Guild Wars 2

In another thread the OP was talking about the future fights we will have against the dragons, saying that the sea dragon was probably the last one we would fight against. I was going to repost the old “sea dragon=quaggan master” joke but suddenly my hands started writing this…… thing. XD
you’ll notice few easter egg here and there if you are in gw2 for some time >:D

Avast ye. I told ye this old salt tale of the journey me had on the ship of me captain Weyandt. That day me own good eye saw it!
“Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!” Whit me always scream we left. Our honest labour’s journey was at its end while we were departin from Lion’s Arch, leavin behind that scallywag son of a biscuit eater first mate Shane, or how we called him, “the thinker”, to keep company to the little captain pet Chompy.
Our man-o-war was ready so we left the rum to the landlubber in town. As usual most of the crew was three sheets to the wind, but still the little Bess crossed smoothly on the sea. Our destination was our cove, near those flammery skullish islands of the southwest, to make sure to grab some booty from the merchants that tried that route from Cantha.
Days later someone from the deck spotted dark clouds ahead. The old coxswain howled at us:“Batten down the hatches, ye seadogs! Storm approachin! Heater, me dear Heater. Do not worry me girl. That storm’s nothin we haven’t already dealt with…”.
I told ya this. Girls on board are bad luck. Ye think a captain know that, don’t ye think too? But that journey our captain decided to brin he last girl on board. Whatcha was he thinkin, ahh me don’t know. Our helmsman was keeping the Bess on route while all hands were hoay, old salts doin they parts to keep the old Bess together for the whole day.
And it was then at night that we saw it!! “Thar she blows! Ahead of us, captain! She must be big one!” someone from the deck screamed. At first all we thinked that was a big whale ahead comin on surface. But no whale was never be so big, as the creature that went towards us. “Shiver me timbers! What is that? Reverse the route now, fast you scallywag dogs!” screamed the captain. But was it too late.
The most giant creature me eye have ever seen, erupted from the water half a mile away from us. It was high night but the lightnin of the storm illuminated the beast ahead, if only for a slightly moment. But, blimey, my good eye saw it! A dark bluish head eruptin from the sea, two rounded menacing eyes starin at us from that distance. The beast had noticed us and was headin our way, opened it’s mouth and howled at us with its mighty scream.
Still me old salt remember its terrible howl, a howl comin from the darkest halls of the darkish Grenth: “CoooOOOOooooooOOOOOoooooooooo!!”. “Grenth be praise, turn the poop deck to that thing! Heater, where are ye girl?!” The captain screamed at us to turn and flee from the monster, while he was searchin he girl. We turned our back and sailed the farest we could, even after the fifth later day came we kept sailin on the same route, sure that the beast was still after us. Only later when finally we reached back to Lion’s Arch, we discovered the captain girl fell off the deck durin the storm. The sensation of the beast followin us all the way back to the Lion’s port kept me old salt on land from that day forward.
Avast ye. Let me told ye this. Beware of the little CooOOoo scurvy dogs, because me old salt know they are the real threat of this world! Soon the beast will rose again and Lion’s Arch will be meet Davy Jones another time. Because i knew it is comin. It want me old bones, buried here! Even in death the beast still want us who saw it that day!

ahahah sorry XD it started with the boring joke “sea dragon=quaggan master” joke but then it run out of hands XD glad you enjoyed it ahahah

Avast ye. I told ye this old salt tale of the journey me had on the ship of me captain Weyandt. That day me own good eye saw it!
“Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!” Whit me always scream we left. Our honest labour’s journey was at its end while we were departin from Lion’s Arch, leavin behind that scallywag son of a biscuit eater first mate Shane, or how we called him, “the thinker”, to keep company to the little captain pet Chompy.

Our man-o-war was ready so we left the rum to the landlubber in town. As usual most of the crew was three sheets to the wind, but still the little Bess crossed smoothly on the sea. Our destination was our cove, near those flammery skullish islands of the southwest, to make sure to grab some booty from the merchants that tried that route from Cantha.

Days later someone from the deck spotted dark clouds ahead. The old coxswain howled at us:“Batten down the hatches, ye seadogs! Storm approachin! Heater, me dear Heater. Do not worry me girl. That storm’s nothin we haven’t already dealt with…”.
I told ya this. Girls on board are bad luck. Ye think a captain know that, don’t ye think too? But that journey our captain decided to brin he last girl on board. Whatcha was he thinkin, ahh me don’t know. Our helmsman was keeping the Bess on route while all hands were hoay, old salts doin they parts to keep the old Bess together for the whole day.

And it was then at night that we saw it!! “Thar she blows! Ahead of us, captain! She must be big one!” someone from the deck screamed. At first all we thinked that was a big whale ahead comin on surface. But no whale was never be so big, as the creature that went towards us. “Shiver me timbers! What is that? Reverse the route now, fast you scallywag dogs!” screamed the captain. But was it too late.

The most giant creature me eye have ever seen, erupted from the water half a mile away from us. It was high night but the lightnin of the storm illuminated the beast ahead, if only for a slightly moment. But, blimey, my good eye saw it! A dark bluish head eruptin from the sea, two rounded menacing eyes starin at us from that distance. The beast had noticed us and was headin our way, opened it’s mouth and howled at us with its mighty scream.

Still me old salt remember its terrible howl, a howl comin from the darkest halls of the darkish Grenth: “CoooOOOOooooooOOOOOoooooooooo!!”. “Grenth be praise, turn the poop deck to that thing! Heater, where are ye girl?!” The captain screamed at us to turn and flee from the monster, while he was searchin he girl. We turned our back and sailed the farest we could, even after the fifth later day came we kept sailin on the same route, sure that the beast was still after us. Only later when finally we reached back to Lion’s Arch, we discovered the captain girl fell off the deck durin the storm. The sensation of the beast followin us all the way back to the Lion’s port kept me old salt on land from that day forward.

Avast ye. Let me told ye this. Beware of the little CooOOoo scurvy dogs, because me old salt know they are the real threat of this world! Soon the beast will rose again and Lion’s Arch will be meet Davy Jones another time. Because i knew it is comin. It want me old bones, buried here! Even in death the beast still want us who saw it that day!

first thing first i ty all of you for finding the time to reply here.
reading your posts my curiosity towards this desert raised again. one thing in particular catched my eyes: Hall of Ascension? what is it? the wiki said it’s a place where adventurers can ascend (what those it means?) but what is it? is it possible that is still around now in gw2? and if it is, can our gw2 characters ascend (whatever it means) or the gw1 story was kinda “only your character is the chosen one. after you ascend nobody after you will never do it again”?
wow this desert is so fascinating every thing i learn about it
again ty all for the answers!

edit: reading more about this ascension it sounds like those who ascended are become like our gw2 revenants?

Hello. I’m a noob when it comes to gw1 stuff. As the expansion number 2 comes closer day after day, everytime i look at the map the only place where i can think there is enough space for a expansion like HoT is the right low corner of the map that after some research i discovered it is this crystal desert.
Now.
Forgot my thoughts about where the next expansion will be. I found myself intrigued with this place. So what is the lore of this place? What flora and fauna can we observe there? What kind of resources (is that place full of gold? Because every image i found there are golden things everywhere) do you think it contains? There are special characters around there that can be connected to gw1? (I found something about a lich king ruling the desert with an undead army! Cool!) Lazarus is somewhat releated to this place? Ty

4 years still lv 30 ranger? 5 lvs in 2 years? (you were lv 25 2 years ago) this is simple. you don’t like the game XD no problem with that, if everybody liked it there should be 7.000.000.000 accounts ^^

Boysenberry.1869:

I can sum up each story:

Follow the green star. Kill everything in sight.

KILL MAIM BURN!

zealex.9410:

Acnologia.6934:

Ahah… wait serious? And how dungeon,raid,fractals,bank,market,guild,world boss event,maps,pvp,wvw,gem store,craft,store,reward,exp from enemies,enemies,animals,npc,events work? Or you really think all of this is compressed in yours 30GB gw2 download??

most of that stuff happen automatically on timers so as long as the game runs on a timer stuff like that would be possible to happen but then again a great deal of the game is ment to be played with others around but he might mean just the exploration aspect which isnt so hard to prob make into a offline experience

Yeah but how do you think the timer is administrated? You really think all the items and exp you get from killing npcs is databased in your downloaded client? WELL then let me datamine the code so next time i kill a rabbit it drop me 4 dusk and 3 the hunter! And OP sorry if i my previous post was full of sarcasm but….. I couldn’t say “wow what a dumbfest post is this” :P

Ahah… wait serious? And how dungeon,raid,fractals,bank,market,guild,world boss event,maps,pvp,wvw,gem store,craft,store,reward,exp from enemies,enemies,animals,npc,events work? Or you really think all of this is compressed in yours 30GB gw2 download??

Yeah but because he’s new a berz build is better. Once he’s in raids he can / have the money for a viper

Azoqu.8917:

Acnologia.6934:

Warrior Viper gear charr blood legion phalanx strenght ftw

There, fixed that for you. I’d go farther about female human meta or sylvari take root, but eh.

For a new player,? I don’t think a new player can afford a full asc viper set :P
edit:or even a exo one

GW2 is not about leveling. It is a journey that never ends. To enjoy this journey anet made lving up to max lv the easiest possible. Once you reach max lv your true journey begins. It was this way 5 years ago it will be in future (thx to god).

Wait…. you own the game since release (5 years ago) never did a dungeon or reached lv 80 with a character (or you mean the masteries)and/or (if you haven’t a lv 80 yet) never explored HoT maps or Orr?

My first experience. I started when gw2 became free2play (try). After i created my Norn (may he rest in peace) i pressed start. The intro amazed me giving me chills. After the first mission I was roaming around with my Norn when suddenly the big bad icenorn event in svanir’s dome started. I remember i paniked not knowing what i was doing i died right when i was ready to give up my virtual life an angel came to my rescue (not really an angel he was a necro lol) he ressed me and told me the most beatiful line i’ve ever heard: “Ty i needed more life force. Please die again after i rez you” i still remember this line as if it was yeasterday XD after the event was over the same necro with his friends called me out asking me if i was new to the game. I didn’t even know how to speak in chat XD they helped me sharing some gold and equipment helping me lving up my character, escorting me from wayfarer foothills to the behmoth world boss event in queensdale because i didn’t hadd the waypoint after the world boss event everybody disbanded giving me even more gold XD after that i created my main Sunless the Reaper and bought the game with HoT. All this said i can tell you this game is worth buying even if you consider only its community. What i enjoyed and still enjoy the most from this game is the crazy stupid chat that you can find only in Lion’s Arch XD

Actually….. Verdant brink, Auric basin, tangled depths, Dragon stand, bloodstone fen, ember bay, bitterfrost frontier, lake doric and maybe another map soon…. 8 new hot maps.

Stronghold was a new mode …. everybody hates it…… idk why …. the base concept is good just need some restylish.

Ahaha well berzerker is the best warrior gear type for your equipment. Phalanx strenght is the raid/dungeon/meta event build for the warrior. you can check it online. Charr blood legion is the master race of the game. But warrior is easy to play hard to master. As i said if you are new choose your character class that is the most funny to play and master it. If you play something not fun you’ll never realt master it. Coff-i’m necro master everybody hates me but i kill them all-coff

warrior is loved by everyone instead… my two characters Sunless the reaper and Aryu the commander gate eachother lol

Whaaa engi???? Why? First time i heard that… thief yeah they are hated by all. But engi too now???

If you are new just play what you find fun. no need to rush to the endgame. Enjoy the journey

Warrior berzerker gear charr blood legion phalanx strenght ftw

Charr will burn the city after the failed AM atck…. just dreaming

What i think is. Hummies will be under heavy attack nearly defeated. But at last the Iron Legion will show up and save the day for the little ones. The charr will help DR so there will be no more racist human hate against them…… Or the blood legion will show up from the East eating and burning centaurs white mantle and hummies…. probably

Blood for the blood emperor. Skulls for the skull cauldron. Charr the time has come at last. Eat the hummies.

I started a challenge with my “weekly lv10 key character” just for fun and now i can’t stop it. Anyone here know Warhammer? Well i created a warrior Norn Slayer with blue tatoo and orange crested hairs. The Challenge is: first death=delete… And the challenging thing is i don’t use the chest armor and the only weapon set is the double axes. So long i killed all the HP in the starting areas the Jungle wurm fire ele jormag shaman behemoth some area bosses and my masterpiece i don’t know how…. tequatl when i was lv 18. And it gave me an ascended weapon chest too lol. Now sorry…. i must fullfill my Slayer’s oath.
edit oh right Now i’m lv 26 keep going up \o

Fenom.9457:

Neve.3145:

Acnologia.6934:

Braham will break it… i bet 1 copper on it.

And it will be the last scene (cutscene) we will see for that episode. #Cliffhanger

oh my god

Call us Acno and Neve :P that’s our job-name. Neve high five \o

If i wanted a place for serious business i was at work…..

That’s too is gw2 a little buggy here and there but stilo amazing

The first mission is amazing. It just show to Aurene how our community works ^^ welcome Aurene

Wonderfull… just wonderfull. That istance is amazing. This mission is the truly incarnation of the gw2 community. Ready to aid the others. Generous with those who need. Friendly and joyfull ^^. Those trials are just a welcome to Aurene into our community. And i love it. Gg anet ;D

wow … the requests are a little…. too much don’t you think? :/ anyway i’m really impressed by how nice Gw2 community can be ^^ keep it up ladz \o

The hidden cascade in The Grove

Ok… but why here? This is the story/lore section…. of course they don’t read it…

Rise again my puppet… oh sorry is it nor the necrophily club?

Mordy’s last “mistery” words….. ok we were destroying his mind but that fight is full of sub-strange phrases…. like “i’m power itself, i’m life itself… to deny me is embrace oblivion” and after the fight he comes out with that “what have you done”. His last words too are like “this is your last chance to change your mind and let me live bookha :P”
About ley lines… that’s what i was saying. But we are disrupting the energies flow of the world for sure in a bad way. I know what ley lines are for us but from where they come?? Why are they there? Dragons are part of a mechanism to equilibrate ley lines energy but who is the creator of this mechanism :P???
edit oh sorry. .. i think they are part of a mechanism. Just a tehory :P

And the rifts.. what are those rifts? Why now? I think jormag will tell us.

Nobody thought about mordy’s last words ?? What have you done!! Like there was something about him that was good for us…. i don’t know…… looks like the ED are a treat that’s sure but at the same time there is something….. by the eternal alchemy all that exist is there for balance. ED for sure are a big part of this balance. We are destabilizing the world killing the dragons, look at those anomalies. What are those rifts? What all those ley lines are there for? I think jormag will show us the answer. He was the user of those strange portals. He is able to comunicate with us apparently and normaly he tries to seduce his enemies turning them in his allies. I think we’ll talk with him this time. Ok we are food for them but the commander had killed 2 of their brothers. …. and the dragons are inteligent beings

Braham will break it… i bet 1 copper on it.

Ardid.7203:

Asura actually make individual teleportation functional, so jumping from one end of the continent to another is not really weird, as long as you are not moving massive amounts of people or material.

Its not Game of Thrones, bookahs!

But….. the “storm” is coming :p

PierPiero.9142:

I did not like it but i +1 on this. At least in unranked having a bit of variety is a good thing . I can understand you can not have it in ranked becouse builds for a such map should be a little bit different from builds on conquest and so , if you get this map randomly the match is meaningless. But in unranked, imho , it is better to have more maps. If my build is not ok for that map … and i lose , in unranked, it is not a great problem. Unranked is for having fun

you can swap build before the match

eheheheh my friend the time of the infinite whirlwind is over ^^ they fixed those problems. you can’t interrupt skill if not with wep swap. using GS 2 skill you can dodge and interrupt it but that’s it. the others were fixed long time ago

Ayrilana.1396:

Dawdler.8521:

Djinn.9245:

Dawdler.8521:

HoT solo which is supposed to be 100% group based “endgame” (relativly speaking) content.

Where do you get this idea?

Level 80 only zones, massive meta events on every new map designed for multiple groups, heavy bias to hard hitting dungeon level champions, raids that cant be soloed, guild halls for guilds, a new WvW map, updated Fractals, a new class designed to buff everyone around him to OP levels and other small tidbits…

What gave it away that it was mostly group based content?

I think you’re playing the wrong genre. Aside from that, most events that don’t have a champ can be done solo. I’ve ran through all of VB and TD events solo. I’ve done a handful of the AB events without much issue although east may be an issue at the first event.

yes you can solo them as i said the free the camps thing in VB or TD events can’t be called “events”…. but you have to admit that they are group focused… the entire HoT exp is group focused as he said…. BUT…. it’s too much group focused….. zerg are the norm in those maps. where you go there is a blob of people running around doing events like a giant halloween lab. and that’s what i don’t like. as the Devs said:

Current Hot Maps seems to push players to just do group event content rather than free-form exploration. That is not our intention. When we make maps we try to make them great both group events and exploration.
Players should not have to take part in multiple hour long zergs. There’s a lot of content in HoT and we’re trying to make it rewarding to play in a variety of play styles.
With HoT we leaned more heavily on the organized content unfortunately at the cost of more casual experience. This is something that we plan on making adjustments to and are taking into account as we develop maps in the future.

enjoy

Dawdler.8521:

Acnologia.6934:

Dawdler.8521:

So in short, your main issue with GW2 is that its an MMO?

nope. As i said my problem is that they are focused in train events map. We can’t explore nothing if not with a big group. Btw the devs as well have said the same….. so………………………………… meh

You can easily get world exploration solo and still do like 80% of HoT solo which is supposed to be 100% group based “endgame” (relativly speaking) content.

To me thats about as logical as saying that my main gripe with sPvP is that I cant play it solo, but each to their own I suppose.

nooooope…. map completition is not exploring an area…. is running to a point of interest and unlock vistas……. i’m talking about real exploration….. doing events…. fighting hidden enemies….. discovering secret places (like in TD the disco cave or the elemental. that map have some nice exploration. tell me where the exploration is in AB or DS……..)….. exploration is discover the unknown secrets mistery….. not a giant zerg train killing everything everywhere…….. sooooooo………. meh

Dawdler.8521:

So in short, your main issue with GW2 is that its an MMO?

nope. As i said my problem is that they are focused in train events map. We can’t explore nothing if not with a big group. Btw the devs as well have said the same….. so………………………………… meh

Uvirith.9573:

WP for lazarus’s love you kitten….! mastery:

In WvW Each time you don’t wp after being defeated in a blob fight, a cute, young, innocent guaggan is summoned and slaughtered right in front of you.
See what you did ? You monster.

ahahahah i’ll never wp then! is it once or a time gated quaggan’s slaughter? (like 1 every tot sec)
edit: sadistic mastery line
tier 1 when you kill a player in WvW or PVP he drop salt x1
tier 2 when you kill a player 3 times in WvW or PVP a giant TRIPLE KILL! appears and he drop salt x3
tier 3 your finisher move is faster. finished players drop more salt
tier 4 unlocked the ultimate salt finisher and a salt merchant who sell recipes for salty weapons and ingredients for the [Vialt of Salt] actually in-game.

the fact that you nearly can’t explore the HoT maps alone….. seriously if i have to kill an HP champ i need at least 1-2 others guys or (85% of the times) nothing. and any other events there. in core Tyria there were some events soloable. in HoT maps nearly 0. The veteran vinetooth in AB is soloable, the northern arrowhead champ when tarir is up so you can use an armor is soloable (with the armor), then…… the only one i can think is the Tangled depths HP near the Ogre’s camp west of it. the one where you fight a cave screamer or a spider i don’t remember (they are both up there don’t remember who is the HP boss :P)… the chain events like retake the camps or whatever don’t count because…. well are we calling them “events”? please for future maps allow us to fight some events when we met them and not run away.

Gyrofalco.3921:

Acnologia.6934:

well it is a 3 years old post and a lot of the problems posted there 3 or 2 years ago are still in the game. as i said the long hairs were a problem long time ago along with charr. btw outfit are designed to be used all in one piece. if the problem was connected with the only outfit maybe there was an hope they’ll fix that… but if the problem are the “long hairs of discord”….. meh

I will report this bug; long hair clipping and also will cut my hair short as above reply recommended.

as recommended above take screenshots of the problem non only one but more. maybe they can’t fix it for the sentinel one but they’ll be more carefull for the others that have to come. \o gl

well it is a 3 years old post and a lot of the problems posted there 3 or 2 years ago are still in the game. as i said the long hairs were a problem long time ago along with charr. btw outfit are designed to be used all in one piece. if the problem was connected with the only outfit maybe there was an hope they’ll fix that… but if the problem are the “long hairs of discord”….. meh

well……… don’t use it or cut your character hairs. the “stuck” problem is everywhere and long hairs are the first along with charr in general to rulez in this matter \[T]/

[Bladetrail] greatsword skill from warrior. it returns after an hit or more. :P anyway a new weapon type… meh nah.

sophiewhite.3149:

Acnologia.6934:

Maybe they can make it louder when in combact. More footprints and more large when the weapon is wielded.

cause all we want is another ponybow /s

Ehi i was cheering him up :P