Guild Wars 2

At the end of the “Burden of Choice” achievement who did you choose? Consortium or Priory? I personally chose Consortium

1. One of my favorite characters originated from them

2. between the Consortium and Priory I feel the Consortium had a better story arc

3. Let’s face it…….Not knowing the side effects of using a potentially dangerous artifact on me is a big no-no for me. If anything happens it’s the Consortium’s problem not mine

Priory.

I don’t trust snake-oil salesmen.

Havent come across a sad anomaly, sadly, since the patch

I chose the priory mostly because of 2, correction 3 things:

1 Priory working to beat dragons, vs consortium only interested in making money, remember southsun cove where consortium build a leisure island between hostile animals?

2 I hate characters calling me Bookah. SO I tend to refuse dealing with “non-bookahs”…

3 snake oil might be extremely nice, but I prefer to sponsor a group whcih could answer my questions regarding dragons if I have them over a possible inquest non-bookah.

Priory, because I don’t think highly of Consortium. Not to mention that Priory has actively helped with the fighting against two elder dragons so far, while Consortium was busy making money.

The Durmand Priory, of course. The Consortium is a mercantile company, only out to make money under the guise of pleasing their customers. In the past they have shown to make dubious and even outright stupid decisions. The vacation resort in Southsun Cove is a prime example. They only focus on profit and reputation, even abandoning their own when it suits their needs. A corporation like this will never, ever have my trust or my support, no matter the good things they might do along the way (like supporting Dessa and her Fractals krew).The fact that the merchant was so tight-lipped and unwilling to share information that is quite important to us also doesn’t help. And krait oil… I mean, come on…

No, the Durmand Priory has proven to be at our side all the way. Sure, they make mistakes. But we’re dealing with Elder Dragons and ancient magics. No one, not even Ogden, knows all there is to know. Archaeology and history aren’t exact sciences but more the science of interpretation, and things get lost over time. Cultures and habits change, making interpreting things from the past even more difficult. Under the circumstances I think they’ve assisted us quite well, and they’ve earned my trust for that.

From what i understand the consortium just gives you a krait oil that last 4 times more and they scope of their path is way smaller than the priory for all who dont know SPOILERS the shadowstone predates the bloodstone that huge and the end result for picking and using the stone is a real treat and it open up a much bigger scope from where can this go now(domt know if the krait oil you get has a similar fancy outcome).

I think the priory are bunch of short-sighted, pig-headed, and generally copper-wise|gold-foolish tools who never met a rule they didn’t like.

However, the Consortium are a bunch of lying, racist, thieving, and foolish tools who never met a copper coin they wouldn’t sell their own mothers to acquire.

So rather than choosing the Lessor of Southsun’s Evils, I chose the lesser of two evils, aka the Priory.

I chose neither. I’m just going to wait and see if one offers more of a benefit over the other. I did buy five of the discounted exotic krait oils though just in case.

I chose Priory, and I have a feeling most people did. I wonder what the imbalance will mean for future events.

I have a feeling the Reforged Shadowstone will be important to keep, so I chose the Priory. Worst case scenario, we get worse, best case, we’re cured. I’d also rather trust them than the Consortium, considering their moneygrubbing ways.

I’m waiting. I didn’t even use the Krait oil I got. I’m holding on to both items to see the next step of the story, then I’ll decide.

I’m just wondering if the shadowstone is, in fact, a possible component for that legendary ring that was leaked some time ago.

I chose the Priory as well, mainly for the reason I don’t trust those consortium types. They know I’m their best chance at killing the dragons and yet they prefer to extort me to keep me alive. That, and their information network that they brag about reminds me more of the russian method than anything I would trust. I’m more keen to look over my shoulder now anytime I’m anywhere the Priori base

I went with the Priory.

Clearly the Shadowstone is a powerful item. Both the Priory and the Consortium say as such. And it even sounds powerful, being able to amplify magic.

So there’s no way I’m turning it over to the Consortium. They’ve already shown that they’re more than willing to practically sign people into slavery under the guise of “protection” as well as undertaking other dangerous tasks for personal gain and nothing more. No telling what they want with the Shadowstone. At best they get rich and nothing bad happens, at worse they start another cataclysm.

I’d rather put myself at risk than put the rest of the world at risk.

Although if I thought it’d have an actual effect on the story, I would probably choose to not do either “remedy”. I can’t say I’m all that worried about the “anomaly visions”. Its not like they’ve done anything aggressive or are especially distracting. It’d be one thing if I was seeing them everywhere 24/7 or they were attacking me or others, but as it is, one just pops up occasionally then vanishes just as quickly. I’d just as soon keep my “condition”, maybe come to understand it, than risk using some random artifact on myself. But, I figure that its probably a binary choice. Either choose option A or choose option B, no other choice counts. So in the interest of having an impact on the future of the story, I picked one of the two concrete options presented to me.

I am trying to find an anomaly on a second account so I have both paths and they do not want to show. As usual you want to see something it is never there, don’t care and they are all over the place.

consortium. Yes, I thought about the priory but it seemed too “convenient” that they had someone in there that knew “all about this” and that I didn’t see before, that looked different for others on this forum AFTER they had made their choice(call me cynical and you would be right). And I am one for trying the opposite of what most would do. Given those things, I went with Consortium. I’m sure it will be interesting either way.

I did Priory because the Consortium has no soul. I won’t support blatant cash-grabbers! Also my RP main has Priory connections and I was on a new Engineer alt who’s gone Priory when I made the choice.

Considering the Consortium’s track record, I obviously went with the Priory.

I wanted to go Consortium but I also wanted to keep the stone because that could have fun stuff happen.
I’m hoping that the Priory is the “wrong” choice personally since that could be a neat twist with how the consortiums shone.

You also get cheap krait oil despite going priory if you agreed to try a sample from the seller before the update.

Laurie.1698:

consortium. Yes, I thought about the priory but it seemed too “convenient” that they had someone in there that knew “all about this” and that I didn’t see before, that looked different for others on this forum AFTER they had made their choice(call me cynical and you would be right). And I am one for trying the opposite of what most would do. Given those things, I went with Consortium. I’m sure it will be interesting either way.

I don’t know, an order based on hoarding knowledge ‘just seems to know something’ sounds weird to you, but a capitalist group trying to monetize the elder dragons having someone know all about it AND them spying on the Priory does’t sound weird to you?

I wish the choice was character bound so I could choose both

Laurie.1698:

consortium. Yes, I thought about the priory but it seemed too “convenient” that they had someone in there that knew “all about this” and that I didn’t see before, that looked different for others on this forum AFTER they had made their choice(call me cynical and you would be right). And I am one for trying the opposite of what most would do. Given those things, I went with Consortium. I’m sure it will be interesting either way.

I haven’t mentioned it on the relative thread yet, but the Priory Historian didn’t look different to me when I went back. It was the same black hair guy in the same mask I had talked to previously. I have no idea why it looked different to others.

And a bunch of scholars and Historians knowing about these events is neither weird, nor convenient. It’s just normal.

Shadow stones were used by the Seers to superpower themselves and become able to forge bloodstones, of course I want in on that.

But really, I chose Priory to experiment with the out-of-body experience.

RabbitUp.8294:

Shadow stones were used by the Seers to superpower themselves and become able to forge bloodstones, of course I want in on that.

But really, I chose Priory to experiment with the out-of-body experience.

So we’re going to be able to forge a small bloodstone in a sense and extract the excess magical energy inside us, probably with the bloodstone being used as a battery to power our epic attacks? Do want!

“And a bunch of scholars and Historians knowing about these events is neither weird, nor convenient. It’s just normal.” Not always…and I’m fine with what I chose, its an expressed opinion, a personal slant on the story that I chose to incorporate into my game play. But hey, do what you do and think what you like. I thought it would be fun to participate a bit here since I am very interested in the story, have been following it for four years, thought a bit of fun banter on my take on the story might be fun. But I’ll continue to do so by myself, not here. Sorry for the intrusion and good day.

Whichever was chosen the end will be the same just the journey will be different. When I did the consortium the conversation concluded with an emphatic “deal is final” type thing so my thinking is we will be chasing down consortium people and getting it back.

I chose the Priory. I could be here all day listing reasons, but here’s some of the top ones:

All of our past history with both the Priory and the Consortium makes me think they’re more trustworthy and less likely to be taking advantage of me for their own ends.

Plus they were more honest about the pros and cons. I don’t think anyone really knows what’s going on because nothing like this has ever happened before. The Consortium claiming they know all about it, they know exactly how to cure it and they just can’t tell me the details makes me think they’re lying.

And on top of that the whole thing with choosing between the established experts with an established method that has previously been proven to work in similar circumstances but may not be perfect in this case vs. the company out to make a profit peddling an “all natural” cure they say is guaranteed to work and has absolutely no side effects which is literally snake oil reminds me of a lot of discussions I keep having in real life and I know which side I’m on in that debate.

Finally it’s a game and works according to the laws of narrative (although not quite narrativium) which tells me the Consortium choice is probably going to go badly while the Priory one will have some weird and interesting side effects and ultimately work out ok.

I went Consortium. At first I thought Priory for sure, but then I thought the Consortium would make a more interesting story arc. The way the story is being told, it felt very singular; like this is only happening to me (the player) and not so much everyone else. I wanted to involve myself with the Consortium, because I feel like I would be needed by them later so they would have to come back to me. Also there is the fact that the merchant repeatedly said they had spies in the Priory. So I couldn’t trust the Priory 100%. Basically I wanted to be a mole. I feel the Consortium has a lot of hidden info so I’m hoping we get to see more of them.

I salute ANET! This kind of hard choice- if it makes an impact later on- is exactly what this game needs!

Hopefully, just this tiny thing wont cure the PC… This has the potential to REALLY do something to them!

With the recent events and the ls3 p2 ending, they could easily spirale into a darker story, instead of the latest mylittlepony style forgiving and happiness…
After all, the commander turning out completely fine from the device that made Scarlet go plain insane was lame.. Consequences, people!

But I still have no idea who to choose!
While the logical part of my brain says Priory, I would like to give the stone to Consortium, for the exact reason SkinnyT.5382 stated above.
Clearly, the krait oil is a fad, so I wonder what exactly will happen to the pc. I also don’t want to stop the (scream) or seeing the anomalies… But they never really showed up that often to my characters anyway, despite doing all the story..

Giving it to Consortium seems like an option which might later result in the pc being kidnapped for experiments, or they will have to go to Consortium’s labs to retreive the stone to prevent some.

Giving it to the shady Priory member looks like eighter giving it to a fanatic, who will also try experimenting on them (with pc willing from what it looks like), or turn out to be a Consortium spy and bring it to them anyway..

Wait a second… Almost the same results..?
I am actualy glad, given that we get only one choice per account, at least I wont need to worry about not getting to experience the other path..
How I wish it was character bound!

Or, as players speculate, is it some kind of hidden voting?
If so, I guess I will consider the consequences some more and pick the darker option- just to watch the world burn as they say :v
But if it is voting.. I don’t think that the overall results are that hard to guess..

Edit: remember “vote for Gnashblade?” This is starting to look like it.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Consortium_Supporter_

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Priory_Supporter

Also, an interesting comment on reddit:
https://m.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/56fcc9/now_that_the_dust_has_settled_consortium_or_priory/d8jbzz5

Seeing this comment and reading some more info online.. I am definitely going with consortium… I really want to see some fun results.

Whatever is chosen, I am looking foward to it as long as it turns out interesting and changes the pc a bit!
(Hopefully it will have some impact on the story- please don’t cure the pc..at least not yet..)

Krinstin.6287:

With the recent events and the ls3 p2 ending, they could easily spirale into a darker story, instead of the latest mylittlepony style forgiving and happiness…
After all, the commander turning out completely fine from the device that made Scarlet go plain insane was lame.. Consequences, people!

I agree with most of what you’ve said but I wanted to address this one point.

My understand is that Scarlet went insane not because of something the machine did but because opening her mind up to the Eternal Alchemy also opened it up to Mordremoth. The “voices” she started hearing were actually Mordremoth speaking to her (just like sylvari during the HoT storyline she said she found it difficult to tell the voices apart from her own thoughts).

Her actions from that point on were a combination of her own desires, which were mainly to research technologies and forms of magic she didn’t understand, and Mordremoths desires, which were to find and disrupt a major ley line to wake him up. Part of the reason she seemed so erratic was that she kept going between obeying the dragon and trying to resist him and go her own way. (The other part is that she was pretty erratic even when she was Ceara, getting obsessed with one project and then abandoning it when something else caught her interest.)

The player character wasn’t affected because most of them aren’t sylvari and for the ones who are Mordremoth was not trying to reach out to them at that time. He was already awake at that point so he didn’t need their help to wake up, and at the time he was focused on consolidating his power in the jungle and trying to obtain Glint’s Egg from the Zephyrites so he wasn’t ready to start calling all the sylvari to him.

I choose Tranton in the end, but he cured me before giving me a broken shadowstone. Apparently there is a reforged version, but because of the order the achievement ticked off in, the broken one can’t be converted into a reforged one now the achievement is complete.

I choose consortium because i want to know more of them. I know they are shady but priory is too obvious choice. I think there is coming 2 story depends which you choose but the ending is same, we are cured.

I chose the Priory, mostly because my main is a Priory member (even though he wasn’t the one to touch an anomaly). Plus, I don’t trust the Consortium the way I could never fully trust Evon Gnashblade. Oh, not because he’s a charr, but because he’s the leader of the biggest trading corporation in Tyria. I bet his workers aren’t even allowed to unionize…

Priory…as most of us lol.
Read above post for reasons. Nothing to add..

I take lore seriously, so I take my decisions seriously, too. Even though I agree the Consortium would’ve been a good basis for an interesting story, I do not believe any sensible person would put their lives in the hands of a group who would monetize the very air itself if it could, over a group of scholars whom you know, have worked with and trust.