Guild Wars 2

Im on my phone so trying thé best i can to add thé pic, but here’s thé pic from a Cantha boat, thé design is thé same as thé one on thé new living story thing so yeah.. thoughts?

bloodtide coast loading screen

I can bet, that this is Orrian building – but there are two directions from continent – you can take a road on the left from Cursed Shore, or you can go through Straits of Devastation – you have even Sea of Elon there. So there are two possibilities – Elona or Cantha

Elona seems the more likely option.

yup will be elona, Illconceived Was Na.9781 already posted where that map is from

There’s a boat like that in Lion’s Arch harbour, it’s part of the Troll’s Revenge jumping puzzle.

Yeah, we’re not going to Cantha. Sorry.

But… it appears we’re not going to deal with Braham, either. Good. Maybe we can have an expansion without most of the Scooby Gang, and find a more useful crew to replace the dead weight members.

Palador.2170:

Yeah, we’re not going to Cantha. Sorry.

But… it appears we’re not going to deal with Braham, either. Good. Maybe we can have an expansion without most of the Scooby Gang, and find a more useful crew to replace the dead weight members.

Yes, like the pain in the kitten, whiny Braham. Let’s replace him with Canach!

The ship is indeed of Canthan design, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to Cantha. At best we get to see a ship that was sent from Cantha, at worst it’s just a Zephyrite ship.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The ship is indeed of Canthan design, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to Cantha. At best we get to see a ship that was sent from Cantha, at worst it’s just a Zephyrite ship.

Ooh there used to be canthan refugees, but zhaitan stopped all ships passing and eventually people from cantha stopped trying which is why none have showed up since he died. But what if one that crashed somehow on the far side of Orr survived? At least a small update on cantha that could only be so many years outdated if it comes from live people

Crashed Canthan ship on the coast of Orr?? That’s a great idea!

I imagine something like this: We’ll get a report from some Pact member, that there’s a ship that crashed on the northern coast in Orr, and a Pact squad found them and helped them build a base for the survivors. And our character may say: “Wow! Let’s go there and talk to them! And after that I may stop in Arah and try to find something about Balthazar.”

From this we may get:
- a very valuable info about Cantha (or maybe southern Elona if that ship is from there?)
- a view of (partially, I guess) cleansed Orr
- something cool in Arah that may get us info about Balthazar and lead us to Elona

Avador.8934:

Crashed Canthan ship on the coast of Orr?? That’s a great idea!

I imagine something like this: We’ll get a report from some Pact member, that there’s a ship that crashed on the northern coast in Orr, and a Pact squad found them and helped them build a base for the survivors. And our character may say: “Wow! Let’s go there and talk to them! And after that I may stop in Arah and try to find something about Balthazar.”

From this we may get:
- a very valuable info about Cantha (or maybe southern Elona if that ship is from there?)
- a view of (partially, I guess) cleansed Orr
- something cool in Arah that may get us info about Balthazar and lead us to Elona

Yup fantastic chance for story and helps with the adding repeatable hearts in a region where nobody lives except military forces

While agreed, the ship looks canthan, I think its a bit farfetched to assume were going to cantha. I mean, its just a ship, its not like there were no canthans jn tyria.

Reminds me of when I quit GW1 when Factions came out.

Never take a loading screen or art work as proof of a theory. By your logic OP, we should have polarms because of the timberland falls loading screen.

Palador.2170:

Yeah, we’re not going to Cantha. Sorry.

But… it appears we’re not going to deal with Braham, either. Good. Maybe we can have an expansion without most of the Scooby Gang, and find a more useful crew to replace the dead weight members.

Taimi, Scruffy 2.0. A few others have done cameos so we will have to see what the ep6 story brings. Interesting we are supposed to be forming a new gang but for most of the season the only constant besides us has been Taimi. Maybe do a star trek RP and give her the title of subcommander?

Menadena.7482:

Interesting we are supposed to be forming a new gang but for most of the season the only constant besides us has been Taimi.

First, the PC only recently finished inviting people to the new group. Second, Even the Scooby Gang split up frequently, to get things done.

I don’t particularly like the way that part of the story is being told (especially Braham’s refusal — I can accept that he’s bitter, but the dialogue was clunky rather than realistically awkward). However, it’s consistent with how people put together small groups. It takes time to organize.

Im actually surprised we didnt chase after Braham. I mean, we just established that the death of another dragon can mean catastrophical cataclysm, and we have a potentially knocked out Jormag with a begrudged Norn wielding magical arrows. If I was the commander, I’d order a maim on sight on Braham, kill on sight if he resists. Despite the rogue Balthazar, Braham is the next biggest threat to all life on tyria at the moment.

Other than the teaser image, what other hints has ANET dropped to suggest that we’d be going to Cantha?

Vesuvius.9874:

Other than the teaser image, what other hints has ANET dropped to suggest that we’d be going to Cantha?

None, only a 47 page thread on why were not going to cantha

Vesuvius.9874:

Other than the teaser image, what other hints has ANET dropped to suggest that we’d be going to Cantha?

“What hints has ANet dropped to suggest we’d be going to Cantha”
fixed that for you

(The teaser image has been ruled out as a Cantha-specific hint.)

i bet that when ANet decides to go to cantha, Living storywill be all about the tengus/avicaras requesting help to the pact commander

And then only after that it will be a expantion with cantha based.

While I do think it might be quite unlikely, I wouldn’t completely write off the idea of going to Cantha – as people have mentioned Elona makes more sense in terms of the Elder Dragon story as it’s highly likely Kralkattorik resides in that direction (if you believe the map art), however for me Tengu are the elephant in the room a bit here. We’ve increasingly seen them cropping up in game and adding a new race with the next xpac would be a very popular move with a lot of people – plus we know they’ve already done more work on Tengu than many other races from dev comments. And the obvious connection between Tengu and Cantha means I really don’t think this is as much of a write off as people are saying.

EDIT: Of course there were the junundu models in game not that long ago which is another pointer towards Elona of course

As much as I enjoyed Factions, and would like to see more about the Tengu, I for one am not all that interested in going to Cantha. There are tons of quality storylines yet to be tapped even by just pushing back the fog of war on the current map. Janthir, and the Blood Homelands, the Far Shiverpeaks, the area north of DR, Destroyer tunnels under Kryta connecting to the bottom of the Crown Pavilion…

Cantha
..
Xenophobic state of Tyria

Currently ruled by.. as the people would believe it, the empress, but those who avoid the cities and the fields know the truth. The ministry of Purity is the real leader. Scaelatha, the elder dragon of the depths, has send her nightmares to divide the seas. She corrupted the heads of the ministry of Purity, and through them, controls the nation. An entire nation that serves the elder dragon.. willingly, a prize the others only dreamt of. The few kittenist, and flee, will be cut off at the borders, or caught in the wild by Scaelatha’s champion; Zhu Hanuku, whose jade sea has melted, and without the spear to burden its awakening, has recovered to its full strength.

And the few who do dare to escape by sea.. they will truly learn what horrors sleep in the depths of the ocean, no, staying in the city, and server the Empress, far less terrifying

Avador.8934:

Crashed Canthan ship on the coast of Orr?? That’s a great idea!

I imagine something like this: We’ll get a report from some Pact member, that there’s a ship that crashed on the northern coast in Orr, and a Pact squad found them and helped them build a base for the survivors. And our character may say: “Wow! Let’s go there and talk to them! And after that I may stop in Arah and try to find something about Balthazar.”

From this we may get:
- a very valuable info about Cantha (or maybe southern Elona if that ship is from there?)
- a view of (partially, I guess) cleansed Orr
- something cool in Arah that may get us info about Balthazar and lead us to Elona

Could be related to the next LS season, but we will once it hit after the expansion.