Guild Wars 2

A guildy of mine asked yesterday a very peculiar question that got me thinking.

“Are there any corrupted Skritt?”

So… are there? I can’t think of any. They can be pretty annoying in few places where you actually fight them so they are not THAT harmless. I’m sure some Elder Dragon could use them as soldiers, they have good skills. Especially for stealing things.

Or is something like sylvari v2.0 going to happen again like “Oh skritt are actually minions of a golden shiny elder dragon that collects all of the magical shiny artifacts and gathers his powers under everyone’s noses until he gets so str0nk no one can stop him”.

I have a second question:

Considering that Skritts minds are linked, that’s how Skritts can increase their intelligence.
What happens if corrupted Skritts comes near the others? Do they link other Skritts to the Dragon?

Kulvar.1239:

I have a second question:

Considering that Skritts minds are linked, that’s how Skritts can increase their intelligence.
What happens if corrupted Skritts comes near the others? Do they link other Skritts to the Dragon?

I think there was a lore article stating that they don’t actuakly have linked minds, they can just talk incredibly quickly and quietly when they’re close together and so they seem more intelligent in groups because they can share their information in a way that no one else can hear.

Yeah, skritts don’t have a hive mind – only elder dragons and their minions do. Skritt just communicate very fast in their native tongue. Like Geth from Mass Effect series.

Hm. This actually raises an interesting question, what all HAVE we seen been corrupted. Because I also dont think we’ve seen Tengu corrupted, but we HAVE seen quagen, not skrit but we have seen corrupted wyvern(or do the mordem clones not count as corrupted?). I’m just curious what drives a dragon to choose his minions, and if it’s specific to each dragon?

Gameplay mechanics is a factor…

There is no reason for Zhaitan to refuse corpses. Icebrood would simply have to survive the sons of svanir (If female)

There does seem to be a lore factor of “what a dragon corrupts” but this doesn’t extend to isolating specific races.

Mordremoth corrupts plants and makes plant copies of animals, but doesnt’ corrupt animals.
Primordus doesn’t corrupt animals or plants, but makes mockeries of them out of rock and lava.
Zhaitan doesn’t corrupt living beings but kills them first.

It’s been shown that every Elder Dragon can corrupt anything. We’ve seen living beings and plants corrupted by Zhaitan; we’ve seen dead bodies corrupted by Jormag; we’ve heard of living beings corrupted by Primordus. But they seem to choose to corrupt specific things.

Why we see risen quaggan but not risen skritt is no doubt a mechanic/time resource factor.

I wish to see what DSD corrupts. Sadly we didn’t get a chance to see during the Trial of Strength. Only “salt water”.

Think we should just fry them all up. Make a breakfast dish called Skrittles.