Scarlet is a terrible plot device. I don’t hate Scarlet. I hate the poor writing and implementation. I hate the lack of in-game storytelling. I just really feel that the LS writers and developers completely missed the mark.
I look back on the past year and I find myself wishing that it were all a bad dream and that GW2 hadn’t been released yet. Because, this game, the game I have been playing, it doesn’t deserve the title of ‘Guild Wars’.
I hate the quest log on the top right. I want to remove all of it. I’m never finishing the personal story. I don’t do dailies unless by accident. I have no use for that feature of the UI. It’s like having a smudge on my glasses that I can’t wipe off. Extremely annoying.
You get the bonus chest everytime you attempt marionette w/ at least one chain severed. You can loot the chests in Scarlet’s Lair as many times as you wish so long as you have enough cyphers.
Thanks but no thanks. I won’t even try to target the Wurm so long as auto-targeting is broken.
I don’t use gimmicks in fights, either, even if the fight requires it. I only use my own abilities. I will never grab a barrel, harpoon gun, siege golem or anything else on a world boss fight. If my daggers and arrows do 0 damage to the boss, then tough luck. ArenaNet needs to redesign the encounters.
I bought my gloves and shoulders with gold that I farmed. Took me days to get enough gold to buy them from the gem store. I am disappointed now. I still like them better than my previous shoulders but now my character just looks ‘off’ or lopsided or something. His proportions are bizarre to look at after the shoulder change.
Does the Wurm actually have its own set of achievements like Tequatl? (Still at work, but Wiki only lists the Origins of Madness meta-achievement. No new entry for the Tri-Wurm under Bosses.)
If not, then I predict the Wurm will be abandoned even faster than Tequatl without the hook of achievements to keep players trying for him.
Yes it has it’s own achievements under the bosses menu….“Triple Trouble”. The Wurm is permanent content but the Marionette is not.
One of my biggest complaints about this patch is that there is NO story. All we get is a 10 minute ‘story’ instance that tells us nothing we didn’t already know…excluding Kasmeer’s father and Taimi’s introduction, of course. This patch is nothing but two world bosses (that popped out of the blue) and a list of monotonous achievements. Where is the story?
Instead of going into hibernation, what if Mordremoth regrew itself each cycle. Perhaps it crawled into a cave and withered away leaving only a few of it’s seeds behind for some valiant adventurer to stumble upon…
I will never like Scarlet Briar. Scarlet has even caused me to hate my own Sylvari character. And since I don’t roll alts, this has severely diminished my enjoyment of the game.
WoW devs NEVER tell ya how to beat their bosses. The best groups do then publish videos and guides. Too much complaining, these fights are amazing.
But WoW has a beta test for those bosses. Those raid groups do the content weeks ahead of the actual release. GW2 has no beta testing. The patch goes live and in two weeks it’s gone again.
Do you have proof that GW2 has absolutely no beta testing? I’ve seen videos of people testing the new WvW map and it’s not even out yet. Also, the wurm is permanent, it’s not leaving in 2 weeks.
Okay let me rephrase…..GW2 has no open beta testing. Blizzard holds open betas for WoW and even utilizes a public test realm for new content. GW2 does nothing of the sort.
WoW devs NEVER tell ya how to beat their bosses. The best groups do then publish videos and guides. Too much complaining, these fights are amazing.
But WoW has a beta test for those bosses. Those raid groups do the content weeks ahead of the actual release. GW2 has no beta testing. The patch goes live and in two weeks it’s gone again.
I agree with Pixelpumpkin. I think there should be something in game that tells you when the LS content will end. Personally I never know, so sometimes that does stop me from even trying the content.
ETA: sorry OP, that stinks.
This game is in desperate need of an in-game calendar. It could list the start and end dates for LS releases as well as the recurring holiday events.
So you want those hands from SAB pointing where to go? The in-game mail is pretty evident on where you need to go. The achievements have decent enough descriptions to clue you in to what you need to do for them.
I suppose that’s why there were 100+ people standing around Lornar’s pass for two hours asking “What do we do?” to the Commander’s clarion call of “I don’t know.”
Okay you don’t like it, what do you want though? What WOULD be good? And people’s ‘solutions’ to what they think is the problem usually isn’t viable, like making an instance for 50 people for a boss or whatever. How would you do an open world boss to make it good? How would you tell the story better to make it feel epic?
A 50 man instance is perfectly viable. ArenaNet just has no desire to instance the world bosses. They think having major bad guys in the open world somehow makes the world feel alive. Ignoring the fact that it completely empties all zones in which there is no event.
For an open world boss to be ‘good’, it needs to scale well with the group size. If 5 people are the only ones attempting the fight, those 5 people should stand a chance of killing the boss.
Scarlet doesn’t deserve to die. That’s too good for her character. She should simply be deleted from the game files as if she had never existed. I want nothing more to do with that atrocious excuse of a character.
In regards to the Asura, I hate all of them. I would kill off their entire species if at all possible.
The Charr don’t really bother me that much. Though I do despise their gigantic (and apparently immobile) Mad Max inspired siege-cycles.
I want to remove everything from the top-right corner of my screen. I don’t need a constant reminder that I need to kill Zhaitan or complete my dailies. It’s just unwanted screen clutter.
So Scarlet is the one and only character in this whole Living Story?
What about the new character Taimi? What about what is going on between Rox and Braham? Is Rox going to join the Stone legion and say goodbye to Braham? What about Kasmeer and Marjory? Are they the gay couple that I thought they would always be? Who is E?
If you actually gave a single crap about the story you would know that there is more to it than just little old Scarlet.
You play an RPG but you don’t even RP……
The ‘story’ you mention above is all revealed in a 10 minute instanced dialogue that was delivered with today’s patch. 10 minutes of story isn’t very compelling nor is it informative in regards to anything of consequence. I do give a crap about the story. I play mmos for the story rather than the playable content and Guild Wars 2 does not presently have a story.
The code fragments which drop from enemies and the reward chest at the end of the Marionette fight are used to open chests in a certain location you’ll find if you follow the living story’s directions for a while.
The first chest I opened contained 3 greens, 1 rare, an aetherized scrap, some more code fragments for another of the chests, and an item related to the current piece of living story. If they’re all like that you can expect to get around a 30-50s payout each time you can afford to open one of the chests. Maybe there’s something unique they can drop which I don’t know about as well, like another chance at the Zealot’s recipes?
The Living Story has no direction this patch. It just tells you to go to Lornar’s pass and expects you to figure out the rest on your own. So, I haven’t a clue as to what you are referring unless you are talking about Scarlet’s Secret Base beneath Durmand Priory. In which case, I only know of it’s existence due to a Commander that was spamming the location in map chat.
The marionette requires luck on if lanes other than yours can win. That was fun losing twice due to other lanes losing.
This is a very valid point.
It’s okay to have some sort of epic event that requires teamwork. But it shouldn’t feel like a loss was inevitable, like there was literally nothing you as an individual could have done to affect the outcome.
I knew we would fail both events before they ever started. It was a terrible feeling. I’m never going back to those two boss encounters. I would rather spend the next 3 years farming Seraph Observers Waypoint for butter and chocolate than to attempt those two bosses again.
This update isnt terribly exciting but its only the first of the the last four living story season one updates. based on reports from anet and fansites,I have a feeling something BIG is coming in the final installment and that the next update will be better.
This is definately better then the first update we got last january for flame and frost.
We have heard those lines from ArenaNet with every single LS update. They have consistently failed to deliver on their word. Why should we expect the last three LS installments to be any better than the previous ones? Because Anet said so?
A solo story instance is gated behind the group Marionette encounter. The 3 Wurms are bugged, laggy, overly complicated and require far too much coordination. And if you don’t like world boss encounters, there is absolutely nothing for you to do in this release.
EDIT: Oh…and the story. I still haven’t a clue as to what is going on in this LS. This newest patch added nothing to explain nor progress the nearly incoherent storyline.
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.
Well then, that will never happen, Paul.
I don’t have time to stand around in some obscure zone, twiddling my thumbs in hopes of a respawn. New content should ALWAYS have something to do immediately upon logging in. This patch is garbage.
It pops up every 2 hours… have to wait in the zone though since if you leave you won’t be notified it’s happening soon and you won’t be able to get into the same zone as your team mate who doesn’t mind just standing around while you go explore a zone you haven’t yet.
I don’t have ‘teammates’ and I’ve already mapped 100%. I also don’t have time to stand around some silly zone waiting for a two hour respawn. I’m tempted to just uninstall the game and be done with it. Seems every LS patch is worse than the previous.
Is that why she put the thumper thingies down? If so, why are they scattered all over the world?
She didn’t put the probes down to enrage the Wurm. That was just an unfortunate side effect. I still don’t know what the probes are actually supposed to be used for.
Because the only reason to play video games is if it gives you rewards.
The reason to play video games is to have fun. If OP doesn’t find the kind of content being implemented in the Living Story, and there’s nothing new being offered by Living Story, wouldn’t it behoove him to speak up?
Yes, but he can do so without letting his emotions cloud his intentions.
Also, providing suggestions for solutions to his concerns, or suggesting other types of content would help.
A blatant whine post will always be seen as a blatant whine post.
The suggestion was implied. Make the trash mobs reward you for killing them. I see no ‘blatant whine post’ here. I see a disgruntled customer airing his grievances.
They’re starting with the axiom that the story is great. Thus the failure of the story must be from players mis-understanding them.
Bobby Stein Jr. actually said that to me. He said that the reason I didn’t understand the living story plot line was because I was not playing the game properly or was not paying enough attention to the story details. It was extremely insulting.
