Guild Wars 2

I really wasn’t sure what section to put this in. I guess lore works. So my question is, are all the torches in this game magic? I mean, you equip a torch and it turns off and on at will. No matches. Never have to replace it or add new fuel. If it was an elementalist using it I’d assume it was his magic, but what about a ranger? I wasn’t aware rangers had any magic at all, save summoning spirits. Are the torches themselves magic? I know there’s probably no actual lore on this, just curious as to opinions. Trying to figure out how I’d roleplay that with my ranger.

Along similar lines why don’t you ever run out of arrows or bullets? Where is your backpack and the other 4+ bags you’re apparently carrying? Why can you fill this invisible backpack with greatswords and longbows when realistically even 1 would be too big?*

It’s one of those things where practicality over-rules realism in the game mechanics. In reality yes you would have to light your torch each time you wanted to use it (either with magic, flint and tinder or whatever other method) but it’s just not worth it for players or game designers to put that in, so they didn’t.

(* For the answer to those last two questions google ‘hammer space’. Not to be confused with hammer time.)

According to a certain Asura at a certain skill challenge, everything and everyone is magical.

Ever wondered how Ranger manage to call forth lighting just by rolling back?

What, you can’t create lightning by rolling? Its how I jump start my car sometimes.

But ya, even non magical professions in the world still have some level of supernatural power.

Rangers do use magic, ThiBash. They might not have in GW1 (outside nature spirits), but they do in GW2 – it’s how they differentiated themselves from the other adventure professions over they ears, in lore (where engineers went full technology, and thieves went with a mixture of tech and magic, rangers went no-technology).

Given this, I believe every profession which uses a torch is a magic user, so it’s less that torches are magic, but that the professions use magic with the torches as a medium.