Guild Wars 2 - The Rest of 2015!

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[@WoodenPotatoes]

In other news, I just made nightfury! WOOO!

[@HummingbirdSound]

+WoodenPotatoes You crazy potato...! GG!

[@lucykilbreth2583]

PRAISE LORD COLIN!!!

[@angrymarine7974]

+WoodenPotatoes Hey WP! Have you heard the rumor about the possible next necromancer specialisation? Aparently it'll be "Harbinger" and they'll get SPEAR on land and stances for the utilities! I really hope this is true!

[@humanproxy930]

+WoodenPotatoes All that Twitch money lol

[@HummingbirdSound]

+Félix Lagüe-Lalonde Dude... this is a fake. Harbinger is the name of a ship in GW2, and possibly of an outfit. Also, that rumor is a hoax. Sorry...

[@kylemartin1736]

I'm personally glad Living Story isn't picking back up until 2016. Season 2 was too broken up by breaks, festivals, etc. If they were picking it back up this year then we would only get at most an episode or two before Wintersday. I'd rather wait as long as they need to make Season 3 up to par with the storytelling quality of HoT's story and ensure they can have a consistent release schedule. Plus, the upcoming raid is bound to have a bit of story, at least.

[@cruelcumber5317]

+Kyle Martin And honestly, the stuff they gave info for was for the next 2 months. It's really not all that crazy to think it'll be at least 2 months before a major content patch like living world season 3

[@Zakading]

Oh, I can definitely wait some longer for the story itself. What I can't wait for any longer is FUCKING RYTLOCK EXPLAINING WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED IN THE MISTS. LIKE HOLY SHIT, DUDE, STOP SAYING "WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS" TWENTY-FIVE TIMES AND INSTEAD JUST EXPLAIN WHERE YOU GOT YOUR OOGA-BOOGA MIST MAGIC FROM. GEEZ.

[@kingofkaas]

+Zakading OOGA-BOOGA MIST magic is is best magic

[@Noyala92]

+Zakading This comment made my day! xD

[@Goraka91]

Slightly peeved how none of the elite specs have any story whatsoever, let alone Revenant and it's (seemingly unexplored) massive implications. Also Malyck and his whole tree thing and just what the heck was Faolain doing in the jungle in the first place they weren't on a pact ship. Step up from the vanilla story, just...abrupt in places. Oh and random Tengu what was that about.

[@brandonvang2893]

+Zakading That would make a great living story! Getting to go and see what Rytlock experienced would be such a good living story.

[@TrancedForLife]

+Zakading They are saving that bit for a future dungeon or more likely a fractal I think.

[@TheSouthpaw337]

Just want to let you know, I am a brand new subscriber. Love the channel and I am going to try to get in on the Twitch stream too. I've been diving into your past series with the Guild Wars 1 playlists and loving the whole experience. Great work you're doing man. +WoodenPotatoes

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+TheSouthpaw337 Thanks so much!! Glad you're having fun!

[@TheSouthpaw337]

WoodenPotatoes Anytime! One opinion question if you have time for a quick response. I just came back to the game after 2 years of putting it away. I've been absorbing as much of the expansion content as I can but feeling kind of overwhelmed on "catching up." If you came back to the game to a lvl 80 character in full exotic and like fractal lvl 20 I think, what would be your first goal? Thanks for any response if you get to it lo.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+TheSouthpaw337 Probably just to make a new toon on a new class and race and play again. There is so much new stuff to just the general game anyway now, and I'd end at level 80 with a real connection to that toon. Then I'd just do whatever took my fancy at that point.

[@krysin]

Im actually somewhat happy that living world isnt starting until next year, ive felt rather overwhelmed since the xpac launch due to halloween running at the same time and am looking forward to 'catching up' a little on my list of stuff to do. I think with the stuff thats being opened up to us between now and the end of the year plus other content from HoT the majority are going to have plenty to do.

[@TheLKStar]

I'm happy to wait. I think Anet did just fine in this expansion, they put out enough "normal" content out there for every casual player to play slowly through and also a bunch of collections and achievements to keep the hardcore players occupied. I'm somewhere in between and I would not mind waiting for a long time, I actually think people give too much shit to Anet about fast updates in a huge game without a subscription fee.

[@thisiskitta]

I have to say your bits on fractals and WvW were absolutely perfect and did showcase my opinions as of a main WvW player (and hardcore enthusiast of high-end fractals)! Through the years there has been a dissonance between your opinions and mine regarding WvW and I've commented on these in the past so this comment is to show when I agree too :) I'm glad it's something that is clear even to people that aren't as interested in these 2 areas of the game. Thanks for sharing. Congrats on Nightfury :)

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+Shana Thanks very much! And glad we agree on something :D

[@ahouyearno]

+Shana same for fractals. I love fractals but no new ones ... come on A.net, was there really no dev time available to slap even one together? I don't WvW much but I also recognize the legit complaints in that area of the game.

[@tagsoldier]

Ey WP, after seeing your video on Auric Basin. Where you started of in an empthy map and jsut map chat commanded the meta event, I waned to try it out myself. So this night I did it on the EU servers, and started out on a really empty map and managed to complete the event with the highest rating. Everyone was really happy and excited, and it also proves appearently that you don't have to be a Famous KZbinr to pull this off! Best wishes from, Lyan Silverheart from Desolation EU :)

[@RyanRampersad]

I don't know if I'm in minority here. I haven't completed the story yet. I have my first part in Auric Basin next. There's no reason to rush this. Legendaries and Raids do not interest me - that's not general content. While I do enjoy your enthusiasm, I don't share it for those aspects of upcoming content.

[@sequel4]

+Avery Selinger lets be honest not like being hardcore to get cool looking weapons does much for us anyways lol

[@GruntSquad92]

+Ryan Rampersad I'm with you on that one. I'm somehow more occupied with the map than with the story, i barely scratched the beginning. I do want to make a legendary though... That will keep me buisy, for like... years to come!

[@jasonfischer9857]

I'm fine waiting, it should be about 6 to 9 months before the average gamer runs out of stuff to do in Heart of Thorns; That's about how long expansions among other MMOs last; except for WoW, where most of those gamers are no-lifers, and then they only last for about 3 to 6 months (yes I do know from experience). My hope though is that they really start getting into the nitty gritty details with the story. For instance, Im really sad that the Quetzal, at least for far (i havnt completed the story yet) have no interaction or place in the story at all. I mean; our playe character isnt even just a tad surprised to see colorful tengu so different from the ones that settled in the dominion of winds from cantha are running around in the maguuma? They're practically the same thing as the itzel and nuhock, off-shoots of the same race, and we got whole masteries out of those two and they were in the story. I know the Quetzal are hostile, but to me, that's still no excuse :P

[@Foghorn8]

As someone in full time employment I am very happy that the Living Story is not going to be introduced until "sometime in 2016". There is a ton to do right now, even after having taken a week off to completely no-life the expansion on release.

[@BartmossTV]

Reserving a map slot isn't nearly long enough - 1min is the timeout on crash reports. By making it a short window, they encourage people to cancel the crash dump send in order to get back in. They just really need a decent queue/reservation system. It's good to hear that they are trying to fix the OOM problem, but they still need to tackle the underlying design flaw.

[@Binidj]

I'm very happy to wait until next year for the next Living World season. There is _no_ chance I'll be running out of content any time soon.

[@wonkothesane8701]

I think that it's great that Living World Season 3 is starting in 2016. By the time I start having a "shortage" of things readily available in HoT, Raids will have launched, and then by the time I'm done with that (maybe) Wintersday will have started. And then, assuming Season 3 start fairly soon after new years, I can do that. I think the sequence of big updates were timed very well by ANet.

[@charli.ward.]

I personally don't want to wait too long for LW season 3. I thought the story for Heart of Thorns was absolutely not what it needed to be at all, and the lore/story community really needs season 3 to make up for that. Sad that there seems to be better storytelling and character development in the free content and the paid expansion story lacked the depth.

[@DeltaBassBuster]

I have 12 active characters rotating them every 10 levels (all are lvl 80). I never get bored. How can some one say they have nothing else to do?? I already have 2 legendary weapons and working on my third. I just recently finished crafting Vulcanus. Wake up people and don't be so lazy!!!! There is plenty to do in GW2. I love this game.

[@justiceretrohunter2]

I would like to see guild wars 2 taking ques from EVE Online. Instead of ArenaNet creating a living world for the players, they should just curate a system where the players make their own living world. allow me to elaborate. 1) The ability to create your own business, for example, creating your own shop, where you sell whatever merchandise you want, and say for example with a new expansion, some of the towns could have empty lots, where you could set up shop. We can go even further, as stores can become store chains, and huge businesses, and all types of crazy things, like being susceptible to players stealing incoming goods (just like EVE), which could create bandit guilds and federations. not only would it be great for players starting businesses, but it gives a huge variety to players who want to buy or browse for something unique. Because i know i'm not the only one who's sick of seeing the same vendor everywhere that no one ever buys from. In addition, i think it would also create really large communities all over the gw2 map, because you'll have people visiting all sorts of towns to see what they could get their hands on, and a lot of conversations get going about who's got what, where. 2) Setup scarcity in certain places, to create unique businesses, such as running in gw1, where players would pay someone to run from one location to another, but just have a bigger diversity of ways to do this. Like making certain classes able to do specific things, and then someone would have to pay them to do that specific thing. They could also do this with the crafting system. 3) setting up an endless form of progression, like lets say they create a talent tree sort of thing, where for every point you obtain, you get to spend it on a specific spell to improve it. So for example, you do a sort of quest chain, or do some type of achievement, you obtain a point, and you use that point to increase the damage on your meteor shower by 10 damage, or 10 condition damage, or increase duration, or make the spell casting speed faster. In this sense, someone could have a specialty in being a super-fast caster, or large, slow damage dealer. You could go farther with this idea, and not have it limited to just spells, but other attributes, like jump height/distance, dodge distance, max endurance, or anything related to the character, hell even physical traits, like size would be cool. Lastly, because the biggest concern is for Anet to make money, they need a few systems in place to make sure they are actually earning money instead of not. Which is why i suggest they add an item called a business certificate, in which, if you own a business in the game, you need to pay xxxx amount of gems per month to keep your business. Either that, or they can implement special tokens, that effect your business, like advertising it in RataSum or other major cities, or something like that, which can only be bought with gems. Idk what do you guys think? It's probably too late for guildwars 2 to change or add these mechanics, but i know it would be amaza if they did.

[@justiceretrohunter2]

Lets be honest here, Anet is working way to hard to provide temporary content. That's cool, Anet can work hard if they want too, but they can work even less the more sandbox they make the game, i think that's obvious. Then they can focus more on expansions and bigger stuff instead of worrying about patches every 2 weeks. and Eve online is a space game, with way too many spreadsheets. I'm not advocating a spreadsheet game, but instead have it be more sand-boxy so that devs don't have to create a living world for you.

[@boxxer81]

TLDR: 2015 is - Raids > Winters Day > 2016. Also , WvW, Confirmed redheaded stepchild that Anet was WILLING TO SACRIFICE to get the rest of the game out by launch and just hoped we wouldn't notice because we're too busy running around the HUGE new maps. We're not Skritt, you can't put something shining in front of us and expect us to not pay attention to the REAL issues.

[@cybon4687]

Can't believe they aren't talking about the bug in which you don't get completion rewards when completing the new maps and dry top plus silver wastes, I completed Verdant Brink without getting my chieve or the chest.

[@aidanwalker2483]

I quite like the wait. While I really want to see the story progress, I recognise that a) some players need more time to get through the story and b) ANet needs to let the new currencies settle, a meta to form and guild hall communities to grow. I personally think that two months plus raids and a major festival is very reasonable. Also, it means that the releases roughly line up with the year (S1 was 2013, S2 was mostly 2014 and HoT was 2015)

[@pepps779]

They really need to explain what fractals even are in game, as I got back into the game without being able to play out the Scarlet story line that introduced the fractals and why/how they exist. Unfortunately without that information the fractals appear like an incredibly random addition to the game with no connection to anything else in GW2.

[@Fakechilada]

+pepps779 Fractals were introduced way before Scarlet, and we didn't get much more information than you. A simple letter introduces FotM, that's it. Besides which, Fractals are supposed to be a bit shrouded in mystery. Have you even bothered to speak with Dessa? The conversation explains a lot.

[@pepps779]

***** I have and while informative it still doesn't really fix the disconnect I have between fractals and the rest of the world. Not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that the original introduction was not as good as I expected.

[@Fakechilada]

I don't know. You can make the same argument for PvP or WvW. Even more so for those, because the fact that these are just parts of the Mists in which we fight one another is pretty flimsy. At least in FotM it's an actual researcher that you meet there, who actually does this for science. And there's great potential to tap deeper into that story yet, through the introduction of further fractals - kinda like they did with Thaumanova. Oh, and let me remind you that this content was actually added with the Southsun Cove. Now if there's one thing I feel like is a random addition with no connection to anything else, look there, my friend :D

[@pepps779]

***** Yep WvW has always been quite separate, and southsun cove has always been an odd one in terms of pve zones.

[@KhaidaG]

Was never expecting LW3 to happen in 2015 tbh. For now I'm occupied with unlocking the specializations as well as completing some collections (like the Mistward armor). Starting December the PvP league will be another huge time consumer. So I'm not worried I'll run out of things to do.

[@robertwagner9003]

I will gladly wait until after New Year's for a continuation of the story. It just means I will be even more excited when they drop that trailer! Besides, I may have explored all the maps for the expansion, but all I did was uncover them, I still have to look at the detail and find hidden things. I am not even a 3rd of my way of capping the masteries, so I have tons of work for that. Plus, I am leveling an Elementalist, so I will have another run through of Living Story Season 2, and HoT content with that character. I have a lot that could preoccupy me as I wait.

[@b3rs]

They could add upgrade memory in legendary items so you can put several components on them and activate particular ones you need at given time.

[@GhostJesting]

Are you happy to wait for 2016 for story continuation? Answer: yes, because I (and all my guildies) haven't touched HoT yet, we've been taking full advantage of the Halloween event and plan to sink our teeth into HoT once that content is removed. There's also a significant number of people who know they won't access HoT until they've been gifted it for the winter holidays, so it's a really smart move, imo, to wait to 2016 for new Living World so as not to have people harried along. This schedule gives a reasonable amount of time for people to get a lot out of HoT and push new content at a pace that's not too far ahead but also not too close either. Really pleased with that choice, and very excited.

[@Grort]

On the skill effects culling, the only one I noticed was Engi F5 when you have the elite kit equipped is significantly less flashy.

[@3Diva]

So far the timing of everything seams to be ok to me. I still have a TON of stuff I'm working on with the release of HoT and so I'm not sad that the living world story isn't continuing until the new year. Of course I'm not really into the story that much anyway, so ..yeah. lol I'm just happy to have a lot of stuff to work on in the game ...it's a bit overwhelming actually. I had to sit down and make a list of all the things I want to unlock, collect, and achieve. From Elites to Runes to Skins to Achievements, this expansion has added so much to my "to do" list. This will keep me busy for ages.

[@samuelfischer736]

I am happy to wait. I haven't even made it to Tangled depths yet! So much to see and do. Casual player that I am I just can't get through this content fast enough to keep up with the main mass of peeps. Beginning to see meta events not getting done at all because not enough people to do them. I wonder what if anything Anet will do about that.

[@kewqie]

I noticed one specific culling in zergs, auras are not visible on other players, e.g. use one of tempest shouts and you'll see the aura applied just on yourself, or maybe another guy that's really close to you, never seen it applied to 4 people in a zerg, visually I mean.

[@dirtbagfromanotherdirtbag]

I just finished my reaper and got mastery 9, I have alot to do and that makes me very happy, Living story can wait

[@ramukantagara5526]

Gratz on Nightfurry. :) I don't care if the story comes next year myself. I don't have many hours a day to play. 2 maybe 3 at best. I'm still unlocking masteries and specializations on 10 toons. This new content will last a player like me a long time.

[@wesleysmith2989]

I think I've noticed the culling of spell effects a little. It does seem like mobs don't "flash" as much as they used to.

[@krunchyk6796]

I actually was bugged out of the Dragon's Stand map today right as we were about to kill the mouth of Mordremoth. Lost everything, no reward and couldn't get back into the map. Also tried to use a warp to friend but it just disappeared on me. Some could imagine the frustration.

[@malaketh]

I am perfectly happy to wait, there are plenty of things to do in the game now. I feel like bringing out more story content would distract me from getting my elite specs and mastery tracks.

[@otla1]

Is it really until after New Years that we get a continuation of the story? It was mentioned during the last Beta that the Raid takes place after the end of the story in HoT, so that continues the story in some way and could serve to help prep us for the next Living World release.

[@KalSpiro]

I can absolutely wait two or three months of the new content before the story continues. I actually somewhat regret having burned through the story so fast, but I took a week off and I want to get through it in my time off. I would have prefered to play the zone content, and progress through the story between that, for each of the zones. I'm also running a Revenant through the original story all the way through to HoT and by the time I finish that, along with constructing Inferno for my ranger with a fire motif, sometime next year sounds fine.

[@serpentiness]

Considering the amount of content we've done and all the pesonal goals I've set for myself in the expansion (and the sad fact that I can't play 24/7 ;__;) I'd be perfectly fine with 3+ months of no content updates.

[@illan731]

Until New Year is not too long to wait - there's tons to do still between new maps, masteries, fractals, and raids. The issue is how the ended the story bit they just released. Just state that the final final battle was all a dream and go on from there.

[@angrymarine7974]

WP! Get a norn! Zerker gear! Become the Leopard Elite skill! GANK SOMEONE!! I can assure you it's hilarious!!!!!

[@samworkman818]

The new year really isnt that far away any more. Not to mention that they did say supposedly the raids would also progress the story post-expansion and it was always assumed raid releases and LS would alternate. So yeah, Raid wing 1 at the end of the month and Wintersday next month wouldnt really leave much space to launch a new season of LS imo. But if we reach the end of Feb without any new LS.... that would really suck.

[@7Leksu7]

I am very happy with waiting till after new years to get continuation of the story in form of living world. There is still tons to do and both wintersday and new year/lunar festival? coming.

[@Whatalansays]

Part of me is not excited at all about waiting until the new year for a living world story after how much stuff they left out of the HoT story, BUT I understand that they are extremely busy and have other things happening that take priority so I will be patient.

[@clolton]

re: visual culling, all i've noticed is Time Warp's weird new shape. lot flatter, bit easier to see through.

[@PanicGiraffe]

I'm not sure we're ready for another nightfury xD I hope they sort of alternate the acquisition of the 'big skin' between each event, lore based scavenger hunt one event, and then another mountain of gold in the next. Like the elite weapon collections maybe.

[@eskimoo5882]

Thank god they're fixing the memory leak. I crashed 3 times last night doing Dragon Stand! Would have been screwed without a party

[@MilesUmbrae]

To expect that there will be a point where the developers will no longer need to tweak a core-part of an active MMO is rather naive...

[@Tewlipz]

Sure, I can wait a few months for the story to continue, I've yet to play the HoT story on a sylvari character, and given the current workload at uni, I probably won't be able to until around christmas, so I'm fine there's no living world updates until next year. That, and the fact I have plenty of stuff to do still getting the new skins from the jungle and such.

[@Wilkyz]

I expect raids to be a huge amount of time investment for me, so I'm more than happy to wait for Living Story 3.

[@TheDoomclaw]

Yes I am more than happy to wait until after new years for next LS. I have 19 characters to take through this content...I need time lol.

[@LeiosLabs]

Hmm... I haven't been hit with the memory leak thing yet. Maybe it's because I am not using Windows?

[@DefinitelyNotLoL]

The culling I've noticed is the engineer's space cannon thingy looking all bland now and Swirling Winds has a significantly reduced visual which saddens me, one of my favourite effects in the game. (Also WP shame on you, as an ele player you should have noticed this :D )

[@ahouyearno]

+WoodenPotatoes I love how you call the practicing of raids "content". That's exactly my experience. I loved wiping in raids in WoW but as soon as we had a raid on farm, I lost all interest in that content. Learning raids is the actual content. Farming raids is the same as farming COF1 for masteries, ultimately unrewarding to me.

[@Imoenn]

I've still got tons of grinding to do for ascended gear so yeah I've got tons of "content" to do. Hope we see some changes when raiding hits and the feeling of "Oh, I can't do this content till I grind." settles in and we hopefully see some changes. The prices on Asc mats is going to be insane...goodie. When the grind is done I'll have tons of content to do which I'm really looking forward to, looking at people exploring for masteries looks like fun but until I get the gear, I'll hold back. It's good to see them see how bad fractuals are though, was worried that a large part of PvE was nothing more than a scam of "Hey good work, now pay us money for keys so you can get your loot." Also pleased that the next expansion will be more about content and that this one was more of a setting the ground work, they still have allot to do, they need to add more cosmetic look and get rid of the grind for content and it'll be like how it was in GW1.

[@lexan2002]

well with haloween finally over I can actually focus hardcore on the expansion and finish the story with my wife, so I'm excited they aren't doing more living story for a while

[@awkwardsilence1910]

I can wait until the new year for more living story to come out. There are a bunch of other games that are coming out, (Fallout4)that can keep me very occupied and I personally have been farming Halloween non-stop so havent really done much in HoT yet and the economy should be at a good place when I finish it. So no complaints here. Just Happy Arena Net is doing such a fantastic job with everything.

[@baronwalker2212]

I'm not happy with having to wait that long for ls3...no spoilers from me here, but I feel the story needed a fast living world continuation update, far to many things were left unanswered imo

[@Lumpusax]

I have not experienced a single crash yet and i have played for 70h since launch. Must be lucky :)

[@CEvans-wg1kt]

I've never had enough time to complete any of the Living Story. So, I gave up on them.

[@danielburbridge2050]

Personally, I think my Hard Limit on LS3, and still being content with its release frame, is Jan 31.

[@Zrikkenz]

I don't mind waiting for the LS, in fact i think it's better this way. We have a lot to do in HoT with masteries and stuff even now so there's no reason why to rush for the new LS imo ^^

[@cinderay7228]

im interested to see what they do to revenants (and maybe elite specs tho that would be asking too much imo) for wintersday in the snowball arena thing, considering yes there are only three base class types in the mini game, but each profession has 1 unique little skill, i do wonder if they'll do anything for the revenant in this case, and if so, what

[@lowhangingvegetable]

Of course I'm willing to wait, it's only 2 months. Good lord, have we become that impatient that we can't wait 2 months between expansions?

[@dixonjt89]

i wish we could get the story sooner....i hate how it's always a damn cliffhanger

[@Triattt]

Anyone else having this bug where character shadows get stuck on your screen? It goes away after I load a map, but it's so annoying.

[@viator_eagle5936]

First Congrats about nightfury. Second is the continuation of the story not include the raids? Cause I'm pretty sure they said story elements would be released in the raids. Also I'm down with waiting until around February or March until the next living world

[@TheAeroMechanic]

Who's the person you're always in party with?

[@dylancakes]

I want a windersday version of Nightfury that has snowflakes instead of bats.

[@aaroncope1833]

I'm primarily a WvW player and I say down to arrow carts and reinforced walls/gates.

[@choryllis6646]

I know I'll need some time to heal from the story...I'm happy to wait until later...it'll give me time to think...

[@Tangzer29]

Considering the end of HoT story, waiting for 2016 is gonna be looong. I'm not satisfied by the way things went è_é

[@dizzt19]

The canopy wyvern fight seems a bit, a bit more playable. Still, pretty much every non-vanilla area is optimised poorly.

[@TheTomiyou]

Hey Wp, does that mean original specializations/classes will get some balance too? Also, no SAB? :(

[@Foxerr153]

They still haven't fixed the modniir's ruin drop for the twilight collection....

[@luciano.magalhaes]

WP, about the Fractal reward issues... what do you think about gold earned? I have been doing dailies and the runs are just paying for themselves... considering the cost for keys.

[@stainkton1]

hey guys, how can I make the dot appear ingame in the center of the screen?

[@AllStarsProdigy]

So many of us havent even goten the expansion yet so yeah starting living world s3 before 2016 doesnt make much sense o me at all

[@TheMarc1k1]

Dat' Memory Leak though, crashed me out of Mouth of Modremoth right before we killed it..... Q________________Q

[@arnieburton9597]

Hey Wp have seen the elite spec weapon collections I was wondering what you think cause I really want the fix r upper and am currently working on it

[@WhyAreUReadingMyName]

I would rather have them fine tuning the current release, and take their time with making the new living world season.. than having it rushed out, an maybe feel incomplete, just to meet peoples wishes.

[@brandonvang2893]

As a primarily WVW player, I'm pretty much done with HoT. I finished story, beaten all the new meta world bosses except for Tangled Depths, and have all the Elites that I actually care for unlocked (DH, Reaper, Herald, Scrapper, Daredevil). I'm totally okay with waiting until next year for the new stuff, primarily because Fallout 4 will tide me over until more things that are relevant to me come out. I wanted to get my first legendary, but after getting the first few things, and then researching about what was required for the rest, I just gave up. I'd much rather just save up the gold, than run around all of Tyria doing things I don't care much for to get a new "shiny" in my wardrobe. As for upcoming content, Raids dont interest me because we all know GW2 has a problem with the reward to effort ratio. Squad UI doesn't matter to me because I only do group roaming and Duo roaming to Havoc, which they already screwed me over by making all upgrades automatic; I pretty much lost my role of Supply control because there's no longer any need for me to carefully choose which Dolly's to escort. Overall, HoT is a solid 5/10 for a player like me. If WvW wasn't so hugely impacted by this new change, then I'd argue for a 7/10 because WVW to me is a huge reason for why I even log in every day. +Cool new bosses +cool new open world mechanics +Much improved story -not all elites created equal (Why even bother playing berserker?) -WVW made too simple -Legendary Weapon Journey not really a journey, more like a shopping list(couldn't even give us reasons why Legendary weapons are considered legendary except the fact they're shinier than other weapons?) Unpopular opinion, but I wanted more Hearts. DE's are cool, but what made base GW2 so great was even after running an awesome DE, you could take a moment to just breathe, look around, and like water some plants or something. It was a nice change of pace, but that's gone. All the new maps to me are just SW 2.0. I run DE's so I can do big event for minuscule rewards, and maybe to some that's fun, but to me that's a waste of time. If rewards were worth the effort I could agree with that side of the argument, but I'm not gonna spend an hour on DE's leading to a boss for Unidentifiable Object's that sell for 50 copper each.

[@Wowls]

i had a bug where it wouldnt let me teleport cause it thought i was in combat when i wasnt..... i lost out on getting a bunch of chests cause of it -,-

[@PhyrexianQueen]

awhh, was wwondering about living story the other day - but then again, i still have lots to play before that starts haha :D

[@C4P_10]

Hey WP, I'm really worried about the bans arenanet are putting out on people. If i read the forums I am amazed about the all those people who get falsely banned. whats your oppinion on this?

[@Dharengo]

So how far did you get in beating the Chak Gerent anyway?

[@sirnh1]

I don't mind having living story in 2016, but only if they finish the story. Way to many unanswered question, the story was better then anything previous but felt too much like "let's save my friends, oh right... I almost forgot there is a dragon to kill". Season 1 and 2 took what 2 years or so total? And in this EP we simply walk up to mordremoth and kill him (couldn't they at least make his dangerous looking? When I saw him I was like "a troll? the final fight is another troll? Not even something original looking?). Warning story spoilers following: Even playing as a sylvary there is almost no difference with a none sylvary player. Canach said that heard the dragon yelling louder and louder the closer you got to mordy. Why wasn't my sylvary hearing mordy that bad? Expecially as I gazed in the 'eternal alchemy'-like scarlet did (see season 2). Shouldn't that make me have even MORE trouble ignoring the dragon as it could even drive scarlet insane? What is the condition of the pale tree? Why didn't we follow up on her after we killed mordremoth? Besides I'm wondering about these (again spoiler warning): * The egg chose us as "it's champion" (I believe it was Caithe wo even directly stated this), so does that mean we are the champion of a dragon? I mean does that mean we are 'corrupted' by an (unhatched) dragon? If the dragon goes evil, do we become evil as well? How (and when) did the 'egg' choose us as it's champion? So, a sylvary MAY fall to mordremoth so rythlock wants to kill them all, we are now a dragon champion and he is more then fine with that? * Scarlet went crazy after looking into the eternal alchemy and hearing the dragon call its minions. What is the relationship between the eternal alchemy and the dragons? And to make it even more mysterious: In 'Guild wars 1' each human god had a 'Facet' shaped like a dragon. This sounds like the gods are potentially also involved in a relationship with the dragons. Any idea what their connection might be? (yes, this theory again xD)

[@Traagst]

Wait? With the amount of time I got, I'll be happy to complete the story by New year :p

[@voxling]

what is the name of the second to last track in the backround?

[@dennyhaynes3]

For heaven sake there's more than enough to do in HOT, living story can wait.

[@Peshyy]

ArenaColin 477 points 2 hours ago We are rolling out a beta version of a 64 bit client today if all goes well - please give this a shot if youre having crash issues and let us know if that does the trick! Well.. GG

[@Peshyy]

+Peshyy you can download it from the account management page on the website. after you've downloaded it, put it in the gw2 root folder and run it. it'll patch stuff for like 5-10 seconds and you're good to go

[@luketaylor7663]

who is it you play with in your footage. I assume kerri

[@samanthayiu544]

'the future of the game' ...i was around 23 when i bought this game and i'm soon turning 27. How long did guild wars 1 players wait until guild wars 2 was released? 8 years? We're going into our fourth year soon. How long is this 'future' facade going to be dragged out. I'm withering away just waiting for SAB. Pls god give me a sign.

[@Iv_john_vI]

I hope GW3 comes soon too

[@CanRotaryLife]

Soooo, when's the next expansion?

[@supersploof]

Can you make a build video of your reaped condi build using reaper of grenth?

[@Fo__Sho_]

They made the engineers "skyhammer" basically invisible Q_Q The story thing takes way too long just wtf D:

[@ven9115]

People leaving PvE and Squad UI ain't gonna help WvW. It's a mess, people are just not liking the new maps. And our Guild Leader who works at Anet (another person who works there double confirming this would be nice, because I'm hoping he's just lying.) says that the old WvW maps will NOT be coming back now, and have essentially just been thrown into the trash :(. I personally didn't try out the new maps much, when I did my game crashed after awhile, but these were my thoughts and a few from people I run WvW with. 1. Maps are to big: I know sounds weird, isn't bigger better? Well from what I hear, the maps just stretch and stretch and go on and on to the point zergs can end up passing each other and no one will notice. Unlike EoTM, where yes the map is big, but the pathways are very linear once you choose which side your invading. There are paths to EoTM, and if you veer off some of them you'll end up falling to your death. The new maps don't have this, so you can keep going one direction wherever you are until you hit the edge of the map. 2. Roaming and Scouts are dead/no one wants to do it: I've never scouted before, but did my fair share of roaming, so from this stand point, I can say is true. Unless your roaming to duel I guess, but I base this off of roaming groups to cause havoc and take/put pressure on structures/camps. Camps and Yaks seem pointless now, and towers and keeps are really hard to cap, either from champs just wrecking, or because it takes to long now and enemies can react. From what I've heard from previous scouts, the keeps and such are so big, it takes a long time to see/find out information to then relay that to map chat. 3. Auto Upgrades: Seems to be upsetting people the most. Stuff is always max level, so it takes forever to cap. I don't really understand this one to much, difficulty to me seems would be more fun, but this is just from what I've overheard. I can't really confirm to many of these, I mostly EB pre-HoT anyway, but EB seems to have A LOT of Q times now, with a very large number. So, something must be going on somewhere in the new maps to make everyone flock to EB. I know early on this was because of KTrain Hero Points, but that seems to have mostly died down, now that it only requires 200 points.

[@ninetailedmaster1]

So rip berserker till Christmas....sounds about right

[@israelg99]

so... Is Heart of Thorns *worth it*?!

[@MercuryAlphaInc]

Okay WP, I want your opinion on this. So I took some time off of GW2 HoT because Halo 5 dropped and I wanted to get that story out of the way first since I wanted to know what the heck was happening there and because HoT would consume more time because I want to really take my time with that. I left my Reaper behind with at least 5-6 traits that weren't unlocked and I was looking forward to unlocking by getting Hero Points. I had found fun in trying to get Hero Points to level up my Reaper to max, right? Things to spend the bloody points on? Now I get back and notice I'm not a Reaper anymore, and that my Hero Points have been refunded. 250 of them. Okay, just a reroll right? Just a bug fix right? WRONG. I f***ing use ALL of the points and bam, I'm a Maxed out Reaper because ANet bowed to the will of the goddamn complainers again. Now I don't have ANY reason to get the Hero Points anymore! I've lost one of the things that got me into playing more again because some people were pissed that they weren't max level the second they got HoT. What's your opinion on this? Sorry if you've answered it in a vid somewhere but because I want to remain spoiler free, I've steered away from most of your vids since I got Halo.

[@SlappinTwinkies]

has anyone else game been crashing since the heart of thorns came out?