Guild Wars 2

Maybe some of you lore buffs can help me out I don’t know the extent of the human gods powers but apparently just staring at them can blind you and abaddon apparently turned the great crystal sea into a desert which sounds very similar to kralky corrupting everything with just his breath. My question is why do you guys think the human gods fled when my human ranger and his band of misfits are able to take down dragons? I know the dragons consume magic and the gods are highly magical but it seems like they would be able to take down the dragons or at least be on level with them unless dragons just naturally sap energy from them just by being

It wasn’t Abaddon but the other five gods who turned the Crystal Sea into the Crystal Desert when they defeated Abaddon.

The human gods did not “flee” at all. This is a continuous misconception. The gods left the world in Year 0 – over a thousand years before the Elder Dragons began to wake up. They stopped communications, more or less, in 1075 AE – 3 years before the Elder Dragons first began to stir. They left the world, it’s been said by devs time and time again, because they wanted humanity to live on their own – not by the gods’ say so’s – and stopped communication because of Abaddon’s death (Abaddon’s potential return being the sole reason they kept communication).

The gods leaving Tyria is 100% unrelated to the Elder Dragons. In terms of in-universe lore. Or so we’ve been told thus far – who knows, maybe they’ll decide to start retconning Jeff Grubb like they did Ree.

You could also view the defeat of 2 dragons not as the success of your character, but as the success of 5+ entire species. Are millions of humanoids working together while wielding magic, information, and technology in the same realm of power as elder dragons or gods? More powerful.

You are the tip of the spear, not the blade.

Without the support of everybody else, your ‘band of misfits’ would not have gotten anywhere in personal story.

Aye. Generally from what I can tell Each of the elder dragons we have killed were heavily distracted by pact forces until the absolute last second. Zhaitan was trying to control thousands of minions fighting the pact army. dozens if not hundreds of dragon champions. All while trying to fight massive kittening lasers in the sky. He got overwhelmed to death.

With mordremoth I believe the living story instance kill is supposed to happen at the exact same time as the meta event kill. So while the (pact army/players) are killing one of his largest concentrations of power. We basically stick a giant kitten probe into his brain and start poking around.

Imagine trying to fight a swarm of wasps with one really nasty wasp literally digging into your ear and eating your brain from the inside out.

Edit: When you think about it. Were kind of kittens about the whole killing thing.

The Elder Dragons are powerful. On par with other God like beings like the Human Gods and the Spirirts of the Wild. In a straight up fight our characters could not win. In both cases we fought dirty.

In the Zhaitan fight we injected him with what is basically poison. That giant lazer hits the Dragon with a corrupted magic that he could not feed on. Then the canons just finished the big guy off.

While with Mordremoth we attacked his mind. We literally killed his brain and prevented it from moving on to a new host in its death throe.

But in both instances we have not battled the Dragon in the final fight, but rather we right them every time we fight their minions. Every grunt and Dragon Champion is an extension of the Dragon’s will. There is also evidence to suggest that the death of a Champion wounds its master.

We don’t just smack them, we weaken them. Once we have made a big enough hole we strike the weak point.

Fun Fact we already know the Kralkatorrik is physically weak to it’s own scales, and is also mentally vulnerable.