Guild Wars 2

You should either re-post or move this to the bugs forum.

Oglaf.1074:

As I’ve said repeatedly, this is partly not about how the Sylarvi look at it.

From the perspective of the other races’ (and ours, the human race outside of the game) they are all practicing incest.

Allow me to agree, and disagree. I see where you’re coming from. Yes, if the other races heard us all calling each other “brother” and “sister” then their immediate reaction would be “omg incest”… and then they get some education. See, with this line of thinking (now that a Dev has clarified), the phrase “check yourself before you wreck yourself” should be applied to these poor, ignorant, (fictional) fools.

They aren’t actually brothers and sisters. The whole Grove functions… kinda like a cult.

Lets use what could very well be a real-world example.

• There is a city with a bunch of people. These people have all experienced the same life-altering event. These people have a “leader” that they call “Mother.” These people regularly share with Mother the experiences that leave the strongest imprint in their memories and emotions. Mother then shares the strongest of these with all her other “children” (her followers), usually minus the actual person involved (just the event), and all the “children” have a sense of being connected to one another; like they’ve all shared in the experience of the individual.

Basically, the Sylvari have a pretty nifty little religious cult going on. They call each other “Brother” and “Sister” similarly to how the Russians used the term “comrade.” So, once the other races catch on to this, they’re not looking at us funny because they think we’re committing incest; they’re looking at us funny because we’re a religious cult with a loose-canon sect of BDSM fanatics attempting a coup d’etat of the whole organization.

Toxyn.9608:

So if Sylvari are children of “Mother Earth”, why would Tyria birth this species now? If they are a natural defense against the Elder Dragons, why were they not birthed for the previous awakenings? Doesn’t add up.

Forgive me if my lore is off. o.O;; Here is my logical progression/theories on the matter.

• Ronan found the seed(s) abandoned in a hidden cave.
• The last Elder Dragon rampage was nearly/over 1000 years ago.
• 1000 years would be plenty of time for a species birthed by the will of the land and existing largely to combat the Elder Dragons to extinguish themselves after their task(s) are done.
• Very, very little information remains from the last Awakening. (As it stands, pretty much all the surviving races from the last one either had to become martyrs, or devolved to the point where they can no longer maintain records of history.)
• Tyria is a world of a cyclical nature between destruction and creation.
• Several Wyld Hunts of notable (and not-so-notable) Sylvari have been “cleansing” and renewing the land.
• (This point I’m not so sure about, but:) No information is available about the actual origins of the Pale Tree’s seed (what created it, it’s “mother”, etc.), or its/her process of reproduction.

Following this logic its quite possible that the Sylvari are the agents of regeneration provided by Tyria itself as part of the death/rebirth process. You don’t ever really kill the dragons “once and for all,”… you just kinda bother them until they stop moving… for the next 1000 years.

Add on to that the posited theory that had the Pale Tree not had contact with Ventari and Ronan the “tree children” would have a form other than humanoid, and you get some interesting thought-food about what other forms they might take. (Perhaps the Pinesoul/Mossheart/Oakheart?)

What if the Pale Tree is destroyed? Would that cut the Sylvari off from the Dream? Would it kill them as well? Additionally… you find out through one of the story paths that Sylvari born from a different tree have a completely different Dream. Without the Dream would they degrade into nothing more than beast-like plants? (Cough-nightmarevines/wurms-cough)

Oh, man, I know exactly how you feel. I wish -desperately- that the TA pants looked different on males and females… I love the plant-themed stuff, but at the same time I want to look deadly, not fluffy. >.< (Heck, the TA Heavy Pants would be perfect.)

At any rate, I’m a big fan of the Exotic Karma sets, as well as the Masquerade stuff.

The first 4 pictures are of the Godly set, with 2 different colorings. (I run as a support Ele most of the time, so I like the Earth and Water feel of the second coloring, but the first coloring lets me show off my Rare Dye. XD)

The third set is my “Today I feel like &^$%#@&^$ people up,” outfit. (Or if I’m feeling naughty; but that’s neither here nor there.) The TA stuff is pretty frilly in it’s entirety, but that mask makes it look a lot more… disturbing. It’s the Hero Mask (Mhenlo, or Ogden, or something like that), TA Chest, shoulders, and gloves, and then T2 Pants, T1 boots. (When I can afford it, I may swap out the Shoulders for the T3.)

Anyway, hope that gives you some ideas. Again I’d like to stress how much I want the TA Heavy pants… -sigh-.

Q: “Churning Earth” (Earth Attunement dodge) is supposed to apply the bleeds (like the weapon skill indicates), correct?

*If so, then it is not.

As the title says, please implement the ability to save various configurations of graphics settings.

For those of us with limited graphics cards and/or older PCs, it becomes necessary to adjust our graphics based on what we are currently (or planning on) doing. The pre-set ones are often okay, but having to fine-tune them every time one decides to switch from solo-PvE to WvW (and vice versa) is a problem that (seems) to have a simple enough solution: user-customized profiles.

Any additional comments, feedback, or especially additional votes for this idea would be appreciated.;;