I love the smell of napalm in the morning - Kilgore

There's a server event going on right now in Guild Wars 2. It's an attack on the national capital. I understand that, when it's over, the capital will be altered significantly.

Right now, for these two weeks, it's a mind boggling public zerg. And, because it's a game by those clever NCSoft/ArenaNet bastiges, ANYONE can join in. Yeah, if you're a lowly level 32 and you enter the fray, the game will scale you up to a lvl 80 equivalent. Obviously you won't be as über as a real lvl 80 but you'll be good enough to contribute in meaningful ways in the combat, and the gear drops will be well worth it.


This happened last night. There were so many players that the server periodically seized up. Not a big problem. Just log back in and go, but an indicator of the size of the insanity that is "The Battle of Lion's Arch."

Lion's Arch is a big city and it's been taken by the evil forces. There's only three ways in to the city now, and there's nasty poison gas about that limits how long you can last in there when fighting. If the zerg doesn't complete the several quests before the gas reaches toxic levels, we all get dumped out and the timer resets. Because there are three ways in, there are essentially three war parties undertaking the missions simultaneously. Chat is used to call for additional help or point out important changes in the mission status. It's awesome fun and I highly recommend you get into it if you haven't.