Guild Wars 2

Legendary has always been about skins and bragging rights.

Regardless of whether you believe GW2 is the right sort of game to have bragging rights and your personal opinion around that whole way of thinking, that is why Legendaries exist. The weapons never quite had that mystique or at least after the first year is was truly gone. Legendary Armour will highlight your ability to conquer a raid and that for a while at least, will be a worthy accolade for those players.

Beyond the stat changes and always being top tier, that is it.

Well raids are coming within that period as is Wintersday.

But anything in the scope of a Living Story season wont be until next year, probably Spring time at a guess.

I would be surprised to see any major updates to Halloween or Wintersday going forward. Traditionally festivals are recurring year on year, with the same content, albeit new rewards. This cuts down on development time for something that is released for a short window in a given year.

At the very least, activities should always carry over and not be removed or changed year on year. There was a complaint last years Wintersday about one of the activities. That will hopefully be rectified this year.

As for rewards, I think Nightfury was a bit extreme for a festival item, but there is no reason not to continue to do things like this with a big emphasis on “discovering” the recipe. Look how much fun the community had with John Smiths forum short story which gave clues on unlocking a Mystic Forge recipe for example.

In the spirit of your thread though, I will at least suggest 1 new activity.
Wintersday Gauntlet.
An all new set of enemies to take on which are Grentchs in various Wintersday themed disguises

Ahh I see. Thanks for the clarification

Valiant.5078:

Not sure why you’re complaining. Free is good right?

Are we even certain that the next expansion will make HoT free, it’s conjecture at this point.

If you’re looking for more grind, it’s all there in HoT. Instead of levels, they gave masteries, which in all honesty is just like more levels.

HoT being free with any future expacs was stated by Anet as part of their business model on their website during the height of the forum rage about f2p core and HoT pricing.

Sylvari gives no gameplay advantages. You can safely play any other race and not lose out.

There is a bug reverting HoT progression. The last dev report said it will be fixed, but could take a day or two to sort out since it is quite significant.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/HoT-maps-reset-on-me/first

If you have a personal teleport you could port to a friends location if you get them to team up and wp into Verdant Brink, but otherwise it’s awaiting a fix

Sankofa Jimiyu.1567:

I request the pet rock be the most OP mini available.

Delivering the Polymock Elbow as a special move!

Polymock would be fun to see back in GW2. I didnt play it much in GW1, but it was one of the best mini games ive played in an MMO

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It is established canon lore that the player races cannot have halfbreeds with other player races (yes, even norn and human despite their similar look) and the same is true for most player races with non-player races.

DarcShriek.5829:

slyvari/charr – a cat that can produce it’s own catnip.

If you were on Guru2 before release, you would know that this is called a sylcarri.

castlemanic.3198:

It’s been confirmed that interspecies romance doesn’t even exist,

This isn’t true. There are some cases of human/sylvari and human/norn relationships or desired relationships throughout the game.

That said, however, there can be no such offspring.

Thangore.2935:

My thoughts too Smekras, but Olaf Olafson does seem to indicate Norn-human is possible.

Given HOT, Sylvari-anything appears possible.

Olaf and his daughter are simply wrong. That’s all. Jeff Grubb confirmed that humans and norn cannot breed years ago.

Unfortunately the interview with said statement was taken down years ago too. It’s hard to preserve those things.

Did they not also say if an interview and game conflict, in game lore takes precedence? I will freely admit to misremembering the context though and am happy to be proved wrong.

Endless Soul.5178:

I, for one, think the event with Lord Faren in verdant Brink is hilarious.

Best event in HoT for sure. Loved it in beta, I was looking forward to rerunning post launch.

Games ship with bugs regardless of testing, many appear exclusively when they hit live. Or trigger from unexpected scenarios.

This is clearly an unexpected bug which has hit and be thankful Anet are working on a fix so quickly. So few game companies are this on the ball with hotfixes. It is annoying for ppl, but it will be fixed and nothing will be lost.

No violations of any rights have occurred

Gliding is by far and away my favourite thing.

Tempest (and elites in general) is the close 2nd, simply because the build I have is perfect for my playstyle and I’m having so much fun on my ele.

Check bug forum and general discussion. Several reports popping up. Looks like a widespread bug

Could someone post a screenie with it?

People never learn sadly. Have flagged it up for a mod to change the title in case OP doesn’t see this in time.

What level is your Revenant?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Draknar.5748:

Randulf.7614:

I’m assuming it is a complaint against Halloween ending and being shorter than normal, so they have missed out on the Guard outfit as it was removed before their pay went in.

Ah, that makes so much more sense lol.

Except the Lunatic Guard outfit is still for sale. For 6 more days.

Was it always on sale for so long or did they extend it? If so perhaps the OP didn’t see it was extended.

I do love a good puzzle after a stressful day at work!

Her powers are still there. She briefly mentions them as well in one of the story instances. I forget the exact details, but she mentions detecting truth in (I think) one of the Itzel.

It isn’t expanded on beyond a bit of throwaway dialogue though

In which I have no idea. I thought it had gone from the shop – maybe they did too?

I’m assuming it is a complaint against Halloween ending and being shorter than normal, so they have missed out on the Guard outfit as it was removed before their pay went in.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

That sounded like fun. After Halloween is over I’m hitting the new maps hard. I hope that this sort of coordination is still happening. Glad you got your coats. I know some people have been unhappy about how hard it can be to get them.

In theory, coordination should improve.

a) because halloween is over and players like yourself will be giving time over to new maps
b) other ppl are rapidly completing story and exploration stuff, which means more time for meta.

In theory of course……

Yeah for those having not done the end story, i’d suggest removing the npc name from your title. Otherwise kinda pointless having a spoiler tag…

I’d advise “Old Friend Lives”

It wont be this year. In the blog they said the New Year will come with a new road map about 2016 releases. If LS3 is still happening, expect news in that blog.

I’m not expecting any new story content until at least Spring.

I dont think they could ever do it right though. That is not a dig at the writers, its realising that expectations are so wide and varied.

Mystery orchestrated through wonder is extremely healthy in a fantasy setting. Forced mysteries like the identity of E rarely capture the same sense of intrigue.

For years players have looked up at this floating castle and wondered what lies within. Once that reveal is done, that wonder is taken away and that is something a good fantasy writer should feel confident in not doing.

You should check out the lore forum. There is near universal agreement there about the story being very short indeed, with some interesting and constructive discussion about how it could have been improved and the long list of things felt to be missing.

Just make sure you go to your Story Journal tab and select the heart of thorns story to start it. You can ignore season 2 if you wish or do it later. It adds to story continuity but is not required for HoT or masteries

The Masteries system was developed based on feedback by the community during a massive long discussion about horizontal progression and is a variation of a system affectionately known as “Metroidvania” – ie using the same progression system as Metroid and later Castlevania games from the 90’s.

Background aside, to level them, you “play the game”. The best way to do that is events , adventures (v good xp) and story. They generate the highest bursts of xp. The more you involve yourself in the map events and metas, the faster your masteries will level. An individual event wont show much movement, but a chain of events suddenly becomes a lot of xp.

As an advantage, the system is account bound, so any alts going in will contribute as well.

You’re right Devata, however in their defence, the official release page did say just under two weeks.

I’m hoping Wintersday will have a good run this year. I know it starts on Dec 15th, but hopefully it will run into Jan for a bit too. Keep that old Xmas spirit going! Working right up til 9pm Xmas EVe then 2 days off and back to the grind….gonna need it!

I got the hero point and it ticked it off on the map’s legend, however it remains an uncompleted symbol on the map. Same for others in my guild.

Correct, not all legendaries have footprints unless HoT added new effects that I haven’t seen.
I’m on the fence whether they are a good thing or not.

Two more days of the Labyrinth!

A-“maze”-ing

Ongoing loose end.

Paulytnz.7619:

Randulf.7614:

I’m confused. I have never completed this JP, yet I have every skill/hero point in the game.

Is this new?

No I am assuming its the Not So Secret JP in Gandarryn Fields, just West of LA if you enter the map from LA.

Edit: also many of the JPs in the game have no Skill/Hero points attached to them so you can’t use that as an indicator that you have done all JPs.

That’s the one I meant, but I have all the hero points from core tyria and I never did that JP since I was rubbish at it. Unless it’s only partially way in and I somehow did it and have forgotten. I never made it to the top by a long shot

I’m also banned from doing JP’s by my guild. Something about anger management….

I’m confused. I have never completed this JP, yet I have every skill/hero point in the game.

Is this new?

Thank you very much Gaile.

Please can our feedback about adding it to releases or patch notes be taken on board for future?

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Im not sure if it is the difficulty which is the issue, it is the number of metas requiring coordintion and full maps. Auric and Dragon Stand are great fun, but when the playerbase is so split, then the metas fail.

It is very early in The expac life, so once most ppl finish exploring and story, then we can see how it really plays out.

Prob fine, but if someone gets scammed Im not sure where they stood with Anet. They usually dont get involved in private transactions. The potential for being scammed is massive.

Almost certainly never. It’s existence invites mystery, speculation and wonder – this is a game writers dream!

Nothing Anet could do with that place could ever live up to years of expectation and imagination on behalf of the community.

For these two reasons I will place my own cast iron guarantee we will never see inside that place ever. To be honest I think that is the right call as well – some things are best left…….mysterious…

THe biggest complaint about HoT’s story appears to be its length and the knock on effect of how it misses so many things along the way, like glossing over the egg, the sylvari conflict, complete absence of Mallycks Tree and his fate etc etc.

That said, it shouldn’t be dismissed as unenjoyable. The instances were longer, the dialogue improved. But, it felt like just an opening Act with a final kill tagged on the end (we skipped through the most dangerous map!!). For an expansion, I expected a story bigger than a Living story season.

Setting aside the spoilers devs and players seemed to jump over themselves to reveal, the 3 deaths were well handled imo. A bit too George Martin? probably, but ppl seem to rate his writing for some reason so I’m unsurprised they chose to emulate him a little.

The most emotional death moment for me?

lynspottery.6529:

Randulf.7614:

What Maxx said. LS2 gives the best experience from a story continuity point of view. It is not required. You can never play through the PS, LS1, LS2 and still play HoT without restriction.

Seems like this might cause a problem for folks who came in new and purchased HoT but did not get the other stories. I remember coming back in before the end of LS2 and used my extra gems to open that up for my main so I could finish it before HoT dropped.

But I don’t think that is an option for new folks with only the HoT purchase. So how will they get some of the “restricted” things if they can’t access the LS2?

Again, nothing is restricted. You can have skipped all 3 previous stories and it has no impact on your play through of HoT. You just wont know the characters and NPCs very well.

Just to be clear and you may understand this already, but killing the Mouth doesn’t kill “him” or his physical body. It kills the extension of him that acts as his mouth. That could be unique and something he has to re-grow, but killing the Mouth doesn’t equate to killing him.

Otherwise I don;t find much wrong in your interpretation.

This already exists since HoT. It just may not be working correctly or at least it doesn’t work if the map is full. Colin mentioned on Reddit it would be looked into

ChrizZcE.5981:

Instead the people that run in circles all day are rewarded with the coolest gear in the game.

When raids are released your wish will be granted for this bit. Only the very best will be able to earn the legendary armour.

Despite 3 years of asking for end dates for a given release, we rarely get them. I would assume Tuesday like Cedo says and anything beyond is a bonus.

Let me re-phrase since I worded that wrong. I don’t see why they should resurrect a system they have publically said is abandoned in favour of focussing on DE’s. Hearts are also unrepeatable, so the system would need a re-design anyway.

DE’s would work just as well for your idea, which in essence is pretty sound. I’m all for side stories and exploration style events which flesh out more of the game’s lore.

What Maxx said. LS2 gives the best experience from a story continuity point of view. It is not required. You can never play through the PS, LS1, LS2 and still play HoT without restriction.

Primordus was the first to awake
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primordus

I doubt Kralk will be next since defeating him opens the door to Elona. And I doubt that is happening yet.

Primordus seems a good guess, he just feels too soon. The Asuran connection, especially post HoT brings it a lot closer to home

Jormag would be my personal interest due to location and because he is depicted as a proper Dragon to fight. If a Norn got his tooth, my Norn gets to bash his shield in its face! Plus we have Braham’s ongoing development to explore now post-HoT story. I figure it will be him who become the champion who breaks the tooth (and presumably rightful King of England..?).

There is ofc the DSD and the concept art of a hydra like creature attacking (LA?) on the HoT website. Now that would prove very interesting if a very outside chance og happening.

Nothing wrong with the idea, but it would work equally well using DE’s. I’m not sure why we need to introduce a new system, to which the current one can do just as well.

What it needs is to split the DE’s into meta and “lore/side stories”/ Perhaps the meta can stay orange coloured the other DE’s utilising your suggestion perhaps blue. These do not contribute to the overall meta, but still give appropriate lore and xp. Maybe even lore themed rewards which go towards lore themed collections.

Arewn.2368:

I don’t really understand how it’s taking that long. But if you’re really having that much trouble, have you considered Lkitten outside the instance entrance for a second(third,fourth, or fifth) player?

They stated earlier in the thread they wanted to do it solo and not in a group. I can empathise with that, at least for the first run through.

I use a warrior with mace and shield. He is in his element in HoT, especially with all those breakbars. Sure he can’t kill things as quick as my Tempest can, but he is far more useful than he ever was before due to 3x interrupts, 2x blocks and 2x projectile reflects.