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Guild Wars Reporter Episode 133 - Hello, Deer! (OR… Let’s Speculate, Liches!)

January 09, 2015



Celeste and Allona are well rested and ready to get this new year started! Luckily there was a fair bit to talk about, including the recent trailer for the final installment of Season 2: Point of No Return!


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What We Did This Week

 


Allona



  • As seen on our Twitch livestream: Wintersday Success!
  • 13.5K chest!
  • Honestly, did a little (or a lot in some cases) of everything … including — duh duh duuuh — PvP!

    • On PvP: I am genuinely surprised how much fun it is! Obviously, I’ve only played unranked arenas, but the atmosphere has been a lot friendlier than I expected. There has been some stupid map/team chat for sure, but it is way more infrequent than I expected.
    • Currently rank 19 / Deer! Celeste and me are the saaaaammme! (C: We’s the same! Almost, I’m rank 18) – and I finished TWO reward tracks already! Wintersday was first and I chose the rhime-rimmed aqua breather (NO REGRETS!!!); and the Kryta track because I wanted to start unlocking the regional tracks. On that one I got me very first ascended ‘drop’ from one of the champ bags!!!! The Red Ring of Death. \o/
    • Made 2nd mesmer (Sad Half Jump McGee)
    • Bought a fair amount of things (both on sale and not … bought the Arctic explorer’s outfit right before it went on sale ~table flip~
    • Re-did Tilde, my warrior: New hair, new armour skin
    • Made the ascended tempered spinal blades! Weeeeeeee!
    • Guild missions with TWiT guild
    • Temple run with Hunter
    • Fungeons and Fractals
    • … whew!



Celeste



  • Wintersday Stuff

    • Jumping Puzzle Pain… More than 140 attempts and I never even got the middle of it
    • Wintersday Meta done & Hungry Star thing (which is crappy b/c I made a bunch of stars for my November monthly and now I don’t have any fragments, and I think I could break them down but I don’t want to take a loss)
    • Ended up choosing the medium rebreather, I’m going to use it on my engineer I think
    • Also got a Mini Princess Doll b/c they’re pretty adorable.


  • Finished my December Monthly after much harassment from Hunter (edit: and Allona)
  • 8.5k chest
  • Did some Thief PvP… Ok, more than “someâ€

    • I’ve had a bit of luck with the class but I’m definitely not the best thief on my team, even when I’m the only thief on my team.



 


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Report from Lion’s Arch

 


Trailer for Point of No Return

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efpRQQC5zRY



  • C: I kinda like how they’ve been teasing this ‘point’ since the beginning of the season.
  • A: Agreed. It’s been a consistent companion to this season which has been a good move.
  • “Time is running out: the Pact Fleet is poised to launch, and Glint’s egg is still missing. You have one last memory seed to plant, and the search through Caithe’s past has led you to a cave sealed shut with strange magic. The time for truth has come. Find a way to break the seal, enter the cave, and learn what happened all those years ago.â€
  • Giant undulating purple flower thing?

    • C: Oh that’s supposed to be the thing we scouted for?


  • Braham, Eir, Zoijja, and Logan together at the Pact camp
  • Ascension runes on the serpent wall thing and a portal that goes… somewhere.

    • A: Wooden Potatoes made a really good point about the serpents: The Forgotten (a race of snake people) governed the rights of ascension in GW1: Prophecies


  • OMFG. OMFG. OMFG. HYPE TRAIN. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Turai_Ossa Is that Turai Ossa in the Priory?!

    • A: That does seem to be the prevailing theory! Which … EEEEEEEEEEE!


  • Caithe and her weird eyes in the past, assuming it’s the seed we get to plant next
  • Lane fighting to a new world boss encounter?

    • A: MMO Inks on The Salvage Kit has speculated this could be a Marionette 2.0 style fight.


  • Vines in camp resolve… surprising no one.
  • The Return of Mini Mordy

 


Did you think we had too many predictions in our prediction show this year? TOO BAD.

http://south.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/guild-wars-2-beyond-the-point-of-no-return



  • Join ArenaNet president and co-founder Mike O’Brien and Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson for an exclusive sneak peek at what’s next in Guild Wars 2 and be among the first to hear how we’re setting up a new framework for how an MMO can grow its universe. The Living World was just the beginning.
  • PANELISTS: Mike O’Brien [President and Co-Founder, ArenaNet], Colin Johanson [Guild Wars 2 Director, ArenaNet]
  • LET’S SPECULATE, LICHES!

 


Ask an Asura

 


“Dear Splendiferous Celeste and Magnemonious Allona,


As my friends and I sat around the fire this past holiday season, we began to contemplate some possible outcomes of the current fight against Mordremoth. One topic that I brought up was the possible death of the Pale Tree and the implications such an event would have for the game. We became divided on the topic as I suggested that once she were to die, no new Sylvari characters could be created. Only those that were already born would remain a part of Tyria. While I felt that this would bring some interesting depth to the world of Tyria, my friends and I agreed that this would be too drastic of a step for Arena Net to take in regards to bringing permanent change to the game. What do you two think of this idea? Something that could potentially be implemented (maybe with the addition of a new race)? Or would it be going too far?


Looking forward to the next podcast,


Tyboltâ€


 


C: I think it’s something that could happen, or at least has the potential to happen. The thing is, and I’m paraphrasing a developer that doesn’t work at arenanet, the bad thing is that you’d have to look at essentially taking away content from your game and no developer wants to see their work turn into ephemera. If you’re talking about Sylvari being unable to be produced from that point onward you’ve got a lot of revamping to do (i.e. npc dialogues and references to the pale tree throughout). There would be a huge disjointing between the living story and the open world. The living world does evolve but would the Caledon Forest? I’ve been mulling it over and I think it wouldn’t happen.


A: 1) I am envious of how you spent your holidays. 2) The only way I could really see this working is if a new tree (say, Mallyk’s) takes the Pale Tree’s place as a new ‘source’ for Sylvari, but I honestly do think the Pale Tree will recover from the recent attack. However, I wonder if the Sylvari starter experience could be refreshed in a possible expansion to take current events into account (not likely … damn timelines though!)


 


Listener Tips!

 


Particle Shift 2-shot!


Sent via email


“Greetings and salutations acclaimed Celeste, renowned Allona, and possibly the elusive Hunter.


I just wanted to offer a tip on something. While making an item/weapon/armor yourself can feel rewarding. It may not be the best use of your gold. All too often you’ll find that selling the materials, sometimes refined, are worth significantly more than the item you’re trying to make.


I ran into this myself again when making that new hourglass focus. I was halfway through making the gems that it requires when I checked the trading post and realize the focus sells for 20 gold and the materials I gathered so far for it we’re selling for 23 gold. As much as it would have been nice to make it myself I took the fiscally sound route sold my materials for the profit and bought the item.


Sorry it’s a little long I doubt that you want to read the whole story either way it’s a handy tip for item acquirement(assuming that you’re not trying to level a craft or anything).


Enjoy your well deserved holiday break.


One of your many fans from Tarnished Coast.


Particle Shiftâ€


 


Sent in-game


Here’s a tip to get your daily exotic crafter. While most exotics take expensive materials, thanks to the new crafting backpacks you can get your daily for a few Tier 5 bits.


The ornate (not elegant, since that is tier 6) normally takes just 5 mithril ingots (or T5 equivalent for the craft).


At least until they patch them down to rare, for a few cheap ingots you get some ectos.


 


Dibs via Twitter: Dibstaru on twitter shared this, Just seen a great #GW2 PvP tip: if you want to try a new build, use the Soldier amulet until you’re used to it, then swap to proper amulet


 


Allona’s tip of the week:  Following the general PvP theme: If you’re AT ALL curious about trying PvP, but are worried about being terrible: Don’t worry. There seems to be a ton of new players trying PvP so you will be in good company. Also, ArenaNet has compiled all the PvP 101s they’ve had at the end of the last few Points of Interests into a single YouTube video. It’s a good first step resource! A basic tip (that took me a bit to figure out to be honest) is that your actual hero panel is only useful for equipping weapons, choosing utility skills, and setting your armour look. Your actual build (traits, rune, sigils, accessory) are found at the top-centre of your screen in the helmet icon. Poke around in there to get the feel, it’s really quite intuitive (other than finding it initially).


 


Celeste’s tip of the week: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2repo7/what_to_do_with_the_snowflakes/ My favorite solution is from u/Sidisen, which is to the throw them in the forge for more presents… Then you can sell the presents or open them to get more snowflakes. Basically you end up getting a lot more kicks at the RNG can.


 


Tales of Tyria

 


Buzzworthy

https://huntersinsight.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/buzzworthy/


Hunter goes into greater detail on why he thinks Expansion News(tm) is coming our way.



  • As Guild Wars 2 slowly lumbers towards PAX South and some kind of announcement concerning the game’s future, I’ve been wondering if I could use the game’s recent history to further strengthen the speculation that an expansion is on the way. The living story, the New Player Experience, the rewards, if Arenanet has a direction for the game, surely it is reflected in what they have done. I think restructuring some of the foundations of how the game is played is a big part of this.

    • Allona: I thought this was interesting: …if a new expansion were to be released several months from now I think the point of reworking the dailies would be to more easily suit new content that came in an expansion. If people are set in their ways and know all the easiest ways to do dailies they’ll hardly be encouraged to venture forth into whatever new content is released. The new daily system will easily accommodate goals that can be attuned with the new content.



 


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