Guild Wars 2

Looking at the schedule.. fellow FA’ers better get used to this. Looks like it’s easy street until week 6….

Nilkemia.8507:

The deaths I can recall:

-Your mentor (Forgal/Seiran/Tybalt) at Claw Island. (the one everyone remembers)

-Demolitionist Tonn, if the fear you chose was of someone dying because of you.

-Lionguard/Crusader Apatia, if your fear was of someone suffering because of you.

-Explorer Hekja, if you choose to attack the Mouth directly.

-Tegwen (as Konig Des Todes said, it’s especially personal for a sylvari that picked Act With Wisdom) in the Vigil path when invading Orr.

-Explorer Kekt, if you choose the Priory Path.

-Arda Gyreshriek, at the end of the Priory Path.

-Agent Zott, right at the end of the Whisper Path (sniped by the last boss of that path, no less.)

-Havroun Grechen in Against the Corruption.

The sad thing is that most of those characters get just enough time for you to become interested in them, and then they’re killed off (Forgal/Seiran/Tybalt, Tonn, Zott, and Apatia come to mind especially so).

On top of that, even if you don’t pick the paths/missions for the that lead to the deaths of certain characters, they still don’t show up in the rest of the Personal Story, implying that they still died regardless.

Thanks for the Spoilers!!!!!!!!

:p

5 lvl 80’s and still haven’t completed the personal story lol

This match-up is a nice change of pace. I’m enjoying the roaming and small fights a lot. More fun than zerging for sure.

Stay classy everyone. This is a fun week

Banzie.5248:

Nick.6972:

It would be much better if they made platinum league with JQ/SOR and BG and gold league with TC/FA/SoS/MAG/SBI +X.
No one enjoys fighting top tier servers.

Plat: JQ/SoR/BG
Gold: TC/FA/SoS/Mag/SBI + (YB lets say since they beat bp and will beat db easy)
Silver: EB/BP/CD/DB/IoJ/NSP
Bronze: DH/FC/ET/HoD/SF/GoM
Iron: DR/AR/KN

(Possible Switch in Bronze and Iron, Idk those server numbers anymore)

How hard is that.

The bottom 3 cant have even fights except between each other, and same with the top 3.

2 of those leagues would play the same servers for 7 weeks straight… Wasn’t that one of the complaints for moving to the Seasons in the first place?

a simple solution would be when you WP, all bags you haven’t collected WP with you.

This way if you die and can’t be brought back up, you can WP and still get the rewards you earned.

BrianRonin.1673:

I would pay money to rez a dude by something other than rubbing his legs

As a necrophiliac, I personally love rezzing people this way.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Jayne.9251:

Depends on how your server does. Winners of the various leagues will get a “better” reward. It’s a reason to get out there and fight for your server.

If they offer a major reward for server placement, they will get hoards of people out for season two. If it’s just a skin or finisher, I think season two will flop.

Time is relative. You aren’t being forced to participate in WvW. If you feel you can get better rewards outside of it, then do that.

Otherwise get out there and fight. The only thing the devs have said on reward from Sept. 1:

DevonCarver.5370:

Oren.1736:

Community concern is that incentives will be high enough to draw players to transfer up the tiers, killing even more low tier servers, over filling silver tiers with players and so forth for gold. Can you comment on any plans to address community size issues?

I can’t comment at this time as we haven’t finalized anything. In addition, you should look at it this way, if people flee lower league servers to get into the top leagues, it opens the opportunity for people to move to those lower leagues and finish 1st or 2nd, rather than being in the top league and finishing 6th or 7th. The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.

Weird… i’ve never heard of any competition ever where you get better rewards for coming in 20th place then you do for 6th place… How does that make any sense at all???

For me it is actually less of an issue of time/reward as it is fun/reward. I enjoy many parts of the game, and some parts are more rewarding than others. I will almost certainly finish the achievement because I enjoy killing people in WvW. The title alone is enticing to me. But on the other hand I will inevitably feel disappointed if after all that work I get 2 blues and a green.

A permanent finisher would be a very nice reward. On an open market I would expect a rare permanent finisher to sell for at least 100g, so that is something I would consider worth while. Of course that also depends on the animation.

You’re looking at it wrong. It’s not 20th place get’s a better reward than 6th place. Since seasons splits the servers into brackets, each individual bracket would then need to be ranked. In that regard, it is just how Devon spells it out. 2nd place will get a better reward than 6th place, regardless of the bracket designation.

I believe that is the general concept behind the characters. They are the new Destiny’s Edge. Marjory, Kasmeer, Rox, Braham.. we just need a couple new pieces to the puzzle. Hopefully Hobo-Tron will be added into the group.

kitten nic Touch.7960:

Outworld is becoming one with the earth realm. It’s time to find Tyria’s greatest warriors and unite them for Mortal Kombat!

as a Side note.. I love that they censor kitten nic’s name lol

kitten nic Touch.7960:

Outworld is becoming one with the earth realm. It’s time to find Tyria’s greatest warriors and unite them for Mortal Kombat!

+1 to this. Has anyone seen Trahearne?

I always think of the ‘Junk’ trophies as basically money. So from gathering these patches you get a minimal amount of gold as well as the spores you’re searching for.

Nothing really to have an issue with.

SoPP.7034:

It doesn’t bother me. The events happen in areas already associated with a degree of PvE (Mercenaries, Centaurs etc).

Some mobs pop up randomly as well I’ve seen, but it’s a handful of them and it’s not an event, so it’s not much of a concern.

My only observation is that the more competitive people will be the ones that typically post of the added PvE concerns!?!?

They’ve already pushed AP hunters and PvErs in general back into WvW with seasons. That did more to change the eb and flow of WvW in general. Seeing the current LS in WvW is minimal and if anything adds a bit of variety.

This was my thoughts on this as well. I understand people being upset because we were all told no changes to WvW would be made while Season 1 was going on, but aside from that it hasn’t changed the landscape much. This won’t cause a 3rd place server to now take 1st place….

The thing that is important to me, is this zone now has life to it. It has been a dead zone for me for months. I can easily say the two Kryta zones I visit often was Queensdale and Gendarran Fields. Now I have a reason to go to Kessex Hills.

Yeah.. I’m a fan of that loading screen as well. Kasmeer seems to have some very nice assets…

I concur. The same happened to myself.

Slow clap for both CD and YB. Good battles this week. Until we meet again.

Looking forward to reset tonight and the next match up

Did you try to enter it? I mean.. what’s the worst that coulda happened?

Danikat.8537:

Yeah I think the main point is to work with the quartz crystal node, so people who want to make celestial armor have a slightly easier time doing it.

Personally it doesn’t bother me either way. I can’t seriously imagine myself taking the time to go back to my home instance every day for a skill point when I get more than I know what to do with already.

Yeah. If there was a band and TP access there it would be more plausible to visit daily. LA wouldn’t take much of a hit because the Mystic Forge would still be there. I have the quartz and candy corn nodes in my home instance and don’t visit daily to gather from them…. i should though

I was hoping it was a SP every day, but not disappointed that it’s not. There is a large amount of people who like the Celestial gear so that would be the number one reason for having this charging area at the home instance. It also could be a good foreshadowing that we’ll need to charge future crafting components.

While it does look like it’s a different angle, I will note that during the Scarlet Invasions, the portals for that have the same thing when you look through them. I have a screen grab on my PC at home and will have to look at it and confirm, but it looks the same. Bridges on the other side… but what else is over there!

Just a way to mesh the two communities together most likely.

The offshoots are all in the PvE type areas of WvW, right?

Zanshin.5379:

There’s a difference between being entertained and being occupied.

Basically Anet is keeping us occupied. We have nothing to do so they give us things to do, because otherwise we might stop playing and if we stop playing we stop buying things. They’re forgetting that this is a game and that games should be entertaining.

I’m being entertained while being occupied. It can happen.

You should stop lumping a whole community in with your personal opinion. If you feel like you’re only being occupied and not entertained, you should most likely word your statement a little differently.

These types of achievements have been there since day 1 though. They just ding lower now. For example, look at the Insect Killer achievement that has been there since launch.. Kill 1,000.

I’d have to disagree with the OP. Personally, I was done with the Halloween stuff a few days after the release of that content. The only purpose the Labyrinth or Halloween stuff has for myself is to try and get as much Candy Corn and other mats as possible, but that loses it’s fun after about 30 minutes of farming….

This new content gives more options for stuff to do and is a good break from WvW and gathering my Ascended mats.

Vaxx.3178:

Delvoire.8930:

Arrow.3856:

For every 20 complaints theres this 1 post that says they love Anet. What does anet do? Deletes the 20 complaints and listens to the 1 post. Nek minut they loose 19/20 of their playerbase. You know its going to happen.

Some of us are just happy with a game that continuously changes the game world and adds new things and all for the low low price of……. free.

As a person who’s played some very bad MMO’s, this one is doing quiet well in keeping me entertained and wanting me to log in daily. Those bad MMO’s couldn’t do this for even a month after getting the game.

Continuously changing? Seriously?

I think you mean, adding temporary content. Nothing is “changing”. After a year, Scarlet invasions, and 1 new path in a dungeon are the only things that have “changed” the world with the LS….and really have not changed it much. Please let me know if I missed something.

The reason you want to log on everyday? Its called dailies. A shopping list of tasks they feed you in order to log in….so they can take the log-in numbers to the marketing department and spin it to suit there needs.

Once you hit 80, its all about zerging in open world, and WvW (something a monkey can do), and trying to skip as much content in dungeon and fractals in order to increase your time spent/reward. Sounds like work doesn’kitten It is.

All in order to get what? More items? More gold? More things for your character so you can sit in Lions Arch and look cool? Oh joy!

I really miss good PvE content, that took a bit of skill, and good group synergy to do. I really miss good open world PvP where its not just about who has the bigger zerg, but actual communication and group makeup. As of now, GW2 does not offer me any of that.

Anet needs to really think about where they are going. Adding yet another 2week of zerg this, zerg that, congratulations here is your back piece, is not going to cut it when other competitors release their games.

Side note: I remember when zerging something was laughed at in games. When it was a sign of bad players that throw numbers at a problem and let attrition win, because they could not think for themselves, or think outside the box. I noticed now in GW2 zerging is not only accepted, but embraced and encouraged, not just by the players but by Anet as well. Its like GW2 is becoming the first MMO with training wheels.

Sorry you feel that way pal. It seems that you’re playing a game that you don’t enjoy.

I, on the other hand, do not have this issue.

I log in daily to play a video game and enjoy myself, and I do. I don’t log in to achieve dailies, i just tick those off as I play the game. I craft, I explore, I play WvW, I play sPvP, I run dungeons, I do Fractals, I play the LS content, I finish some map completion. All in all, I do tons of stuff daily and I change what I do daily. I also have 5 lvl 80 toons so I disagree with what your take is on what to do once you hit lvl 80.

As for skill in PvE… I’ve been a few parties for Dungeon runs where people aren’t skilled and have an idea what to do. They make those runs tougher, but then you have the opportunity to teach them.

You complain about the rewards you get, but what else would you like to receive? Gold doesn’t cut it, Items don’t cut it, Cosmetic skins don’t cut it. What do you need then? These are all things that you should be playing the game for when your not just playing for fun.

Arrow.3856:

For every 20 complaints theres this 1 post that says they love Anet. What does anet do? Deletes the 20 complaints and listens to the 1 post. Nek minut they loose 19/20 of their playerbase. You know its going to happen.

Some of us are just happy with a game that continuously changes the game world and adds new things and all for the low low price of……. free.

As a person who’s played some very bad MMO’s, this one is doing quiet well in keeping me entertained and wanting me to log in daily. Those bad MMO’s couldn’t do this for even a month after getting the game.

DevonCarver.5370:

Waypoints are being evaluated currently. There will be changes to that aspect of WvW that we look at in the upcoming tests. Based on how that works out, we would then move any of those changes into the live game once they had been tested. We aren’t discussing the specifics just yet, until the test is live.

This won’t happen until after the Season, right? I mean, there isn’t supposed to be any changes to WvW while the season is going on to make sure everything stays fair…..coughnewhealskillcough coughPvEelementsinWvWcough

Sumwun.3846:

Let me begin this post by apologizing for my attitude. I am sorry i’m not kitten about not winning, or mad at any other server for using whatever tactics they have used. I can’t help it! This is what happens when I’m not mad!

I have been in, next to, and birds eye for a number of large fights. sometimes a rundown, sometimes a wipe. Pretty much always fun. got into a few duels out there during the course of the week. Much respect to those who fight till the end as opposed to fleeing.

I will admit I did had one unfriendly notion this week. I witnessed a lot of people running from fights in a video game. I saw lots of people standing on walls watching server mates get killed from relative safety. People downright frightened to engage in relatively even numbers. I’m not ignorant. I know this is my serer as well as our competition. I just got to thinking as I watch what could have been a great open field fight turn into a ridiculous car chase as one team used the run and hide tactic. I simply thought.

My God, I hope all these people who run from these fights, or avoid them are not a part of the Armed forces responsible for keeping my homeland safe IRL. We should be killing and dying, not tucking and taping back our bits so we can run faster.

Retreat… and live to fight another day. It’s a pretty sound strategy.

Playing in the event yesterday.. I zerged not once. Yeah.. it can happen.

Man… I’d hate to be at ANET right about now.

When there is group content, people complain that there isn’t a solo version. When you make solo content, people complain that there is no group version. When there is open world battles, people complain they want an instance. When you make an instance, people complain that they want it in open world.

RNG for Ticket Scraps into BL Tickets would be the worst case scenario…

The BL Chests are a fail IMO since the Keys are very far and in between and the cost of gold to gems is astronomical now. I play enough to get gold somewhat easily..but when 10 gold can only get you roughly 150 gems… that’s not even worth it IMO. You need like 30 gold to get enough Gems for 5 BL Keys..and that won’t even guarantee you 1 BL Scrap. The rewards are FAR less than the work needed to get them.

Lostwingman.5034:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Without giving anything away, I will say that the Kessex Hills you’ll see in November (and December, and next year…) is not the same as the one we had last week.

I wonder if it is possible for you guys to do a more thorough changing of the zone. By that I mean so that DE’s and hearts in the vicinity of these LS changes reflect this.
Also, cleansing Orr and other places (habitable Blood Tide?). I worry you guys have bitten off more than you can chew with the LS ambitions.

That’s the only thing I think is missing. Since the entire map has an effect by this, be it darker or the poison pollen in the air, the DE’s in the area and other NPC aspects should be reflecting the changes.

They are just really good friends. Kinda like my Aunt and her roommate. They’ve been besties and roommates for 20 years now!

It made me chuckle.

Lalocat.6793:

I’m not crazy about it. When I started the intro instance I thought it was neat, but after the 20th time I was over it. It just takes so long to stake them. This is sensible in PvP to give the downed person a chance to interrupt it, but here it’s just… oh man, GET ON WITH IT ALREADY.

Also not fond of how fast they recover their health when they use the bandage skill. You have to rush over and stake them as soon as they go down, which was a real pain when I’d be fighting a group of them and I’d have to stop to sloooooooowly wiiiiiiiiind up my staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake and then go back to fighting the rest…. oops another one down loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime and back to the fig- STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE. Honestly I kind of hate it and hope it doesn’t become typical for monsters.

You don’t have to stake them.. just like in PvP, you can continue to attack them and drain there health. Once their downed state life bar is empty they die just like normal. Staking can just be a quicker way to move on and kill them.

Eraizul.4375:

As an 80, I found the instance kinda tough but interesting. When I tried using an alt and teaming up with some of my lower level friends (a Living Story of their level we can play together? Sweet..)
It was disheartening to find that the instance is solo AND level 80.
Seriously. An instance you’re automatically warped into, in a 15-25 zone that is level 80?
I realize the Living Story is End Gamey but that just seems a big middle finger to anyone lower level who wants to go into the area / give it a shot.
Yes, people are up-leveled to 80 but that does doesn’t put everyone on as even a footing as it should if, say, everyone was down-leveled to 25, the, you know, area level..
IF you put living story in lower level areas, DON’T screw over people who legitimately can/should be in that area.

You only zone into the instance if you are above lvl 25. If you are lower, then you have to go to Marjory and actually request to start the instance. Those people would then be upleveled to 80 so they can experience that story element. It’s basically how the game has worked since day one.

I think it’s actually cool that this happens. For lvl 80 people who have already explored this zone, it gives them something different when they come back. For lower level people who have not, it doesn’t change that experience much. Actually when they first show up, they’ll never really know the impact of this event until they do talk to Marjory and start the instance.

Kudos to this Living Story team and update. From other posts I’ve seen from Devs it looks like this portion will play out for the next few months just like Flame and Frost did. I’m looking forward to see what’s on the horizon.

Ghosn.3219:

Running around and pressing 1 might as well be running around and pressing F.

Positive zone here guys.

You can always press 2, 3, 4, 5, or many other keys as well. You’re not pigeon holed to spam your 1 key.

It’s perspective, and we like this addition.

Please feel free to spread the negativity to the hundreds of other threads that strive for it.

Heinel.6548:

This is making less sense by the word. A character that is smarter than everyone is a genius, not a Mary Sue. Otherwise, every major Asuran character would be a Mary Sue.

While most Mary Sues are portrayed as intelligent, that is because high intelligence is a desirable trait. Mary Sues are characterized as someone who is idealized to the point of being unrealistic. It takes more than just generic “smarts” for that.

This is merely for people who have a need to classify everything. Instead of taking things at face value, everything has to be drawn back to a person or persons who originally had an idea like that. This eventually leads people to find out that 90% of all stories are not actually original ideas but borrowed ideas from others that change slightly. Be it consciously or subconsciously, everything everyone ever does in the history of ever, was already done before.

The dagger looks wicked. Can’t wait to get my hands on that skin.

mariemystar.8296:

Shout out to APS, CL, ATK for the fights at Bay, it was seriously one of the intense if not most intense fight One has ever had.

Also great fights all evening with HOPE and my old guildies RAM. T_T

Please mind the other One people on this thread, I for one do not like the trashing from them. As for GvG, we just find it is not collectively in our best interests at the moment. Some of us would love it and think they are fun skirmishes. On the other hand we are a recovering server from things that have happened in the last few months, so we are trying to find our groove and try to get better as a server by constant WvW’ing. We are nowhere near how fantastic FA’s performance is, but we are still there persistent and trying our best. We have learned alot from FA and actually I have found the match up to be extremely fun. We have not had a challenge in a few weeks and it has really fueled our drive.

I hope to GvG with the many guilds who have invited us to fight. We are extremely flattered, and apologize for not accepting at this time.

Hope to see you in another random match up.

I was there as well and that was loads of fun. That defense of Bays was just amazing. I couldn’t believe how long we were able to keep that contested with the lord down and everything.

It is supposed to be solo only.

I enjoyed the downstate as well. It’s also a great thing for people who haven’t done the Halloween Finisher Achievement yet. You can now do it simply by downing these NPCs instead of having to jump into PvP

Warning This post will contain positivity.

I would like to say thank you and well done to ANET. This new content patch hit a few nails on the head and has been very enjoyable.

I’d like to start off with first zoning into Kessex Hills and immediately being thrown into an instance. This is great. It helps to immerse the player right into this living story content. You’re charged with a task of escorting and thus you eventually hit your first group of the Toxic Alliance. I was more than pleasantly surprised to see that the Nightmare Court portion of the Alliance fall with a more than familiar downed state. Awesome! Not only is this a great mechanic for the enemy to have, but this lets you have the ability to kill 2 birds with one stone. How, you may ask. Simple. If you hadn’t completed your finisher Achievement for the Halloween event, switch your finisher over to the appropriate one and start slamming those Salads with Mad King heads and Scarecrows.

I liked being able to explore the area some in this single person instance. It helped get a great feel for the changed area and also lets you attack the new enemies at your will.

Once I got to Marjory and Kasmeer and got to fight the final boss, again I was impressed. The fight wasn’t too easy and yet not too tough as well. It was enjoyable. I liked the look of this boss as well. It was a great mixture of the Krait we all know and love with a splash of Rankor from Star Wars. The final cut scene was a nice finish as well. Can’t believe how fast that veil went down… like a norn fart at a moot.

So the opening was nice. It immersed the player, it introduced the new enemy and it played out nice. The changes to Kessex Hills is pretty cool. It’s nice to WP into the map from a good distance away and see the silhouette of the Tower of Nightmares from far away. The game world has changed and is changing. I’ve done the opening now on 3 of my 5 toons and can’t wait to finish it up with all of them. I will get more spores and I will vanquish this new Toxic Alliance!

I’ve left out all negativity from this post as most of these forums is filled with it beyond belief. I’ll let the people who hate this game and have nothing better to do but spew venom and play a game they hate so much do there thing elsewhere. This shall be my sanctuary of positivity.

selan.8354:

what i dont get about antitoxing is the confusion removal. its basically again an anti condi mesmer thing! why not bleeding…oh thats right that would affect warriors and bleeding theives! so what does that leave the mesmers in wvw with? nothing thats right!

There’s a very good possibility that the upcoming content will have PvE elements that will be heavy in the confusion boon. This will help with survivability.

Without this ability was there no defense for a condi mesmer?

You can get the new skill by hitting the H tab and going to Slot Skills and buying the new heal skill for 25 SP.

As for Marjory, you’ll have to complete her Achievement before she’ll open up her loot for purchase.

Question: Is the event pinpointed to one location causing everyone to zerg in one spot, or is everyone just following the Blue Doritos from point to point mindlessly like sheep?

PVE Zerging is only because people choose to play that way. You don’t NEED to zerg in the Halloween Labyrinth. You can easily run about without the zerg and still do everything. You didn’t need to zerg for the Invasions. Actually smaller parties doing those invasion event circles helped close them faster as the event didn’t scale the enemies to have insane amounts of HP.

People don’t need to zerg the champ train farms… They choose to. They only place a zerg is needed and really warranted is in WvW.

If this event forces everyone to one spot, then a valid point of zerging is warranted and my argument is null and void. If it’s more of an option, then people, you really need to start thinking outside the box here and stop being lemmings.

displacedTitan.6897:

If any of you honestly believe they made that tower with no plan to have us enter it you need to go back to first grade where they teach you some basic critical thinking skills.

It’s not critical thinking skills that is lacking… it’s a more simple concept called Common Sense….

Good to see some positive posts. I can’t wait to get home, log in, and check this out.

All the negative nancy’s on these forums is a good reason why I avoided them at all costs for the first 6 months of release. The negative attitudes of people who think they know how everything should work and play out is just on the absurd level. If all these people knew how to make a great game…well the industry would be flooded with awesome MMO’s……. It’s not.

Farming Flats.5370:

Even if the event stay , your OK with the fact that i will need to this 6 Times ?

I bet others have more toons than me.

I am ok with that. I have 5 lvl 80 toons myself and have no problem with this. Plus with knowing I can just spend 25 SP to get this.. not a big deal at all. All 5 of my 80 toons are sitting on tons of unused SP.

ANET did already say that after this Living Story event that this will still be achievable to get.