There is absolutely going to be Halloween this year. The Mad King wouldn’t miss out on an opportunity to come back and share his latest batch of terrible jokes. And open a spot for you in his lovely tower.
With the first update for October hitting on the 1st, the next update afterward would hit with plenty of time to spare before Mad King’s day.
I read this and had one thought:
“Tick tock goes the (Mad Kings) Clock(tower), it’s time for time to stop!”
I will look forward to seeing it go from 600g down to 59 in a few weeks
Keep in mind that the ascended gear we have seen so far all have been introduced to give the players insentive to play the content themselves, by making it all account bound. I am assuming anet sticks to this procedure with tequatl too.
On the other hand though, they also gave us the option to sell and buy ascended gear on the trade post, yet nothing is tradeable yet. This might be the introduction on that :P
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Im pretty sure that greatsword is the Ascended weapon that has already been released.
It has the exact same model, but the only difference is the cloud on it. The cloud could just be a poison cloud and we are seeing it at an odd angle or something to that effect.
If that is actually the new GS, then Anet did a really poor job and just added a black cloud on top of an existing skin.
Go check out the video yourself Trust me when i say the cloud followed the weapon, this picture was just the clearest and closest i could get.
While rewatching the pax stream on tequatl again (yes i’ve watched it a few times), i noticed something peculiar that they don’t actually seem to intend to show.
And since i haven’t seen anyone else on the forum spot this – i figured you guys might like a picture of the upcoming (Teq only) asc greatsword, enjoy
Ps. Yes, it glows with those dark clouds you see!
First of all i would like start out by acknowledging the fact that what you are about to read, might just as well be yet another crack pot theory! And bear in mind that, yes i did notice the positive words used to describe the secret of the speech. But one can always hope, right? So hear me out.
So ever since QJ started i’ve been wondering about one simple thing: Why build SO many Watchwork knights for the sole purpose of training the heros of tyria? Seems there are endless numbers of them since we keep slaugtering them in the pavilion, which to me seems like a huge waste of resources since the real mobs still can be found all over Tyria.
WHAT IF, the pavilion wasn’t meant to be combat training for us (though the guantlet did leave me with newfound skills after i finished it). WHAT IF, the pavilion was really combat training for the Watchwork knights? Making them more reliable and finely tuned for the real action?
To sumarize my theory (or rather hope) before moving on: what if Queen Jenna, in her big speech, declares war and calls on the heros of Tyria to fight alongside her own Watchwork knights against the next elder dragon(s)?
By that i dont mean they’ll launch an expansion any time soon (notice that it’s not mentioned as an imidiate game changer), just that we’ll start working towards a KNOWN goal/objective of to the living story.
We have, ever since the living story began, been working towards something bigger. We now have Kiel, a captain of the council (and the rest of the council i presume?) with the technology of the aetherblades at her hands, a character that we the players voted to lead us (somewhere). We have the watchwork knights from the Queen, strong machines that yield no casualties on our behalf, just a lot of gold spend producing them (but the queen seem to have endless supplies of that, so who cares). We have all new loveable and interesting characters like; Rox, Braham, Marjory and Kasmeer. And i believe more additions will come in time, though i believe that beginning to mass produce these watchwork knights would be a good way to start preparing for the assault.
Imagine this to be true:
Now with the end of culling in pve we would see amazingly huge armies march towards the battlefield. Over the dunes of ancient Elona to “little” kralky, or the tundras of the shiverpeaks to the slay Jormag (imagine the biggest “golem” rush ever seen, and you pretty much get the jest).
These Watchwork knights will yield no sacrifice or casualties. We would now have armies on the ground and ships in the air? How much more prepared would we need to be to kill the next dragons?
Also since Trehearnes wyld hunt has ended, we also need a new warmarshal (or what?). If not Kiel, could the queen not be our next warmarshal of the pact? Maybe she’s not as fragile as Logan might have us believe. She certainly has the influence, power and respect from all the races (also i like the queen more than kiel, partly given the fact that i was part of Team Gnashblade ;p)
To conclude: Yes i know this might seem far out, given that it is more likely that the speech will refer to “simple” future living stories (though this has been hyped to be quite enourmous). Yet a tiny hope flickered when i read that the speech would be game changing!
Then again, she might “just” announce the scavenger hunt with the upcoming treasure maps… that would be game changer too i guess, and still stay in the positive wording of the speech.
Any loop holes in my “theory”, ideas, thoughts or theories as to what this also might be, will be greatly appreciated!
