Guild Wars 2

So now that it’s been a few days since the latest update and everyone has been pounding their weapons against Maria and her 3 Headed Wurms, has anyone had a chance to go catch up with our favorite LS characters?

Has anyone run into Evon to see if his dialogue has changed, Ellen as well? Has anyone stopped by the Dead End to see if our team is hanging out there with some new detail. Where has Ho-Ho tron gone? Where has Lord Farin been for all of this!?

Just wondering if anyone has tracked down some good side stuff to add to our growing story here.

Invictus.1503:

You know, after reading Scarlet’s journal, it reminds me a lot about how Jora described Svanir’s (her brother) fall into corruption and becoming Jarmag’s first lieutenant. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking (I really want to have Mordremoth awake and for us to go to Maguuma Wastes), but it seems as if Scarlet is mirroring Svani’s story, only with the jungle dragon.

I wonder if this means that GW3 will have the Daughters of Scarlet in the game

There is also only 3 pieces and not a full set. Just Head, Shoulders and Hands.

Numu Boltar.6105:

Lord Kuru.3685:

You mean new Dynamic Event chains? Anet has given up on those.

So true – so sad.

GG

Didn’t they put new event chains recently into Kessex Hills after the fall of the Tower?

Heibi.4251:

Ace.1726:

Zanshin.5379:

The elitism is strong in this boss event.
The simple fact that you have to be invited to the correct overflow server is prooof enough. And then there’s the elitists in this thread saying it’s ok if a content is only doable by 10% of the players.

There should absolutely be content that only 10 percent of the players can do.

Then ANeT is ignoring 90% of it’s customer base. Not a very good business model. If ANeT creates content it should be doable by and for all. Hard content is great, but it shouldn’t require hard-capping the zone population. I believe our server finally took down Teq just last weekend. It took that long and a little help to complete it. The event otherwise remains pointless and unused 99% of the time. That means the content that was created was a waste of ANeT effort. A little less ridiculous champ scaling and less reliance on huge numbers would’ve made the Teq encounter a more enduring event. A higher chance of success by players would have kept them coming back. But the failure rate is just too high and it takes too much pre-coordination.

Unfortunately the wurm event will fall even more quickly into this category. Players will guest to other servers that will eventually succeed and never do it on their own server ever again. Our server is still trying to do it, but I believe interest will soon fall sharply. The marionette event is the only new content that is enjoyable so far. People actually enjoy it, even if we fail. Too bad it will go away all too soon.

Was ANET yelled at for Liadra and that hard content? That was presented to the community as something only 10% of players would accomplish, even though more did end up beating her. That was welcomed with open arms and actually even more people cheered on ANET to make more content like that.

As others have said, there is plenty of open world easy things to do in this game. What’s the resistance for something that is actually hard?

If you don’t like it.. then go do the hundreds of other things that are at your disposal to do.

Awesome. Many people need to watch these to further understand the mechanics.

tuman.6593:

pale tree will beat em all >.<

I will never be able to unsee the Pokemon underneath the Pale Tree now.

Rezz.8019:

Last phase is very easy if you know what to do. You can do it in 1min30 easily. Just think!

No one has beaten the last phase yet.. IDK how you can say this.

To the OP, it’s not the 15 Minute timer that seems to be the issue, it’s the 2nd phase 2 minute one for the Legendary heads. They are getting closer though. Perhaps as the runs get tighter the success rate will begin to rise. I mean it only can rise right now seeing as it’s at 0.

Love this Wurm battle.

I attempted the wurm 3 times yesterday with TTS and man was it a blast. Just hearing the coordination on TS and how everyone can work together is great. An MMO is about community and this boss battle only breathes community. Let’s work together on this everyone. There should be Server’s rallying the troops to try and take these on.

Serophous.9085:

was I the only one interested in the pic connecting races? with some scribbled out?

People seem to think that’s an inside joke with the community as the forums were filled with some of those wacky alliances like the Centaurs and the Quaggan.

klesk.1790:

First server tat cleared ~probably had a high IQ player

The first server tat cleared the “Marinette event” and the “Worm event” must hav had a player or a group tat had high IQ then normal.Probably had som M.I.T. graduate who figured it out the first few hours of the patch.There is in no way an average I.Q. could hav figured it out in the first few hours.

So which server was the first to clear the “Marinette event” and the “Worm event”?

Was there a server tat cleared the worm event within 6~8 hours after the patch?

If there was…. they must hav had a high IQ player or group in tat server.

Not sure if serious?

Blaeys.3102:

This is a player created issue – resulting from people rushing the same 3-4 servers.

here is the answer to overflows -

Dont bandwagon on the same 3 servers as 90% of the population. There are servers where overflows are not that big of an issue – and who could use the extra help.

Instead of trying to flock to servers so you can zerg everything down, spread out and get into situations where numbers are more even and true server teams can form.

And, long before Anet should consider looking at overflows/population limits, they have to figure out a way to even out populations and give support to lower pop servers.

Yeah. It would be nice that instead of overflows, they used the Underflow system so that it actually sent you to a lower pop server as a quest. But would that create a new problem?

khani.4786:

because it’s the passphrase to her console

Also Omadd’s portrait has daggers shoved into his eyes

Lulz.. that makes sense.
I haven’t gotten the 5th one yet and just wikied the entries when I noticed the cypher.

FTL

Rising Dusk.2408:

I had a super epic encounter last night where everyone in my champion ring died except for me almost immediately (we were fighting the shrieker). Then, I went on to solo the boss, killing it with 20 seconds to spare, and managed to finish off the power regulator with less than a half-second remaining on the clock. All of this was happening to the cheers in /say chat from the viewers, stunned that a Necromancer of all things soloed the boss and ultimately broke the chain. We went on to win the whole thing because of that success (we had no failures allowed left before bar filled), and it made me swell with pride to think that not only had I achieved something truly great and not only had I benefited about 100 other people, but that a group of them watched it in disbelief and cheered me on. It was nerve-wracking and absolutely unforgettably amazing.

It’s moments like these that I remember forever, and for that, I thank ANet for making such an amazing and awesome fight where I could show off my personal skill and make a difference for everyone.

This brought a tear to my eye.

But seriously I love this fight. When every lane is cheering on the next and everyone is working together it truly is a lot fun. The small champion fights are great too. It does suck when you watch an arena get wiped and know your battle is for naught though. That’s the nature of the game.

I just hit on Kasmeer when Jory wasn’t around

Amber, Cobalt and Crimson?

I haven’t seen any threads on this yet so I thought I’d bring it up.

After finishing Scarlet’s Layer you’ll have all her journal pieces. If you notice, each journal entry has one letter capitalized out of place. In order, they read OMADD.

Now we know that Omadd was a mentor to Scarlet before she saw the enternal alchemy. He was the asura who helped her see it. She ultimately killed him upon her exit.

So why is it cryptically in her journal though? That’s my question.

Can you keep going back to the chests after they’ve been opened once?

possessed.2036:

Since the content was clearly made for TTS I will not congratulate you.
The rest of us will pray for the messiahs to visit the insignificant plebs in the other servers.
Is this really the future of gw2?

A world boss was taken the furthest yet by a GUILD, in GUILD wars 2? Yep that just sounds ludicrous..

Gratz TTS.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Delvoire.8930

Well to be fair if you looked at your Living Story UI it tells you. When you start there are three Living Story Points of Interest in ascending order. First is the Marionette. Second is escorting the Vigil for the Wurm. Third and last is heading to LA to meet with some friends. After that, all is left to do is hunt down Scarlet’s Secret Lair.

Where do I find this? The only thing I got was a letter and for some reason it only shows on the first toon that opened it? I can’t find it on my main toon. The HUD on the right side of my screen only shows my daily and monthly achievements.

I can’t seem to find if it’s an option but mine do show up on the right. I have Personal Story (Green Star) Living Story (Gold Star) and then Daily Achievements (Purple)

I thought I remember setting what showed up there and what didn’t. I can’t find that again though.

GuzziHero.2467:

I want to say that I have only succeeded TWICE at Robo Thatcher, and both were in overflows.

Delvoire – if you were in my OF (I was Vittai), it was good to battle alongside you Gratz all the same!

I was. In fact I was in your lane

I just wanted to say that I just completed the Marionette for the first time. It was on an Overflow. Map Chat was key and it really wasn’t too difficult to be honest.

Mikuchan.7261:

The dragon in the ceiling is red.
She had alot of colors to draw with, but she did it with red.
Now what dragon is associated with the color red?
Primordus
;D

Red is also a 3 letter word. 3 letters?

Half – Life 3 confirmed.

(Yay! I do get it now!)

Kilandros.2098:

Delvoire.8930:

Kilandros.2098:

Delvoire.8930:

Kilandros.2098:

Excuse me, but I think being forced into underpopulated overflows is a “legit” complaint.

Not really…

The overflows are created when a server is FULL. Then an overflow is made. When that one fills, another is made and so on.

So if there is 1 or maybe 2 overflows that just maybe don’t have enough players to do the event, that’s not a failure. You still have hundreds of players doing the event. You just handcuffed yourself because you showed up 10 minutes before spawn time.

Just come back the next time as it keeps spawning every 2 hours. Just this time come back a little sooner. It’s not like any of this is going away soon. Wurm is here to stay forever and the Marionette is here for 2+ weeks.

I realize you jumped into this thread midway, but I hate to have to reiterate my OP.

This is exactly what I’m unhappy about: Being required to camp out on a map for several hours to do an event in main. As it currently stands on Blackgate, if you aren’t there an 1+ hours before the event, you aren’t getting into main. For me that’s unacceptable.

Well to be honest.. you’re not required. It’s your choice. If the content is not for you then move along….

People camp out in front of kitten and Jormag before their timers pop. Maybe not an hour, but they do.

As for playing in an overflow, I still see nothing wrong with that aside from the EU thing above. I’ve done many of an event whilst playing in an Overflow.

You’re really trying my patience here. So far in this thread your posts can be reduced to the following:

1) Just camp until you can do the event.

2) If you don’t like it, don’t do it.

What’s your problem? If you LIKE the content just say so. Don’t make this about me and how I can just move along. I didn’t title the OP “Please come into this thread and tell me to quit the game because I don’t like this patch.”

If you want to disagree, fine, please elaborate what you think is good about the patch. So far you haven’t said a single thing actually applauding the content—you’ve merely told us the ways in which we can cope with the burden of overflows by investing large amounts of our time, and then telling us we can go on our ways.

Why don’t you take a minute and think about how to articulate why we SHOULD deal with the overflows instead of continuing to regurgitate why we MUST deal with the overflows.

I’m sorry.

I’m just stating my opinion on the overflow situation. I thought I’ve clearly said that I see nothing wrong with overflow servers. People can complete the event on their normal server just as well as they can on the overflows.

I do like the update. I love new content and I love seeing the game evolve and grow and add new things. 2 new bosses? Great. I’ve done them both and enjoyed the mechanics and the difficulty. I’d much rather have boss encounters like this instead of more easy boss encounters like Fire Elemental or Maw. These new bosses and Teq as well test the community and I like that.

I personally don’t have an issue with hanging out on the map to get into the boss fights as well. I’m not doing much else anyways. I have 5 toons at 80, most of which are in all Exotic gear and I have Ascended sprinkled throughout. At this stage in the game all I’m doing is world events for rewards and farming T6 mats for Ascended. When I wait for Teq, do I just stand there though? Nope. I get map completion while I’m there or I’ll start knocking out daily achievements.

I came into this thread to point out only 1 complaint that seem warranted by the Overflow issue that you brought up. The fact that EU overflows are mixed with multiple cultures and languages and that creates a barrier. All the rest I feel is just people getting mad over something silly and trivial. That’s my opinion though. I’m entitled to it. As are you with feeling you don’t like overflows.

At the end of the day, all I can do is try to point out facts or ways to cope with the way things are and hope maybe that can make your frown turn upside down. I enjoy this game tremendously. I log in daily and I spend a good amount of time there. I seem hundreds and hundreds of other players who do the same. When i come to the forums though, it’s so much negativity and hate that I try to overcome that. If someone had not purchased this game yet and came to these forums to check it out beforehand, they’d get a very bad view of a game that is not bad by any means. At least in my opinion, again.

I hope that clears things up some. We can agree to disagree and I’ll be fine with that. I’ll even be in game in a few hours. If you want to party up and play, shoot me a whisper or invite.

Fallout.1798:

Kriknav.9268:

What I find interesting is that we’ve all been brought up to speed with Scarlet’s efforts with the Alliances all the way back to Flame and Frost, but there’s yet to be a tie-in to the Karka storyline, which I think is related. It’s interesting that there may be a hint here that the tie-in is real.

Theories seem to point to Scarlet preparing to fight or unleash the Dragons. I seem to agree with this. She’s seen this world the way most of the rest of us never will, through the Pale Tree’s Dream, which was a turning point for her. Her alliances and devices have been big and grand, dragon-size, even. And her messing with the magic leylines seem to indicate interaction with the dragons on some scale. What if the Karka are minions of the unnamed Water dragon (AKA Bubbles)?

TL;DR I think the X on Scarlet’s map in LA is tied to Karka and the Karka are possibly tied to the Water Elder Dragon.

Personally I think the only thing that Scarlet could have been interested in at Southsun, is the toxins that Canach made to drive the local Karka and Reef Riders into a bind rage and attack the Consortium settlements. We’ve seen that Scarlet was interested in the Hallucination Toxins from the Tower of Nightmares. So it makes sense that she would have been interested in a different kind of toxin. Heck we might find out that she and the toxic alliance used Canach’s wildlife toxin in part to make, or inspiration to make, the Toxic alliance Hallucination Toxins. (used 1 toxin to make another)

Also, we know that the Karka are not minions of the Deep Sea Dragon. It was the Sea Dragon that the Karka were fleeing from, and eventually settled on Southsun Cove.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Karka

Someone point out earlier in the thread that the table has a plant on it that is similar to the ones found on Southsun Cove. These were the plants that had the toxin that Canach used if I’m not mistaken. The plants are still there even.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Paul Belz.7351:

Hey guys,

You must participate in the marionette encounter in order to progress to the step where you go to LA. You do not have to WIN the fight, only participate. Once you participated that step should go away.

How are we supposed to know this?! A mail update would have been nice. Our personal story progress always stands out and shows our toon where to go next and what to do….something the living stories seem to forget to add. You guys see the big picture and have a clear progression in your heads, but we as players (for the most part) are running around like head-less moas. If it wasn’t for Dulfy, I would have given up on a few living story metas by now. We should not have to go to Dulfy to figure out what to do, where to go, and what a meta achievement requires. This should be better communicated somehow…maybe similar to the personal story progressions? Please continue to work on this aspect.

Well to be fair if you looked at your Living Story UI it tells you. When you start there are three Living Story Points of Interest in ascending order. First is the Marionette. Second is escorting the Vigil for the Wurm. Third and last is heading to LA to meet with some friends. After that, all is left to do is hunt down Scarlet’s Secret Lair.

Thedenofsin.7340:

Delvoire.8930:

The OP is right. If people really don’t like the content, don’t participate. It’s the #1 way that ANET tells if we like something or not. They look at player participation.

I would have thought the #1 was of telling them we don’t like it would be, umm… telling them we don’t like it.

Nah. The player base that log into the forums and post is miniscule compared to what log in and play the game.

Posting a complaint here can be warranted. If it’s constructive and not just name calling and bashing. On the same token, if 1,000 people came here to post how they didn’t like the new content, it would really not mean much if 20,000 players are actively logging in and doing said content.

They look at success from player involvement in the game. Metric taken by player participation. They don’t do it by sifting through all these threads to see Jimmy Joe has made 40 threads saying he hates the game and the grass textures.

Kilandros.2098:

Delvoire.8930:

Kilandros.2098:

Excuse me, but I think being forced into underpopulated overflows is a “legit” complaint.

Not really…

The overflows are created when a server is FULL. Then an overflow is made. When that one fills, another is made and so on.

So if there is 1 or maybe 2 overflows that just maybe don’t have enough players to do the event, that’s not a failure. You still have hundreds of players doing the event. You just handcuffed yourself because you showed up 10 minutes before spawn time.

Just come back the next time as it keeps spawning every 2 hours. Just this time come back a little sooner. It’s not like any of this is going away soon. Wurm is here to stay forever and the Marionette is here for 2+ weeks.

I realize you jumped into this thread midway, but I hate to have to reiterate my OP.

This is exactly what I’m unhappy about: Being required to camp out on a map for several hours to do an event in main. As it currently stands on Blackgate, if you aren’t there an 1+ hours before the event, you aren’t getting into main. For me that’s unacceptable.

Well to be honest.. you’re not required. It’s your choice. If the content is not for you then move along….

People camp out in front of kitten and Jormag before their timers pop. Maybe not an hour, but they do.

As for playing in an overflow, I still see nothing wrong with that aside from the EU thing above. I’ve done many of an event whilst playing in an Overflow.

Kilandros.2098:

Excuse me, but I think being forced into underpopulated overflows is a “legit” complaint.

Not really…

The overflows are created when a server is FULL. Then an overflow is made. When that one fills, another is made and so on.

So if there is 1 or maybe 2 overflows that just maybe don’t have enough players to do the event, that’s not a failure. You still have hundreds of players doing the event. You just handcuffed yourself because you showed up 10 minutes before spawn time.

Just come back the next time as it keeps spawning every 2 hours. Just this time come back a little sooner. It’s not like any of this is going away soon. Wurm is here to stay forever and the Marionette is here for 2+ weeks.

Sourde Noire.5286:

Delvoire.8930:

Curious.. What’s the difference between your native server or an overflow?

I’ve done events on both and neither one is superior to the other. They both have people who go AFK, don’t listen to instructions, or even have map chat off.

It doesn’t matter what server you’re on if the people doing the event don’t want to learn the mechanics or how to achieve victory.

At least on the EU side of things overflow servers have the inherent problem that all nationalities / national servers are thrown together. So you have people asking for people that speak their language in French, German, Polish and whatnot, because they can’t speak English or only speak and understand it poorly.
So add language barriers to the mix of unorganized pugging and it gets worse.

I don’t think the overflow mechanic is inherently bad, but as it was pointed out, being able to choose your overflow or at least keeping the overflow servers consistent with the server language, as there are dedicated servers for French, German and Spanish players plus ‘inofficial’ server languages when people gather there, would help a lot.

Thanks. That may be the only legit complaint to the overflow issue. On the NA side this isn’t a problem. That seems like it would be huge for EU though.

Lothirieth.3408:

Kilandros.2098:

4/4/14 never forget

It’s cute how you think TESO is going to be the next mmo saviour and is using this as some jab/threat to Anet. Prepare to be disappointed! :P (seriously.. it’s very meh..)

Shh… let the negative community members leave

VOLKON.1290:

digiowl.9620:

I think we will see more of this going forward.

When the nightmare tower happened, the story writers were given training in how to edit the game world. This paid out massively in livening up the camp ground on the hillside, with NPCs milling about and interacting.

There was even a little quaggan romance going on there.

I tried to kill those quaggans but was unsuccessful

+1

Also, the events are packed with people right now. That would equal success and not failure since people are doing the events.

Barsimoprimo.2759:

They should call you commander

You can call me Al.

Atlas.9704:

So she was first presented as a Joker from Batman when in reality she’s a John Trent from In the Mouth of Madness.

I would just like to say that In the Mouth Of Madness is one of the great movies ever.

Curious.. What’s the difference between your native server or an overflow?

I’ve done events on both and neither one is superior to the other. They both have people who go AFK, don’t listen to instructions, or even have map chat off.

It doesn’t matter what server you’re on if the people doing the event don’t want to learn the mechanics or how to achieve victory.

The OP is right. If people really don’t like the content, don’t participate. It’s the #1 way that ANET tells if we like something or not. They look at player participation.

If you shouted from the heavens that you hate the Wurm..but you have done it 5 times already in less than 24 hours.. Well to ANET the Wurm is a huge success because so many people are playing it.

The simple fact is, right now these zones are packed because people are playing the new content. They may not like it or even hate it, but they still are playing it. In the end, that’s what matters.

Or an over-compassing one. WBD – World Boss Destroyers

I had a lot of fun running both new events last night. I loved that you could just rotate between the two with time for Inventory Cleaning in between.

Already counting down until I get home tonight to hop back on

MacKela.7024:

My main problem with the story instance (and the whole living story arc for that matter) is how disconnected my character feels to the overall plot. I’m just that guardian they call when they need additional muscle and nothing more. It’s getting tiring to be honest.

I feel the opposite. Especially after this story instance we are talking about.

After watching the short little scenes and then conversing with the team, they all act as a teammate towards you the player. Braham and Rox especially.

I enjoyed this. Kudos to ANET.

Why are you waiting 2 hours in once zone? At the least.. show up an hour early.

Last night I just bounced back and forth between the two zones as the bosses spawned within an hour of each other. My waiting time was spent killing things and gathering mats…and having fun.

Just curious, have many people been trying to do the rest of the living story content? I’m talking about finding Scarlets Lair, unlocking that, and then unlocking her chest?

wow.. so Scarlets Super secret lair is under the Priory.. lol

Crap!!! I forgot to get rid of all my stupid wool items last night.. .FTL

Lilith Ajit.6173:

If I was Taimi, which let’s just say I am because we are both the pinnacle of cute Asura, I would be more inclined to follow Rox around. ^_~

Hehehe <3

But people are angry enough with all the lesbian love in the air…..

Either way.. I want pics plz.

At least this is permanent so there is plenty of time to learn it and get the hang of it.

Rennoko.5731:

Thaddeus.4891:

Rennoko.5731:

P
The GW2 patching used to be like this…. little balance changes each patch…. but here we are with the standard MMO model and filler content between patches.

The december 10th was a huge balance patch, and in this patch you have 5 skills Balance/Fix. Should they fix 10+ skill each patch to be acknowledge? Maybe 15+?

In November 26th path, they had 59 balance/fix for the professions.

True in November 12th they had none. But in October 29th they had 18 and in October 15h i stopped counting after the 100th. Seem to me that they fix a bit each patch or almost each patch so your point is just false.

You do realize this was my point right? That they have been balancing every patch and doing their due to keep up on that front, and we get to go from December 10th to sometime in March for the next balance update…. That would be a marked departure from Q4 of last year. Seeing as how Q1 this year will get no balancing it seems.

They are doing this because the player base wanted this. There were people who didn’t like the LS mixed with features and large balance updates. It became “confusing” to them on what they should be doing……

I heard she sold 2 Eternity’s. That’s a lot of gold.

Zerg content?

I think you’re just mad because there are many people in the dead maps now trying to do new content.

Just a few hours ago people were complaining that these new bosses would result in dead maps in no time. Enjoy the packed content while you can.

Do you do just the 5 needed for the reward or do you do all 10 or so? I’d suggest doing them all if you’re not already.