I thought there was going to be a story! There would be Asuran scientists who went too far and unleashed something they couldn’t control. There would be cutscenes with them talking to each other. First with their exciting, groundbreaking idea, with maybe some dissension. Then it starts to unravel. They start to panic. They are arguing what to do as it comes unglued around them. And either is all comes apart or they are forced to explode the building to fend off something even worse. Either dying because of their hubris or dying nobly to save everyone else.
Yes, do something original like put you right in the middle of the disaster as it happens. You’re a lowly Asuran scientist, tasked with equipping a Hazmat Suit and delivering a sample of chaos material to a test chamber. Upon placing it into the test apparatus, everything goes haywire, you’re briefly teleported to a variety of locales inside and outside of Tyria, and then returned to a facility in chaos.
You manage to arm yourself with a simple “The Fixer” wrench to fend off the karka hatchlings now infesting the facility, along with strange creatures from outside Tyria. When Asuran Peacekeepers arrive, you’re overjoyed — only to find that they are eliminating any trace of the incident, including the surviving Thaumanova research staff. Then a bunch of stuff happens, you go to the Mists and complete an obnoxious JP and fight a Karka Queen and a giant baby that controls the invading creatures, and finally Scarlet shows up and puts you in stasis.
Come on guys. Enough of Scarlet. Enough of destroying asuran lore with this ridiculous sue character. Please. Please.
I could list the reasons why this was a bad idea. But other threads have done this already. My only thing to say is, as an asura player that loves their society and lore and history?
Another very important sylvari character then that has extreme skills in lots of things.
Tell me why choosing to have this villain be a sylvari is better than having them be, say, an asura? Why a sylvari again, after Canach? Can we have a villain that’s not a sylvari?
Oh, also? “Eeeeveryone’s heard about Scarlet!”
Well I haven’t. No one has since before today. And it makes believing this character is capable of graduating from the three colleges of the most intelligent race in Tyria in under 20 years very difficult.
This is an excellent guide, Dinny! Do you mind if I post a link to it on the GW2RP forums? You’ll be credited (very obviously, in big bold red font). We could really do with this kind of info there.
“When Guild Wars 2 launches, you will also have the option to play with your friends on another world with our free “guesting” feature. With guesting, your characters can play on any world where you have friends—with certain restrictions. For instance, you will not be able to participate in WvW while guesting.”
The RPing community chose Piken Square and Tarnished Coast as unofficial RP servers because we knew, thanks to quotes like this, guesting would let us play together.
Now we’re sorely disappointed.
With guild bonuses being a very integral part of the game, you’d guess that this would be something GMs could do at the get-go. If that’s not the case, it needs to be.
Ampca’s concerns about it being abused to overthrow guilds is credible, but I’m sure that can be solved if the request is made by many members of the guild, while the guild leader has been offline for some time (perhaps a month or so).
It seems my Pact Avenger of Rage has turned into a low res mesh, as far as I can tell, designed for distant rendering.
I transmuted it with a Ceremonial Scimitar of Rage and it came out like this, although I can’t say for certain if it was like this before I transmuted it since I hadn’t had a good look at it after the patch.
The most obvious difference is the lack of the gear at the hilt of the blade, but the entire sword is also more splodgey and undefined.
This issue is still occuring, disconnecting the player from the chat servers, making guilds appear empty and without custom emblem designs and unable to use chat channels. The login server pop up occurs every now and then when the game seems to have, for a brief second, reconnected to the chat servers, disconnecting very quickly after again.
This is happening to multiple people at once, possibly across the entire server (Tarnished Coast)
First world problems, much? The accents I hear aren’t mine, golem can be go-lem or gol-em and it’s really not important. I don’t see the beef with the voice acting, myself. Seems to do just fine from where I’m standing (listening)
What Kita said, basically. All the Cultural armours have three toed boots, or no toed foot wraps. It’s a bit annoying, but hardly something I’mma kick a fuss about.
They tried to log in, but because of the email ISP verification, it stopped them. If they’re in game, it also means they have access to your email address to confirm their ISP.
The Arcane Council doesn’t give a hoot what goes on outside of Rata Sum. The Inquest could blow up half of Metrica Province, but its only krewes in Metrica, not working for the Council. So why should they care?
The Asura barely have a government at all. Krewes are expected to keep themselves in order. If they can’t protect themselves from Inquest attacks, it’s their fault. If the Inquest can’t protect themselves from retaliation, it’s their fault. It’s a loose state of individual society. The very first conversation you have is about how ineffectual the Peacemakers are. You basically beat the Arcane Eye to death but the Council doesn’t punish you for it, because they were too weak to stop it. You can consider the Council and the Arcane Eye to be its own large krewe, the krewe devoted to the maintenance and safekeeping of Rata Sum and Rata Sum alone.
Be loyal to your krewe. You don’t have to be loyal to anything else.
