Guild Wars 2

EDIT: Oops, i meant to say “Why ISN’T the gauntlet permanent?”

The title char limit, makes this thread deceiving but I’m talking about from a lore perspective.

In the Stream they said the Queen couldn’t afford keeping it up year-round. But why? The gauntlet is unique to DR, it would provide fame and tonnes of foreigners who in turn spend their outside coin into the local economy. The gauntlet provides a bunch of jobs for the unemployed, and some of the locals could set up carts for their produce outside the entrance for foreigners. Almost like tailgating.

I really don’t see how NOT keeping it is a good idea for DR from a lore/economy perspective. (I’m no expert so if I’m totally wrong just let me know, eh)

We do not know what will happen at the end of the event..

I’d have to go with Lordkrall on this. Something will probably happen to make it so.

Otherwise it’s just yet one more thing that’ll have to be chocked up to “consistency was put behind Anet’s ’it’ll be cool!’ planning” – this time due to the “great” idea of temporary content (foolish!).

Well, those clockworks can’t be cheap, and we’ll pretty much be constantly wrecking legions of them for the next 2-4 weeks

In the live stream they said that Jennah cant afford to keep it open all year round as its taking alot of resources. The Jubilee seems to be for showing off what humanity can do as much as a celibration. After all, theres a sense among various other races that humanity is on the decline. I get the feeling she is trying to counter that somewhat.

Cause they want to change the bosses and areas. Makes sense that people you kill you cant fight again.

As Aaron Ansari said, clockworks can’t be cheap. And as we see with firearms, humans lean to the artisan route over the mass production route.

One thing i want to point out is how can the clock works use dragon energies as destroyers?

Fafnir.5124:

One thing i want to point out is how can the clock works use dragon energies as destroyers?

Belief of the person being subjugated to the illusionary magic of the Mesmer who made them appear similar to destroyers. That the bases for Mesmer magic, illusions. You are harmed because you think you are harmed. By deceiving the senses of an opponent the mesmer can harm them. However if an opponent sees through the illusion then they can’t be harmed as their mind rejects the deception. That’s how I view the illusion spells functioning anyways.

Yet they physically dump you out of arenas. I see a major contradiction there.

That’s because the Watchknights are still physical robots. They’re just controlled via mesmer magic (and something related to engineers?) and can change their appearance by said mesmer magic.

Keep in mind that mesmer magic is more than just illusions. Mesmers are capable of bending and changing the fabrics of reality itself, as they use chaos magic (which is what caused the whole mishap at Thaumanova Reactor – that’s basically mesmer magic taken to godly or demigodly proportions and focused on elements and teleportation).

It’s not all just illusions or tricks of the mind. It’s physical as well.

One thing I’d like to see from the Gauntlet is keeping it permanent with new bosses added to fight on a somewhat daily basis, or have friendly duels from player to player. Since we can’t just openly start a duel with anyone unless we go into sPvP, it kinda sucks having to go through that hassle.

Plus having spectators watch above is really cool. Anything to stop this content from being yet another temporary addition, the better.