Guild Wars 2

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Benjamin Arnold.3457:

Fractals Leak

Don’t tell anyone. I’ll get fired.

That’s one heck of a boss fight. Break bar broken by using /dance eh?

Now that you mention it, I actually want this to be a feature in a fractal. Maybe you can escort Lord Faren, the legendary dancer to the boss and protect him as he finishes the emote

I think we will probably see more living world episodes than even six. You’ll recall that they split the team into groups working on living world, the expansion, and both. I imagine that it will continue to be this way so that they don’t have to create year long waits again for the expansion and living world. Plus, we haven’t even gotten a trailer, statement, or anything to prove that the expansion is nearing completion. I imagine that we’ll have 9 episodes, three for each living world group, before the expansion.

Five nights at Scruffy’s

Great opportunity that, sadly, will never happen.

If everyone has the best armor, no one does

My main concerns are whether it’ll only be an outfit, and you can’t interchange the armor pieces with others, and if you’ll be able to dye it. I doubt they’ll make it undyable, but I just want to make sure, because I would hate to just see people all wearing the same armor in the same colors all the time. No matter how flashy the animations are, if we don’t get enough variation ability it’s pretty much worthless imo.

I particularly like the way otber games do it, Smite is all I can think of rn, where you have an option to surrender if your entire team or most of your team feels like the inevitable is coming, though this could be only in unranked mode just in case

With the addition of Ember Bay, which was so close to Orr, I imagined the possibility of seeing a creature we haven’t seen for a loooong time, the gorilla.
We don’t see any types of gorilla at all in the game, except for undead ones [insert Harambe joke here], the closest thing we’ve seen added was the sloth in ember bay and in Maguuma.
So are the gorillas extinct? I doubt that there’s any in game lore on them, but I thought that as we returned to a location so near to Orr, we might be able to see some living gorillas. The fire island chain is VERY close, and these gorillas could hold their own just as well as, say, Karka, or sloths. Thoughts?
P.s. I am not a gorilla enthusiast, just someone who noticed that there are random massive amounts of gorillas in Arah story mode for absolutely no reason, and would like to see some that aren’t covered in sponges

You’re entitled to an opinion, but I personally love the mastery system, it’s a welcome change from leveling up and getting all your skills boosted a tiny bit, and reaching level cap. However, the way you’re suggesting we do masteries really could only work for gliding. All the other masteries include things like talking to exalted, or eating mushrooms, or countering bloodstone magic. Some of these things aren’t remotely connected, and would be even more tedious to do a billion times.
I also love the new maps, as do many others. The verticality makes the area on the world map seem small, when really the map is jam-packed with events and lore. I love it tbh, and it makes Heart of Thorns unique from WoW. I always manage to find a good group for fractals, even though it may not always be the fractal I originally wanted to do. If you don’t like the legendary crafting system, don’t do it dude. I didn’t, and I don’t feel like any less of a player because of it.
Also a helpful tip: masteries go by way faster if you use xp boosters. I used one for Bloodstone Fen, and was able to complete countermagics within an hour and a half.
I’m the definition of a filthy casual, and I love gw2 and the state it’s in right now. So the things you’re proposing, such as scrapping what I see as the best maps in the game, or dumbing down all the finely toned systems they JUST implemented, aren’t plausible, or really at all rational except because you don’t like it.

If anyone deserved to be Pact Commander, it was her

I am not a lore expert, and will never claim to be. I’ve only played Guild Wars 2 for a year now, and my understanding of the community responses to certain implimentations is very general. So please, take my idea with several thousand grains of salt.

However, in my opinion, there is another solution which I haven’t seen touched on at all, and that would be, “what if a Tengu player never kills zhaitan?”
Now that isn’t to say that your Tengu player couldn’t go to the Arah dungeon and participate in the story there, ANet would never take that aproach. However, I believe it would be fascinating if a Tengu story could be based in Cantha, where the story would be that you kill a different elder dragon, say the DSD, instead of zhaitan. Now I have no idea why a Tengu player from Tyria would go to Cantha, presumably a pilgrimage from the Doninion of Winds that we haven’t heard of yet. Cantha could then be organized as a new starter zone, with Dominion of Winds still as its capitol, and this all would take place while the other races were destroying Zhaitan. The last few instances of Tengu story would be destroying the Elder Dragon, and then the Tengu player might have extra maps in Cantha to progress story, before returning to Tyria. Regular players would also be able to visit Cantha by boat presumably, and a similar nightfall warning might appear telling that this is nonlinear.

I have many ideas in my head on how this would be implemented, but that’s the general premise. Any criticism to this theory is very much welcomed, I’d love to hear why this could or couldn’t happen, that’s how I like to learn.

Now this thread can be used for any information you want to pull from the Q and A with the Queen, but what I most latched on to was how she referenced that the pact was still alive, under new managent. Frankly, I don’t see how the pact could have survived the disastrous assaults on the Maguuma Jungle, but maybe it’s up to discussion.

This entire thread made me chuckle. “I live in a biweekly paycheck” “I’m an adult! It’s indecent to borrow money from a friend, even though by my own logic I can pay him back just days after I borrowed!” “I can’t afford Heart of Thorns for like $50 AFTER ALL THAT so I think I’ll spend $60 on Legion” wow what bad planning ArenaNet. Shame on you for not catering to this man’s hilariously specific financial issue XD

PS sounds like you’re just scraping by, you probably shouldn’t be buying video games imo

I find all these posts saying exactly the same thing (“insert anything from HoT here” was super hard, and I don’t like it! Everything must fall under my circumstances, nerf now!) so redundant. Everything is just a matter of opinion, Sanctum Scramble is my favorite adventure tbh, and I’ve loved it every time. But because you find it hard to do, of course it deserves an entire thread on the forums :/ if you don’t like it, don’t do it. I haven’t seen Sanctum Scramble at all in the dailies lately, so unless it’s the singular mastery point in the entire game you can’t manage to get, you should have no trouble ignoring it. If you think it’s too hard, maybe those “pixel precision moves” are just beyond you altogether, and you should move on to something else. There’s no need to establish an entire forum thread for your small troubles.

Now this may be a totally awful analogy buuuuttt
I like to think of the Ley Line energy in the same way that we think about global warming today. It doesn’t take too much extra Carbon in the atmosphere to begin catastrophically changing the earth, ice caps melt and sea levels rise, as well as global average temperatures. In this sense I’d say Elder dragons are like massive trees, breathing in the carbon (or in our case magic) so that a natural balance is kept, and life can flourish. And so, like on Earth, there was a time before trees or ozone where the earth was hot, and the air much thicker, but because of our elder dragons, or massive forests, the oxygen was released, and the bad stuff (chaotic magic) was absorbed. Cutting down elder dragons may or may not return Tyrua to a prinordal state, where chaotic magic is so prominant and powerful that life can not survive on its surface. That’s my two cents at least

I’m new to the lore, please don’t murder me if I messed something up

Now as of posting, we don’t have any information about what the new name of Destiny’s Edge 2 will be, but in reading their names (Rytlock, Taimi, Rox, Braham, Kasmeer, Marjory) I was somewhat distressed to notice that there would be no Sylvari in the group, and was particularly saddened by how Canach wasn’t there, even though he contributed so much to the Heart of Thorns storyline. Some people might say that he isn’t there because he wasn’t originally part of the group, but neither was Rytlock. I personally think that Canach belongs with the “New Destiny’s Edge”, but I’m fine with being persuaded against it. Any thoughts anyone??