Summary: 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. Listen now: 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! 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! Check out our new widget (and link to our information page) on mmoreporter.com. We’re trying to send Harry Hol to PAX East! Rather than get a sponsor, we’re trying to go ad free for our content this time around, and we want your help! Click to donate or on the link below the widget to find out more information. Contact Info Email: gwreporter@mmoreporter.com twitter: twitter.com/gwreporter site: guildwarsreporter.com Voicemail: 616-666-6778 youtube: youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork facebook: facebook.com/gwreporter guild: collegium-gw2.guildlaunch.com Celeste: twitter.com/CeleOOKIE Chris: twitter.com/almazar
