Guild Wars 2

deadlyharper: why beer? I don’t see the connection to be honest…baffling.

Hexy: You forgot to rate the one above. I give yours: 10/10 because I’m surprised that was still available so if you got it, well done.

I named mine: Dantaea. No reason why I chose that..completely random. Too many vowels maybe?

How about putting a spoiler alert?? Some people are complete and utter etc.

Inverted.7439:

My account was just banned for 74 hours or somethin like that for an abusive name or somethin.

You don’t really instill much confidence in people. “Hello I’m the builder, I can do the work for a few thousand or something like that and I’ll finish next month or something”. Yeah oh yeah please yes come on in..start right away. lol

Maybe not offensive, but it’s silly and annoying. Why “moobs” in a fantasy MMO anyway? Can’t you save that for other places like COD of BF3 where immaturity rules? Your name spoils the “immersion” factor. What’s the point of a “living world” and lore when I turn the corner and up pops someone called “Mr Moobs”. More of this banning. WoW was spoiled because of people like you..

Oh and I like novelty and humorous names too: my Sylvari is called “Prunemi” (prune me). What’s wrong with doing something like that instead of pointless vulgar stuff only a 5 year old would find funny?

This system is annoying, but at least you almost have zero successful hacking attempts this way. I say we keep it as is.

Zaxares: No, the plants are native (talking about the UK here) i.e. hostas, forget-me-nots etc. All cold weather plants. Tropical plants almost never “hibernate” under the soil for winter and it doesn’t work, lost many tropical plants this way when they went to mush because of the cold and so cut it back to the root ball hoping it will come back up in spring…some do, most don’t. But even the ones that do it’s pointless because they’re not plants which give full growth in one year (like for example honeysuckle does)..so you have an eternally young and small plant which never achieves its full glory.

I know what you mean about it being hard showing empathy for a non-sentient (well..seemingly) but still live, thing. On the other hand plants are extremely cruel to each other lol. If a plant is dominant it will kill all other plants around it if not kept in check.

edit: I bought into that global warming rubbish and the advice to “start planting tropical plants because it’s getting hotter and raining less” a few years back. My last tropical died 2 years ago and now have exactly zero in the garden. Well…1 in a pot..a canary palm (if you can call Spain the “tropics”) and even that is touch-and-go..had to revive it a few times.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m no gardener, but yes, I’ve heard of propagation by root cuttings

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Ok, the way you put it now I’d agree with you and you make some very good points, I have to admit. Sorry if I misread what you were saying and came across a bit aggressive. Was just reading some other threads (i.e. Sylvari bodily functions lol..omg) and read maybe more into it than I should have.

You are right, though. Plants should be respected, especially when they are so important in the terms of keeping a planet liveable for us mammals. Without them, we wouldn’t survive. I guess it would be the same on Tyria.

Though I still don’t think plants feel pain. Consider that some plants need to be cut down to soil level during wintering and not doing so could make the root ball rot. If the plant did feel pain cutting it back so drastically, surely it wouldn’t be beneficial to the plant?

Anyway, it’s hard to get emotional over a passive thing like a plant. A hobby of mine is to get half-dead plants from garden centres at knock down prices and make them flourish again. I don’t see this as “rescuing” as some call it, but just “grabing a bargain”. I have around a 90 per cent success rate…and have some real beauties now. I care about my plants but if something happens to one of them I think: “ kitten all that hard work wasted…what a pity”. On the other hand, my cat, who shows me affection, I treat and care about as I would any human being I care about. Plants: it’s hard to see them as more than mere decoration. Harsh but true.

p.s. “dead-heading” is removing dead or old flowers in order to promote new growth or prolong the flowering season. Usually used in roses.

..and this is why I never tell anyone I play MMOs. Ever.

This must be one of the most ridiculous threads I’ve ever read on the internets. I like plants, very much in fact and I know quite a lot about them having been into doing things in the garden for a few years now.. so when I read: “plants should be treated humanely”?! lol complete nonsense. I suspect most people commenting similar things to that have never planted or even watered a plant in their life.

Right, listen: have you ever heard of “propagation”? Plants can reproduce by “mutilation”. You cut a bit of the root off a living healthy plant and dah dah!, you get another one and the “mutilated” plant continues living. You can do the same with the shoots, branches or twigs in other plants. In fact the way to be “cruel” to a plant is to leave it as it is and never “mutilate” (prune) it. Dead-heading also, ever heard of it?

“Plants also do not appreciate being eaten”. Oh yeah? Berries are sweet and tempting to birds just so they ARE eaten and thus sown and propagated with the bird droppings. Not to mention leaves which are full of nutrients such as tea leaves, for instance.

Plants feel pain? Yeah because every time I prune my bay tree it shreeks really loudly. Come on…seriously.

As a noob (level 15 and new to the game), I find it very hard kiting with my ele because the auto-targetting locks onto a different target if I run around or roll so I have whole packs after me. The only way I can play it is by as you say “facetank” and so I concentrate on my healing abilities more than anything. Am I doing something wrong or is the game weak in the auto-targetting department?

7/10 Sounds like an NPC name, sorry, but it does. Still..a nice name so I gave you 4.

Just made another alt Sylvari with the name: Pota Toe.

edit: I gave you a higher score cos it’s a nice name but as the person below says I prefer humorous/novelty names as opposed to lore names..suppose it’s just preference.

1/10. “From” in Latin is “ex”. And the old Latin word for Ireland is “Hibernia”.

lol at post above. I personally made a Sylvari (my first) because I like plants and flowers in real life…but I’ll play anything in MMOs so..probably will play another race later on

ChibiLlama.6439:

Love it xD 10/10

I have two, Lullamoon, my Mesmer, and Aethila, my Ranger.
(They are in order)

Thanks. BTW I love your names, very imaginative and the second one very in keeping with the lore I think so ignore the meany who gave you 2/10, I give you 10/10.

My elementalist is called Prunemi. As in Prune me.

Just got the game, never played the first one; so all the lore is new to me. I personally found it (avatar) a nice touch, to be honest. It stands out from the rest of the Sylvari by being shimmering and golden, so why not? Again, without prior experience or “taste” of how this game’s lore should unfold. Though it would be the last thing I would complain about after zombies displaying karate moves and robots with robotic voices out of Fallout 3. lol. Joking aside, I like what this game does in terms of lore. You can tell they make an effort and I think it works really well from what I’ve seen so far. So thumbs up for the avatar from me.