Guild Wars 2

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

Xanidus.3865:

Am I the only one getting seriously tired of Taimi..?

Maybe you wouldn’t be if we had more personal time with the other members of our guild and not just Taimi. XD

This.

Taimi has proven to be loyal to us throughout Living World Season 3. Annoying or not and regardless if her and the PC see eye to eye on everything, she’s been by our side and a presence one way or another.

I can’t say the same for the other members of DW who either are doing their own thing or consist of members I personally don’t want in the guild at all.

This gave me a terrifying thought…what if she’s being built up like this so she can be killed off, as a catalyst that forces Braham to realize he’s been a fool, Marjory that she’s been too reckless, Kasmeer that she’s been too cowardly, Rox that she’s been too complacent, etc. If I’m right, it’d be another Snaff, but a reverse reaction. Rather than blame everybody else for her death, the team will blame themselves, and actually start working together after it.

Palador.2170:

Mahou.3924:

As for Braham: He’s obviously too volatile so far. His reaction in Episode 3 was disuscussed/raged at ad nauseum, so I won’t go further. But if he’s in Dragon Watch in the future, something needs to happen. Jormag-related or the Commander smacking some sense into him in a “formal” duel or so. Both of them talked past each other in regards to the Commanders idea of showing respect to Eir with Dragon Watch and Braham’s idea with keeping the name of Destiny Edge.

Braham is part of the reason I want to keep Rytlock around. He and Caithe are actual members of Destiny’s Edge, and they have every right to smack him down for trying to steal the name. I don’t think Caithe would, but Rytlock? In a heartbeat.

I’m hoping he DOES beat the crap out of Braham in the next LS update, and outright calls him out for disrespecting his own mother’s memory by acting like nobody else lost somebody they cared about. I think that’d be an easy way to get some sense into him. Especially if the PC tells him that Braham almost got Rox, RYTLOCK’S SISTER, killed. That alone may make him beat the snot out of him…because as much as he doesn’t want to admit it, I’m pretty sure he genuinely cares for Rox. He just doesn’t like showing his emotions much (as shown in CoF and Arah story modes).

Since Balthazar apparently lost most of his power…he has already been replaced.

Menadena.7482:

What I found REALLY odd was that she recognized B right away after the reveal. It was not like she expected one of her gods was going to make a cameo. Think about various deities and heroes. With few exceptions generally they have been depicted in various different ways by different artists.

Or has she met B before?

Statues of him. If she has prayed often enough in her life in front of one, she’d recognize their form immediately just based on remembering the statue alone.

Randulf.7614:

I would have no issue if they returned to the Abaddon fractal even though I didnt vote for it. Seems enough time has passed that we can forget about the whole voting deal thing now and move on.

Definitely a time for the Abaddon fractal. There are secrets there about the gods that we must learn…and see their true selves. I have a feeling we have already met Lyssa ingame.

Manimarco Devil.1790:

You guys really want to see Scarlet outsmarting Abaddon and learning more “secret” information about dragons?

They don’t have to use Scarlet. Our priority is now getting info on the gods. Seeing Abaddon’s fall gives us all the info we’ll need, because the gods themselves will willingly reveal it in a flashback to the events.

Natto.5819:

Or Lyssa could have split into her individual selfs, Lyss and Ilya, and Queen Jenna is one of them.

I have a feeling this is the case, with Anise being the other twin.

perilisk.1874:

The Greyhawk.9107:

Am I the only one that doesn’t like this “The Elder Dragons are there for a reason and we actually shouldn’t stop them from trying to kill us” deal we’ve been getting the lately. I get that having consequences both good and bad to any actions we take is a good thing for story telling but I can’t help but think that this was a bad direction for Anet to go with. I miss when the dragons were Lovecraftian level eldritch abominations that were going to eat the world rather than being the pillars that support the world that also happen to wipe out all life every few millennia.

I thought it was a ham-handed analogy for global warming or something. Don’t destroy ancient reptiles and release the energy they contain, or the environment will go all pear-shaped.

Still, it raises the question — if Tyria is so overloaded with magic that it will asplode without the dragons there to contain it, how exactly did it survive long enough for there to be dragons in the first place? Unless they were there from the creation of the world…

I have a feeling they WERE there from the get go. If we recall the Eternal Alchemy from Season 2, it shows all the orbs rotating around what we assume is Tyria. If we assume that the dragons are a force of nature keeping the world in check from destroying itself, then we’ve essentially messed with the balance. We’ve taken out 2/6 of the balancing forces, resulting in 2 energy types going haywire.

Most likely the story is going towards a path where we’re going to have to replace the two ED who are gone and find a “safer” cycle for the world with replacements, of which Aurene will probably replace Mordremoth in control of the Jungle since she absorbed quite a bit of his power.

Bio Flame.4276:

So, it seems Glint was evil afterall, since she wanted to kill Kralkatorik and wanted us to kill the other Elder Dragons.

lol

We don’t know how much of the future she saw. If it turns out she saw a path that led to the change of the cycle and the salvation of the races, then she sent Tyria on this path knowing full well how it would correct itself.

Stitch.1794:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Taimi did explicitly say that, yes. The whole fight at the end was to prevent _one_ Elder Dragon's death, not two.

I have to disagree with you here.

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Ok, I’ve gone through the story again, and Taimi explicitly says Balthazar is killing the dragons, plural, not dragon, singular:

“We either let Balthazar kill the dragons and absorb the magic or destory the machine…”

And while Taimi does have a line about saving a dragon, her phrasing is quite clearly speculative. What we know for sure is killing both together with destroy Tyria, because that is what shesimulated. Taimi speculates that we’re so close to the brink that one might be enough, but we’re given no basis for her knowing that for a fact.

This might look like I’m nit-picking here, but my thinking is this – what destroys Tyria in the simulation might not be the total amount of magic released by two dragons’ deaths, but the fact that it happens simultaneously, kind of like how in a demolition the placement and timing of the blasts is as important as the strength of each charge. It leaves open the possibility of picking off the dragons one by one, as long as we find a way to replace their magic balancing effect (whether that’s Aurene, new bloodstones, or some other shadowstone-based tech).

DaShi.1368:

Does anyone know if Charr get unique dialogue for this episode?

We sadly don’t. Same dialogue as everybody else seems like.

Kept waiting for my Charr to say “Well, looks like we finally get to see whether the human Gods can be conquered.”

Lahmia.2193:

SPOILER TO WHO LAZARUS IS.

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It was Balthazar. Illusional mirror blessed by Lyssa.

This blew my mind when I found out in the instance. UNEXPECTED AS HELL. Will we see more of their brethren? WILL CHARR FINALLY GET THE FIGHT OF THEIR DREAMS!?

LouWolfskin.3492:

Sartharina.3542:

Ookamikun.6472:

It is curious that Trahearne was originally going for Kralkatorrik before the events of Mordy, I wonder what was his reasoning. I guess it was the next active dragon?

I figure it would have been “Finishing what Destiny’s Edge Started”.

Kralkatorrik seems to be treated as the biggest, baddest, and most threatening dragon by the series. I suspect he’ll ultimately be the last.

Seeing that Glint was one of his lieutenants and had the gift of future sight i’d say he is the most threatening dragon at the moment.
I mean, killing of the others, in theory, could factor in in his plans, what if all this is a scheme he made up to be victorious in the end?

It’d make perfect sense if he planned this. He’s already damaged from his fight with Destiny’s Edge before the events of the game, and Zhaitan was overpushing. He didn’t need to do anything, they were going to focus on his brother, giving him time. Zhaitan fell, and he absorbed his brother’s magic, making him stronger. Mordy made a move, keeping eyes off him and also fell, making him stronger still. Now Primordus and Jormag are making their moves, and he’s still doing nothing, only biding his time and getting stronger again should his siblings fall.

Either he’s incredibly lucky, or he knows that by not increasing his territory, his siblings will move instead and keep him out of the crosshairs long enough for him to gain more power.

Unless they plan on making the ascended tokens sellable, this is not a good idea. Forcing crafting on anybody just because they want an ascended piece is beyond stupid. If they’re worried about it so much…make sell cost 5g for an ascended token. There, it’s going to cost quite a bit just to get an ascended piece, and the market will most likely keep it over 20g.

That’s not a town in the game yet. Meaning we’re going to see a location just north of Queensdale open up possibly.

Will it be destroyed? Or will Queensdale just have a new temp look to it?

Amadan.9451:

I suppose her superpower to know when someone tells lie would have been inconvinient when lazarus filled us with crap words that convinced marjory to watch him closer.

She reads body language…how many mursaat have we met? Only him, she wouldn’t be able to read him if she tried. Hell, she probably wouldn’t be able to read his mind either.

I think the relationship between Kralky and DSD is that of Lightning and Water. If you notice, while there’s a chaos storm with Kralky’s stuff, it looks like it sparks similar to lightning. Plus the branded areas always look like they’re storming.

So with all the dragons, we have Zhaitan (Death), Mordremoth (Life), Primordus (Fire), Jormag (Ice), Kralky (Lightning), and DSD (Water), each split into respective pairs and cancelling each other out.

particlepinata.9865:

My guess is he ends up like the brother of Jora (Svanir) 250 years before. Hes an easy target for Jormag now with his anger issues.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s the “final boss” for the LS, and it would be one hell of a lovely punch in his face…bonus points if Rox puts him out of his mercy.

Slowpokeking.8720:

OriOri.8724:

We’re gonna let their magic destroy itself. We aren’t pitting them against each other directly

I don’t see how is that possible without let them face each other.

As we saw in one of the instances here, dragon magic tends to harm other dragon magics. So they don’t need to exactly fight each other…we take the magic from one, put it into a weapon of some kind, and beat the crap out of the other with it. In the immortal words of Uncle…Magic Must Defeat Magic.

It was mentioned at the end of the last LS chapter, I believe.

Walhalla.5473:

Its going to be a Disaster like the wrecking of the Pact Fleet by Mordremoth. With frozen Rox we have already seen that Things are going to get down with Braham. Its like a small foreshadowing to a Disaster waiting for him.

And he refused to listen to us about it. Either we’ll lose Rox because of it…or Braham will cause the level of deaths Eir caused back in the Edge of Destiny novel. Either way, he will feel the grief and pain of knowing how it feels to be the ‘leader’ for once.

Vyrulisse.1246:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Liked the new map, though the story was a bit barebones here compared to the other ones. Braham…if you wanted to make us hate him enough to kill him off, you’ve done a perfect job of it. Please, if you continue with this, let him fail and then let the commander punch him onto the ground and then tell him the names of everybody who has died since Claw Island who played a role in the story…to hit home that we know better than anybody what it’s like to lose people. Because right now he’s insufferable and I quite literally want to kill him off.

That’s another thing. A.net is having Braham act like we haven’t lost people close to us. We’ve lost many friends on the way, including our closest one in Trahearne (who we had to kill personally). Like Trahearne as a character or not but he was placed as our character’s closest friend throughout the story.

On another note, it seems like Rytlock has taken the role of closest ally or maybe even Caithe considering how she seems starry eyed with you right now because you forgave her. It also seems like Rytlock is the only “adult” in the group.

It makes sense, Rytlock already had to deal with Snaff, so he has cooled down significantly on that front. Which makes me wonder if they’re trying to pull a Rytlock with Braham, with him having to come to terms with the death. He may be projecting blaming himself onto us, even though it was nobody’s fault but Faolain’s.

Caithe we only really forgave I believe because she went through all this crap to protect the egg, so she wouldn’t betray us on that front. Plus if Aurene absorbed most of Mordy’s power, technically she’d be able to control Caithe if necessary.

Liked the new map, though the story was a bit barebones here compared to the other ones. Braham…if you wanted to make us hate him enough to kill him off, you’ve done a perfect job of it. Please, if you continue with this, let him fail and then let the commander punch him onto the ground and then tell him the names of everybody who has died since Claw Island who played a role in the story…to hit home that we know better than anybody what it’s like to lose people. Because right now he’s insufferable and I quite literally want to kill him off.

shakome.7458:

Braham is all about emotion in this episode, and honestly i don’t like it. Now that he had cracked the tooth, the norns will follow him into battle with Jormag. He said that he won’t give Jormag another minute, he won’t let another person’s mother to be killed. And yet, if he lead those norns into battle, that is exactly what he will do, not just another person’s mother, but father, or son.
Will he take responsibility for that?
Will he face those people when he came back and tell them that their mother, father, son had died following him into a losing battle?
(that is if Jormag has a twisted mind to have him chained up and witness all the norns that followed him to be killed or turned, while he can’t do anything and then set him loose as an example to other Norns)
I understand the Norns are a warrior race, but there is bravery, and then there is stupidity. I don’t think Braham quite understand that concept.

I’m expecting for Braham to try to lead them, only for there to be a massacre with heavy casualties, with Braham and Rox being the only survivors. That guilt will be the only thing that could possibly knock him to his senses.

Because right now Braham has kittened me off and I WANTED SO HARD for the PC to punch him hard onto the ground, chew him out, and mention the names of EVERYBODY from our PS (or just canon) who died that we knew during this war. I think that would hit him harder than anything…because we don’t forget those who fell, we never will.

Ardid.7203:

I’ve always assumed the Asura Gates to be part of the serious, hard world lore, while WPs are more akin to a mere game-play device.

I thought they were confirmed ingame to be a thing, lore wise. The individual has to have basically interacted with a specific waypoint to use it. Thus explaining why characters just don’t use it to teleport across Tyria…their individual magical “fingerprint” hasn’t been registered for the waypoint in the area they’d want to go unless they’ve traveled there on foot before.

Finding out that Rytlock is the reincarnation of Prince Rurik. That would be the only way to really shock me.

Arden.7480:

It will be Drakkar. Jormag is not active as Primordus, I think, but we will see.

This is a bit weird that ANet jumps from Ring of Fire to Shiverpeaks. I want see more Primordus’s activity

Considering all the dragons are active now (save for bubbles, who we know jack squat about), it makes perfect sense to jump between them. Tyria’s playing a deadly card game with Kralkatorrik, Jormag, and Primordus at the same time. Sure we could easily take out Primordus in one swoop if we tried, but we’re playing 3 opponents at the same time.

We have to use our cards to counter them and take them down one by one, while they’re also trying to do the same. Think of it as a 4 way Magic: The Gathering game…everybody wants to win, and is willing to screw over everybody else to do it…so you can’t play too offensively on just one opponent, it opens you up for the others to take advantage of.

Amaimon.7823:

This time, it’s the dragon who chose to be called Aurene, so it’s really something we can decide.

As for personal taste.. I’m fine with it, I don’t really think the name matters that much. Aurene sounds female and ‘light’-oriented so I think it fits the theme. But doesn’t pack as punch as Kralkatorrik and Glint.

Aurene’s name, like Glint’s, doesn’t pack any punch IMO, so I don’t see the problem with the name. :p

Noein.7635:

RyuDragnier.9476:

jamesdolla.3954:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

shagwell.1349:

Another day on the forums.

How many transfers from where to where did I miss?

Kazo from TC moved to MAG.
Hs from JQ moved to MAG.

Those are the two big ones stackstackstackstacK$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Hs just showed up on mag last night. they did not get paid. Dunno why they came when our NA is already solid

Not fun to get steamrolled with a blob all the time during NA hours, and we felt like we were carrying JQ’s NA time some (if not most) days alongside Hard. Also couldn’t really recruit for the guild well despite trying for months on JQ, so it was a choice between BG and Mag (since TC is imploding). BG was closed, so Mag was the last choice.

TC is imploding? Do you mean just not stacked to the levels of Mag and BG?

Considering they lost TW and their EU guilds seem to be the ones pulling all nighters to keep them afloat…yes.

jamesdolla.3954:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

shagwell.1349:

Another day on the forums.

How many transfers from where to where did I miss?

Kazo from TC moved to MAG.
Hs from JQ moved to MAG.

Those are the two big ones stackstackstackstacK$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Hs just showed up on mag last night. they did not get paid. Dunno why they came when our NA is already solid

Not fun to get steamrolled with a blob all the time during NA hours, and we felt like we were carrying JQ’s NA time some (if not most) days alongside Hard. Also couldn’t really recruit for the guild well despite trying for months on JQ, so it was a choice between BG and Mag (since TC is imploding). BG was closed, so Mag was the last choice.

As much as this hurts…if you’re going to add new servers Anet, gut some of the larger servers. Meaning lock and drop the pops for BG, JQ, Mag, etc etc. I know that sucks, forcing it on people, but that’s the only way to do it, short of completely resetting all the servers at teh start of the new year.

Alteros.3019:

Tell me about it. Although, I’m going to guess that at the very least your linked server’s entire WvW population didn’t take a hiatus from the match up because of personality differences. That makes for a loooong week when you’re being farmed at every corner of the map.

At least you’re not dealing with BG and TC like we are at JQ. Always blobbing everything…

facepalms Anet…I hope you realize by now to just let BG drop if it’s going to drop. You got duped again. Keep it locked until it drops to T3/T4 for multiple weeks.

Sounds like ANET fell for the BG “hibernation” scam again.

CD → Ebay → SoS → JQ

Atoss.1056:

I would aslo add 4. Lower map cap by 10 (at least on EB) to reduce skill lag when all 3 servers meet. Other than that it might be interesting to see the result of this. Just bring it before 2018 :P

This would actually spread out the population a bit too. Say the cap right now on each map is 70 for each server…drop it by 10 for each server. That drops the total amount of numbers seen from 210 to 180. That will lessen the burden on the servers, meaning less skill lag, and encourage people who can’t ever seem to get into WvW due to queues to move to a different server.

Electro.4173:

Other players can’t hear the legends because they’re talking in your characters’ head, essentially. To quote Rytlock during the prison camp story mission of HoT “I’m still sorting through the voices in my head. This new magic comes with… baggage”. Wouldn’t make sense for others to hear them.

As for having them talk more frequently…. I personally agree, I love hearing the actual voiced lines and wish they would play a bit more often. BUT I’ve also heard others say that they already talk (or grunt) too much and want them to shut up.

I’d love if they gave commentary on things happening, such as getting downed, getting revived, in critical health, spiking an enemy in PvP, etc. And then allow us to turn those on or off.

apharma.3741:

Here’s why I voted for 1 up 1 down:

The other option might be worse. Imagine a system where you got a piece of ascended gear for winning a match up. Suddenly there’s a reason to win, people will rage more at others for not scouting, disabling, not PPTing. It also encourages server stacking because the real issues of population migration haven’t been solved.

I think it would be the final straw for me if rewards were given out for winning skirmishes and match ups. A better system would be to reward participation regardless of winning.

Plot twist, they make it so whoever LOSES the Skirmish gets the best rewards. It wouldn’t be able to fail, because people who want to win matches won’t go along with losing a skirmish, and those who want to will be incentivized to transfer to lower pop servers for their awesome loot.

I voted no to 1-up 1-down because of how BORING it’ll make the matchups. So you won T3 and went up to T2, and the people who lost T2 went down to T3…guess what, the T3 server will get steamrolled by T2 and the T2 server will steamroll T3. It’ll become boring fast for a lot of people. It doesn’t help how right now the servers stabilize by the 4th week of linkings (making for better fights).

gebrechen.5643:

We could talk about removing cannons, when Anet finally makes walls good. It’s easier for the attacker to clear the walls as for a defender to hold them. That’s a bad concept for a siege environment.
The new cannons aren’t a bad thing. They are of limited use because of the line of sight, but they are good for specific situations.

They’re good for a lot of things. They do more damage to siege than superior ballista, they have a blast zone so they can hit siege behind cover whereas ballista cannot, they do more damage to players than superior ACs, and they can remove boons with their normal shots. This single siege completely negates the usefulness of AC and ballista on its own. It’s also cheaper to make at 50 supply than the superior versions of other siege. They’re completely broken in their current form. If they were to be kept, they need to do like 10% less damage than AC and ballista to everything.

I wish, but it’s a 2 week thing as far as I know. Meaning it’ll be removed at the reset on Friday. Then WvW can begin to heal after the damage caused by cannons.

Dat Quality of Life change! Thanks Anet!

Justine.6351:

Malediktus.3740:

Downstate would be useless without the health bonus

How so? They already start out invulnerable when downed. Maybe they should get 3x toughness too when in downed state…

Say you have 12K health, and get downed. Somebody just did an attack for 13k health…you’re instantly dead. And with some glass cannon builds out there, that kind of damage is very possible. Not to mention in WvW, you’re getting hit by numerous players and sources. Without that triple health, you die way too fast.

Love this idea. But team chat would have to be disabled, otherwise I don’t think everybody could be considered friendly…unless it was only for the people on your server (which is kinda boring, since you could just go to any WvW map for that).

Bad poll. Take out the “balance patch”, “lol axe”, and the “WvW Mallyx/Dwarf” options, and we’ll have a good poll. Because the balance patch one is stupid to even be there (talk to the medium armor classes if you want to see what true nerfs look like), the axe offhand is just our useless weapon (every class has one), and the WvW one is entirely the fault of squad composition. You get enough eles cleansing and enough guardians popping stab, and we never need to use Mallyx or Jalis.

Jayne.9251:

Those who are dismissing server pride aren’t looking at longterm. You buy the game because it entertains. You stay because of the community.

Of whom you find a small close knit group you end up playing with in a guild, who end up hopping servers and you follow them because you only enjoy playing it with them. Server pride has never existed…it has always been guild pride. You take pride in playing with your guild.

Larka.7683:

TC and JQ have an insane amount of people at all hours. Worst of all, they really enjoy grouping up to attack YB.

Because YB will sit on siege and just avoid fighting for hours and hours, which makes for a really boring match up. So both TC and JQ would rather force you guys to fight and get amazing matches (like that 1+ hour 3 way battle in YBBL last night for the Garri), than spend a week of being bored out of our minds because YB would rather PPT than fight.

Hexinx.1872:

I think it went all avenues this weekend. Started out with some normal 1v1v1 play… JQ fatness just too much for anyone, YB + TC team JQ, JQ + YB team TC to break t3 smc… only ones I never seen team up yet is JQ + TC, I think in part this is because both groups are enjoying fighting each other. Frustrating at times, but overall was an enjoyable weekend.

The JQ+TC team up was last night for YB’s garri. We helped each other open up inner, and then proceeded to turn on each other for it. So you’d see TC pushing in, JQ following afterwards, both sides splitting up when YB pushed in and then us either pushing YB together, or working with them to push the last server.

There’s always the other way to do it…introduce a new zone with a city already under attack. For example, giving us the Blood Citadel, which is the Blood Legion capital, and is just east of the Blazeridge Mountains.

Didn’t they already state before that the EU linkings are based on country, to avoid language barriers?

Balthazzarr.1349:

RyuDragnier.9476:

You give the server winning T1 a link? lolwut? Who is making these decisions? And could you please explain them? I think we’d all like to be enlightened on this since it seems pretty nonsensical.

They were only winning because they had a good link before. (The proof is already showing in the total score)

Thankfully for us we have been moved elsewhere. I feel bad for ET though.. :P … although ET might be a small group in WvW but they are some of the best people I know!

*Sorry Jim, if you’re on Mag… I suspect you’re not one of those I ever had to block :P *

That explains quite a bit. But I do wish Anet would outright state something on the lines of “We’re trying to prevent another huge fall like DB, so we’re linking servers in T1 with weaker servers than they had to make the fall slower without completely wrecking them.” I think we’d all accept that explanation, since it’d make sense and it’d mean they’d fall, albeit slower.