Guild Wars 2

Oh no!
Someone has something good to say about the Living Story… About /SCARLET!/
Quick! Every naysayer come in and shout out their opinion /yet again!/ This horse hasn’t been beaten quite to glue yet!!!!

Sarcasm aside, what exactly are you are expecting? Shakespeare level writing for characters in an MMO?
Scarlet /is/ a comic book villain. Explaining how or why she does the things she does is akin to asking how the Joker manages to get enough explosives inside a building to threaten to blow it up without anyone seeming to notice. If anything, she makes more sense then the Joker ever does because at least in Tyria, you really /can/ use ‘magic’ to do all sorts of things (like oh… I dunno… combine things that don’t normally go together… Like Oakhearts and Clockwork…)

As for the cinematic itself… I liked it. Just as I liked Scarlet as a Joker-esque villain. That’s my opinion, which makes it just as valid as anyone elses here (minus the constant vitriol aimed at the Developers. :P)

Errant Venture.9371:

Eszett.6950:

People really have it against Scarlet. She’s not half bad really. At least she has a personality unlike Traherne. Treharne…. whatever his name is.

I loved the cutscene, I think it’s a build up for the final battle with her. Finally you get to end her!

You call bad jokes and that awful baby-voice a personality? O_o

What else would it be? Harley Quinn of Batman has somewhat the same personality. She’s suppoused to be irritating. If you hate her she’s good enough of a villan.

As for the saturday morning cartoon villian storyline well, it’s not her fault mainly. I think the writers were a bit soft and went too PG 13. If she had killed someone important, or do something awful like sever the ties between Kryta and Ascalon, she would have been a bit more menacing.

You know, I thought that with the introduction of this maniac character (who wanted to be somewhat like a joker) we would get the politics of Kryta shaken a little bit. Zhaitan’s arc is full of the power of friendship and it irritates me to no end. I thought they could use Scarlet as a way to make things a bit more interesting… well there’s still time.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Anet, I hope you make the next living story about us with Marjory doing some detective work on what led Scarlet to evil. Interrogating people in Rata Sum, invade an Inquest lab to beat down a scientist who knew her, etc. Use that to flesh out her objectives, her motives, her real personality, etc. It’s the perfect time for us to play Batman.

Indeed. Anet, concentrate on Marjory and her back story have seen her only 2 times but jeez she has more character and has me interested more then Scarlet in all those months

…. Serious?

Personally thought that while graphically pretty, it was completely void and pointless. Complete “style over substance”. Was just Scarlet being her usual Saturday morning cartoon villain “I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME GADGET!!”.

I loved the tower itself, but Scarlet is such a hopeless waste of a character at this point. I would have forgotten why I cared at this point, except there’s nothing to forget…

The cutscenes pretty cool. When do I get my Mini Nightmare Tower Model to replay them?

Aerlen.5326:

She talked about Faren’s panties.

Day made.

Not even she could resist such power.

She talked about Faren’s panties.

Day made.

It was a good cinematic. Didn’t show us what we already knew, but it slightly caught my attention at the end. Not only did Scarlet look menacing, she outright ADMITTED that we won’t be seeing her for a while. Meaning this is the final time we’ll see her for the rest of the year.

Anet, I hope you make the next living story about us with Marjory doing some detective work on what led Scarlet to evil. Interrogating people in Rata Sum, invade an Inquest lab to beat down a scientist who knew her, etc. Use that to flesh out her objectives, her motives, her real personality, etc. It’s the perfect time for us to play Batman.

My only complaint about it is that it was the perfect chance to hint at her motive………..and if anything it made it seem even more like she has none to begin with.

The closest thing we got were those two nightmare court members saying something about not being her to see her plan come together or something like that.

It was certainly pretty… but that was about it. It literally told us NOTHING we haven’t already known for the last 3 months.

It’s kind of funny (if it wasn’t so sad), map chat is FULL of people with optimism that they are going to get to kill scarlet and see some big reveal at the top of the tower… I didn’t have the heart to tell them the truth.

When I saw that cut scene I thought “This is it. Scarlet will make her big reveal and we’ll be done with here forever”. But none of that happened. Instead we got nothing new and Scarlet getting away for the nth time hinting that she’s up to no good (yeah like we needed that hint…)

I just don’t get why Anet is playing it so close to the vest with Scarlet’s background. They desperately need to start leaking SOMETHING interesting about the character.

The cutscene looked pretty, but it was hollow, as has all of the Living World updates since this all started. The story is gonna have to beef itself up a bit if ANet’s gonna continue to try to sell this novelty of a Living World to it’s players and actually keep them interested.

It was the very essence of flash over substance. An awesome looking cinema that didn’t progress the story or reveal anything we didn’t already know.

As a commander I tend to make it a priority to leave no players behind, and focus on reviving people as fast as possible. I’m usually the one casting healing and condition removal, and helping up players, while the zerg around me just kills everything in sight. I hate it when zergs just run past everything, since it will just get a lot of players killed.

I usually switch on my command tag, and kill everything. Players tends to follow the commander, so if I kill everything, they kill everything. Better loot that way too.

Could players actually start fighting mobs instead of just running past them ? I think we’d all find the tower less annoying if we actually killed the things killing us instead of ignoring them and running while we hope to make it somewhere alive.

Alissah.9281:

I dont understand what this thread is about :/

It’s about a scent of humour.

DarkWasp.7291:

Amlin.6041:

As a warrior I take umbrage to being called “Aromatic”, pungent perhaps, maybe even going as far as seasoned, but aromatic was just hurtful Anet.

Should have rolled ranger. Only our pets smell, but we can stow them.

But never permanently. It’s tied to your leg at one point or another for the rest of your life.

You’re not allowed to be a lone ranger.

Smelly warrior, smelly warrior,
What have you been killing?
Smelly warrior, smelly warrior,
It kinda is your fault.

;P

I agree i like where this is going, with the new addition to elites, it finally gives mobs a little more AI. I mean till now its just been red circles and dogging 1 hit kills. Adding more elements to the combat like this can prove useful to counter the dps race. Back in gw1 healers were a pain in group mobs, yet here there almost non existent and def not something ppl focus fire on or anything, I know there no holy trinity for us but group dynamics in enemy AI is always a plus.

I’d rather my female warrior look like she was ready to wade through a field of blood and gore and get kitten done….not like she was going to cosplay at a convention.

The male phalanx armor looks perfect for it. The female version looks nothing like real armor.

OMG agreed! whole heartedly. I mean really, look at halloween. Only way to obtain mats for creating EXISTING skins is via trading post which is a round about way of pushing people towards gems. Fine whatever, we got new skins for this year anyway! wait, claim tickets only? oh, so again buy gems! Now we have the “Toxic Alliance” (don’t even get me started on how corny these lame alliances are. or about how un-freaking acceptable it is that the Krait are making an alliance with anyone…) But hey new armor, Sweet! Wait, gems? again? really? Oh, and the new weapon skins? Gems Gems Gems! kittening REALLY!?!? I spend more money on gems than I would a subscription fee. Heck, I would rather pay a sub fee and actually have cool rewards that i can obtain by, i dunno, PLAYING THE GAME! Wat freaking reason does a player have to continue logging in when the game is basically devolving into, swipe credit card, collect trinkets, wait 2 weeks, swipe credit card again.
I am really starting to fall out of love with this game. More and more every single patch, my eyes start wandering to possible alternatives.

Maybe those in favor or those against the PvE downed mechanic should actually provide balanced arguments to support their preferences. Because if you state that you personally hate it as your supporting argument for why it shouldn’t be in the game it almost sounds like you’re saying the game should cater to you. The same should also be true for those who say they love it and that is the reason for why it should be in the game.

Personal preference is never something that you can create a discussion around because everyone obviously has their own preferences that may or may not match everyone else. Simply put, provide backup arguments to support your choice.

I agree with what Hobbitz posted. In fact, my guild who have played a number of MMO’s together for years (AoC, GW1, FFXIV, Rift, SWTOR, Wow), quit playing GW2 (with the exception of myself) because of the difficulty in dungeons especially.

Call them bad players as I’m pretty sure you will. I call them people with a life and the stresses that come with that life. They don’t want to come home and have their fun time one shot constantly. It’s super frustrating and compounds a frustrating real world day. They don’t have all day to figure out how to use combos properly and gear up their character. So because they can’t see the content, they play other games.

Disagree all you want and argue playing styles, I’m just stating fact from my personal experience. I would love for them to all come back and play. Making this game harder would absolutely ensure that they never will. I would also really like to see two (or more) tiers of content with some choosing easy mode so they can enjoy it and others can have hard mode so they get their challenge. GW1 was brilliant in that way and we all played that for years because we had a choice.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Tobbygnome.6793:

Sea of Sorrows killed him, here is the screenshot for proof.

I don’t know, that looks fishy to me :P

Sorry about the quality, i have all my graphics down low.