Guild Wars 2

kta.6502:

How about this:

Dawn: 4am to 10 am
Noon: 10 am to 4 pm
Dusk: 4 pm to 10 pm
Night: 10 pm to 4 am

I personally think of dawn starting at 4 am. Dusk starting at 4pm also makes sense because that when the sun starts moving towards the horizon.

With the current system, Dawn starting at midnight is very unrealistic. Dusk starting at noon time doesn’t make sense either.

I really enjoy the idea of fixing the cycles to adhere to how a Sylvari would see them.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Technically, I said the same thing there as I said here. And it’s the same topic, so why should my opinion change?

Well, you could add something that you forgot to say back on 2RP. Just a suggestion.

Back on guildwars2roleplayers.com (aka 2RP), I did suggest to the OP to post the idea here, so the devs can see it and consider adding it to the game’s lore. Devs, what do you think of the OP’s idea?

wow your times idea is even better then the “9 to 3,3 to 9” idea i was thinking of and which i saw also reffered here as well.

Lisentia.1738:

Hello GW2 Lore forums! I’ve been playing GW2 for over a year and a half now, and I can honestly say I’ve enjoyed every minute of it! This will be my first forum post on the official forums, though I have been an avid lore nerd on GW2RP.

I’m bringing a peeve of mine to the community to discuss. My peeve has to do with the current start and end times of the Sylvari cycles. I will detail my thoughts and reasons below. My goal is to get this in front of the Devs, and hopefully spark positive dialogue and maybe, just maybe, get the lore corrected.

Currently the sylvari cycles are separated like this:

Cycle of Dawn
The Cycle of Dawn refers to those born between midnight and 6 a.m.

Cycle of Noon
The Cycle of Noon refers to those born between 6 a.m. and noon

Cycle of Dusk
The Cycle of Dusk refers to those born between noon and 6 p.m.

Cycle of Night
The Cycle of Night refers to those born between 6 p.m. and midnight

Source

However, my peeve starts with the information listed for the Cycle of Dawn. Yes, technically by the 24 hour clock a new ‘day’ starts at 0001 hours (12:01 am). Intuitively however, midnight to 6am is still the middle of the night. In my mind, there are only three Tyrian races where midnight would be the start of a new day; humans, asura and Charr. My reasons for believing this is because of the more technical natures of their societies, and the prevalence of the use of clocks and other time pieces. Sylvari and norn rely more on the sun placement in the sky than what “time” it is.

The following conversation occurs on the top floor of the Grove, near where the entrance to the Oomphalos chamber is found:
Warden: Shhhh. Listen. Feel.
Warden (2): What?
Warden: Ah, there it is. The moment when night gives up its dominion, and day opens its eyes upon the world.

Anecdotally, I believe I have heard this conversation during the times ingame where it is changing from night to day. I say this because the times I have spent idling on the top floor this particular conversation doesn’t seem to repeat as much or as often as the rest of the conversations. If night is becoming day ingame, and the glow effects of Sylvari are turned off and the game is brightening to daytime, wouldn’t that suggest that the sun rising is when Dawn should start?

So my proposal to the community would be to align the Cycles to reflect what makes more sense to how the Sylvari would view a day:

Cycle of Dawn: 6am to Noon
Cycle of Noon: Noon to 6pm
Cycle of Dusk: 6pm to midnight
Cycle of Night: Midnight to 6am

Or to get REALLY crazy:

Cycle of Dawn: 3am to 9am
Cycle of Noon: 9am to 3pm
Cycle of Dusk: 3pm to 9pm
Cycle of Night: 9pm to 3am

What do you guys think? I look forward to hearing everyone’s comments and discussing it with all of you.

I do have to agree more with your 2nd aka crazy times reasoning as those i was thinking myself.simply said,i made a sylvari few mins after midnight unaware of the times cycles have at all so i suggested a night cycle will be safe at least one hour before till one hour after midnight.

well,i think i wil say it right that its no reason to trying to find a mistake within the game,when sometimes the mistake can be located within players them,selves.by that i mean as every one of us is unique also means we have our own playstyles and thus simply with some classes having need of concrete playstyles,there are 2 options for a player…adapt to that playstyle or choose different class to play.

xD seems when i will pick warrior instead on the time of creation i would be hitting 2 flies in one hit.

well,i started the game with necro as it sounded of the better end of survival line with the minions,healthbars,getting rid of conditions,but aye i was also considering warrior on the same line as necro,with guardian slightly behind,and reve at 3rd spot even if its buggy broken etc,seems also recently nerfed in support its been.

i myself have mainly used to play classes which in holy trinity thing these were clasiffied as supporters,most enjoyed classes were from lotro-captain and warden,like with some nice damage,nice survival (nor of these were greatest) and some supportive skills.captain especially earned the nickname jack-of-all-tardes,while warden earned his one-man army.

not saying your dedication to necro is bad,no,i simply wanted to find the class towards which i will be as dedicated.

ok so which classes are of those which are ok in every type of the game? (pve,pvp,wvw,raids,dungeons etc etc)

well,pvp…havent seen mmorpg with with good pvp aspects,apart of lord of the rings online,however there is pvp killed by lag…so i used to narrow down to the open world itself,also dungeons,raids etc.

Silv.9207:

Stefan.6194:

well,i picked necro as it seems also a safe profession…2 healthbars,loads of minions,all the condi tricks (especially consuming em to get better heal,plague signet thingy…)

In common map and event PvE, the necromancer is really strong. In maguuma jungle there’s really few things you have to fear because with a solid build you can kill mobs that no other class can kill alone.
The problem come when you play with other players.

In PvP necro don’t have immunity and is forced to literally eat everything the enemy send you (a little joke with consume condition heal) and is unable to move away or stop the enemy damage (have only a really small access to blind and a corrosive poison cloud that block projectiles, but actually only 3 classes use projectiles ranged weapons and can swap to melee or channeling weapons to burst you down anyway).

In WvW the only place where the necro is good is in the zerg to eat the enemy souls killeed by others and then spam Death Shroud AA and wells, and in that way it’s really strong, maybe the only place when a necromancer can shine. In roaming isn’t good enough to survive to almost all the other classes he face.

In Raid, Fractal and hard Dungeons the necromancer isn’t that good. Useful for Epidemic, inflicting conditions AoE (bhe there must be another class to inflict huge condition damage to be effective), it’s DPS is the smaller of all, making the necro useless once more. It’s been requested for corrupt boons of some raid bosses but a revenant mallyx can do the same with much better damage, expecially from the recent Lich Form minions (huge) nerf.

Actually there’s not a really good reason to play a necromancer in almost all the game modes, unless for it’s “cool” factor (because the reaper is really really cool!).

darn,wish i knew this earlier.

well i used to play several types of classes,mainly ones alike guardian,warror,revenant or elementalist but with no holly trinity in this game i rather wanted to start nice and easy. however wasnt thinking the class i picked wil be considered of the worst atm overall.

well,i picked necro as it seems also a safe profession…2 healthbars,loads of minions,all the condi tricks (especially consuming em to get better heal,plague signet thingy…)

a question off this thread but still,what class is then good to be played these days.because i get to the video of brazil discussing the patch too late (after making necro,instead of war as my first char) saying with the coming patch will also nerf necro (again) the class will be maybe totally useless and pointless.

well,picked one that very day i asked as i was mainly waiting for answer of a friend where he is and joined ring of fire but maybe will go elsewhere as i joined guild from different server (Gunnar´s Hold)

same as Nurfed.5346,new player who just bought expansion because interrested in revenant,but my question is this…any nice eu servers?havent found topic for it.