Dynamic events

[Sojou]

Hi.

Does anyone know a resource/interview that confirms/denies how dynamic events work?

For instance, everything that I have read so far talks about these events being bandits, and other "raider-like" creatures attacking villages and the player defending and then assaulting the bandit camp/stronghold.

Are these all we're getting for events, or are they also on a more grand scale such as:

edit:

Well apparently I can't post links yet (first post here) - but it's "Epic boss fight guild wars 2" on youtube.

[Malthurius]

We've played the game, we know how they work.

This sticky explains everything about dynamic events and everything else.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...iated-READ-ME!

But yeah, the events are anything from the bandit example, to gathering the souls of ghost for a machine, to a giant dragon attacking, to demon portal opening, to training cows, to escorting a bird trainer, ect. There is a wide scope of things, what you would expect from questing in normal games and perhaps somethings you might expect in a raid in the open world. And there are a lot more than that. These events also chain together and activate one another based on the failure or success of the last event in the chain, hence 'dynamic' and there lies the consequences of your actions in the world.

[Larynx]

They can range from simple tasks, such as fending off a group of bandits, to things of much larger scope with 4 or 5 dynamic events chained together across the map and then climaxing into some huge open world boss fight such as the Shadow Behemoth, Tequatl, the Shatterer, and so on.

Generally, if you can expect to find it in a quest from WoW, you'll definitely find some version of that as a dynamic event. Collecting, kill, escort, and so on as the basic theme for the events.

Something like a world boss, or Ring of Blood and the WotLK and Cata versions would also be a candidate for a dynamic event, most likely being at the end of a chain.

[Maarius]

watch this



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[Sojou]

We've played the game, we know how they work.

This sticky explains everything about dynamic events and everything else.

But yeah, the events are anything from the bandit example, to gathering the souls of ghost for a machine, to a giant dragon attacking, to demon portal opening, to training cows, to escorting a bird trainer, ect. There is a wide scope of things, what you would expect from questing in normal games and perhaps somethings you might expect in a raid in the open world. And there are a lot more than that. These events also chain together and activate one another based on the failure or success of the last event in the chain, hence 'dynamic' and there lies the consequences of your actions in the world.

Thank you for the response. I had actually read that (and all stickies on the forum) - but there wasn't any mention of dynamic events such as the Tequatl one in the video I attempted to link to. Since I wasn't sure how 100% accurate the thread was, I was fishing for a more concrete response which I got.

Thanks everyone and ty Maarius for the videos.

[omlech]

Thank you for the response. I had actually read that (and all stickies on the forum) - but there wasn't any mention of dynamic events such as the Tequatl one in the video I attempted to link to. Since I wasn't sure how 100% accurate the thread was, I was fishing for a more concrete response which I got.

Thanks everyone and ty Maarius for the videos.

I can assure you that the Mass Info thread is accurate.

[draykorinee]

Seems like its been covered but yeah the dynamic events seem fairly broad in scale.

[Razeo]

I remember doing the Shadow Behemonth fight in the swamp on the 1st BWE, afterwards I ended up at an abbey by some hills near the swamp to do another DE which was or seemed totally un-related to the Shadow behemoth fight. Basically all I had to do at the abbey was help the people who lived there clean up the courtyard by getting rid of pests in their crops, driving away bandits, getting rid of graffiti etc etc..

but here's the thing, after I was done doing that and completely out of the blue the abbey was under attack by what looked like smaller versions of the Shadow behemoth that I fought back at the swamp. Portals just started popping up inside the courtyard and outside the abbey, it was only me and about 2 or 3 other players driving off these mobs but we all wiped and the abbey ended up being overrun by these things. So yea.... I'm willing to bet that there will be more of these events throughout the game