Guild Wars 2

“We don’t want to give away too much of that right now, other than to say that if people don’t have a Sylvari character yet, it’s a great time to make one and have one ready to go for Heart of Thorns.”

Do you guys speculate sylvari will diverge slightly from other races during the story or would it be worth it to make a sylvari character at a chance for some unknown reward/experience?

Thinking about that, but i’ll for sure create a revenant sylvari when the expasion comes out.

Maybe there will be no more sylvari-creation after the expansion..?

I think every race might have their own thing. Humans could go see Canach in DR, Charr going to check out Rytlock’s new ghostly powers, Norn doing something, Asura doing something, and Sylvari dealing with greater numbers of Nightmare court. Don’t think sylvari will be a special exception, but they are in a very central part of the story right now, so it could be thought of an “interesting story” to check out.

You know how a human traveling through Orr could be like “That’s a statue of my god covered in coral!” and all the other races would just see a pretty statue? I’m imagining something sort of similar

lordkrall.7241:

Maybe there will be no more sylvari-creation after the expansion..?

That would be horrid and terrible to newer players.

i think it’ll be more about race-specific dialogue, and how being a sylvari yields different reactions from people.

We all want an open Pvp race war map where sylvaris can gank noobs.

What we will get is 2-3 racially specific story instances before everybody is funneled into the same story regardless of their choices

lordkrall.7241:

Maybe there will be no more sylvari-creation after the expansion..?

That would be absolutely amazing! Think of the possibilities. They could even go one step further and not only remove sylvari from character creation but make existing sylvaris killable by everyone even on PVE-maps with the mandatory “last surviving Sylvari”-achievement of course. The guy who earns that achievement will be transformed into a new playable “pale tree” and instead of running around and killing stuff you’d be rooted in one place and have to manage your new “empire” just like in a 4X-strategy game.

I’m glad this was reposted because the original time I read it I deciphered it as we should create a Sylvari AFTER the release of HoT to potentially experience something new. This is saying we should create one beforehand if we haven’t already played one so now I don’t know what to think. I’ve only got two more Professions to level to 80, Ranger and Mesmer, and I wanted to level one in HoT as I suspect Heart of Maguuma will be a lvl 1-80 area.

Quells.2498:

I’m glad this was reposted because the original time I read it I deciphered it as we should create a Sylvari AFTER the release of HoT to potentially experience something new. This is saying we should create one beforehand if we haven’t already played one so now I don’t know what to think. I’ve only got two more Professions to level to 80, Ranger and Mesmer, and I wanted to level one in HoT as I suspect Heart of Maguuma will be a lvl 1-80 area.

So every time a level 1 participates in a HoT-event everyone else would be downleveled to one? I don’t think so…It’s highly likely the new jungle maps will be lvl 80 only.

Well the reason I think it’ll be 1-80 is 1) The new area is separated into three zones and 2) guild halls will be located there and it would be difficult for anyone under level 80 to run through a level 80 area to get to the hall.

Of course that’s all assumption but /shrug

I would think it’s probably a slightly different story (maybe a different intro?) or different dialog responses by the NPCs to your characters. That would be cool, so I’ll definitely try to have a Sylvari alt leveled up as well as my main.

I can’t imagine it’s anything catastrophic like no more Sylvari can be made after that, or I think it would be worded more strongly than just it would be a fun idea to have one.

I’ve already got a lvl 80 Sylvari so I guess I’ll just wait until the release to make another. The problem is that I know I won’t split my time leveling a Sylvari and play a Revenant at the same time.

Straylight.7529:

lordkrall.7241:

Maybe there will be no more sylvari-creation after the expansion..?

That would be absolutely amazing! Think of the possibilities. They could even go one step further and not only remove sylvari from character creation but make existing sylvaris killable by everyone even on PVE-maps with the mandatory “last surviving Sylvari”-achievement of course. The guy who earns that achievement will be transformed into a new playable “pale tree” and instead of running around and killing stuff you’d be rooted in one place and have to manage your new “empire” just like in a 4X-strategy game.

This could seriously become a minigame °°

Straylight.7529:

lordkrall.7241:

Maybe there will be no more sylvari-creation after the expansion..?

That would be absolutely amazing! Think of the possibilities. They could even go one step further and not only remove sylvari from character creation but make existing sylvaris killable by everyone even on PVE-maps with the mandatory “last surviving Sylvari”-achievement of course. The guy who earns that achievement will be transformed into a new playable “pale tree” and instead of running around and killing stuff you’d be rooted in one place and have to manage your new “empire” just like in a 4X-strategy game.

this sounds like the kind of ridiculous pitch Peter Molyneux would turn into a game, hype it to hell and back, release it to lukewarm at best reviews, and 3 years later admitting it wasn’t all that great.

nekretaal.6485:

We all want an open Pvp race war map where sylvaris charr can gank noobs sylvaris.

Fixed that for you.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

nekretaal.6485:

We all want an open Pvp race war map where sylvaris charr can gank noobs sylvaris.

Fixed that for you.

We all want an open Pvp race war map where Sylvari can gank meat sacks.

Fixed that for you.

I highly doubt that Sylvari won’t be able to be created anymore.
For once, not all Sylvari are going to become Mordrem (at least the players and Canach).
Also, the pale tree managed to protect the dream from corruption) thus meaning new Sylvari are born essentially the same as all others.
I don’t know how the experience of Mordrem Sylvari will reflect on the dream though.
Maybe Mordrem Sylvari lose their connection to the dream, since the pale tree protected it.

Or did she?

The fact that a very champion of Mordremoth managed to infiltrate the Dream suggest that she did not actually protect it as well as we might want.

I also think it’s just extra dialogue options for sylvari. Like, when my Sylvari spoke to Caithe in the very last instance of Point Of No Return (just before the dragon came) she told me the events that happened after killing Wynne and it was really fun to hear it actually.

lordkrall.7241:

Or did she?

The fact that a very champion of Mordremoth managed to infiltrate the Dream suggest that she did not actually protect it as well as we might want.

it’s actually the first time I thought of it. at the start of the game Mordremoth was already seeking to corrupt the Sylvari. If I remember correctly the dream was ‘under atack’? or at least something was wrong. Maybe it was our dream specifically that was under attack? and if that’s the case, maybe Mordremoth has plans for our sylvari

Stevoir.5486:

Do you guys speculate sylvari will diverge slightly from other races during the story or would it be worth it to make a sylvari character at a chance for some unknown reward/experience?

I’m hoping for a new Personal Story for every races, pretty much like when you create a new character. So, yeah, five different storylines, and the Sylvari could probably deal with the whole “fighting against corruption & prejudice” thing, which could be quite new and interesting if done well.

Wasn’t there new voiced PC lines in the last gameplay trailer of Point of Interest ? I guess they wouldn’t hire the all the game’s different races and gender voice actors just do a few lines, it could be that they’re actually doing a new personal story, where the PC is voiced again like it was at first ! :p (Not sure about the new voiced lines in the gameplay trailer, though, I usually don’t play Charr, so maybe I’m wrong.)

as HoT is a datadisk I would look at it as the game itself… so I bet there will be different personal stories for each race and Sylvari will have very distinct story line, that’s the reason imo and it’s logical

I imagine being a sylvari you will be able to talk to NPC’s and maybe get some different extra chat log for more sylvari lore (: my characters are all Sylvari and Human so I’m looking forward to seeing if sylvari get any extra chat log (: