Living story season 2 is currently on hold for a couple months until episode 5 will resume. This is because they are working on another big feature pack to release in September! It has been said it will be focusing specifically on WvW and PvP. This makes me very happy. I hope to see big changes to WvW. Read the announcement here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-september-2014-feature-pack/ As always I'll update when they release more.
Oh, and if you think you are good at PvP, go ahead and get yourself in the World PvP Tournament for your chance at $50,000. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-global-tournament-series/
It has been confirmed that commander pins will be account bound with the upcoming feature pack. Price will be going up from the current 100 gold to 300 gold since it will soon be available on all your character with the purchase of one pin. So if you want your pin, buy it now at 100 gold and get grandfathered in, or else you will be stuck having to save up 300 gold. Also with this update, you will be able to choose all kinds of pretty colors for your pin when you tag up. This way a map can run several commanders with several different colors, each doing separate missions (attacking zerg on one color, building defenses on another, havoc on another, etc). This already is a really cool change. This will enable more organization and separates the single huge blob into multiple strategic groups.
Why does my browser lag anytime I try to load the GW2 section or one of the topics in it just to see some silly Sandbag reply?
Release today Patch Notes: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-9-2014
Post release comments: New TP - pretty cool looking and love the new filters, but its pretty confusing to get at first. Filters are what weve all been begging for and it is great to finally have. Account bound commander tags - Finally! This is amazing and colors are a great addition! But first night of release EBG was packed full of colored groups of 30+ people with every single person tagged up. Having 100 tags in a map breaks commanding completely and creates mass confusion. I mean this could have happened before, but having seperate colors influences trolls to pull away from any true commanders. WvW added traps that destroy seige it touches when thrown by a player at seige site. Havent seen these used but sounds like it breaks WvW and makes it impossible for havoc groups to take towers with a single defender and impossible for small groups to defend against a zerg that instantly destoys all their seige in a split second. You can craft backpieces with every crafting discipline and they are super cheap. 48 new backpieces total, like 6 for each profession. First level only needs 1 crafting, can be upgraded like 5 times with the best one ascended with an infusion slot at only level 400. Nice because backpieces are so hard to get, but they look freaking RETARDED... http://dulfy.net/2014/09/09/gw2-new-crafting-backpacks-guide/ All classes have been nerfed into oblivion, with mesmers and rangers being buffed to op status. Warriors and thieves are hit the hardest with this nerf. D/P thieves lose half their stealth, Warriors lose adrenaline gains and hundred blades nerfed, banners dont revive npcs, among other nerfs. PvE leveling completely broken now. No more key farming. Map completion? New alts? Forget about it. Personal story doesnt unlock until level 10 and you cant interact with anything or have skills to fight either. And diving goggles? No way, thats way too complicated for players to understand so those will be locked until later levels. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Diving-goggles-level-gated PvE is a complete joke now, just watch this video. Hundreds of bug fixes claimed as "features," overall a huge dissapointment. Most expected a "feature pack" to have features and new content, but its just a few usless new content and fixes that should have been implemented right after launch. But hey, WvW tourney starts Friday to distract us from the dissapointment. Then resumes the LS S2, which will most likely be more of a dissapointment, if they keep the direction they have been.
