Guild Wars 2

In the launch trailer for HoT that Arenanet released a launch trailer that showed the following:

*Bramble vines in the shape of a dragon-like foot crushing a rock.
*A mordrem guard with purple eyes that seemed to be created without corrupting a sylvari and instead weaved using vines. Was shown fighting Rytlock.
*A huge creature completely made out of vines that bursts up at the end. Lots of people thought it was Mord’s physical form, but the devs just called it ‘’the vine creature’’ in Guild Chat 11.

Yet while playing through the HoT story and the open world maps, none of them have been shown. Alot of people in the community, including myself, are curious to know where they are.
They may appear in a future raid, but if Mordremoth is truly dead, (there’s lots of speculation that he might be alive) then what’s their purpose?

Feel free to speak your thoughts. I’m honestly hoping that Arenanet uses them for more than just advertisement.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpeLj-fDK-4
Guild chat link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcWi5TFaFI

ANet outsourced the trailer production to other firm. If you watched the twichcon video, the creative director talked about how pleased they were on the visuals in the trailer even the production firm never the saw the real elder dragon in game. So they are not closely related or hinting major thing in game.

Also, it’s stated that Mordrem guard are regrown after dying (mostly the commanders).

The mordrem guard Rytlock fights looks like any other male mordrem guard without leystone armor.

Edit: I’m rather surprised they outsourced for that trailer. One of the things they said about the first trailer for GW2 was that they didn’t like having outsourced cgi trailers because those trailers didn’t show the ‘true look’ of the games they were for. This was why every promo trailer for GW2 was made by ArenaNet. They wanted to accurately depict the game they were making the trailer for.

Guess the people who thought this had joined the exodus after GW2’s release and no longer work at ANet.

First of all. Do you have that first screenshot of the big vine guy hovering over the heroes as a wallpaper resolution? I’ve been wanting it SOOOO BADDDDD since I saw the trailer for the first time but I can’t find a good one.

And yeah, I was also quit dissapointed TBH that we didn’t get to see him in-game. The trailer had me really hyped for that specific fight. Not that Dragon Stand isn’t a great substitute, but I just hoped we’d fight that big thing also

TBH, once I learned what the final story instance would be, I thought that would be the mental projection from Mordremoth we fight (with arms – using the Shadow Behemoth frame but as a vine creature) with a landscape covered in the vines (think the wriggling vines in the bottom of Verdant Brink). Instead we got Krait Oratuss with legs.