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We will make a wall to border Grove and sylvari will pay for it /s
I wouldn’t expect an indicative action from other races regarding the percieved sylvari problem. It is true that sylvari can increase their numbers much faster than other races, but they do so via Pale Tree. It would be a simple matter for someone in the higher ups to hire a group of bomber/assassins/“renegades” to finish off the already weakened Pale Tree. With Pale Tree dead, there would be no new sylvari and they would fall into chaos – Nightmare Court could make their move towards “securing” the future of rest of the sylvari in their vision and create a civil war. From then on, its much easier to wipe out any remaining sylvari, officials can just say that Nightmare Court had taken over completely and they were eliminated, and with noone to say otherwise they would actually be seen as heroes.
TL;DR – If anyone decided to wipe the sylvari out, all they have to do is press 1 targeting Pale Tree.
And now you’d have all those countless Sylvari backed into a corner, betrayed by their allies, and now with the dying screams of their mother echoing in their minds.
Congratulations, you just started a genocidal war that will see massive swathes of Tyria rendered uninhabitable. Because remember Malyck? There’s other pale trees.
I’d rather not have Guild Wars be yet another game infected by the WH40**** blight.
As people have said, internment – let alone genocide – would not have been the best solution.
In the short term, you’re taking resources away from the fight against Mordremoth in an already desperate situation and putting them towards imprisoning or, to go the whole hog on your suggestion, executing a portion of your own forces. Best case possible scenario, they sit quietly and you’ve lost those forces plus whatever you assign to guard them. Worst case scenario, you push them to Mordremoth and you get exactly what you were trying to prevent. Somewhere in between is the scenario where they all go Nightmare Court.
In the long term, such behaviour against the sylvari is going to have long-term ramifications – you would basically be kissing the alliance between the Pact and the sylvari goodbye. Even the Pale Tree probably wouldn’t be able to bring them back on board after that sort of mistreatment. Once the word got out, there’s a good chance that the sylvari would close their borders Dominion of Winds-style, or, again, go fully Nightmare Court and actively declare war on their neighbours in revenge. Either way, the Pact has lost what, after the death of Mordremoth, will probably become once more their most incorruptible source of soldiers.
The actions that you’re talking about was probably the least bad option. Splitting sylvari off into autonomous sylvari-only units like the Pale Reavers that aren’t part of your main strategy means that:
1) They’re still fighting for you as long as they’re able to continue resisting Mordremoth, even if they’re not part of your battle plans.
2) If they succumb, they’re not in a position to fifth-column your other units.
3) Worst-case scenario, an entire unit goes at once… and then it’s just another bunch of Mordrem wandering the jungle. It’s not like there was a shortage.
Even worse, isolating or attacking the Sylvari as a whole would immediately start a war that Tyria could ill afford. They’d dig in and fight for every inch of ground the other races push them off of. In a choice between genocide and imprisonment at the hands of allies that just betrayed them, the Sylvari would /fight/. Especially since the future of their people would officially be on the line. If anything, attempting to control or kill the Sylvari people would galvanize the Dreamers, Soundless and Nightmare Court into a single cohesive whole, with a big slant towards that last group since now they’d be backed into a corner and standing alone.
I will admit though, that would be one hell of a storyline. Just imagine a chapter where Faolin wasn’t killed off, and instead she and her Court are welcomed by Caithe and the others as badly needed reinforcements. Especially after betrayals and battles that would feed a sea of sorrow and rage into the dream, with a still weakened Pale Tree powerless to stop it.
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Sylvari are creepy. Perhaps i missed something but here are some points:
Edit: one more point:
- Wyld hunts are just clever disguised orders, which are so strong, the sylvari will die to fullfill them.
You realize that the majority of any self-respecting soldier in the field will sacrifice their lives to accomplish an important mission, if they have to, right? It’s something that comes with the uniform. It doesn’t even take mind control, just merely knowing the stakes and choosing to put ones duty first.
Were I married or in such a serious relationship, and the person I loved went as evi las Faolin, and on my watch, not only would I fall out of love pretty kitten quick, I’ put them down personally.
I trust Caithe even less now than I did before. And since I stopped trusting her at all before I even got to Orr, that means it’s in negative values, and she’s required to trust me more to make up for it. She’s completely undermined and compromised, proven to be utterly unreliable, and entirely too arrogant to be of any use to anyone, even herself. Certainly not her own people or anyone else in Tyria.
If I had my way she wouldn’t just be in a cell or under constant guard, she’d be dead.
TD is a decent concept in theory, but failed in execution. It is a labyrinth that is tightly packed with extremely dangerous enemies, which make navigation hard, except there’s one big problem: You have no reason to go into those labyrinths.
The reality of Tangled Depths is that it is a fairly generic map structure with complicated labyrinths tacked on to the sides. Once you get to Ley-Line Confluence Waypoint the entire map is pretty linear. You just head down the labeled tunnel to get to the respective labeled waypoints. The hardest part from there is figuring out whether you go up or down to get to an event from that respective waypoint.
Oh, there are plenty of confusing paths and mazes in the map, but there’s no reason to go into them. All of the big and important events are usually tethered to Confluence Waypoint, or one of the respective main waypoints in the map, so if you find your bearings there, you’ve basically explored the whole map. The Nuhoch wallows trivialize pretty much everything else from there.
Exactly this – TD is a mess – and it’s a mess because of bad design.
Most of the times it’s not clear if you’re supposed to go up, down or in case you do know – how to get there.
The minimap doesn’t work with the layers well either.If a player can’t figure out how to get to an event don’t you think the player deserves to miss out? Players need to get lost and die more often and I hope to see more in the next expansion.
I detest TD thus far. One wrong turn and boom, dead. One RIGHT turn, and boom, dead.
“Players need to get lost and die more often?”
I’ll put this simply. I don’t have tons of time to play or grind, or treat anything other than my job like a job. My time is more important that some else’s sense of digital accomplishment. I play GW2 because it’s fun, fast, flexible and accessible. If I wanted to blow hours of time on frustration, I’d be playing Allods.
“Slash and Bash Trading Company.”
“Angry Fisters.”
“Pillage and Burn.”
“Flaming Dragon ***holes.”
“Murderhobos Inc.”
I play a lot of tabletop D&D, and all of those have been group names at one time or another. I can /absolutely/ seeseveral of my characters fighting under such a banner.
I don’t understand why I need “Pact Crowbars” anyway. My character swings a hammer as large as she is tall.
ADDENDUM: Your filter is stupid, ANet.
So, as someone that loves his warrior and never PvPs due to total apathy and lack of anything that can even be considered interest…my Pv*E* utility has been smashed. Because a single group of screeching, bunnyhopping attack mashers had their little girl panties in a wad over warrior being mean to them. PvPers scream, PvEers pay.
I thought this /wasn’t/ World of Warcraft?
So. Who thought these changes were a good idea, and why are they still employed?
Great. I was looking forward to this storyline, and it gets cut. Why? Why the hell was the story cut up and screwed with? Was it to appease the chicoms or something? Was the storyline too dark for state sponsored feel good moments?
I’m not liking the new destiny’s edge (lower case intentional) replacements that much either. Quite frankly, if I wanted a pair of women gushing over each other to the point of distraction while they leave getting work done to others, I’d go read Final Fantasy fiction. I don’t give a whit about Anets GMPC’s. It reeks of White Wolf level railroading and bad writing.
All in all, I’d like /some/ attention paid to the PC for a kitten change. Not a passing line of dialog, not being referred to GMPC #1631345’s “friend” and not as “just another adventurer.” We are incredibly deadly, frighteningly capable, world-shaking engines of Getting Kitten Done, and some acknowledgement of that would be nice as a player.
But as things are now, the new group of DM created special snowflakes are just replacements for the last group of them. But while destiny’s edge are a pack of simpering morons more interested in teenage drama and blame games than they are of doing their jobs, the new group are too busy flirting and necking in the bushes to be of any use.
Enough of this. Get them out of the way so the professionals can gets things done already.
Show, don’t tell. You can talk about the PC being a commander and doing commander things somewhere else all you want. It’s not shown in game, since it goes from Zhaitan, to Scarlet, to whatever is going on now, and apparently we only actually had a hand in the first one. Everything else happens offscreen and the PC we’re playing is just some random sideliner taking part in the writers characters’ story.
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Hopefully they’re holed up in their capitals pretending to be useful from now on. If I want a group of simpering idiots to get in the way and put their own interpersonal drama before fighting the kitten war that threatens to wipe out all life, I’ll be sure to let them know.
Otherwise, I’ll get a group of actual professionals, rather than a flock of grandstanding adult children.
what do you mean, any beginner insert class player can hop into a match and perform 40% of insert class main. easy exp, thief, necro, engi, guardian, ele, ranger
No.
Example:
These 2 enemy warriors in the video (the second one comes in later, making it a 1v3 briefly) should be dead right from the get-go due to making so many mistakes. Within 20 seconds of engaging in the fight with me, they made so many errors that it would be difficult to list them all, but the fact is they didn’t die right away. They survived for an extremely long time when they should not have. The current design of the warrior is carrying these beginner players, when it should be player skill that carries the player – not the class.
/Narrows eyes
So, nerf PvE flexibility to salve the ego of PvP.
WoW is over that way. —>
For the humans to finally stop screwing around with the centaurs. The verminous scum are raiding all the way up the the gates of Divinitys Reach, and it’s long past time for the Queen to unleash the army to kill people and break things. Even better if the other races look on with their own reactions.
Vermillion Frost is..interesting. 6/10 for me, because to me it sounds more like a title than a name.
Four of my five characters are Sylvari, but at the moment I’m only playing the eldest and youngest.
First is Cyadni, a Tier 1 asset with the Order of Whispers for infiltration and assassination. Kicking in the door with her two pistols, or dragging a foe down with her knives, she’s high speed death from any direction.
“One strike is all I need.”
Second is my newest, Vadoni, She’s a fiery little whip of a lass that swings a hammer as long as she is tall, when she’s not raining blazing death on her foes with her longbow. She’s as subtle as her sledgehammer and likes it that way.
“You. Me. Bushes. Lets have some fun before we go wreck someone’s day, ya?”
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If Caithe does betray us, I won’t be surprised. And I hope it gets written that the PC isn’t either, but merely saddened that now we have to kill her, and says such ingame.
Given that one of my favorite fiction armors of all time is XCOM:EW’s Titan Armor with a fully armored helmet, I vastly prefer non-skimpy and properly proportioned and functional armor. Smooth lines, little if any artsy stuff, and obviously meant for a balance between protection and mobility.
So, I voted the last option on the list. I love proper armor, and I want to see more of it on all levels.
…The doesn’t trust Caithe at all? And I say this as a diehard Sylvari player. All the little hints that get dropped, her past, the way she carries herself, and the mother of them all, the Vision of Orr, all add up.
It well and truly irks me that there’s no way to call her on being completely compromised and untrustworthy. Sure, she may be innocent, and I want to think that, but wartime is no time for idealism. The vision was something that “could” happen, but may or may not, I’ll grant that. But quite frankly anyone even giving passing thought to flipping sides at this juncture shouldn’t be privy to the details of whats going on. Especially with the Nightmare Court, in regards to Caithe.
I trust her about as far as my character could throw Zhaitan. You’re either in the war and on the right side %100 or you’re not, and neither the player character nor all of Tyria has time for anyone under that percentage. It’s either the firing line or a cell and under investigation, in my book.
…But maybe all this is just me going for the Order of Whispers first and foremost.
This goes hand in hand with my general contempt to Destiny’s Edge, bat at least with the others it’s a reaction to their general childishness rather than being suspect.
So. Anyone else feel even somewhat the same?
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I’ve been on hiatus since around Aprim 24th, and returned today. However, I’ve hit a snag while downloading the latest updates. Everything ran fine until it got to the last file. Now, the launcher/downloader is sitting at 1 file remaining, and not downloading. Sitting a 0.00/second. After closing the launcher and opening it up again, same thing. Downlaod says %100, but there’s one file remaining, and the Play button is still grayed out.
I can log in, and the little video than can play on the right side of the launcher has the little loading swirl spinning, but thats it.
Kryta – Constantinople
Istanbul
Are you Turkish? If not it’s none of your business.
except that elves do not appear in any GW lore that I can remember. Why would you add a race that did not exist in any GW lore just because? Sylvari at least have the Pale tree from GW.
doesnt matter, still elves > all your lore
Sylvari are superior to mere elves.
You realize that plants feed on the decayed remains of their fallen fellows, right?
Absolutely amazing. Anyone saying otherwise will draw the wrath of Rayban Rytlock and his air guitar.
I completely agree with the OP. The Super Adventure Box had (and will have, once I’m back form work) me grinning like an idiot the whole time playing. The 8-bit midi music, the awesome world and art (all you Playstation-era kiddies can just go to hell. It looks awesome) and the gripping storyline is great. Interfere with MY picnic will you?! You and me, you kitten! One on one!
Only thing that would make it better is a proper rectangular controller (and some holographic Dagger skins. Seriously. What the hell?)
I’ve discovered a bug though. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A <spacebar>, <Enter> isn’t working. :P
PVP
No leaderboard.
Qp “was” worthless
Emotes gained by time spent ig
Lol e-sport remember?
0 streamer.
Well pvp is dead anywayPVE
Legendaries made with TP = RMT
No end game (Fractal lvl maybe?)
No guild progression.WvW
No Rewards/Title/Leaderboard
GvG
Lol no gvg in guild wars 2
To me this is intendend and nicely made by Anet. We all know why.
/discuss, rant
And people wonder why That Other MMO still lives after eight years. Players like this one.
I love and adore my Sylvari rifleman warrior. I can barely hear her cheers and one liners over the hail of gunfire, but she’s just so cute, perky and cheery. I love everything about the whole race.
Haven’t seen much of other NPC’s aside from the flighty Warden outside Annwyn and Caithe, oh, and the idiot that went traitor because his lover did. But so far they’ve all been great.
…as an aside, do Sylvari ever meet Asura that aren’t total ***holes? Thus far I’ve had to deal with three, and I’ve wanted to hit all of them between the eyes with my rifle stock.
BAM
There’s two IQ points gone!
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And another two!
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And again!
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I like female 7. It’s the face my warrior uses.
I bought the game not even two days ago, coming out of WoW. Never played GW1 and knew very little about the lore of the world, but was drawn to the Sylvari because they seemed to be completely different from everything I’ve ever played before, and I’m in no way disappointed. I love how they’re portrayed, from the classical “elven” fey-like existence to their wonder and almost naive view of the world. I even enjoy how their darker sides are explored with the Nightmare Court and to an equal extent (thus far at level10) with Caithe’s cold and jaded aloofness contrasted with the PC’s heroic persona.
I hope to see and work more with Caithe. She strikes me as similar to a fresh-out-of school young adult that’s been burned while still being sheltered, reacting the only way their limited experience allows them to know. It makes me want to crack that cold exterior open and help her love life again.