I can’t be the only one to think they’re cartoonishly inept, can I?
AFAIK, pretty much their only accomplishment is to assassinate the council member. After that, Aetherblades do nothing but fail at all of their missions, die like rabbits in droves, and fail to kill even one person of significance in the Pavillion while losing many of their own.
I am frankly surprised that they manage to have any members left. I’d think aspiring criminals would stay away from a group known for throwing their own men out to die and had little success when it comes to fulfilling their objectives. They’re more of a nuisance than a threat, really.
I feel the same. Carpet and her Authorized Clowns…. ehem…. Scarlet and her Aetherblade Pirates seem to be very incompetent, just like every other “ebil” organization in this game. The opening ceremony assault was really pathethic. They didn’t achieve anything during that, other than losing another bunch of thugs of course.
Also NPCs kinda kitten me off when commenting about them: “Hey, remember that they are like super dangerous, doesn’t matter that we killed just about 20 of them without any losses and problems.”
And if they really have other goals, like sabotage something while other members will fight to get others attention, then how can they (pirates) agree on this? Hey guys, we gonna send you on a suicide mission, cause reasons, but don’t worry, your sacrifice won’t be forgotten(it will, lol).
There have been times where the other bad guy groups have also seemed to have the same level of ineptitude, but these guys just even worse than them. Even the Molten Alliance was more of a threat, they were winning at first.
It makes we wonder. Since their focus is technology, maybe the Inquest have brainwashed people to become Aetherblades?
I’ve also noticed that there don’t seem to be any asura Aetherblades, just human, charr, and norn, with that mysterious woman being the only sylvari so far.
So a multi-racial pirate group working with an organization that views themselves superior to all others (even non-Inquest asura) seems rather strange. Either the Inquest are providing something that the Aetherblades want badly enough to do all this, or perhaps the Inquest are using brainwashing or some other method of control to get people to work for them.
Standard bad guy syndrome. They’re the mooks we kill, ergo, they’re inept.
Now take allied NPC’s. If they were able to complete events without a player’s help this game wouldn’t be very challenging. Ergo, a whole battalion of Seraph is unable to deal with two bandits stealing apples from a Shaemoor farm.
[PD] – Far Shiverpeaks.
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Guild Wars 2 will be an amazing game when it’s finished. Compare Prophecies to EotN!
Over the recent months the Aetherblades went from that new unknown threat to “oh boy, here we go again”.
Watching one of their airships barrage a simple hot-air balloon and seemingly, utterly, fail to land even a single shot. And get no other response then a pilot saying “yeah, no, you see, looks like rain, or an aetherblade attack. Hmm, i hope the latter, hate getting wet. Go take care of it and i’ll let you get the chest, mmkay?”
Almost commical.
And then that mysterious sylvari. Okay so you dodged a few shots, pretented to be high and mighty. But you didnt accomplish anything but kitten off a Charr. Big whoop, give me 7 seconds and a squeeky toy. Guess we’ll see you in the next dungeon where you will get horribly murdered for a rare drop.
So a multi-racial pirate group working with an organization that views themselves superior to all others (even non-Inquest asura) seems rather strange. Either the Inquest are providing something that the Aetherblades want badly enough to do all this, or perhaps the Inquest are using brainwashing or some other method of control to get people to work for them.
Well with the dump of text we got in AR, no the inquest are funding and setting up the Ablade plans… The one thing they themself actually did was murder pugs with cannon fire and instakill shadowstems to which i can only say good job.
Also there fact that there are no sylvari and asura fighter only shows the superiority of the other races when it comes to survival, imagine if the ablade vets were as easy to kill as the inquest you fight in CoE, everyone and their grandma would have had T4 trials finished.
When life gives you lemon, ask if its from a anime or manga.
Standard bad guy syndrome. They’re the mooks we kill, ergo, they’re inept.
Now take allied NPC’s. If they were able to complete events without a player’s help this game wouldn’t be very challenging. Ergo, a whole battalion of Seraph is unable to deal with two bandits stealing apples from a Shaemoor farm.
I would agree with you, but even lorewise bad guys are shown as really weak. First, look at all the renegade factions and events involving them. How many of them are like: “Oh god, baddies want to steal/break/sabotage something again, let’s deal with them quickly boys and have a nap.” Baddies are usually treated as annoying vermins by us (maybe with the exception of Ventari Sylvari – Nightmare Court, but plantmen treat everything very seriously).
And look at the dialogs, there are many situations like:
Friendly npc is interrogated: “I won’t tell you anything, torture me all you want”
Bad guy is like: “Please don’t kill me, I’ll tell you everything!”
Friendlie: some snarky comment
Baddie: …. you are stupid, I’ll kill you!!
vs
Baddie: some snarky comment
Friendlie: some snarkier comment
Baddie:….. ‘rage’
etc.
And I won’t comment on inability to destroy a balloon using an airship….
And now for something different. You know a bad guy group is truly incompetent when they can get mobs that normally don’t care(or attack you first) to attack them!
It’s amusing to watch them aggro pretty much anything else in sight. And it tends to happen more often than not, at least for mee.
And that is why I think only the Mad King is scary thus far in this game. Delete the last phase where he jokes at the halloween event and hes pretty crazy and scary. I am serious when I say the candy corn monsters among the Mad Kings insanity is far far far better then these so called pirates which are more like clowns with batteries gone bad.
You may think it sound stupid but think about this for a moment. If in real life you saw giant candy corn monsters and plastic spiders and glow in the dark skeletons rips people limb from bloody limb with some crazy guy laughing, thats a hell you don’t want to see! The dumbest stuff is sometimes the scarier stuff.
And that is why I think only the Mad King is scary thus far in this game. Delete the last phase where he jokes at the halloween event and hes pretty crazy and scary. I am serious when I say the candy corn monsters among the Mad Kings insanity is far far far better then these so called pirates which are more like clowns with batteries gone bad.
You may think it sound stupid but think about this for a moment. If in real life you saw giant candy corn monsters and plastic spiders and glow in the dark skeletons rips people limb from bloody limb with some crazy guy laughing, thats a hell you don’t want to see! The dumbest stuff is sometimes the scarier stuff.
