Guild Wars 2

Are the Phoenix weapons a reference to Conchita Wurst?

For those who don’t know, Conchita Wurst is the winner of Eurovision 2014, which happened on 10th May 2014, in which she won with a song named “Rise Like a Phoenix”.

I thought it was a big coincidence, in that they came up in the same month as Rise Like a Phoenix winning Eurovision.

I think it has to do with Lion’s Arch rebuilding

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neonreaper.4805:

I think it has to do with Lion’s Arch rebuilding

Oh, I never thought about that, actually. : o Especially since LA has been pretty quiet, but thats a good point.

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Bamm, I like it. Can I make them really small and pretend I’m a female dwarf that didn’t turn into stone?

Also, the Phoenix weapons combine the avian imagery of the Pavilion (note giant bird overhead) with the Jade (green) Dragon aesthetic of the weapons released last year around the time of Dragonbash, which is coming up next month

They also have a Phoenix structure in the upper levels of the Zephyr Sanctum. I didn’t look at it closely, but it looked like a large lantern in the shape of a Phoenix.

Considering that the weapons must have been planned months before the Eurovision contest and by Americans, I doubt the song had anything to do with it.

Lion’s Arch is rising from the ashes like a Phoenix, however.

Argon.1563:

Are the Phoenix weapons a reference to Conchita Wurst?

For those who don’t know, Conchita Wurst is the winner of Eurovision 2014, which happened on 10th May 2014, in which she won with a song named “Rise Like a Phoenix”.

I thought it was a big coincidence, in that they came up in the same month as Rise Like a Phoenix winning Eurovision.

Lol like American developers are paying attention or have any awareness of cheezy European pop culture….

I really don’t think any sensible game developer would seriously make anything based on… Eurovision out of all things.

Considering the contest doesn’t even take itself seriously and is very hard to link to any game…at all really.

Probably more to do with the Crown Pavilion being shaped like a giant bird or the four winds cliff being decorated with a lot of big bird ornaments

The Devs stated in the lastest Twitch Livestream, that the Phoenix references (at least in Labyrinthine Cliffs) were to the rebirth of Lion’s Arch. So, probably the weapons, as well.

You must be joking… How ridiculous.

I remember reading on the Wowwiki page about an NPC named James Van Brunt, where someone thought that the NPC was a reference to the singer James Blunt even though the game was out before this guy was even popular. The link in the wiki trying to prove it links to a non existent page. People really need to stop looking into references, not everything is a reference.