Guild Wars 2

Hi folks,

A while ago, I posted about a neat similarity between the assets seen in the TA Aetherpath and the Nightmare Tower.

Image: http://i.imgur.com/gijTti1.jpg

Well, now those exact assets have shown up in the Edge of the Mists (credit to WoodenPotatoes for the video), only now they are active with a green glow.

Image: http://i.imgur.com/uleC9Sw.jpg

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the new NPC dialogue since the tower’s collapse, and they hint heavily at Scarlet setting something up in the mists. This may be connected to that. I can imagine an insane ‘open-world’ dungeon where large groups of players fight Scarlet in the Edge of the Mists (re-vamped to be her private base). This also would fall in line with the release of the map as a WvW area, such that once Scarlet is defeated, it is used as a battle ground. It also fits tech-wise, since large groups can participate together, but there is always a cap and a new instance of the map can be created when necessary.

The actual motives for Scarlet’s large-scale activities are still unclear, but the mists have always been in her sights.

I’m sure that something is going on, but as to an open world dungeon inside WvW, I don’t think it would be possible simply because you have three servers in there who are all hostile to one another. Everyone would just end up killing everyone else before anyone got to experience the dungeon – granted I’m not a WvW player so I have no clue how the toxic spore thingies worked out when they were in WvW?

But great find, it’s definitely very interesting and I’m curious to see what unfolds.

I was only in a couple times, but it was my experience that players tried to work around the towers that were on top of an objective they wanted and otherwise conveniently forgot they existed. I saw a zerg swarm one once, but in that regard it hardly counted as a speed bump.

EDIT: Then again I’m on a bottom-tier world now. Experience may vary back home on Sanctum.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I’m sure that something is going on, but as to an open world dungeon inside WvW, I don’t think it would be possible simply because you have three servers in there who are all hostile to one another. Everyone would just end up killing everyone else before anyone got to experience the dungeon – granted I’m not a WvW player so I have no clue how the toxic spore thingies worked out when they were in WvW?

But great find, it’s definitely very interesting and I’m curious to see what unfolds.

My impression of how the toxic spores worked out in WvW is that if the developers’ aim was to kitten off a lot of the WvW players then it was a great success. Otherwise it was mostly ignored. The people who like WvW aren’t going there so they can do more PvE.

I think it’s simply a case of Living World content crossing over to WvW in a token fashion to give a little taste. Most of the generic open world elements of the Living Story are also present in WvW, balloons from Bazaar, presents from Wintersday, the toxic plants etc. I think it’s just another case of token WvW participation in Living Story and not really representative of the direction of the story.

I think you’re reading too much into this simply because the test server for WvW previewed something before a PvE equivalent had the chance to.

At first I didn’t think they looked like the tower of nightmares but these two are definately the same thing. I wonder though if it is really something or that it is just the same model. I havent watched the WP video as I am not interested in WvW but did he say something about the things while he showed them?

Blurk.6231:

At first I didn’t think they looked like the tower of nightmares but these two are definately the same thing. I wonder though if it is really something or that it is just the same model. I havent watched the WP video as I am not interested in WvW but did he say something about the things while he showed them?

He actually compared them to the Do Not Touch towers, but I think that they are different.

I think you mentioned on Reddit that if it’s a real thing, then it’s probably chaos/dragon energy. I hadn’t thought of that, and I think it works. I’m reminded of the green glow of the chaotic material around Thumanova and the Anthill. I’ve also seen that material at Tekki’s lab in Brisban Wildlands, suggesting a link to the mists/Asuran gates.