Guild Wars 2

So we know that Zojja is from the College of Synergetics. What college was Snaff from?

He’s always struck me as a Dynamics type, being on the cutting edge of development.

I thought it was said that he’s from Synergetics like Zojja, but I don’t have a source on that so I’m not going to quote it as the gospel truth. It’d be likely: it seems logical that a master and his apprentice are usually graduates of the same college.

Mind you, I do think he fits Dynamics to a T. But definitely not Statics.

I’m pretty sure that since he was zojja’s mentor, he would be synergetics, although the fact that he was always on the cutting edge of things and the fact that he was a golemancer makes me want to think he was dynamics…

Almost certain it was synergetics. Again I’m not sure exactly where I read it, pretty sure it was in game some place during the synergetics story arc (Zojja responds slightly differently to you if you’re in the same college – “We synergetics alumni need to stick together!”)

His line of work fits synergetics as well; people think of him as a golemancer but all colleges utilise golems; dynamics merely specialises in that sort’ve gadgetry. Snaff’s speciality was mind-hardware interfacing, and that is very much synergetic’s bag

Ryuujin.8236:

Almost certain it was synergetics. Again I’m not sure exactly where I read it, pretty sure it was in game some place during the synergetics story arc (Zojja responds slightly differently to you if you’re in the same college – “We synergetics alumni need to stick together!”)

His line of work fits synergetics as well; people think of him as a golemancer but all colleges utilise golems; dynamics merely specialises in that sort’ve gadgetry. Snaff’s speciality was mind-hardware interfacing, and that is very much synergetic’s bag

isn’t synergetics more physicsy stuff and the things that are more likely to leave behind some sort of spacetime problem, than a puddle of slime or a nice crater if when it blows up

I remember an asura in rata sum saying “you dynamics types are all the same: if you can’t strap it to a golem, you blow it up”

also, the dynamics storyline specifically mentions that snaff was a golemancer and the point of their entry to the snaff prize was showing off a perfect mind-hardware interface to keep in the spirit of the competition (synergetics made a teleporter that could choose a destination on the fly without needing a reciever)

The colleges are often ascribed to various engineering fields in order to make them more relatable: Synergetics to Nuclear, Dynamics to Chemical/Mechanical, and Statics to Civil/Mechanical.

Having gone through the various storylines and actually listened to the NPCs inhabiting each college, however, I’m inclined to describe them in the following way:

Synergetics members are all about the concept: how things work, why they work the way they do, and how they relate to the bigger picture. Think Isaac Newton, whose theories of gravity were relatively radical.

Dynamics members are the prototypers. They’re on the cutting edge of new technologies because they’re the first to try and develop them; where Synergetics develops the theories, Dynamics puts them into action. Thomas Edison and Nikolai Tesla, both experimenting with uses for electricity in a world powered by steam, could be considered as falling under the purview of Dynamics.

Statics members concern themselves with refinement. They take existing technologies and make them more efficient, powerful, compact, compatible and accessible.

Some members of the colleges stay strictly within their lines; a number of those in Synergetics can be heard saying that they’re glad they can stick to their theories, rather than having to spend all their time tinkering. But there’s a lot of room for overlap, at least between Dynamics and the other two colleges (Statics and Synergetics don’t quite go together).

I’m inclined to say Snaff was a Synergetics member, as some of his most famous scientific contributions are theories on the properties of Dragon Energy.

Calcifire.1864:

isn’t synergetics more physicsy stuff and the things that are more likely to leave behind some sort of spacetime problem, than a puddle of slime or a nice crater if when it blows up

Yes, synergetics is essentially comparable to physics and other studies of the underlying mechanics, but even in the real world fields are not mutual exclusive.

An engineer building a bridge must understand how forces are transmitted through the structure, while a chemist in a lab needs to understand how an NMR spectrograph works (and how to maintain and tune it) in order to ensure accurate readings.

An expert in mind/machine interfacing, would need to know a thing or two about the machinery he plans to interface even if his real interest is the science of how to interpret the signals from the brain.

Calcifire.1864:

also, the dynamics storyline specifically mentions that snaff was a golemancer and the point of their entry to the snaff prize was showing off a perfect mind-hardware interface to keep in the spirit of the competition

It is odd that dynamics is depicted as essentially improving on Snaff’s designs in GW2. But being a golemancer doesn’t mean they are dynamics; Zojja is a golemancer too and we know for a fact she is from synergetics.

Arkengel RaF.9672:

So we know that Zojja is from the College of Synergetics. What college was Snaff from?

if i remember correctly from the books snaff was the one who paved the way for the current understanding of synergetics through his work with golems.

so im pretty sure hes from the college of synergetics lol