I bought Heart of Thorns this morning on DVD (I prefer a physical product) and installed it. When I go on Heart of Thorns and try to create a Revenant it’s dark and the game says "Upgrade to Heart of Thorns to unlock the revenant profession. So what do I need to do to upgrade my Heart of Thorns to Heart of Thorns? (not a mistake in that last sentence
)
Showing Posts For Rangtsulfatu.8042:
I’ve found the secret passage from LA to the Chantry of Secrets but I noticed a small problem with it.
If you enter from LA you can return to LA, but you can also exit to Bloodtide Coast and the Straits of Devestation, but if you enter from either, there is no way back to LA. Can we get an new passage from the Chantry to LA please?
I’m doing the heart “help Cesseilia defend and research the oasis” in Bloodtide Coast and every time I give ingredients to Cesseilia for my potion I can’t move anymore and have to log out to fix this. Simply dropping the potion doesn’t help. It doesn’t seem to affect anyone else.
The Melandru statue in Cursed Shore, near the temple of Grenth, is both contested and uncontested at the same time.
Since it’s closest to the temple of Grenth, which is at the moment uncontested, the statue should be uncontested as well. And according to the map it is.
When you come near it however, you see the green fog and when you enter the fog, the brambles hurt you as if the statue were contested (note: The temple of Melandru is contested).
LIONS ARCH: You choose the future!
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Rangtsulfatu.8042
I kinda like to see the ruin change into a new city slowly. With each update have some rubble removed, some new walls go up, some bridges fixed, maybe a few people move back in, but not become a full city like the old LA until a big expansion comes up. That way the new LA could make use of new stuff that comes with the expansion (guild halls?, gates to a new continent?,…?)
Also, it would make sense to have multiple building styles. The first LA was Krytan build, with human style buildings. No other races were living there anyway. After it’s destruction, pirates took over and rebuild it in a pirate style along with some old buildings that weren’t destroyed. Since, it has, as we all know, become the capital of tyria, with at least 10 races calling it there permanent home (all playable and minor races could be found there, 3 more races were visiting) so it would make sense for all of them to have a stake in rebuilding it. Alongside, of course, the remaining buildings from LA1 (Fort Mariner,…) and LA2
Megaserver is supposed to put you in a map that makes sense for you. (with friends, guild members or people that speak the same language) My friends weren’t online and I’m not part of any decent guild so I should have ended up in a Dutch speaking Black Citadel, but instead I ended up in a map where people spoke some sort of gibberish. (kinda looked like French) If that how it’s going to be when all of tyria goes megaserver, I’m just gonna quit this game.
Everyone seems to forget why this game is GW2 and not just an other expansion on GW1. They started a whole new game because some of their plans just didn’t fit into the lore. So the next race(s) will have to fit in. Races that don’t want to work with the current playable races, like tengu, kodan or largos are not the obvious choice. Their position may change in the future and I do expect the tengu to become playable some day, but they won’t be the next race.
I think the next race will be a race that is at war with the dragons and working with the playable races, so the minor races seem most likely. They may seem/be dumb or strange, but for RPers that’s just an other interesting thing to work with and for non-RPers, what does it matter? You don’t RP anyway.
They seem unpopular on this site, but on my server everyone seems to love skritt and quaggan so I guess they could be concidered to be in the pool. I for one can’t wait to play as a skritt.
Wow, for a post that started out so well you tanked fast. The Tengu WERE not ready to work with us, but by the time they release them as a playable race they’ll be ready.
It isn’t a question of if, it’s a question of when. Like I said before, the zones already exist, they just need to link them for us. You can see them quite clearly on the map, both a city and a starter area. The Kodan and the Largos are also in a position to be willing to play with the other races, they just need the story to explain what tipped the scale.
The lesser races can’t make sense because of the personal story because they have to be convinced to help by the orders. What we need are races outside of the story ready to commit and the Tengu, Largos and Kodan are ready, they just need to be tipped. But only the Tengu are actually in a position to become a legitimate playable race right now.
I think the lesser races make sense because of the personal story. They already have the story that shows us what tipped the scales for them. I expect the next personal story to involve a quest to establish a better relationship between Tengu and the other races, which would seem weird when you are a Tengu already.
We should also keep in mind Coriolis Plaza, which has 6 new Asura gates. Assuming the Tengu don’t need one because Dominion of the Winds is directly adjacent to LA that leaves 7 new races in Tyria (the continent). My guess would be Skritt, Quaggan, Hylek, Grawl and Ogre because of the personel story and because they already live in LA, Tengu because anet has mentioned the were concidered as playable before and Kodan because they seem most likely to be the seventh.
Races that don’t have their capital in Tyria seem more likely to be added after their continent becomes available, like Largos, who live in the unending ocean between Tyria and Cantha.
Everyone seems to forget why this game is GW2 and not just an other expansion on GW1. They started a whole new game because some of their plans just didn’t fit into the lore. So the next race(s) will have to fit in. Races that don’t want to work with the current playable races, like tengu, kodan or largos are not the obvious choice. Their position may change in the future and I do expect the tengu to become playable some day, but they won’t be the next race.
I think the next race will be a race that is at war with the dragons and working with the playable races, so the minor races seem most likely. They may seem/be dumb or strange, but for RPers that’s just an other interesting thing to work with and for non-RPers, what does it matter? You don’t RP anyway.
They seem unpopular on this site, but on my server everyone seems to love skritt and quaggan so I guess they could be concidered to be in the pool. I for one can’t wait to play as a skritt.
Same bug here. It does take the relics after a few (or many, like I had today) tries. Made me miss out on 14 relics though.
True thing that asura’s are intelligent and still don’t get along.
Then again you don’t need multiple Asura’s to get the intelligence.
Skritt need other Skritts to increase their intelligence. A skritt killing another skritt is like an Asura asking to kill his intelligence. There are no Asura’s killing their intelligence.
Difference is that Asura value intelligence. Al long as intelligence isn’t shiny, Skritt don’t. If a Skritt wants a shiny, he’d just as easily trade it for it’s own brain, so I don’t think he would mind killing an other Skritt for it.
- Evil races: Except for the Krait, I haven’t seen one inherently evil race. (keep in mind that I never played GW1) Of some races we haven’t seen any good ones, but that is mostly because the playable races are allies of their mortal enemies and by extension also their enemies. Centaurs are at war with humans and Dredge were once enslaved by the Dwarves. Keep in mind that Humans and Charr were mortal enemies not to long ago as well. If they can settle their differences, why not Centaurs or Dredge?
There even is one Centaur living in Lion’s Arch who was banished from his tribe for suggesting to make peace with the humans.
The centaurs aren’t inherently evil, they just despise humans with a passion, thus making them unplayable until the centaurs and humans make up for it.
So, basicly the same reason why the Charr will never ever become a playable race?
I never said the will become a playable race, nor did I say I would like it. I just said we can’t yet rule them out completely.
- Unintelligent races: Except for the Skritt, none of the races are less intelligent than the current playable once. They may have different habits or a different way of speaking, but so are the differences between us humans in the real world. Don’t forget how white people used to treat black and Asian people. Calling a Hylek or a Quaggan dumb is just as racist as calling an African bushman dumb.
As for Skritt. They have shown to be capable enough to help the players fight Zhaitan in Orr, so we can assume, however dumb they may be on their own, they are still not to dumb to be a playable race.I can’t believe you honestly played the racism card for a video game species and compared it to real life racism. Just that alone throws your argument out the window in my opinion, but I will continue on about this point as if you hadn’t said that.
The differences between the lesser species (skritt, hylek, ogres, quaggan and grawl) and the greater species (the 5 playable races) are pretty massive.
Comparitively, the norn are the closest culture wise to the lesser species, but they still have a hell of a lot more political impact than the lesser races, alongside an improved intelligence over the lesser races and, admittedly, their far superior strength and the hero aspect that all norn carry.
Hylek only have their alchemical mastery with poisons and antidotes to contribute to other races. Their society and cutures aren’t as advanced as the greater races. Their tribes can almost never cooperate, and as the wiki states, the hylek fall short in every aspect except their mastery of poisons and antidotes.
Skritt are only intelligent in large numbers, thus making individual skritt really dumb and making them unplayable at the same time.
The Quaggan’s entire society is mostly peace based, they rarely get into combat because of their destructive ‘alter egos’ that they, as a society, try to keep from coming out. They’ve even surrendered just to avoid fighting. While the quaggan do help in the personal story, they as a society would rather avoid fighting.
The grawl simply have no uniting factors and they’re scavengers too. While they can be helpful, i doubt they’d ever, as a race, become an aid in any kind of warfare. I doubt the grawl even have adventurer types.
Ogres are slightly above the grawl in cultural advancements and intelligence, but they still don’t have the intelligence that the other races have.
Again, you seem to mis my point. First of all, I compare to the real world because I can’t find anything in the game to compare to. And second, there isn’t much in the game that is not based on real world races. Norn culture = Viking culture, Hylek culture = Mayan culture, Grawl culture = bushmen culture,…
What I was trying to say was that just because they are not “evolved” like the playable races doesn’t mean they are to dumb to get evolved.
That said I’d like to give a list of races I think might become playable in the future:
- Skritt
- Quaggan
- Hylek
- Grawl
- Ogre
- Kodan
- Tengu
- Troll
- Centaur
- Largos
- Dredge
- Dwarves
- Jotun
- Forgotten
- Mursaat
- Seers
I never said I want these races to become playable. I said I see no evidence to completely rule them out. Maybe future expansions will give us more information about these races so we can rule them out. Of course I don’t want half of them to become playable because I don’t think they will add anything to the game. But I won’t complain if they add the (in my opinion) wrong race.
I think most of the arguments given why a race could never become playable are completely wrong themselves.
- Customization: The only race confirmed to have been a candidate for playable race in the current game all look identical as well. All white birds with black pony tales. The fact that they all look identical now just means they haven’t been further developed, which they will be when/if they become playable.
- Evil races: Except for the Krait, I haven’t seen one inherently evil race. (keep in mind that I never played GW1) Of some races we haven’t seen any good ones, but that is mostly because the playable races are allies of their mortal enemies and by extension also their enemies. Centaurs are at war with humans and Dredge were once enslaved by the Dwarves. Keep in mind that Humans and Charr were mortal enemies not to long ago as well. If they can settle their differences, why not Centaurs or Dredge?
There even is one Centaur living in Lion’s Arch who was banished from his tribe for suggesting to make peace with the humans.
- Unintelligent races: Except for the Skritt, none of the races are less intelligent than the current playable once. They may have different habits or a different way of speaking, but so are the differences between us humans in the real world. Don’t forget how white people used to treat black and Asian people. Calling a Hylek or a Quaggan dumb is just as racist as calling an African bushman dumb.
As for Skritt. They have shown to be capable enough to help the players fight Zhaitan in Orr, so we can assume, however dumb they may be on their own, they are still not to dumb to be a playable race.
Centaurs can’t swim: I wouldn’t know since I have never seen a Centaur swim. I have seen horses swim (IRL, since we all know they aren’t in the game) and they don’t move much different from any other animal in the water. So if, for example, snow leopards can swim (ranger anyone?) why wouldn’t Centaurs be able to?
Naga can’t wear shoes: So? Those things Charr have on their feet don’t look exactly like what my Sylvari is wearing either. Maybe Anet can come up with an alternative for shoes on the Naga? They have to make different skins for each piece of clothing for every race now anyway.
That said I’d like to give a list of races I think might become playable in the future:
- Skritt
- Quaggan
- Hylek
- Grawl
- Ogre
- Kodan
- Tengu
- Troll
- Centaur
- Largos
- Dredge
- Dwarves*
- Jotun*
- Forgotten*
- Mursaat*
- Seers*
- * They fought the elder dragons last time and although four of them are said to be extinct now, evidence that they are still alive seems to pop up from time to time, so we might run in to them in an expansion/Cantha/Elona.