On this episode of The AIE Podcast...
Gusty’s new guild challenge is too too cute
SWTOR- Return of the Hype- or, the Hype strikes back, take your pick
ESO- Trials planned, and bosses killed
Zoot’s a running (mount farms) in FFXIV
And, Jehdai is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2!
All that and more coming up right now...
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Welcome to episode #379 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: Hi folks, there is boozy bread pudding and apple tarts in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Jehdai who is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2 Welcome!
Before we start in on the news, let’s get back to Jehdai and find out what’s going on in Guild Wars 2- because there is a lot!.
GAME NEWS
GW2 Podcast Notes
Game Overview
Mechanics
Hybrid Action/tab targeted combat
Every zone is scaled to you, so all content is current content
No gear treadmill
Level Cap has and always will be 80
Integrated wiki
/wiki will open you system web browser on the search page
SHIFT- will put a chat code for the clicked item on the current chat input and that works as a search term for /wiki.
Story overview with as little spoilers as you can.
(most of the story is fully voice acted)
Style change when season 2 starts.
1-80 (Personal) story Hero's Journey Kill the death dragon
Season 1 - Crazy Salad Lady destroys the world and wakes up plant dragon
Season 2 - Finding the plant dragon
HoT - Kill the plant dragon
Season 3 - 2 dragons are dead, odd things happening, Last living member of the bad race from GW1 appears, and wants to help kill dragons, hero gets a pet dragon
PoF - Human god goes nuts in the desert
Season 4 - PRAISE JOKO, Crystal dragon is on a rampage.
Ice Brood Saga: Pet Dragon is all grown up, , Big Cats(Charr) Civil War, Ice and Fire dragons want to kill each other
What's different if you haven’t played since launch:
Gliding from Heart of Thorns.
Mounts from Path of Fire + Season 4
Roles
Tanks, DPS, Healers, buffers
Game has different things to do at end game now
Dungeons
Fractals - slight better dungeons
Raids
Strikes - single boss raid encounters
Dragon Response Missions
World vs World PVP
Being revamped
Structured PVP, 5v5 instanced
Mostly Conquest/CTF mode
Gear
Ascended gear
Slightly better than Exotic Gear
Only needed for Fractals
Optional for everything else
Account bound and can be shared with all your characters
Can change stats at a cost
Legendary Gear
Same stats as ascended (but can stat swap with no cost)
No cost transmog
If your endgame is Fashion Wars, this is a big help
New way to get, through collections.
The game gives you enough mats to make 1 weapon per year through daily login rewards
Not just weapons
Armor can be obtained through Raids and sPVP
2 accessories can be completed completing collections associated with LWS3 and 4.
Amulet can be obtained through return to dragons meta event, or sPVP
Rings can be obtained Raiding or WVW
Backs are from Fractals, WvW or sPVP
Can be copied to all of your characters through legendary Armory
Classes:
New Class Revenant
Introduced in heart of thorns
Channels heroes and villains from GW1 to gain power
Heavy Armor
Elite Specializations
Each class has 2 Elite specializations to choose from
These are unlocked with Hero points
CT Hero Points give 1 HP
Expansion HPs give 10 HP ( but harder)
Community run Hero Point trains happen often
