Guild Wars 2

They posted two more concept artworks as exclusive teasers to Gates of Maguuma, and it looks like we’ll be seeing giant husks again and possibly some thorny roots/vines. Maybe not in the arid areas, but if they also have another more jungle-y zone lined up for us, they could likely feature there.

In the arid desert areas, we’re likely going to meet Thorn Devourers. Last time we ventured into those areas (in GW1) we also encountered Thorn Stalkers, that could be a new mob type, likely candidate for corruption by Mordremoth. Or what about the Moss Scarabs? God, getting all these flashbacks to GW1 and these areas where you’d run along all unsuspecting and bam, creepy stuff surfacing from underground or dropping down on vines!

And what about centaurs, could they still be present in the area? Corrupted or have they fled east so that we’re seeing the Maguuma clan in Kessex Hills? And if they indeed fled, how come none stopped in Brisban Wildlands?

Sleazebag.9427:

no. they would have to make new personal story missions for levels 1-30 and record new voice acting for all of them from 1 to 80. they would also have to refit ALL of the existing armor skins for the new race, unless they cheap out and the race uses a model that’s mostly identical to existing races. they would also have to add in new racial abilities, three new racial armor tiers(9 new skin sets), racial weapon skins. never mind the fact that each race in this game has their own city.

this isn’t something that can be added in a content patch of this size. it’s just too big of a change.

They’ve had 2 years to work on that in parallel to their other productions. Surely something more is going on beneath the surface other than the LS and feature patch productions we’ve seen.

Hehe, would be a nice “DLC” to Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2: Side-stories

A collection of short instances showcasing all the Queen’s Gauntlet champions; maybe they could be given a purpose outside gauntlet so that they are perhaps tougher solo/guild challenges.
Surely they live lives outside the gauntlet; imagine Liadri and Suriel teaming up in Orr and the damage they would do and what a mess they would leave in their wake.

Thank you, ArenaNet!

I love you for putting in a challenge like Liadri, and then also Liadri 8-orbs kill.

Finally nailed her coffin shut after 8 orbs, I am still shaking as I type this. The satisfaction I feel is thanks to your content which caters not only the casual but also those who want tougher challenges.

Love it!

Just want to chip in that the lasting effects I see of the current implementation of megaservers is that while servers are generally well populated, Anet are basically killing/neglecting the most important aspect of a thriving MMORPG; the community is at a severe disadvantage to getting relevant players together, whether that comes from friends at a micro-level to groups/guilds at the macro level and players from your own homeworld at the biggest level. Before you’d see the same names over and over and develop a sense of community and belonging, now even guilds and small groups are facing too many barriers just getting to play together, and as such megaservers in their current implementation are just killing off GW2’s most important factor.

Anet – you seriously need to revise your algorithms/implementations of megaservers and how you put players together in shards; come up with a way of handling “districts” like in GW1 and rather than having people spam “join in <zone>” to get in over and over when a shard is full, queue people up just like you do for WvW entry so that people can rather focus on playing the game in the meantime while still moving forward in queue to get in to the same shard as their friends/guilds/etc.

Yes, and history shows that forcing disparate cultures into one big nation/empire stays just like that forever…? No Emperor can successfully and forever dissolve separate cultures that have centuries of history to their name and not expect uprising. Tyrannies will be overthrown, either due to internal unrest or like you say, Tengu could invade to regain their homeland.

My assumptions (if we ever go back to Cantha) are the Empire will fall due to cultural differences and strife and we’ll see Luxons and Kurzicks splitting out as discontented factions again, etc.

On the note of jade products (jade weapons, statues in Labyrinthine Cliffs, etc.) turning back to “water” if the Jade Sea was ever to reverse its transformation, are we sure there were no jade mines/deposits in Cantha before the Jade Wind transformed the Jade Sea?

Yes, the Luxons changed their trade to mine jade from the Jade Sea, but could there be other natural deposits where Canthans mined it from previously (and perhaps still)?
And incidently, what was the name of the Jade Sea before the Jade Wind transformed it? It’s that old “hen or the egg” topic, but how did they even know to call it the Jade Wind or the Jade Sea if they didn’t know what jade was already? (if that argument holds at all)

Anyway, even Anet are hinting at Echovald Forest returning to life and Jade Sea possibly reversing its transformation, as both Konig and Ansari referred to the EotN manual. Yes, these were “unsubstantiated rumours”, but still, printed as background/lore in a manual for the last GW expansion, it’s difficult to rule out that the effects of the Jade Wind might one day be reversed.

I’ll throw in an honourable mention of WoodenPotatoes again; what he’s done with all his video series to spread the word of GW lore through various let’s play or mysteries/storytime series is invaluable if you wish to get a good introduction to the universe of Guild Wars 1&2.

Of course, it’s presented with artistic freedom and dramaturgy to maybe make some assumptions here and there, but on the whole you’ll get a great foundation which you can then use to further delve into all the nitty gritty details to learn EVERYTHING or the WHOLE lore.

By ‘learning everything’, I’m not sure whether OP means to become an impenetrable lore buff/fortress or just wants to know about everything that has unfolded in Tyria but not necessarily every little minute detail.
I.e. I myself believe have a pretty good grasp on all major (and many minor) events in GW1 and GW2, background and origin for many things, but I don’t know every detail about every character, etc. ever encountered and so on. And given some answers to lore questions by Anet lore writers, I’m not always sure they do even.

WP has been an excellent resource to complement playing all aspects of both games with side stories and musings of another, really enthusiastic player, and depending on how invested OP intends to become, is a nice audio/video alternative/supplement to trudging through gigabytes with walls of text in wikis/articles/interviews.

Lucky.9421:

PS – Actually, I don’t think it was their plan all along, but it is cool that artwork is being utilized.

Imagine if it was… oh man, delivery hasn’t been perfect, but kitten , they’ve had those ideas for so long which would make me trust every move they made in the future

Back in January, I posted another wish for new race… if we ever go to Cantha, I’d love to see them become playable seeing as they’re humanoid and could make a nice addition if Anet venture a little outside the comfort zone and revive the Wardens (GW1 wiki).

250 years have passed; Shiro is “gone” so maybe they can see past their somewhat limited role as Protectors of the Echovald Forest and are no longer zealous/mad about their intent to take it all out on humans but maybe for a plot in Cantha they can have Echovald as their starting zones and from there move out into the world.

They would look quite unique in character creation and are a humanoid (formerly human) race and maybe prove an interesting alternative to Sylvari as another “forest people” without Anet having to introduce the stereotypical elves/dwarves.

I’ll also add the other thing I wrote back then concerning all those requests for typical elves and dwarves to become part of Tyria;

In my opinion for the GW universe; anyone asking for elves/dwarves; WoW → that way or LotRo <- that way… embrace the fact that dwarves are extinct and elves are non-existant.

Not meant as trolling, but Largos will never be playable. They’re an elusive race who shie away from too much contact with other people and operate mostly on their own as hunters of some sort of prey. Anet cannot suddenly retcon their whole background and have hundreds of thousands Largos out and about in the open world…

Tengu are the obvious candidate of next playable race. Nowhere found as mobs, we know they have a starter area/hub in Dominion of Winds and it just makes sense.

Good call, Anet, very much appreciated with the extra 100 tickets!

Logicx.5832:

So many people whining.
It’s not as if you’ll never get it…
Calm your kittens and have some patience, just play and forget about it, it’ll get fixed…

Never say never, there are still people who did not get their rewards from season 1. Now that’s pretty pathetic. I don’t mind waiting on season 2 rewards, but for the last round yet not to be sorted is just broken trust/window syndrome emerging…

NayaFay.1357:

When you say you’re fixing the known issue with the WvW awards, this is including all the awards not just tickets correct? I would like to get my gold finisher

Certainly hope so, I only have 500 tickets I’m sitting on. I really hope this fix now not only enables the Battle Historian vendor, but also sends out the Gold Finisher to those who should get it.
It was even already given wrongly to other people. Gandara, 1st place in EU Silver league has people who got the Limited Golden Dolyak Finisher… I don’t care if they get to keep theirs due to this blunder, but I would like what’s rightfully mine as well.

maha.7902:

Can people here offer definitions of what they feel stacking is?

On the forum, consensus seem to consistently get stacking right, i.e. group up on the stacking spot.

In-game, it seems people don’t get it, like they should not stack on the spot but rather step 10-15 meters out from the stacking spot. Or once you finally get everyone stacked and whatever you’re burning down to come into the stacking spot, a bloody LB ranger KB’es the mob out just all the AoE is laid down…

Buford.2954:

Dondarrion.2748:

But I worked pretty hard to get the Mini Liadri and she came back this time around. I also had to do 25 Secret of the Southsun achievements over 2 weeks to get the Sclerite backpack, now people just toss in 1600 festival tokens to a vendor.

I don’t like it when Anet make a call which unique skins should return for everyone to get and which should remain unavailable. They’re all unique skins and to players some skins will be more unique than others, but Anet just cut through and said, “nah, this lot of LS1 skins aren’t unique enough, here, have them for a few festival tokens”.

Secret of Southsun was a long time ago. Anyone who wasn’t playing then would never have the option to get it as the achieves for that have long since been unavailable. Same goes for any LS meta rewards – you hadn’t started playing yet? Tough luck! You’ll never get these items. I’m personally not a fan of that model.

Me neither, but I’m definitely not a fan of that model only partially implemented. Why are some LS1 rewards back but not the others – that’s my beef with this update.

The Krait Obelisk Shard? The Halo? The Jetpack?
Anet have decided that the prestige of some items should remain while others were just ok to rip away from players.

galhalean.7380:

If you all complain more they might just give up on it because its thankless work and even when they fix it they wont get a thank you, heck they would be lucky to get a “about time”. would you work on something you know you wouldnt get anything out of.

No, because that would not be professional at all. If they give up on it, it’s end of their game. They would’ve had gratitude if this had all been tested properly before-hand and worked as it should have when the Spring tournament ended.
I work in software development with a product suite of our own, so I’m very understanding of bugs. But if we do have a bug, we suck it up, we put everything aside and depending on severity we take the time required to fix it, regardless of other commitments. You’re out of business if you even consider it an option to ‘give up finding a bug’ or ‘give up fixing a bug’ just because you won’t get thanked for it. Pride in their product and just common work professionalism makes me trust Anet will sort out this bug as soon as possible.

Winning come-back fights; esp this one where we at one point were 4v5 due to a dc. Then were trailing badly, but I called for a lord rush as soon as we hit 350 and despite a team mate refusing, 3 of us went all in.

It paid off, with (nearly) the smallest possible margin

I know it’s been acknowledged and being fixed, but I’ve not seen my variant yet.

I am on SFR, 1st place in EU Gold League. I got my reward chest and 500 WvW tickets but I didn’t get my limited Golden Dolyak Finisher in the chest.

Please add this to rewards bug.

Will you also look into the missing Limited Golden Dolyak Trophy Finishers as well? I did get my reward chest with the 500 tournament tokens for SFR’s 1st place in EU Gold League, but I never got the finisher.

And I would quite like it.

Cool competition, too bad I’m in EU.

That 3rd place runner-up prize is ironic, yea, sort of like, “Hey, gratz on your awesome looks. Now go change!”

BrotherBelial.3094:

Nat.4029:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I’m sorry you can’t find the 2 mins it takes to log in to get the content for FREE. Sucks to be you. But with that said. I’ve not played WoW since cat. And if I started to play that again it would cost me around £60-70 pulse sub. So guild wars 2 is the cheaper option.

I’m sorry that you can’t look to see when a thread was posted….

Well looks like you where complaining for nothing then. Funny. I didn’t know I had to check every active thread for when it was stared. Sorry if you feel like you QQ for no good resin. Now would you like a hug?

Sorry mate, but you come in guns blazing about the Journal feature announced YESTERDAY when OP’s thread is a week old before we had any idea it was coming and this was a much needed feature.

If you’re even going to bother contributing to a forum, please check posting dates before you try to criticise/troll someone, because you just failed miserably with both your posts.

Nat, I’m glad your “prayers” were answered yesterday – it will be awesome to have the journal in-game to ensure replayability and let people who missed stuff get access to it. And it’s fully reasonable with the 200gem cost for a missed chapter, if you can’t be bothered (or are otherwise unavailable) to log for 1 minute in the space of 2 weeks, that’s about 10-15g to unlock it.

The lack of replayability of LS1 should be on Anet to make up to its players, so I sincerely hope Season 1 is added as a gesture of goodwill when they get it in the format so it fits with the new Story Journal.

Evan Lesh.3295:

We absolutely want to make build templates. They could work similar to GW1, but there are more components to a build now. Using the old string-code method may prove to be unwieldy.

Things that must be in a template:

• Weapons
• Sigils
• Rune
• Amulet
• Skills
• Traits

What could be in a template:

• Skins
• Dyes
• Outfit
• Finisher

Things to consider:

• Sharing (chat links? codes? urls?)
• Viewing (seeing some else’s vs. seeing your own)
• Saving (notepad vs. local vs. account vs. web)
• Building (one spot in UI vs. multiple spots)
• Websites (third-party sites should work with in-game)
• APIs (Could expose an API to third-parties)
• PvP vs PvE vs WvW (each mode requires different configuration options)

How would you like to see any/all of these work?

I ask you to look back at GW1 and also to The Secret World(TSW) for how to manage builds/decks. Give us the option to save our current “builds” – by that I’m referring to traits and skills on hotbar. There could also be an option to save a template with your equipped gear (armor, weapons, trinkets – for pvp only your chosen amulets/runes/sigils) – but that complicates things with sharing and interaction. Most important is sharing the builds wrt. traits and skills. Builds are typically done that way and then people just say they’re running zerker/soldier/etc. but you won’t have the same gear as them, so how a template system then react to a build string from a Norn zerker guardian in cultural gear imported into a Sylvari knight guardian? (ofc in PvP you can also save amulet and runes – whereas again sigils will depend on equipped weapons)
Keep it simple – let the templates focus on traits and skills.

Let this come with a “build management” dialogue which allows you to keep up ~10 different saved builds – and these are character-specific so the 10 builds you have on your guardian are separate from the 10 you’ve stored for your warrior or the likes.
From this build management, you can easily copy to clipboard (for sharing outside of game on build websites, links, etc.) as well as ctrl-click to put a link in chat so that others can import into their own build management.

Again, for interaction between in-game and external websites and/or 3rd party products;

Check how you made it work with GW1 and http://gwpvx.gamepedia.com/PvX_wiki
or for another example/inspiration, the Viper Deck Manager that a 3rd party(player) made for The Secret World (http://www.curse.com/tsw-mods/tsw/deck-manager). Now, you don’t have in-game plugins/addons, but if a 3rd party application can be made to use your API and exchange builds with GW2’s build management tool by copying a “build string”, that’d be great.

As for other things that could be in template; don’t. Keep it simple to begin with.

My worn armor+weapons already has skins and dyes, keep those to the current ones. I don’t want to get into the situation that I load a build only to find I have to apply 5 transmutation charges because of the gear I had equipped. Instant fail. Just put those pieces of gear back on regardless of their current skin, and if the gear is no longer in my possession because I destroyed/salvaged it, leave it empty.

If I try to import a build and it uses a trait or skill I don’t currently own (either because I’m low-level and haven’t unlocked it yet or it’s a new one I’ve not yet achieved), leave the trait/skill slot empty. If you want to impress pop a window and alert me to any items in the build template I tried to import that was missing.

Finally – so nice to see Anet dev/red post acknowledging the need for this

nolij.4327:

maybe i didn’t make it clear, but i was suggesting that this subscription should be 100% optional. in other words, you can remain casual, and not have the game feel like a “second job”. even though that argument makes absolutely no sense because right now the only way to get gold is pay x amount of money for y amount of gold with absolutely no variable based on how much you play or how well you play soooooooooooooooooooo yea. it’s already even worse than a second job.

Which turns this whole suggestion into making GW2 a P2W game. If you got the money, you get the advantages.

No. Just no. No.
No to subscription.
No to this.

No.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m not sure. My guess is that these were supposed to be pretty rare items only for people who worked hard to get them (the 250 heirlooms were not a walk in the park by any stretch). But I don’t know. Could have been overlooked.

But I worked pretty hard to get the Mini Liadri and she came back this time around. I also had to do 25 Secret of the Southsun achievements over 2 weeks to get the Sclerite backpack, now people just toss in 1600 festival tokens to a vendor.

I don’t like it when Anet make a call which unique skins should return for everyone to get and which should remain unavailable. They’re all unique skins and to players some skins will be more unique than others, but Anet just cut through and said, “nah, this lot of LS1 skins aren’t unique enough, here, have them for a few festival tokens”.

Anet exercising the good ol’ all skins are unique, but some skins are more unique than others…

If they’re going to bring back certain skins and ruin the uniqueness of those for those players who had them, why not do it to all the unique skins we’ve had during LS through the last year.

Why deny players getting hold of the other skins? Why ruin it for only portion of the players?
Some people might think the Liadri mini, Fervid Censer, Infinite Watchknight Tonic, Mini Ellen Kiel were unique and once-off acquisition, what makes those items less special than the Lightning Catcher backpiece, Halo (Selfless potion) or Sclerite backpack?

I’ve always been curious about the Jade Sea and how it was used by the Luxons, how they adapted to the sea changing their habitat.

Before the Jade Wind turned it to solid Jade, the sea was a normal watery ocean and the Luxons had to change their trade as a typical seafaring nation of merchants to being more stationary and turned to jade mining.

The sea was called the Jade Sea before the Jade Wind turned it to Jade, in fact, everyone was surprised it wasn’t turned to frozen ice (which you’d expect of solidified water) but instead solid jade. There was magic involved with the transformation; so if the jade sea ever is to thaw again, will it return to water? Will it become a gooey of minerals on the seabed and the sea will just have dried out…?

The quotes of those Kurzick peasants is odd though, of course, yes, the Luxon settlements – like all those structures in Cavalon, Seafarer’s Rest, etc. will just sink and most likely the giant crabs, but many of the Luxon homes are also their old fleet that was frozen in place. I’d expect those ships to float in the water if the jade was ever to thaw. So, depending on how quickly the Jade Sea would reverse its transformation (thaw slowly? or in an instant with a reversal of the Jade Wind), the Luxons might have time to evacuate on board their ships.

I would really like a GW2 return to Cantha to touch on this as a cataclysmic event; the Jade Sea returning to its original watery form as part of a campaign there.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

The teasers are about to begin. I expect the following:

- Starting this week, small in-game changes will give tiny hints to what may come. (For example, conversations between NPCs in Lion’s Arch and Labyrinthine Cliffs.)

I’m dying for some clues, so if this were to happen I’d be very happy. Right now I “just” log to PvP, gold blitz, fiddle in the gauntlet and look around Cliffs and LA, but that’s what I’ve been doing the past 2 weeks and that will go really stale having to do so for another month…

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Maybe the Lawless armor pieces have some meaning already?)

Lucy Lawless confirmed as new voice actor and Xena Warrior Princess new hero character for Season 2… no?

Everyone would be in Heart of the Mists, everyone…

So, no thanks

Ok I Did It.2854:

Did you read all of this topic, if so you would have seen the several posts that state that some people still have NOT received the REWARDS from season 1 WvW which took place months ago, it was even high lighted on the forums that when Season 2 was announced people asked Anet to fix the rewards for season 1 first, but they where ignored as usual, and they went ahead anyway, 9 weeks later its the same problem so its very likely that those who did not get the rewards this time, will likely not get them, given the way it was sorted in the past,

Yes, I did, and Anet have confirmed the missing chests of S2 already, whereas with S1 it seems the issue didn’t get that same attention – although it should have. Let’s wait and see if they fix this issue in a day or two.

Meglobob.8620:

What! So nothing for me today?

Awesome Anet, did the brainstorming session go like this:-

Anet (guy/girl 1) : "We got a problem, the WvW rewards are bugged again. 10% of player involved in the WvW tournament didn’t get there tickets!

Anet (guy/girl 2) : “Kitten, kitten, kitten. Any quick easy fix?”

Anet (guy/girl 1) : “Nope, had same problem season 1, could never find a solution”

Anet (boss guy/girl 3) : “Okay, stop everyone getting there rewards till we find a solution…”

Anet (guy/girl 1) : “But, but boss won’t that kitten a 100% of the players off? Instead of just 10%”

Anet (boss guy/girl 3) : “Yeah! Good is it not!”

Anet (guy/girl 1) : “Awesome boss, high 5”

Anet (guy/girl 2) : “High 5, so does this mean we can goof off work”

Anet (boss guy/girl 3) : “Sure, lets go for a drink…”

I feel sorry for you if that’s what you actually think is happening

Ah, come off it you whiners…

Just because you don’t get your reward by today, it’s ok to let all hell loose and flame Anet over it? In a short while, Anet will fix the reward chests for those who didn’t get them yet, and then we’ll have the Battle Historians available so everyone can get their S2 rewards.

But, kitten , chill out… It’s not the end of the world just because you didn’t get to buy your reward today. Once you get your rewards, this will be just a memory we don’t give a kitten about. At least, you shouldn’t because I feel pity for you if you get hung up on such minor details…

Yes, it’s poorly done by Anet to not discover this bug before and also that it should be so difficult to fix, but they’re working on it and they’ve given an update on why things are now delayed.

I only use Flameseeker or Ascendant

Both The Blazing Light and Wurm’s Bane hold merit too, one being a good solo challenge and the other a big team challenge requiring 120+ people to do their job.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Dondarrion.2748:

Have we? I was running through the Labyrinthine Cliffs yesterday and after a while I was noting that all Zephyrites or Strangers were all human. Sure, there’s some named NPCs of the various races aboard the Zephyr Sanctum, but I don’t think they’re Zephyrites and instead just festival attendees.

So, I was wondering if the Zephyrites are all-human? Just curious.

There are some NPCs named “Zephyrite” that are norn and sylvari. Not sure about asura, but there’s 1 sylvari and 3 or so norn “Zephyrite”.

Note that Strangers are not Zephyrites (and they come in all major races but sylvari – human, charr, norn, and asura) – they’re either the inhabitants of Labyrinthine Cliffs and/or attendees at the Bazaar.

Thanks for the clarification. I checked on the wiki too where it said primarily made up of humans of Canthan/Elonian descent, so I must’ve just missed those non-human Zephyrite NPCs this time around.

Actually, now that I looked again it looks like Rata Sum was very different to back then. But anyhow, LA is the city being rebuilt and now we have the chance of making it really cool like this. Seaport and airport. Airships would make sense as a defensive mechanism to protect the city against future invasions or attempts to destroy it again – whether tidal wave, invasion force, dragon attack, etc.

Kinda bullkitten thread when OP hasn’t paid attention to devs saying LS2 will be permanent content whereas festivals in between will be temporary.

You’re flaming all of season 2 on the basis it will be temporary – which is false. Which renders your entire post useless.

It would tie in nicely with reconstructing LA according to the teaser trailer from 2009, check it (direct link to 2:34 into vid)

http://youtu.be/Em0Sd60iI2w?t=2m34s

My question is if the idea is to keep the same currency of tournament tickets for S3 of WvW? So, if I decide to get a Mistforged Weapon for 300 tickets now, and have 200 to spare.

Can I wait for S3 and obtain another Mistforged Weapon once I have 300 tickets again? Or is this currency a one-time occurrence so there’s no point saving?

Worst part… it’s only the recipe.

You’ll still have to dish out upwards of 200g to craft it afterwards!

So, the drop rate is bugged, what can Anet do about it? If they hotfix and sort out so that the item at least drops, what then about those who’ve already spent gauntlet chances in their 1000s trying to get the drop? Reimburse their Gauntlet Chances?

Yea, I’ve suffered the same since joining a guild on a different home world (AG) than mine (SFR). I figured introduction of megaservers would make home worlds irrelevant, but obviously not guild mission rewards if you were not guesting over to their server.

Hopefully this will come in later patch, they did put up some article about more focus on guilds, rewards, influence, etc. to do with this stuff now that mega servers are implemented.

Hi,

as a soldier in the TXS guild (EU) where the Evolved Jungle Wurm is killed on a daily basis, I just have to report that right now the event doesn’t reward everyone who participated with the Jungle Wurm’s Reward Chest (the one you get a chest icon hovering in your bottom-right corner). I got the massive chest which is back at the Firthside Vigil WP, but me and many others didn’t get the event reward chest.

Please have a look and fix the loot for this event. It does require massive coordination and it’s very destructive to motivation not getting your reward after a kill.

Mordremoth is in the Maguuma Jungle (most likely)
Kralkatorrik is in Crystal Desert
Jormag is in Northern/Far Shiverpeaks
Deep Sea Dragon is deep(sic) in the Unending Ocean
Primordius is below ground somewhere, maybe around the Deldrimor Front area on map??

In most likelihood we’ll explore Maguuma Jungle first seeing as Destiny’s Edge 2.0 are talking about that and also the Seraph are sending parties to investigate the Black Market traders and bandits holed up in Brisban Wildlands.

If Mordremoth comes as LS2, Anet ought to line up an expansion into another area for 2015. The game is perceived as stagnated right now, yes, we do get you’re busy with China-release and heads down in content development, but surely you have marketing and PR people not deep down in coding. Embrace your player base in NA/EU who are very much on life support in terms of 2014/15 roadmap, I assure you, you most definitely would not want to be without us…

…but that sword is double-edged, I don’t want to lose faith in GW2 either. I need news of exciting expansions and projects to keep my interest up and see the future of this game.

• On-land spear with both ranged and melee option
• Lance / polearm
• Crossbow
• Scythe

The Fan (skin) could be a Focus weapon, just let i.e. thieves also get it and everyone should be happy?

It’s a bug… just like Final Rest. Sadly Queen’s Gauntlet is temporary, while Shadow Behemoth is permanent, so chances we get the bug fix in time are slim… or?

Valdemas.4960:

1 favor out of 500 Chances. Guess I should have checked forums on the drop rates before hand. Hah.

Any idea if the Chances are different if gotten from t3 boss or t1 boss?

then they ought to have behaved as oddly as those non-stacking champ bags of the same quality. I think the Gauntlet Chance are equal odds regardless of tier of boss.

I never understand why two exotic Embroidered Saddle Bags won’t stack, because they contain more or less the same when I open them… green stuff lvl 80 plus skill scrolls…

Verene.1480:

Well, you do use Orbs of Blazing Light to make Liadri defeatable…

I would love “The Concealing Dark” as a title though. But I like The Blazing Light. The title is the main reason I did gauntlet.

And that title should’ve come from killing Suriel the Blazing Light.
The Concealing Dark snuffs out the Blazing Light, and the Blazing Light dispels the Concealing Dark.

But adding titles for all boss kills would go against Anet’s achievement system since they can’t retroactively reward titles, and since it’s the same category as before they would have to reset a lot of people’s achievements…

Last year we also had “Candidate Trials” as a solo/group challenge, sort of like the Glint’s Challenge in GW1 with waves of Aetherblades threatening your supply stores. Of course, those were tied in with the Kiel/Gnashblade election race, so in its form it made no sense to return.

But that and Queen’s Gauntlet are excellent ways ArenaNet have implemented real challenging content. I hope we can get something like the Candidate Trials again for groups to do like the good ol’ challenge missions back in GW1.

Just a little show of appreciation for the audio design in Labyrinthine Cliffs, from all the crystal interactions to the newly designed waterfalls and maybe the nicest touch (that I cannot remember from when Festival of Four Winds was here last year) is the echoeing bells you hear from time to time (very reminiscent of the Kodan temple gongs heard in EotM area).

Standing around in Labyrinthine Cliffs, watching the airships, flags, just the scenery in general and listening to the sounds is really great and when you hear those tinkering bells in addition it’s just priceless!

Minor bug

One funny issue is that when you talk to the barkeep Ixcic when he’s just a normal NPC without an active event, he’ll have a dark male voice, but during the crystal collection he sounds like a booming, much lighter female.

JCROY.5730:

Why is this backpiece so popular?

Because it is unobtainable.

Shiren.9532:

I’m also curious as to why there are no tengu Zaephyrites. We’ve seen sylvari, norn, asuran and primarily human zephyrites, but no tengu? It just kinda seemed like a race that valued trade so much would have some involvement in these two trading bodies. This is one time I hope the game is just not showing us the tengu and they are actually on one of the ships we don’t see, but when the time comes, tengu do show up at the Bazaar (there’s always next time, we really need some tengu characters in this story, even if the game isn’t ready to go beyond the wall, I wouldn’t mind meeting a female tengu).

Have we? I was running through the Labyrinthine Cliffs yesterday and after a while I was noting that all Zephyrites or Strangers were all human. Sure, there’s some named NPCs of the various races aboard the Zephyr Sanctum, but I don’t think they’re Zephyrites and instead just festival attendees.

So, I was wondering if the Zephyrites are all-human? Just curious.