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The Ringmaster is done and dusted – at last. His devious plan to destroy society in Divinity’s Reach by having the lower classes kill the Queen. He had planned to hypnotize them using The Floating Grizwhirl, but things didn’t really turn out as planned and, in the end, we managed to kill him. That doesn’t mean everything is safe, however, and the idea that one of the Queen’s own ministers might have initiated both this attack and the poisoning of the water seems to make sense. At the end of last week we were invited to see the Queen and discover the next part of our story, and this week started with a brief visit to the palace.

This weekend we learnt that any developer is only one bad event away from derision. The Lost Shores event in Guild Wars 2 was supposed to be important. It was the first major event, it had new areas and new sorts of quests – this was a first for a popular game. Unfortunately, thanks to the way it was organized and implemented, I think many people also wanted it to be a last. Where did it all go wrong? Although we touched on it In our tenth Guild Wars 2 diary, I thought it’d be a good idea to look at how things went wrong so quickly and what it means for the future of events in Guild Wars 2.