Guild Wars 2

That was the point of my thread. They spent the first 6 months setting the scene so to speak in regards to just developing the world and letting things build upon themsleves…

The second 6 months has been Living Story, which I believe is a tool to introduce large content such as map expansion. What better way to make a TRUE living world other than an evolving storyline that develops a chain of events and back story leading to major content?

I can EASILY see this culminating on our 1 year anniversary with an expansion into the Sea of Sorrows! Just read my thread for the supporting evidence!

Look here for my (what I believe to be VERY sound) theory on what will be happening for the one year anniversary!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-find-it-VEEEEEEERY-interesting/first#post2266520

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Will this arc culminate in August….say around the 28th?

I was thinking a major map expansion for the one year anniversary…

Yes this is normal. Have you done any of your personal story? That will help you level up rather quickly…

Heavenz.3408:

play endless hours grinding only to never get your precurser. the dude next to you is walking around with 10 of them in his bank only playing for a month.

and in his bank he also has a rather LARGE credit card bill…

DEFINITELY Guardian mate! As Meglobob said everyone loves to have a Guardian with them… I would suggest going PTV with it as well. Makes you tanky as can be and still have good damage output. PvP use a Hammer build. PvE roll with greatsword. Just be sure in PvP to use heaps of condition removal as that is the bain of the Guardian’s existence!

Not to mention the fact that we will be having a scavenger hunt to search Tyria for Mariner’s Plaques… Which of course focus around? The main character in the “Sea of Sorrows” book!

I’m telling you peeps… hold on tight because we are in for a wild ride that I believe will culminate in a MASSIVE map expansion for Tyria!

And so many of you thought Living Story was useless!

To me, it appears that ANET has found an INGENIOUS way to slowly introduce new major content such as large scale map expansion.

Think of it carefully…

What better way to build up a mythos about a previously uncharted area of Tyria other than to slowly trickle in storyline surrounding a chain of events that would lead to the opening of said area?

We, through no fault of our own, have inadvertantly, invaded Sea of Sorrows. We did this as a place to find a home for Refugees whose lands had been destroyed by the Molten Alliance.

At first the Aetherblades (Which logically should be from Sea of Sorrows, given the fact that an airship invasion from any other direction would have been noticed) and Inquest took a wait and see approach in regards to Southsun.

Now, Southsun has been left in total disarray and the island is chaos. Due to like minded interests the Inquest and Aetherblades have joined forces to strike back, starting with assasination attempts on the LA Council.

Aetherblades want us out of there territory and the Inquest just do not want us discovering their experiments in Orr.

I tell you friends… ANET is using Living Story as a platform for launching large scale expansion…

I’d LOVE to hear what you all think about my theory?

AcidicVision.5498:

The Sea of Sorrows is an old old book. I think it has been through three authors and two major re-writes now as well as delays and publisher issues. One consistent bit is that it is a prequel to GW2 of sorts that goes down about the time Orr rises and Zhaitan wakes up (The order of all three books is backwards chronologically).

Anything is possible I guess, but since this book was conceptualized and in editing before the Aetherblades were a twinkle in Anet’s eyes, I wouldn’t expect them or the inquest to be linked to it at all.

I mention the book as a case for odd timing… why re-release a book with a title that given other evidence, lends that area of the map to be the source of the coming invasion…

Why has no one noticed the blurb regarding the new book being released to coincide with the Sky Pirates update? The title of course being “Sea of Sorrows”…

What do we know?

1) The Sky Pirates have joined forces with the Inquest

2) The Inquest have a hidden facility underwater in the Northwest portion of Orr bordering what area?

3) They have appeared out of no where to wreak havoc upon LA. One would think they would have a rather close proximity to LA since this was their chosen point of contact.

4) If these pirates approached from any direction OTHER than southwest would we have not have heard of strange airships?

5)Pre dragon Bash, where was there TONS of activity thanks to the Consortium? South Sun Cove… Which is in the middle of what?

6) What does the name of the book have to do with Guild Wars 2?

To me, though I am sure ANET would FERVERENTLY deny it given their documented stance on Map expansion, this is absolutely SCREAMING that a LARGE Map expansion is coming soon and the area to be expanded into will Sea of Sorrows. An area which currently is shaped like a doughnut (surrounded by and having something in the middle of it) thanks to the current explorable world.

I would love to hear others’ thoughts on this as I have ran the idea by most of my guildies and my theories seem sound…

Why has no one noticed the blurb regarding the new book being released to coincide with the Sky Pirates update? The title of course being “Sea of Sorrows”…

What do we know?

1) The Sky Pirates have joined forces with the Inquest

2) The Inquest have a hidden facility underwater in the Northwest portion of Orr bordering what area?

3) They have appeared out of no where to wreak havoc upon LA. One would think they would have a rather close proximity to LA since this was their chosen point of contact.

4) If these pirates approached from any direction OTHER than southwest would we have not have heard of strange airships?

5)Pre dragon Bash, where was there TONS of activity thanks to the Consortion? South Sun Cove… Which is in the middle of what?

6) What does the name of the book have to do with Guild Wars 2?

To me, though I am sure ANET would FERVERENTLY deny it given their documented stance on Map expansion, this is absolutely SCREAMING that a LARGE Map expansion is coming soon and the area to be expanded into will Sea of Sorrows. An area which currently is shaped like a donut (surrounded by and having something in the middle of it) thanks to the current explorable world.

I would love to hear others’ thoughts on this as I have ran the idea by most of my guildies and my theories seem sound…

I call BS on ANET… I have SEVERAL guildies I trust IMPLICITLY that finished their monthlies in the last two days and gotten 10 Laurels… ANET needs to award EVERYONE who got their JAnuary monthly with 10 laurels because now essentially those people are an ENTIRE month ahead of others