The Lost Shores

Something stirs in the Sea of Sorrows... Unravel a mystery of monstrous proportions in The Lost Shores, a massive one-time world event that will change Tyria forever! — Official website

“

Something stirs in the Sea of Sorrows...

Unravel a mystery of monstrous proportions in The Lost Shores, a massive one-time world event that will change Tyria forever!

— Official website

The Lost Shores is a release that launched on November 15th, 2012, and introduced a series of one-time events until November 18th and was the unofficial beginning of Living World Season 1.

Concurrent with the release, players who had purchased the game were able to invite up to three friends for a free trial, that lasted through the entire weekend. There were hints and teasers appearing earlier in the month to build up the release.

Schedule

Event	Date	PST	EST	GMT	CET
Prelude	November 1-5	—	—	—	—
Free trial and teaser material	November 15	09:00	12:00	17:00	18:00
Phase 1	November 16	12:00	15:00	20:00	21:00
Phase 2	November 17	12:00	15:00	20:00	21:00
Phase 3	November 18	12:00	15:00	20:00	21:00

Features

Lost Shores Teaser has a video on YouTube.

Living World Season 1

“

Something is stirring in the Sea of Sorrows. Ship wreckage is washing up on shore, whales are beaching themselves, local quaggans are leaving their undersea homes, and strange new creatures are being spotted along the Tyrian coast.

Head Researcher Levvi has been pleading with Captain Magnus, leader of the Lionguard, to heed her warnings of imminent danger to the city of Lion's Arch and other coastal settlements. Magnus remains unconvinced, though the disruption of maritime trade has the Ship's Council concerned.

— Game update notes

New Events

• Weekend long Special event: Lost Shores
  • Special event was split into three phases: The karka invasion of Lion's Arch, making landfall on Southsun Cove, and attacking the Ancient Karka.

New Achievements

• Added 2 new Jumping Puzzles achievements.
• Added 19 new Explorer achievements related to the Fractal of the Mists dungeon.¹
• The Monthly added the last two mystery achievements
• Added Daily PvP and Monthly PvP achievements.

New Zone

• Southsun Cove

New materials

• Karka Shell
• Passion Fruit
• Passion Flower

New Rewards

Skins and equipment

• Fractal weapon skins
• Prototype Fractal Capacitor
• Light Consortium Breathing Mask Skin
• Medium Consortium Breathing Mask Skin
• Heavy Consortium Breathing Mask Skin
• Light Island Shoulder Skin
• Medium Island Shoulder Skin
• Heavy Island Shoulder Skin
• Shark's Tooth Axe Skin
• Shark's Tooth Sword Skin
• Tiki Totem Shield Skin
• Consortium Clipper Focus Skin
• Southsun Mask

Ascended Equipment

• Beta Fractal Capacitor
• Fractal Capacitor
• Royal Signet of Doric
• Lost Seal of Usoku
• Marriner's Compass
• Circle of Light
• Rurik's Royal Signet Ring
• Adelbern's Royal Signet Ring
• Ouroboros Loop
• Khilbron's Phylactery
• Crystalline Band
• Ring of Red Death
• Vassar's Band
• Ralena's Band
• Vine of the Pale Tree
• Bagh Nakh
• Mellaggan's Whorl
• Seal of the Khan-Ur
• Yakkington's Ring
• Snaff's Gyre
• Lunaria, Circle of the Moon
• Solaria, Circle of the Sun

Minis

• Mini Reef Drake
• Mini Karka
• Mini Karka Hatchlings

Content Updates

Dungeons

• New Dungeon: Fractals of the Mists
• A new PvE mechanic: agony.

Mini-dungeons

• New Jumping Puzzle: Skipping Stones
• New Jumping Puzzle: Under New Management

Structured PvP

• New Conquest Map: Temple of the Silent Storm

Gem Store

• Consortium Chest
• Consortium Dye Pack

General

• 200 new crafting recipes, including the new Apothecary's/Passiflora atrribute combination.

Gallery

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Soundtrack

The Lost Shores
Track	Title	Length	Composer	Download
1	Across The Sea Of Sorrows	2:54	Stan LePard	SoundCloud
2	Southsun Cove	3:08	Stan LePard	SoundCloud

External links

• The Lost Shores on official website
• Official trailer
• Fan-made preview with translated posters

Trivia

• On The Lost Shore's 4th anniversary, Peter Fries showed part of the initial pitch for the main characters involved with the story on Twitter.

---

2012 Festival and Special Event releases

Shadow of the Mad King The Lost Shores The Wondrous Workshop of Toymaker Tixx