Guild Wars 2

Legendary Accessories, Amulets and Rings?
I mean, it may sound trivial, but it’s very handy for fractals and raids, especially fractals, since you can put AR on it, and then use it for all your characters.
I already once suggested a legendary amulet with a graphical effect per class that uses it:
warrior: Fancier banners
necromancer: shadowy minions
elementalist: halo of elemental attunement
guardian: blue light becomes red
engineer: fancier turrets
revenant: thorns of ripping mists
ranger: pet leaves a trail of nature
thief: .. no clue
(note, just visual effects)

Charrbeque.8729:

Which is funny because they just disabled it due to a bug. (33 minutes ago at the time I’m posting this)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/The-Wayfarer-s-Henge-Backpack-Disabled-May-10-2017

hm???
what was wrong with it?
what issue? I did it today, everything worked as intended…
I was just about to get the last runestone tomorrow…
why anet? what was wrong?

Been a while since the norn hung our little asura friend over the walls of Divinity’s Reach..
hope she’s not getting tired.. did the dev writing this forget about it?

Azoqu.8917:

I’d have to say the GW2 character for the following reasons:
1) You are almost always saving the world in a smaller group than 8.

Doesn’t say much, you can solo in GW1,
You cant defeat a single bandit with a flamethrower without 9 allies going full throttle
Canonically, you defeated Zhaitan with a pact fleet at your call
Canonically, you defeated Mordremoth with Destiny’s Edge 2.0 and the alliance of Guilds fighting off the Mouth of Mordremoth simultaneously.

Azoqu.8917:

2) Dragons are more powerful than the gods, so killing 2 is a pretty huge deal.

See point one, you didn’t kill Zhaitan without a massive army, and you could get into mordremoth’s mind with friends, because mordremoth was distracted because the alliance of guilds was attacking the mouth of mordremoth.

Azoqu.8917:

3) You are loaded up with Bloodstone crack cocaine and I wouldn’t be surprised if Balthazar gets empowered by stealing from Kralk and we beat him down because we’re so juiced up.

May I remind you that the GW1 character was Ascended, which was pretty much the dopest thing the gods could do for mortals.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Giants were prolific in Elona in GW1, so if we end up going there for the next expansion then the issue could be solved there.

only if anet can be skritted to actually do it. I think we’ve yet to see a single slayer achievement for all the creatures added post core-game

Ryudnard.2587:

Amaimon.7823:

My personal experience is that raids are actually easier than fractals. Fractals are less punishing, but also less organized and structured. Attacks, mechanics, and functions fly around randomly like you’re in a hurricane of madness. Raids are very punishing for small mistakes, but the times when you need to make the choices aren’t random. You know when the VG is going to split, you know when Gorsy is going to erode the world, you know that Sloth is gonna roar after his tantrum.
So anyone can learn to raid, whereas fractals are much more subservant to RNG and chaos. That said, the chaos of fractals will rarely instakill you, so you can weigh it off against one another.

From the way my guildies were talking, raids are definitely much harder than t4 fractals. I do not have opinions on that, since I don’t do any fractals. But I assume they are right.

As I said, personal experience, since I function better in a structured environment like raids rather than a random environment like fractals. Other people will have other experiences. You’ll find me more often in the Aerodome than the Observatory

zealex.9410:

Bittefrost remains the fastest but the new maps is also really fun to traverse. I asked for more replayability but i didnt expect a baackpiece locked behind 16 days worth of dailies. Ill keep my mouth shut next time.

Although one can argue whether or not the time-gating of a component is right or wrong, I think we can all agree that a collection is WAY more fun that gathering 500 winterberries. At least now I feel like I earned the runestone, rather than just farming the same node on a hillside a few days in a row until I could buy it.
Now that I’ve tasted the sweet nectar of the collection I feel like the other backpacks just have way too little value

My personal experience is that raids are actually easier than fractals. Fractals are less punishing, but also less organized and structured. Attacks, mechanics, and functions fly around randomly like you’re in a hurricane of madness. Raids are very punishing for small mistakes, but the times when you need to make the choices aren’t random. You know when the VG is going to split, you know when Gorsy is going to erode the world, you know that Sloth is gonna roar after his tantrum.
So anyone can learn to raid, whereas fractals are much more subservant to RNG and chaos. That said, the chaos of fractals will rarely instakill you, so you can weigh it off against one another.

I honestly have no reason to believe that this map will be more or less dead than any of the others. There’s fun stuff to do, resources to gather, etc. I think none of the LS3 maps will ever be dead as long as rewards can still be gotten. They may become less active over time, but there will always be players with an alt, or players who need an ascended trinket, etc

I think the setting is different which makes it harder to compare
GW1 had the style of writing where you can’t save the world, you just make it less screwed up. I don’t think GW1 ever had a real happy ending, more of a “we live another day”-ending.
Because we Defeating 1 God who was rebelling, then we had some other villains we never even saw the end of, like Menzies, he’s still out there.
GW2 is a lot more happy-go-lucky. So while I can’t argue which side is stronger, I can argue that the GW2 might be less depressed and less prone to PTSD or nightmare-induced-nightmares. Remember our ancestors went to the tyrian equivalent of Hell

Lalainnia.3598:

I thought the easiest was bitterfrost still?

mwua.. The’re both abundant in the resource, but in D.Mons you won’t get spammed with 500 stacks of chill everytime you take a step in any direction, so D.Mons might be faster/easier to get the same result

Right click
Salvage All Blue and Lower
Salvage All Green and Lower
Salvage All Yellow

Those are your options. I use the copper fed for Salvage all green and lower, and the Mystic kits for Salvage all yellow. In both cases it will ask you for confirmation in a menu where it displays all items that will be salvaged

Vesuvius.9874:

Fissure of Woe is coming to the game. Whether as an explorable map or more likely as a raid. A while back WoodenPotatoes did a series on Tyria 3D which took a look at exploring some of the inaccessible maps. I remember seeing the little arena where we fight Caudecus in one of his videos loooong before the chapter about Caudecus was released. In that same series, he also explored a map that looked a lot like the Fissure of Woe, complete with a model of the Eternal Forgemaster as well. So if the Caudecus map made it into the game, it is likely (very very likely given the recent events in the living story) that we will be going to the Fissure of Woe.

That’s almost as elaborate as:
Oh, there’s a heart task that requires me to kill spiders, and there’s even a spider Webby Mom boss, that means that the deposed god Arachnea is now confirmed, and we go back to Abaddon’s roots, and things are going to go wild with spiders now!

How about..
Draconis Mons has some of the easiest token farms, to turn into magic. You can buy amulets and accessories there as well. so if you need Unbound Magic, Amulets, or Accessories, or Warped Bundles, this map is actually the easiest/best to get them now

I just wished Taimi wouldn’t treat me like a skritt if I played on an Asura character

Feanor.2358:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

That’s a separate issue. Any “pleb” can get every other legendary in the game except this one.

This isn’t true. Try getting The Ascension as a PvE-only player.

I’m a pleb in PvP, I already got 2/4 tiers done. You don’t need to play platinum league to get it, bronze1 is just fine, it just takes a little longer (I dance around bronze 2-3, once got into silver, but didn’t like the toxicity there so went back down to bronze)

Ookamikun.6472:

Wait, I don’t remember her in Ember Bay unless that was meant to be a joke. :P

Also she still has an army, her pirates are raiding the Edge of the Mists. Then again the Mist fighters are probably doing a number on them.

yea, it was a joke, I just meant “away from society”

Djinn.9245:

Amaimon.7823:

two words, thermal tubes.
You can get from the submarine to Rata Arcanum in a few seconds if you’re willing to jump in them:

so here you go, a map, please forward it to everyone who says the map is hard to navigate.
Thermal Tubes take you literally everywhere

No, there are places like Golemancer’s Tomb and Druid’s Grotto that are very difficult to find / get to. And when the events happen there, a lot of people don’t bother because of that fact.

druid’s grotto is straight below the heart area. take the thermal tubes, glide down the cliff to a lower level, into the cave, and you’re done. Getting there from the submarine should not take more than 30 seconds.
As for the golemancer’s tomb, yet, I agree, that one’s a bit of a pain, but there are two ways to get there:
take the thermal tubes to Rata Arcanum and take the back entrance
take the thermal tubes to the grove and walk up the spiraling cliff on the south
both take some time, but they’re pretty straight paths, can’t get lost on a straight going cliff

Draconis Mons wurm has been bugged since day 2 (was fine on day 1) and it seems the devs need more time to fix it.
So I suggest instead > Add the Element of the Wurm to the heart vendor near the mercs-camp. Make it so only people with the achievement can see it (the ones who managed to kill it before it got bugged) and then the lot of us can continue with our lives.

can we PLEASE just pick up the barrel and throw it in the lava for them?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Amaimon.7823:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Vayne.8563:

I play without youtube, until I get what I can, then, maybe I go to finish it off. like I got 32 of the Mursaat Tokens in Ember Bay on my own and only recently went and looked where the last 8 were.

Vayne: you are your own YouTube for your guildies. I lost track of how many times people have taken you up on your offer to be shown around, for puzzles or scavenging, or various instanced content.

And I’d argue that getting help from someone in the game (such as Vayne) isn’t meaningfully different from getting that help from Dulfy or the wiki or QTfy indirectly.

I’m impressed with folks who can manage it on their own without a guide. And some stuff I’ll do on my own. But sometimes ANet’s idea is that if finding 10 rocks is fun than finding 60 is six times as fun… and for me, it’s not at all; it’s less fun.

I beg to differ (to a small extent) when you ask a person rather than looking for a video.
Of course, in techncial terms, it will amount to the same thing, but when escorted by a player there’s a sense of immersive rightfulness. As if you didn’t cheat. Just like in the real world you would ask a person for advice and they’d show you. I mean, from an immersive point of view, looking up a guide or getting help ingame by someone else feels truly different to me..
I hope you understand what I mean

I understand what you mean, I just can’t agree it’s important to me how you play or vice versa. To me, asking Vayne for help isn’t any different than asking Dulfy — I’m still relying on someone else. (If I RP’d, I still wouldn’t see any difference — there’s no reason why my character couldn’t be a loner who was good at researching solutions at the Vigil Library.)

By the way, the use of the term “cheating” in this context is weird. It’s not like there are any official or unofficial “Generally Established Rules” covering how to play MMOs. Some people do it all on their own, some only ask for help when they get stuck, some just blindly follow a guide — in the end, they all get the same AP and they all know how they went about doing it. Would Steph Curry or Neymar be superior ballplayers if they weren’t coached or didn’t receive training? Does it really matter how much is due to their innate abilities, how much to do with their ability to learn, or who they learned from?

nah, I didn’t mean it that harsh, like cheating, I’m not a roleplayer, but I love good immersion, and using internet to get answers kinda breaks immersion for me, but that’s a personal experience. What I meant to say was “use the resources within the world”, so a coach is fine, since that’s a valid resource

Can’t remember where I read it.. maybe in the AMA?
There was a voice change effect on the tonic and maybe it bugged with the elite spec quips, I dunno.

medusashadow.3567:

Balthazar had no power that a lie cause he the explosion
And stuck all the magic power from blood stone.

I’m having some trouble to understand what you’re saying, but it sounds like you mean “Balthazar had no power to cause the explosion”
Well, as you read the books from Bauer there were issues with the Bloodstone well before the ritual that should’ve resurrected Lazarus. According to Bauer several researchers complained about the cracks in the Bloodstone and the leaking magic. I guess it’s the Tyria-universe’s equivalent of working on a nuclear plant with cracked vessels. When Balthazar entered, the Bloodstone burst and all it’s magic blew out. My guess is that Balthazar saw the Bloodstone was damaged, and gave it the final blow so he could absorb the magic.
Then, with the power the Bloodstone restored, he went out and took over the White Mantle. He knew however, the White Mantle was only a short-term solution to his long-term problem. He had but little time before they would figure out he wasn’t Lazarus, so he ditched the majority of them and made a larger army of the bandits and mercenaries who worked for the White Mantle and other’, and gave them all the White Mantle supplies. A funny gimmick on this part is that one event (currently bugged) is caused by the bandits and mercs not knowing what to do with the Bloodstone shards and ditch it in the volcanic pit, which causes a crazed wurm to appear.

Danikat.8537:

It looks like they’ve got a quiver as well, but I don’t think it’s possible to tell which one.

Propably Rox’s, since I don’t see anything glow or burn

I can give you a summary of key events:

• Zhaitan awakes, destroys Lions Arch.
• Cobiah Marriner rebuilds Lions Arch.
• The rest of the world accepts Zhaitan may be a bigger threat than originally believed. The pact is formed as a unison of the five largest civilizations, supported by minor civilizations, and denied by dome (see tengu) to combat the Elder Dragon.
• An Asura learns of the magic corruption of Elder Dragons, Zojja devices a cannon that absorbs the corrupted magic and fires it back at Zhaitan to kill it. ED1 down.
• peaceful times
• Molten Alliance is formed
• Toxic Court is formed
• Aetherblade is formed
• Scarlet attacks and destroys Lion’s Arch, because a leyline node was directly underneath it. Hitting it, and overloading the channel caused Mordremoth to awaken.
• Sylvari Rebellion
• Rata Novus found, weakness of elder dragons found
• Mordremoth fought and defeated by breaking his mind. Trahearne executed because he bore a fragment of Mordremoth’s mind from which he could be reborn.
• peaceful times
• Soldiers went missing, a group of adventurers (note, canonically not the pact commander) followed the trail of bandits.
• behind the bandits a unison of the White Mantle was found
• Xera was defeated, but the stasis chamber is empty. The white mantle was deceived into believing they resurrected Lazarus successfully, but were fooled by Balthazar and his mirror he took (or stole) from Lyssa.
• White Mantle orchestrates a regicide against Queen Jennah, but fails. Caudecus is executed soon after.
• Braham successfully recovers a legendary artifact that once wounded Jormag, denies the commander and heads north.
• The commander exposes the lies of Lazarus and reveals he’s Balthazar. Balthazar in turn has been deprived of magic to a point he’s no longer as godlike as he once was. He intends to end the elder dragons and take their magic to restore his glory. We manage to stop him, but he’s recovered quite a bit. Taimi believed executing any more elder dragons could cause fluctuating imbalance that may end the world.

• (future) Braham may use the super-arrows on the now knocked-out Jormag
• (future) Balthazar may come back to try again, or go after Jormag as well

joshc.3129:

Amaimon.7823:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

joshc.3129:

South Koreans didn’t like how their a architect style was mixed with Chinese architect styles and vise versa. So what happened? Upon full release the Cantha District was turned into the Great Collapse again for those who remember and was then turned into The Crown Pavilion. Anet did this since South Korea (where NCSoft, Anet parent company is based) and China is a huge market for them and they didn’t want to upset either side.

There’s no evidence that that is true.

The sole comment on this theory comes from a single developer in a single interview who spitballed reasons as to why the Canthan district was removed — he had no direct knowledge of the motivation for the decision.

As comments come and go, I’m starting to believe the decision was never made. Someone accidentally deleted Cantha, and everyone thought it was a decision thinking someone else made, and started to think what it could possibly be

Your joking right? You are saying you think someone at Anet accidentally deleted the Cantha District in Divinity’s Reach (if that’s what you are talking about) forcing them to rush to make something new for the area for release?

Do I have to answer this, guys?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

joshc.3129:

South Koreans didn’t like how their a architect style was mixed with Chinese architect styles and vise versa. So what happened? Upon full release the Cantha District was turned into the Great Collapse again for those who remember and was then turned into The Crown Pavilion. Anet did this since South Korea (where NCSoft, Anet parent company is based) and China is a huge market for them and they didn’t want to upset either side.

There’s no evidence that that is true.

The sole comment on this theory comes from a single developer in a single interview who spitballed reasons as to why the Canthan district was removed — he had no direct knowledge of the motivation for the decision.

As comments come and go, I’m starting to believe the decision was never made. Someone accidentally deleted Cantha, and everyone thought it was a decision thinking someone else made, and started to think what it could possibly be

Fkp.4138:

I saw an makeover kit sold by gem , what it does?

There are 3 sets:
Hairstyle kit > changes the hair, and gives unique hairstyles and colors exclusive to the kit.
Makeover kit > changes whole body, has unique hairstyles, but also unique faces with unique eye-colors
Identity repair kit > changes body, gender, name, hair and face completely

Each subsequent kit is more expensive. The Identity kit also lets you change the name.

It’s impossible to change to race, the person story being the main argument for this.

Here’s a gallery of all the unique Faces and Hairstyles

(ps, the total make-over kit also allows the gender change, but it’s ill-advised if you don’t have one of those weird androgynous names that no one would even consider a name, like “Xx Kittylover A L F A” or something weird like that. You don’t want to be called Alexander and then change to female)

Especially the tonics that can be used in combat (Embiggening Tonic f.ex.) shouldn’t have a timer at let, let alone 15 minutes. You can already (de)activate it by using it again, so the timer serves no purpose other than being an annoyance

NOIP.1208:

Shoulder piece is the whispers Pauldron and the head piece looks a lot like the vigil headband.

ah yea, right about the shoulder.
But wasn’t the helmet just a part of the hair-selections? I remember some hairband models

Interesting.
However, Taimi’s theory was that she wouldn’t pit the actual dragons, but their magics against another, cancelling them out.
MY THEORY:
I think it’s slightly different from one dragon killing another physically and eating their magic. In the first scenario, you lose two orbs, in the second scenario, one orb is absorbed by the other.
Of course both cases would result in an imbalance, but Taimi’s model was much more crude, swinging everything out of balance. I theorize that one dragon absorbing another has much less of a negative impact than cancelling them out. Best case scenario, two “good” dragons would absorb all the orbs on either side and swing around as opposite pendulae. These could be Aurene and Gleam.

But it’s nice that you found this. These kind of background lores can get lost in the giant wikibase. I hope anet considers details like these in their future productions

Medium Illustrious Armor (full) minus the helmet, which they’ve hidden.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Illustrious_armor_
The helmet is hidden

I guess the second set it so compensate for a lack of a collection for the precursor armor.
although double seems like a bit too much, I would’ve settled for 25LI+10LI7piece

it was stated that all racial and elite-spec quips were disabled during the tonic usage.
It’s a feature, not a bug (a bad one in my opinion)
But i’m much more concerned by the fact it has a 15 minute timer, when you already just activate it and deactivate it by using the tonic, so the timer has zero purpose besides being an extreme annoyance

Ameepa.6793:

Amaimon.7823:

I beg to differ (to a small extent) when you ask a person rather than looking for a video.
Of course, in techncial terms, it will amount to the same thing, but when escorted by a player there’s a sense of immersive rightfulness. As if you didn’t cheat. Just like in the real world you would ask a person for advice and they’d show you. I mean, from an immersive point of view, looking up a guide or getting help ingame by someone else feels truly different to me..
I hope you understand what I mean

There indeed is a difference, and for me it’s the opposite. I much prefer reading guides instead of bothering someone and making them to waste their time to help me with something I could find out easily on my own from a guide. Same in real, I never ask help from anyone if I can find something out myself.

So guess it’s a good thing that both ways work.

Of course, I agree with you. But when you ask, it’s a request, not a demand. And yes, you should always to solve a problem yourself, first. But there is never shame in asking for help, and it’s depending on the other person’s generosity whether or not they help you. And if you feel bothered by getting by help, you can always reward them for their time. I tend to mail people some gold if they helped me with something I was stuck on.

Entenkommando.5208:

When did this turn into a role play discussion?
Nobody ever said we are going to kill him. We are going to stop him.
In case you played gw1… Remember when we killed abbadon? The amount of magic released? We’d never let that happen again… And we needed the other gods to help us. Also this time we wouldn’t have a Kormir to “save” us.

This time I’ll just take it all myself and smite kormir ten layers deeper

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Vayne.8563:

I play without youtube, until I get what I can, then, maybe I go to finish it off. like I got 32 of the Mursaat Tokens in Ember Bay on my own and only recently went and looked where the last 8 were.

Vayne: you are your own YouTube for your guildies. I lost track of how many times people have taken you up on your offer to be shown around, for puzzles or scavenging, or various instanced content.

And I’d argue that getting help from someone in the game (such as Vayne) isn’t meaningfully different from getting that help from Dulfy or the wiki or QTfy indirectly.

I’m impressed with folks who can manage it on their own without a guide. And some stuff I’ll do on my own. But sometimes ANet’s idea is that if finding 10 rocks is fun than finding 60 is six times as fun… and for me, it’s not at all; it’s less fun.

I beg to differ (to a small extent) when you ask a person rather than looking for a video.
Of course, in techncial terms, it will amount to the same thing, but when escorted by a player there’s a sense of immersive rightfulness. As if you didn’t cheat. Just like in the real world you would ask a person for advice and they’d show you. I mean, from an immersive point of view, looking up a guide or getting help ingame by someone else feels truly different to me..
I hope you understand what I mean

by quote of anet:
“Living worlds will allow us to release small bundles of skins into the game. It is during this period we focus on the production of outfits, and gem store skins to maintain a steady income for production. An outfit requires much less time to create than a full set of armor, one of the reasons being we don’t have to spend time on the clipping issues. We are working on a way to release components as individual items, but the future we will see how viable this process it, so no promises. We believe the best time to release full sets of armors and weapons will be during the releases of the expansions in which we can release several sets at once” – MO

Quarktastic.1027:

Everyone is busy making a big stink about Balthazar showing up out of nowhere, but no one seems to be upset at the fact that we basically wrote off not one, but two elder dragons while not actually trying. I mean, we barely even caught a glimpse of Primordus before we unintentionally put him back to sleep. And we may not even get to see Jormag at all.

I’ve managed to more narrow down the problem:
Inquest Camp: wield a keypad, get too close to an essence, lose it for the druid’s.
Hollow: wield golem components, get too close an essence, lose it for the druid’s.

So the real issue is, that Druid’s Essences in the vicinity of hearts are toxic and salt inducing. They increase a man’s heart-rate and teaches him words he never knew he knew. But in all seriousness, anet, please fix this;
The druid’s essences swap anything you’re wielding INCLUDING ELEMENTALIST WEAPONS, when you get to close to them. Code should be changed to recognize only other druid’s essences being wielded. since you get a buff showing the remaining charges, use that for the code to focus on

everytime I try to join it I get the error I lost connection to the game’s server and it logs me out..

anyone else got this problem?

Also, after I’ve been kicked, this is what lion’s arch looks like.
Although, this is what lions arch quite often looks like, so I’m not sure if it’s related to the activity

no, we shouldn’t chill out about Braham
at – this – point – he’s – the – biggest – threat – to – the – survival – of – tyria!

yea, but it’s worse than they thought, so they’re working on reducing it.
Same with the dyes, they’re all bright and light, it’s partially intended, but things are waaayy worse than they intended them to be, so we’ll see a legendary armor patch in the near future

only ever as a last resort, but I always spend a good few days working for it myself.

btw, I have a question, other than the skins, what value would legendary armor have in PvP?
if you unlock just the skins, rather than the legendary functioning item, then I’m all okay for a much simpler acquisition method.

A have a simple QOL request that will make life so much easier and so much less frustrating:

When you post your squad in the LFG tool you will get the message:
“The map has reached it’s maximum population. New members cannot join on your map until people leave. Are you sure you want to post your squad/party in this tab.”

In retrospect, when you look at the tab, it should show a little red eye-icon next to some squads so when you hover over it, it will show the message:
“The squad or party advertised is on a map instance whose population has reached the capacity cap. If you join, you will not be able to enter their instance until another participant leaves the map"

Adding these two messages to the LFG tool will save SO many headaches. How often when I try to get on an active map I have to sift through 10 squads of full maps until I get either blocked for joining too many parties or give up from frustration.

|| and while we’re at it, can we also have a queue, even though that’s a little off-topic.
Just like “the map you’re trying to join is full, but you can join the queue to receive an import invitation as soon as the queue is up. Do not leave the map if you choose to join the queue”. That would be great. ||

The question is
what alternative would be okay to substitute 150LI the first time, and 300LI sibsequent creations of legendary armor?
If a PvP’er wants to get it, the alternative should be a valid substitute. But don’t forget the risk that when a PvE players finish all weekly raids, they will do PvP to fill in the rest.

was there the other day, stopped at ~60% 3 minutes later, a few more spawned, got down to 40%, waiting another 3 minutes, nothing spawned, left

Cristalyan.5728:

Lord Trejgon.2809

except we are not soloing balthazar but his hounds while he is too busy draining dragons to care about us more than calling out the hounds and throw some threats when we kill them.

He was not busy. He was on the brink of death. When he heard the human Elementalist shout “Feel the Flames of Balthazar”, he almost died. Of laugh!

I wonder if the Priests of Balthazar will continue to bless us with “May Balthazar strengthen you” now, after we raised our weapons against their God.

These small “issues” makes me wonder if the initial lore team (or lore writer) was replaced. Because, it is evident that nobody on the lore team took into consideration how hilarious is to threaten Balthazar with the fire he gave to us :-)

Well, NPC merchants in the new zone still say “May Balthazar strengthen you”, but I wonder to what extent outsiders know what’s going on in the Dr.Mons

ah, yea..
tricky since we don’t have a visual on your situation.
I think the issue is that you activated the HoT story and therefore cannot see the green arrow pointing at the person story anymore?
in that case, you should open the hero page; and then go to story journal and reactivate the personal story.
As for how to leave the silverwastes: there is a portal in the camp leading to fort vandal in the maguuma jungle. Another option would be to look for a waypoint on the map.
If this endeavor is unsuccesful I will ask you to take a screenshot so we have more details of your issue