How do you unlock Livings Season 2, 3, 4 and other stuff

[Bonebreaker]

Hy after buying all addons i thought that i could access/unlock all content now through playing. But guess i was wrong, i finished Season 1 today and thought that this would unlock Season to and im supposed to do them one after another if i dont want pay crystals but nada.

The game expects me to pay another 20€ just unlocking every Episode 2. So if i would want to unlock all missing Missions i guess i would need to pay another 80€ for all that stuff. I know you can trade gold crystals but for me as a new player its extrem hard to get some even after watching some guides and so on.

Most stuff i find is nearly worth nothing at the AH and Missions and Events give only a few cent. To be honest the way gold is handled in this game to me is pretty annoying. In over 20 years of playing mmos i have never seen another one that was so stingy with handing out money to the player. Right now im trying to save money for the mats for the griffing. But i guess i have to pay RL Money for this one to unless i want to farm 10h a day for whole month. The moneytisation feels worse than i most mobile games, for every crap they want money, colors, bankspace, iventoryspace, another char slot, mounts, nearly every skin and stuff for applying skins to your gear and lot more. Its like the game is designt to make the player as much stuff as possible from the cash shop.

[gameshogun]

There are various ways to unlock Living World seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, and future ones.

1. If your account is Steam, buy the LW seasons via Steam which should unlock the entire seasons.
2. If your account is ArenaNet, buy it via the Gem Store - buy each season
3. Be online when a new episode comes out (usually you can get it for free within 2 weeks of launch) - so when Living World season 6 starts be sure to login when a new episode is launched
4. Buy only the episode you need via the Gem Store
5. When they do promos, giving our past episodes for free (which is rare).

You do not need the Living World content to enjoy the game. LW is just extra content. I for one rarely visit the LW content. If you want the Griffon, Skyscale, and Beetle mounts, you have to buy specific episodes related to those mounts as those mounts were introduced as part of the LW content. Again, I for one doesn't have Griffon and Skyscale mounts, I don't care much about those; but I do have the Beetle mount.

What I'm saying is you do not have to worry about the LW content, you don't need them to enjoy the game. I started playing back in 2012 during beta and went on hiatus sometime 2013/2014. I returned in 2020 and my account didn't have any expansions or LW content. I played the game for a few months, relearning everything without expansions and LW content. Then I bought the HoT/PoF packaged and finished those content without the LW content.

If ArenaNet did not do a relaunch of each LW episodes (LW 2 to LW 5) in 2021, I would never have LW content other than the last two episodes of LW 5. It wouldn't affect my gaming. In fact, a lot of gamers before that relaunch did not have LW content too. It was very noticeable back then because there are few players with Griffon, Skyscale, and Beetle mounts. After the relaunch, suddenly those three mounts became very common. - Point is, a lot of players played the game without LW content.

Just play the game. Once you have the gold, convert it to Gems, then you can buy a LW season package via the Gem store. Or, like me and everyone else before the LW relaunch, ignore LW content and hope that one day they'll do free promos for LW content -- if they will ever do it again, it will more likely be similar - login on the day they'll give it away (or put it on the discount via the Gem store).

[Saber]

If you are looking for ways to make gold as a new player .
Here are some that I used to get a nice amount even with just a core alt I made .
1. Daily 2g most of the days it does not take long to do.
2. Gather guild hall loot each day.
3. log in rewards add up to ~40g each month.
4. Guild missions trecks for instance give you a rare and 0.7g and are easy to solo even on a brand new account .
5. Dungeons 0.5-1.5g perh dungeon path + mats + rare + dungeon tokens . After 8 paths you get 5g and 150 dungeon tokens .
6. Tequatl the Sunless, Triple trouble and The Twisted Marionette are each 2g for the first kill each day . For Tequatl and Triple t try to find a ok map in lfg and show up few min early . Timers are at wiki event timer [wiki.guildwars2.com]
7. World bosses drop ok loot and you can jump into most of them fast even as a brand new player.
8 Metas : Octovines , Legendary Chak Gerent, The Path to Ascension , Aetherblade Assault and many others maps all give a lot of loot that you can salvage for your own needs or sell on trade post for gold .

9. Fractals t4 + recommended fractals are ~20g each day . It does take some time investment to learn the mechanics and get the gear you need to bear t4s but is worth it.
While you cant beat t4 fractals as a brand new player there are 3 more tears of it that you can progress through and still get nice rewards each day .

10. Strikes Ice brood stikes are fast enough , you can do them each day for rewards and you can make progress towards ascended gear .
Eod strikes are 2-4 g each 1x a week and give you one of the resources to make extra ~25-30g weekly from trade post sales.

11. Raids you get 2g per each boss killed . Atm there are 7 wings with at least 3 bosses in each . Each boss also has a chance to drop ascended gear . While not something a brand new person would venture as fast into it does provide fun for a lot of pve oriented people .

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[Sychon]

After you bought all the addons (I assume you mean expansions), your choices to acquire Living World are limited for now.

You can't buy them on Steam as they only come in the Complete Collection bundle and since you own the expansions you can't buy that anymore. (At least not for yourself.)

You can only buy the content in the Gem Store while you are in game.

An episode will cost you 200 gems, but I suggest you don't buy those. Search for the Complete Packs in the gem store. They contain all the episodes of a season and they come at a 20% discount compared to individual episodes.

Season 2 is 1280 gems (8 episodes) while seasons 3-4-5 are 960 gems each (6 episodes per season). The four seasons come to a total of 4160 gems this way, which is $52.

Since you bought the expansions for $60, the total now will be $112, as opposed to the $100 if you had bought the Complete Collection instead. I don't think it's that bad, though, if for nothing else than the fact that you can fund part or all of the cost with in-game gold.

Now, if you want to play the content right at this moment, collecting the gold in-game is certainly not an attractive proposition. For all the LW content you would need to farm close to 1300 gold as of the time of this writing (the exchange rate fluctuates) However, covering for that $12 difference should be much easier. That's the price of any of the 6-episode seasons (S3, S4 or S5), which is 960 gems or 292 gold right now.

If you are willing to pay for all the Seasons, that's all good. You won't be much worse off than those who bought the Complete Collection.

If you are not, and decide to farm gold for some of it, you could leave off S5 for now, as that's the farthest away if you intend to play chronologically, giving you time to farm the gold to buy it.

Alternatively, if you are fine with a gap in the narrative for now, including some bits that will be spoiled in HoT, many players would suggest to skip Season 2 for now and buy the last three seasons for a total of $36.

[Nico]

Well, admittedly, seasons 3 and 4 are both probably delivering as much or even more content than just the regular maps of an expansion. So their price compared to the price of the expansions does seem rather fine to me. The only exception would be season 2, which is the most expensive one and delivers the least interesting content. also since the 2 maps associated with the living story, dry top and silverwastes, are already available to everyone for free. Whereas season 3 and 4 both offer 6 new maps and season 5 offers 3 new maps with lots of stuff to do. And in comparison the expansions had 4 maps, or PoF 5 maps. And I wouldn't really say that the livign world maps are smaller or have less content for you to do in them.

But yeah, price wise the complete edition where it only would cost 40€ instead of the 52€ the gems would cost is obviously better and it's annoying that it's no dynamic bundle that ignores the stuff you already bought and that the living story can't be bought alone. But at least you can try to offset the difference by offering ingame gold. Obviously not yet for season 2, but maybe you can do it for like season 4 or 5, since it will take you quite a while to get to them, if you actually spend quite some time on these maps instead of just rushing through the story.

[Flushing]

Do you guys think this post is legit?

The last paragraph is kinda far out. Worse monetization of mmos ever?

OP...if this is legit, it looks like you didn't buy any of the DLC for GW2 yet and are playing the free to play Core.

If that's true, and you want the living world DLC off the bat (wholly unecessary), then buy the full package at $99.99, which is a steal considering it gives you all the content..including the last expansion released in 2022 (I paid $50.00 for) all for one price.

No tricks, no battlepass fees, no pay walls...everything $99.99.

[Bonebreaker]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Do you guys think this post is legit?

The last paragraph is kinda far out. Worse monetization of mmos ever?

OP...if this is legit, it looks like you didn't buy any of the DLC for GW2 yet and are playing the free to play Core.

If that's true, and you want the living world DLC off the bat (wholly unecessary), then buy the full package at $99.99, which is a steal considering it gives you all the content..including the last expansion released in 2022 (I paid $50.00 for) all for one price.

No tricks, no battlepass fees, no pay walls...everything $99.99.

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

And yes in compare to other mmos on pc there is a lot of stuff that the game expects you to pay which is free (of course not all of it) in other games. For example, why does it give me the option to transmog gear like in wow if i have to pay for each pice a token which costs RL money and even worse its not slot, its gear bound. Means if i change my equip and want to keep my current style i have to pay again to put the skin back on the new gear.


@All others, thx for info i will try that gold stuff out later. I definitly want the griffon (since it seems to be cheaper and easier to get) for my account, because a flying mount makes a lot of stuff easier and i want to use it for new chars.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Originally posted by Flushing:

Do you guys think this post is legit?

The last paragraph is kinda far out. Worse monetization of mmos ever?

OP...if this is legit, it looks like you didn't buy any of the DLC for GW2 yet and are playing the free to play Core.

If that's true, and you want the living world DLC off the bat (wholly unecessary), then buy the full package at $99.99, which is a steal considering it gives you all the content..including the last expansion released in 2022 (I paid $50.00 for) all for one price.

No tricks, no battlepass fees, no pay walls...everything $99.99.

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

And yes in compare to other mmos on pc there is a lot of stuff that the game expects you to pay which is free (of course not all of it) in other games. For example, why does it give me the option to transmog gear like in wow if i have to pay for each pice a token which costs RL money and even worse its not slot its gear bound. Means if i change my equip and want to keep my current style i have to pay again to put the skin back on the new gear.

1. You get Transmorg tokens often and for free just by playing.
2. WOW has a subscription fee, charges for expansion releases and monetizes cosmetics...
3. Charging for cosmetics is GW2s it's only way to finance the game for the long term without having a subscription model.
4. None of the monetized cosmetics are pay2win, so few complain.
5. Most mmos monetize pay2win. Certainly mobile...by calling GW2 the worse, you lose credibility. We all know what's out there...certainly steam posters.

[raditzaceme2]

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Originally posted by Flushing:

Do you guys think this post is legit?

The last paragraph is kinda far out. Worse monetization of mmos ever?

OP...if this is legit, it looks like you didn't buy any of the DLC for GW2 yet and are playing the free to play Core.

If that's true, and you want the living world DLC off the bat (wholly unecessary), then buy the full package at $99.99, which is a steal considering it gives you all the content..including the last expansion released in 2022 (I paid $50.00 for) all for one price.

No tricks, no battlepass fees, no pay walls...everything $99.99.

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

And yes in compare to other mmos on pc there is a lot of stuff that the game expects you to pay which is free (of course not all of it) in other games. For example, why does it give me the option to transmog gear like in wow if i have to pay for each pice a token which costs RL money and even worse its not slot, its gear bound. Means if i change my equip and want to keep my current style i have to pay again to put the skin back on the new gear.


@All others, thx for info i will try that gold stuff out later. I definitly want the griffon (since it seems to be cheaper and easier to get) for my account, because a flying mount makes a lot of stuff easier and i want to use it for new chars.

1) you can get a free transmog item for completing maps of the race cities (lions arch, black citadel, the science cube city, etc)
2) transmog should be saved for a piece of gear you plan to keep long term, not something you get short term (ie, lvl 32 equipment you will most certainly replace by lvl 45)
3) you can change the dye of the cloths for free, so you can make cloths match a bit. It might look a bit weird to have a dancer top with a priest bottom, but it wont look too off with same coloring.
4) you can buy clothing that has that look. Example: a top that says "skin unlocked: bishop" will look the same as another top that says the same "skin unlocked: bishop", so you could theoretically force equipment to look the way you wish.

and finally) this games monetization is not that scummy, ESPECIALLY since you can convert gold into gems to buy things like bag expansion and such. I bought a single dlc because i couldnt afford the full $100 out the door. Since the bundle is a complete package and cant be discounted for pieces owned, ill have to buy EoD and then either $60 for gems (as there is nothing lower), $50 and rest with in game gold, or if i get good with trading, all with gold. The shop does sell the complete episode for cheaper than buying each piece.

[Saber]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

And yes in compare to other mmos on pc there is a lot of stuff that the game expects you to pay which is free (of course not all of it) in other games. For example, why does it give me the option to transmog gear like in wow if i have to pay for each pice a token which costs RL money and even worse its not slot its gear bound. Means if i change my equip and want to keep my current style i have to pay again to put the skin back on the new gear.

1. You get Transmorg tokens often and for free just by playing.
2. WOW has a subscription fee, charges for expansion releases and monetizes cosmetics...
3. Charging for cosmetics is GW2s it's only way to finance the game for the long term without having a subscription model.
4. None of the monetized cosmetics are pay2win, so few complain.
5. Most mmos monetize pay2win. Certainly mobile...by calling GW2 the worse, you lose credibility. We all know what's out there...certainly steam posters.

Y i think op is just really new to the game . And people do sometimes forget that all the info vets /long time players have does not just pop up in heads of new players . Some of it you get to experience yourself and figure out . Some might take a while . Not all of us play the same amount of time or even try all of the game modes .

As for transmutation charges .
1.You can get more from log in rewards .
2. map completion .(cities are fastest)
3. Pvp rewards /wvw rewards
4. they sometimes pop up in free rewards of the trade post / twitch drop

[MSeven]

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Most stuff i find is nearly worth nothing at the AH and Missions and Events give only a few cent. To be honest the way gold is handled in this game to me is pretty annoying. In over 20 years of playing mmos i have never seen another one that was so stingy with handing out money to the player. Right now im trying to save money for the mats for the griffing. But i guess i have to pay RL Money for this one to unless i want to farm 10h a day for whole month. The moneytisation feels worse than i most mobile games, for every crap they want money, colors, bankspace, iventoryspace, another char slot, mounts, nearly every skin and stuff for applying skins to your gear and lot more. Its like the game is designt to make the player as much stuff as possible from the cash shop.

Gold comes from materials.
All those pieces of gear, and trophies, and trash items that drop are gold.

If a meta gives you say 10 blue/green items, 5 yellow items, and a couple grey trophies worth 20 silver each then when you bust all of that down into the core ingredients and sell them on the trading post you'll be 2-3 gold or more richer for say a 10-15 minute boss kill.

If you have a bunch of crafting professions maxed out what you can also do is look for recipe's that are selling well and craft those with all the materials you got from farming. Often squeeze out a few extra gold crafting them up too.

But a lot of people just sell the raw materials.

[Divine_Glass]

so i looked through this thread because i had a similar question and im gettin the answer of if you want extra content beyond the expansions get living world too if not your better off getting just the expansions only which im alright with i just wanna weld a hammer for my engie

[MSeven]

Originally posted by Divine_Glass:

so i looked through this thread because i had a similar question and im gettin the answer of if you want extra content beyond the expansions get living world too if not your better off getting just the expansions only which im alright with i just wanna weld a hammer for my engie

If you care about the story living world is mandatory.

If you don't care about story Living World Season 3 contains one of the easiest ways to farm ascended trinkets. Season 4 gives you the Roller Beetle and Skyscale mount as well as popular gold farming meta's. Icebrood gives you the table and unlocks a bunch of ways to earn ascended gear.

And they all contain as many or more maps than the expansions all with meta activities, achievements, skins. They're basically mini expansions.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Divine_Glass:

so i looked through this thread because i had a similar question and im gettin the answer of if you want extra content beyond the expansions get living world too if not your better off getting just
the expansions only which im alright with i just wanna weld a hammer for my engie

Paying $99.99 for everything, including living world, is the best value if you know now that you will be getting living world anyway.

Those of us who played since 2012, never had the option to get all the living world at once because it was released ad hoc.

With the exception of Season 4 of the living world, which has the skyscale mount. Once you are lvl 80 and prepared to farm Skyscale, I would get Season 4.

The easiesy way to get your ascended trinkets is actually structured PvP, because you don't even farm for them. You just win the currency you need to buy them, your ascended rings, and your backpiece. That, and your ascended weapons plus full exotic gear all at once.

Season 3 is much more inefficient than structured PvP in gearing up for fractals because you need more than trinkets.

Most living world seasons are made irrelevant by DLC like Heart of Thorns, Path of Fire, and End of Dragons because they have superior content that you will replay.

You can youtube the story to get filled in on what you miss. I had to anyway because there were big gaps betweem content release.

The "story" argument is nonsense because it'a all publicly available.

[kalamari]

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

directly from the store site:

"Living World seasons continue the Guild Wars 2 story between expansions and must be purchased separately through your Story Journal or in Gem Store bundles. Play Living World episodes to unlock new explorable zones, rewards, and Masteries."

[Flushing]

Originally posted by kalamari:

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Dude i bought both expansion for a new account here on steam and i didnt know about the living stuff as a new player. A lot of stuff you only realise later with your first char. Would i have know before that the expansion dont give me all the content the game has to offer i would maybe bought the big package. But these are things that the game dosnt tell you as a new player.

directly from the store site:

"Living World seasons continue the Guild Wars 2 story between expansions and must be purchased separately through your Story Journal or in Gem Store bundles. Play Living World episodes to unlock new explorable zones, rewards, and Masteries."

Dude, we can trust new players who say it's confusing. It is.

The truth is, Living World is not so important "in the big picture". Particulary if you bought all DLC through End of Dragons.

Season 4 matters, and only when you're at the Apex of the End Game, with hundreds of hours behind you, not much else does.