Summary: Celeste and Allona track Scarlet and offer up some ideas as to what we'll be seeing from Arenanet in the "feature-only releases" coming later this year. Listen now: What We Did This Week Allona: More alt-ing One diving goggles left for cheevo! Which one? Aetherblade of course! (note: I may never succeed on this one if I’m unable do it with a team of three mesmers). Working on Fashion title. It’s haaaard (and by ‘hard’ I mean expensive). Celeste: Toypocalypse (nearly done with wintersday cheevos, definitely cutting it close!) Aetherblade/Not So Secret (puzzle but not goggles) Report from Lion’s Arch The Madness Trailer http://youtu.be/KhrVVkHmwt4 what the hell is up with the VO for this?! (Allona: Ominous! I like it!) Two new world bosses - Three-headed jungle wurm in Bloodtide and Clockwork Marionette in Lornar’s Pass Marionette appears to be part of the Thump, Thump, Time to Jump line from the metronome (Allona: aren’t both bosses part of this? Wurm unintended though?) Speaking of the marionette, it was teased in DR (http://imgur.com/a/pgkq2) Tapestry of Devotion from HoM (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080625040851/gw/images/7/7f/Tapestry_of_Devotion.jpg) More marionette type artwork for EoTN & Utopia (http://guild-guardian.tumblr.com/post/73427465512/ok-so-every-3rd-reblog-of-that-tapestry-post-has-a) CHRONOMANCER PLS! NAO. THX. (Allona: +1) There was someone that alluded on reddit that Scarlet may have influenced the inquest into recreating the iron forgeman and since it is powered by draconic energies it has Scarlet written all over it (now that we know a lot about her). (Celeste: People were kinda pissed about the allusion. I think’s it’s kinda cool and makes sense though I don’t know that Scarlet would have much influence over Kudu.) (Allona: Kudu loves power and surviving, I would think Scarlet promised both. [side note: Kudu is my favourite villain]) Someone figured out where the new world bosses will be by the angle of the shots in the trailer http://imgur.com/a/WxIsx#eEPEye5 (Celeste - All I can think of is, “Crap, no WP near the worm”) (Allona: I think the wurm is in a couple locations?) “You thought that was it for Guild Wars 2?” http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2 Sales are in decline but the game is still poised to release in Asia (as well as other regions) Are the two “big background projects” expansions? God, I hope so! (Allona: Not sure really what else they could be) "The thing that we haven't decided yet," he went on, "is what form that type of content will take. Is it right for Guild Wars 2 for that kind of boxed expansion? Is it right for that to be something we add, live, through storylines in the game? Is that something we want to sell through our in-game store? There are a lot of different options available to us.” "... but we absolutely are going to do sweeping new features that you would traditionally only get in expansions - large regions, content and progression additions to your characters in the form of growth and professions and races. Those are all things that you will see in the lifespan of Guild Wars 2." We know the feature-rich patch will be coming in April most likely as the living world wraps up with its final release (for season 1) on march 4th Author says he was told everything that will be happening the next few patches, don’t you just want to invade his brain and find out? Even if you couldn’t tell anyone? (Allona: YES!) “ArenaNet has "a couple of issues" to address with WVW before another league begins. "And once that's live," said Johanson, "we'll start the next season."” So I guess we won’t be starting on a yearly schedule with the WvW season starting in October. “.. get serious about eSports?” basically Colin’s response is China,
