Guild Wars 2

to tell the truth i like having hints where the story going to go makes me have a lot more interest then the previous story

Khisanth.2948:

It might not be enough if you want to ‘check off every box’ but in terms of experiencing the content there is more than enough time. You can experience everything there is to do in the current patch in about an hour unless you get stopped by bugs.

actually most of my ls arc(1/2) were uncompleted due to lack of time and i talking the main achievement the chest for getting the main part done part not all of them. i did better after they made a ls point in the daily but still a few i didnt have enough time to do them and im not an achievement getter i get those when i do but try to get dailies due to laurels given out

Jabberwock.9014:

The biggest slap in the face are dailies like “kill 30 white/trash mobs”. While not the longest daily, there is absolutely NO way you will ever get an achievement like this in normal play, so they are explicitly encouraging going out of your way to port to Queensdale and whip sparkflies and frogs for 3 minutes. With how much actual content this game has, it’s a bit insulting to make us waste our time on such a mundane and utterly pointless task. Whenever I do this daily, I’m thinking: “What am I doing with my life? I’m walking around in a video game genociding virtual frogs. That can’t even attack me. Because the UI told me to.”

the kill 40 foes in certain area are the easiest for me to get there is an event or two in every area that if you completes meets the requirement. i prefer dailies stay the way they are because it gets me into zones and doing things i might not do in my normal gameplay. thats the big reason i like them.

Vexander.9850:

I’d like for Lion’s Arch to return better than it was before, perhaps as a result of the Captain’s Council disbanding and reforming as a Senate to rule Lion’s Arch, and the Council itself being replaced by one comprised of the leaders of the major nations of Tyria. With influence in the city greater than before, the five nations send supplies, workers, and so forth to rebuild Lion’s Arch better than before.

You see human influence in the construction of its buildings and stonework. You see Sylvari influence in the growth of trees and a small park acting as a, ‘Sylvari District,’ all of which cleanse away the lingering effects of the Miasma. Charr influence comes in its fortress, with new siege weapons, acting as the Black Citadel Embassy. Asura influence comes in with the Asura Gate hub, of course, with a research district housing a representative of the Arcane Council, devoted to studying Scarlet’s work and whatever else they find. Lastly, Norn Influence comes in the form of monuments and a district that functions for social gatherings, parties, games, and activities.

Make Lion’s Arch everyone’s city, a melting pot, but one that looks better than shipwrecked, rotting wood and ancient crumbling stone. Also, for the love of all that is holy, do NOT put the Trading Post and Bank further apart than what we have in Divinity’s Reach. Keep the crafting stations and Mystic Forge really close there as well. Ideally you’d have a circle of 10 buildings around the Mystic Forge, 8 of them for crafts, 1 for the bank, 1 for the trading post.

i like this idea

1)new regions or maps
2)a reason to play it besides achievements
3)clear cut goals overall that we are trying to achievements not just achievements. next arc could to be to kill a dragon with us going through areas we must explore before we get there and minor things(centuar/human peace treaty for example) which have consequences(the centuar/human peace treaty if we fail the first time we must find a new way to go about it) that we must accomplish before we get to the main thing(dragon)

i happen to like all of them they fleshed them out a bit and gave them personalities. at first i thought marjory was i know everything but i especially liked kasmeer at first she plays a ditsy blonde at first but they showed she has her quirks which is why i like her. rox also seemed to flesh out better as she went instead of doing something to please brimestone she learned to be herself, braham i think could still use a bit more char but i liked how they showed his impatience with scarlet it shows his youth in a way. if they could give majory a few more flaws i think id like them al equally

i think you hit it on the nail op a choice would have been better and it really wouldnt have changed much in the end juast gave us more dialogue to give us more info something that lacked this whole ls

i wouldnt mind another week added but its because i really dont have the time at home to do much each day. at least at work i can type on forums

5 /10
likeable friends heros
terrible villians
some good combat mechanics i think they explored a bit to make better future combat techniques
too much zerg content
a lot of the chapter seem to fit
some chapter i dont understand why they were in the ls at all
writing got better as they went on
terrible writing to start so they had no where to go but up
too much non permanent stuff
liked the choices part want to see more of that our choices change how it plays out
unbelieveable thing scarlet was able to do like where she got stuff to convince the faction to join together
i understand they whys he did it more at end
good content mired with bugs
almost all chapters related to most of the ls
love to see more smaller side stories just for the heck of it…

(want to have a chapter or two with us doing stuff to help out the world. maybe negotiating a peace treaty somewhere or if we fail a new war breaks out in a area meanwhile the main line has moving in a linear path toward the main ls… just break from the main ls for smaller stories that just popped up)

nope sorry op i prefer dailies how they are now leave then be

all classes at 80 except engineer. dont have an engineer dont care for the class dont klike how it plays to me may try when i get bored in future

i think they did good on all the side heros rox kasmeer herotron and that bunch were likeable but scarlet wasnt that good. i still dont believe she could accomplish what she did and a lot of explainations or how she got the diferent faction to help doesnt seem plausible to me and why after she got what she got from them why did they continue to work for her. scarlets resources seeemed unlimited and ok so it must have been a dragon whispering in her mind to drive her but i think at the end if she would have had just the aetherblade and watchworks helping her attack la i might have believed that more then all the factions contining to follow her commands.

Fiontar.4695:

I think it’s inevitable that LA will be rebuilt. Too much of the Personal Story relies on it and ANet has resisted suggestions for content in the past based on the need to preserve compatibility with the Personal Story.
I think things may be remodeled a bit. LA has been one of those locations that has been able to kill frame rates for many who play smoothly otherwise. However, I do sense that much of it will be pretty familiar once the clean up and rebuilding process is complete.

Since Living Story has felt more like Living Lion’s Arch, it wouldn’t surprise me if a good part of the remainder of the year focuses on rebuilding LA. Sort of a waste, if so, but the alternative is just to have things return to normal with little effort or fanfare, which would make the destruction that occurred seem pretty pointless in context.

i think you got a sense what will happen to the rebuilding la but i think theyll use it as distractions along the way of the new ls which will lead us another direction. more like minor stories in the ls while we move toward another destination. that way we get some part we know all we are doing and the chance to open up new areas

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Ensign.2189:

Before the nerf people were getting ~350,000 karma a month just from doing the daily and monthly. They hammered that so that people weren’t getting more karma than they ever needed just for showing up.

The rest was cleaning up around the edges, you just actually have to play the game to have tons of karma now.

I can agree with the removal of karma from failed events. That makes sense.
I can agree with the reduction of karma from completing the daily and monthly.
I can agree with removing karma containers from loot bags.

However, I think events need to reward just a tad bit more than they do to balance it out just a bit.

No, karma doesn’t need to flow as lucratively as it did before, but neither did it need to be nerfed into the ground either. Happy mediums can and do exist.

in a way the karma nerf kind of drove to champ farming in queensdale plus its an easy area to finish dailies. so im killing three things with one stone i get karma do my dailies for the laurels and i get decent enough gold and yes id love to see them put karma at a better balance

not great but i think they are improving. i think they learned but have a way to go. a lot more revealing so people get a somewhat understanding of where it was headed might have helped. all her alliances why do they still follow her after she used is one question id like answered. it seemed to me she used them to build upon each but why she maintain control over all of them. im sorry but it felt at end of frost and flame the molten alliance realized they were being used so if they realized why keep following her. if she attacked la with the aetherblade and watchwork it might have made me feel better saying she only had hold of those two in fist whereas she just used the rest to get her toxin and drill shes using

why was tequalt strengthened in ls and they said it was connected. might still be answered but i doubt they got enough time to do that

i agree season two has a lot more potential due to what anet has learned and i think season two will be miles better with experience but season one wasnt that good with a few parts i liked doing but the story overall wasnt that good

ilike it somewhat but allow us to restore it somewhat by rebuilding the dam or something but not everything will be the same but itll be a nice area with new revamped heart and such but keeping a lot of its beautifulness

lordkrall.7241:

Teratus.2859:

The problem with that is that once the living story is complete players can no longer play that content

The living world could contain elder Dragons but at most It will be limited to one of them with the very last Living world chaptor being a replayable final encounter with it

because of that the only way to fight the other dragons would be the personal story

If they kill off multiple Elder Dragons with the living world it would make newer players down the road feel very left out that they missed it

1: Put the Elder Dragon in a Dungeon.
2: Make the dungeon permanent.
3: ???
4: Profit.

maybe a series of dungeons so you get the story. a way to bring in new dungeons multiple at once but ways to protrait the ls past

problem was i liked la the way it was setup id like it back somewhat the way it was it could be changed a bit to make it believable but thing like the bank black lions trade post the crafting stations the portals could be moved to a new area a few other thing missing maybe rebuilt is a different area. im ok with change somewhat but la should retain its functionability as much as possible

well in gw1 we went underground to get to the eye of the north so maybe were going after jormag but i suspect shes trying to drain magic from the ley line to make a dragon appear possibly the one who speaking in her mind

Ghost Nightstalker.7163:

I hope LA gets rebuild and not as a city founded by pirates. But a city rebuild by guilds. And that it is the place where most of the guild halls will be, with a council of guilds instead of a council of pirates. Ofcourse the ruling guilds would be npc guilds as to not give an advantage to player guilds. Guild rivalry could be settled within designated guild arena’s. Giving people the gvg they want so much. While also giving them guild halls and recognision that guild are a major influence in the guild wars world.

i could live with an la like that when it got rebuilt

im hoping la is an aneemy zone til the next ls season starts with the first part of the ls of us rebuilding la example one part with us clearing out enemies next part us establishing a foothold then us clearing more sections til we get it done then us doing part of rebuilding taking up to 14 weeks or so of living story chapters which moves on to us talking with the tengu about the killing of citizens with could lead to us eventually getting more zones and tengu as a playable race toward the end of year 2 of ls. well get to another dragon at end of year three. just a few thought im hoping they do. also put in a few minor distraction along the way so to break up the things

im predicting the start of the next series of ls will be rebuilding la bit by bit. forget southsun. which proceeeds to talk with the tengu and opening up tengu as a new race (and new zones to explore) to play eventually with minor ls distraction along the way. a much better ls withcertain goal in mind but distraction along the way thats makes it a bit longer

DayLight.9603:

Ah! A positive thread!

Things I do like about this update is -

• The complete and utter chaos of the event!
• The fact that the atmosphere went a bit darker. Sure I love well-placed humor every now and then, but this patch feels much darker and far more serious.
• The Scarlet Arch of the Living Story is finally coming together. I’ve noticed boss creeps from the molten dungeon, to the flame tornadoes from the same dungeon! Everything has been building up to this event and it feels like it.
• The new NPC heroes are all part of the event, fighting side-by-side with us!
• The zergs are perfectly fine in my opinion. This is a battle for a main city and it requires hordes of people to attack and save the population of the city.
• My most favorite – Buying Obsidian Shards without RNG, Fractals or Karma!

ive not been a big ls fan but this sums up the patch for me. i like the event and anet does smaller event better but the ls was too big a project they should have done smaller stories with more impact. im hoping next series of ls(or ls 2) is rebuilding lions arch

Flissy.4093:

The same reason WvW players have been complaining for the past few months, none of us want LS tied to any part of WvW. This is just a story-reason to implement EOTM in.

i wvw and pve and i hate having ls in wvw. when i wvw i do with a friend or too and got my own time and having fun when i pve im usually alone and trying to just get dailies or working on monthly or achievements.

if they end up providing material the size of an exspansion outside of ls id say it should continue but learn from their mistakes are needed terrible. short stories mixed in with larger bigger stories. not make the second year be all one persons fault is one put a few regional stories in with the main story. side stories in other regions with a mix of hints on the main story to keep us occupied while we are helping other in urgent need. so when they are doing side stories we get minor details related to the major story going. example im thinking main story we are exploring new territory to set up bases to move toward jormag(several chapters related to this ) then centuars do something to side track us which must be taken care of before we can go on but with a hint(that has nothing to do with centuars) that tells us where jormag is at to be exact setting up next few chapter for us picking up a site to estabslish such base much like in gw1 where we had to set up the sunspear base then a chapter with us preparing top go against jormag strong spots ooops human charr relation something wrong we must go take care of it to keep our forces together for the attacks against jormag. some chapter are just emergencies other working toward a goal. along with breaks just to give us stuff we want(quality of life stuff) and giving ls breaks from now to then completely

Ice of Dragons.1637:

I am also impressed whit scarlet. The story is well written and i do hate her but really like that she was written. Many people dislike her because there is no dragon involved…. yet. Arena net is making great living updates and i really enjoyed all of them.

your sadly mistaken im glad there is no dragon involved cause it was poorly written and no dragon deserves that bad writing. she might have been half way decent if they could have painted her motives along the way. now at this point ive become so bored i dont care how they end it as long as its done. so in my book there is no redeeeming scarlet she past that point

nice job op. my playstyle i could never do it

i agree with skyfallsin but ive seen this topic a million times. op should have necod one of those thread instead of making his own

i think if we see any of this itll be the next chapter of ls and i think well see some short chapter of ls and not related to the bigger mixed in with the bigger picture. to me that makes more sense then trying to stream how they did the ls story this time. maybe two chapter with minor story arcs then two concentrating on the bigger issues then two or three on a minor issue then 3 concentrating on the bigger issues. i think its going to be yes we know we have this to do but this just came up and must be taken care of before we can continue with the big issue

no not until they prove they can do a compelling storyline in the ls because im sure thats they way they would introduce it. dont get me wrong i love the idea(love both mursatt and uw and fow in ooriginal) but on ls anet has dropped the ball. im willing to wait til to can show they do a good ls story for parts i want to see

i beginning to rethink my ideas on trinity i used to hate it but it gave me more ways to think about a game strategically where this game doesnt make me think as much. i think if you got the roles the enemy can be harder so you got to think more where you are. i tend to like games that make me think better then others. yeah the whole lfg caused me to play healer in other games a role i didnt mind doing. so i always had a group fast. im thinking my next game better have trinity or im not buying it

i totally agree its the art that i fell in love again if it hadnt been the art i might have stopped playing a long time ago cause exploring all the scenerys is what has kept me longer

no dragon no god im banking on it being mursatt. i have no evidence to support it im just totalling guessing out of the blue

if they devoted several chapters to use help getting them back yes i wouldnt mind seeing that in ls. a nice little linear story id love to see something with direction that we know where we are going but not the entire route to get there yes id love to see it. clues upon clues on how we are to get where we must to fix the problem yes id love to see it. so op yes i think i like your suggestion for a 4 chapter mini ls story involving the watchknight redemtion

thats the question can they repair what they did. im leading toward no on the current story but yes maybe on future stories after this one ends. im hoping they learn their mistakes and change it up more. so count me as an optimist. i havent given up yet i might go another 6 months or so to see if it changes which i hope it will. its a beautiful game and some parts better then a lot of other ive seen so im going with hope

anet should have had more clues to someone behind the whole thing. we should been able to build on the clues through each chapter until we were given a name behind it. most of the chapter had up flipping here and there with no progression on the plot behind it then when we got a name it was more scarlet did it again and again with no clue why she did the stuff. if this had been a book i might have stopped reading chapter three. this story was more of sitcom type plot where are characters got into one zany adventure after another. although the ending might gives us answers i say its too late to be effectively redeem the whole ls. i think more hint clues to what the ultimate goal of our nemesis might have helped with our liking of the ls. if we can like or sort of understand why someone does something even if it is crazy we would have related to the story and liked it better. now anet has to reinterest in the story to make it decent which is going to be harder then if we related to it all along

OmaiGodman.2098:

Typical how people complain about the Skritt being hit, and even when the Skritt just laughs it off, you still have to use that as an argument against people throwing snowballs at it. The skritt obviously likes it, I have seen no complaints from skritt around here, just a bunch of hippies who claim to speak on behalf of a minority that never asked for your “support”.

Stop being a bunch of goody two-shoes and let the skritt enjoy the snowball fights instead of using them to stroke your own ego.

but does this skritt understand he is being unlawfully targeted more then other participant. no his brain capacity isnt big enough so i say he needs his sponsors to protect him and his rights

if they arent able to show what her reason is then they fail miserably and the whole ls is a complete failure. heres to hope they at least make it understandable where it hasnt been so far. i think they will change how they present in the next chapter of ls so hopefully it will be better interest to those who have stayed through it all

alas i tried a snowball drop so that no skritt got hurt but i did it alone calling on all citizens of lions arch to drop their snowballs and not hit innocents. i was taunted and yelled at by many citizens of lions arch til i gave up in futility

i agree meriem. if they would have handled scarlet better i think people may have liked the ls more even dropping hints along the way of why cause leaving the crowd in suspense over her motives or dreams has made it feel disjointed and random. if you cant realte to your villian in some way its garbage and do that too long people will dispise what you are doing and become disinterested

Silvercyclone.1462:

My guess is groundhog tron or cupid tron lol.

yes actually keep him simple and likable

nice find and im glad they didnt drop mr E

you know of all the things in living story he is a bright spot. i love watching his dialogues

i actually like that about kasmeer she does have a personality and shows it well

i do the same when i can. doh and i thought those griffins were tougher

ho ho tron going to become lo co tron and be the main villian of the next ls series where hes going to forge weird groups together just for being able to do that. he will do a few things cool but will be more respected then scarlet cause he has a back story in game

save the skritt from more harm lay down and protest in lions arch til this abuse ends all. its way past time to demonstrate

til they prove to me they can write a good story dont go near anything like old lore or dragons i want those experiences to be much better then ive seen. actually until then give me no story at all

i hope they can salvage a good ending but im not betting any farm on it but for future release i hope they do

xarallei i like your ideas but id rather they wait til they start doing a better job with the living story before the go those ways. i want them to do the justice they deserve not what the ls has been