2012-07-09, 08:42 AM
Dusk Wrote:I think that's it. With the amount of hype this game is getting, it's likely to be overflowing with the usual trash. As always in any online gaming community, you find quality in the guilds/forums you decide to be a part of.
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I'm developing a sudden interest in the game. Can someone explain how Dynamic Events work? From what I've read, I get the impression that they're just lengthy public questlines that pop up while you're wandering around. But:
- Do I have any set goals to pursue out in the world? In most MMOs, you kind of just wait in a hub for some kind of activity to do. What's putting me out there in the first place?
- If I decide to take a break in the middle of one of these, does the game move on without me? What about if another player decides to push the quest line further while I'm doing something else?
I apologize if these questions are really dumb; I never played GW1 and I'm just now looking at the info for GW2.
Dynamic Events can just be a single event which just happens, a small chain, or a long chain called a meta event. Meta events can end in a big boss fight if you push them all the way to one end.
As for goals, after the first personal story mission (which is the start of the game), you start of in front of the capital city of your race, and the game tells you to talk to a scout NPC. This NPC shows you the map and the various "hearts" on there. Hearts are like localized quests, which you can do once, and afterwards you can buy things from the NPC involved using Karma (which you gain by doing events). Every area in the game has quite a few hearts to complete, so you'll be going everywhere to do them. There's also waypoints (to which you can teleport for a small fee), locations, and other (sometimes hidden) things to explore for, which is rewarded with experience, and once you've fully explored an area you're also rewarded with items. The personal story also has missions that take you to certain places, so you'll probably encounter things along the way.
Now, if you leave an event while it's still going on, the game records your contribution and still rewards you based on that once the event ends. Rewards for events come in 3 ranks, bronze, silver and gold. It doesn't take a whole lot to get a gold rank for most events, but since it's not really clear when you get a certain rank you're encouraged to stay until the end. Events can also fail, in which case you still get a reward (though probably less than when you'd have completed it). Events happen even if the players aren't playing them (in which case they'll usually fail), so it's possible to go to a town, and find it under siege, while another player that arrives later, misses the siege because you won (and there'll probably be some other event going on instead). Events repeat, though some take far longer to repeat than others, and quite a few need a certain condition to trigger (one of the most simple being just talking to an NPC who is waiting for someone to escort their transport). Either way, if you're not there to play you'll probably miss some things, but there's always something to do.
Some more information:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meta_event
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Renown_heart
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorable_zone
I've also seen people link this page a lot, it contains A LOT of info:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/2226...initiated/