Guild Wars 2

…meh. I can see how ti could fit with the a few of the lyrics but otherwise the tone just doesn’t work.

Nothing says traveling into a mystical forgotten jungle to battle mythical beasts, dragons and uncover ancient secrets like some up beatr urban song about living on the streets. xD

My norn dreams of the day when he can swing around a huge 2 handed axe

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Mental Paradox.3845:

They are dragon minions now, and act like them. Do you show Risen mercy? Mordrem wolves? No. So why show mercy to Mordrem based on humans instead of wolves?

Kill all corrupted Sylvari, I say. And treat those who aren’t corrupted (yet) with suspicion… for your own safety.

The difference here, I think, is that we now know that a cure is possible, whereas for the entirety of the personal story, while we were cutting risen down in droves, it was believed there wasn’t one. That new information alters the moral equation, imo.

I don’t think you cure ‘cure’ the risen anyways. They are dead rotting corpses reanimated by the power of Zhaitan.

My philosophy is, if it tries to kill you, you kill it first.

Chrispy.5641:

The trailer looks better than the game does right now. Did Anet do some engine improvements and just forgot to say anything(that or its too boring for PAX)?

Probably not worth mentioning at PAX. WoodenPotatoes said their contact guy that gave them their press release stuff said “Did you notice the new graphics” or something along those lines/

Now that’s awesome!

Also I just realized, this is the first ‘living flesh and blood’ dragon we have seen that wasn’t made out of the element that an elder dragon was made out of.

So far all the dragons we have seen have been made out of plants, ice, crystals or undead flesh. If these dragons were Mordrem wouldn’t they be all…plant-like?

These seem like natural born flesh and blood, scale covered fire breathing dragons. I wonder if there are natural dragons that have evolved that aren’t Elder dragon related. Food for thought.

Would be cool to get some shots of that dragon that crawls out of the shadows

People saying spears aren’t a possibility because they didn’t announce a new weapon…keep in mind, spears aren’t a new weapon. Hopefully we’ll just be able to take them out of the water now :P

Firebird Gomer.9563:

(Not trying to be entitled or anything just saying is all).

Except that is exactly what you are being. You are being both entitled and selfish because another profession might get something you want and you are too lazy to role that profession.

Having all specializations available to everyone is just stupid and takes away any meaning behind the choice if say every warrior can become a druid. They have to fit. How would say a Charr engineer fit becoming a druid?

We get it, your salty you might not get the specialization you want on your ranger. I have a solution Points at create new character button You’re welcome. The thing about opinions though is they are like butts. Everyone has one, but some are crappier than others.

I personally loathe the idea of airhsips or a ‘sky map’

I would love if I could have a nice sturdy norn lodge in the mountains.

Im sad starting racial town clothes are now tonics as well. Cause y’know, red and black are totally suitable colours for a leather and animal fur norn parka.

Why arent the racial town clothes outfits? Now for RP my norn is pretty much perma-stuck in his armour.

Think giant berserker viking vs say a roman legionnaire who isn’t a stranger to combat and can hold their own but are more used to fight in rank and file.

We know for a fact 1 to a couple norn easily wiped out warbands of charr but if they sent say many warbands/a large army, the charr would eventually drive them down (after probably sustaining some nice casualties xD)

The perfect analogy would be from a game back on my ps3 (can’t remember what it was called -.-) But there was this huge berserker giant thing. If you faced him with a small number of troops he slaughters all of them and you. But if you have a huge army, sure it takes out dozens of your soldiers single-handedly, but numbers and superior tech end up killing it eventually and they die rather quick.

The norn’s biggest weakness is their individualistic culture. Imagine if the norn banded together to form an actual nation? They would be unstoppable when faced in battle with conventional means (ie. no bombs, cannons etc)

We aren’t pitting some great charr fighter against Joe Blow, your average norn farmer. Take a norn and charr, both with equal amount of experience and battle training.

Norn would win every time. It’s liek you are trying to amek out tha charr as the best at everything. No.

Charr = excel with Technology and fighting in large rank and file armies/warbands

Norn = excel in fighting on their own or in small groups, able to take down threats many times their size or what is considered possible.

It’s been already stated by lore that charr warbands would get wiped out by a couple norn. But if charr sent an army in, sure the norn would cut large bloody swaths into their ranks, but their technology and numbers would eventually overcome the norn, not to mention formations like firing lines, shield walls, spear walls etc. that are common to large armies.

That’s what charr are good at, fighting as a legion

And here is Throren and Ro dancing

Throren and his moose

^^ this. Plus if we are going by anatomy and what not then based on how their bodies are proportioned and built, they shouldn’t have the strength they do in lore.

But they do so you can’t really judge them on real world anatomy and science when they already defy those laws.

We aren’t speaking game mechanics though. This is a pure lore debate. If a charr punched a human in the head he’d probably fracture something, knock out some teeth and send him flying. Probably knock him out. If a full grown norn man say punched a human in the head he’s more likely to flat out kill him -crack- skull shattered. Because of their immense strength. (Just an analogy to compare their power)

Also keep in mind Eir is average size for a norn and a woman (weighs less than the guys) she isn’t mammoth huge like other norn so I’m not surprised Rytlock could throw her. On the other hand I bet she could throw like two fully armoured Rytilocks if she had to.

I remember there was a thread on the Guild Wars 2 RP fan forum (it’s gone now. Noooo) that talked about norn strength. Factoring in how crazy strong they could be. No one but probably the biggest and strongest of charr would be able to block a weapon blow from a norn if they put their full strength into a swing as it would probably just break the arm of the defender who tried to block or knock the wepaon clean from their hand.

I don’t want to down play charr though, every race has their strengths and weaknesses. Norn = better at fighting with small numbers
Charr=better at fighting within large armies with advanced weaponry

Norn for sure would win (not even factoring in taking on bear/wolf/leopard/raven form)

Heck I would wager a single norn could easily take out a small warband. A small group of norn can tackle larger ones. Charr would win in a war though as they have number, large rank and file armies and technology.

A friend jokingly made the comparison of lord of the rings (might not work completely but it still gets the point across). A single troll can decimate dozens and dozens of soldier but the soldiers can eventually take them down with strength of numbers and use of tactics. Ya it was a bad anaology but hey -shrug-

In Sea of Sorrows, two norn brothers throw charr which one was on the big size for charr if I remember, one after another high into the air to land on a nearby ship. They were chucking these guys like 20ft into the air.

Norn as a people have a culture about building legends. Sure they boast but to live in the environment they do and have lives based all around doing these incredible feats worthy of legend and song, they have to actually have the actions to back up their claim. If not they would have probably died out long ago.

Heck a norn, Asgeir knocking out Jormag’s tooth, keep in mind that he was being aided by the Spirits of the Wild during that battle though so that is probably much different.

The norn do have a supernatural strength that is waaaaay out of proportion for how much their bodies ‘should’ be able to lift realistically. A large male norn can easily lift a boulder multiple times his own size. No other playable race can probably lift a boulder even ‘close’ to their own size.

They are a people who create legends and heros and have the skill to back up their talk. So ya. 1v1 norn for sure.

Well since the norn draw heavy norse influences maybe he’ll represent more of the Midgard Serpent/Jörmungandr look. Or maybe the Nidhogg/Níðhöggr. Maybe even Fáfnir can be used as inspiration.

Though I wouldn’t be saddened if he looked more like the very standard modern perception of dragons just all ice covered. Imagine the dragon from the Beowulf movie but all covered in ice.

Agreed, I am still disappointed this helm ruins the look of my character. A kitten shame as it is a very nice helm, more so for norn…but I can’t get myself to use it because it makes my norn baby-faced.

This should be fixed.

Ya pretty much, you do everything an he gets all the acknowledgement.

And just like I posted in the other Trahearne thread, take this; enjoy.

So this bug has been around for a long while, with multiple helmets throughout the game, many of which have been fixed. Now I really want to buy the Braham armor skin, being a lover of all norn things and such but this is just something I can’t get around; the magical and woeful disappearance of our facial hair.

When I made my character, I made him look a certain way, to have the look I wanted to give him, now when this cool norn-themed armor is released, it takes away a major part of what makes my character, him. Not to mention the norn are known for awesome beards. Tsk tsk tsk.

I have yet to see anyone address this issue but hopefully it can be fixed because by Ogden’s hammer, I want to wear that helm…and not lose my beard.

Sincerely
~ A disgruntled Norn.

I’ll just leave this here

MasterYoda.8563:

It’s not a bug, the hair is removed to prevent clipping issues with allot of the helms, the same thing in GW1 and other games do the same thing with similar items.

That is ridiculous! There are tons of helms that show beards and I don’t see how this would be any different. I can’t really believe they would make gear that drastically changes the look of our characters. Imagine plate legs that removed charr tails, ridiculous!

I remember the dragon bash helm had this problem but it was later fixed so why not the Braham helm? Please fix this Arena net.

~crosses fingers that hopefully someone at arena net will acknowledge this ~

So this bug has been around for a long while, with multiple helmets throughout the game, many of which have been fixed. Now I really want to buy the Braham armor skin, being a lover of all norn things and such but this is just something I can’t get around; the magical and woeful disappearance of our facial hair.

When I made my character, I made him look a certain way, to have the look I wanted to give him, now when this cool norn-themed armor is released, it takes away a major part of what makes my character, him. Not to mention the norn are known for awesome beards. Tsk tsk tsk.

I have yet to see anyone address this issue but hopefully it can be fixed because by Ogden’s hammer, I want to wear that helm…and not lose my beard.

Sincerely
~ A disgruntled Norn.

Call it a bard. Skaald is a norn thing only really.

honestly, kinda pissed we are still being ignored in regards to this. I expected we would at least have gotten for more info by now :/

A drake spirit coulda been cool.
Imagine turning into a bipedal dragon/lizard thing

….godzilla more or less

was said by some devs that all Halloween content is available to players of any level i’m pretty sure.

Hmm, any new updates or news on this?

Bah I don’t care if they are obsessed with fighting primordious and are living stone, I want dwarves kitten

two words : Giant Vikings

Okay I wouldn’t really call this a bug or anything but it’s just a tiny detail that has well, been bugging me.

In the depths of Rata-sum there is an npc in front of a door saying it is the Synergetics dorm yet it has the Dynamics flags/banners and is bellow the college of Dynamics, same thing with the Synergetic dorms but other way around.