Guild Wars 2

I think this was a great idea. They promised to show us a dark side and they did. I didn’t realize we had such an over-sheltered and over-pampered player base that can’t stomach a little darkness.

Seeds of Truth was a great episode. The only thing that bugged me throughout this episode was Faolain’s accent. It really annoyed me to hear a Sylvari speaking with a non-British accent. What happened here?

Will it teleport to a friend even if the friend’s map is full?

Caithe did not steal the egg. It was someone disguised as Caithe. When the new trailer says that it’ll take a thief to catch a thief, they are saying that it will take the real Caithe to catch the fake one.

Discuss.

You can also ask in map chat in game where everyone is.

No, emojis would be “too confusing for the players™”.

Merge with existing Cantha thread maybe?

Talking to the Laurel Merchant at Camp Resolve did not award the Daily Laurel Vendor achievement. Had to go talk to the one in LA instead.

No to mounts…

I finally completed the latest episode and I have to say… I was completely blown away with the way this episode was executed. Kudos to ANET for having outdone themselves yet again!

Things that stood out for me were:

1. Marjory’s encounter with Belinda. I’m liking the new approach with custom animations. We saw this with Kasmeer and Marjory in the final battle against Scarlet, and now again with Marjory and Belinda. This includes the facial expressions, and the way Marjory handled Belinda’s sword. Need more of this.

2. Canach strikes again! The voice actor for Canach is simply brilliant. I enjoyed listening to his back and forth with Anise in the previous episode and he’s done it again. His lines are just too good. Need more of this.

3. Durmand Priory. Holy moly was this place packed with lore! I must’ve spent a good hour and a half to maybe 2 hours simply running around the library and reading all the books before I even got to Ogden. All the references to the original GW1 were absolutely amazing. This shows that ANET hasn’t forgotten about the old lore that got so many of us hooked onto GW in the first place. Need more of this.

4. Glint’s Lair. The ultimate highlight of this episode. The whole place looked absolutely stunning! Big shout out to Leif Chappelle and Maclaine Diemer for the remake of Crystal Oasis soundtrack. My favourite soundtrack from GW1 remade and they have done it justice by living up to the bar set by Jeremy Soule’s original. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard the remake. Stroke of pure genius! Need way more of this!

5. Story. I like the direction all of season two has taken with the story. To me, it feels like this direct approach of story telling is much better. By contrast, season 1 felt like an indirect/implied approach, i.e, seemingly random events happening around the world that were supposed to be actually all tied together, somehow did not make a lot of sense. Season 2 has us directly involved in everything. We are seeing things happening in front of us so nothing is implied. Need more of this.

Thank you ANET!

Maclaine Diemer.7693:

The suggestion to redo it was designer and occasional composer Leif Chappelle’s. He thought it would tie in nicely to the area where Glint’s Lair was in the original Guild Wars, and I agreed with him. I’m glad people are making the connection.

Please thank Leif Chappelle for the suggestion. It was a stroke of pure genius! I remember being completely blown away when I first heard Crystal Oasis in the first game and it has happened again this time around. I was left awestruck the moment I caught on to the fact that I was listening to the remake of my favourite track from GW1.

Thank you Leif and Maclaine!

Guess everyone here is an iPhone user :P

You use [ spoiler ]SPOILER[ /spoiler ] <— without the spaces between the square brackets.

Though what I meant was putting something like [SPOLIER] in your subject.

EDIT: Or * spoiler* works too :P ty!

AHHH! Spoiler alert man!

Some people are still at work and haven’t had a chance to play yet

Sorean.5379:

Slifer,the water dragon

+1’d for Yu-Gi-Oh! reference

GuzziHero.2467:

Magister Tassi refers to the player character’s participation in Dragon Bash. Obviously, there was no Dragon Bash this year.

How do you know she’s not referring to the one Dragon Bash we did have?

Looks like she finally eloped with Logan.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Oh, and I don’t even want to go into the whole “I saw a trailer at a movie, and every good joke and/or pivotal scene in the movie was telegraphed in the trailer.” That’s not good teaser-ing — that’s giving away the store!

That reminded me of Seth Rogen’s movie Neighbors. Every funny scene was IN the trailer. What a waste actually watching it in the theatre…

Scaling for this event seems to be broken. Unless ANET decided to teach all zergers a lesson and had the centaurs zerg our butts into the ground.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

But where would you put the whisper? Does a chat box appear on the Character Select screen? I can’t say I’ve ever seen one….

I should try that when I get home lol…

Vayne.8563:

How do you whisper someone on the character select screen???

Same way you whisper them in game. You can pull up your friends list on the character select screen too you know.

Probably whispered you while still on the character select screen. At that point, the user’s account name is known but no character name since a character wasn’t picked yet.

Sure we can, if the Living Story takes us there lol

Ravion Hawk.4736:

No Mounts Ever…..

Thank you Ravion! I was looking for that gif :P

Very interesting. It is possible that “Raid Content” is what they will be working on between Living World breaks. Let’s hope so at least.

Link doesn’t work.

Failing any of the events won’t change how the meta event plays out. It’ll always move on to the next step.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Frozen_Maw

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

They blocked the gates too. That figures. Still stupid and crappy, though. Makes it harder for new players to play with friends of different races.

I know so dumb. I really want to fight lvl 80 Risen with my lvl 2 char but ANET won’t let me. So stupid and crappy!

Is there a CDI for this?

bloodletting wolf.2837:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

“this game isn’t for you” is simply the catch all defense for people adding in features they don’t like. Their hate for those features has no basis in logic or reality so they have to fall back on the catch all defense.

This includes things like:
Raids- Abundant and fun in GW1
Trinity- Also present in GW1, and after the 2 year of clear failure in GW2s removal clearly superior
Mount- Fit the lore, makes more sense, wanted by players.

There isn’t any real reason for Anet not to add these things so the only defense players have against them is to try and force players to leave the game. Games evolve after release, things they tried didn’t work, they can change the original design to improve the game. Ascended gear is a prime example of this. The game was plummeting into failure so they changed their position on gear and saved the game.

I would like to request cyborg disco monkeys with flamethrowers cuz ets sew kewl. Ascended gear saved the game…..LOL

LOL!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

“this game isn’t for you” is simply the catch all defense for people adding in features they don’t like. Their hate for those features has no basis in logic or reality so they have to fall back on the catch all defense.

This includes things like:
Raids- Abundant and fun in GW1
Trinity- Also present in GW1, and after the 2 year of clear failure in GW2s removal clearly superior
Mount- Fit the lore, makes more sense, wanted by players.

There isn’t any real reason for Anet not to add these things so the only defense players have against them is to try and force players to leave the game. Games evolve after release, things they tried didn’t work, they can change the original design to improve the game. Ascended gear is a prime example of this. The game was plummeting into failure so they changed their position on gear and saved the game.

Nice! Does that mean people can start requesting *ANY*thing? Hmmm… I’ve always wanted the Science Vessel from Starcraft as a mount. That’ll show those pesky thieves always going into stealth mode… >_> I’m sure ANET can make up some lore introduce the Science Vessel into Tyria

I really like the Critical Condition and Advanced Condition stacks ideas. These two ideas combined would give condition damage a huge boost and would increase adoption rates of condition based builds. It would also encourage new builds.

I don’t like the threshold idea because (correct me if I’m wrong) it looks like those with lower condition damage builds would never see their conditions applied to mobs essentially rendering them useless to a party.

Mount Everest’s peak is 8848 meters above sea level.

Maybe complaining about complaining is not for you…

@OP Simply log in during the time a new living story release is available and it will unlock for you. After that point you are free to return to the game whenever you like and you can do the living story arc… for FREE!

:D LOL

Crazy stuff! Really good work with the video. Looking forward to see more

PrinceWarhero.4256:

Is this really a reward or is Arenanet making fun of us !! ??

ANET set up a multi-million dollar company so they could make fun of 12 year olds, because you know, that’s how they make money for their shareholders.

You really got ’em this time. Good work!

Sariel V.7024:

Vesuvius.9874:

Yargesh.4965:

Vesuvius.9874:

Ronah Lynda.2496:

You guys have eliminated the mounts

OMG I hate how they “eliminated” mounts from GW2! I’m soooooo mad at ANET right now!

…

Yes they lined them up and shot them before release, probably find a smuggled video about it.

That’s terrible! Someone call PETA!

The sad thing is PETA would applaud.

I am not even joking.

Why? Because even they hate the idea of mounts in GW2? :P

Yargesh.4965:

Vesuvius.9874:

Ronah Lynda.2496:

You guys have eliminated the mounts

OMG I hate how they “eliminated” mounts from GW2! I’m soooooo mad at ANET right now!

…

Yes they lined them up and shot them before release, probably find a smuggled video about it.

That’s terrible! Someone call PETA!

Ronah Lynda.2496:

You guys have eliminated the mounts

OMG I hate how they “eliminated” mounts from GW2! I’m soooooo mad at ANET right now!

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sayeh_al%27Rajihd

This thread is genius! ^__^

Behellagh.1468:

… sigh …

Jan 21 – Apr 14: End of LS1
Apr 15: First Feature Pack
May 20th – Jun 30th: Festival of the Four Winds
Jul 1 – Aug 26+: LS2 Part 1
Sept 9: Feature Pack 2

You really shouldn’t make up stuff that can be so easily disputed. 3 month breaks? 4 to 5 months between living story?

looool destroyed…!

I do just enough for the laurels. In the end, all APs show is the amount of time you’ve wasted that could’ve otherwise been used productively.

If you ask me, you want to keep this number as low as possible

Does everyone here understand that the idea behind collections is to go out into the world of Tyria and collect things? and not, you know, simply buy them off the TP and cry about how everything is overpriced? If it’s overpriced, then go collect it like it’s meant to.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

mtpelion.4562:

Vesuvius.9874:

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Vesuvius.9874:

Did they make the end game content easier with the new feature pack?

what you did there

I
see
it

Errr… what did I do there… ?

He’s insinuating that leveling new characters is endgame content in GW2.

I’m insinuating that there is no end game content.

Oh! xD looool

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Vesuvius.9874:

Did they make the end game content easier with the new feature pack?

what you did there

I
see
it

Errr… what did I do there… ?

Gnat.9405:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

First of all, this metrics that are so hyped up by Anet seem to be China only done. I really doubt EU/American has a huge group of players, that would like a dumbed down game. So i have place serious question marks on this metrics system.

You should probably find an understanding of what ‘Metrics’ are before you begin posts like this.

lol… pwnt

Did they make the end game content easier with the new feature pack?