Guild Wars 2

darkace.8925:

They’re just going to add an ascended crafting material to the game (akin to Deldrimor Steel, Elonian Leather, Damask, etc). That item? Bacon, of course! Bacon will be added to current level 80 dishes to make ascended versions (Bacon Wrapped Truffle Steak, Bowl of Fancy Potato and Bacon Soup, etc).

Mats only drop from the Champion Boar in Queensdale. :p

So according to WP who had some contact with the devs, the UFO-like thing controlling the giant Scarlet-bot will be important for further development of the story.
Does that mean we’re going to the orbit of Tyria? xD Those “Scarlet Moonbase” comments may not have been that far off. ..

http://youtu.be/42x4P8QOliM?t=11m53s

Atlas.9704:

Maybe we can hope she’s planning on using her UFO to find the Seers and Mursaat somewhere else?

Inb4 Cantha & Elona, we go to SPACE. Crossover with SW:TOR, Mursaat are the Sith.

Oenanthe.6549:

So are we going to see level 500 cooking and a recipe for Melange, because as the quote goes, ‘The Spice must Flow’

Ascended cooking confirmed!
Srsly though, +1 to anything Dune.

Jski.6180:

hedix.1986:

WingLegacy.7159:

So much RAGE!!!!! Lol!

Probably because everyone expected Anet will try to redeem themselves for the Scarlet mess by hinting at / announcing a dragon or answering some of the myriad GW and/or GW2 mysteries. Instead, there’s a wurm boss (may or may not be connected to 6th Dragon) and some recycled watchwork stuff, as well as a new character. There are plenty of characters in PS-LS thus far, this just adds more questions than answers.

If you did not read they said there where 4 more updates with her going to be in it this is the first of that 4. They even given dates when this LS arc is going to be over…. At this point your choosing to be uninformed in your complaining.

I haven’t said that I support all the rage, but I can understand it. Yes, I know that more is coming up, but so far it has been shown that updates bring very little in terms of a story, and 4 updates is not much to work with. I was under the impression that if big story developments will take place, it will be hinted at from the “beginning of the end”, cause decent story needs space.

Also, if you’ve read the thread, you would have seen that I would actually love to see the new boss, and am defending the Teq update which was very fun but in some servers it failed because of player inertia. The story, not mechanics, is the problem in the Living World, and 4 updates isn’t a long time to fix it.

WingLegacy.7159:

So much RAGE!!!!! Lol!

Probably because everyone expected Anet will try to redeem themselves for the Scarlet mess by hinting at / announcing a dragon or answering some of the myriad GW and/or GW2 mysteries. Instead, there’s a wurm boss (may or may not be connected to 6th Dragon) and some recycled watchwork stuff, as well as a new character. There are plenty of characters in PS-LS thus far, this just adds more questions than answers.

@Arnath
Tequilla is actually super fun when done properly. TeamSpeak, prior organisation and division of players, right armor and food etc. It even works better now that they’ve set its spawn timer. The “failure” was in the people who did not bother / put any effort into it. That’s also why overflows were a big deal. If everyone cared, did their part and listened on VOIP or actually read the map chat, it wouldn’t matter if you would end up in an overflow because people would at least be trying. It’s all about player organisation, and on some servers it failed. Anet should have fixed AFKers and maybe given us the choice of overflows, but Teq is a good and challenging content. Anet has many mistakes (like absolutely no story accompanying Teq release), but abandonment of this event is purely players’ lazyness / lack of cooperation, not something to be blamed on developers.

So the Thumpers aren’t here for Primordus but… a jungle worm revamp? Related to Mordremorth perhaps? I’d hope so like I hoped for Primordus, but Anet keeps avoiding the dragons at all costs….

VOLKON.1290:

They say the wurm boss has multiple heads (three) but the one in the video only has one. That may not actually be the boss.

If it is a champion of Mordremorth like Shatty or the Claw, this game is saved in my eyes, for now.

Stuff “under Bloodtide Coast” sounds very interesting though. I wonder what the hell is the Order of Whispers up to, if we’re doing this mission with the Durmand Priory, right at Whispers’ doorstep!

So from that article, wurms are coming. Sigh, no Primordus from the deep. xD

Look sir, droids!

After making a alegendary and working on the ascended stuff, unless the story changes for good, not much will be left to keep me in the game. I am however, interested to see the direction of the game, it’s been fun so far, just needing an improvement in the story department / new content delivery. But if the datamined VIP membership is indeed implemented, I’m quitting for good.

mahariel.4981:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first#post3480529

Brace yourselves.

Oh for the love of, “RIP zerker” after I’ve zerked/scholared up my 3rd character? -_-’ Well, at least I’ve got the pvt/melandru armor for WvW…

Coming up next: dungeons are being removed from the game.

Time to jump

Already rage-quitting this jumping puzzle, like I do with 90% of them. xD Hopefully there will be some meaningful content with us people with poor spacebar skills.

webtoehobbit.4201:

What if the guy speaking in the video is Mr. E???

Interesting. And judging by the tone, it’s a Sylvari… le sigh, not another one.

Zylonite.5913:

If doing 30 runs of Arah gets me an exotic set when other people with gold have ascended set (crafted), then why would I ever enter a dungeon?

Because dungeons also give you gold. Especially Arah. And most dungeon runners don’t run it for the tokens.

That said, I do agree with your point. Ascended armor pieces (or their components) could have required 1k tokens and it would still keep dungeons a relatively quick way to get the top tire stats.

Pineapple, you will be missed.

This update is great, Anet. I loved how there are changes to Kessex Hills, but the once lovely area is not toxic-green and ugly anymore.

Contrary to the OP, I actuallt liked that post, it gave me a lot of hope and it looks like Anet read our feedback on LS and Scarlet and they decided to change the way LS works.
For that, after months of being dissatisfied with the updates, I have to say: thank you for considering the feedback, Anet. Thank you for bringing the Scarlet arc to its end, thank you for preparing future releases as “big features”. Really looking forward to gaming in 2014.

Don’t know if “feature only” is hinting at an expansion or not, but I’d be on board with that, especially if it gives us new areas / progression in the fight against the Elder Dragons.

Just turned all my dungeon tokens into armor and salvaged it, just need 15 more globs of ecto. And the remaining 4% of map exploration.
So far, map completion has been the biggest issue in my legendary progress. I dislike playing alone, but most maps, even in places like Desolation and Gandara are completely barren.

Yes.
Not for the sake of achievements alone. This season, I played more wvw than usual cause it was fun being a part of something bigger and doing my share for the server. That’s how most achivements got it. Some were really poor and obviously designed to be grindy, such as merc camps and wasting supply.

Meta should be improved, but it should still be there next season.

SilentSkills.7248:

Conclusion: This may sound weird for veteran Arah players; but, the toughest boss in the game is: Arah trash mobs. , the actual Arah p4 bosses were a refreshing challenge in our excruciatingly long run.

Truth. xD The first time I did p4 (had a good guild group btw), the only place where we wiped, twice, was killing the trash mobs in the Grenth room, before the boss fight. :p

Any word on this? I just tried to do the skill completion on Ruins of Surmia EU, but there’s no NPC. I’ve spent 30min roaming the area for any sign of him.
Sent a report just now.

Winter is coming. Make it truly so, Anet.

I was seriously expecting them to add something like the Crown Pavilion before releasing more Ascended crafting. It is sorely needed after all the ridiculous gold sinks that have been introduced recently. But I guess it is designed as an incentive for players to get gems with RL cash.

The resident plant of mayhem. :p

Treeline.3865:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Like, she is everywhere, i hope we didn’t see her at leaset on Wintersday

No lore would suggest she would have any reason to interfere with Wintersday. But maybe something will happen outside LA. We still do not know what the deal is with DO NOT TOUCH, and the new release does mention stuff still happening in Kessex and around.

On the contrary. Current lore suggests that she would interfere with any festival/holiday. Just because. See Dragon Bash and Queen’s Jubilee.

But we’ll see when the day comes.

I found “easy” of “difficult” runs to depend highly on whether I’m in a decent group (gear, build) or with clueless randoms.

If there are new ppl in the party, it might be better to clear out some mobs, so that it’s easier to run back if dead/DC’d. However, in p4, we got wiped by trash-mobs before Grenth, but had no problem with any of the bosses (except Dwayna taking long, as our DPS was mediocre). So I guess engaging the mobs makes it more difficult / time consuming.

Rox and Braham as a duo. Both have ties to the original GW2 and have been fleshed out from the start. In fact, they are the only characters that we were given more than a scrap of background for (I’m excluding the out-of-game blog posts). Also their dialogue is often funny and I like the Norn-Charr adventuring combo.
Secondly, Canach was a decent antihero. We should have been given more options with him.

Would be very useful. CoE bugged on my guardian. I’ve done it twice now an still can’t enter. It works on my engi though. I guess making it all account bound would solve the issue.

Staff on guardians is very useful in wvw, but a bit pointless in dungeons. The Greatsword – Sword/Focus (or Scepter/Focus is you need ranged) are best or damage.
The only case where staff in dungeons comes in handy is the Hodgins burrow event in AC p1 – if a guardian is defending the NPC, staff s useful fro kiting lots of graveling mobs away from him. I also use it occasionally when skipping huge chunks of dungeons (Arah, SE), as it provides swiftness and Line f Warding to stop the mobs chasing you.

No. That post title – it’s just wrong. In no universe, fictional or real, is a character like Scarlet a “good thing”.
Rename it to “new update a good thing – we may have gotten useful lore information for the first time ever in LS”. And that’s more due to the mention of “magical lay lines” than theories about her involvement with another Tree.

Could anyone please type / link this email from Rox? I must have missed it. And it’d be nice to know exactly what she says.

They look magitech-esque. Considering that we’ve learned from the Thaumanova explosion concerning Scarlet finding out about magical lay lines across Tyria, maybe she is now using these devices to harness magic / dragon energy / whatever…

Frenk the Vile.2596:

This won’t end well. Scarlet was there.

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but with all the kitteny writing we had to put up in recent updates, I miss Trahearne.

Shouldn’t you be glad now that we voted for Kiel? Or would you like Abbadon’s story messed up by the whole lame Scarlet business? :p

Also, fractal choice had nothing to do with my vote – cheaper WPs and Kiel being introduced and fleshed out as our LS companion, better than some TP robber baron.

With so many struggling writers out there in need of a job, Anet should simply kick this utterly poor team who produced Scarlet and employ someone with even an ounce of sense and skill.

From update to update, I just wish they would give us something worth the original game…

Journey for Twilight, is coming to an end.

I have:
- Gift of Twilight (Darkness + Metal + runestones)
- 80 Mystic Clovers
- Dusk
- Gift of Battle, obsidian & bloodstone shards

Still needed:
- about 50 of each T6 mat
- 9% of world exploration (that I’ve lazily been putting off since I got all WPs as empty maps are boring)

Cheers for the exciting 2 weeks, Drakkar! It was nerve-wrecking, it was fun, it was good game. Sad that we didn’t have big enough population in the end to have the same coverage. But tnx for a challenging match up.

/raises hand
I wanna learn Fractals! Tbh, more for the story than anything else. I’ve done lvl10 on engi and never looked back – it was traumatic experience since I just turned lvl80 and had poor gear. Meanwhile I got a fully geared guardian with ascended trinkets, so it should go more smoothly.

/w or message me if on EU.

Had Aqua’s Barbie Girl on teamspeak musicbot the other day, so no idea what was actually playing in the Tower. :p

It’s be nice to hear more work of the person who did the Zephyr Sanctum music.

Obsidian.1328:

Not bad, reminds me of Samurai Jack kinda.

Same. I loved that show.

Great job on the trailer, it really brings goosebumps. No Thaumanova in the trailer, though.
Edit: ok, so the trailer is 1 year old. xD hence no new Fractals.

OtakuDFifty.2965:

Work on actually trying to clear the Invasion events instead of farming them. Dead Scarlet.

False. Even if you actually complete the Invasion event successfully, she is defeated but simply vanishe / goes away / escapes. Deus ex machina all the time with Scarlet.

Huh, looks like Anet finally acknowledged the flood of complaints about storytelling LS characters introductions, and tried to fix it up.
Thumbs up for doing it ingame, rather that in a random blog post. And thank you for listening to your playerbase.

One thing that’s been bugging me though, if Scarlet is such a big threat to Tyria (so much that everyone has forgotten about the dragons obvs), causing all sorts of invasions and engaging in bio-terrorism – why doesn’t the PaleTree speak up? Give us a quest or something? Why wouldn’t the rest of Scarlet’s teachers attempt to investigate her past and motives etc? The LS recipe so far it: she forms some unrealistic alliance, invades a random place, we fight her and beat her and she deus-ex-machina simply vanishes. More random terror looms on the horizon. Wouldn’t a logical step be to actively find out more about her and go and stop her once and for all? I think writers need to ask themselves about logical steps every time they create a new update.

Not sure if this is connected or not, but there is a heart quest in Lornar’s Pass dealing with steam creatures. The portal there resembling an Asura(?) lab / sci-fi-esque room on the other side looks exactly like the portal Scarlet disappeared off to (annoyingly, without us being even able to try and stop her…).

Lornar’s Pass: http://i41.tinypic.com/2vxevls.jpg

Nightmare Within: http://i42.tinypic.com/k0rl0p.jpg

Candy corn elementals and Tixx’s minions – the Holiday Alliance.

Calling it now: all of LS is a hallucination.

Since most of the updates so far brought a lot of QQ, I feel like this one had some positive sides as well (homgz!). While we should give credit to Anet when they do something right, there were still issues.

PROS
- Foreshadowing changes in Kessex Hills weeks before. nice way to implement the living world.
- We got (a little) more info on Marjory and Kasmeer which are ok characters. Rox and Braham are also back, which is what LS needs – development of some existing characters, not constantly introducing new ones.
- Open world content that rewards players with instances – cool concept.
- Fighting hallucinations of characters from the Personal Story was the best thing brought to us by the living story thus far. It’s exactly what LS needs – a personal note for the players, seeing that past matters, build up from previous stories.
- Killing Trahearne was personally the best moment of this update. Seems like Anet has read our criticism of Trahearne and decided to humor us. They should do that more often!
- Cutscene – it’s more than we got in most of the updates, but it should belong to the Cons maybe…

CONS
- (Won’t discuss combat mechanics in the tower here, it’s our fault for running instead of clearing the path. Purely player mentality.)
- Waypoint costs – 5s to 3rd level, SRSLY?! With all the new skins in the gem store and Ascended armor on the horizon, players need something like Queen’s Jubilee to make some cash, not a gold sink like this.
- Boss fights – hmm, where is the challenge? Like in HotW and say revamped Maw, increased health pools =/= more difficult fight, just more tedious.
- No real plot advancement – so what really happened? We’re stopping yet another cartoonish, unrealistic alliance-of-the-week, but Scarlet has managed to escape once again. And we didn’t learn much in the process.
- Cutscene – while nicely done, it didn’t contribute to the story in any way apart from being a good LS summary. Did we find out more about Scarlet or her motives? No. Did we learn more about the Krait? Not really. We knew that she was behind all the silly alliances. We knew that Faren’s panties were fabulous.
- A con to any LS: where are the dragons?

Now that trailer music makes sense!

Best (story? no, there’s no story in LS) – best concept/fragment in a LS instance ever! I was very sad killing Tybalt and Forgal, but getting at Trahearne was just so… cathartic.

Fletch.3572:

From the way I took it, the Scarlet story is going to take a break, which is bad, I really want it over with lol.

That’s what I got from that dialogue, as well.

My whole party got super excited seeing that loading screen for the last instance – finally we’ll get rid of her! Alas, no. She said that “we will see each other again”, the ultimate disappointment. I just hope that this Scarleat break means that Anet read our criticism, realised what a mess they’ve made with the character/story, and that her disappearance will become just another GW Mystery that devs never come back to anyways.

That said, it’s be better if we do get some conclusion sooner rather than later, and the Nov 19th release looks somewhat promising there…