Guild Wars 2

Hello , we (players ) are send to fight aetherblades again and again. At some point we notice that they are stronger than all other factions together(kryta, black citadel etc). Who need pact when those guys could just simply solo all dragons. Lore question: where did they recruit so many people without anyone noticing ?

Just send entire teams of Strikers after the elder dragons. Dragon problem solved!

Lore joke answer: Clones, clearly.

You know, nothing murders suspension of disbelief faster than the pile of corpses left after an Aetherblade portal fight. Or, to put it another way:

MMOs, and by extension video games, really have this problem with portraying a realistic limit on amounts in an army or other group . . . but then the necessary game mechanics screw it all to heck. RPGs fall into this problem rather easily (almost wantonly) when you consider how many random encounters have to be killed between Point A and Point M of a story . . . let alone before the finale at Point X. (Points Y and Z are the vaunted “postgame material” most RPGs come with standard these days.)

I know about those limitations. But we are fighting with them 3 event in a row. It’s not like we are fighting a group of pirates, it feels more like we are fighting a country. From lore point of view it makes no sense. (or did I miss something ? )

Drage.9816:

I know about those limitations. But we are fighting with them 3 event in a row. It’s not like we are fighting a group of pirates, it feels more like we are fighting a country. From lore point of view it makes no sense. (or did I miss something ? )

Well . . .

For Sky Pirates we only fought small teams for the most part, and found two harbors. There was an assumption that was all, but there was a third ship found during Cutthroat Politics, leading to the assumption there might have been more harbors and more Aetherblades active.

And in this I’m mostly drawn to the “yeah we got a problem here” because they can’t have small groups of really tough pirates (though we ARE getting mostly veterans in some waves) since they’d just melt too fast.

. . . but let’s step outside this and a question which got asked in an LP I was watching:

“Where the heck does Cerberus keep getting these goons to throw at Shepard?”

Allegedly the story is about dragons wanting to destroy world, one was defeated in Trahearne’s Story but 4 other remain. The addition of this unrelated enemy doesn’t seam logical since it doesn’t add anythign to the main story …. that is unless those are some dragon’s servants… as to where does the dragon get so many minions…. well they have a bit of an oriental look to me, Canta is misteriously vanished from game (to the point of the great collapse) so a Dragon having taken over Canta is as good especulation as any.

To be honest though, I am the sort of ppl who clicks the skip button every time I can and I don’t really care. All I wish is Anet would give us some interesting instanced content that isn’t soloable or a plain zerg. Invasions are even amusing the first few times … after, it’s just the most uninteresting mechanics: join a Zerg, cap mobs, survive invisible attacks, collect bounty.

If the most powerful faction got trouble shooting a stationary balloon down with cannons, then does that mean that everyone in the entire game are all pathetic and weak?

neon.4863:

Just send entire teams of Strikers after the elder dragons. Dragon problem solved!…

Man no kidding – those are always first on my “you die first” list. Get three of them offset by about 2-4 seconds in their AI routine and you just ain’t gonna move.

Fastest growing faction, sure. Most powerful? Not really, when you consider how many times they lose.

In response to the Cerberus thing, they were experimenting with indoctrination by that point, so that could explain that, while with the Aetherblades/Molten Alliance, we’ve yet to see why they’re still following Scarlet after dying in even greater doses than before. (Unless they too are brainwashed and/or clones.)

“Have you met my Aetherblades? They work for me, you know. Because, they like living. Never mind the fact that I send them off to stand in random spots and get zerged to death, but hey, who cares?”

neon.4863:

Just send entire teams of Strikers after the elder dragons. Dragon problem solved!

Lore joke answer: Clones, clearly.

I Agree.

They throw up a lightning field that damages and a Static field to stun you if you get out. Not Only that But their scepter #1 100% quicker and more painful compared to the PC elementals’t version

They must be feeding them something because their Champions that are norn or charr are huge. They’re like what at shoulder’s height of Lupicus?

Thats my biggest issue with this whole invasion thing. If her army was only the hacked watchknights and steam creatures, i would still scratch my head a bit, wondering where she got the materials, resources and the time, but slaughtering legions of aetherblades at each event, along with the supposedly broken now returned molten alliance, suspension of disbelief is pretty much zerged, pulverized, looted, stomped into the ground and disintegrated by destroyers.

By what i actually see, Scarlet is much more powerful than the Pact. Further discrediting everything archived in the Personal (Trehearne’s) Story, that was about amassing that force to be able to stand against the elder dragons.

…Actually im noticing a pattern. Sylvaris are always trying to make our story and archivements feel insignificant. At least Scarlet is saying ot out loud.

neon.4863:

Just send entire teams of Strikers after the elder dragons. Dragon problem solved!

Lore joke answer: Clones, clearly.

Or just send Taskmasters and have the dragons kill themselves from 5 million stacks of confusion.

Obviously no one in this thread has faced the new Vet Subjugators or Champ Corruptors yet… (one insta-summons 6 massive unblockable wells at a time that deal 2000dps… the other is basically Lt. Kohler on Steroids)

The clues are in Scarlet’s main subjects of interest. Not going to speculate here beyond paraphrasing something from Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy: In an infinite universe, it’s not really necessary to actually manufacture much, since pretty much anything you can imagine just grows somewhere naturally.