Guild Wars 2

Howdy John! Any plans to reduce the amount of bolts of silk required for crafting spools of silk weaving thread?

I vaguely remember another NPC saying there were eight. Salma may have omitted Lazarus because they knew he wasn’t in the vicinity of Kryta.

vanderwolf.7084:

Also a note. The longer you’re in the mists physical changes can happen.

Uhm… Source?

I don’t think this has ever been stated. Closest thing is that souls go mad from being in the Realm of Torment for too long. But that’s to be expected – if you’re tortured for so long, you eventually break.

The simplest answer for why they’d take Saul instead of killing them is to maintain their aura of divine infallibility.

After all, Saul was the founder of the White Mantle and the first disciple and teacher of the religion of the Unseen. It would hardly do for them to kill him as being ‘worthy’ after making him their chosen. Take him away, leave his actual fate ambiguous, and the others are more likely to persuade themselves that Saul was actually being taken to be rewarded… where if they’d killed Saul then and there, even Dorian and the others might have decided that actually their loyalty was more to Saul than to his killers.

That said, it’s possible that the mursaat put Saul into some sort of stasis rather than killing him, against the possibility that he might become useful later.

Ya, the White Mantle kinda had to stage his funeral and build the whole tomb to keep their followers in the dark to what really happened. It’s kinda hard to promote a religion to people and have them accept their suppose “new gods” if they actually knew their “Unseen Ones” dragged away their champion because he outlived his usefulness.

Well, the event does also point out that the sarcophagus is empty.

Dirame.8521:

I don’t think you’ve given any concrete facts Aaron. From what you’ve just said, it still sounds like Saul could very well be alive.

There aren’t any concrete facts. He has as much a chance as anyone held hostage by a malicious power to see his 270th birthday, which is to say, perishingly little.

I don’t think you’ve given any concrete facts Aaron. From what you’ve just said, it still sounds like Saul could very well be alive.

The Prophecies manual was the “official” story- the survivors, now the leaders, propagated it to cover the fact that Saul was abducted against his will. As for his return… I find it highly doubtful. It would require his lifespan to have been magically extended, which A.) makes practically no sense, given we have no reason to believe the mursaat thought him at all valuable beyond the role they had just forced him to vacate, and B.) is practically out of his reach- consider that we’ve only ever heard of two humans, in the course of the entire series (3 if you want to argue for Doric) managing such, and have no reason to believe the power is at the mursaat’s disposal either.

Saul’s return isn’t technically impossible, and as always it depends first and foremost on whether ANet wants to go that route, but it’d take the stars aligning to actually happen.

Kossage.9072:

However, something to keep in mind while reading these interviews: there have been later mentions by the GW2 narrative team on the GW2 forums that if any interview ever conflicts with what’s actually presented in game lore-wise, always go with the game’s version.

Also something to keep in mind is that ArenaNet never had to worry about this until Angel McCoy continuously made errors on interviews, and from what was said she’s even the one who caused the year-gap-controversy for when Secondborn were born.

Grubb’s response was that purple is the color of evil in Tyria.

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He actually said that??

Weh no Su – translation being Closer to the Stars – is the exact same thing as Ascension but with slightly different flavor to it. So no, Druids and Weh no Su are not the same thing. Unless the whole plot revolves around Ascension, it wouldn’t make sense for one profession to undergo it and others to not and even then it still wouldn’t be the same.

It should be noted that the Celestials of Cantha is not inherently tied to Weh no Su so much as the other way around – Celestials can exist without Weh no Su practices and trials.

There may be a relation between druid and celestials, but not likely to Weh no Su.

Though it does make me wonder about that header that they gave – Closer to the Stars.

Elementalists created after the Feature Patch (April 15th) do have a bigger AoE indicator with the Blasting Staff trait. Old characters do not have that bigger indicator.

edit: Old characters do have bigger indicators in PvP, but not in PvE and WvW.

Absolutely Forgotten, but to be fair, there is what appears to be a mursaat in the Heart of Thorns trailer :P

Called it. Nice cinematic.

To be honest, I don’t think their longevity plays any factor, seeing that they were alive the last time the ED were active and were still alive during Guild Wars 1.

You can argue that the Mursaat in GW1 were the descendants of the ones 10,000 years ago, but that race strikes me as one that, much like the Human Gods, have certain aura of divinity or power about them.

Although I do agree that the White Mantle, and also their masters in the shadows have greatly diminished the danger they posed, due to their dwindling power and numbers.

On October 20th, Colin Johansson published the following article:

Point of No Return

Go ahead and read it, it’s reasonably short. But if you didn’t, here’s the part I find the most interesting:

Into the Jungle

The road to war is paved by points of no return. Tyria has already decided to take the battle to Mordremoth. As we go on this journey we’ll learn dark secrets of Tyria’s past, venture into stories with roots deep in the very heart of Guild Wars lore, and visit places that have only been rumored to exist.

As we have seen during Season 2, Episode 5, in the different fortresses spread around in The Silverwastes, some Bandits that belong to the Sinister Triad have left, in their rush to abandon these outposts, different clues to their possible real affiliation.
So… what is the Sinister Triad?

Well, Peacemakers, Seraphs and Wardens agree on some sort of alliance between Inquest, Bandits, and Nightmare Court, based primarily in the Brisban Wildlands. Additionally, some at the Shinning Blade believe that at least one group of Bandit is in reality a White Mantle cell, operating near Divinity’s Reach.

The clues that I mentioned above seem to point to the Bandits belonging to a remnant of the original White Mantle, a military/religious group that controlled Kryta roughly 250 years ago. It was formed by Saul D’Alessio, and was responsible of preventing the fall of Kryta to the Charr. Saul was a drunken gambler who was banished to the Maguuma Jungle because he hadn’t paid his debts. He, for all purposes, was sent to die.

But Saul returned, a changed man. He came back speaking of a city of tall spires, never before seen architecture, and divine creatures that had saved him. These creatures would be known as “The Unseen Ones”, but in reality, they were the Mursaat, one of the races that fought the Elder Dragons 10,000 years ago, on the previous occasion when the ED were awake.

Now, the city that Saul described has never been seen, and was NOT visited in the original Guild Wars.

I theorize we may see the return of the Mursaat as key players in the lore of the world; yes, apparently only one Mursaat was still alive 250 years ago (And granted, much changed after an encounter with a group of human heroes), but the line […]venture into stories with roots deep in the very heart of Guild Wars lore, and visit places that have only been rumored to exist from Colin’s article lead me to believe we can hear from them and their fabled city very, very soon.

Thoughts?

definitely speak for yourself

Jumping Puzzles is one thing gw2 does well, that and zerg content. It doesn’t do dungeons well that’s for sure.