Guild Wars 2

True! The random invasion was really fun. People rushed on the map – many more than I expected. We failed but it was quite fun. If disregarding QQ about farmers and winning-pushers, it is indeed a good cooperative event, imo best that LS gave us thus far.

I was also happy to see more Scarlet’s champs with new ascended mats just waiting for us. :p

Yeah it is kind of nice to take a break. Got no interest in SAB – tried it the last time, it was quite fun, but if I wanted to play and oldschool platform game I would play an oldschool platform game, revisit my old N64 etc. The fact that it is temporary and assumes grind/ spending all the time there now before it goes away kills it even more.
I got into GW2 to play a fantasy (obvs steampunk now) MMORPG. I understand SAB’s quite popular, so good for the people who enjoy it.

But I don’t think it should count as LS though, where is the story / lore in there? It’s a minigame. I wish devs would focus on a meaningful story for the LS though…. A girl can dream I guess.

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Good idea, OP.
I’ve heard many people coming back to the game and shouting in LA to try and find out what has been going on. While brief mapchat summaries can be very amusing at times, general response was I-don’t-care, will-ignore-content.

I’d be much nicer to find all these things in-game, same as it’s be much nicer to actually get important character backgrounds in-game, not as a blog post story that only a few people will read (like “What Scarlet saw”).

I’d like to know that as well.
What did the queen want to announce? Got a bit distracted with lord Faren and all the champ farming afterwards. :p

Whaaaat, we’re getting back the dragon content, event if it is just recycling? Yes!
No idea how this will make sense lore-wise (as it has been said that they’ll connect updates with living story), but glad to see that existing stuff is being improved and that we’ll get more exciting PvE events. The only issue that arises is 80 ppl necessary for completion – as mentioned, this could easily become yet another forgotten Karka Queen.

It remains to be seen how this will work out but Anet, thank you for not having another pointless festival this month, and actually looking into improving the existing content.
New dragon content would be much appreciated, though.

I’m having a hard time seeing how they can tie this revamp to the lore. The world as it is (except Living Story) all happens prior to Zhaitan’s defeat. Hence all Orders’ camps on all maps etc. Maps represent one point in time, that is before we enter Arah with Trahearne and the Pact. Living story is what’s been going on after Zhaitan (and presumably his minions) are “forever dead” as the trophy item says.

Malediktus.9250:

Its not hard, but time consuming/gated and uses resources which I might as well save for legendaries.

Indeed. If wasting so much time and resource on this, one might simply use it all for the real thing and craft a Legendary.
Here I’m talking about T6 materials that will need to be refined for Ascended weps.

Signed for acc bound. It is a lot of effort just to be able to use it on a single character.

Would like to know this as well. It’d be nice to get a precursor through actual gaming effort rather than dumb luck and TP robber barons.

Got about 1/3 progress for a greatsword, but both Dawn and Dusk prices are insane right now. Sure, it’ll take farming to be able to collect money to buy them from TP, but in that time prices may continue to rise… -_-’

Well, the only place she didn’t directly affect yet is the Maguuma Jungle area: Rata Sum and the Grove more specifically.

Since so many people have elucidated Scarlet’s sueness in so many words, just for the conclusion I have to add that ArenaNet should get rid of it’s “writers” and employ WoodenPotatoes or someone similar who actually gets the lore. Thank you.

(I also love the fact that there is a Lord Faren Fan Club ^^)

Neat idea. I’d be very nice to see more content/activity in other cities, not just LA.

Yup. As Mystic Toilet is useless and RNG merciless, ability to get precursors through, you know, actual effort is really becoming necessary.
I’ve been collecting mats for months, ~2/3 through, but now precursor prices have gone crazy. What does that mean – saving more money. And in that time, due to the inflation, proces will continue to rise.
I mean, 750g for Dusk, seriously?

Good idea! It would makes things much easier.

Sophie Gifu.9762:

1. Make dungeon master account bound OR find a way to display what story mode dungeons you have done on each character.

Wait. Dungeon Master achievement is character-bound? :O

JK Arrow.7102:

Odd, I feel the depth of the SAB storyline is just as deep as some of the Living Story stuff we have seen.

Right there. The problem with the Living Story. The awkward moment when platform minigame storyline is actually better than true LS where there’s actually space for some decent storytelling…

Nothing against SAB, just talking about the state of the main game. Minigames are fun, but it feels like a distraction from the real deal. And by that I mean dragons and the lore goodies from GW1.

Do my eyes deceive me, or did a Dev actually post here? What is this MADNESS?!?

Thanks for remembering that dunegon players exist, but “living world”? Are you serious, Anet?
Have desperate cries over innumerable threads not shown you that people obviously find dungeons a more pressing matter than any LS you throw at us?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

We’re currently working on a way to make the paths you have accomplished more visible without further cluttering up the achievement page.

Soooo…. poke poke Have you worked on it yet? :P
It would be immensely useful.

They’re fighting dragons. Without players characters. Cause PCs weren’t really needed to defeat Zhaitan, they had Trahearne.
We only seem to be important enough to pull up with mediocre crazy villain team of the week like Aetherblades.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Hopefully it’s because Anet realizes we all hate him.

Next: Logan.

I don’t hate Logan. He has a very sexy hair. :p

Winds.3087:

I also don’t understand why people hate trahearne.
He’s like ten times better than any character living story has thrown at us.

While I don’t have much respect for the living story, I completely disagree here. Braham may be an emo, but the Rox/Braham team is fun to play with. not to mention useful when it come to mob clearing and reviving. Trahearne wasn’t just a poor 2-dimensional leader, he was also a bad fighter.
And look at Ellen Kiel. She’s been through a lot for her city. Did she moan like leafy boy here? Nope.

Wait there was supposed to be a conclusion?
Awesome, ANet can we now go back to DRAGONS and the real story? Ktnxbai!

TAFU………….

No idea what made Anet think some clone living events a’la cliche-villain-crashes-yet-another-festival-of-mindless-repetitive-tasks is more important than actual interesting content like dungeons. There was a thread on similar topic a few months ago and obvs nothing happened since. Someone posted that devs switched to Living Story instead of dungeons. I really hope they abandon this attitude next year. Cause “dead sparrows” soon won’t be enough to stop people from getting fed up and eventually quitting.

Bright.9160:

That’s path 2, and it’s pretty easy once you figure out the timing on the little golems.

If you fire your rifle right before, or as they stop walking, they will run straight into the Husk and immediately explode.

Good to know, we always just dragged the golems into the central area, which is a bit more time consuming I guess.

discovers Stan LePard

Labyrinthine theme was brilliant.

OP, sorry to hear, that’s despicable. : (
Who would pay someone to run a dungeon path? Especially p3, which isn’t even that big of a deal. It’s a game, so go out and play it.
It’s just sad, but I guess guilds/buddies are always a much safer way to run this time consuming content.

As mentioned Alpha in p1 is supposed to be the easiest. For me, first 2 are equally all right, but the jungle one gets a bit annoying with the bombs (I think that’s p3). A lot of Stability needed.

Good idea. It was fun fighting alongside Rox and Braham again in the previous patch. And this would make the whole event feel more like a living Story than just one big rushed (although fun!) zerg event.

Mander.6924:

I’m willingly and able to do P4: truth is, it’s almost the only arah path I do. XD
Eu servers, so if you’re interested I’ll take you to Arah p4 for free.

• Hermione hand raising * Me, me, pick me!
  Also Eu, also looking for a group for p4. Will /w you ingame so we can set a time for this.

FAAAAAAARRREEEEN! Sure, he was annoying, but who will now run the Divinity’s Reach Fanciest Cat Competition?!?!

+1 to any Kill Trahearne movement out there.

I would love these Scarlet-is-more-than-she-appears theories to be true, but let’s face it. This is coming from the same people who gave us Trahearne. If ANet ever learns, they’ll kick the Living Story people and employ Wooden Potatoes.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Thalador.4218:

This game seriously needs more “villainy” of Grand Admiral Thrawn’s kind.

If only we could get Timothy Zahn. Though Jeff Grubb is working somewhere in there, I thought I heard, so there’s that.

Agreed.

Finally, a Living Story that’s actually, you know, living and events that are happening in mid-lvl maps. It was tricky with so many overflows and connections eventually crashing, but it was fun. Thank you ANet!
You still need to work a lot on your storytelling skills though. (That’s Scarlet, srsly?!)

It’s a big issue, it’s a pointless ANet move, it deserves another thread.

You got it all wrong. There will be no voting on the father. Obviously, the baby that she drops will depend on RNG.

Dear Scarlet,
please kill Traherne and you can do whatever you want with Tyria.
ktnxbai!

Elbegast.6970:

Snaff is stuck in 1885.
Lion’s Arch was demolished by a 50 foot tall holographic woman.
Queen Jennah is a killer android sent from the future, by Aethernet, to kill Logan Thackeray.
Evil Future Zojja is behind the Steam Mech invasion.
Livia (aka ‘Scarlet’) has come out of hiding and raised Orr to use Zhaitan as a tool to stop Zojja, Aethernet, Jennah and Holo-Kiel and to rescue Snaff from a certain death at the hands of ‘Mad Karka’ Kasmeer. But you ruined it, all of you. You just had to kill an undead Elder Dragon that wasn’t harming anyone. He was only trying to help.

Now Scarlet will turn all of you into undead. It’s the only way she can defeat Aethernet and Future Zojja. I hope you are happy.

Add some Logan/Rytlock bromance and I’d read that crackfanfic.

Queen’s speech… hmmm Jennifer Hale doing a Colin Firth a la http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHY2UzOonig

XcmGT.3847:

She is having Logan’s love child…

And they’re naming it Rytlock…

BobbyStein.2315:

We’re already looking at ways to leave some LW content behind to evolve Tyria and improve the game.

Yes. Yes yes yes. Yes. Please do.

Btw, You are:

[ ] Married
[ ] Have Boyfriend
[x] Employed
[ ] Have Pets
[ ] Have Children
[x] Are an Adult
[x] Have a Life
[ ] Have no Manual Dexterity

You Think Living World is too:

[ ] Hard
[ ] Time Consuming
[x] Temporary
[ ] Full of Jumping Puzzles

You are Currently Threatening to:

[ ] Quit
[ ] Uninstall
[x] Kick Colins’ Dog
[x] Tell the Internet That You are Upset

Dear Intrawebz and Colin’s pet, I am upset and saddened by the Living World!

Wow, that really made me feel better…

Before I die? Hmm, how about future storylines not involving a Traherne-like character?
Also, more dragons. (aren’t they supposed to be the big threat to Tyria)
And more players/content in mid-lvl maps. It gets incredibly dull getting map completion in places like Snowden Drifts, if there are only 2 players on the map…

That utterly poorly designed rewards system only shows how little ANet knows its own dungeons.

No wonder, considerings that devs only rarely drop in to hear suggestions/complaints from dungeons runners. Cause, you know, weekly random villain that spoils yet another Tyrian celebration of do-this-tedious-nonsense-1-million-times-for-RNG, that with little effort gets blasted into the sweet oblivion of Temporaty Content, is obviously much more important than more or less challenging gameplay + storytelling opportunity of dungeons that tons of ppl do on daily basis.
I expect people will do it less frequently now, because limited rewards to once-per-day will discourage players to join casuals who only log in late in the evenings, by which time everyone else will have done their daily dungeon. sigh

tl;dr – CoF1 and anything else both =1g? Once per day reward? PUH-LEASE

“Look to the skies” …… Spaceships of Tyria?!? I mean, there could be some life on those planetary moons…

Xhyros.1340:

A dragon shows up.

Hmm, Jennah gives birth to remaining dragons and sets course to Westeros to take what is rightfully hers by fire and blood.

Hm, rich dude or a lady who stood by us during the every disaster that hit LA? A promise of a cheaper keys (SRSLY?! people buy those?) or the promise of cheaper wp that actually everyone in the game uses at least every once in a while? Dragon corruption story (DSD finally maybe) or Abbadon? Here, both would be interesting, but I’d like Anet to turn their attention to something that finally gets us to the much neglected dragons storyline.

Anyhow, the choice seems pretty clear to me. But this is why CP is an election, we’ll see what the majority wants. It may not always be right, but it’s what makes most people happy.

wookiee.4631:

According to the “Upcoming Changes and Features” section of the GW 2 Wiki, no Dragons are going to be dealt with the whole rest of the year. Scroll to the “Mentioned” section.

Well, that’s a bit disappointing. I hope 2014 will bring a more interesting story development.

Personally I’m not to keen on either minigames or JPs. Tried them for the achievement and never returned. Some people are happy with it and that’s fine, but I wholeheartedly agree with the OP – minigame festival content isn’t what I’m expecting from the Living Story.
Expanded lore and perhaps new worldwide events that would help populate barren mid-level maps and encourage ppl to explore would be much more welcome.

Glad to hear there will be shift from so many instanced minigames.

At least if it was a mini(pet), there would be a place in the bank for it. This, like Marjory’s Journal, takes up inventory space without really doing anything (just taking one back to a cutscene / forever deleted content). While I thought the Marjory scene was really fun, a playback button is not really something worth the inventory space…

Most of the people I know who haven’t bought a precursor, got it from world boss chests. Claw of Jormag in 2 cases.
I’m desperately doing chest events daily in hope something cool drops, but no luck yet.

Name: Isoldë

Profession: Guardian (cleric support gs build)

Gear: full exotics/ 3 ascended

Experience: only ran p3 a few times

Time: evenings GMT+1 (maybe also daytime in the next few weeks), some weekends

Why: I want to see other paths, but it’s been difficult to find a group for non-p3.

I know this is a group for Arah vets. While I’m certainly no veteran, I have a geared up character, can learn quickly and really want someone experienced to show me around the ruined city!

Wow nice!
I do hope we get to see another continent ingame in the future.

Belenwyn.8674:

It is not rushed. The dragon bash team is already working on content for October and the bazaar team is targeting the November now. There is enough time to create meaningful content. You can complain later in the year, if we get thin content..

I was talking about things so far. Maybe they’ll organise it all better later in the year, but so far, since the end of F&F, everything has felt quite rushed imo.

2 weeks is way too rushed. Monthly cycles would be much more suitable. I understand that there is a demand for constant novelty from the very regular playerbase, but this is not so good for those of us who can’t log in for a week or so at a time. That’s how I missed the fireworks: got only a couple of hours for 2 days but even though I lingered around the fountain, fireworks were late and I had to log off. Also, just waiting at a square in LA isn’t my idea of quality time in GW.

When this starts feeling more like an obligation rather than a game, that’s when things stop being fun.