Guild Wars 2

It really saddens me to not have anything in GW2 that references Vekk. He was a pivotal character in gw1 and yet the only reference he ever had in GW2 was removed when magic-find was rolled into an account bound stat (see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vekk%27s_Solidified_Aether_Circuit). Please Anet, don’t forget about GW1 Asura history. All of the other major racial counterparts in EotN have references: Jora, Pyre, Gwen, Ogden. Heck, even Anton has more references than Vekk (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Anton). Out of curiosity, does anyone else want some sort of nod to Vekk or am I just speaking crazy right now?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vekk%27s_Thesis – though due to a lore discrepancy oversight, it either was or will be renamed to be named after a different asura (said discrepancy being that he wouldn’t have known about what the book talks about)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Old_Pillar – mentions Vekk

Thanks, must have missed that book when I scoured the library. Still sad that is all there is of Vekk, he was one of my most used heroes in GW1

Never really used him as a hero. Never found much use for ele’s. However, he was an awesome character. Never really felt like some of the Asurans in GW2 were quite as well done as him, perhaps testament to the voice actor…

What do we do tonight Vekk? Narf
Same thing we do every night Ogden….Try to take over Tyria!

I’m not fond of asura, and I feel the GW1 ones are even more obnoxious than the GW2 ones. Vekk, however, is definitely a the best of them, and a well written character with good character development.

Randulf.7614:

Never really used him as a hero. Never found much use for ele’s.

Ya, unfortunately ele’s weren’t the most useful. I mainly used them as fire nukers when leveling characters until I got the full complement of rits and necros; or as E/Mo bonders with a massive amount of micromanagement; or as warders in a few places like HM Ooze Pit. Even then, I preferred to gear up Zhed first due to him being a required hero in some missions.

Long live Zhed Shadowhoof. The cutscenes with Palawa Joko are priceless.

Vekk was my favorite NPC in EoTN. Zhed was often in my hero parties as an earth ele/paragon.

I’ve often wished the GW2 asura had more of Vekk in them. Alas.