We're 150! Celeste and Allona are happy to see progress in Lion's Arch and are joined by Ultra, who walks them though all the changes to WvW!
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What We Did This Week
 

Allona

STUFF!
AND THINGS!
I PvPed a bit more than I had in the last little while
Guild missions with Maven and Hunter beat me … for reals … in fact everyone beat me so I had to make a sound of a creature of Tyria. My shame should be ready for viewing on Monday when Richie posts the Guild Missions.
Got the last Grand Master Allona was missing. It was in the Ship of Sorrows in Straits … tried by myself but it was -- as Celeste says -- no bueno. Celeste came to help me though, and it was bueno!
We didn’t have Fungeons this week so Hunter, Irish Dog and I levelled alts in Kessex Hills
Did some more zone completions … Straits!
Dwayna help me, I bought a bunch of the gem store dyes! I AM WEAK! (I did get Imperial Red though)
Bought Shadow Orange from the TP. I kinda love it. (Note: It’s the least expensive shadow dye)

Celeste

did some world completion on my ele

in that vein I’ve started working on getting my guardian at least to the world boss locations so I can do the rotation on her instead of my ranger all the time

Dry Top on my engineer, as well as fire elemental where I immediately asked hunter to tell me what to trait in as my build is more “celestial” atm
Crafting and dailies!
Did some PvP with Romo
Finished as much of the Explorer achievements as I could. Someday I’ll get the Iron Marches events ones and I’ll probably never get Twice Told Legend

9,500 cheevo chest~! 10k can’t come soon enough!

 

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Report from Lion’s Arch
 
Lion’s Arch Renovations
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/lions-arch-construction-nears-completion-new-player-poll-announced/

 

“Anyone who’s visited Lion’s Arch today has already noticed some pretty exciting changes—the increased activity of the construction workers, watchful reviews by the surveyors, assembly airships, a construction yard, and a whole lot of scaffolding! At long last we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and our beloved Lion’s Arch—the heart and soul of Tyria—will soon be rebuilt!"

C: Soon (™)

“The plan of the city leaders is not to attempt to fully restore the landmark as it once was, but rather to implement an enhanced design that will more realistically serve the Tyria of today. In light of the lessons learned from the attack by Scarlet Briar ... the city will be a more fortified city, with a design intended to protect citizen and visitor alike.”

C: “Because this is a living world, we can’t just give you old Lion’s Arch”
A: Which is good because that wouldn’t make any sense.

“And yet, the city will retain its distinctive beauty. There will be new gathering places, focused service areas, refreshed locations, and commemorative area names and place names that are sure to delight.”

Naming Poll - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5B7WMBF
C: We’ll talk more about these proposed names further in a bit.

But while we don’t have a date for the final unveiling, we can say that—due to the advantages of off-site construction—one morning in the next few months you’ll awake to a newly refreshed Lion’s Arch.

C: Another Soon (™)
A: I do like their loop hole of buildings just appearing though … clever

“In the meantime, we’d like every guild, group, and gang of friends to consider how they’re going to celebrate the new Lion’s Arch. A poetry reading? A historical reenactment? A musical extravaganza? Or how about just…a party? Put on your collective thinking caps, and start coming up with plans for your group’s party.