Guild Wars 2

ProtoGunner.4953:

After a couple of weeks ppl complain there is nothing new in SAB. I think they want release it again if they have W3 finished. Which will take a while.

I honestly doubt that any player would complain about more permanent content at the moment.

Aaaand again no new content today.

I guess the reason why we won’t get SAB this year is because they don’t want to interrupt the HoT “hype”. Of course they can’t say that openly.

Kind of makes me sad to read through Josh’s posts
At least red and purple weapons make me excited.

skullmount.1758:

I just hope when World 3 is released the TM weapons actually look (deepish) red and not like a pinkish color.

Who said that W3 weapons will be red?

Miku.6297:

I’ve actually been reading through most of the SAB posts, and I’m curious what is the justification besides “we want it” for SAB to be made permanent? Player base splitting, reward influx, temp draw are all reasons to keep it temporary. What are the reasons for it to be permanent?

Just think of SAB as a dungeon. Most players will play each new world once. Then there are players who like the content and tend to replay it. A low minority will farm for weapons and achievements. Why is the CoF permanent? It’s good to have different permanent places to go. This will keep players ingame.
I could barely play at SAB 1&2 because I had exams but I would’ve liked to play more after they were finished.
The whole point for me to play GW2 is that there is few time pressure. You are usually allowed to play content whenever you want. Therefore I really loved the second season of LS.

that was sarcasm
Well i got plenty of continue coins but I won’t spend any money on anet until sab is released.

wow. Every thread related to SAB, even if it has new suggestions, will be merged to this one. Anet doesn’t want to see many SAB threads and wants to rather draw the attention to 500 april fool’s topics.

sab. that would be great.

Bunnikk.2146:

While I would rather play SAB than play as Scruffy, We may have to wait another 6 months before we even have a shot at getting the Box open.

They won’t release SAB right after HoT. There would be the Halloween and Christmas break. So it’s either before HoT or after February 2016. Enjoy.

+1 on that. I would pay >1000 gems for a permanent token!

So here is what that_shaman said on Reddit based on datamining. Doesn’t sound good.

That_shaman:

They still could open world 1 & 2, but I wouldn’t count on it. World 3 definitely not today but they’re working on it (or at least something new)

wow what a dumb move to add the sab minis on March 31th. You upset a lot of loyal players here.

RIOT has started!

And here is the German protest:

Protest in Europe

Wwefan.4982:

They can release this at anytime it doesn’t have to be April 1st mainly because April 1st is a Wednesday NOT a patch day

The possibility of SAB returning is shrinking with every day because there wouldn’t be a point to interrupt the hype of the new expansion with an old event and the last few weeks will be all hands on deck for sure. Therefore I guess that it will be either in April or after HoT. After HoT would mean after Halloween and after Christmas. So it would be pretty much a year from now.

One week left until April first. I guess this might be the last chance to introduce it prior to HoT. Otherwise we will have to wait another year

I am really disappointed that they did not say anything about SAB. It will be more than 2 years without SAB if it won’t return before HoT.

It is fun, but imo it’s not a JP. You don’t need any precision in doing it. I prefer JPs like “not so secret” (or all of the SAB levels ) where you really have to think about your position and your jumps.

Kaldrys.1978:

This article makes a lot of sweeping claims and reads like something I would’ve written in 5th grade. Keep in mind that Season 1, while it had 20 LS episodes, took place over 1 and a half years. In comparison Season 2’s projected 9 episodes will take place over a period of 6 months.

Wait. We got 4 LS2 releases so far in almost 4 months. More releases will come on 4th November, 18th November and 2nd December. Either LS2 finishes with that or there will be break due to christmas events again. So if LS2 has 9 episodes then it will need at least 7 months. But I think that there will be another break after the next 3 episodes and LS2 returns in February or even later.

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So unless Anet wants to publish different in NA/EU and China we will get the exact same event as last year. There was an overview of the event on the Chinese site. There will be a collection achievement though (see attachement).

xenon.3264:

SAB was removed since world 2 had a crazy difficult level. people enjoyed world 1 cause it was fun to complete and not that hard.
so less people played it.
so it was moved down in priority

And world 2 was bugged. So it was pointless to enter until it was fixed 2 weeks later…

restrictions will never improve any levling experience.

It reminds me of portal 2. I really love those community test chambers. Would be really nice to have something like this for the sab but it would need Anet too much time to produce :/

GOSU.9574:

I just don’t get why it can’t be added as an Asura portal from LA or something.

Think of poor newbies who can’t use downstate skills or play PS. If they happen to get through this portal they might think: Oh noooo GW2 has very bad graphics.

moiraine.2753:

Here is a list of the comunities that do the worm:

EU
http://psdh.eu/
http://www.reddit.com/r/txs
http://gw2community.com/calendar/event/7-wurm-run-of-the-german-wurmslayer-community-wums/

Add to EU:
http://gw2community.com (3 English runs/day often even 2 maps per run!)
http://www.gw2community.de/ Usually 1 German run/day
http://www.gw2play.de Few runs per month

So basically everyone in EU can participate in wurm kills if he/she wants to. Of course you need ts because of the high fluctuation. If you play in a skilled guild you don’t need TS.
I can’t understand why there is only 1 Guild organizing wurm in NA. Maybe all other guilds/players aren’t interested in wurm or are too lazy?
Anyway I really like wurm kills and it is the most challenging boss

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Do you guys think that there’s a middle ground between ultra hard and easy?

For example, I think we could clean up some of the issues with the Shatterer and just make it a more engaging experience. So rather than spending the entire fight hiding under his right paw he could, say, turn his head and attack that area? :] It doesn’t have to be hard, just a little more involved.

We tried to put in a few changes here and there when we added the new world boss timers. Reactions varied.

Would be really nice if the bosses could be more challenging. Doesn’t have to be as “hard” as teq but e.g. the healing crystals could be buffed. So that the shatterer would be healed 10% for each unkilled crystal. This would encourage players to distribute and wait for crystal spawns instead of pressing 1 over and over. One or two more attacks which need observation of the head would be nice as well.

There will be no new race. Because they would need to implement a new starting map. This would be content. Feature patch doesn’t contain content. GG

We all remember how it was during LS S1: There would be a new story part every two weeks. From time to time we got additional content and features.

Now we get 2 feature patches/year with (at least this time) rather minor changes.

The content we get is a LS part every 2 weeks and a map where the LS takes place. Now, after we waited for 3 months for the new season to start, the LS is paused for some time.

So what’s the point? We don’t get any content except LS! Because “feature patches are for features, not for content” and everything not related to LS is “difficult to fit in within the narrative structure that we have now and I think that makes it very much less likely that it will appear in a Living World season going forward”.

I really like the new LS storytelling but it is annoying that we will have to wait for the end of LS2 until something can fit.

Crysto.7089:

Just because they are “for” someone else doesn’t make them against you. They may be giving persons or aspects of the game more attention than others but they aren’t setting out with the goal to marginalize you or to ruin your gaming experience.

Well the PS Story (Key farming nerf) change does indeed marginalize my gaming experience.

Well it will be at lvl 10. Why? Because it has to be in episodes. And just think about new players who try to do PS 1-10. They would be frustrated and what Anet tries to achieve is the opposite.
And again all of us veteran players could complete PS 1-10 with a lvl 1 char. But Anet doesn’t care about us.

tl;dr add a short version xD

Best idea so far is to implement a permanent SAB ticket sold in the mall. You still can open it for free from time to time. But most of the players don’t care about the SAB while some think that it’s the best minigame in GW2. Therefore everyone would be happy

Halvorn.9831:

For some time now champions spawning during the Claw of Jormag event drop Champion loot boxes again, sadly.

Imo most of the players are fighting the Claw of Jormag wrongly. Most of the players are trying to range it in the second phase. But protecting the golems would be wiser. If you don’t kill the champs they will attack the golems and kill them.

Has somebody tried to get a refund for the coin?

Qlak.4387:

It is ony a speculation, but stiiill:

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From what I heard we might be getting Experience Scroll which makes your character level 40 or even 60 instantly, a Miniature but I do not know of which creature, Veteran Title and something called Birthday Blaster, but people did not tell what is it for.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see

Nah. You get lvl 25 scroll this year and after 10 years a lvl 80 scroll.

I heard they started 3 PvP Tournaments/year with 50.000 $ each. They could employ a high payed developper for the sab instead

There are French/Spanish/English and German ts servers with organized runs
I hate the language filter though!