Guild Wars 2

Can the Priory in future installments NOT use another Asura? Halloween, Karka event, Flame and Frost all of these have had a priory representative and each time they were Asura…Would be nice to see some others leading the front from the Priory.

Well, apparently we’ve gone from one annoying race to another, with the Priory(not as big as Rox and Braham, but he’s there), in this event. Instead of an Asura we got a Sylvari. groan Kinda tired of both races.

EDIT: He’s in the Order, but meh…

I will just say this before this thread go somewhere wrong:
Tired of Human too!
Also those Charrs!
And the Norns!

Yes. The next Priory representative will be a Karka.

Haha! Karka representing the priory.

It is normal to encounter Asura is the most important species evolve, which has great potential for knowledge. Must stop the “racism”! xD

Finally, there are two NPCs already very nice, Eir’s son!

  and charrounette eyed giants.

I was just about to come in and post something similar, but it’ll go in this thread too…

The original Guild Wars 2 story did a reasonable job of sharing out the brains among the races. Yes, the asura got the lion’s share, but that’s to be expected, but the ranks of experts in various fields included a generous helping of charr. humans, sylvari and even norn as well.

When it comes to the Living Story, though… as the OP pointed out, it was an asura who figured out that King Thorn was going to return that year. Then it was an asura that predicted the karka attack. The asura that’s now in Lion’s Arch isn’t as important, but it is interesting that with humans, charr and norn all having much more experience with the dredge and flame legion – at least since the emancipation of the former from the Stone Summit – the character they put in to give a briefing on them is an asura.

To give them their due, though, the Priory agent ‘on the scene’ at Hoelbrak is human, so that may be a hopeful sign.

Be glad that there are Asura there to do all the mental heavy lifting. It’s only natural that an intellect based faction comes to be dominated Tyria’s intellectual giants.

You bookah are all just jealous that your ability to maybe speak a single ancient language, badly, just doesn’t cut it in the circles of academia. Honestly, and as to letting norns in, well, that’s just an act of charity, really, on behalf of the priory.

Still, someone has to barge down all those doors when the golems are being polished.

I personally feel like it’s ANet being lazy on representatives, but eh. We’ve come to expect it.

Racism, racism everywhere..

Seriously though, what does it matter?

chronometria.3708:

Be glad that there are Asura there to do all the mental heavy lifting. It’s only natural that an intellect based faction comes to be dominated Tyria’s intellectual giants.

You bookah are all just jealous that your ability to maybe speak a single ancient language, badly, just doesn’t cut it in the circles of academia. Honestly, and as to letting norns in, well, that’s just an act of charity, really, on behalf of the priory.

Still, someone has to barge down all those doors when the golems are being polished.

Just got a couple of questions here, out of curiousity?

Which race was it that decided that a repository of knowledge for safekeeping was something worth having, and founded the Priory? And which race is it that is known for having to reinvent the proverbial wheel over and over again, because they’re too jealous of their discoveries to disseminate them widely enough to remove the risk of their findings being lost with their death?

While you asura are concerned with seeking personal recognition and claiming accolades you don’t deserve, it’s the rest of us – humans, charr, sylvari and, yes, norn – that are establishing a cohesive body of knowledge that future generations will actually benefit from… without having to run a gauntlet of traps to access the laboratory notes of some paranoid so-called genius that will then, in turn, require painstaking cryptographic work to decipher… time that the researchers could be spending building on the achievements of the past rather than having to figure out what those achievements actually were.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Racism, racism everywhere..

Seriously though, what does it matter?

It’s really “species-ism.”

Racism is between humans.

draxynnic.3719:

chronometria.3708:

Be glad that there are Asura there to do all the mental heavy lifting. It’s only natural that an intellect based faction comes to be dominated Tyria’s intellectual giants.

You bookah are all just jealous that your ability to maybe speak a single ancient language, badly, just doesn’t cut it in the circles of academia. Honestly, and as to letting norns in, well, that’s just an act of charity, really, on behalf of the priory.

Still, someone has to barge down all those doors when the golems are being polished.

Just got a couple of questions here, out of curiousity?

Which race was it that decided that a repository of knowledge for safekeeping was something worth having, and founded the Priory? And which race is it that is known for having to reinvent the proverbial wheel over and over again, because they’re too jealous of their discoveries to disseminate them widely enough to remove the risk of their findings being lost with their death?

While you asura are concerned with seeking personal recognition and claiming accolades you don’t deserve, it’s the rest of us – humans, charr, sylvari and, yes, norn – that are establishing a cohesive body of knowledge that future generations will actually benefit from… without having to run a gauntlet of traps to access the laboratory notes of some paranoid so-called genius that will then, in turn, require painstaking cryptographic work to decipher… time that the researchers could be spending building on the achievements of the past rather than having to figure out what those achievements actually were.

To be fair, there is an archive of Asuran inventions, where you can acquire copies on invention blueprints to imporve upon. But really would you expect everyone to just throw their inventions out into the world for every idiot to tamper with, in turn damaging the inventor’s good name?