Guild Wars 2

I ran shiro/glint after the patch, and I did notice it. A quarter of the time you get health back is a pretty big deal. And the CD of phase really killed the skill. If it could be used to travel else where I could understand, but the skill’s only purpose was to stick to a target. With the cool down its harder to get to someone, not to mention really killed the fun of the skill :/

I use shield for the extra health boost and block skill 5 uses. Offhand sword seemed more designed for pvp. Axe maybe, but most of the damage is from skill 1, so extra attack skills didn’t seem that useful, although the pull might be useful in some situations.

I felt the same way at first, but it does make sense about wanting to repeat it. but maybe bringing it back up a few notches would be a good deal

Most of these are answered, but I wanted to throw my thoughts in.

1.
The details on what the Elder Dragons (EDs) are or how they came to be are unknown. But since it is inferred that Glint was on the verge of becoming an ED, then the ED’s are just dragons, but really old and strong. EDs also seem to act like sponges, absorbing magic from the world while awake, and then bleeding it out as they sleep.

2.
There are 6 known ED’s. Some have pointed out that its weird that 5 of the 6 (no idea where Bubbles the Deep Sea Dragon is) are located on just one continent, when we know there are two other full sized continents out there and probably more. So its possible there are other ED’s out there somewhere. As for normal dragons, a lot. Although most normal dragons seemed to be tied to an ED, glint was shown to be able to exist without that tie, and in the first game there was another full grown dragon in Cantha, and we do not yet know if it had an ED or not.

3.
It would be more accurate to say the areas themselves represent the ED, not the other way around. EDs corrupt the area around them, so the areas show the EDs elements.

4.
All of them, except for zhiatan.

5. Teq is special for three reasons. First off, the devs wanted to have a special hard fight and Teq was selected. On a more lore based note, Teq was one of zhiatans champions so he started out strong. And after Zhiatan was killed, his magic bled from his corpse and flooded the system (the world). Teq absorbed alot of this magic, and could have possibly been on his way to becoming an ED.

6.
The actual strengths and weaknesses of the Elder Dragons aren’t really known. Some of their abilities and methods are known (Primordious makes minions from rock, while zhiatan makes them from corpses, while Jormag bribes people with the promise of power, while Mordremoth grows them). Whether their actual strength differs is unknown. Plus some have been awake for longer( primordious for 200 years vs Bubbles for 50), so its unknown if their time spent awake and absorbing magic makes them stronger. Zhiatan was defeated, if I understand correctly (it wasn’t really explained in game, one of the asuran personal story missions shows a guy that build an anti dragon weapon), by poisoning/corrupting magic and then blasting zhiatan with it, he absorbed it like the sponge he was and the poison weakened/killed him.

Has ANET explained anything about the player revenant origins? Were we a different class that turned into a revenant? Or we were a slumbering revenant that only got our powers when Rytlock showed up? Although that would have issues with how we became pact commander.

Only Sylvari hear it?? that’s so cool. I only played a sylvari so I didn’t notice it.

The book Edge of Destiny, we’re given a glimpse into Kralk’s mind, which shows that it is intelligent. The force of nature part comes from its unquenchable hunger as well as its power (turn into a sandstorm). Kralk is capable of intelligent thought and decision making, but animalistic and base in its urge, its ravenous hunger for magic. Presumably the other dragons would be capable of the same.

On the note of Mordy becoming so powerful after Zhaitan’s death, his being powerful is a result of his awakening. All the dragons woke with a bang before calming down to what they are. Mordy isn’t stronger, he’s doing what the rest did. This was the reason for the pact’s rash attack, they wanted to kill Mordy to prevent his full awakening with would come with a sudden outburst.

A legendary backpiece would be nice. It would take away the issue of dealing with ascended armor, and it would be a nice place to have a flashy cosmetic affect. Could change it up further by altering the crafting process. Instead of RNG there could be a set challenge to complete for the precursor, and the crafting profession used could change the color.