Category: Guild Wars 2 News

ArenaNet has sent word that Living World Season 3: Episode 1 – Out of the Shadows has officially launched on Guild Wars 2 servers. Out of the Shadows gives players an opportunity to recover from the events with Mordremoth and to mourn the passing of characters of note.

Today marks the launch of Out of the Shadows, the first Living World story episode since Heart of Thorns launched. Our own Jason Winter went hands on and came back with this report…

Guild Wars 2 players wanting to prepare for the release of Living World Season 3 and who do not yet own Heart of Thorns, a requirement for the story’s continuation, will be interested to know that the expansion is 50% off from now through July 27th. The Digital Deluxe edition is $37.49 and the Standard edition is $24.99.

ArenaNet has released a brand new trailer to get Guild Wars 2 players hyped for next week’s launch of Living World Season 3: Out of the Shadows. Check it out!

During my time back in Guild Wars 2 after more than a year away, I’ve come to find perhaps the biggest source of my disengagement with the game: I’ve been trying to play more-or-less solo, and Tyria simply isn’t a world that I can explore on my own.

Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 3 is right around the corner and in this week’s column, it would be rude not to discuss such an arrival. With Season 2 having begun on July 1, 2014 and culminating in the launch of Heart of Thorns, it’s with relief that Season 3 is finally on the horizon. For all the things that I loved about Season 2 and Heart of Thorns, its climax was particularly weak and yet I enjoyed most things leading up to it.

ArenaNet has revealed the first details about the Guild Wars 2 Living Season 3 update that is slated for release on July 26th. Players will be able to pick up the story from the point where Heart of Thorns ended. Players will need to own Heart of Thorns and have a level 80 character to complete it. Once HoT is finished, the new episodes are unlocked and become playable.

After the rather rocky launch of Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2 is finally moving forward with the next season of its evolving Living Story, pushing deeper into Maguuma Jungle and opening up even more questions in the aftermath of its last chapter. Out of the Shadows, this first episode of season 3, will continue weaving story threads introduced in Heart of Thorns when it launches on July 26.

ArenaNet’s communications policy is terrible and needs to change while there’s still someone to communicate with.

I do not take a decision like returning to Guild Wars 2 lightly, especially when I have such a love/hate relationship with the game, but there is one overarching feature that may just overshadow all of my issues with the MMORPG, and some of these are pretty deep-rooted indeed.