Guild Wars 2

I wasn’t aware that the story was finished and thus all of these seemingly dead end plot threads were indeed dead end…

Ranulf.9285:

I… found Glint’s spawn ugly. In that “We decided that the child of an ancient dragon should be SOOO CUTESY AWW” kind of way. Like, they tried to make it cutesy to pander to easily awed people but wound up making this weird abomination instead, like some Female Humans with the grossly babylike faces.

I also felt the story – as it has been – was pretty weak and the Lazarus twist was poorly done. Guess that’s a minority opinion, though. :B

So you’d rather they pandered to you?

OMG!!!!!!!!
Mind Blows. AHFVGHBHJBHKJLKJ
This is exactly what’s being set up. It clicks far too perfectly.

Same. I’m at least glad to know it isn’t just me.

Hybarf Tics.2048:

Will it have new resources?
Will it have at least one new pet?
Will we we be able to swim and fight creatures in the ocean?
I ask the last question because we haven’t had water zones added since Southsun Cove
on November 18, 2012. Since then we’ve had a joke of a jungle without lakes and rivers were frogs have to live in trees and don’t even know how to swim. Now that Ember Bay is coming on a Fire Island Chain surrounded by the Ocean, no less. Are we finally after 3 years and 10 months going back to the water? Unless of course the water is boiling hot and we would die, which of course would be another lame excuse not to go for a swim or create water content.

Please discuss!!!

Tree frogs are a real thing. The Itzel look like tree frogs. They have the colours and the basic shape. Tree frogs don’t live in water and only spawn their tadpoles in the cups of leaves that catch water high in jungle canopies. They are also poisonous…like the Itzel are poison masters. See the connection?

Actually I forgot. My Augury of Death is bolt skinned with Augury of Death.

I’m pretty sure that beasty in the trailer is a Stonehead with a different colouration. Maybe a Fire Island special variant.
Also a point to note about Mordremoth not being a dragon that I thought was pretty clear is that he was in fact a dragon at one point. The “Mouth” as it is called is merely what is left of his draconic body, the head. He sacrificed his form to become the jungle, to become everything. I mean think of how often he proclaims that with pride, “I am everything, I am everywhere.”
The head could quite easily fit on a dragon’s body. I think all of the Elder Dragons were just dragons once…then something happened, maybe they went magic mad like the people affected by the raw magic from the bloodstone?
As to what kind of dragon? Well the earlier concept art of a plant Elder Dragon showed Mordremoth as looking a bit in the head like Guild Wars’s old Dragon moss. Even the final version of the Mouth is similar in some ways.
At one point a skritt in the battle for Tarir calls him Mordremoss. Perhaps a hint as to what kind of dragon he was before he got super powered?

But it is lore appropriate to find karka there.

I sea that all the water puns have been taken.
It would feel really odd if they left water content out.

Just because everything seems to be leading to Prime doesn’t mean it will. It also doesn’t mean he’s the only enemy we need contend with.
He does make a lot of sense, though. There is as much reason to explore him as the crystal desert. The dragon lab, Rata Novus, the asura in general, the fact that Prime has been awake the longest and been doing…what? And just because a portion of the player base has expressed a want or desire doesn’t mean we all have. I’d love to go to the Crystal Desert. But I also would love underground, twisting, winding cavern maps. Multi level. Underground mushrooms could grow, making our mushroom mastery relevant. We may have to glide from one high cavern to the next or use the hot air updrafts coming off of lava flow to get higher.
You have to think of it from Anet’s perspective. They are continuing the mastery system and keeping old ones relevant as is shown by Bloodstone Fen. But what are a deserts defining features? Flat….flat…more flatness, maybe some dunes, maybe a couple small sandstone caves but mostly one level….

Kind of an odd little bug I’ve been having and I’m not sure if it’s client side or not. But while in the Tangled Depths map I keep getting this ominous build up sound on loop. It happens every minute or less and will even interrupt and kill other background music that has started even if just in a few seconds on that track.
I know this probably doesn’t affect a lot of people because they play with the music off and their own music playing or youtube in the background or something. But I actually quite like the music in the game, especially from HoT.
It’s not game breaking or anything (I can turn the music volume down when in Tangled Depths) but I thought I should point it out.

Dear Anet, I would PAY for this. As a daredevil there are maybe 4 skins that seem appropriate. Only 2 that fit my theme. But if you allowed us to use spear skins as staff skins I would be spoiled for choice.
Also since it seems that you’ve turned away from underwater content it would allow you to reuse old assets.

Same. I logged out to download the new build and now I get errors when I try to log in. I was also in Bloodstone Fen.

Same issue for me. But it’s kind of expected in a way. You guys killed it with this patch. So happy with what I’ve played so far.

I think Anet finally hit their stride. In the mountains of unhappiness and salty wining I would like to commend them on this new patch. I am so pleased and we’ve been given fixes and quality of life improvements that we’ve been asking for since launch. The story, so far is wonderful. The disconnects are expected.
Good work Anet.

You also just basically described a majority of all stories that use the Hero’s Journey, especially ones where the hero have to go against a superior force. The hero can’t confront the villain’s forces head on, so they have to either sneak behind enemy lines or call them out for single combat to exploit a weakness or use some sort of special move/knowledge/device/whatever.

I hadn’t read the whole thread before posting. Seems you beat me well and truly to it.

Vlad.1739:

Does it not bother anyone else that Anet resolves its plot the same way each GW game for the major antagonists?
1) What happens each game there is this enemy something bad happens to drive hero to do something.
2) Go find out who the bad guy is and/or how to beat’em up.
3) Get means to win
4) Go behind enemy lines and exploit weaknesses researched in earlier parts.

1) Sauron begins hunting The One Ring.
2) Go to Rivendell to discover that the One Ring could be destroyed in Mt Doom..
3) Forge a fellowship to transport the ring there.
4) Sneak into Mordor, behind enemy lines to exploit the weakness discovered in earlier parts…

1) Voldemort returns, threatening both the wizarding and muggle worlds..
2) Heroes discover that Voldemort sealed his soul into horcruxes..
3) Find and destroy the horcruxes.
4) Allow yourself to seem dead so you can get behind enemy defences and finally exploit the last weakness defeating Voldemort.

What you described is pretty much the formula for ANY epic type fantasy arc that exists by default of the nature of story telling. You might as well complain the Anet tells a story at all.

Daredevil? Have….have you tried breathing on one? Or giving them a stern look? That usually does it.

The nature of the deep ocean and how it inspires terror in many cultures, coupled with how the sea races speak of it with real fear, seem to suggest that fear is its second domain. There are other in game hints to this as well.

Welcome to the club.

Giggles
Recognizing sarcasm is really a lost art.

I was actually thinking it resembles an upright drake, which are dragon relatives. But I still really think the Mouth of Mordremoth from the Meta is part of his original body. Be it what is left, or what he could reconstitute.
Maybe he went through states of evolution as he became an Elder Dragon and both are throwbacks to that.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Snow.2506:

Hope I don’t sound condescending, just wanting to educate.

You didn’t sound condescending until that. :P

Kitten me…
Sorry. I really don’t mean to Be. But some people take it that way.

“[…]finding anything like a Katana or even a Samurai Sword skin.”

“[…]Belinda’s Greatsword also, a Nodachi.”

Katana and “Samurai sword” are one in the same. Though I suppose “Samurai sword” Can describe anything from wakizashi, kodachi, katana, daito, to tachi and odachi.

Which brings me to Yumiko Ishida’s comment. Nodachi Doesn’t exist. It’s odachi.
Dachi is from tachi, a word for sword. T and D are interchangeable when words are combined together to create new words. “O” means “Great”. So it’s literally a greatsword. You’ll see that this fits since the weapon in game is of the greatsword type.
Nodachi would literally mean…. hmm, “Of sword”, which makes little sense. The misconception arises because when you say odachi in English you are naming a proper object so you say, “That is an odachi.” But the N in “an” blends into the word. It would be like a non English speaker hearing Nonion when we say, “An onion.”
Someone heard it spoken as such and it just kind of stuck.

Hope I don’t sound condescending, just wanting to educate.

To answer the question, the katana skin in game has been used, so far, for the swords that the Quetzal Tengu weild in the jungle.

That thing we fight isn’t a dragon. It’s a dopy crocodile man that got locked in at a doughnut shop over night and said, “Eh, what the kitten?”

incisorr.9502:

what “META” dude, ROFL. The game got broken as kitten because Anet went the greedy road and released ridiculous and overpowered specs only to get more cash and then they decided to silence everyone with bans instead of responding to them properly or logically like they used to do in the past,
now they are just like every other kittenty cash grabbing company.

Im gonna list the problems with this game in a short and understandable manner so maybe if we’re lucky the ceo of arena net is gonna be checking forums while drunk and see my post by chance and then on the next morning get a brain and fix the game

- the elite specs are kittening overpowered as kitten
- before when you wanted to do something you had to sacrifice something else for it, for example to do dmg you had to sacrifice survivabiltiy (unless you were mesmer cause the class is a joke) , now with the new specs you can be tanky as kitten and do 500 million damage (daredevil tempest chronocancer reaper revenant,DRAGONHUNTER, etc)

This is where you lost me. When you included Daredevil as a tanky, high damage class. That’s like calling Cheerios “gourmet cuisine”. Daredevil has middling mediocre damage.

Were the words, “Dragon Hunter is fine,” uttered in this thread? Rages
I really think that DH is just Anets favourite child. They work a big moment of the personal HoT story around a character becoming a DH, they refuse to nerf it, AND the name is DRAGON HUNTER, in a game where we are hunting dragons.
Not playing favourites?

Klangy.8293:

Well signs The only thing you get from 100% complete is stuff for legendary. I think if u call yourself casual u will not get legendary anyway. It’s total of 40HP and u need 25 for elite. And it’s not like u running around solo either. And the small events pre meta is easy solable.

Or the spcialisation collection weapons… And why do you keep saying “Signs”?

Maybe I am the minority, but I actually like them. It just feels better. Speaking from a historical armour standpoint, a leather brigadine or gambeson that stopped at the thighs was very common among footsoldiers. Brigadines/gambesons that reached past the knee were reserved for those of high rank or those that rode on horseback. The reason is simple: more material=higher cost. So, by all means, if you wish to look like a footsoldier, do so. A lot of the armour you see that appears short is really under armour. Cloaks and long gambesons would the be worn over the armour.
What they should do is take out the horrid backpieces, and add cloaks, long coats, and gambesons, that can go over your armour.

Nury.3062:

Snow.2506:

I guess you could always go for a melee weapon on your weapon swap. If you get a legendary bow I hope they do a melee staff.

The problem with legendary staff, the 2nd legendary staff was released so,no hopes for melee staff atm but there is still hope for the longbow.

Don’t get me started on that. They had the chance…the CHANCE to add a melee legendary staff with 2 classes now using melee staffs… And didn’t. The Lightward Battle staff goes a way to make up for it though. I’m not a fan of overly flashy, so who’s to say I’d like their idea of a legendary melee staff anyway. Nevermore is perfect though for any caster I might play.
I’d never use a long bow, but I wouldn’t complain if that’s in the next batch of legendary weapons.

Arena net’s sandwich builds leave something to be desired so we end up resorting to salt.

I guess you could always go for a melee weapon on your weapon swap. If you get a legendary bow I hope they do a melee staff.

Thief. The end.
I’m a masochist

I’m a girl And I won’t touch Dreamer. Maybe, MAYBE on another character. Bit I play a gloomy thief….
I’m trying to make kudzu for my friend though. She plays a sylvari so it’s appropriate.
I actually don’t benefit from any legendaries. I’m a daredevil and enjoying the staff but there Aren’t any appropriate Legendary staffs. OP, do what I do. There are plenty of long bow skins That fit the epic theme. Just skin an ascended. The biggest benefit of a legendary is the skin. Stat swapping isn’t even that hard on ascended.

I have this bug too. They really need to get on it.

He’s dead, you’re just hoping beyond hope that he isn’t, that it was clever double blind writing. It isn’t. It was a rushed story with chopped content, for whatever reason. Also, the Mouth of Mordremoth IS big Mordy. Either what is left of him, or what he was able to bring back together.
Why? It talks in first person with Mordremoth’s voice. There are a couple times it is referred to as mordremoth, it is clearly a dragon because it used the fear breath weapon, like all other dragons.
The commander is present for the fight because I think Arenanet originally intended us to do the map metas with the story.

“What can I tell about a team in GW2 involving a thief, a ranger, a mesmer, a necromancer and a revenant?”

That they are idiots for bringing the thief.

MissSinfully.2478:

Is anyone else wincing at the phrasing of “Katana Dagger” and “Katana Sword?”

It’s like saying sword-sword and sword-dagger. A dagger in that style is a tanto and the sword, depending on length is a Wakizashi or a Katana.

Belinda’s Greatsword on the other hand, is more resembling a “Zanbato” which is a fictional/fantasy sword that’s uber long. Translates to somewhere around “horse-slaying sword” or “horse-chopping sword.”

Zanbato swords are most commonly seen in fighting-style anime, highlighted most especially by Bleach.

Anywho, just wanted to know if anyone else winced when they read that.

Actually Belinda’s sword is an Odachi.
Source? Years of martial arts.

thunderfall.8095:

Of course you don’t have words. You haven’t said anything. You have just pressed down on pieces of plastic to send electronical messages received throughout the world viewable to anyone with a computer, who than can “read” the message and transfer it to a coherent sentence.

Not to pick a knit… But words are words, whether spoken or written.
OR typed.

I haven’t even tried to get into a raid. I know I’ll simply be kicked once they see the boot with wings appear. Sad, really. When it comes to PVE I like it hard so I wanted to try raids.

Eisenwald.8562:

Woe is me! Where has my lady friend gone it’s okay slayer…I forgive you. We’ll get the next one.

I have no words. Which is saying a lot for me. Or not saying a lot, I suppose.

Eisenwald.8562:

Snow.2506:

SlayerSixx.5763:

You’re doing god’s work, son.

That would actually be “Daughter”. But thank you.

Daughter? Marry me!? >_>

Thanks for the read. Cheered me up in these dark times sort of…

You don’t want to fall for thief girls. We’ll just stab you in the back.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Snow.2506:

SlayerSixx.5763:

You’re doing god’s work, son.

That would actually be “Daughter”. But thank you.

Edited just cuz the post was that amazing.

Aww, thank you. It was an analogy that originally came out of a rant to a non thief playing friend about how badly we’ve been nerfed over time. I may have been hungry at the time.

Only thieves throw tomatoes with knives in them.

SlayerSixx.5763:

You’re doing god’s work, son.

That would actually be “Daughter”. But thank you.

incisorr.9502:

Are you kittening kidding me? Thieves are the most overpowered and forgiving class at the moment.

I don’t know what more you kittening want when each of your skills is a dodge, gap closer, cc, and 10k dmg. You literally only have to spam one button and you even cry about it? Rofl.

Imagine if you had to play another class.

Lol, troll detected. You cannot have played 5 seconds of this game around a thief and really believe that. I swear thieves will probably get a permanent de-buff soon called “existing- Lose 50 hp every second for eternity.”

Also, I added capitalisation, punctuation, proper spelling, and grammatical sentence structure to the quoted portion of text. I can only hope that my ability to think can be conveyed to you through the correction of your mistakes.

Thank you for the compliments. And yeah, I really should strike out stealth to run away.

As soon as they fix the HoT map reward bug so I can get the Thief’s Cache, I should have it.

Hmm…. I’ve soloed almost all of HoT… And I’m a Daredevil. I changed the way I thought and played as a thief, I have to stay on my toes, stay mobile, Dodge accurately. I can’t breathe or relax and letting up the pace means death and waypoint. I love it.

I can’t justify spending gold on an attention grabbing, “look at elitest me” commander tag, (Or that’s how I see it) even though I could have purchased one many times over. I’m a solo player at heart so I never saw the point. It basically says, "I may not know what I am doing but I had enough money to look like it! " But I did manage to get the mentor tag by default of gaining that one mastery in central Tyria.
And then we made it to the second to last phase of the Dragon Stand meta, where you need to fight the legendary in the blighting tower/trees while a zerg destroys any pods that pop back up and preservers. No one could or would tag up for the boss group. Knowing the fight, I reluctantly did, and have several times since.

Neither of these are particularly auspicious. I made my first chunk of gold by a lucky precursor drop for a legendary I would never use. And I definitely didn’t know what I was doing then as much as I do now. And the mentor tag is just too easy to get.