Guild Wars 2 Getting Solo Adventures

Adventures will "challenge you to master a wide variety of skills in a race against the clock."

Guild Wars 2 expansion Heart of Thorns will get a new event named Adventures.

Adventures, will be quick and solo events "challenge you to master a wide variety of skills in a race against the clock." Furthermore, Adventures will come with their own leaderboards for those who wish to challenge friends or guildmates.

Speaking via the official Guild Wars site, designer Byron Miller explains where the team’s at. According to Miller, during the conceptual phase the team looked at some of Guild Wars’ static content – skill challenges, jump-puzzles, renown regions, and so on. The plan was to determine which of the content types were considered a success, and how they could be improved if need be.

"We felt that these types of content lacked replay value, had limited ties to the game world and its story, and didn’t do enough to encourage social interaction," writes Miller.

"Our open-world event structure didn’t make it clear which activities were available to participate in when events weren’t running, which frequently left our world in a state where there were either active events to do or seemingly nothing to do."

Adventures are, apparently, the answer to the above problem, as each new Adventure shows off a straight forward path to a small victory that requires "strategy, practice, and mastery in order to excel and ultimately achieve success."