BETA WEEKEND #1 - Ending ceremony
Personally, I prefer the first BWE ending ceremony better. The event took place in the Wayfarer Foothills, near the Norn starting area. Before I go into much detail about the event, let me first give some backstory about the Norn. The Norn are a race who want to make their name legendary. They want their ancestors to sing their name in songs and tell their tale throughout the ages. When I rolled a low level Norn, my character had to go out into the wild and slay a beast in order to partake in the Great Hunt.
That being said, for the first closing event, players were tasked to kill elite critters. These critters were the normal size. (Tiny rabbits and squirrels.) However these tiny critters were equivalent to elite mobs. This entertaining clip depicts the first part of the event well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZHd9wb_aM&feature=fvstAfter that, we preceded to kill larger animals, and then eventually these large, blue chocobo's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kaw7mq7t9o&list=PL184B473DA374031E&index=9&feature=plpp_videoBETA WEEKEND #2 - Ending ceremony
The first time around, my server didn't get to experience most of this event. I also didn't get that far with my Charr in order to fully appreciate whatever lore inspired this event.
The event took place near the Charr starting area. Supposedly, a dragon flew overhead. Players then followed Rytlock or Eir around as they lead the group from place to place. As they wandered about, players were tasked to seek out and kill the Infected.
If you died, you were resurrected as one of the Infected. Your new objective was to seek out and kill the remaining survivors. Most likely, the event would have been pushed further along the track, however my server were being a bunch of douches and decided it would be a cool idea to relog and revert back into their original, un-Infected selves.
Needless to say, we didn't get to experience anything past that point. It would've been cool if, for the conclusion of that event, ArenaNet decided to blow up the area, which seems to be the general solution for cleaning up a worldwide, catastrophic event. (i.e., Resident Evil, that Aliens/Predator movie. There are others, they're just not coming to mind atm.)
BETA WEEKEND #3 - Ending ceremony
I honestly did not get the reference to this until after the event was over. After I found out that the event was based on Battle Royale and the Hunger Games, I felt like the joke was initially lost on me. It just went over my head.
Granted, I probably would've loved it if I had gotten the reference, but sadly that was not the case. Instead, I did what any hapless player would do: I ran ahead out of the cave, following the big mass of players and read what was said in chat.
Word to the wise: in events such as these, only fools trust what is typed in the chat box. On my server, people were saying, "stick together as a group."
I thought, 'that makes sense. This is war, it's our team against everybody else. Strength in numbers.'
Sadly, no. The only real objective of the game was to be the last man standing. On our server that person just went about running around gathering food (so he could replenish his health).
And here I thought the means to the goal was via PVP. How wrong I was.
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