Guild Wars 2

New monsters in 2nd expansion area which are big Kiwi Monsters that explode when they die revealing to be actually just living kiwi fruits.

So any guesses currently how these thing came to be?

All I can think up is that some Magic user got really really drunk one day or gotten so dehydrated in the desert that he used magic to create these things just to have some kind of fruit to eat for its fruit juice.

I thought “kiwi” myself when I saw the Holosmith video. But a friend suggests they are cacti, which makes sense for a desert expansion.

I just hope they aren’t the mushrooms-with-legs of PoF: cartoonishly bizarre, make you go wtf, and turn out to be the most horrid things to fight in the map

Mobile plants have been a thing since the days of Prophecies. Though the core GW2 game lacked them, and they never came in the form of mobile cacti or mushrooms, they’ve always existed.

And the only lore for why they exist is “local magic build up, usually from lots of magical experimentations, causes slight mutation in local flora”.

At a guess, I’d say we’re looking at the GW2 version of Salving Cactus.

It’s a pretty radical model change, but no more so than the hydras.

Sadly, they are called choya.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Sadly, they are called choya.

Makes you wonder how they will explain that Choya Invasion event that will happen in one of the towns as we seen in the trailer.

Are these just re-skinned quaggan models too?

Lankmaster.6507:

Are these just re-skinned quaggan models too?

Does vaguely look like it…

If they actually were fruit-based monsters, then they might the Papayas about which the game’s true plot revolves.

Those are Choya, also known as “Mexican Jumping Cactus.” They’re native to Southern California and the desert in Northern Mexico.

This is a bit of a “citation needed”, but I think I heard NPCs talking in the demo area about the Choya. If memory serves they were said to live on top of mesas but something happened to force some of them to leave the mesas and begin harassing human colonised areas.

I’d be interesting to see if anyone else has a record of what I remember hearing.

It’s the old and young miners south of the quarry. I didn’t take screenshots, but the gist is that there’s a story of a peaceful choya village on top of a mesa somewhere out in the desert, but that they remain peaceful by tossing troublemakers off the cliff. The unspoken implication being that all of the hostile choya we have to deal with come from those outcasts.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

It’s the old and young miners south of the quarry. I didn’t take screenshots, but the gist is that there’s a story of a peaceful choya village on top of a mesa somewhere out in the desert, but that they remain peaceful by tossing troublemakers off the cliff. The unspoken implication being that all of the hostile choya we have to deal with come from those outcasts.

Such an enlightened people.

These Choyas are so cute and ugly at the same time. I just wanna hug them and then punch em in the face.

Codes.6870:

These Choyas are so cute and ugly at the same time. I just wanna hug them and then punch em in the face.

Anet put plenty of effort for certain with the Choya.

If they are moving down a hill, they will be rolling down the hill as their movement animations but only if they are going down a hill. Everything else they move normally.

Lankmaster.6507:

Are these just re-skinned quaggan models too?

Dry-quaggan’s evolution! LOL giving the quaggan lovers something familiar and the quaggan hatters a form to kill it.

Luindu.2418:

Lankmaster.6507:

Are these just re-skinned quaggan models too?

Dry-quaggan’s evolution! LOL giving the quaggan lovers something familiar and the quaggan hatters a form to kill it.

Well spotted and very believable theory. Take a +1.

My only question is whether there will be a new smoothie recipe with their chunks as an ingredient.