Guild Wars 2

…how soon can we have a race to outrun them?

You mean you can’t “outrun a centaur”?

It would be interesting to have plotline with Seraph/soldier from Divinitys Reach trying attack friendly centaur thinking that they are Modnir. Maybe at last some interesting tensions?

More importantly, I want to know how all of these centaurs get to the impossibly high ledges we need to use zephyrite crystals for. They’re centaurs, right? Climbing, jumping, and tightrope walking are not among the centaur’s skillset as far as we know.

PopeUrban.2578:

More importantly, I want to know how all of these centaurs get to the impossibly high ledges we need to use zephyrite crystals for. They’re centaurs, right? Climbing, jumping, and tightrope walking are not among the centaur’s skillset as far as we know.

Have you seen those mountain goats? Hoofed animals can be quite agile when it comes to climbing.

PopeUrban.2578:

More importantly, I want to know how all of these centaurs get to the impossibly high ledges we need to use zephyrite crystals for. They’re centaurs, right? Climbing, jumping, and tightrope walking are not among the centaur’s skillset as far as we know.

Are you familiar with the concept of the mountain goat?

Yes, however I’m not familiar with the concept of the mountain horse. Centaurs are easily as big/weigh as much as horses and as a basic function of physics need space to accelerate to propel that much mass. Mountain goats are much smaller, lighter, and as a result also have far less dense bones.

Okay, yeah, too much physics, but my point is you don’t usually see centaurs as mountain folk, because it seems a little out of place. In all of GW history the centaurs have been traditionally unable to do certain fine work or acrobatic feats (which is why they bother to enslave humans, to do jobs they are physically incapable of (like climbing scaffolds and cliffsides) or find difficult due to their size.

In fact, Tyrian centaurs can’t even cross a meandering stream without getting someone to build a bridge over it. You’re telling me a race that is completely isolated from a geographical area by a shallow creek is somehow capable of scaling sheer cliffs that your everyday human requires a special crystal full of ancient dragon magic to navigate?

I don’t buy it!

Magical horseshoes, or magnetic ones.

PopeUrban.2578:

More importantly, I want to know how all of these centaurs get to the impossibly high ledges we need to use zephyrite crystals for. They’re centaurs, right? Climbing, jumping, and tightrope walking are not among the centaur’s skillset as far as we know.

Goats can do it.

I don’t think it’ll be way harder for centaurs, since they have brains to learn how to do it and making special soles with spikes or something, and even use their arms for help.

They should be able to jump rather high too allowing them to reach places we can’t reach even without magic.

PopeUrban.2578:

Yes, however I’m not familiar with the concept of the mountain horse. Centaurs are easily as big/weigh as much as horses and as a basic function of physics need space to accelerate to propel that much mass. Mountain goats are much smaller, lighter, and as a result also have far less dense bones.

Okay, yeah, too much physics, but my point is you don’t usually see centaurs as mountain folk, because it seems a little out of place. In all of GW history the centaurs have been traditionally unable to do certain fine work or acrobatic feats (which is why they bother to enslave humans, to do jobs they are physically incapable of (like climbing scaffolds and cliffsides) or find difficult due to their size.

In fact, Tyrian centaurs can’t even cross a meandering stream without getting someone to build a bridge over it. You’re telling me a race that is completely isolated from a geographical area by a shallow creek is somehow capable of scaling sheer cliffs that your everyday human requires a special crystal full of ancient dragon magic to navigate?

I don’t buy it!

Okay, then. Bighorn sheep.

Four-wheel drive stumps two-wheel all the time.

jspencer.3021:

…how soon can we have a race to outrun them?

Thank you, Thank you.

I opened this thread thinking it was another mount thread; SOOO very glad I was wrong.

A: The centaurs and the camp (and everywhere we see them in really) are ALL accessible by ramps and walking. The one place that isn’t just needs a vine bridge.
B: They’ve been there a good while. They likely just lived up there the entire time in the first place.

Kalavier.1097:

A: The centaurs and the camp (and everywhere we see them in really) are ALL accessible by ramps and walking. The one place that isn’t just needs a vine bridge.
B: They’ve been there a good while. They likely just lived up there the entire time in the first place.

You’re telling me the centaurs on the high ledges around the raptor area, with no caves or natural steps, that can only be reached by a series of crystal jumps lived up there alone their whole lives?

Also, I’ll remind you again of the fact that tyrian centaurs can’t cross a shallow creek without a bridge. in fact, blowing up a single bridge is the only thing that has stopped them from completely overrunning fort salma in the first place.

The magumma centaurs don’t look particularly differently adapted.

There’s no good explanation for it, it’s simply video game logic which can’t be rationally explained.

PopeUrban.2578:

There’s no good explanation for it, it’s simply video game logic which can’t be rationally explained.

Sure there is. The explanation is that the Kryta centaurs are dirt stupid. The ones in Magumma are not.

Mountain Goats are not only a lot lighter but they have a much lower center of gravity and split hooves. All make a HUGE difference.

Debating the agility of a fictional race…

PopeUrban.2578:

Kalavier.1097:

A: The centaurs and the camp (and everywhere we see them in really) are ALL accessible by ramps and walking. The one place that isn’t just needs a vine bridge.
B: They’ve been there a good while. They likely just lived up there the entire time in the first place.

You’re telling me the centaurs on the high ledges around the raptor area, with no caves or natural steps, that can only be reached by a series of crystal jumps lived up there alone their whole lives?

Also, I’ll remind you again of the fact that tyrian centaurs can’t cross a shallow creek without a bridge. in fact, blowing up a single bridge is the only thing that has stopped them from completely overrunning fort salma in the first place.

The magumma centaurs don’t look particularly differently adapted.

There’s no good explanation for it, it’s simply video game logic which can’t be rationally explained.

The Maguuma Centaurs have been living in the region for 250+ years at the least, likely longer.

Gameplay. As you said, video game logic. So why are you trying to force it in?

ALSO, talking to a Seraph near the bridge, her comment was “To win this, we have to control how the Centaurs move supplies” (Also the fact Salma has two fronts, the bridge merely is one…)

Ever thing the reason the bridge is so important is because it’d let the centaurs move supplies to set up siege weapons across the river easier? Because that stream does move along and the only true ‘ramp’ of good size up from it is on the Salma side, not the Centaur side.

Kalavier.1097:

PopeUrban.2578:

Kalavier.1097:

A: The centaurs and the camp (and everywhere we see them in really) are ALL accessible by ramps and walking. The one place that isn’t just needs a vine bridge.
B: They’ve been there a good while. They likely just lived up there the entire time in the first place.

You’re telling me the centaurs on the high ledges around the raptor area, with no caves or natural steps, that can only be reached by a series of crystal jumps lived up there alone their whole lives?

Also, I’ll remind you again of the fact that tyrian centaurs can’t cross a shallow creek without a bridge. in fact, blowing up a single bridge is the only thing that has stopped them from completely overrunning fort salma in the first place.

The magumma centaurs don’t look particularly differently adapted.

There’s no good explanation for it, it’s simply video game logic which can’t be rationally explained.

The Maguuma Centaurs have been living in the region for 250+ years at the least, likely longer.

Gameplay. As you said, video game logic. So why are you trying to force it in?

ALSO, talking to a Seraph near the bridge, her comment was “To win this, we have to control how the Centaurs move supplies” (Also the fact Salma has two fronts, the bridge merely is one…)

Ever thing the reason the bridge is so important is because it’d let the centaurs move supplies to set up siege weapons across the river easier? Because that stream does move along and the only true ‘ramp’ of good size up from it is on the Salma side, not the Centaur side.

Oh I assure you, I’m aware of the state of magumma centaurs in ancient times, and have credible information handed down from ancient tyrians to whom I am closely related that they couldn’t jump or climb back then either. In fact, nobody did, really, Tyria was conveniently separated in to a series of flat corridors. It was really convenient! There were a LOT more giant vines then though.

Also, they were kinda big jerks back then.

Djinn.9245:

Mountain Goats are not only a lot lighter but they have a much lower center of gravity and split hooves. All make a HUGE difference.

Also this!

Air Magick.

/thread

Kain Francois.4328:

Air Magick.

/thread

hush, you’re ruining the fun.

PopeUrban.2578:

Kain Francois.4328:

Air Magick.

/thread

hush, you’re ruining the fun.

Centaurs are also known for being masters of the Earth Element, and this is highlighted by both the Human tutorial boss, and Ulgoth fight.

If anything, Centaurs probably just make stone bridges for themselves.

Kain Francois.4328:

PopeUrban.2578:

Kain Francois.4328:

Air Magick.

/thread

hush, you’re ruining the fun.

Centaurs are also known for being masters of the Earth Element, and this is highlighted by both the Human tutorial boss, and Ulgoth fight.

If anything, Centaurs probably just make stone bridges for themselves.

Or conjuring giant stone hands that just throw them places.

PopeUrban.2578:

Kain Francois.4328:

PopeUrban.2578:

Kain Francois.4328:

Air Magick.

/thread

hush, you’re ruining the fun.

Centaurs are also known for being masters of the Earth Element, and this is highlighted by both the Human tutorial boss, and Ulgoth fight.

If anything, Centaurs probably just make stone bridges for themselves.

Or conjuring giant stone hands that just throw them places.

Centaur sling-shot. Makes sense.