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Yes, but it’s still a portal to the underworld. Needing to figure out how to make a one-way portal into a two-way portal (or a one-way portal in the other direction) is a much better position than not being able to make a portal at all.

In addition to the meeting with the Reaper of Grenth, Priestess Rhie makes an appearance in the Human personal story. She opens a portal (or three) to the Underworld and calls Alastia Crow’s spirit through it. It’s clearly very possible for humans to open portals to the Underworld, even outside of Grenth’s temple in Orr.

A couple of weeks ago, around the end of August, I completed the “Join the Iron Legion in Tearing Down the Ascalonian Wall” Renown Heart at Bloodfin Lake in Iron Marches. When I completed it, a Pact Victory Token appeared in my inventory as if I had looted it. This was on a character that completed the personal story almost a year ago, back in September or October ’12, when they added the tokens.

Just now, on a different character, I completed the “Help the Iron Legion disrupt Renegade operations” Renown Heart at Thunderbreak Hills in Fields of Ruin. When I completed it, a Hero’s Band appeared in my inventory as if I had looted it. Yes, the pre-order bonus ring. On a character that is, again, more than a year old.

I realise that my screenshots do not “prove” that completing the renown hearts is how I obtained these items, but it is what happened. I’m just quite confused as to how these things could occur, so I thought I would make this thread to see if anybody could shed some light on the matter.

It would be really cool to see a system for ‘archived’ achievements where it shows limited-time achievements that you completed, but it doesn’t show achievements that you don’t have. It would be a way to remember the achievements that don’t have a title tied to them without leaving those without the achievements feeling overly left out.

Edit: Wow, ninja’d. Well played, MithranArkanere.

Konig Des Todes.2086

@IsaacSin: THere’s a big difference between looking undead and being undead.

I was just using the same strategy as your examples of Kralkatorrik and Primordus, as below.

King Des Todes.2086

Does that mean that Kralkatorrik is crystal? Concept art of him, or that piece of him in GW1, certainly doesn’t look that way. Primordus in GW1 certainly doesn’t look to be made solely of fire.

Kaona.9105

http://www.arena.net/blog/inside-the-collectors-edition-making-of-gw2-book
The last picture on this page talks about Zhaitan being made up of other massive dragon parts. While this is the idea for the concept art, it was still the concept that the art that was modeled for Zhaitan.

Kaona, you just restated Konig’s last post. He cited the making of GW2 book, but pointed out that the book doesn’t state they’re dead dragons. Which, indeed, the image in your link doesn’t.

The title of the event is “Defeat Ulgoth the Modniir and his minions”, the boss’s name is “Champion Modniir Ulgoth”, and after the event is over Captain Edwards says “With the Ulgoth dead, the Modniir forces are broken.”

It is quite confusing, no?

Jolly Giant.2054:

I am having a similar issue with every GW2 RSS feed. I am trying to add them to My Yahoo page for easy access, but they all come up invalid URLs, including the main GW2 news RSS feed at: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/rss.xml

I think you’re getting the incorrect links, somehow. The main GW2 news RSS link is https://www.guildwars2.com/en/feed/ and it works for me in iGoogle and RSSOwl. The various subforums’ RSS links work for me as well, such as https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news.rss , and only the dev tracker RSS isn’t working.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The Arah explorable mode dungeon has tokens called Shard of Zhaitan with the quotation “A small piece of Zhaitan, forever dead.”

It seems more to me like it’s simply stating that the shard itself is dead. As in, the thousands of Shards of Zhaitan that are currently stored in peoples’ banks aren’t going to come to life and reform Zhaitan right in the middle of Lion’s Arch.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

You know, I really don’t get the argument behind the claim that Zhaitan is undead. Yes, he’s the Elder Dragon of undeath, but does that mean that Kralkatorrik is crystal? Concept art of him, or that piece of him in GW1, certainly doesn’t look that way. Primordus in GW1 certainly doesn’t look to be made solely of fire.

I don’t know, Zhaitan looks pretty undead when you see him in Arah Story. (Excuse my low graphics settings)

These things said, I don’t think Zhaitan is alive. It would feel pretty cheap if ANet is planning to say "All the races of Tyria have come together with the most advanced technology in history to fight the Elder Dragons... and you still can’t kill them."

Nihilus.3015:

We take down everything with ease. 2 gods, Abbadon has been killed, Dhuum has been defeated. The most powerful things in Tyria aren’t gods or Elder Dragons, its us. Sad sad stuff.

To be fair, Dhuum was just barely breaking free from his prison when he was forced back by the players. I doubt he was nearly as powerful then as he was before Grenth overthrew him.

This is definitely something that needs to be fixed. The Dev Tracker is probably the most important RSS feed on the forums for most people, aside from News and Announcements, and it doesn’t work.

While not a direct reference, I was quite alarmed by a very late branch of the Personal Story.

I believe what the Mist Warriors say is that they’re fighting for “control of the Mists”. That’s about it. The benefits gained by controlling the mists aren’t really expanded on at all as far as lore goes.

Masterpyro.4310:

I think taking out their botnets would be more effective than building a library of passwords that I hope to god you arent saving in plain text or that any of your employees can ever read

I’m sure it’s heavily protected, but even if it was posted on the front page of Google, what does it matter? It’s a list of passwords, not password-username combinations. It would be no more useful than a dictionary.

There are a few other servers that aren’t named after locations in Tyria, so my guess is that this is another example of that.

Server: Fort Aspenwood
Guild: Srsbsns[SrS]

As with many others after the maintenance an hour ago, my guild is showing 1/1 members and a “blank slate” devoid of any emblem, upgrades, influence, or even a guild tag.