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Relics of Orr
Guild Wars 2 banter and news, plus hefty rehashing of the original Guild Wars. Relics of Orr delves deep into the previews supplied by Arena Net and offers tips to players of the original game. Plenty of speculation too for the theorycrafters and the spectators.
In this episode we talk mostly about WvW and the new mount. We also briefly touch on the layoffs at ArenaNet towards the end.
Shongaqu and Spirit Discuss the WvW mount, the Sirens Landing fractal, twitter story hints and the round of layoffs hitting ANet.
In this Episode; Greibach, Spirit and Shongaqu discuss the latest living world map Thunderhead Keep
Greibach, Spirit and Shongaqu discuss the story beats of the 5th episode of Guild Wars 2's third living world season. During this episode of the podcast we also speculate on the nature of dragons and why Spirit passionately hates the number 3 above all other numbers!
Greibach, Spirit and Shongaqu discuss Wintersday, the new year, as well as elements of the new Living World Release "All or Nothing". No spoilers this episode!
A LARGE SPOILER BOUNCER APPROACHES AND WARNS YOU THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE STORY THIS WEEK. SPOILERS.
In this episode we discuss things we missed due to real life, current events, and the upcoming Living World chapter. The only spoilers are speculation based on officially released material. Rytlock Sandwich- https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1040315082813698048
A LARGE RAINBOW WYVERN-ARMOR WEARING SPOILER BOUNCER SAYS "WE TALK ABOUT THE NEW LIVING STORY CHAPTER'S STORY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED."
ERP Tournament (Siiiiiiigh) All videos on Mighty Teapot’s Channel - one match with a 6 seconds difference SC vs US (a very close match!) https://youtu.be/mhkI9lds3Ig
A LARGE SPOILER BOUNCER APPEARS IN FRONT OF YOU AND SAYS, "WE TALK ABOUT A BUG IN THE SYSTEM'S STORY."
SPOILER WARNING: We discuss all chapters of the PoF story that take place in Highlands, if you have moved past the Highlands you will be safe to listen. April Fool's Airplane Music because Greibach left and took the cool opening with him Halloween - New Rewards & Mount Skins The Sacrifice Crystalline Memories Hallowed Ground Facing the Truth Castcast
In this episode we discuss the story that occurs on the first map off the expansion. Also Shongaqu busts out some Balthazar and Lyssa theories that make me roll my eyes.
Pink Day
Pink Day in LA is returning once again on October 21st at 12-6pm CST (-6 UTC). It is an online charity event hosted by Gamers Giving Back (with the help of countless volunteers) in support of cancer awareness and to raise funds for cancer research. http://pinkday.gamergivingback.com/
In this episode we discuss the expansion, Path of Fire! We discuss mounts and collections the most, with some talk of the first map and random other topics. Story is not discussed at all this week so there should be no spoilers on that front.
Shongaqu, Spirit and MMOInks talk about GW2's 5th Birthday and the Recent Specialization Preview Weekend
Erik and Christian take over the show to talk about the latest living world release! They also discuss balance patch woes? Intro music: Summer Shade 2013 Per Kiilstofe Found on Machinamasounds.com
SPOILER BOUNCER WARNING: We tried to stay away from story spoilers but discuss minor details related to the story near the end in response to a mail question.
In our 200th episode we try to talk about the map of Draconis Mons, but predictably get sidetracked often. Also, there are spoilers immediately for the story for this LW chapter.
A BIG BURLY SPOILER BOUNCER APPROACHES AND INFORMS YOU THAT WE TALK ALL ABOUT THE STORY FROM LW SEASON 3 CHAPTER 5. LITERALLY THE WHOLE THING IS SPOILERS.
In which we talk about SAB and the past year of Legendary development while speculating on the number and cadence of future Living World releases. URL for SAB Guild Hall: https://goo.gl/CIrqgk
In this episode we talk about Necromancers' place in raids vs everywhere else, raid composition diversity/meta, raid story, and other assorted nonsense.
A BURLY SPOILER BOUNCER COMES UP TO YOU AND SAYS, "WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE STORY STUFF FROM THIS LIVING WORLD CHAPTER. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED." A lovely young woman also warns you that there were audio recording and editing issues that plagued this episode. We're sorry.
A BURLY SPOILER BOUNCER WALKS UP AND SAYS "In this episode we talk about the story of the newest raid in detail and slip in a spoiler about the Living World Story. Beware."
Hosts:
Greibach- Pear and/or Blackberry Cider Spirit - Lemon Lime Soda w/ Rum Celeste - grapes Allona - 2014 Pelee Island Cabernet Sauvignon (I am fancy as shit)
Inventory managment in GW2 be like https://gfycat.com/CreepyPerso... Topics: (LOL ORGANIZATION?) Nightmare Fractal & Challenge Mode
Who the heck is the Harbinger of Woe?
Season 5 PvP -
New rewards (Black Llama, Glorious Heroes Armor, ascended armor)
Implementation of the Solo-Duo Queue only
Skyhammer being added to ranked play, Stronghold ousted
Rating Decay - You will be able to lose your badges if you are an inactive player
Dev comment
How do you folks who PvP feel about this? I don’t PvP in GW2, but in OW rank only decays in the top 2 leagues which makes a whole lot of sense to me, and it only does so after a week (I think). This sounds really aggressive, but I also don’t know jack about GW2 PvP
Potentially new PvP levels? Eagle eyed viewers spotted a level 83 player in a preview video. Confirmed, and will be applied retroactively.
December 13th - February 7th
Zone Impressions:
Aesthetic
Wintersday update:
“Fixed a bug that could cause present boxes in the Winter Wonderland activity to prematurely explode.”
“Reduced the unbound magic acquired from gathering and consuming winterberries.”
New Current Event: “Continued attacks by the Shining Blade and their allies have lowered the health of some bandit bosses on bandit supply lines in Kryta.” https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5i5gf0/new_current_event/Infinarium
The spoilers bouncer tells you to beware Living Story Episode 3 spoilers. If you have not finished the episode you'll want to do so first! In which everyone had a great time with the episode and still manages to find something to complain about. :C
The team travels to old Droknar's Forge and meet some Asura, will they be friends? or will they be foes?
The team makes their way to The Priory in order to find out how to access the dwarven vaults.
After a successful mission Spirit the Relics of Orr guild master sends Evee out on a new mission to recover lost Dwarven relics.
We discuss Chapter 2 of Living Story 3 (SPOILER WARNING), the new Current Events and how Greibach is out of the loop, and our joy that Legendaries are actually back!
Links from the show notes
New Trailer https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/ember-bay-behind-the-scenes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/51yppx/dolyak_parade_in_la_sacrificed_themselves_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/520thl/i_think_i_witnessed_something_i_wasnt_supposed_to/
Relics Rolls: http://relicsoforr.com/blog/pen-and-paper/430193/introducing-relics-rolls
In which we discuss: * Long term impact of HoT and systems introduced in HoT * Quarterly patches and Living Story Frequency/Engagement * MO's tenure as Game Director * Communication policy * Community health * Current events (in game) * How well does the game hold up/how well has it aged? * Is the game dying? (Spoilers: Not really)
An experimental tabletop adventure begins with an attempt to retrieve a mysterious artefact from a krait stronghold. Read the introduction to this series on our blog, or learn more about the Desundra RPG system's rules.
A RAINBOW COLORED NORN SPOILER BOUNCER STEPS UP AND INFORMS YOU THAT WE DISCUSS THE REMAINDER OF THE STORY FOR THE LATEST LIVING WORLD CHAPTER. Congrats to Guild Wars Reporter on their 200th Episode! We apologize for our lack of submitted audio, we are bad at podcasting.
A Burly Spoiler Bouncer steps up and says: "IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT THE STORY OF LIVING WORLD SEASON 3."
Spoilers Warning: Raid Story Wing 3 Topics:
Out of the Shadows Taimi’s Journals (Go read them!) Notes from Rata Novus - One,Two, Three Taimi has a ley line map like in the HoT story, and magic is going crazy pants bonkers but there might be a discernable pattern, Plant Plant gets trampled by some awful Phlunts, Rata Sum has discovered Rata Novus WINDALL Taimi isn’t sleeping and rambles a lot, there is a LOT of information on Primordus and Kralkatorrik in particular here, either is a possible target, but I think it’s all but confirmed at this point we’ll be going after kralkatorrik just based on how the game has progressed over the last few years
Interview with Queen Jennah Trailer????????????? Wooden Potatoes frame-by-frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0eciDZO-g
BIG SPOILER BOUNCER SAYS: In this episode we talk about the new Raid Wing. We use the bosses' names and discuss some of the fight mechanics and terrain but do not delve into the lore beyond the names. On the "Special" BLTC skins- https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Untradable-weapon-skins/page/2#post6201888
In which Greibach loses track of the episode number, Spirit can't articulate very well, and Vrabin gets real excited about BANDITS. BIG SPOILER BOUNCER SAYS: In this episode we draw on lore from all over the game, including Personal Story and Living Story, Dungeons, Raids 1 and 2, Guild Wars 1 pretty much all at once to discuss the bandit storyline. If you have major concerns about any of these being spoiled for you, proceed only with extreme caution. Mail TIIIME Greibach! Spirit! You adorable ragamuffins! Hail my friends, it’s Old Timey Fend. You know, from Tyria? Anywho, I was just preparin’ a heaping bowl of my famous Meaty Wurm Surprise when a question came to mind. Sadly, that question almost immediately disappeared into the inky blackness of Old Timey’s mind-hole, but then I spotted a band of roaming bandits out my wind-er and it got me thinking: With all the hubbub about the White Mantle makin’ a comeback, do you think we’ll be seein’ (or slayin’) any of those darn Mur-sits anytime soon? Last Old Timey heard, there was only one left, but who knows? Stay sharp, you old Moa feathers! I look forward to hearing your smilin’ voices on the shortwave. Erik's Reddit Thread speculation - https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4k15he/speculation_living_world_season_3_story/
Fractal revamp, 1 week postmortem-
I thought rewards were good because I got real lucky day 1. Have gotten garbage every day since =(
The worst part is that on a lot of days I get the same or less gold as Swamps gave but it takes probably twice as long.
Some high level fractals are just obnoxious still, doubly so with PUGs. IMO- Aetherblade can be especially bad, snowblind is still not great though the final boss of it is easy but has 10 billion HP, Thaumanova is unfun. Most of the rest are alright though. Overall it’s probably the right direction, but it just reminds me how annoying some stuff still is.
WvW Poll: https://feedback.guildwars2.com/en
Greibach and Spirit are joined by Opt to attempt to cover what turned out to be a really great patch all around. Updates to fractals, a new raid lobby and DPS testing arena, WvW changes, squad changes, LFG changes and 30 more pages of updates notes to cover. Topics (mostly) in order:
Raid Lobby and DPS Testing Arena Fractals Dailies WvW Changes Instant 80 and Free Account Slot for HoT owners Balance Patch and Profession Changes
We didn't have time to cover all the changes so we'll pick up with a few more things next time after we've had more time to play. Hope you've all enjoyed the patch! ~Spirit
Spirit, Greibach, and Vrabin share anecdotes of legendaries, Super Adventures and various other things since there is minimal official news in the time leading up to the patch.
Legendary Discussion - Nevermore and Astralaria SAB - Tribulation MODE THO Upcoming April Patch???
Castcast Toga Party for MS Details - April 16th @ Noon Central in Divinity's Reach Few brief updates I didn't get to include in the show:
There is a (tiny) teaser trailer for the (now confirmed) April 19th patch. There was a potentially big leak of WvW patch notes on the reddit. We do not condone nor share leaks, so if you wish to see those, you must find them yourself. However, Spirit thinks the fact that leaks are appearing in the face of no word on upcoming content from developers is a result of the policy itself and hence worth mentioning. Work continues on the Pen and Paper game, don't worry guys! We decided to finish the first set of recordings before releasing them, we have another session coming up in the next couple weeks and it's gone very well so far!
Greibach's rage is Legendary. The end. Economy Insight from Isaiah: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4c6qsn/gw2_economy_gathering_vs_investment_style_of_play/
Spoiler Bouncer Says: I actually don't think we mentioned any (story/lore) spoilers despite me giving a verbal warning. I thought we might, but I don't think we did. The AMA on Reddit Summary - https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/490u3k/missed_the_ama_heres_a_summary/?ref=search_posts
Sloth - Dinosaur: GW2 goes full avatar the last airbender Rabbit-a-saur http://ladykrata.deviantart.com/art/Hare-353063133 Ogdens’s Hammer Down https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/467c24/your_favorite_npc_in_game/d03imor?context=1000 honor him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gxrk7MWJk
We talk about the rest of the raid. Also we have some new intro/outro music for some reasons we'll probably cover in a week or two. Cast-cast link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/45goqa/the_rguildwars2_lets_create_an_elite/
Tyrian Gliding Mossman Fix (and new exploit) Shatterer Mk 2 Skill (salt) Balance Lunar New Year Brew Club
IT'S FINALLY HERE YAY SPOILERS BOUNCER: We talk about one specific POSSIBLY VERY SPOILERY item received at the end of HoT story without talking about the circumstances in which is acquired. There is a small warning prior to this very small section, and it's between 1:08:00 and 1:09:30. Spirit and Greibach get their shiz together and give updates on Winterday, our raiding experiences, the fractal reward buff, and the top 10 things we want to see for Guild Wars 2 in 2016. Intro Throwback Mashup by csquirrelrun Music: April Fool's Death Music from ArenaNet, The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod, The Rock by Canto 6 Audio is from past shows, unused audio bumpers over the years, and from in-game NPCs. Show Topics
Wintersday is here! Raids Update Fractals Update 2016 Top 10
Outro by Spirit with help from ROboats: Drax, Konig, Triv, Star, Mystic, Riot, Shongaqu, Greibach, Alaska, and Jebbers. Music: Super Adventure Box Sunny Glade This poem was submitted to us by Tilion from Dragon Season, but I didn't have a chance to voice it before I had to get the show out. A Wintersday Carol Bent behind a window a figure in the night lost in thoughts and paperwork next to a candle light The Charr despised as always this time of the year He spent his time with none to talk and no one held him dear Alone in his frustration when suddenly appeared The Spirit of the Winter-past to show him what he feared A little cub was lectured on how he’d be of use To manage to survive he must There’s nothing to excuse Those pictures faded gently and now in front of him the Spirit of the days ahead to show him what he’d dream He saw himself being covered in piles of gems and gold The other toys a tear shed for he has now been sold So, what’s in store toymaker for this malfunctioned Charr? Cause all I managed to foresee is yet another scar Don’t you leave your present lurking in your past The only thing that you can be is who you ought to trust
A bouncer stands at the play button for this episode. You approach him. He says: "This episode focuses heavily on the story from chapters 7-10 (Prized Possessions- Strange Observations). W****e advise against listening to this episode until you've completed them." Guild Halls Discussion:
Scribing is literally stuck WvW upgrades require an item that literally doesn't drop in game any more. We're sure it's an oversight. Waiting to wait faster.
Fractal Changes in December (Save your chests?!)
More consistent rewards Lowering the exchange between matrices and keys due to rebalancing, so trade them now.
Castcast
We're working out the raid schedule. Go here if you're interested: http://guild.relicsoforr.com/forum_threads/2287076
Greibach, Spirit, and Evee welcome guest host and TWITguild leader Optimus Maleficus to talk about Fractals, Adventures, and specializations with a decent amount of off topic nonsense. Fractals
There are some good bits and some bad bits but mostly it's different.
Adventures
Protips - XP boosters that buff all XP sources gained work on adventures, and adventures give first time completion bonuses as well as large daily XP bonuses for. Some easy adventures: Tendril Torchers, Salvage Pit Some harder ones: A Fungus Among Us, Shooting Gallery Some have skills that don't work in ways you'd expect/need more explanation.
Elite Specs
The true weakness of Reapers Daredevils are so fun tho forreal We're all going to get nerfed
Castcast
Opt has opened his blog again! - http://opt.red/about
Greibach, Spirit, Vrabin, and csquirrelrun chat about the Auric Basin map and it's story, touching on open world lore, guild hype, and the patch earlier this week. The Spoiler Bouncer says: This week's episode contains no story discussion, but talks in-depth about the open world story, events, and map design of Auric Basin and the details of guild claiming, so if you don't want to hear those things, please proceed with caution.
A bouncer stands at the play button for this episode. You approach him. He says: "T****his episode contains discussion of Verdant Brink and Personal Story up to the end of Prisoners of the Dragon, the last story step in Verdant Brink. There are major story spoilers, and we advise against listening to this episode until you've completed Prisoners of the Dragon."
Spirit and Greibach tackle some of the bigger questions in a not-so-short episode touching on the history, future, and our dreams for the game as a whole.
Join the [RO] guild: http://guild.relicsoforr.com/pages/about
Greibach, Spirit, and Evee chat Druid, Scrapper, Raids, and assorted other beta weekend topics. Small discussion of guild week. Druid and Scrapper Guild Hall Stuff
These things are freaking huge. I like the fact that you kind of renovate them, fix them up over time. Pretty rad. MULTIGUILD CHAT11!!1! You can use decorations to build your own jumping puzzles inside the guild hall.
If this becomes a thing there may have to be a community JP review segment on the show
100% on board with this.
Excellent
Raids Raids are balanced around Ascended gear. You can’t rez players once they are downed. You cannot use rez orbs. Castcast Pink Day in LA on Oct 17th Our Redbubble Store is open and will be filled with a new batch of designs by next week and another by the end of the month. Mostly just simple Facefire logos, but we will be including a couple designs with a nod to the Relics of Orr community and possibly the game in general. Money goes to The AbleGamers Foundation. We don't need any money! If you'd like to support us the best way is commenting, rating, sharing, or talking with us. :)
We dared to devil and heralded the arrival of HoT in BWE2.
Stronghold didn't change. Berserker Herald A (really) in-depth look at Daredevil. A few words on the Mordrem Invasion event, which were beautifully captured by Shongaqu in his blogpost. P4F players are the cutest. And we love them.
Castcast
No seriously we're really cool people come hang out with our guild. - http://guild.relicsoforr.com/
Find Allona and Celeste on their regular show at Guild Wars Reporter. Daredevil
I have no complicated thoughts beside “neato”. Was too busy PAXing. My head was spinning. I can barely handle regular thief gameplay! It’s the thief I wanted but maybe not the one we need right now.
Physical skills with turnovers are really cool! I see value to it in small skirmishes and open world PvE, and maybe even in raids! It depends on how much damage is relevant. The current meta (which happens to align perfectly with my favored build after the spec changes) has three required traitlines, so the damage/utility tradeoff is going to have to be strong. And I hope it is! But I worry. I see benefits to taking the skills as a whole and benefits to taking them piecemeal which is EXCELLENT. That’s spot on where an elite spec should be IMHO
PAX - Party and General PAX talk
Good roundup of all the things that came out around PAX (link) I am a bit bummed about that for purely selfish reasons. I have a friend who refuses to play GW2 (even the F2P version) because of their hatred for NCsoft. (They REALLY loved CoH) “At that point, Johanson jumped in to comment on another Reddit conspiracy, confirming that ArenaNet’s does in fact have a base on the moon and that all of ArenaNet’s employees will be relocating there with him.”
F2P
Taugrim on F2P Community Reaction (link) I have some friends completely new to MMOs coming in! They’re super adorable! I love it! Slowly finding out that there are some bits they might want to tweak, or seem unfair, but not enough to disparage the P4F/F2P model they've chosen.
RCGC AKA THE R-WORD
Hard to tell a lot from just the trailer, but a few standouts 10-man. I think this is a good number. More than dungeons, but not TOO many. Requires some degree of masteries. Interesting discussion on mastery gating vs gear gating? Thoughts? Attunements by another name, a lot of people are seeing through the “no attunements” but having this I can see where they’re making the distinction though, masteries are something you will be attaining organically as you play HoT, not something separate that you have to complete for the sole purpose of being able to enter a raid. Legendary Armor? Good lord. Time to destroy my bank all over again.
Also Oct 23. So Soon.
Castcast ELIXIR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lof6Dz3ymPU
Berserker Talk Real Talk Plants vs. Zombies Talk Feedback Thread: If you went to PvZ let us know what you thought! (Link) Spirit's Screenshots from PvZ PvZ Screens
Over the weekend: Pact Commander Masteries POI
Toggle on Mentoring Mode (displays chat badge and commander-like badge on the map)
Autoloot
Permanent swiftness for you and your party in cities
Doesn’t cost gold, doesn’t work in WvW
Bonus crafting experience (teased that this may be helpful in heart of thorns, having a high mastery in crafting is required for upcoming legendary precursor crafting masteries)
Supply Line Mastery - introduces roaming merchants which sell limited time goods for karma, will bring the return of phased out recipes, new ones, and a Melandru-backpack
Noblesse Oblige - 50% revive speed for a level 2, 10% revive speed for a level 80
PvP Leagues
RCGC to be announced at PAX Prime (16 days remain)
Beta elite spec discussion 2bold2beautiful
Tempest Chronomancer Dragonhunter Reaper Shiro Revenant
Castcast Plants vs. Zombies is RAPIDLY APPROACHING, it will be on the 22nd. Mailbag
"hello relics! Greibach, Spirit, possibly Evee, and anyone else who may be on the show!
I find that I want to play devils advocate about the discussion on last weeks show about fractals, and specifically on builds and build diversity.
I want to touch on the statement that "builds are so tightly tied to the gear stat choice." this is true in a way, but also just as false.
there are currently 5 major things that are affected by the stats on armor. "direct damage", "condition damage", "Heal scaling", "overall HP", and "damage reduction through toughness"
there is some intricacy with precision because of stuff that procs on crit, but for all intents and purposes it only really affects "direct damage" same with ferocity
everyone is pretty familiar with the "berzerker meta" and what it entails, and that you do not currently need to equip defensive stats because of the power of hard mitigation that has no ties to stats (blind, reflect, weakness, protection) and that if mobs/bosses die faster than their mechanics, those mechanics can be ignored.
this is where scaling toughness and precision come into play. in general higher toughness encourages condition focused builds(more on this later).
higher precision, and even higher power and ferocity encourages something that is not tied to any stat. which is upkeep of the weakness condition, and the protection boon. weakness takes the crit chance of those affected by it to 0% and causes 50% of strikes to be "glancing blows which further reduces damage by 50% effectively negating any precision or ferocity and ~33% of the targets power stat. protection is a flat damage reduction by 33% which is like adding a whole ton of toughness.
while organized groups tend to build for 100% upkeep of weakness already, many wannabe Zerker speed runners leave weakness out of their build consideration.
OK. now for the long and the short of it. I claim that build diversity is much more than just the prefix of the armor weapons and trinkets on a character. that it is in fact partially negligible the build is the type of weapons, the chosen utilities, traits, and to a lesser extent runes and sigils. personally I run 3-4 very different builds on the same gear set. all are full damage but bring very different utility to cover gaps that may form in different PuG group I may run with, for example more weakness, or more blinds, or more CC or reflects all achieved by swapping weapon wets, traits, and utility skills
the stats from gear can change alot about a build but only "power damage" "condition damage" and "healing power" seem to be currently meaningful outside of some trolly overly tanky nomads or sentinel builds in wvw.
the only meaningful stat choice as of right now is "direct damage" gear or "condition damage" gear. because the changes to conditions so that they are effectively "working as intended" (ignoring extremes) basically e...
"No, that's not challenging group content either" http://saladparty.tumblr.com/post/125521235979/the-fact-that-they-need-to-keep-clarifying-this
Link to the build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQJAYGjM0QTN2VDs344XokrQLkCzb4H6BYSHAfAA-TRRSwATU+RTXDg9Hgq+jIlgECo8YA-e
Weta bugs: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=weta&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=939&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=uZuQVdLVA87v8gWM84SACg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ Josh Foreman youtube giveaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYNwgu1ViUU
Canon in C by 8 players: Musician’s Guild of Tyria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av4Yq4ESVFA
Hunter's Blogpost about LA: https://huntersinsight.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/lackadaisical-nomenclature/ Ravious's post about flying: http://www.killtenrats.com/2015/05/26/gw2-glide-compartmentalization-and-flying-mounts/ The Durmand Diary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrw0P05yV7E
Timestamps: Elementalist: Start Engineer: 10:40 Ranger: 16:05 Thief: 29:31 Guardian: 44:09 Wolfineer Engineer discussion: http://www.wolfineer.com/engineer-traits-discussion/
We are Jon Snow (Part 1) Time stamps for profession discussion: Warrior: 35:50 Mesmer: 53:34 Necro: 1:07:52
Greibach, Spirit, and Evee, bounce back from the RL kick in the pants to talk Precursor Masteries, Stronghold, and Hylek lore. You know, three things that go together.
HoT Press stuff:
Megathread Personal Story BogOtter’s mastery list (text form)
Streaming Client - (LINK) Beta Signups are available here: https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en/newsletter?_ga=1.59471721.577329121.1421739940
Greibach, Kate, Vrabin and Evee talk Stronghold PvP and the Revenant. Bramble Patch: Stronkhold: Champion’s Dusk It’s a fusion of GvG, Fort Aspenwood, and MOBAs Two lanes, one defense, one offence, ending at the keeps, and then a central supply point spend supply to build NPC’s which have specific roles - door busters, other NPC killers, in order to break through two layers of defense Heroes - 10 second channel to summon the uber NPC, there was a cannon dude that used his weapon melee and ranged that was really cool to watch There are two barriers you have to break through to get to the lord, and the NPCs don’t respawn so big pushes towards the end are supposed to be exciting The Keep Lord has a downed state - must be finished to end the match and can rally off players The final number of players on each side hasn’t been decided yet, it will be between 1v1 and 10v10 and based off of feedback in the betas, but primarily tested in 5v5 Seems to open up the potential for a lot of different roles, one of the disappointments of Conquest is that since they are all cap points essentially the same roles are happening on 3 different points There’s a really great Ready Up Episode all about it New/Updated Boons + Conditions: Taunt: Forces the enemy to run at you and autoattack (opposite of fear). Slow: 50% attack speed and movement reduction. (Cripple -33%, Slow -50%, Chill -66%). (Slow is also different from chill because chill increases cooldown time, while slow will increase cast time) Stability: Will be changed to have stacks, each CC removes a stack Resistance: Conditions stay on you but do not have their effect Ready Up: Showing the Revenant Traits: Corruption Line (Precision/Condi) Retribution (Toughness/Healing) Invocation (Ferocity/Profession) Protips: Use a Tonic to Map Complete WvW: (Remember, YMMV) Castcast: QQmore.net - sPvP Learning Community & Guides
The Relics team talks masteries and stronghold previews. Bramble Patch: IGN Exclusive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSed8tYnek DINOSAURS BASICALLY but also zone flyovers
There are mushrooms you can interact in Maguuma Jungle that will offer you access to new areas or better vantage points New NPC races, one of them is the Itzel. Learn their language to unlock things with them such as vendors, special combat abilities that can help you overcome obstacles, and collections. Mastery content can be used outside the new zones, including Fractal of the Mists. Mushroom jumping and Gliding will both be mastery abilities
Blogpost: Into the Heart of Maguuma (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/journey-into-the-heart-of-maguuma-in-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns/) Outposts: New system around which events are structured closest in game approximation is the forts at Silverwastes, but again better Lots of dynamic event chains, and their success is tied directly to the success of the second phase of each map ex: Laranthir and the Pale Reavers are going to become central characters Mordrem wyverns - the farther you push Laranthir and co. the higher chance you’ll have to see a wyvern outposts have several levels of strength Adventures: any activity, minigame, or challenge you can imagine they have their own ui, and are challenging, ex: timed JPs scored performance and leaderboards may be able to work with other players returning events we heard about before launch? if you find an adventure that is not available you will be given instructions on how to access it Challenging content: Challenging group encounters to come, but not ready to talk about yet First look at HoT Play on POI
Previewed adventures Verdant Brink NW of Dry Top
The map objectives are working really well so they want to keep rolling with them During the day you build defenses, capture areas, and gather supplies to prepare for the night Mordrem assault only 50% of queensdale events were about the humans vs centaurs fight There are sub-factions and characters in outposts and they will keep moving throughout the zones so you get to learn their story capturing an outpost will last an hour+ for a more permanent feel doing more events around a captured outpost will unlock waypoints, adventures, resource farms, etc.
Adventures
The successor to hearts, meant to challenge the way you play Shooting gallery, jumping puzzles, races Personal repeatable challenges w/ leaderboards masteries help beat them you can restart them instantly fewer maps with HoT but really in depth ones
Revenant Icon Warrior F2 Skill? New event/patch - Year of the Ram? “Defiant Bar” WvW may be excluded from Map Completion Bonus episode of POI Wednesday to show masteries and hang gliding and mushroom jumping
Blogpost: Masteries Reimagined - http://dulfy.net/2015/02/05/gw2-reimaging-progression-the-mastery-system/
Masteries are unlocked at level 80 - changes your XP bar and displays the Mastery level instead of your actual level on your nameplate Level 80 characters won’t get skill points anymore, but more will be added to the world to compensate Mastery points will be found all over, personal story completion, map completion, challenges, exploration Can be gained before 80 but not spent til 80 Some mastery points will be awarded retroactively Master Lore: Attunement with new ally races can be trained to understand their language, unlocking secret locations and access to battle techniques that can weaken your shared enemies. Master Legends: Train in legendary crafting to learn to create all existing legendary weapon precursors and new legendary weapon precursors introduced with Heart of Thorns. Master Exploration: Mastering jungle movement will unlock the ability to hang glide to previously unreachable locations as well as the ability to use special mushrooms to traverse the Heart of Maguuma faster. Master Combat: The Heart of Maguuma will be home to some of the most challenging combat inGuild Wars 2, and Masteries will give you the tools you need to excel in these fights. Hunt new enemies, master abilities to defeat champions, and become more deadly against the new creatures waiting in the jungle. Master Fractals: Uncover new depths in the Fractals of the Mists to gain powerful new abilities to overcome difficult fractal challenges, garner greater rewards, and unlock more powerful infusions. When you train the Gliding Mastery, however, you’ll have the option to soar freely through the treetops, escape the dangers that await you on the jungle floor, use the air to your advantage in combat against certain foes, and save yourself from accidental death by slipping. Once you’ve unlocked the Gliding Mastery track, you can pull out your glider any time you’re in free fall in the Heart of Maguuma. When you first pull out your glider, you’ll notice that you have a limited amount of energy while in the air. Be careful—if you run out of energy while gliding, your glider will collapse and you’ll be in for a rough landing!
Stronghold sPvP Format to be Previewed at PAX East http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2uluqo/psa_a_preview_of_the_new_pvp_gamemode_stronghold/
Greibach, Kate, Evee, and Vrabin talk about the crazy number of articles and details pouring out of the Heart of Thorns announcement.
A hype train with a rotating cast of Relics of Orr hosts discusses the Heart of Thorns Expansion announcement and what it will bring to the game.
Greibach, Vrabin, Opt, and Evee discuss the Season 2 finale, Guild Wars nostalgia, Indiana Jones, and [Spoilers].
Greibach, Kate, and Evee arise at the crack of dawn to recap Wintersday, speculate on information coming out of PAX South, and share a ton of community generated content.
Greibach, Kate, Vrabin, and Evee talk about the new labyrinth Silverwastes zone, Episode 6, Tangled Paths, and condition damage.
Greibach, Kate, and Evee talk about Seeds of Truth, being real uncomfortable as a plant, and getting on Josh Foreman’s level.
Greibach and Kate talk about the new Silverwastes zone and the return of the Living Story with a breakdown of Echoes of the Past.
Evee, Greibach, and Kate talk the new Halloween reward systems, updates on the raids CDI, ascended gear, and Echoes of the Past speculation.
Greibach, Evee, and Vrabin welcome Erik a.k.a. Shongaqu back to the show equipped with tinfoil hats for Guild Halls, Raids, and the Candy Corn vs. Candy Cane elemental war.
Greibach and Kate welcome Opt from #twitguild for some great discussion featuring the new WvW tournaments, guilds, and alliances.
Greibach, Kate, Vrabin, and Evee talk more feature pack news, and all the news that is news about news that isn’t really news from PAX, but was fun anyway.
Greibach, Vrabin, and Evee talk Feature Pack news, Birthday Blasters, and dungeon not-changes.
Greibach, Spirit, and Vrabin follow up on commander tag chaos, new WvW tournament rules, and the community SAB outcry.
Greibach, Spirit, Evee, and Malchior talk about Dragon’s Reach Part 2, commander tag chaos, and Gamescom news.
This week Greibach, Evee, and Spirit are joined by Vrabin for the first time to discuss the Dragon’s Reach Part I, buying smartly in the gemstore, and fan videos.
Greibach, Kate, and Evee talk Entanglement story, terrifying teaser trailers, and learning to do dungeons.
Greibach, Spirit, and Evee strap on their tinfoil hats and speculate on everything from story tidbits to plant parasites and convention attendance.
In this minisode Greibach and Kate talk uncomfortable marketing, Season 1 recap, and the launch of Points of Interest.
This week Greibach takes the helm with Evee and Kate to talk ArenaNet’s balance philosophy, how to protect your account, and tips and tricks to save you a hassle in GW2.
Coehl, Christian, Spirit, and Evee discuss the WvW meta, the Ancestral Outfit, and arachnids.
Coehl, Greibach and Spirit welcome Smiffy back to the show years after his last cameo to discuss Fractal fixes and the Festival of the Four Winds.
Coehl and Greibach welcome Duke Witherheart to the show for discussion about potatoes, the “Did You Know” series on the subreddit, and much speculation about account security.
Coehl, Evee, and Spirit team up to talk about the Chinese launch, clever ways to make money in game, and much more.
Just after the early-access launch of Guild Wars 2 in China, the Relics staff was fortunate enough to sit down with Chris Whiteside to talk about what got him into game design, Living World Season 1 and 2 and the Collaborative Development Initiative.
We are joined by Relics of Orr folks Evee, Greibach, and Spirit today to talk about latency issues lately in Guild Wars 2, the early access for Chinese players, and DnT’s updated Warrior Meta option (between Axe and Greatsword)
We are joined by Relics of Orr folks like Shongaqu, Evee, and Justin today to talk about megaservers and their successes as well as failures (hello guild missions?), as well as changes to the PvP reward tracks and cosplaying as an Arah heavy naked person.
I am joined by Shongaqu from Tyrian Stories to review the first Beta Weekend Event and stress test, plus the community reactions.
I am joined by Csquirrelrun to summarize Guild Wars 2 underwater environment information so far.
I am joined by Csquirrelrun to summarize Guild Wars 2 PvP available information thus far.
I am joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and Csquirrelrun to discuss to talk about new interviews, conventions, beer, mesmers, and the Gemini Duet. That’s right, it’s here.
I am joined by Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat and Tasha with Split Infinity Radio to discuss the engineer profession, underwater weapons, and details from the Gamereactor interviews.
I am joined by Christian the Mashup Man today to discuss the Krait, some Tap Repeatedly interviews, interspersed world news, less Rift, and major changes coming to the Relics of Orr podcast (pay attention!)
We are joined by Chaz with his Totally Awesome Blog, and Kattar with GuildFans to be angry and stuff.
We are joined by Tasha and Shawn with GuildCast and Massively to discuss the lull in news, anthropomorphic races, NPC AI of GW2, and the BBC.
We are joined by Csquirrelrun the mashup man, Tasha, and Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat to discuss the Skritt, Spirits (the tasty kind), Rift, and ultimatums to game developers.
We are joined by Chaz with his totally awesome blog and Csquirrelrun the mashup man to discuss the Commando, the Hylek, more politics than is necessary, and popsicles.
We are joined by Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat and Chaz with his totally awesome blog to discuss artwork, hero worship, public grouping issues, upcoming skill updates and help ourselves to a good deal of pick and mix while we’re at it.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and Christian (csquirrelrun) the mashup man to discuss early disclosures of NDAs, gamer journalism, martial arts, the Guild Wars 2 thief, the new Embark Beach patch, and all the GDC goodness from last week.
Last year, John Stumme of the ArenaNet Live Team spoke to us about many things, including the possibility of 7 heroes joining your party. Today he joins us again and talks about titles, presearing, Embark Beach, mercenary heroes and more.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio, Kvinna with Guild Wars Guru and Guild Wars 2 Guru, and Jim with the extremely professional Hamstorm Nation. We talk Norn, “Dwarves”, insane Colorado wind, Rift.. all sorts of crap just go listen.
We are joined by Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat, Chaz with his totally awesome blog, and Csquirrelrun the mashup man. We give many props to the Guild Wars Awesome development team today, with the release of the dervish update. We discuss the pros and cons of it, Heath Ledger’s joker, some Guild Wars 2 stuff I guess, and accounting.
We are joined by Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat, Inde with GuildFans, and Csquirrelrun the mashup man to discuss the human race in Guild Wars 2, the Guild Wars 2 closed beta, the dervish update preview, and the state of armor and objectification of men and women in the upcoming game. Don’t get too worried though, we’re Relics of Orr, not a cable news network. It shan’t be gettin’ too hairy.
We are joined by Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat, JR with GuildFans, and Louden Swain to talk in depth, once and for all, about the guardian profession.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and Chaz to discuss the slew of information and hype that has come up recently regarding the fifth profession reveal for Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio, Chaz, Kattar with Guild Fans, and Tiger with the Secret Agent Cat blog to discuss the Kodan, SSD, a decade with ArenaNet, and people that like to laugh.
I was had a Cornoa this episode. Enjoy and some crap. The listening is good, time for more.
I’m joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat to make an episode. By brute force. And we spoke of nothing GW related. At least we meant to do it that way, this time. Windows 7 did not play friendly with Tigerfeet’s mic, but Csquirrel came through for us and adjusted the call in a fashion that had to have been extremely tedious. Big thanks to him.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio, Chaz, and Kattar with Guild Fans to discuss news about energy, elites, and ton(ne)s of news outside the Guild Wars community.
Yes, the title is mostly intended to garner attention from search engines. We don’t actually have the answer to this. But we do talk about it.
Tiger with the Secret Agent Cat blog and Chaz join me in yapping it up about the slowdown of the news monster, why that might be the case, and what we’d like to see in the privacy settings of Guild Wars 2.
Tasha with Split Infinity Radio hosts this one and Tiger with the Secret Agent Cat blog and Chaz pretends he’s Eeyore to discuss the Halloween events and costumes. I was there but anything but helpful.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and Tiger with the Secret Agent Cat blog to talk more about Hall of Monuments and some nonsense.
We are joined by Tasha with Split Infinity Radio and JR and Kattar with Guild Wars 2 Guru, admins of said venerable website. Today we talk about the Hall of Monuments and their integration with Guild Wars 2, and we speculate so much crap, I’m really not sure if Marty McFly was with us by the time it was over.
Tigerfeet with Secret Agent Cat, Chaz, and I talk about the news on loot, armors of the dungeon systems, and a number of other things that came out recently.
Tasha with Split Infinity Radio, Smiffy with the Faceroll Show and I discuss Guild Wars 2 from the perspective of a non GW dedicated community mindset.. again, and we go apeshat on community feedback.
Tigerfeet with the Secret Agent Cat blog, Chaz, Smiffy with the Faceroll Show and I discuss Guild Wars 2 from the perspective of a non GW dedicated community mindset.
Tigerfeet, Tasha from Split Infinity Radio, Chas(alternate spelling: Chaz) and I discuss the energy system, elite skills and their balance, attributes, and lunch bags. You’ll see.
Tigerfeet, Tasha from Split Infinity Radio, and I talk about necromancers and computers a lot. Plus I give you the scoop on Doghouse Systems and their podcast.
John Vinson, Tigerfeet, Tasha from Split Infinity Radio and I talk more about personality, read a few speculative emails and commentate, and then completely give up on professionalism in general.
Chas, Tigerfeet, Tasha from Split Infinity Radio and I talk about the definition of “pants”, indecent paragons, high school wrestling, and just about anything else that would highlight our inability to stay on target, said target being Guild Wars Classic and Guild Wars 2 information and speculation.
Chas, Tigerfeet, John from the Guild Wars 2 Forum website, and I accidentally an ulnar nerve, is this bad? We target pronunciation of some ArenaNet common names, bust some Blizzard chops, and guide you on how not to conduct an interview with Joey “Joe Hostile” Knight.
Most of our talk is about rangers in this episode, as one would expect. Two might expect that also. The rest of you are severely disappointed. With me were Chas and Tasha from Guild Wars Guru and Split Infinity Radio.
Some new faces are here today to talk about the overhaul to the entire “role” system of Guild Wars 2 in response to Jon Peters’ recent article explaining what’s going to happen in regard to control, support, and damage.
The show is late due to the Independence Day weekend, but it’s not lacking. Kal, Astara and I talk about pie a lot, bash Twilight, and banter about a lot of stuff that was completely unrelated to Guild Wars yet still entertaining (right?).
Trevor couldn’t join us today, but no worries, we were joined by Astara’s excellently British husband, Kal Agrim. We accidentally did more profession speculation, as one should expect of any healthy Guild Wars fan site, and we discuss the missed potential of Vekk’s voice actor Maurice LaMarche in GW:EN. Hopefully, we’ve put Felicia Day (happy birthday by the way) to better use as her female Asura role in Guild Wars 2.
We give Danika ZuHeltzer what for, all for the purpose of our sophomoric episode. Wait, did I mean to say it that way? Also, we say the word “segway” a whole whole lot. It’s because we’re pro.
The “Relics of Orr” podcast kicks off with myself (Ryan Singleton), Lady Sinaea, and Trevor Covington. We review a lot of the tantalizing information ArenaNet has been letting loose upon us over the past few weeks. Whether you’ve already heard all about it or have no idea what’s up, have a listen. We’re very studied on the matter. Well, ostensibly. Okay, those two are. I just said a lot of stuff also.