Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-29-2013/

Looks like a new dungeon and a new universal skill. I really don’t know about “universal” skills, as they were very wonky in GW1. At first I thought it’d have lots of underwater combat, but on closer inspection it doesn’t seem likely.

Shame about lack of UW combat, I’d have really enjoyed that.

Still, this looks impressive as a preview. As unlikely as it prob is, it would awesome if this tied into a Dragon. It prob wont…but one can dream!!

Well that answers the question of what the ‘force field’ in the lake is all about. (Although I think most people guessed it was something to do with an upcoming update.)

Maybe I’m reading it wrong but the new skills sounds like it’s specific to the Living Story and will only be used in the new dungeon. A bit like some of the missions in GW1 where you got a special skill on your bar just for that mission.

There doesn’t seem to be much info in this announcement though, compared to some of the others. All it tells us is there’s a new dungeon, it involves the krait and we get a new skill and place of power. No idea how this ties into the rest of the Living Story (if at all), whether it’s permanent or temporary, whether there will be anything else in the update…

I bet the new healing skill doesn’t heal Ranger pets.

Tower of Nightmares.

Does it actually say it is a new dungeon? Wonder if it will be permanent

Does Scarlet have anything to do with this? How does this tie in to the current living story plotline? And why hasn’t Destiny’s Edge or anyone else assembled a team to go put her down?

Please make these Krait count towards the Krait Slayer Achievement! I noticed that Aetherblade pirates do not count as “pirates” -_-

very high chance scarlet has something to do with this, yay we get to deal with her again.

Kinda excited about this because the Krait Witch is my favorite legendary mob.

As Scarlet does the narrative in the video, I’m guessing she has something to do with it all. =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As Scarlet does the narrative in the video, I’m guessing she has something to do with it all. =)

Oh please no!! Let this be about the Krait Witch this time! No Scarlet!!!!

DAT Sword. (the blue ones the greenlike krait is wielding in one of the pictures)

Avatara.1042:

Tower of Nightmares.

Oops. Edited.

Randulf.7614:

Does it actually say it is a new dungeon? Wonder if it will be permanent

No, that’s just a guess. I don’t know what else it could be, unless you can’t enter that tower. That would be a bit of a letdown.

We still don’t know what the Tower of Nightmares is. Dungeon? Mini dungeon? Story instances? Meta event?

We even don’t know what will remain and in which form.

I have a bloody terror of krait and their towers.

(said in Harrison Ford’s voice ala Indiana Jones)
Krait! Why did it have to be krait!

I’m pretty sure with the Scarlet voice over, the plant-like apendages that’re twisting out of/into the structure, and the “monument to fear” thing, Anet managed to shoehorn Scarlet into an update that many thought would focus moreso on the Kraitt.

Ah well.

This sounds cool and the idea of Scarlet teaming up with the Krait frankly gives me the heeby jeebies but if this is another LS event tied up in a 5 man dungeon I am going to throw all my toys out of my cot, just saying.

I hope it ends up being a jumping puzzle. Tower of nightmares indeed.

Nothing has been said yet, but the wording they use “seed” “nightmare” etc. seems to hint that the Nightmare Court may have something to do with helping the Krait. I wonder…

That doesn’t sound like Scarlet’s voice to me. Hers tends to be more high-pitched.

I still don’t see how Scarlet fits into the lore. A sylvari graduating at all asuran colleges? wtf

Tower Of Nightmares

Antitoxin Spray will cleanse yourself and nearby allies of poison, torment, confusion, and toxin

Wait wait, what (emphasis mine)? Are we getting another condition? It can’t be a typo for poison as that’s listed.

That, or it will be a dungeon-specific condition.

Of course SB is back, she will be in the game for the duration of the LS. Accept it and move on. I can see her rallying the other races to her cause, but the Krait are so xenophobic that we are going to have to see some major official retconning or explanations.

Invictus.1503:

Nothing has been said yet, but the wording they use “seed” “nightmare” etc. seems to hint that the Nightmare Court may have something to do with helping the Krait. I wonder…

Scarlet just got through with screwing around in Twilight Arbor, so… no surprise there. :p

well scarlet made some sort of deal with the nightmare court. It’s not a far stretch to say the nightmare court and krait in working together. Just like flame and frost she brought dredge and flame shamans together. Seems plausible.

I posted this about 8 months ago: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Wizard-s-Tower-as-a-Fractal/first#post1342071

I get up this morning, put on some coffee, check on my garden, come back and there is a Massively.com article called, “ArenaNet lifts the veil on Guild Wars 2’s Tower of Nightmares content release”. Naturally, I am thinking it’s this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wizard%27s_Tower

ArenaNet, you guys are the best, but this is such a troll move! I am stoked to see the new content, but for those of us that have wanted something content-wise from the Wizard’s Tower for all these years…I was super bummed that you put the new tower in Kessex, but didn’t use the Wizard’s Tower. I’d say, “Well played!”, but I don’t want to give you the satisfaction of knowing that you crushed my dreams! :p

Its not scarlet. Its obviously the krait witch or something doing the narration. Sounds nothing like scarlet.

Tree.3916:

I still don’t see how Scarlet fits into the lore. A sylvari graduating at all asuran colleges? wtf

I don’t think there’s anything particularly offensive about that more than there is the fact that they just pulled her seemingly out of nowhere. It was a bad way to plug her in but now that they’ve done that, she’s here to stay.

Atleast she’s the glue that bound all the other random events in Tyria together through the living story prior to her official unveiling, so I’m tolerant on this fact alone. Because we’re watching her rise to power right now and the Krait are seemingly now a part of her army. I could be wrong, but with the new Aether path and now this, it seems they’re writing her to becoming a real threat because she can smash her way through event the most fanatical of lore subjects.

spoj.9672:

Its not scarlet. Its obviously the krait witch or something doing the narration. Sounds nothing like scarlet.

In the video, they mentioned dark allies, which is why I don’t believe it’s just the krait

Serelisk.6573:

spoj.9672:

Its not scarlet. Its obviously the krait witch or something doing the narration. Sounds nothing like scarlet.

In the video, they mentioned dark allies, which is why I don’t believe it’s just the krait

It was the Quaggans that were evicted from WvW at the same time. Yes. The Krait and the Quaggans are now in cahoots.

Edit:

mentioned dark allies

Being unable to watch the video right now I’ll take that as an actual quote from the video; and in all seriousness it would lead me to believe it might be the largos. Players have been begging for more content about them (remember that in the personal story you were only helped by one, on top of that, the single largos was culturally obliged to help Trahearne). I don’t find them too fascinating but they really seem like the logical conclusion here.

I just spit out the coffee I wasn’t even drinking. Thanks for that! I reached my laugh quota for today.

zamalek.2154:

Tower Of Nightmares

Antitoxin Spray will cleanse yourself and nearby allies of poison, torment, confusion, and toxin

Wait wait, what (emphasis mine)? Are we getting another condition? It can’t be a typo for poison as that’s listed.

That, or it will be a dungeon-specific condition.

It could also be a new Agony with new infusions to counter it (they did say a long time ago that they were thinking about infusions besides +5 agony resistance, and the +5 stat ones don’t count). Would also make sense if they introduce ascended armor (bleh) soon.

Quite unlikly to be another agony equivalent, as this condition is by design uncleansable and can only be reduced through infusions. Since this obviously can be cleansed, seems to be a new “normal” condition. Of course, might just be something for this LS only.

toxin = gw1 disease?

Astralporing.1957:

Quite unlikly to be another agony equivalent, as this condition is by design uncleansable and can only be reduced through infusions. Since this obviously can be cleansed, seems to be a new “normal” condition. Of course, might just be something for this LS only.

Yeah, I know I was reaching. But I do look forward to new uses for infusions (or just increase the amount of utility infusions you can equip at once).

Wallace MacBix.2089:

(or just increase the amount of utility infusions you can equip at once).

They should just abandon that original design failure of different infusion slot types and make every slot universal. Though this might require placing some caps on +MF/karma/etc infusions.

Serelisk.6573:

spoj.9672:

Its not scarlet. Its obviously the krait witch or something doing the narration. Sounds nothing like scarlet.

In the video, they mentioned dark allies, which is why I don’t believe it’s just the krait

It is just the krait and other krait tribes. The krait are extremely xenophobic compared to the dredge, the flame legion, and the grawl. This serpentine race will enslave and kill all other species on sight. They show no mercy. The krait however don’t know what they are doing with that magic. They will draw the Elder Dragons who feed on magic.

Scarlet on the other hand is missing. She left her prerecorded holograms in Twilight Arbor base. I would say that krait is allied with Scarlet but I did not see any steam punk dangling around the krait tower.

It looks amazing,i like scary stuff such as this one,i just wish this is open world cause its kinda boring do dungeon types all the time.

I hope Scarlet have nothing to do with the Krait. The Krait are supposed to be vicious and xenophobics creatures. They believe that they are the superior species in the world and they never bother to cooperate or communicate with the other races… They attack and kill all other species on sight… I don’t see why they would work with Scarlet, except maybe some kind of really indirect manipulation…

“except maybe some kind of really indirect manipulation…”

Bingo. Kind of her MO.

AoE dmg condition remove skill for every class, now its getting absurd.

Hope they remove the condition cap with this too.

I wonder if this will be a 5 man instance dungeon, or an open world indoor “dungeon”(which are more like gw2 open area zones with bosses), kind of like the ones Daoc have similar to Avalon City, Darkness Falls, etc.

The preview seems pretty interesting. I wonder if there is a new dungeon if it will be permanent.

Leo Paul.1659:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As Scarlet does the narrative in the video, I’m guessing she has something to do with it all. =)

Oh please no!! Let this be about the Krait Witch this time! No Scarlet!!!!

Watch the video.

“Dark allies toiled in secret driven by whispered promises and madness” That pretty much defines Scarlet’s actions over the past nine months.

Traditionally non technological races building a massive evil structure… or at least some merging of tech and magic. Mostly Flame and Frost here, and a bit of a stretch I admit… but still.

Nevermind the obvious overarching toxic/pollutant/twisted plant motif continuing from her actions in the previous dungeon.

I’d almost be disappointed if it wasnt Scarlet this time.

Nailed it…

Xar.6185:

With everyone distracted by the Mad King & Bloody Prince this left time for Scarlet Briar to ally the Nightmare Court with the Krait and create a nightmare krait tower in the lake.

Belenwyn.8674:

We still don’t know what the Tower of Nightmares is. Dungeon? Mini dungeon? Story instances? Meta event?

We even don’t know what will remain and in which form.

Could be the wizards tower.

I don’t like the fact that we might get a new condition like toxin that cound end up just like another kind of poison ..

Especially if its again somethign that deals stupidly only damage over time like poison, because toxin is basically just another word for poison/venom if you get intoxicated, its the same like getting poisoned.

If they want to add more conditions, then i think they should come up with more mental conditions and improve also the elemental conditions makig finally out of petrification a real condition with a new effect other stan being just only a boring stun clone mechanic. They should also remove Daze, as its the same thing like Stun/petrification and means literally also again the same as stun, if you are dazed, then something of your body is stunned.

The game really needs a redesign of the whole condition system. Making conditions now visually easier to grasp with the last patch was already a good thing.

The game has already way too make damage over time conditions. (Poison, Bleeding, Burning, Confusion, Torment and basically retaliation …)

If you get all of this on you you die way too fast to all of this, especially if you have like 20 stacks of bleedign/confusion on you together with burning and poison.
Nobody is able to withstand that long, just everywilly will die instantly with all of that on you a very miserably death.. and the condition removal system of this game just sucks way too hard for such massive condition spam damage over time pressure.
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However, the only real thing I want from anet with the next patch is to enable players to work on the pumping carver title, if you missed that achievement last year as also allowing for players to go onto a new type of scavenger hunt to earn themself again the Mad Memoires at the end, just that we have do do this year a new different scavenger hunt.. or at least make Mad Memoires a sellable item over the TP, so that people who want to have this, can buy them from other players, which don’t need them anymore due to usign other back items by now they like personally more…

Everything about a condition system redesign stands on an other tablet for discussion later in the future…

They keep saying “nightmare” in there and it does look like a lot of thorny vines are within. This does sorta seem like the nightmare court, if not Scarlet, are a part of this as well.

if anything they need more conditions …..most condition builds get negated but the bleed cap as of now…….in a group bigger then 5 ur dps is cut in half changing some of the bleed stacks out for new conditions would lvl the playing feild plus make some conditions more valid in pve like poision if bosses had regen and a healing skill poison would become a necessity

I was wondering why I kept on hitting this invisible barrier in the lake the other day, and now I know it is because of something big is about to happen.

Arenanet, that was a great way to add something to the world quietly. Thank you, very nice touch.