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Flame and Frost: Prelude - January Update 2013
Arenanet has just announced the information and created the event page for the January update, Flame and Frost. This update is a prelude, meaning it is meant as a preparation for the upcoming months. The update will go live on January 28.
The update also brings new features, such as achievement updates, laurel currency, guesting,
new utility infusions and ascended amulets, and overall enhancements and updates. Make sure to check out the event page for the full details!
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The sky falls and the ground shakes in the lands of the north. Charr and norn refugees crawl from the wreckage of their homes in the Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau, struggling to find shelter in the south. The call goes out for volunteers to assist the victims in this time of need, when earth and sky seem to have become the enemy…
Flame and Frost: Prelude is the prologue to a multi-stage narrative that will bring big changes to Guild Wars 2 in the months to come.
Flame and Frost: Prelude is the prologue to a multi-stage narrative that will bring big changes to Guild Wars 2 in the months to come.
Comments
#1 Waar Kijk Je Naar
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 02:33 PM
Quaggan backpacks.
#2 Lordkrall
Vigil Crusader
Posted 22 January 2013 - 02:51 PM
Jormag and Primordus incoming?
#3 Featherman
Sylvari Specialist
Posted 22 January 2013 - 02:58 PM
That backpacks makes me coo all over.
#4 shanaeri rynale
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:16 PM
#5 Hailfall
Asuran Acolyte
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:20 PM
I am really curious what the rest of the update will bring
#6 Sheepski
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:20 PM
Question, feedback or issue? Pm me!
#7 BuddhaKeks
Sylvari Specialist
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:32 PM
I'm mostly excited for the new story. I hope it focuses on Norn and Charr lore (the coolest races anyway
#8 Ritualist
Golem Rider
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:44 PM
Also, the backpack is wrong on so many levels.
#9 Lordkrall
Vigil Crusader
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:46 PM
I am hoping the new rewards aren't account bound. I mean, I clearly will not be upgrading to ascended gear, so I hope I can turn in my crowns and sell the rewards on the TP.
Also, the backpack is wrong on so many levels.
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Quite unlikely.
Everything else you can buy with tokens is account or character bound after all.
#10 Red Omen
Asuran Acolyte
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:50 PM
Quaggan milk, as a side note, is not FDA-approved.
#11 Saevio Proelium
Asuran Acolyte
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:52 PM
Flame and Frost?
Jormag and Primordus incoming?
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I think it might just reference the areas (ie Flame for Charr lands, Frost for North Norn/Kodan Lands) Jormag would make sense but I don't know about Primordus
#12 Pariah
Vanguard Scout
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:58 PM
I think it might just reference the areas (ie Flame for Charr lands, Frost for North Norn/Kodan Lands) Jormag would make sense but I don't know about Primordus
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If Primordus still resides in or near the Central Transfer Chamber, where it woke up, it could be possible since the location of the CTC is under the mountain range separating Fireheart Rise and Frostgorge Sound
#13 Captain Bulldozer
Vanguard Scout
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:08 PM
If Primordus still resides in or near the Central Transfer Chamber, where it woke up, it could be possible since the location of the CTC is under the mountain range separating Fireheart Rise and Frostgorge Sound
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As I recall, it had been announced that. although Primordus woke in the CTC, after his waking he proceeded to move around through the old Dwarven/Asuran tunnels in the depths of Tyria. So, I'm not sure there'd be any reason to suspect him to be there anymore. Judging by where you find Destroyers in game, it would seem he is more to the south (I can think of major destroyer spawns in Mount Maelstrom, Dredgehaunt Cliffs and Kessex Hills... am I missing any?)
#14 Pariah
Vanguard Scout
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:16 PM
As I recall, it had been announced that. although Primordus woke in the CTC, after his waking he proceeded to move around through the old Dwarven/Asuran tunnels in the depths of Tyria. So, I'm not sure there'd be any reason to suspect him to be there anymore. Judging by where you find Destroyers in game, it would seem he is more to the south (I can think of major destroyer spawns in Mount Maelstrom, Dredgehaunt Cliffs and Kessex Hills... am I missing any?)
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You're right, now that I re-read the Primordus article in the wiki, it seems it's been moving around quite a bit... at least the ice caves northeast of Fireheart Rise could be one possible entryway to the Depths of Tyria when they do open
#15 jonasklk
Vanguard Scout
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:23 PM
#16 Illein
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:27 PM
Looking forward to its content, albeit that settles that Fractals won't be overdone until much later.
#17 davadude
Sylvari Specialist
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:39 PM
#18 Doctor Overlord
If you hate MMOs....
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:47 PM
[quote name='Red Omen' timestamp='1358869856' post='2148234']
Quaggan milk, as a side note, is not FDA-approved.
[/quote]Protoss said the backpack was wrong on so many levels, this is a whole new level of wrong
[quote name='Illein' timestamp='1358872042' post='2148260']
Couldn't help but to think of A Song of Ice and Fire when I read how they named the patch
[/quote]Ha! Good point. I wonder if their original title had been A Tune of Flame and Frost before the legal dept. stepped in.
#19 Azure Skye
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:52 PM
[img]http://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7d2ffQuaggan-196x124.png[/img]
#20 Waar Kijk Je Naar
Seraph Guardian
Posted 22 January 2013 - 04:59 PM
i wonder how many people will buy the quaggan backpack. o.O
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Everyone... so uhh 3m+