Guild Wars 2

What Anet needs to do is bring Tybalt back and have him as a candidate. I’m sure everyone will vote for him even if all he offers is a bag filled with apples.

Gods fighting vs An Asura pushing the wrong button (again)

easy choice. Vote Evon… let us see Abbadon.

Lore surounding Abbadon is far more interesting than “Asura experiment gone wrong #9372”. Abbadon is almost like if the Greek gods Prometheus and Zeus were combined… rather than Prometheus not being able to do anything to defend his actions and simply being locked away and tortured for eternity, Abbadon was powerful to not only resist his imprisonment by waging war against other gods, but even cut his eternity of torture short, break out and try to get vengeance against those who wronged him.

The Fall of Abbadon has massive potential to be an incredible thing to see, as this would be back in Abbadon’s prime, before he was tortured and mutilated for over a thousand years. Anet has a lot of potential to show Abbadon as a very tragic hero here, which would be just great.

Abbadon/Gnashblade 2013!

GNASHBLADE IS NO CHARR. Do not vote for him. Why? Because CHARR NEED NO GODS!

RyuDragnier.9476:

GNASHBLADE IS NO CHARR. Do not vote for him. Why? Because CHARR NEED NO GODS!

abbadon is not a god, he is a superior superior being above gods

Duke Nukem.6783:

RyuDragnier.9476:

GNASHBLADE IS NO CHARR. Do not vote for him. Why? Because CHARR NEED NO GODS!

abbadon is not a god, he is a superior superior being above gods

If he’s above a god, he’s a god.

RyuDragnier.9476:

GNASHBLADE IS NO CHARR. Do not vote for him. Why? Because CHARR NEED NO GODS!

To be fair, he’s interested in research on how to kill gods.

Dan.2940:

Order of Venvardis.6073:

Dan.2940:

To be honest i had never even heard of the explosion til now, and it still doesn’t interest me… Whatever happened at that lab obviously wasn’t as big of an impact as the fall of abbadon or we would know about it….

Having only played Guild Wars 2, my knowledge of the events of the first game isn’t too expansive. I hadn’t heard much about the “fall of Abaddon” until now. It obviously wasn’t a big deal since I don’t know about it.

Lol, you havn’t played GW1 right? So you wouldn’t know…. The fall of abbadon was a HUGE deal in the first game

Oops, I thought my sarcasm was obvious. Guess I’ll try harder next time!

Mif.3471:

Quite the opposite.

People need to realize that GW1 is over, and that GW2 is the current game. We should be furthering new stories in GW2 lore, instead of making GW1 prequels for nostalgia.

To abandon GW2 lore and fall back to GW1 lore within a year of release sends GW2’s future down a very dangerous and destructive path.

GW1 lore IS GW2 lore. Yes, GW2 has introduced new lore around the other races, but they are still the same world and the GW1 stuff hasn’t been – and shouldn’t be – thrown out entirely.

We already technically returned to GW1 lore when we went to the ruins and catacombs of Ascalon and Orr, then when we had Mad King Thorn show up for another Halloween. The odd callback isn’t going to kill the game.

What if the reason Abaddon fell is because far in the future the Thaumanova reactor melted down and changed the past?

IT COULD BE THE SAME FRACTAL! :-)

I mainly want the Thaumanova Reactor fractal because it’s a new piece of lore that we know little about. Fall of Abaddon on the other hand would be cool but we had pretty much a whole game dedicated to it and we have a pretty good guess on how the events already went down. To me Fall of Abaddon is just not as interesting because we know a lot already unless they do something with Abaddon’s lore that turns it on its head and makes us rethink what we thought we knew.

Atomisk.2573:

I mainly want the Thaumanova Reactor fractal because it’s a new piece of lore that we know little about. Fall of Abaddon on the other hand would be cool but we had pretty much a whole game dedicated to it and we have a pretty good guess on how the events already went down. To me Fall of Abaddon is just not as interesting because we know a lot already unless they do something with Abaddon’s lore that turns it on its head and makes us rethink what we thought we knew.

The reactor is available in the game, the aftermath is there if u go to Metrica province.
The Fall of Abaddon has nothing to do with the events in GW1, colin already confirmed this in one of his interview. The events are pre-GW1 story.

Mif.3471:

Dan.2940:

The fall of abbadon was a HUGE deal in the first game, its long since that event in history happened, that’s why you have no clue that it happened in GW2… I’ve played both games, and i didn’t know about this reactor until now… something that happened recently. This is why the Abbadon fractal needs to win xD

Quite the opposite.

People need to realize that GW1 is over, and that GW2 is the current game. We should be furthering new stories in GW2 lore, instead of making GW1 prequels for nostalgia.

To abandon GW2 lore and fall back to GW1 lore within a year of release sends GW2’s future down a very dangerous and destructive path.

People need to realize that there is no separation between gw1 lore and gw2 lore because they take place in the same world and area. Trying to erase the base of all your lore is a very bad idea.

People also need to realize that the fall of Abaddon wasn’t actually part of gw1, only alluded to. Information wise, we have very little.

You yourself should also realize that both of these fractals are past events so in terms of furthering stories, they’ll have the same amount of contribution.

As someone who did not play GW1 the whole ‘Fall of Abaddon’ means nothing to me. Outside of a sunken temple in Straits of Devestation, which I was only briefly introduced to by making specific choices in my personal story, I know nothing about him. Since the human gods 1) no longer have a presence in Tyria and 2) apparently did their best to erase him from existence I suspect it will stay that way.

I feel they went too far back in lore with Abaddon and as such it seems more of a GW1 fan service than anything. If the fractal had been a pre-cataclysmic Orr I would have been all over that and felt that it was relevant to the current game. Depending on your personal story choices Abaddon’s not even mentioned anywhere (that I know of) in the game outside of a point of interest. In that respect the Thaumanova Reactor has a much larger presence, especially if you note its effects are evident not only in Metrica Provice but in Brisban Wildlands as well.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen both, but given the choice I’m going to go with what’s relevant in the current timeline and not something that significantly pre-dates anything I’ve encountered in the game to the point of meaninglessness.

Well the effect of Abaddon have a large presence, like say…well magic to start.

Thaumanova is basically a shot in the dark about what it could be. Well not really, because if it was that important, it wouldn’t be created as a fractal (outside of bosses fight, look how small they are).

Yes, Abaddon will be small too. But come on, those who want it don’t really want it for the story (we know a part of it, and a few new information would be nice), but to actually see a fight of epic proportions.

Well, the way I see it is Abaddon is as relevant to GW2 as The Silmarillion was to The Lord of the Rings. Knowing about Middle Earth’s past explained everything that was going on in LotR, but was it essential that you know it? No, not really.

I agree with you though. I know people just want to see the encounter even though they already know what happened (unlike Thaumanova Reactor).

Do you honestly think that they would make the Abaddon fractal a dead end? people who use the argument “oh Abaddon happened and it dumb and doesn’t advance the plot” are not taking into account the fact that they wouldn’t just make a dead end story. I would bet that the flowchart of these fractal events have the same ending. Tying Abaddon with the dragons or Thaumanova with the dragons. writers don’t develop dead ends, that’s stupid.

Well the magic came from the bloodstone remember? That stone is a direct result of the races who worked together at the dragon’s last rising. So it’s not irrelevant imo. I mostly want to why he was so against weakening magic though.