This week on the Precursor Cast…Tess sings the Bye Bye Birdie opening number, Militus proposes new balance changes that increase the one slot sack to 20, and the Precursor Guild launches an assault on something or another...boom wasn’t there. It is time to wind it up, this is Episode 11 of the Precursor Cast.

Intro Game:
Would you Rather, GW2 Style…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t3cBTb3xPc

*Shout Out
First thing. Mike Hunt….Yep, that is his username on GW2. Sent us in this:
Made our little intro voicing.
I threw this together to play with the intro music, I realize the end is a little sharp. I could redo it/say something different if you'd like to use it.

Love the podcast, keep it up!

Moment of Zen:

Tess - I didn’t get to play much thanks to a million “emergencies” at work. My moment of zen was out of game and dealt with the fact that I managed to get through the past week without beating a parent to death. I did manage to do some crafting, though.

Militus - Hot Fractal Action with guildies! I ran 2 (10 Motlen Boss and 8 Underground Facility) new fractals and started my backpiece quest. Thanks to Painclaw for the invite.

Boom - Boom got some wings as a PVP award. Not sure if he should be proud or not.

Mostly I have been playing PVP. I have not been able to break out of the emerald tier. Not winning enough.

Adventures in Noobness:

Militus - So, I did not know that you can enter higher level fractals EVEN if your personal fractal level is BELOW the level selected. This only becomes really important when agony starts at level 20.

From the Wiki - “The personal reward level tracks the current position of the character on the difficulty scale. “
There are 4 scales 1-20 Casual, 21-50 core, 51-75 Veteran, 76-100 Master

Boom - learned that there is no one way to play. Stats for my necro. Basically lots of options, I could not find one way.

Militus Broke Ass Segment:
Mini Zintil Cavalier - 350 gems

News:
http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/20/analysts-consider-ncsofts-2016-prospects-guild-wars-2-wildstar-earnings-fall/
Last March, Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo Securities wasn’t that hopeful on the financial future of WildStar. Little has changed in the firm’s opinion for 2016, as it predicted thatWildStar’s profits will drop almost to nothing this year, even after its free-to-play transition in the fall of 2015.
Guild Wars 2 isn’t off the hook in the firm’s eyes, either. The studio says that it expects NCsoft to report “slightly disappointing earnings” for last quarter due in part to weaker sales of Heart of Thorns.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however. KDB thinks that 2016 will be an overall strong year for NCsoft and most of its games, with a revenue bump of 11.4%. It points to the release of some of NCsoft’s mobile titles to thank for that and predicts that Lineage Eternal will be unveiled and go into beta in the second half of this year.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-new-shatterer/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/10478/The-Shatterer-Reborn.html/page/1

MMORPG: Are there plans to work on more events similar to the Shatterer in the future? Is this sort of a "test" for similar approaches?
AG: We’re always open to opportunities to go back to existing content and make improvements. The game has evolved a lot over the years and a lot of the new systems or mechanics we’ve developed could absolutely be i...