’m not used to their classes.
Just today I had my thief run by a Champ Ettin, use stealth and some skills to distract him, grab a skill point, then ran like heck out of there.

It gave me the little jolt of excitement because I knew he would womp me in a fight.

Usually my biggest source of interesting and random events come from randomly accepting a party request with some stranger. Sometimes the experience gets dulled when they ask “is my armor good?” to which I just answer “just play and we’ll find out!”

Then there’s the random acts of_kindness I do with food trays, random mailing of powerups appropriate for the map, and the upgrading of things in wvw just because they need it.

At this point I’m either playing through the eyes of another person, or randomly drifting around feeling good because I can do anything. So either I’m Doctor Who or Simon from TTGL.

Quaggans are the pillows. lol
I also believe that cross species relationships can happen.
So far we have kids from various species playing games together. In Applenook a woman adopted a Charr, Asura, Norn, and she has her own Human kid.

It is completely logical to think some Asuran is living with a Sylvari or a Human with a Norn (dem Norn women…sorry I’m drifting again). Its just a kid won’t result from it, though adoption is always possible.

Scott McGough.6897:

But like a good soldier, he wanted to understand the situation in which he was about to involve himself, so he made a point of seeking out one of the Molten Alliance weapons facilities and clearing it. He obtained the gauntlets from that escapade and wears them now as a symbol of his newly adopted (and so far poorly executed) role as a champion of the weak…right before he set out for Southsun Cove to settle things with Noll.

Hope this helps,

He cleared a Molten facility? At first you had my curiosity. But now you have my attention. (Grabs some popcorn) So when will that story get posted on the website? Oh let’s just cut to the chase and ask when will a book for him come out?

Sadistis.4257:

As a Charr Main I enjoy going into human areas and reminding them that we burnt their original capitol down.

As a Human I appriciate my furry overlords.

As a Human main I enjoy going to Charr areas, rolling balls of yarn down the road and watching your citizens just have the time of their lives with them!

Then I lace all your weapons with catnip and offer my services as a merc to kill Flame Legion forces. Its a win-win for everybody when I’m around!

As a tongue in cheek gesture, ANet will turn everyone’s minipet into the most hated symbol of Random Number Generation: a pair of dice.

This effect will last throughout the birthday anniversary. Followed by a big dynamic, lag filled, battle against a pair from some casino that the Consortium has created.

People that missed out on this anniversary battle will also miss out on all the Precursors delivered after the fight.

In the Gem Shop, dice will be available for purchase. Dice color, size, and type are random upon purchase though.

;)

jheryn.8390:

There is a discussion between two Sylvari in the grove where a Sylvari male talks about leaving all things Sylvari behind. I can’t remember the conversation verbatim, but a the Sylvari male talks about hating the dream and wanting to leave so he doesn’t have to deal with it. The female tells him the dream is good and he replies that the dream forces itself upon him and in effect is smothering him. She asks where he will go. He doesn’t know but knows he needs to get away.

That might have been the Soundless which does make sense when you think about it.

Maybe some left and didn’t get abducted by the Nightmare Court? Sure they still defy some of the Tablet’s teachings, but their experiences still enrich the Grove if they ever do return to the dream.

Though I never did care much for Factions or that depressing collection of slums they called a city, I too want Cantha back.

Not because of any nostalgic love for it, but for the pure sake that as a lore-nut and gamer I absolutely detest the concept that fictional worlds are blocked off due to real world meddlings.

Concepts, places, even whole collections of units in various games I play have been introduced, beloved by some, then shelved because of real world problems like this.
The day our real world corporate minds can understand this is fiction, it is entertainment, and only that will be the day I cherish my entire life.

If Cantha is being held back because of this melding of cultures then straighten it out for just one and let’s be done with it. 250 years have passed, things can change. Even better go back to more ancient times and references for cultural flavor so we can still keep this continent available.

Addendum:
On a more selfish note, I also want it available so I could possibly play Tengu.
Give. Me. The. Birds. No put your fingers down fellow posters.

More Pact stories based on your chosen Order.
Make these replayable, usable for part of the Dailies, and make versions for groups or individuals.

Melchior.2135:

Jabberwock.9014:

Man us “poor” background players will get shafted if you start giving extra conversation options to Faren and the like. My only friend got brutally murdered at the beginning of the game. The sad thing is I played the “noble” background on my first few characters and liked it a lot more, but on what ended up being my main I went for the “poor” background just to see whakitten was like.

That means you get to be friends with Riot Alice though. And that means you win. Mrrrowwr!

I really wish that would go somewhere in the future of this game.

azureai.9764:

Wooboost.8527:

Power monger. I wanna be the very best…

…like no one ever was. Doo, doo, da doot…

Atlas.9704:

(sings): “Like no one ever waaaaaas…”
er sorry I nearly went into a song.

[Edit: Ninjaed! :P ]

Yeah but you sang it better than I.

Hoyvin.3241:

Atlas.9704:

I play this game until I find something interesting in my other games then I come back when they don’t hold my attention. Most of them don’t, most haven’t engaged me the way this has.

This. +10

I’m glad that there are other like minded people in this game.

Thanks, but I do see a little bit of the other side as well.

There are frustrations in any game. Some folks want the gear grind, others don’t, despite it all we want a fun and engaging experience with this title.

I’ve read articles, I’ve read posts, watched videos and (though I loathe to say it in such a simplistic manner) I get the feeling that some folks just want a WoW that’s GW-inspired with no subscription fees. Now I know it is probably a bit more complex than that, but that is the initial feel I get from some opinions.

Are there problems with this game? Yes every game has problems. I for one would like to see more class balancing, maybe more content outside of a Living Story (like more Pact missions), and WvW to no longer be a redheaded stepchild even though I don’t have much stake in it.

What pulled me in this was the juvenile way the video maker brought up people who don’t like gear grind and wants a more “traditional” way of RPG for this game. I read that as mostly bring back trinity, raids, and such.

That’s not GW2’s way. That’s not how it will be, at least for now. When the game was made, the videos were put up there, we saw that they didn’t want to follow those ideals. Some folks say that grind is there, but with the way I play I’m not seeing it. My way of play isn’t right for everyone, but it fits me. So if GW2 does have grind they’re doing a kitten good job hiding most of it from me.

I like their way of play currently, why go back and use someone else’s method that they even said they weren’t going to do anyways?

So long, farewell, good night to this thread (for me at least) and I hope the discussion continues in a well thought out, adult manner.

Wooboost.8527:

Power monger. I wanna be the very best…

(sings): “Like no one ever waaaaaas…”
er sorry I nearly went into a song.

I’m casual-Explorative PvE Altaholic drifter.
I can’t keep objectives down for long term. I tend to float around quite a bit.
I’m the type who would be in Diessa Plateu and do events as I encountered them out of sheer curiosity, somehow get roped into a dungeon because someone had a free spot in Caduceus’ Manor, start escorting Pact soldiers up a Temple in Orr, and this all ends with my poor character naked with broken armor fighting a Blood Witch wondering how the heck did this all happen?

Worse yet, my alts would be right near him replying, “Heck if I know! Did I just slaughter every Moa in the Krytan region while I was active?”

Morrigan.2809:

I’m the “let’s do some personal story, hey what’s that, oh look can I get in here, wow that’s a cool looking character, I fell down a hole! there are shiny’s in here, skritt I’m dead. Where was I going again” type of player

Are we cousins, related somehow? That’s scary how similar we are.

KingClash.3186:

You only have 2 exotics?
So your total play time is like what 100-200 hours IF that. Come on man..
Everyone that acts like nothing is wrong like this always has a change of heart at around the 1000 hour mark trust me ive seen it time and time again, once you do it enough it becomes clear that there is immense grind.

Well if I have to produce numbers for you I’ll try to remember as best possible the averages of play. Because some folks like numbers, so whatever:
I’ve played since Beta Weekend 2, but since all my stats and characters were wiped let’s continue onward.
I have played on average 1 to 3 hours, 4 to 6 days a week, all since the headstart and opening. Though I did play nearly most of a day during headstart. So that might throw off your calculations, just wanted to put that in.

There was a slump sometime in November when I went to play Star Trek online again so let’s just average that out to 2 weeks of full GW2 play.
I didn’t get to play out the Lost Shores finale stuff.
I have eight characters (one for each profession), out of them only one is level 80.
One other is about 71, finally the others spread out around levels 30 to 35.

I maxed out Artificing, Weaponmaking, Huntsman, Jewelry, and Crafting. Everything else is halfway. This is not all on one character.

The level 80 character has two exotic weapons (one from crafting, one from Mystic slot machine/toilet). He has finished his personal story, everyone else is either at the Concordia mission (the lvl 70sh guy) or will approach Claw Island mission.

I have 98% Map completion on the level 80 character, who is currently trying to be useful in WvWvW in order to complete the rest. I just want that kitten thing to say 100% once in my life, so that might be the only obsession I have in this game so far.

I spend most of my time helping newbies or lowbies out, doing jumping puzzles, finding diving spots without any wiki or dulfy page.

So in short I don’t grind like hell for weapons or armor. I don’t have this belief once you’ve attained all the exotic/ascended/legendary wibbley wobbley pretties that now the game begins.

At absolute least amount of play I go in, do dailies, drink my purple karma grape flavored water, and log out.
At absolute ‘grindy’ I go and play in Southsun and Orr because shellfish and zombies must die.
The strangest is me going into WvWvW and actually being helpful for once.

If I play a character and get bored of him I’ll either retrait him and play a different way or go pick another one I have and see how he’s doing. I’ve been doing that for quite some time.

Yes if you are a hardcore, games-are-serious-business, second job playing type who needs intense objectives you’ll probably be bored to tears with this game. Chances are people reading this post think my gameplay is schizophrenic at times.

However I am not that type. I log in, faff about, and log out when I need to get things done away from computer.

You can call BS or say “come ONNNNnnnnn!” or quote Dontain’s sermon one more time but I don’t care. I play this game until I find something interesting in my other games then I come back when they don’t hold my attention. Most of them don’t, most haven’t engaged me the way this has. I haven’t even finished GW1 fully yet because this game is just more fun to me.

Your mileage will vary of course.

I’ve had some fun dance fights with other servers that way. One gal kept slinging some electric sword around like it was techno club night.

tigirius.9014:

Atlas.9704:

tigirius.9014:

Hate to tell you this but the gear grind is already here. The loot nerfs that make it impossible for some people including new players to get the items they need to craft exotics, add with that the months it takes to get ascended items if they want to run dungeons using the laurel system, add to that the T6 mat grind thakitten takes to get enough mats to make the runes/sigils because they are crazily priced in the TP or to get enough gold to get a legendary precursor and you’ve got a gear grind. Sorry to disappoint you but despite all of the rebuttal the gear grind is alive and well already, Dontain is just saying what’s on our minds, it’s already here why not make it better, more enhanced to improve the gameplay and to do what every other mmo dev out there has learned, that RNG all the time for everything does. not. work.

Sorry to pop you and Dontain’s bubble, but not everyone needs exotics or Legendaries.
I only have two exotics (shield and staff) for my Guardian and there wasn’t much of a grind, if any, when I did get them.
Of course I do dailies, help people in Orr, and overall enjoy the game instead of sweating it all out for a Mystical McGuffin.

I’ve collected T6 mats with no problems, I’m not going to craft a Legendary any time soon, but if I want a Mystic forge sword I could probably get by or even purchase the materials out from the gold I keep accumulating because I do Dynamic Events and kill Champions due to me playing for fun and not out of some number crunching second job.

That’s great but as everyone will tell you, you do need them to do dungeons or people will throw you out for being undergeared.

I must be incredibly lucky because that’s never happened.
Maybe its your server that is the problem if that has happened to you multiple times.
Some have wonderful communities that aren’t gear snobs.

My Human Guardian’s theme (Please don’t laugh)

My Charr Warrior’s theme

My Charr Engineer’s theme

(sigh) My Sylvari Elementalist (He’s so little and wiry it seemed to fit)

My Norn Necromancer’s theme

My Asura Mesmer (This one is strange, but I can imagine his clones dancing!)

My Sylvari Ranger (Because Daft punk makes my day better)

My Human Thief (Batman makes everything better)

That’s all of them, I play my Guardian the most but I love all my chil—-er I mean alts equally!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Also with the upcoming update to WvW, there will be a chance players can earn precursors from the WvW rank reward chests as well.

Good on ANet to do that for those WvW guys.

Sometimes people don’t assign a tab for their whispers and as such they get lost in the chatter. Another situation which pops up for me is at times the whisper tab I made doesn’t inform me of a new message. So I go without replying because there wasn’t a notification. At times the tab name does go red, but its a gamble for moments.

Protoavis.9107:

As someone who isn’t in a guild, I can say I stopped responding after the 30th query about it…it gets annoying when just because you aren’t in a guild dozens of people a day feel the need to whisper or send random invites. It’s like door to door sales people or telemarketers…it gets annoying and something to ignore very quickly.

And then there’s this I’m sad to say. I’ve had people whisper me just as I get into a zone if I want to join. Usually I’ll politely decline, then there’s the folks who spam the guild invite on me (seriously one guy just kept spamming, I had to move to another zone just to get away). With those types I just simply made my own personal storage guild tag and proudly display it, which makes a great deterrence to invites or messages of that nature.

tigirius.9014:

Hate to tell you this but the gear grind is already here. The loot nerfs that make it impossible for some people including new players to get the items they need to craft exotics, add with that the months it takes to get ascended items if they want to run dungeons using the laurel system, add to that the T6 mat grind that it takes to get enough mats to make the runes/sigils because they are crazily priced in the TP or to get enough gold to get a legendary precursor and you’ve got a gear grind. Sorry to disappoint you but despite all of the rebuttal the gear grind is alive and well already, Dontain is just saying what’s on our minds, it’s already here why not make it better, more enhanced to improve the gameplay and to do what every other mmo dev out there has learned, that RNG all the time for everything does. not. work.

Sorry to pop you and Dontain’s bubble, but not everyone needs exotics or Legendaries.
I only have two exotics (shield and staff) for my Guardian and there wasn’t much of a grind, if any, when I did get them.
Of course I do dailies, help people in Orr, and overall enjoy the game instead of sweating it all out for a Mystical McGuffin.

I’ve collected T6 mats with no problems, I’m not going to craft a Legendary any time soon, but if I want a Mystic forge sword I could probably get by or even purchase the materials out from the gold I keep accumulating because I do Dynamic Events and kill Champions due to me playing for fun and not out of some number crunching second job.

Listened until he brought up that GW2 could benefit from ‘healthy’ traditional treasure hunting. Also the less than mature take on people who don’t like gear grind didn’t endear me to his video that much either.

I don’t need the grind thanks.
Now I will agree I don’t care much for NCSoft, especially after CoH, so he had my attention for that much of the video.

Meluna.1764:

Atlas.9704:

Well there went my dreams of a omnom bar buffet for level 5 players.

I just checked the wiki and look at the sentence I found:
“Boon duration is 1 hour, and the magnitude scales on the level of the player who consumed it. "
Yay for community feasts ^^

The Gods have blessed me with a task now, I know what I must do!

Meluna.1764:

So good to see others also enjoy helping.

@Atlas: yes, I think the food trays require the same level as the single-helping versions.

I just had an idea while sitting in the office. In the evening I’ll go to queensdale with my guardian and ask in mapchat for newbies that would like a tour of the jumping puzzle. The puzzle is easy and some might not be aware these exist. I get asked a lot about doing JPs when I port people through them. What do you think? Worth a try?

Well there went my dreams of a omnom bar buffet for level 5 players.
Tours of jump puzzles sounds like a good idea, I’ve done similar when someone wants to have a body guard against the mobs in some of them.

Vol.5241:

Helping people with tough to reach skill points by acting as bait.

I camp that Queensdale bandit skill point near Vale because it has handed players their butts for far too long!

Though I do agree with the “earn it” sentiment Saelune, I don’t think putting them in WvWvW was the smartest idea on Anet’s part.

Map Completion is very much a PvE thing, so they really should have put that in dungeons or even counted PvE jump puzzles towards it.

WvWvW is a big PvP area with some PvE elements. The former taking more priority than the latter. If ANet really thought out the “do everything” idea they would have incorporated structured PvP maps in somehow too, but didn’t.

This was a goof up on their part, but with server rotations of colors or something similar there’s at least some attempt to correct it.

This way the folks that want to WvWvW won’t have to deal with queue times too badly because people not really interested in it aren’t mucking up the spots.
Folks that aren’t interested don’t feel ‘forced’ which wouldn’t add to any tension between groups.

If people truly are interested they’ll come regardless of Map Completion.

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Never before have I seen 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places switch hands so many times. What an epic week.

That’s IoJ for everyone: Why bother placing in one spot, we could shoot for all three!

I don’t mind facing such.
With Greatsword in hand I go head first into this danger and come out swinging.
Sure it sometimes gets exhausting, but the rewards aren’t that bad.
I do get access to a nice chest if done right.
Also I sure love the booty it provides!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

I will not be satisfied until I can ride a karka.

Let me die happy, Anet.

You’re the mount, karka’s ride you instead, and thus they die happy!

Oh Gods no don’t give them that idea.
We already have HumanxCharr shippers, don’t give them more….
Ah well this is the Internet after all, they would have thought of it someday. lol

As a character gets to level 80 players start to hunger for more challenging missions.
No I won’t talk about raids here, but rather another avenue of the Living Story that could be built.
ANet is giving us content on storyline with these Living Story chapters, but sometimes they can get done in a quick manner.
So then people turn to Guild Missions, but if you aren’t in a guild or not in one big enough to earn a Guild Mission then you are out of luck.

How can we still provide challenging or at least entertaining events to people in between Living Story chapters, or even as extensions to it?

Let’s look back at Pact missions! Order of Whispers, Durman Priory, Vigil all of these still work together under the Pact, but they probably still have some stuff they only do.
Why not give us missions, let’s compare them to a light Guild Mission or Bounty, that our respective Orders allow us to access?

The requirements could be very simple: You need to be within a certain order to play out a mission. Vigil boys and girls can’t initiate a OoW mission, but someone in their party could. Missions could be tailored to a group size from single person all the way up to full party.

Rewards could be varied, nothing like dungeon trophies (Gods know we have multiples already) but possible tickets for weapons we missed out within previous Living Story chapters or even a piece of tiered armor from that order (for those not rich enough to purchase such things directly).

This would allow you, ANet, to make fun missions that might not completely fit the structure of a Guild Mission/Bounty or the Living Story chapter you are releasing but still get to experiment with us on what is fun. The players now have another avenue of play and smaller guilds or even casuals can still enjoy the thrill of playing something ‘bigger’ than Dynamic Events and dailies.

Plus it allows the player to have yet another tie to something in this game world.
I have to say after the Personal story, there’s not much difference between our orders. It isn’t anything special to be Vigil or Priory outside of armor sets.

There is a downside to players who are lower level in the Personal Story, those who haven’t chosen an order. Though if they group up with folks maybe they’ll see which one they would like to join based on how much they enjoyed a series of missions.

Pact missions could be instanced or have bounties out in the open world on a timer.
The potential for different types could be huge. Give Vigil soldiers a mini fort to defend, Priory scholars neat weapons they have to defeat creatures with for testing, OoW agents could sneak around and steal an item. No doubt the player base could dream up more for you guys to use, or even your own dev team!

From my experience with GW1 I can honestly say even with that channel it probably won’t be used.
There’s a trade channel in GW1 and still people spammed the general chat or tried to find ways around it.
A recruitment board would be nice, something to post a message up for people to look at in-game but then that’s a feature not discussed here.

I wouldn’t mind some extra missions or events purely built on the Order you chose.
Vigil missions dealing with more ‘in your face’ moments.
Whispers having various sneaking missions or specific assassinations based on timers.
Priory using neat weaponry and you have to kill things using just that.

ANet could really branch out with unique and fun missions just on these ideas and whatever else pops in their mind. F&F dungeon was a fun example of a boss duo which posed some challenge.

Andele.1306:

Atlas.9704:

Kraggy.4169:

My Necromancer wants one of these whips .. to go with her thigh-length black leather boots and …

… I think I need go lie down for a bit.

That’ll raise some minions lol.

And on that day everyone summoned their flesh wurm and got their death novas off.

Well what can I say?
Blood is power.

Zaxares.5419:

My female Human Noble’s reaction seeing Faren:

He would still offer to buy you and Kasmeer a drink as a way of saying sorry. lol
Then find a way to charge it to your account.