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Chris and Celeste have a short show about things not really relating to Guild Wars but we try to discuss the latest patch notes, upcoming features and ask for your recommendations on what you'd like to see in-game. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: 15 hours of d&d beat canach found a sylvari with a burning question for an asuran, remade my guard to be an asuran, results were not thrilling (https://twitter.com/CeleOOKIE/status/339800899872514048/photo/1) Chris: I played with Colin James. So cool. http://globalnews.ca/news/601224/colin-james-makes-music-count/   Report from Lion’s Arch Last Stand at Southsun https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/now-playing-last-stand-at-southsun/ https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-May-28-2013 wvw commander map pings ascended items new rank = chest oil mastery full hint completion now awards hint achievement lots of class updates   Southsun Specifics https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/a-guide-to-last-stand-at-southsun-cove/ kill canach and the group instance finale from 4th-11th next update and storyline starts 11th (presumably)   Kitten pets! https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/southsun-cove-items-and-more-in-the-gem-store/ consortium sickle white kitten   Ask An Asuran There’s lots of new items hidden in the previous updates.. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1f80pl/lfg_skyhammer_and_more_in_the_updated_gw2dat/ dragon mask - presumably this will be june’s update (dragon festival) swimwear - lady kasmeer back to school town clothes - can’t combine with the scelerite back piece for some anime quality weirdness unlimited wood axe skyhammer - spvp item gifting items from the marketplace group finders ideas: guild halls. I’d just really frakking love a guild hall. That’s one of the few things I’d love to have in-game. fp view. what items would you all like to see in the gem store or mechanics added to the game?   Tales of Tyria Floating transparent “dragon” timer http://us.gw2stuff.com/overlay No install required, just run as an exe, uses less than 40mb of ram and >.1% of cpu power   Winged Armor and Sylvari cultural set at MCM London Comic Con http://www.flickr.com/photos/nekojoe/8860170362/sizes/l/   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

The Scott McGough Experience continues as we talk about Last Stand at Southsun, community apps, and the longevity of Guild Wars. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: dailies & monthly engineer to 7 Chris: Sparkfly Fen to 16% Lornar’s Pass 100%   Report from Lion’s Arch Last Stand at Southsun https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-28-2013/ underground solo mission, followed by a group mission extra content activates june 5 more opportunities for WXP wvw matchup changes more southsun rare drops to be added pvp custom arenas to stay in beta mode through this update in the very least   Colin Johanson, Bobby Stein, and Jon Peters Weigh In On Southsun http://www.warcry.com/news/view/124177-Guild-Wars-2-Developer-Interview-on-the-Secrets-of-Southsun-More-More-More in contrast to other LS so far, there will be permanent changes to Southsun as a result Bobby Stein on where the story is going - “The answers will lead players into the next story arc, where Kiel heads to Lion's Arch for the big Dragon Bash celebration. But that's another story...” Jon Peters on traps and WvW - “World vs. World abilities are the first place where we have really started to do this, and we'll continue to add abilities that fulfill more and more of these roles. In that same way, traps are the first glimpse into how we are helping facilitate these roles in more active ways as well.”   Canach Story by Scott McGough https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/canachs-story-an-after-hours-meeting/ I love how incredibly dark the story has gotten We now anticipate the return of Canach and a golem enemy https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/southsun/Canach-s-Mutation-Radical-Change/first#post2076148 Canach cleared a MWF on his own. He’s now a much more formidable enemy   ArenaNet Releases API for community devs https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/api http://v2.gw2stuff.com/events/henge-of-denravi http://mos.millenium.org/na new dragon timers, recipe sites, wvw monitors and more with the new api release and the community collaboration   Where’s my Precursor Scavenger Hunt? https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/New-Legendaries-Rework/first#post2074359 new precursor attainment through worldwide means, along with wvw options random drops will stay in game as well no timeline because of “angry crowds with pitchforks”   Ask An Asuran Is the automation of GW really the end? http://www.guildwars.com/players/ http://www.killtenrats.com/2013/05/20/gw-goodnight-sweet-prince/ Ravious seems to think so. I’m not sure that the end of content production really marks the end of an mmo. I’m more of the side of the actual shutdown being the end of the game but I suppose that if new content is never going to be added you could argue that the end is imminent or that at least the game is on life support. What do you think? Do you think that Guild Wars is doomed to be shut down? Do you feel like the game has met it’s end? Do you hate that there will be no Beyond Elona quests?   Tales of Tyria Gem Store Items https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/incredible-new-items-in-the-gem-store/ mystic porta-potty ((TEEHEHEHHEHEHE)) crafting benches   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

This week, Chris and Celeste have a cozy fireside chat with Scott McGough. We talk all about Scott's path to Arenanet, and the design of the story elements in Guild Wars 2. It's a great interview, grab a cup of coffee and stay awhile! Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Epic wvw battle ends in my world completion, thanks for coming along with me Jay! Southsun cove story, crab toss, samples, and events Did the Dwayna statue/Melchor event and ended up buying the karma armor from it Chris: I played the “take 61 kids on a 5 day band trip game”. Report from Lion’s Arch Interview with Scott McGough Tales of Tyria Fan Trailer for The Secret of Southsun by LoremasterKaae http://youtu.be/cXQbr78TgDY Leaderboards fix coming for non-current players https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/pvp/Rank-1-Player-is-inactive/first#post1993277 Guild Wars Changes to Automation http://www.guildwars.com/players/ Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know! Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

Chris is gone so Allona graciously takes over for him as cohost. We talk about the new living story arc and how we feel about the current arc's progression. Note: Listen with both sides of your headphones to hear both hosts :) Listen now: What We Did This Week Allona: Accidental Guild Rush = awesome Molten Facility dungeon: love/hate Map completion proceeding apace Working on alts: Oh baby Sylvari, you so fun Celeste: Ferguson’s Crossing - WHY DO YOU HATE ME?!   Report from Lion’s Arch We go back to Southsun Cove https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-14-2013/ Karkas like to eat me I need an Indiana Jones type town clothes to go along with this http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/07/guild-wars-2s-the-secret-of-southsun-will-end-culling-add-wvw/ (WvW changes that will be happening later rather than sooner are interesting) https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/southsun/Temporary-or-permanent-content/first#post1993311 Colin Johanson says there will be a mix of temporary and permanent content available https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/southsun/New-armour/first#post1994225 No new Armor skins with Southsun https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/southsun/Crab-Tossing-A-new-mini-game Crab Tossing mini-game will only be around during this living story arc - get your cheevos AQAP   Colin Johanson (and players) Doesn’t Think Magic Find is fun http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/1125-colin-johanson-on-magic-find-and-may-updates/ Ideally we’d like to keep our magic find AND have awesome stats. Perhaps Magic Find could be transferred to a potion or something. I don’t know it’s awkward to try to solve this problem that people have with it.   Ask An Asuran If you’re like me and desperately in need of a new server color don’t lose heart... https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Current-System-hampers-World-Completion/first#post1975221 Devon Carver announces that they’re working on a way to shake things up as far as server ranking tier match-ups and colors.   I know we’re coming to the end of Flame & Frost but there’s plenty of lore that unfortunately wasn’t introduced/discussed in-game. If you only played through the content you only have half the story (I find this terribly disappointing but I do understand that not everyone has a love of lore). Angel McCoy and Scott McGough sit down on the official youtube channel and with WarTower do discuss the basics and advanced story aspects of F&F. Additionally Angel McCoy wrote a blog post describing Rox’s background to go along with Braham’s which we were able to read before the living story began. http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/49691195928/in-this-lorespecial-episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4usI3LWcHc https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/roxs-tale/ https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/brahams-story/   Tales of Tyria Jeromai “Solos” MWF and Repairs to tell the Tale http://whyigame.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/gw2-molten-weapons-facility-solo/ For those who hate the fact that F&F ends with a group dungeon instead of solo content...   Sarasti from Tarnished Coast is seriously gifted https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/fangen/Some-GW2-fan-art Cele - my favorite is the necromancer, the lines (or lack thereof) are stunning   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Allona: twitter.com/onebigpear

Chris and Celeste aren't disbanding but Celeste needs a co-host for next week's show. We talk about the April 30th patch and all the awesome stuff that came with it. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: nearly done with wvw map completion, need most of blue bl champion risen baron/baroness in cursed shore is AWFUL MWF dungeon Chris: World Completion! 65% baby! Lornar’s Pass is almost complete, only one heart left. I so DESPERATELY want to sPvP, as Harry Hol keeps talking about it, but I need MORE TIME! Where’s the doctor when I need him?   Report from Lion’s Arch April 30th Update Notes https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-April-30-2013 Molten Weapons Facility dungeon custom arena and spectator mode general bug fixes for events “Reduced the chatter frequency of player characters.” Profession and Pet updates new gem store items A Short Guide to Flame & Frost Retribution https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-flame-frost-retribution/ can do the dungeon repeatedly and loot chest but mining nodes are on a 24hr cooldown alliance breaker achievement will grant a “chest” that gives you a ticket to choose a set of gloves (acct bound), you don’t have to choose right away but once you’ve chosen you’re done. dungeon running ends on May 12, after which an epilogue will play out until the 16th https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Official-explanation-for-temporary-content/first#post1949860 http://www.killtenrats.com/2013/05/01/gw2-disconnecting-the-molten-facility/ there will be a cheevo for the epilogue though it doesn’t look like there will be more rewards associated with F&F Custom Arena Rundown http://www.pcgamesn.com/guildwars/hands-guild-wars-2s-custom-arenas-and-spectator-mode If you want to get visual (hehe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvPc6GubwA paying a time upkeep is nice in that the cost can be shared amongst a guild/group but it’s also another “hidden” cost. For a PvP guild it could end up being the equivalent of a subscription cost. something that I hadn’t seen mentioned elsewhere is that when you spectate a specific player you’re able to see their equipment, traits, and bonuses/stats each player/spectator takes a player slot on the “server” and there are only 20 possible slots Tales of Tyria Some amazing camera manipulation leads to this growly face https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/links/Wake-up-to-this-in-the-morning   Snaff’s Demise https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/fangen/Snaff-s-Demise-Fan-Art   Cross-stitched Asura Elementalist https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/fangen/Cross-stitched-Asuran-Elementalist   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

Chris and Celeste know the future! Not really, we just spent a lot of time describing the update incoming on April 30th. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: worked on monthly cried about working on my armor pursuits Sorrow’s Embrace SM (using gw2lfg during the day works awesome) timberline falls is still buggy as hell Chris: Zone Completion: Working through Lornar’s Pass. Just getting the last few tricky ones. Helped someone with the tricky vista that I go last week. Pick effects are awesome   Report from Lion’s Arch  Flame and Frost: Retribution https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/april-30-2013/ New Story Dungeon - Molten Weapons Facility (MWF to be run on M, W, and F :P ) Custom Arenas & Spectator Mode WvW Abilities (arrowcart mastery, more guard killer levels) new guild missions (quaggan guild rush, 30 new guild treks) guild branded siege weapons back banners! Custom PvP Arenas & Spectator Mode - Jonathan Sharp, Steve Bikun, & Evan Lesh https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-custom-pvp-arenas-and-spectator-mode-beta/ limited beta to be expanded but everyone will be able to play *in* one amazing amount of customization and gameplay options will be purchasable through the gem store after beta is over and it’s officially launched regulated through rental time also purchased through the gem store spectator mode released on april 30th cameras or player view Rytlock’s Critter Rampage https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/presenting-the-rytlocks-critter-rampage-game/ kick critters and quaggans and have fun I am not a wizard. I am not good at easy either. The 3 possible endings (https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/sab/Rylock-s-Critter-Rampage-Endings/first#post1877937) for the full run http://youtu.be/gwuMyU_nJcU   Ask An Asuran Why is the Super Adventure Box person a bookah? And why is it written in New Krytan? https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/sab/Fridge-genius/first#post1886096 teaches asuran progeny how to interact with bookahs   Tales of Tyria Play GW2 with jelly beans (no, really) http://youtu.be/D_a0NMKilyc?t=1m24s   GW2 30 Day Challenge http://dontscary.tumblr.com/post/48304358925/30-day-guild-wars-2-challenge   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Ele to 80 made another guardian worked on my engineer a little Chris: Engineer to 12 Zone completion on my Warrior Bioshock Infinite Report from Lion’s Arch Guild Wars 8th Anniversary http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/eight_year_anniversary/ April 22 - 29 Shing Jea Boardwalk New Item: Gift Card - Redeem this card with Xunlai Gift Givers to receive one birthday gift box from years past (means there won’t be an 8th year birthday present or any after presumably) Brief Description on Retribution https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/april-30-2013/ Final Chapter, will we perhaps get something new in May or will there be a break between living story updates? attacking weapons testing facilities “final hybrid menace” More Gem Store Items Than You Can Shake a Pick At! https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/red-hot-new-items-in-the-gem-store-now/ unlimited molten alliance pick - SO AWESOME flame and frost dye kits and the same vests again... why? WVW Reset Times Are A’Changing https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/changing-wvw-match-reset-times/ 3PM PDT/ 22UTC   Ask An Asuran If you’ve ever been curious why Race Change wasn’t an option in the Total Makeover Kits this thread offers some insights as to why https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/bltc/Race-Change-4/page/2#post1848042 Lots of conflicts with personal storyline, race (and faction because of the storyline reset) based armors and weapons Would help players who want to change their character more than what they can in the TMK but don’t want to restart their character completely.   Tales of Tyria   A Gathering of NPC Talent http://youtu.be/mm5VwYcIXJk (for stream http://youtu.be/mm5VwYcIXJk?t=2m43s Major-General Parody)   I Can’t http://alemja.deviantart.com/art/Can-You-Handle-The-Graphics-363604033   Argos Soft’s Armor Gallery http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/   20$ off of digital edition, and 25$ off of digital deluxe https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/sale ends april 28 Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

Chris insults a whole server and Celeste seems to have the giggles the whole time. Lederhosen and Wuv Wuv. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Guild bounties, WvW and SAB ele to 76  Chris: Guild Bounties SAB Play time? What freakin’ playtime.   Report from Lion’s Arch Leaderboards are Online https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-leaderboards/ PvP, WvW, and Achievements for the top 1000 players NA/EU split https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/achievements PvP is organized by their internal ranking algorithm, which isn’t obvious at this point   Cos-meh-tic http://mmogypsy.com/2013/04/gw2-the-three-fold-cosmetics-fail.html I think some of the town clothes are silly looking and by that I mean generic and don’t work on non-human shaped characters. I’m not super crazy about the armors available so I’d like to be able to use cosmetic skins the rest of the time but I CAN’T and it makes me frustrated. Also, why can’t I transmute between armor types? WHY? the comments section posits the idea that NCSoft is controlling what goes into the shop and how it can be used (tinfoil hat imho)   Revisiting GW1 http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/04/09/flameseeker-chronicles-returning-to-a-simpler-time-in-guild-war/ Dragon hunting can be tiring, just ask Dovahkiin I always forget that the Charr scared Vizier Khilbron so much that he sank the whole continent. Extinct Gargoyles is my Super Adventure Box cover band. I still want to know why I can’t drop an Althea’s Ashes in GW1’s Hall of Monuments and pick it up as an infused item in GW2. In the same vein, why can’t I drop all my gold and be rich. Ask An Asuran https://twitter.com/Artphul/status/320134126776762369 @gwreporter how will I craft a legendary if I don't run dungeons? You can’t. The fact is that for each legendary they require a Gift of ___ based on the legendary you choose.   When is Sea of Sorrows (AKA Guild Wars Book 3) going to be released? Perhaps June 25(unconfirmed), but check out this sweet cover http://books.simonandschuster.com/Guild-Wars-Sea-of-Sorrows/Ree-Soesbee/9781416589624 Sea of Sorrows is set to tell the tale of Cobiah Mariner who restablishes the port of Lion’s Arch   Tales of Tyria Me and My Mini Getting All Ready. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Your-Mini-and-You-In-Cute-Poses   Quaggans Love Crab Cakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhuPJA9A5A   See you in the Punny Pages https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Guild-Wars-and-Guild-Wars-2-jokes   Giveaway weekend trial keys for GW2 http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/loadNews/27295 http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/gw2-april-15th-giveaway http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=32156 http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/guild-wars-2-free-access-giveaway/   Request for community events of the week/bi-week. Send us an email! If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!   Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 (and our new widget on the ride hand side of the page) youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com   Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar

Chris and Celeste go back in time for this special 8bit themed Super Adventure heavy episode. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Guild Bounty Training SAB Dead Drops and Sonic Periscopes Chris: Super Adventure Box is super!   Report from Lion’s Arch Super Adventure Box https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/april-2013/ 3 levels of awesome Moto creates the SAB as a VR teaching tool for the Progeny (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/video-the-origin-of-super-adventure-box/ Origin of SAB) basically a gigantic jumping puzzle without falling damage available during the whole month of April SABFAQ https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/your-super-adventure-box-questions-answered/ I’m not sure how they knew the frequently asked questions when it was on the day of release and people hadn’t asked too many questions about it. No in-game skills, weapons, buffs or pets can be taken into SAB easy mode is the only mode for me (clouds pooping rainbows ftw) dodge jump is an awesome tip always carry a towel is a lovely reference   Music of SAB https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-music-of-super-adventure-box/ I’ll be honest this goes WAY over my head. adds an authentic feel to the graphics, definitely puts you in a different mindset than the gorgeous graphics, sweeping soundtrack that tyria normally has. https://soundcloud.com/arenanet   SAB Gem Store Items https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/april-means-super-adventure-box-items-in-the-gem-store/ (video of the new box http://youtu.be/6sIRXCD_jpo?t=6m42s) They’re cute but not something I’d spend money on, however the weapon skins you can trade for are certainly worth looking at   What Are You Thankful to ArenaNet For? http://mmogypsy.com/2013/03/gw2-appreciation-day-or-the-seven-months-recap.html couldn’t agree with the underuse of the store and the way they’ve implemented town clothes, the devs argument that it breaks immersion is a nice touch but feels like it’s just an excuse to say that town clothes are town clothes and that’s the end of it. Celeste - deposit collectible, incredible music(yes, even the minstrel), awesome armor colors and dynamic events Chris - The ability to jump in and play for short burst of time and still have an amazing experience. I haven’t paid for content since launch, and that makes me really happy.   Ask An Asuran https://twitter.com/DWalck/status/319966569650323456 @gwreporter I hear there are possibilities of 6 elder dragons...what is this I hear of the jungle dragon?   Origin of the idea : In Crucible of Eternity you’re preventing the Inquest from harnessing power from the elder dragons in order to create their own creatures. When you’re in the dungeon you see that there are 6 areas devoted to this task rather than 5. We were told there were 5 ED: Primordius, Jormag, Kralkatorrik, Bubbles (the deep sea dragon) and Zhaitan. Confirmations: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/lore/NPC-talking-about-six-dragons, http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1abqro/colin_johanson_eurogamer_interview_jungle_dragon/, and many more examples in-game. What information is available: It’s a jungle dragon existing in the maguuma jungle/wastes, anything else is speculation either educated or wild. Named Mordremoth, possible source of corruption for the Sylvari (we know there may be other trees that could be influenced and since the trees are sentient and we’re likely to run into alt-tree sylvari more often perhaps the corruption could be spread to The Pale Tree), may have transformed the jungle into the wastes. Something to Ponder: There could be more than 6 elder dragons, the number 6 came from the Jotun Stelae (“6 swallowers”), Tyria (the world) is HUGE. It could be that only 6 have been encountered by the surviving sentient races of Tyria.

Chris and Celeste chat about the new living story chapter, World vs World and how to hook your friends on Guild Wars 2. Listen now: What We Did This Week  Celeste: Wuv Wuv post update (for a little bit) living story Chris: ...

Celeste nearly forgets to release an episode but gets reminded by her thoughtful guildies. Listen now: What We Did This Week   Celeste: HoTW Path 1 & 2 jeweler to 400 on my ranger ele to 66 gathering storm done   Chris: Zone Completion - Queensdale done! Moving on to Frostgorge Sound! Behemoth   Report from Lion’s Arch   Culling is culled (or will be soon) https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-vs-worldthe-end-of-culling/ hi-res, low-res, nameplates and quantity displayed makes this a HUGE improvement for everyone   Is GW2 already geared towards veterans? http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/03/12/has-guild-wars-2-become-too-complicated/ even Isiah Cartwright doesn’t know how many types of currencies there are in gw2 and that number set to be shrinking or at least being limited down possibly behind a levelling wall to help new players from being overwhelmed by all of the current ones. looking at ways to allow smaller guilds to be more competitive when it comes to influence gathering streamlining the UI “23.8% of participants w/ 2000+ hrs on #GuildWars2 also reported that the UI was "very impractical". This is higher than all the other groups” (https://twitter.com/DistilledWill/status/313671780797669377) “Similarly, 24% of participants w/ 1-500 hrs on GuildWars2 reported that the UI was "very practical", which is higher than the other groups.” (https://twitter.com/DistilledWill/status/313672145135878145)   Guesting and Dragon Chests http://huntersinsight.com/2013/03/16/big-chests-and-ample-booty/ guesting to another world before timers pop make sure that players on the home world have the highest probability of being thrown into an overflow huge effect on the high-end economies

Chris and Celeste put a little more wuv in the wuv and talk about how ArenaNet can best monetize their game. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: 4 manned CoF, TA EM (up path) and AC EM (howling king) Farming Meta events/dragons Chris: Shatterer Zone Completion on my Warrior PAX Prep - I have my GW2 appointment booked!   Report from Lion’s Arch IGN sits down with colin johanson http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/07/how-guild-wars-2-plans-to-survive “I think that ascended gear was something we should have had at launch,” Johanson says. “We didn’t have something above that exotic level that you put in a lot of time and earn it, but you don’t have to put in your whole life to earn it like a legendary weapon. Is this going to become a gear-tiered game where you’re constantly on this treadmill to chase after that stuff? My hope would be no. I think that certainly in 2013 you’re not going to see another tier of gear.” In the same interview (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/05/no-guild-wars-2-expansions-currently-planned): No sequels being planned or actively worked on for guild wars 2, which means they are completely relying on the living story and tightening up the existing world to convey their company through the next year at least. What does that mean when the living story hasn’t added a fair amount of content to be considered an “expansion’s worth” between the last 2 updates and coming into the third? Prepare for people to be amassing guild merits, commendations, and legendaries as well as some real-life player culling. March’s WvW Patch (Habib Loew, WvW Coordinator and Principle Programmer) http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7169/Guild-Wars-2-What-Marchs-WvW-Patch-Will-Bring.html Supposedly will eliminate culling completely From GuildMag’s “This Week” column http://www.guildmag.com/this-week-in-guild-wars-2-65 “On the official Guild Wars 2 forums, Mike Ferguson posted on the topic What if culling is unfixable?: “Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in March. Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.” [Raphia: Since the February update, I've actually been seeing culling far more often in PvE than before. I ran up to a dynamic event at Penitent Camp in Cursed Shore, but I only saw the particle effects. There were no Risen or players visible until I had been within the area of the event for several seconds.]” World XP can net you new titles and passive abilities for wvw, can be earned by completing events and killing invaders. Coming later (maybe): notification and guild claiming for wvw, more love for wvw in the future Ravious Spoils GW2 (SHHHHH Zhaitan dies!) http://www.killtenrats.com/2013/03/08/gw2-lore-thoughts-on-the-living-story/ https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/march-2013/#flame-and-frost-the-razing “In the current living story arc, Flame and Frost, the dredge are buddies with the Flame Legion. Who saw that coming? A xenophobic ex-slave race teamed up with an abrasive, slave-loving faction. Perhaps dredge found new owners, but that seems unlikely for an “alliance”” where this potential alliance could have come from seems to be dungeon related rather than historically centered more temporal conflict discussion regarding not being able to set this to be a leader into a new elder dragon fight when players will be unable to be on the same page of the story Feeling as though there’s been no cleanup post Zhaitan fight since they haven’t been able to implement a change zone wide as it’s a persistent world.

Hello MMO Reporter listeners! We're going to PAX East! Here's a quick recap of our previous PAX coverage, to give you a heads up on what to expect. We'll be putting all of the content out on the MMO Reporter podcast feed, so make sure to subscribe (details here) to get all of the audio sent right to your computer. for our videos, check out the main site  or our Youtube Page to get them as soon as they're posted. But we also need your help! Harry and I want to record a video for the song attached below, but we need an acoustic guitar to borrow for a few hours on Sunday! We won't ACTUALLY be playing it, but we need Harry to mime along as we record the video. If you can help us, please send me a message at chris AT mmoreporter DOT com and let me know! See you in-game!

Chris and Celeste do a dungeon together, talk about the February update, and tell you a guaranteed way to get banned. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Honor of the Waves SM Jumping puzzle Updated the Heritage Armor wiki page ...

Chris and Celeste have lunch with Colin Johanson (by proxy), dig in to the influence problem with the new guild missions, and give you some math homework to look over. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: Font of Rhand & fractal ...