Guild Wars 2

RIP GW1 updates. I shall still vote for bringing you back from the grave.

Anyways, we know of four liches in Tyria, and a few “psuedo/possible liches”. Said four are Khilbron, Joko, Zoldark, and Mazdak. The few are The Hunter, Fendi Nin, and the various Risen Liches.

Of the four outright called liches, all but Zoldak have the shared trait of “cannot die by normal means” – Khilbron was killed via his soul being ripped from his body by the soul batteries and bloodstone; Joko suffered through countless killing attempts including being burned; and Mazdak was only killable (or so he claims and everyone believes) except by Caladbolg (which seems to be an anti-undead blade, makes sense).

The Hunter is a Shiro’ken (a construct powered by a soul stone made by Shiro Tagachi) that was given magic by Khilbron to be unkillable (we never actually kill the thing in Nightfall, the quest is all about masking yourself from it and defeating it in a surprise attack to keep it from going after you again, but it is said it just got up and left after its feigned death, something it does a lot).

Zoldark was an oddity of the four, as by all indications he didn’t remain “alive” after we defeated him – instead, it was his minions which returned countlessly, unable to be killed (until Zoldark was “killed”). Though whether he remained dead, or just feigned death until we left like the Hunter does is unknown, but no indication of feigning death.

Fendi Nin was interesting as he was mentioned to have been given magic akin to the Hunter’s case (by the Vizier of Orr at the time), which allowed him to control other souls and, more importantly, return to his own body whenever ‘killed’ (we defeated him by ‘killing’ his soul).

Risen Liches, despite their names, aren’t really clear to be actual liches. They hold no interesting trait to them, they’re just powerful Risen Wraiths. The only exception is a very particular Risen Lich in Sparkfly Fen – after the related event, the Vigil part of the event mention it will return. But we hold no indication of such for any other Risen Lich; it should be noted that this Risen Lich appears to have replaced a named NPC who was present in the demos (same place and model), indicating that originally the event wasn’t for a generic Risen Lich. There are other Risen Liches, but no indication that they are unable to be killed.

It should be noted that, like Mazdak, the Soveriegn Eye of Zhaitan responds to a burning feeling when struck with Caladbolg.

This said, I’ll note that unlike traditional fantasy, liches in GW hold little to no evidence of having Phylacteries. The closest we get is a lore-less item name.

The Nameless Lich seems to have been a dropped plotline- iirc, one of the devs said she’d be playing a role in the future, but that was before they stopped making new content for GW1.

EDIT: “It’s safe to say you’ll be seeing [the Lunatic Court] again – as well as that lich.” http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/11/11/costume-design-and-hints-of-whats-to-come-massivelys-intervie/

That was just after Halloween 2010, and while the Lunatic Court stuff was followed up on in ’11 and ’12, the lich played no further role before the end of GW1 updates was announced in May 2013.

In one of the later GW1 halloween events they had (IIRC) a “Mysterious Lich” show up in Drok’s forge and hang out there.

Was wondering if anybody had seen anything I may have missed :O.

We had the feature patch extremely recently and Arenanet have been hard at work getting GW2 launched in China.

Not to mention they haven’t been silent, there are plenty of dev posts on the forums over the past couple of days. Stop making mountains out of mole hills. Yes big things are coming, but dont expect them super soon.

I agree to a certain extent.

While I don’t mind temporary content – since I think they Work well from a story-telling perspective – they should always bring something permanent to the game that isn’t just skins.

For example:

I wouldn’t mind another Molten Facility type of dungeon, where it ends up being shut Down or destroyed as the players complete it.

However it would be nice if new weapons or skills were introduced with it. So while the area itself is temporary, we will now permanentl have, trait skills, new abilities and gameplay mechanics always Associated with that patch.

On a more permanent note – I would like to see 1-2 new permanent dungeons and of course new zones – complete with Vistas, Waypoints and Renown Hearts.

If Mordremoth is hiding somewhere in the Maguuma Wastes for example, I would love to see a Living Story patch once per 1-2 months – but a new zone is permanently added to the game in that area each subsequent time.

Whole new map in WvW.
Rework of borderlands.
New skills.
Several new PvP-maps.
New dungeon(s).
New reward systems.
New world-bosses.
Etc.

Should I go on? All these things are permanent changes. Then add the massive amount of temporary things added and we have a rather large amount of new stuff.

Oh, that’s quite interesting, because I have played GW1 since about 6 months after Prophecies was released, and I can still see the fact that quite a few things have changed since release of GW2.

Just because you don’t like something being added or changed doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Claiming that is just silly.
GW1 had a rather generic story at times and back then we had almost as much complaints about the story as we currently have about GW2s story.

Fighting mechanics in GW2 is factually better than GW1. As for story-telling and story-meaning that is rather much personal opinion, don’t you think? I recall quite many people having rather major issues with adding Abby as the big bad evil behind everything evil that happened in Prophecies and Factions when Nightfall was released.

Lets not speak for everyone shall we?
Sure there are issues with the Living World, but there are issues with expansion based content as well.
Personally I prefer getting content more often in smaller chunks than having to wait half a year to get content that will be completed within a week or two.

Claiming that the Living World brings no real permanent content to the table is also a blatant lie (why have we gotten loads of these posts saying more or less the exact same thing and being proven wrong lately? Did the savior ESO fail and thus those people came back here to complain a bit more?).

Earthquakes are a common act in the game, related to various events. In Bloodtide, for example, there is an event chain within the Flooded Castavall about an earthquake unearthing a powerful risen (and artifacts though we never see them), and said earthquake does shake nearby areas.

I’m pretty sure I a Southsun quake before too, near the hive. One at the Maw during the event too, I think (shaking caused by the “blizzard”). So I don’t think any of these are new.

This said though, I would be disappointed if there weren’t a massive world map changing event. Even if we don’t see it in explorable areas, we should see some changes to the world map, IMO.

…actually, I haven’t, not yet, but it seems quite a few people over on Reddit did.

Given the ending of Scarlet’s story, I would have thought this sort of activity would be confined to the Maguuma area. However, perhaps the Breachmaker made a much larger breach than expected.

Has anyone experienced this while mapping, exploring, or simply running through the jungle?

In Guild Wars Prophecies near Lion’s Arch, there was a disturbance that resembled a tremor that resulted in a hole in the ground and the beginning of Guild Wars: Eye of the North and the arrival of a new foe known as the Destroyers. There may be no connection. But I felt like I should mention it.

OP is not imagining this. A lot of people have pointed out this happening in areas where there is no external cause. There was a discussion about it a while back, it might have been in the lore forum but I don’t recall.

Some bosses when they spawn and when you fight them cause the earth to shake. Claw of jormag crashing for one. unless you where in magguma jungle I wouldn’t attach it to Mordy. It happens quite frequently unless it had a really long duration 5mins or more i wouldn’t think it was that out of the ordinary.

While adventuring in certain maps there are now noticeable periodic unusual earth tremors and the appearance of risens or other foes. This had me started thinking. As each elder dragon awoke each had cause land mass disturbances in their own individual way. Now that Mordremoth has awaken are the recent earth tremors and hostile pop ups attributable to Mordy? If the earth tremors are attributable to Mordy, is this an indication that Living Story season 2 would start earlier than people had anticipated?

Rytlock’s sword is the authentic Sohothin.

While in GW1 they looked like any other Fiery Dragon Sword, in GW2 they have unique models, I believe. Rytlock’s sword looks like the original GW1 model while the Fiery Dragon Swords are more detailed and rough; Magdaer has two versions, the one wielded by Adelbern look uses the Jormag’s Breath model (or something very similar to such), while the physical Magdaer looking WAY different – looking like a Dragon’s Deep FDS-styled weapon (which I wish that model of Magdaer was available “Breath of the Dragon’s Deep” or “Zhaitan’s Breath” or something :I).

The king could’ve forced Rurik to leave it behind when he left Ascalon for Kryta.

Something like “I disown you, you aren’t worthy of that blade!” or something.

Or, after the ring of fire incident it washed up on the shore somewhere, and later Rytlock came into ownership of it.

I could also buy the heroes running past Rurik’s body on their way out of the volcano and picking it up to preserve it <_<.

Unanswered, but Logan claims Rytlock looted it from Ascalon.

Knowing that there are many Ascalonian-made Fiery Dragon Swords made in the design of Sohothin and Magdaer, it wouldn’t be surprising if the sword we saw Rurik wield after Nolani Academy mission was not Sohothin but one of the dups for xyz reason. Given that the names and uniqueness to the swords of Rurik and Adelbern weren’t shown until the pre-GW2 lore articles, it wouldn’t be surprising.

As the sword was last seen on the ring of fire, when the animated Rurik was slain.

We don’t know that was a druid in the trailer, to be honest. It’s hard to differentiate between a treant and a druid, since they hold the same appearance. The difference is that druids were Krytan humans who became treant-like.

Sylvari have a connection to mosshearts as they often tame mosshearts to be their pack carriers. Interestingly, there’s also events around Pinesouls with sylvari trying to protect said Pinesouls.

But the druids were humans. Krytans, specifically.

Honestly, I think people overlook any plausibility this skill holds (while making it sensible) just to jump to the “sylvari are dragon minions!” hypothesis.

Huh, that is a compelling piece of data. Perhaps the Sylvari were liberated from the dragon through the magic of the druids?

It was 1325 AE when the game launched, 1327 AE is the present day, the awakening of Mordy

Personal story 1325 a.E.

living story part I 1326 a.E. (1326 to early 1327)

today 1327

IIRC, wasn’t that plaque datamined and found as a cool reference to players?

I don’t recall it ever actually being placed ingame yet.

Well, according to wiki timeline, 1325 is personal story and the very begining of the living story. 1327 is when she attacks LA (I think all the events after that one break, so Marionette on IIRC.)

So if Battle of LA, in canon takes place early 1327, one could say it’s only been a year since she first appeared at the Jubilee.

It’s stated in the personal story (lvl 30 human) that Logan and Jennah cannot be “officially” together because regardless of his stature, Logan is not nobility. Their love is real and mutual, so there’s no reason for her to spurn him out of feelings and there’s no reason for her to go after others except for the whole “avoid the wrath/propaganda of the Ministry” (aka why she cannot date/marry Logan). But even if she chooses the political soothing route of marrying Caudecus (a widower and probably old enough to be her father by the looks of it, given that Demni is about Jennah’s age in appearance), that doesn’t avoid the biggest issue: the corrupt Ministry regaining power.

She needs to eliminate the power players of the Ministery (which was only able to get so much power that they became corrupt due to Jennah’s youth when her father died) before she can marry, otherwise Caudecus will use whomever she marries as a weapon for why she’s not fit for leadership.

I would take zone events happening continuously with a grain of salt, really. While most are done in a way to act like they’re repeatable, not all are, and Arah is pretty much the last thing chronologically prior to the LW stuff.