Chris and Celeste wade into Guild Wars 2 and the new year’s first podcast. We talk fractals, killing Zhaitan, and what January and February will bring to the game.
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What We Did This Week
Celeste:
- Finishing Orr (still)
- Did 12 or so story quests to get to the end
- Killed Zhaitan
Chris:
- Working on Orr
- Got my Ele up to level 6
- Also killed Zhaitan with guildies. Fun!
Lion’s Arch Report
Fractals of the Mists Fixes
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fractals-of-the-mists-dungeon-improvements/
- player reconnects
- level selection based on the party leader
- http://maleficincantations.com/2013/01/07/why-fractals-are-really-really-bad-for-the-gw2-community/
- lv 2 goes to a lv 20 and gets lv 2 rewards
- lv 53 goes to a lv 20 and gets karma only
- can buy legendaries but you can’t buy ascended gear or even components
- ascended gear is *still* only in the fractals and requires hundreds of hours to attain best in-game (this could be the update for january)
Jumping Puzzles and earning the rest of your monthly achievement
http://www.killtenrats.com/2013/01/02/gw2-jump-in-dee-line/
- encourages players to explore the best parts of the game before the “big January update”
Elisabeth makes 2013 Predictions & Wishes
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/01/01/flameseeker-chronicles-hopes-for-the-new-year-in-guild-wars-2/
- Guesting
- Bringing GW2 into e-sports properly
- http://huntersinsight.com/2013/01/05/little-fixes/
- RNG
- Saving specs like in Rift would be awesome (I also don’t care if I have to pay a lot to do it)
- GUESTING
- Stats boards, would be helpful in seeing how magic find and other boosts help/hinder
- http://thepaletree.net/2013/01/07/trash-can-woes/
- Random Number Generators strike again
- Why can’t we be guaranteed at least green quality items when looting a boss chest in a dungeon?
- No real definition of when/how/where magic find is effective in-game
Colin Johanson Takes On the January Update
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/January-updates-Any-sources/first#post1136181
- “To set expectations accordingly, the January release will be a relatively small release that sets the table for the stories and features we plan to roll out with the Feb/March releases and beyond.”
- no new races, professions or explorable areas with the jan-mar content
- to include added content to pve, pvp, and wvw
Richie Procopio Breaks In with News for February
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/new-maps-in-the-works-for-world-vs-world/
- Possibility of new maps being added to wvw, when there’s already 4 maps in use now
Tales of Tyria
Karma Choo-Choo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vIoGp3R7ZI
Character Selector Quiz
http://guildwars2.pl/whats_your_story,a625
Old Timey RP News blog
http://orrator.tumblr.com/
HengeOfDenravi.com server coordination with forum, wvw classes and 1000 person mumble!
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