Summary: Celeste and Allona recap The Dragon's Reach: Part the Deuce (spoilers ahoy, ye be warned) and speculate on the upcoming September Feature Patch. Audio Version What We Did This Week Allona Casually happened onto an active Tequatl map … that was successful! Some light keyfarming, one run with listener, Cara(?) -- which was super cool. kvgh ighhn;gs hm lra! LIGHT OF DWAYNA backpiece! It is gorgeous! It makes me gorgeous! And the only reason I was able to finish it this soon (soon being relative) was due to some incredibly generous people. Thank you thank you thank you! Living World … all solo … owie owie owie Explored the new region of Dry Top Celeste More Keyfarming Living Story Livestreaming Wednesday’s at 9:30pm EST/6:30pm PST at twitch.tv/mmoreporter. You can also subscribe to the audio version of the podcast on iTunes! Remember to rate and/or review Guild Wars Reporter. Patreon thanks: Special thanks to Martin for being generous and contributing to our Patreon campaign, we truly appreciate your support. Report from Lion’s Arch The Dragon’s Reach Part 2 https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-12-2014/ https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-12-2014 There’s a nasty rumor going around about the Queen Phlunt takes Taimi’s WP recalibration device Taimi reacts, as a child would, and runs Unfortunately the Inquest runs into her first We finally get all the damn bureaucrats to the summit (apparently Asura & Humans aren’t trustworthy?) Shadow of the Dragon shows up and tries to kick ass We kick its butt but The Avatar of the Pale Tree is weakened Mysterious Seed backpiece expansion Feed it your bloodstone dust PvP reward track for Arid Region - Maguuma Jungle & Maguuma Wastes (thanks for pointing out to me M, I totally skipped it ~C) From the game patch notes - I’m really interested to replay The Battle of Claw Island because the audio has been revamped. A: I am really interested in this as well, and my warrior is on this bit in her personal story! Our thoughts on this episode Allona’s thesis: My high level review is that I felt really satisfied by this episode, both in what we learn and what we had to do; and in where it leaves off considering we are going in to a mid-season break. Specifically: I LOVED Canach and Annise, like, a lot. I also liked the many hints being dropped (coughLiviacoughwhitemantlecough) … remember Angel McCoy said they only put stuff in if it’s important! I enjoyed the mechanics of the party (side note: the random NPC dialogue was fantastic!). The only thing was it took a while for me to figure out that I had to linger around groups for the trigger to question someone to appear, but not before I ran from circle to circle chasing the disappearing green stars on the mini map for way too long a time! The middle part with Taimi was fun, but a bit less interesting than the rest of the episode (sorry Taimi! I still lurves you!), well, other than Phlunt. Normally Asura are still fun and charming when they’re jerks, but not this guy. Love to hate Phlunt. The summit was cool and, man, that last fight! I had broken armour! It’s been AGES since I’ve had broken armour! It didn’t help that I was running an alternate build for the bulk of it. It got much easier after I broke combat (ie: hid in a corner) and switched back to ol’ reliable. As far as the final vision: I’m still digesting that. It almost looked like the vines were choking out crystals … Is Mordy going to remove Kralkatorrik for us? The pact might send it a thank you note since K was next on their hit list. Celeste: It works. It was good. I didn’t like that Phlunt was a jerkface, I didn’t like that we had to go back and deal with political crap. I realize that this just goes along with needing to be the lead character (http://thepaletree.net/2014/08/13/shadows-have-fallen/).
