Guild Wars 2

Necro time!

In Siren’s Landing there are two botanists talking about an Oakheart – next to Watchman’s Roost. In one of the dialogues, they mention that the Oakheart’s ancestors predate humanity’s arrival on Tyria.

Rym.1469:

Konig basically said what there was to be said, just one small thing from me. ArenaNet really missed the opportunity for Charr NPC/PC to comment on never trusting gods and how human haven’t learnt it from Charr mistakes.

Not in the episode itself, but at least in ambient dialogue, these points are adressed. Humans are reluctant to help hunt their god down and doubt what to do. Charr and Asura mock the humans and Balthazar. Sylvari question the god’s nature.

I did get stalled with the way the kitten MMR puts me up mostly with people that don’t have much knowledge on how to play or the bare minimum communication skills, but already half way through it.

I guess it’s better adviced to find teams at this stage that can fight in a more competitive manner. I’ve noticed solo queue goes generally downhill at Ruby.

I started PvP’ing this season and have advanced to Ruby. So far, my statistics look like this:

Unranked W/L % = 57.8%
Ranked W/L % = 49.4%
Overall W/L % = 52.0%

Would this be considered good, bad, average…? This is in solo queue mostly.

I’d say it’s better to not leave story arcs, however small, on the air. That’s not good storytelling.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just another one of the dropped story arcs.

I was honestly looking forward to them, and I think they were intended to be present in Tangled Depths’ nuhoch stuff.

I figured they would be at Tarir, at least. A shame, they were a fun trio and would’ve given the maps a little more of depth and dialogue with their commentaries.

I remember it was mentioned that they pushed deeper into the Maguuma before HoT, but so far, I’ve never found evidence of their whereabouts in the new maps.

Anyone knows what happened to them?

Astralporing.1957:

Eluveitie.1290:

And that’s what the wiki says, but nothing regarding normal weapons. Hence, why I concluded nothing would be overwritten and actually show the effect.

Stupid, probably. But the information available is open to make mistakes like that happen.

Not really. What you expected was never a thing, and was never even suggested anywhere. The only source of your mistake was your imagination.
You made an assumption not based on anything, and then thought that no info about it being false meant it must be true. This is not how it works.

So, sorry, it was entirely your fault.

As mentioned above, it did exist and it’s what I saw until they fixed it. Secondly, I shouldn’t have to go ask around players nor stalk them and their legendaries. Not denying my fault in this, but there was room for mistakes to happen that no in-game source mentions, or at the very least, the wiki.

Belzebu.3912:

Every item effect is only active when you have it active, if you have Frostfang only as 2nd set, then you won’t have its effects, that is how every item works, if you have a torch in your 2nd set, you won’t have the ambient glow when you have the greatsword equipped , why would this be different?
Imagine if you had Frosfang and Twilight in set 1 and 2, both effects would stack?

And that’s what the wiki says, but nothing regarding normal weapons. Hence, why I concluded nothing would be overwritten and actually show the effect.

Stupid, probably. But the information available is open to make mistakes like that happen. Which is why I’m here, since support said they only deal with money transactions and I would actually need help from a designer/dev.

Last night I got Frostfang done (after 3 years) and before equipping it, I made sure to check the wiki and in-game info (pop-up windows, etc) thinking the effect of the legendary would still be visible (footsteps) while using my main weapon (Greatsword).

I was heart-broken to see that’s not the case (but I had seen it on other people at some time – so I obviously thought it was the right idea since you still have it equipped on the second slot). Now I’m stuck with a weapon I barely actually use that cost me a lot of work and gold.

Support can’t do anything, but told me to try the forums.

After Mordremoth’s death and subsequent cutscene, that’s it. No celebration. No update on those left behind (Rox, Logan, Zojja, etc) or anything. I went to each one of Destiny’s Edge homes looking forward to a post-Mordremoth dialogue and… nothing. Eir is still happily busy in her lodge, Logan on his two feet, etc. Not to mention nothing regarding Mr. E, who’s identity “would be revealed at the end of S2”.

We’re left with a big cliffhanger, that will be continued in some months maybe like a few hours passed by, despite having other world events transcurring on normal schedule (Wintersday).

On a related note, just as Orr, now the Maguuma is stuck in its own time bubble. Central Tyria in another, with some time bubbles mixed here and there. It’s starting to become a horrible mess and I can’t even begin to imagine what it’ll be when more updates come.

Healix.5819:

If you want to “reinstall” the game, simply download Gw2Setup.exe, but don’t run it. In the folder where GW2 is installed, delete everything except Gw2.dat, then move Gw2Setup.exe into that folder and rename it to Gw2.exe. Unless Gw2.dat is heavily corrupted (you would know), there’s really no reason to completely reinstall the game. The only files GW2 needs to run are Gw2.exe and Gw2.dat. Everything else is recreated if it does not exist.

The log file you posted does not contain any crashes from this year. Did the error report window not popup? I’m guessing not if it froze. Try running Gw2.exe directly, without using a shortcut, since I see you are/were using multiple command line parameters.

Also, run a virus scan, but not with Microsoft’s scanner – it’s too simple. I see you also have Malwarebytes? You may also want to look into the file %temp%/MS-March-14.exe, which is set to run on startup, which is suspicious considering it’s in the temporary directory.

Also, you have minor packet loss between your router and your ISP.

In the mean time, you can try deleting the folder %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/ and the file Documents/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat. This will cause your hardware related settings to reset.

Open “Computer”, right click and select properties. Under the tools tab, check the disk for any errors. You could also try copying the folder\Guild Wars 2\ to your desktop and try running it from there.

Thank you! I will try all of this and update.

And yeah, there was no report, only crashing right after I click play, black screen comes up and closes. I did try running directly, but no luck.

I will do a virus scan, thought that might be a cause too.

EDIT: I tried your first solution and didn’t work until I deleted the SweetFX files. It’s up and running now, thanks a lot!

Verify file says all files are fine. I’m lost here on what is happening, yesterday I was playing fine. All I did was delete some screenshots in the GW2 file.

Clint crashes after clicking play, when doing a repair it freezes and stops working.

Edit: Managed to make the repair work, still the client crashes.

Edit:

That looked like Glint indeed.

Nevermind, got my answer through Google.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/On-mysterious-ruins/first#post4611833

Haven’t been active lately on the forums and the search function is worthless.

Is there any theory regarding to whom do these ruins belonged?

Angel McCoy.1832:

And I’ll end this post on a question. What do you imagine that first conversation between Caithe and the Pale Tree was like, after Caithe killed Wynne? I’d love to hear your imaginings.

The Pale Tree must’ve felt terribly betrayed and dissapointed towards Caithe, but eventually understood; it was Faolin’s poisoning what led her to that, and killing Wynne was necessary for the greater good of the sylvari.

The Pact didn’t participate against Scarlet because the organization is meant to fight dragons. And also, they were still recovering from the assault on Zhaitan, which was no small feat. The Pact had a huge resource loss after the Orr invasion and many soldiers died.

draxynnic.3719:

That’s… not an inaccurate analogy, and one that I admit I don’t find particularly satisfying myself after all the waits and cliffhangers.

We’re STILL cliffhangered regarding the egg, after having three episodes hanging on that same cliff. Now we’ve had a big fight, but in the end we’ve just got more cliffhangers.

Yo, dawg, I heard you like cliffh- NO! We don’t.

I’m seriously dissapointed about this. They said we would know who is Mr. E by the end of S2, and we got nothing. We were promised answers and we mostly just got more questions that rooted up from the tiny bit of explanations we got.

Cliffhangers does NOT mean leaving things unanswered.

This episode was fun, but ultimately dissapointing, when viewed from a lore/story perspective.

I hope next time we see them they are strangled by vines, holding hands, and be done with their story once and for all.

BuddhaKeks.4857:

That’s what I study history for. I have to though, thinking that there are maybe people out there that got encouraged to take the path of a historian due to videogame lore, kinda warms my heart. (I didn’t though, with me it the reverse order, I love lore because I love history)

Always hated history myself back in highschool, mainly because they taught us only about our history and forced us to remember dates and what every president did.

However, after highschool I started reading more about other cultures and their history and fell in love with it, and a big factor towards my interest was the Total War games. Far from being a historian (I’ve terrible memory, would die hungry if I became one) but games have made me love it, and in consequence, the lore of game as well.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

That would explain why I never saw it – only had Dusk and Night sylvari PCs.

Eluveitie.1290:

However, taking a look at the wiki page regarding the Altar of Glaust something struck me:

“When the ritual is cast, beams of light break through the unnatural clouds above and through the circular architecture surrounding the altar. "

Sounds familiar, eh?

As I recently rewatched the vision cinematic: those golden pillars of light come from the ground and head up. The beams of light in the ritual is the opposite: coming from the sky and heading down. The color is also different: gold to white (or blue according to Tuomir).

Yes, you’re right, just watched an Arah video where it is showed. White with a blueish hint. I misunderstood the sentence I quoted thinking they come from below and broke the clouds above, my bad.

Tuomir.1830:

Twin cobras and a strange pattern… could be related to Forgotten, though that’s pretty much just from the snakes. Anyone feeling like taking a look at the Altar of Glaust to see if there are any matching patterns? Couldn’t find any pictures, I’ll go take a look tomorrow if no one else does.

I don’t remember any such patterns, but I’m willing to go check it out. Let me know an approximate time. Maybe someone whom has played more GW1 than I can confirm if there are similar patterns in the Crystal Desert.

However, taking a look at the wiki page regarding the Altar of Glaust something struck me:

“When the ritual is cast, beams of light break through the unnatural clouds above and through the circular architecture surrounding the altar. "

Sounds familiar, eh?

As the title says, that_shaman in Reddit worked on the map we got a few weeks back and it’s now fully translated (as best as he could) with all known cities and trade routes.

Enjoy!

Map of Tyria

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It’s also possible that the Master of Peace will meet his end. He’s surrounded by Mordrem vines in the picture, and the teaser has us going deep in Mordrem vine territory.

And we all know how Anet loves to kill off characters just as they’re beginning to get interesting. Or before they can begin to get interesting.

This was posted today:

http://imgur.com/jK6kTlr

Doubt it’s a bug. They just simply give a kitten about their stories.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I looked again, and they’re red with a dark purple (not the bright purple of Kralkatorrik) tips and golden shines inside.

The Bloodstones were red with dark reddish-purple tips. As were Mursaat structures.

Yeah, I was in no way relating them to Krakatorrik. I’m more inclined to belive it’s Bloodstone/Mursaat/Glint/Zephyrites related. If they were heading on that direction, it’s likely they had some kind of refuge on ground.

I barely got time to look at that cave with all the ganking, had to get away, but interesting find. Nothing else of interest in Dry Top, only the Inquest further implementation of the Aspect crystals to their weaponry, I guess.

Kind of off-topic, but does anyone know where the hell is Ree Soesbee? Her writing is far more interesting to me.

Cyan.6904:

Kasmeer just has some good observation skills.

That she mentions as being a power. It’s so cringy, ugh.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Those crystals don’t look purple to me. They looked golden.

Glint’s crystals were blue anyways, it is just Kralkatorrik’s whose are purple. Glint’s child may have golden crystals I bet.

The crystals are purple, there’s one blue-ish near to the center, too. Once they break though, they seem to be bright golden on the inside.

Gaebriel.3754:

What I also found interesting, was the sentence she spoke to Kasmeer, about nobility. Perhaps my tinfoil hat appeared suddenly, but that struck me as rather peculiar coming from a countess. Also, we went back to the countess – who we know is loyal, from the PS – to see if she was actually speaking the truth. That seemed as if it just served to make us as players wonder about her motives, in case we didn’t pick up on other hints.

Also, E! Wasn’t the player character the only one who received correspondence from E until now? Mysterious ..

Marjory was contacted first by him. He probably has a wide range of contcats to… contact.

Nothing of the sort.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Vine_Seed

Wanderer.3248:

Eluveitie.1290:

The dragon in the vision is the Shadow of the Dragon we fight. Notice the leaves and branches on it. It’s not Zhaitan. And woulnd’t make sense anyway, for all intends and purposes he’s dead and/or defeated.

The dragon from the cutscene looks similar, but different. It has proper wings for example, the Shadow of the Dragon just has branches.

And The Shadow of the Dragon is dead. Killed right at the start of the game. So it can’t be the same dragon, regardless if you think it’s one of Mordremoth’s or not.

I know that. Pretty sure the one we just fought is named the same and is still alive since I saw him flappin’ away with both my eyes.

The Crystal Desert was created because of Abaddon’s downfall, not Krakatorrik or Glint.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Crystal_Desert

Slowpokeking.8720:

Eluveitie.1290:

The dragon in the vision is the Shadow of the Dragon we fight. Notice the leaves and branches on it. It’s not Zhaitan. And woulnd’t make sense anyway, for all intends and purposes he’s dead and/or defeated.

Then were those bloodstones of Kralkatorrik’s crystal?

Bloodstones do not come from dragons. They were made to prevent dragons from corrupting their magic.

The dragon in the vision is the Shadow of the Dragon we fight. Notice the leaves and branches on it. It’s not Zhaitan. And woulnd’t make sense anyway, for all intends and purposes he’s dead and/or defeated.

Defensive indeed, she’s hiding something big. But, of course, we already knew that. It does seem to hint slightly at that she might be Livia.

Sirlath.1672:

Eluveitie.1290:

Regarding the last instance, it was great. Had some really interesting points and the vision was very well done. Wish we could’ve gotten the PC to actually speak during the summit, but it was still good.

Wish the leaders adressed the current situation in the world. “Despite the Flame Legion being in civil war, they are still constantly assaulting us” and so on with every race. But they insist on being vague.

The crystals definitely seem to be the Bloodstone. Although I’ll need to watch the cutscene again when someone uploads to get better conclussions. We now know the dragon that attacked the Dream was indeed Mordremoth’s doing and it has been trying to influence the Sylvari since the start.

Sirlath.1672:

Eluveitie.1290:

Sirlath.1672:

You seem to not have played the episode completely. Or just don’t care.

Because most of the things you mention are addressed there. If you don’t like the story, then no ones keeping you.

Evidently, I’m writing as I’m playing it. And no one is keeping me from writing what I think as I play it, either.

Yes. But do not make assumptions and critisize before even playing the content. That is just disrespectful and ignorant.

I was playing the content and criticizing as it progressed each part individually. But you don’t seem to comprehend that. Anyway, nothing was adressed either.

I apologize if I was too harsh. I’m kind of a fanboy :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJNn53dNu0c

A link to the cinematic though.

No worries, I expanded my reply to make clear what was that bothered me about that fist part.

Thanks for the link!

That does look like it could be Glint’s egg, too.

Regarding the last instance, it was great. Had some really interesting points and the vision was very well done. Wish we could’ve gotten the PC to actually speak during the summit, but it was still good.

Wish the leaders adressed the current situation in the world. “Despite the Flame Legion being in civil war, they are still constantly assaulting us” and so on with every race. But they insist on being vague.

The crystals definitely seem to be the Bloodstone. Although I’ll need to watch the cutscene again when someone uploads to get better conclussions. We now know the dragon that attacked the Dream was indeed Mordremoth’s doing and it has been trying to influence the Sylvari since the start.

Sirlath.1672:

Eluveitie.1290:

Sirlath.1672:

You seem to not have played the episode completely. Or just don’t care.

Because most of the things you mention are addressed there. If you don’t like the story, then no ones keeping you.

Evidently, I’m writing as I’m playing it. And no one is keeping me from writing what I think as I play it, either.

Yes. But do not make assumptions and critisize before even playing the content. That is just disrespectful and ignorant.

I was playing the content and criticizing as it progressed each part individually. But you don’t seem to comprehend that. Anyway, nothing was adressed either.

We used Fort Salma and Cocordia to make our points, but never in any episode I saw the humans, the Queen or anyone besides the B-conics mention it. And it would’ve been a far better plot to have the attack on Fort Salma be used as a determent of the Queen’s leadership and protection of her people by The Ministry, than shoehorning Scarlet -once again- in every matter. Specially when we know she attacked Divinity’s Reach out of a whim in S1.

Sirlath.1672:

You seem to not have played the episode completely. Or just don’t care.

Because most of the things you mention are addressed there. If you don’t like the story, then no ones keeping you.

Evidently, I’m writing as I’m playing it. And no one is keeping me from writing what I think as I play it, either.

It’d be great to avoid creating a dozen different topics on what happens in this episode, for that purpose, use this thread as we progress through it.

From the release page, though. Rumors that Queen Jennah was involved in Scarlet’s attack? What kind of stupid politicians are there in Divinity’s Reach that spread such cringy rumors?

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SPOILERS ahead

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Oh, Kasmeer’s out of nowhere lying detection super powers, of course.

This whole party thing is a disastrous child’s game. And no mention whatsoever of the whole destruction of an – if not the most- important human fort in Kryta. Instead, a made up meeting out of nowhere with Scarlet and politicians coming clean for no reason with a stranger (being my case a Norn whom has never met them, even if my reputation is there). Horrible and boring start.

This taking way too long with nothing of interest in it other than making me feel like a 5 year-old being handheld across the place clicking on every dialogue that pops with litte to no choice.

Compared to the PS, Countess Anise’s voice acting is bad as well. Are they underpaying them nowadays?

That was a long fight on the second part. I’m sure they’re making as unnecessarily long as possible each part. But fun, challenging boss.

Third part was fun, the Inquest are getting increasingly powerful – more Aspect crystals golems and they’re using Aertherblade teletransportation (not sure they’ve used it before).

DSD is a far away threat that isn’t really important or relevant now to Tyria (continent). If they go that route and, once again, leave their other plot lines untouched to build new kitten out of nowhere, I’d be kittened.

Kralkatorrik probably still needs time to recover, so I don’t see him coming soon.

Jormag and Primordus are the most active and dire threats to Tyria (continent) as of now, in that order.

So I’m hoping Jormag is next or perhaps Primordus will make an emergence and we will go for that. But currently, Jormag is the biggest threat.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

If you speak to the NPCs (some must be before their respective heart completion) in Fields of Ruin, then you’ll see that the only humans working with charr are soldiers ordered to do such or very few individuals hopeful of furthering the peace, and the only charr working with humans are Sentinels or those ordered to ‘play nice’ as I recall one wording it.

I would hardly consider such a situation to be two “friendly nations”. They aren’t openly hostile anymore, but they’re not friendly either.

Furthermore, in the Black Citadel and other parts, when you delve in the subject and mention (at least as a human) that now we’re allied or something of that sort, the Charr clearly state it’s a cease fire or a temporary truce and nothing else.

He avoided the Crystal Cavern, for some reason. He’s nowhere near it. So that doesn’t seem to be the reason. He’s likely just after that artifact (probably Ascalonian) that the Priory had. I’m guessing their runner won’t go far with it before he gets killed.

Vexander.9850:

Stooperdale.3560:

After we saw mordrem at Concordia our character asked why the mordrem were there, and there was a plausible reason. After we saw mordrem at Salma our character asked why the mordrem were there, and there was a plausible reason. So why are the mordrem in the Iron Marches and why has our character stopped asking the question?

The Mordrem are following the Leylines and seeking out sources of magic. The Brand is probably a major source of magic for Mordremoth. Seems fairly straightforward.

Corruption is not a source of magic, but correct me if it’s wrong.

Didn’t want to make a new thread and haven’t seen it being mentioned elsewhere (thank you, useless search function), but what does everyone think about the dialogue when Rox spits and Rytlock mentions she’s done that since she was a cub (paraphrasing here)?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’ll just leave this hear and see if you guys have the same thoughts I did. It’s an old redditor’s map alteration of Scarlet’s probes that we saw in-game.

The Peeled Banana Ley Line.

I think there’s possibly another one(s) going up, if we take in consideration the last cutscene in LS1, Scarlet’s map of probes north and that waypoints are being affected by veins up there too.

On the bright side, we might have Guild Wars until we die and beyond.

http://tyria3d.businesscatalyst.com/

Based on the Order of Whisper’s threat assessment globe.

Disclaimer: The lines and pools on the map are NOT ley lines.

Credit: RequestTimeout and that_shaman on Reddit.

Enjoy!

Rainin.9812:

I haven’t seen anything in the game to really key ANYONE into the things name. I mean, where did the NPC’s suddenly get this knowledge.

However, what I did notice (immediately after Scarlet’s death) when you saw the end cinematic, people I played with were instantly abuzz with the name Mordremoth.. Where did THAT come from?! They knew right away..

Thin air, so far. Devs might have been wrapped around work until now, but I hope we get clarifications/fixes on the issue from tomorrow on, that’s weekend time. And also hope we don’t get a made-up “it’s a mystery you shall soon find out about” and actually admit it was a mistake.

Crucible of Eternity. Subject Alpha’s attacks revealed that name, although no one knew for sure it was the sixth Elder Dragon until sometime around the end of S1, and the awkward reveal now.

They said his identity will be revealed at the end of S2.

Take it with a bit of salt, as this might be malleable since it was in an interview.