Guild Wars 2

I definitely suggest warrior. They’re tanky, very simple and the PS(Phalanx Strength) warrior usually brings 2 banners(long cd, drop and forget sort of deal). So you only really need to focus on your main bar. It’s doubly good because PS warriors are sought after in all forms of content in the game(except pvp).

So this achievement/collection requires the player to be sucked into Tequatl’s whirlpool attack. That much is simple to understand. The problem arises now that player’s are so well versed in the Tequatl fight, Teq isn’t given the chance to actually cast it. I’ve done some light reading and it seems he doesn’t use the whirlpool attack until he is -75% hp. So the only time he casts it is if you’re lucky enough in the first phase, he might drop it just before he leaps into the air. OR, your subsequent burn phases are inadequate, and he isn’t pushed into the next battery phase in the burn. I haven’t seen that happen in god knows how many attempts.

So what am I supposed to do? I’ve tried logging into a Teq map 5 minutes before the spawn, and even they were co-ordinated enough to take him down too fast. I logged in past the spawn, and it’s just a desolate map with no hope of getting him below 75%.

This is literally the last step for me in this collection and it is frustrating to all hell. I know I’m not the only one in this boat, because in every Teq, I speak into map chat and there’s usually 2 or 3 other people waiting like me.

What’s our fix? I can’t really convince a zerg to do crappy dps for my sake.

It’s frustrating when I swap a dual wield set to a 2 hander, as the offhand is deposited into your bag as normal loot. As someone who likes to keep his inventory neat, I find myself forced to move the offhand from amongst the loot in my bag, back to the bottom, where I keep the rest of my gear. Is it so bad to have our offhands disabled while a 2 hander is equipped, or is that 1 extra slot in bag space really that valuable to Anet?

To start off, I highly doubt that Livia is Anise based on that Anet haven’t illustrated a pension to twists like that. Maybe yet. Who knows? I would love it if they had thought it through and we can expect twists like this.

But just, for one moment, imagine that Livia is Anise. What if the Shining Blade retinue around the Queen, particularly in Anise’s company are actually bone minions, but illusioned into guards?!

Mindblown?

Agreed. A rallying speech by Ellen Kiel(that could be reused ingame for the event) with the same panoramas would’ve been much more exciting. Oh well.

I would agree with Cantha aswell. Within the lifetime of one emperor, he managed to rally a force strong enough to force unification of a whole empire. I mean, the Luxons and Kurzicks were no pushovers either. Two factions that were always at war with each other(which stands to reason they would be a formidable force if war is all they knew) and both were crushed swiftly.

Of course, who knows what they’re like now. For all we know the new emperor is a peace loving hippie who makes his citizens pick daisies and eat ice cream all day.

I’d like to point out that they went from a “firmly confident LS will be our way of introducing expansion level content” to a “we really don’t know how we’ll continue to provide expansive content” in the most recent interview with Colin.

I think if the masses continue to chant for an expansion, we’ll likely get one in the future. From then on, I’d see the LS as the content in between expansions, sort of like how MMO’s like WoW release new tiers of raids in between expansions.

Which is really interesting, because then we could get a whole season of story that directly leads into an expansion, as opposed to just having them pop up out of nowhere.

I’d like to point out that Anet may have intentionally known the size of Zhaitan, and only scaled him according to the angle/perspective that it would be portrayed in the game. I mean to say, that perhaps Zhaitan could have been scaled down(he’s still huge though!) to provide less exertion on some rigs etc. since they figured it didn’t matter since we didn’t see him up close anyway(a mistake in my mind).

If they ever did revisit him, in a more boss battle encounter, I wouldn’t be surprised if his size was emphasized and turns out bigger than the current ingame model.

Edit: By the way, beautiful renders

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Tengu-inadvertently-confirmed

Zhaitan was deathly afraid of fireworks. Had a fatal heart attack.

Poor sod.

I’m inclined to think that dragon painting is important and not a simple red herring(could still be, but they’d have to carefully write it into the story within the next 2 patches to make sure it’s not out of the blue).

Why? Because it’s content for the majority of GW2, and the majority don’t come on the forums to seek closure. If it turned out to be unrelated(ie. just an already existing grawl painting), a lot of players would just be confused. When creating content for the masses, clarity and/of direction is very important.

Well there’s a rabbit in FotM…

On top of my skepticism, I’d want there to be a bit more story to the Tengu’s release. Imagine a large part of Season 2 is Tyria urging the Tengu to join the fight. I mean, yeah, it’s not beneficial to them, but if you don’t join now, do you just hope the dragons just poof and go away?

Some great dialogue could be written there

maintenance build.

NOT the large feature patch.

Rym.1469:

Large feature patch comes on March

Have you got a source on that?

Colin Johanson: Due to the size and scope of the final four story releases in season one, the next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished.

I so far haven’t seen a confirmation of a month. I mean, Season 1 is slated to end in March(March 4th should be date of the last release if they follow the fortnightly schedule). I’d be mighty impressed if they released anything further in March.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

well you see what happened was those deer were very intelligent and though you couldn’t see them they watched and sometimes even participated in the great battles of old pre-searing ascalon fighting against both charr and humans who claimed to be legendary defenders of ascalon racking up kills and gaining combat experience, these skills were passed down for generations and refined into what we see now innocent looking killing machines. You may realize this is similar to the rabbits who work in tandem with the vaettirs to kill their human enemies.
“the more you know”

Brilliant. It’s essentially training, where one day they’ll enter the Mists to fight those dastardly WvWers.

It’s there to gate content. It’s not a true representation of how strong your hero is. If you waltz into a zone and a doe one shots you, yeeeeah, you’re in the wrong zone, come back later.

Whilst it’s exciting and promising, Anet did say that after Season 1 of the LS they’d take a break(which would be longer than 2 weeks at the minimum to be considered a break, but I’d wager a couple of months) and hit with a large feature patch. That is(hopefully) the sort of patch that could bring content as big as a new race. Having said that, it doesn’t really make sense to have it discounted now unless they intended to have it on discount for the next few months…

I think this probably fits in the General forum a bit better. Either way, it’s a great idea, so much that I doubt Anet hasn’t thought of it, but more or less, they have finite resources, so it becomes a question of how highly do they prioritize it?

If you were to get an answer, I’d expect a “some time down the line, but not actively being worked on” sort of answer.

Braham the Babysitter

It gets tiresome eventually, no matter how short. I’d be happy for HotM just being available at the start.

Firstly, since the Suggestion Forum is gone, I’m not entirely sure where this kind of thread should be. If I’ve posted in the wrong are, so sorry! If this could be moved where it is appropriate that’d be great

Very small quip, but do we remember the old “PvP” character option? You would make a toon and it would get sent straight to the PvP hub. I want something similar for GW2, because let’s face it, when you’re this far into the game, you get pretty bored of your toon in PvP. It’s nice to reroll professions in PvP(I have a char slot dedicated to PvP toons only) that could be a “what-if this character was another race?” etc. Some times you just want silly names that it’s hard to RP with in PvE etc.

So my suggestion is just a simple small tick box at the char creation screen that says PvP character. All it would do would just send the toon straight to Heart of the Mists, skipping the tutorial. If the character tries to go to LA, it just sends them back to the tutorial again.

That or just make Heart of the Mists available in the tutorial, but I can see why they didn’t allow that just incase new players get lost clicking it.

How do people feel about this?

perilisk.1874:

moomooo.9357:

I think it’s not entirely a brand new trope, Scarlet likely being the “villain being manipulated by another villain”. I think you’ve managed to squeeze the characters into certain perceptions(but I really liked the Lyssa idea) which aren’t entirely true.

It’s a neat coincidence though

I don’t know that it requires a villain behind the villain. There was no one that drove Abaddon insane, and he was already bad. He just got stuck for what seemed like forever in a prison filled with nothing but his own thoughts, and the evil he took in, his own evil, is what made him that way. Ceara wasn’t exactly an angel even before Omadd’s experiment.

So, that would sort of fit, even if she got the order wrong (first wage war against TPTB, then be driven insane in a prison of thought, then transform the world in the image of your insanity, silly salad).

Oh, I meant that Abaddon was the villain behind the villain He was behind Shiro and the Lich. So they’d play a similar role as Scarlet :P

Ceridwen.6703:

I’m going on out on a (tree!) limb here, and whilst I agree with sylvari not being minions, my conclusion isn’t reached through lore (although Konig says absolutely everything that needs to be said lore-wise to debunk the minion theory).

I come to the conclusion whilst thinking of how RL players would react to a player race becoming even more “special”. A lot of us are playing sylvari, but a lot more (random internet calculation) aren’t. Is it worth putting an entire group up in this way? I think it would actually end up causing more trouble and friction than necessary.

Inside the game itself, there’d be an awful lot of work needed to adjust in-game reactions to sylvari everywhere. I’m not convinced the other races would be quite so comfortable with working with sylvari if it turned out they were dragon minions, even if a lot of good work has previously been put in. I’d like to put more words to this than this ( ), but I’ve not had enough sleep or cups of tea to be fully functional yet.

I don’t think that’s necessarily entirely true. As it stands, all four other races have a history to speak of, and that history has plenty to be expanded upon. The sylvari actually have the least potential history since they’re so new. Besides that, would people really get upset if one race had such an importance? I mean their stories ingame wouldn’t necessarily change, right?

Additionally, you’re right, reworking the dialogue etc. to reflect the shift in trust would be a tough job. Oor they could write it as it’s a fact only you and certain individuals know, and it’s imperative you never let the world know so as not to sow the seeds of doubt in the rest of the races(plenty of reasoning for them to choose this cause of action).

I think it’s not entirely a brand new trope, Scarlet likely being the “villain being manipulated by another villain”. I think you’ve managed to squeeze the characters into certain perceptions(but I really liked the Lyssa idea) which aren’t entirely true.

It’s a neat coincidence though

This is one of the theories that’s popped up in many of the theory threads already

Visteri.3821:

On the other hand, if they are planning to make Zhaitan rise again in order to make a better Zhaitan 2.0 fight, the personal story for newly created characters might change as well. It could become about the second time Zhaitan was killed. That would free them up to do whatever they want with the world.

However, that idea brings a number of problems with it, first in that the part of the story that deals with the Pact would have to change significantly. We can’t have the Pact being canonically founded twice. (Though if they managed to find something better to do with Trahearne…)

Second, I’m sure a lot of players would be mad about it. Newer players because they’re part of the second group instead of the first, meaning they’d feel less important, and older players because they had to go through a less fun version of the story and now the noobs get everything handed to them on a silver platter whine whine. But there’s nothing stopping them from making it playable for older characters as well.

Still, this would also take a massive amount of work and probably wouldn’t even be worth the time and money. Better to direct their focus toward making fun new content.

I guess we’ll have to see.

Aside from the potential problems coming up with messing up LA, couldn’t Anet just tack on Zhaitan’s 2nd coming as additional PS? Rework some of the LS into PS missions and you’d get an extended PS that people could follow up with.

Gnat.9405:

I wonder if the uncommon correct theory is the Fractal one lol

What theory was that, sorry?

lordkrall.7241:

moomooo.9357:

This belongs in the suggestion forum.

Which was removed about a month ago So suggestions go to the area which they effect.

Oh, my apologies then

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

So only the PC and Caithe have fought Zhaitan in the Dream… And Scarlet knows a secret about Caithe (a shared secret, if I remember correctly)… and Scarlet draws pictures of a dragon on the ceiling of her cave, which shares a likeness with the dragon from the Dream.

This seems to be hinting towards Zhaitan. Not Mordremoth, not Primordus, but the dragon we supposedly defeated. An Elder Dragon whose champion recently became stronger (Tequatl) and was said to have a story reason.

I think the Zhaitan idea has merit with LA being the target. Zhaitan is the only dragon(I think?) that has invaded LA with it’s minions. Considering they said Tequatl’s buff was related to the LS(but who knows how loosely? But hasn’t been addressed yet which is strange…) and the general panning of Zhaitan’s final fight, might this be an opportunity to redeem Zhaitan’s implementation? I mean he definitely has reason to attack LA and the Pact.

But, is Anet really going to go back?(As much as I want them to). When do they call quits and say the past is the past and move on to newer things?

This belongs in the suggestion forum.

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

I suspect that Scarlet is being duped by the Personal Nemesis(remember ArenaNet has stated before we were introduced to Scarlet that the Personal Nemesis would be someone we know) into attacking Primordus on the assumption that he’s the source of the voice….

There are many possibilities as to whom the Nemesis might be yet for the Nemesis to be someone we know it would have to someone we’ve seen and someone capable of shapeshifting at that if it’s the voice whispering into Scarlet’s head….

Jennah is implied to be trying to avoid direct contact with Logan. Why? Because she’s not Jennah of course! She’s the Nemesis in disguise! He/she would have to avoid Logan if he/she is to pull off his/her scheme perfectly… I also think Kasmeer might also be a candidate for one of the Nemesis’s disguises…

I’m also of the opinion that the Nemesis is the one who manipulated Zinn into creating those Golems… The Nemesis’s attempt to either remove the rulers from Tyria failed or worse…. Maybe fall of the Mursaat was the plan all along….

I believe the Nemesis could only be personal if he/She did something personal to us and what would be more personal than killing our mentors/Destiny’s Edge? We know Logan is loyal to his queen and if someone killed and impersonated her than Logan would recklessly attack the Nemesis and die thus causing the other members of Destiny’s Edge to rush in and die. That would make it personal!

I believe this has been brought up before, but Colin’s quote wasn’t that we get a personal nemesis per se, a villain would be created that would be instantly recognizable(as in, has unique attributes) and could further become a personal nemesis. I think he was talking about Scarlet.

After blowing up LA, it’ll set the stage for the Marionette’s Ballet Show! Tickets on sale til May.

I too believe that LA isn’t the true target, and I think when they say she found the leylines under LA, that is her literal target. It’s another intersection akin to Thaumanova, and she plans to utilize it one way or another. It’s simply that LA is in the way.

There is the point that only now has the probe turned green, and honestly I don’t really have an answer to that. BUT! I do have random musings!

Scarlet herself may think she has a reason to attack LA(to get to the leylines or what not), but this may very well be a delusion. She’s arguing to the entity that her actions are really her actions, and it’s set up to be a “her plan was the entity’s plan all along” sort of deal. Maybe the entity wants LA to be attacked and that’s it(this makes all ED’s a suspect, not just Mordy).

Additionally, I might be wrong, but the attack on LA very much seems like the next patch. We know it will be a climactic 4 part series, and it stands to reason that the last part will be the most climactic part. All the parts are in place to battle in LA next patch(there’s no current plan the NPC’s have to stall the attack, they are literally telling you to get ready to defend LA). So that means whatever happens at LA, it’s not the endgame plan, be that part of Scarlet’s original plan, or the revelation of the entity’s true plan.

How exciting

What happens when you complete the Hunt? Is there a moment of clarity, like “Ah, yes, I’ve definitely finished my Hunt!”, or what? Is there a way for us to know, definitively, when the Hunt has been finished?

Shiren.9532:

snip

You’ve basically “written around it” like I said Anet could. But you haven’t actually provided anything that supports what you just wrote. You are totally in the right to have your own opinion and speculation, but as it stands, Anet has done nothing to support what was just written.

CharrGirl.7896:

If the Pale Tree is the supposed champion of Mordy, note, supposed not confirmed, maybe she makes all Sylvari with their psyche blocked off from the dragon.

That way she can protect them not to be corrupted from the start, in their Dream. That’s why the Tree warned her not to look further, or it would break her.

And what about the “random” jungle dragon boss in Sylvari Dream sequence when you start a personal storyline? The “poison” that threatens every new sylvari?

What if Scarlet’s mentioning Caithe’s “secret” is actually Caithe’s knowledge about the elder jungle dragon? Doesn’t this also explain why is Scarlet chosen specifically, as a sylvari? Couple that with their limitless curiosity and unknown learning capacity. Mix that with a crazy asura and you have a deadly combo.

And why isn’t Pale Tree evil? Because it grew on top of Ventari’s teachings.

It would actually be a great way to introduce a new dragon!

So basically you’ve surmised the general concept of the Sylvari and Mordy theory. It is indeed a nice way to bring a new dragon into the fold, and it is a mindkitten that not many other MMO’s could contend with.

It is however wishful thinking for now as there’s no concrete evidence supporting the theory. No one doubts that it would be an awesome idea, but there is evidence against it.

First and foremost, Malyck never had a Dream of Dreams. But as it stands, he hasn’t fallen to corruption like the theory would posit. The other theory is that, so far, to date, no minion has broken the control and will of it’s dragon overlord through sheer will/circumstance. Glint’s control was broken due to a specific Forgotten ritual.

Of course it’s within Anet’s abilities to write around these and provide arguments, but so far, they’ve yet to do so, so it still stands as wishful thinking.

A cute and neat thing they could’ve done in the PS was to ask if your 1st word in the name is your 1st name. I would say most people followed that order, and if that isn’t the case the game would just treat your name as it does now.

On the other hand, if you had nominated what your first name would be, closer NPC’s like the current band of heroes(Braham etc.) could call you by your first name only to signify the bond between your toon and them. This would’ve been particularly awesome in the newest story instance!

^, This. Anet has given too many arrows pointing towards dragon influences. This seems like the best explanation for Sylvari being Mordy’s minions, IF that is how they choose to proceed.

It could very well end up being that only Scarlet has the connection to a dragon, not all of the Sylvari. Hard to say now I feel.

Yeah, the feeling of a merry band of adventurers is definitely present now.

Tacking on, under the assumption that Mordy would provide more plantlife(seems pretty reasonable), can also assume where the jungle is thickest could be where Mordy lies. It’d be really neat if in the LS later, they judge the rate of desertification and use that to center on Mordremoth.

I only gave it a cursory flick through so I’m not here to dispute what is likely/possible inside the lore, but however, the aftermath is tremendous. I’m likely to write it off simply because I don’t think Anet has the budget nor the time to be able to drastically change the world like such

What if it’s just a lair? With some small minor things brought into it to experiment, but not really the true source of her experiments(I mean, it’s a pretty kitten small cave). What if she saw it as a place to “get away”? I see that as more likely, a place she didn’t frequent that often. Maybe like a thought palace.

Are you referring to the red paint? Looks like paint dripping from the jaw as opposed to trying to look like anything.

Could it be that Scarlet meant that they had originally mistaken dragon energy as chaos energy only in that instance(ie. they knew there was chaos magic, may have seen anomalies with their proximity to dragon magic, but continued to research assuming it was still chaos magic)? And perhaps after this instance, that’s when they discovered the differences in both types of magic? Or is it fact that they knew there were two types(chaos and dragon specifically) when they were researching there?

I find it unlikely that the side-effects of chaos magic, so perfectly line up with its namesake(I mean, it’s all very chaotic). Dev-wise, it’d be unwise of them to make dragon magic so chaotic and easily misinterpreted as chaos magic. To the casual player, it’d be very confusing, and it is in their best interest to make things as readable/obvious as possible.

Ok, so thanks for the clarification on fractals. But that does mean Scarlet could potentially meet a representation of Abaddon for knowledge etc. This isn’t me agreeing with that theory(I personally don’t think it likely), but still possible. I see people toting around saying like it’s fact that Abaddon can not reappear and I think it’s just a little unfair to rule peoples opinions off like that.

Also, yeah, about the afterlife, we could potentially meet non-human heroes in the Mists since we don’t know where they reside. Also, once in the UW, can those ghosts ever break out?

So the afterlife =\= UW, so if you were to die in the UW, you would continue to the afterlife? Or is that whole procedure sketchy too.

So what with all the talk about the Mists recently, a few questions have risen up for me. So to clarify, this isn’t a theory thread, but more of a possibility check, that is, what is and is not possible in the Mists, with evidence etc.

So I’ve read a lot about Abaddon and how it’s impossible we meet him because we’ve killed him. Aside from the devs saying it’s unlikely, is it possible for Scarlet to meet a previous version of Abaddon, like in the past? Or is it because we killed Abaddon in the Mists, he is unable to manifest in the Mists at all, past and present versions of himself.

Since the Mists are described as the connection of the multi-verse, could we see multiple versions of Scarlet? Maybe even versions of of NPCs that are reversed(heroes gone bad, villains gone good) etc. Or is that just a description that Anet are not keen to explore, making multi-verse theories unlikely?

Additionally, the Mists seems to act as some sort of afterlife(very confusing). What happens if you die in the Mists? If you die in the real world, do you ALWAYS go to the Mists, or is that a right reserved for certain individuals?

Could we potentially see our old GW1 heroes as “ghosts” in the Mists? Heroes like Mhenlo, Devona, Jora etc.? Would be a great throwback to the veterans and a possibility to add new compelling heroes who may give us just a bit more insight into what happened to the world after our story ended in GW1.

Any answers and additional questions/theories all welcome in this thread!

Sorry if any of these questions seem obvious to you, but the Mists wiki article didn’t have much to go from, so thanks for your patience

A lot of people are seeking big changes, or big chunks of new content, but personally I feel that the game could feel a lot smoother and more enjoyable with a few more of these simple quality of life improvements. I don’t know if these warranted separate threads to discuss, but I didn’t want to flood the forum with many different threads so I just collected them all here.

- Separate bag inventory for Heart of the Mists(so you can keep different sets of sPvP gear ready to swap in your bag without clogging up your PvE)

- Allow free WP’s to all capital cities from anywhere in the world(since we all go through HotM anyway)

- Allow us to reset traits anywhere in the world(even if keeping the 3s change fee)
(Would encourage more trait/build swapping on a whim. If the issue of changing builds to trivialize content comes into mind, perhaps add a daily limit of some sort)

- Let Ascended items salvage into something so they don’t become vendor trash(Currently if you get a ring you don’t need, or an alt doesn’t need, it’s practically useless, reduced to just vendoring it for measly silver. That makes it value less than a rare, which doesn’t sit right with me)

- Let loot and interact be bound to two different keys(people have asked for this from day one and I can’t really disagree. Should really be an option.)

- Trait builds saver!(I don’t expect this for awhile, but boy would that make me a happy man!)
Dye configuration saver!(same expectation as the above)

- Let Dungeon Tokens stack to 1000 and depositible(seems like this may be in the works, right clicking them now shows the option, only greyed out)

- Make Badges of Honor a currency, not an item so that players need not worry about spamming loot as they fight

- When equipping a two-handed item that overrides 2 weapons, have both weapons go into the bag the two-handed item came from, if possible.
(eg. I like to swap between pistol and shortbow often. I keep all my spare weapons and gear in an invisible bag in the last slot that I have, to make sure I don’t accidently sell something and overall just to improve organisation. However, every time I equip my shortbow, I know that I have to go back to my inventory and click drag my 2nd pistol back into my invisible bag again. It’s such a minor thing, but I think a lot of people would appreciate such a feature)

I could probably think of more, but these changes would go a long way in making the game more enjoyable for a minimal amount of effort