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This week we catch up on the news, notes, and community pulse of what we missed after our week off. We discuss what we think the game is missing and what we hope to see in the elusive “WVW Patch” that should be coming soon.
Since the implementation of guild missions a couple of weeks ago, the Guild Wars 2 community has expressed a wide variety of, well, concern. A significant portion of small-to-medium guilds have not been able to even start the process of learning guild missions because of the high Influence requirements as well as the fact that the Art of War guild upgrades need to have been unlocked before a guild bounty can be unlocked. Right before the update, we saw a developer blog where smaller guilds were reassured that they would be able to participate in guild missions with ease. Unfortunately, the result is that while players can technically participate in another guild’s mission, they cannot earn the valuable rewards for participating.
This leaves a smaller guild with few options. The guild can merge with another, larger guild, which would work nicely for guild missions, but might harm either guild community. The guild can also actively recruit, which is probably the most effective possibility, but also extremely difficult when large guilds right now already offer a large chunk of guild missions and challenges. The third option is to unlock guild missions using gold. This seems to be the route that many smaller guilds are currently taking, but it’s proving to be a difficult road so far.
Are you that guy who all your guildmates come to in search of trait, stat, and weapon build advice? Do you lead others on the WvW battlefield and write up nifty guides on the forums about how to be a pro at your favorite profession? Are you an endless source of information when it comes to lore, fractals, dungeons, new game features, PvP, crafting, or anything in between? How would you like to share that knowledge with thousands of viewers?
You might just be in luck. Guild Wars 2 Junkies is looking to add a few more enthusiastic, talented volunteer writers to our team. All that we ask is that you’re a true fan of Guild Wars 2 and can show us that you know a thing or two about writing. Oh, yeah, and if you love to take in-game videos, that’s an even bigger plus! You’re more than welcome to set your own schedule and write whenever your feel inspired. Whether your gameplay expertise is PvP, PvE, or instanced PvE, we can find a spot for you! If you do an awesome, consistent job, there may even be opportunities for this to become a paid position. The Junkies Nation network is currently looking to expand. You might just be who we’re looking for!
If you have any questions or would like to apply to become a writer for Junkies Nation and Guild Wars 2 Junkies, please feel free to contact Jason Dodge at dreagon@rerollz.net or Laura Hardgrave at laurah@rerollz.com. Make sure to have a writing sample handy when you contact us!
This week we have some fun discussing some post drama shenanigans with Aneu, GM of VotF and AGM Evoex of LotD. Along with our discussion about the ascendance of Blackgate and the downfall of Sea of Sorrows we discuss the future of the game and touch a little on ArcheAge.
We all have things we love about Guild Wars 2, places that make us cheer out and say “yes, this is my ultra-mega place!” We all have classes, abilities, and features we’re passionate about, either negatively or positively. This is a place to share all that. Once a week I’ll be raising a Guild Wars 2 question to the community– hopefully an interesting one– and we’ll share our opinions. I’ll start off with my opinion just to get the ball rolling, but these questions will not have any right or wrong answers, so feel free to argue with me to your heart’s content!
Despite the fact that we’re in the middle of ArenaNet’s latest adventure in bringing us different styles of world events and corresponding updates every other month or so, there was one update that didn’t make February’s cut, and well… let’s just say it’s a bit of an elephant in the room for many dedicated GW2 players. Yep, I’m talking about the big, exciting, promised WvW update. I don’t think the update being pushed back was nearly as drastic a matter as many folks on the official forums made it out to be, but it still was a disappointment for many.
The trouble with disappointments in an MMORPG is that they’re never good for the game. With as varied of a playerbase ArenaNet is hoping to entice into sticking around, there is bound to be a little bit of disappointment, and that’s kind of the problem that many MMO developers are currently running into. Developers attempt to do too much. They try and create updates for every single feature of the game at the same time in order to please everyone at the same time. This simply isn’t possible without a ginormous staff and/or plenty of features planned years in advance. The bottom line is that when MMO developers take this “gotta please ‘em all!” mindset, someone’s probably going to end up disappointed at the end of the day.
This week we get to the bottom of some nasty rumors swirling around the second week of T1 drama. We get to the bottom of Fist of the Empire’s move to Blackgate from Sea of Sorrows as well as talk about the ramifications of the move with MERC and TSYM.
Join us and get in on the Tier 1 Mania! We’ve got Jedbacca of Jade Quarry, Tytos Hill of Sanctum of Rall and Jerico of Sea of Sorrows and we get to listen to them hash out who is dominant in Tier 1 and why. We talk about WvW, upcoming changes, what to expect. We also get to learn a little bit about what it takes to dominate the T1 bracket.