Yup this is the Bash the Dragon song that was created for Dragon Bash – they probably didn’t remove the song from all areas of Lions Arch, so the music is messed up in a few places I guess xD.
I don’t think it’s “messed up”. It’s a tavern. Dragon Bash is a drinking song.
Living Story with permanent changes 
Interesting thing to note: When I ran from the tavern to the hideout, with the song still playing, I somehow got a different song to play. This time it was a string ensemble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JE_qIcRSzA
-shrug- What are the devs up to….
That’s the Dragon Bash song
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Posted by: Karizee.8076
There’s actually more players now than at launch. But there’s more things to do outside of the open world (dungeons, fractals, the new Tower in Kessex Hills, instanced mini-games, etc.) and just like all MMOs the mid-level maps are quiet (unless there is an event of course).
I’m still hitting overflows every day and queues for WvW. Your server may vary.
You might find this helpful
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Fyi, the Explorer achievement is not the same as World Completion. The 174/175 you are looking at is for Explorer and has nothing to do with vistas, poi’s and such. Look at this link for any missing areas you need to uncover:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer
Hope that helps!
Just wanted to give a shout out about how much I appreciated the ingame scenes played out by the NPCs at the base camp near the Tower. When the Asura Senna starting having the guilt inducing hallucination, crying and saying it was all her fault and she didn’t deserve to live I nearly lost it. And Bloomanoo seeing the crab – hahahaha!
Very well done, love the voice acting and the stories
Endgame for me has always been about completing the latest content then jumping into battlegrounds or arena until the next patch.
With the Living Story content every 2 weeks and WvW I have all the endgame I desire.
Very Happy gamer here
According to the patch notes:
The Tower of Nightmares content will be available until the tower’s heart is destroyed. Watch the progress as more antitoxin is injected!
So the Tower will survive as long as players on each server allow it. This means that the Tower could be destroyed on some servers but still up on others. Truly dynamic content, this
so pretty much………keep it alive or they take away our only real interesting content update? yea ok thats great, not. to me thats disrespectful, i’d let the heart die on every server if i could just to send them a message like “dont taunt us”.
They will not be “taking it away” – this one is totally on the players. Our actions will destroy the Tower zone.
Think about that for a minute. Players. Destroying. Zones. In an MMO.
You need to unequip them first
Whatever. Let them pull this post if they want but, I’m talking about WoW and I don’t remember encountering any problems/bugs the last few patches. The only annoyance was updating my addons.
Whereas here, people are saying they are encountering persistent bugginess from release, disconnects, skill lag, etc.
Don’t go there DarkC unless you want me to start linking their bug forums and the total mess they made with merges and players losing toons, guilds and millions of gold 
I played that game for years, they still have bugs from launch.
According to the patch notes:
The Tower of Nightmares content will be available until the tower’s heart is destroyed. Watch the progress as more antitoxin is injected!
So the Tower will survive as long as players on each server allow it. This means that the Tower could be destroyed on some servers but still up on others. Truly dynamic content, this
Gaile, has anyone told you that you are awesome lately?
That was the most fun I’ve had in a while, kinda like old school Castlevania games with advancing up the towers and unlocking levels. Thanks for the great update.
Loving it so far, really amazing work guys
No, I like the 2 week content patches
They’ve done a lot to polish the game, every patch brings more QoL features, polish and bug fixes.
http://gw2patchnotesearch.david-reess.de/
Is the game perfect? Of course not, but no MMO is. So as long as the bug fixer part of the team continues to polish this game to a high gloss and we still get content every two weeks, I’m happy.
As an ex-hardcore raider from another MMO, I LOVE that I’m not held hostage by a guild for content or loot. None of that application nonsense, no backstabbing for a raid spot, forget all the politicking to beg for scraps from a loot council – I am DONE with that business! Never again!! 
I have 3 guilds now – my WvW guild, my guild missions guild and my Tequatl slaying guild and love them all \o/
I’m not saying it’s a good idea, mind you. Just a random thought.
Nods, it’s something we’ve talked about internally.
A lot of times, we’ll preface ideas with, “I’m not saying this is a great idea, or something we’d do, but I’ll throw it out to see if it sparks a brainstorm for anyone else…<insert idea>.”
These types of ideas (and this whole thread) are still amazing for generating ideas. Even if an idea might have a lot of problems with it, still toss it out! Maybe it’ll lead us to the eventual answer!
I appreciate the open invitation to exploring ideas – I’ll throw out some of my wacky ones to see if anyone can brainstorm off them…
1. Make the T8 servers an ongoing live open test server for any changes to WvW. This might encourage players to transfer there to get an early peek at possible changes to WvW and since those bottom tier fights are pretty much out of the race and usually a blowout anyway it shouldn’t be that impactful…?
The rest of my ideas are based on my assumption that any changes made based on map population would only encourage ‘gaming’ or manipulating the system. “We have too many on X map – commanders, pull your teams off”. A better way might be to look at score differential. When a server’s score falls beneath certain thresholds (ex: 10% less than the reigning server, 25%, 50%), then underscore mechanics or scoring could kick in.
2. An obvious idea is that underscore servers earn more points per tick on their objectives or overscore servers earn less. But this still doesn’t really solve how to comeback after a night of unbalance, it just delays the inevitable.
3. Overnight balance could be addressed by underscore server’s objectives becoming increasingly more difficult to take at certain score differentials. It could require a new type of very supply expensive siege to break through their walls. This new siege could have some kind of time gate on it and take hours to build, thereby smoothing out any overnight population differences.
4. Underscore servers could get new tools at certain score differentials – ladders to climb walls or jump pads to vault over them (trebucheting asura over walls haha).
5. The trickiest knot to untangle is how to encourage underscore teams to work together. I really think this is the key to blowout matches in WvW, that 2 “beaten” servers can come together and take down the big guy. The tricky part is how to implement this type of coordination while still maintaining the rivalry and competition between those servers (in addition to how scores would be handled). Some random ideas:
a) a temporary truce mechanic where the underscores could become neutral to each other
b) a form of siege or wall that would require components from both of the underscore teams to create
c) some kind of communication device that would allow underscore teams to coordinate…?
No idea how score could be allocated between the underscores when they were truced, maybe split the score until the truce expires then the team with the most players on the objective owns it?
Keep up the great discussions everyone, you are doing good stuff here.
You missed some Living Story – like the vote for the new captains councilmember. You can’t do it now since the players already voted and that content is completed now so it would make no sense for you to do it at this point.
Check the release splash page link I gave you, there’s a lot of transitional living story type stuff that you can’t do now including some stuff that will return periodically but they’ve added a lot also. Jump on in, the water is fine
I just bought $20 worth of gems so I can get another character slot and the new toxic armors, imma make the most ba sylvari you ever saw – woot!
I’ve been meaning to throw some gems their way since the Tequatl update, this gave me an excuse