Guild Wars 2

Rognik.2579:

I don’t think this is plausible. While there is that one event in Wayfarer Foothills that has a norn set up a new statue for the grawl to worship, no one ever tells the grawl “This is your new god! Worship it!” It has to be a grawl shaman to persuade his followers to worship a god – which is far from a difficult task. But a single bloodstone shard wouldn’t be enough to get grawl to worship it. It either needs to be a statue of some sort, or some other impressive display. If the other bloodstones are anything like the one we saw back in the Maguuma Jungle in GW1, it’s not that impressive and the grawl wouldn’t worship it.

If a Son of Svanir really wanted to turn grawl to the power of Jormag, they either keep making dragon statues (which a few tribes do worship), or just turn them all to Icebrood. They wouldn’t need a bloodstone, and really don’t need an elaborate plot to convince them.

I’m not not talking about a shard, I’m talking about a full on bloodstone
A 50 meter radius giant disc with red glowing patterns and giant spires of bloodstone crystal. A grawl’s gotta be enticed by it.
I was considering it because something similar happened in GW1, where a group of Ettin.. well, I wouldn’t say worship, but really like a bloodstone, hidden deep in the Sparkfly Fen. (I think it was there, at least)

I was just thinking that a bloodstone would be much more up Jormag’s lane than a bunch of statues, as the bloodstone already contains and regulates so much magic.

hmm. I love apples, anyone knows a good merchant that sells apples?

Ayrilana.1396:

Amaimon.7823:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs have stated there won’t be any new Worlds for SAB, but that they planned on releasing it yearly as a Festival (of sorts), (with the new items usually released with Festivals each year).

I guess I’m fine with that, I just hate to think valuable resources would be a wasted on something that’s not even secondary to the game

What resources though? Assuming nothing in the game engine changed, all they’re essentially doing is “flipping a switch” to re-enable access to the SAB instance.

If you remember from a couple years ago, someone had logged into a trial account, which they used for SAB a year or so before that, and was able to play it to a degree. It’s still there in the game.

Making new maps, new bosses, and new enemies, like they did last time.
That takes a lot of resources. As I said, I’m fine with the flip of the switch, but they shouldn’t chain a dev to play the an orchestra on the content

This is just an idea, not something that’s in game in any form at the moment.
I am just considering how likely.. or remotely possible.. this idea is.

Grawl love to worship gods, given the token of worship can prove it’s godlike nature.
So I was thinking, how possible would it be, if a Bloodstone landed in the far shiverpeaks,
a Shaman of Frost would entice the Grawl to worship it.
Of course he wouldn’t tell them directly as the Grawl wouldn’t believe a mortal. But say he corrupted a (lesser) Spirit of the Wild to appear before the Grawl and entice them to make bloodoffers at the Bloodstone for their ‘God’ which the Shaman of Frost would then rituallicy corrupt for Jormag. Like, in a way the Bloodstone is broken and
already no longer functions for it’s original goal, so all magic absorbed leaks out,
for the taking by Jormag? If it’s possible, would a shaman go that far? It sounds like an
easy and reliable flow of magic for the Serpent to feast on.

Would such a scenario be possible, is what I wonder?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs have stated there won’t be any new Worlds for SAB, but that they planned on releasing it yearly as a Festival (of sorts), (with the new items usually released with Festivals each year).

I guess I’m fine with that, I just hate to think valuable resources would be a wasted on something that’s not even secondary to the game

Ardid.7203:

Totally agree. I can see Asura acting that way and I think is the most coherent way to explain them.
However, is this view official lore?

I’m not 100% sure, but more like 98.7%
Konig Des Todes can pop up any moment to give a complete 5 page definition of Asuran marriage and relationships, if you’re patient. It’s just what I pieced together from various dialogues and wiki pages

Ayrilana.1396:

Ardid.7203:

I don’t expect the next episode in april, because SAB.

Wasn’t SAB only two weeks last year? We could end up getting the next episode mid-April. They could also end up releasing them together as SAB likely will be the same as last year.

I don’t SAB this year, they didn’t have time for wintersday or halloween, what makes you think they would’ve had time to work on something as secondary and arbitrary as SAB?
if it was up to me they just deleted SAB and focussed more on the things that are relevant to the game, including it’s original festivals

Ardid.7203:

True science doesn’t deny things it doesn’t know (yet). Love IS scientifically observable, but it still contains lot of unclear components, and remains mostly unpredictable and unrepeatable in the lab.
So, is not “magic”. But isn’t a scientifically apprehended phenomena either.

true
But the question was how people experience love, in this case, how Asura experience love.
They’re a different race, and genetically they desire different traits to assure the best offspring.

Humans prefer healthy looking mates, and will associate larger breasts with a
better ability to take care of the offspring. this a biological trait. There are also social
traits like wealth or status, which a mate can believe will have a positive effect on
the upbringing of the offspring.
Asura have similar, but slightly different traits they look for in a mate. Their traits are
less biologically oriented, and more mentally oriented. They want their offspring to be
as intelligent as possible, so they always seek a mate who has proven capable in this
field. The best method is to go into a couple-krewe with them and experience there skills firsthand.
hereafter, once they’ve finished their project, and produced offspring, they can
decide for themselves whether the traits they love(d) each other for are still present
or not. Some Asura separate after one child. Some Asura stay together their entire lives.
But it always comes down to the wish “produce the best offspring, while giving them the best opportunities to become great within their racial view of what’s important”

the reasons to never get this item just keep piling up

Moonyeti.3296:

Moonyeti.3296:

Also has Livia in it, but that is more relevant to GW1 players, as she doesn’t show up in GW2 as of yet.

That we know of. Hate to feed into the various conspiracies about Livia, but it’s possible she’s hiding as one of the characters we do know, although I don’t put that much stock into that.

Sure I can buy that is a possibility. As far as her role in the book though, it doesn’t tie in to any clues as to whom she might be in GW2 or what she has been up to in the meantime anything. She is mostly just for GW1 people to go “What? she is still alive?”
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We don’t know the premise of Livia. She’s bound to the royal bloodline, but to what extend.
And is she immortal, does he pass her soul on, does she reincarnate? and is she serving the crown right now, or is she doing things that she considers more important to the crown than serving them directly. (sometimes a servant has to do things against a masters order for their interest)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lwd/E-B-the-death-note-has-fallen/first#post6510521

I was thinking the other way around, when people get used to content, you shouldn’t make it easier, you should make it harder (keep the rewards in perspective, of course)

Warrior’s Greatsword skill ⁵ Rush has been broken since the 1st mode patch.

Bug: player rushes in reverse (back instead of forward) when cast.
Since it can’t be interupted it’s a gamebreaking bug as you can rush in directions that cause death.
It happens mostly in first person mode, but tends to happen in third mode a few times as well. I cannot guarantee it’s caused by the 1st mode patch, but I don’t remember having this problem since before then.

Stand The Wall.6987:

its not just a feeling of matching personalities lol. its life.

nope, it’s science
love is the release of hormones in the air, which get stimulated by different HLA patterns.
People with the same HLA patterns are much less likely to be attracted because of
the evolutionary drive

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I am number six?

I think that was an Austin Powers reference

you could always ask a dev to roll it back.
but then again.. it’s just a cat.. I mean.. how often do you spend time in your home instance.. would you really be bothered by a cat. I mean, if you’re bothered by a cat, what about the annoying 150 NPCs that run around in your home instance.
When it comes to the home instance, I’d much rather they removed the kids from the orphanage because they run around the mining section

I’ve been in the queue for 15 minutes
had 8 popups
every single one of them had at least 2 people who let the timer die
can we please have some action taken against people who enter the queue and then leave their pc or whatever they do
I’m trying to do pvp, but every time they keep running the queue timers

in short:

Seas of Sorrow: Best one, relates closely to Lion’s Arch and the events of pre-Orr campaign. A very good read, 4/5 after reading it you will absolute HATE and DESPISE anet for what they did to Lion's Arch. It's currently a disney waterpark, the exact opposite of Cobiah's dream

Destiny’s Edge: A good background story on the guild DE. A bit of a poor design, but it’s a fun and okay read. 2.75/5

Ghosts of Ascalon: Have it, but have yet to read it. Doesn’t really add much of anything to the game’s depth.

Walhalla.5473:

Amaimon.7823:

have you considered there is no wing 4? problem solved

Every time I see someone saying Wing 4 I wonder if I completely missed a Wing of the Forsaken Thicket since the Bastion is not a wing by definition but a raid without any wings.

But since even Anet is calling it a wing…. much cringing.

Anet is calling it a wing? on reddit they called it a new raid, I haven’t seen any devs call it a wing yet.
But just saying wing isn’t very wrong, because the definition of a wing is just the span of one start to the end of a raid instance.
so there are 4 wings, in that sense it’s right, but it’s not wing 4 of raid 1, it’s just the fourth wing made, in a second raid

Frediosz.2718:

Amaimon.7823:

no, and they’re not gonna add it anytime soon because as they state, the dialogues and cinematics are their window of mechanical events.
They tried making it skippable, but the sheer amount of bugs and crashes it caused was not worth the effort. Trust me, if you saw the product, you’d think yea, I’ll stick with my dialogues

It’s unskipable just because it adds time to how long the episode was and that is all. Period.

Same goes for a need of completing either hearts on map or fill the progress bar (like in LD map when Logan did send you to do time filler ekhm… errand run around the map)

With skipable dialogs AND no such stupid thing as “fill bar to progress” story from 2-3h long episode would turn out to be 40minutes at best.

What you’ve said is just a pathetic excuise to make short story feel longer.

it was the devs who said that THEY EVEN SHOWED FOOTAGE OF WHAT HAPPENED
it’s literally the problem, you can’t say it’s cover up or anything. THEY LITERALLY SHOWED US WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU SKIP DIALOGUE
-NPCs don’t move
-events don’t trigger
-paths get jumbled
-bosses don’t spawn or stay permanently invulnerable
- etc etc

yes, I agree, cutting the dialogue would reduce the playtime, but guess what, some instances are SOLELY dialogue. And why would you skip the dialogue on your first playthrough? don’t you want to play the game you paid for?

Mail ²

Dear Nikeita,

It was a sad today in Winslow Manor. We had to bid farewell to our dear, devoted Mr. Nibbles. When he left us, he took a piece of me with him – specifically, one of my toes.
The captive of E/B has escaped, in a rather violent way, but E/B managed to execute him before he got away
But the domain soldiers on nonetheless. I’m even thinking of planting a garden!
more random banter to make it look like a normal mail and not a secret E-message

All my best to you and yours,
Lord Blaine, Archduke of the Well of Winslow

I think we’ll have 2 or 3 more episodes, I don’t 1 or 4 is right.

As for what will happen:
- Charr leader is using the magic thingy as an excuse to get Rytlock out of the way, he’s propably scared that Rytlock can start making claims for the title.
- Fakarus is going to be shows as either an incomplete image of the original Lazarus, and will become evil upon completion, or it will turn out to be Palawa Joko, a good reason to go Elona, which makes sense because he’d want the bloodstones and a second army (white mantle) to attack Kralkatorrik from the other side.
- It’s going to be revealer that Kasmeer just had a cold and that’s why she hasn’t appeared yet.
- We’re going to change Braham’s diapers, or he’s going to die in a tantrum
- Nothing will happen to Taimi, or she will go crazy after seeing the Eternal Alchemy

have you considered there is no wing 4? problem solved

Can we not PLEASE have some more features before we go back to hairs
We already have a huge gallery of haircuts,
what about the rest?
human beards: shaven, 10 versions of light stubble, and a grandpa-drinkin’problem-santabeard.

DragonSlayer.7360:

Not game breaking, but can’t track Maguuma Jungle Lumberer. Have added other dailies to the watch list, but can’t add this one to the watched list today.

This one seems to break more often, dunno why, sometimes it doesn’t even track progress. On those days I just do a quick pvp round, or spend 25 wvw tokens

I don’t know either, my warrior is shouting twice as hard now, so I’m not complaining

Kumouta.4985:

I’d hate to see mounts in this game.
But I think it’d be OK to ride Aurene in some big story related fight once.

I’d hate to seem them outside a lore-respectable setting.
bad mounts: in base game
good mounts: in a map where it logically makes sense the asura wouldn’t have planted waypoints, like the Sulphorous Wastes, where you’d the wurms to travel around.

> Got kicked once
> The elitism will be the death of this game

Constructive feedback: join a gold that is about becoming good at raiding and playing at picture perfect settings. Try RTI.enjin.com as they don’t have requirements for their raids

wait.. you don’t want to play a story if it has dialogue????

..

you.. eh.. ever played a game before?

The Chosen One.5369:

I donno i was a little disapointed with the weapons. I was hoping there would be a staff in there the potentail for a beautiful staff was great but there wasnt one.

they had to pick any 5 types of weapons because they had to take into acount how many people would’ve beaten HoT.
They based the set on the 5 base characters so even players without extra character slots could do it. It’s on point of all achievements that everyone should be able to do them.
If they made a sixth weapon, then you get dangerously close to the ‘pay2win’ discussion (I mean, it’s only fashionable, but since there are AP tied to it..)

But I agree somewhat in your point, and I think it’s kind of a shame there are two greatswords in the collection. I personally think the low tier greatsword shouldn’t have been there, only the final reward version

no, and they’re not gonna add it anytime soon because as they state, the dialogues and cinematics are their window of mechanical events.
They tried making it skippable, but the sheer amount of bugs and crashes it caused was not worth the effort. Trust me, if you saw the product, you’d think yea, I’ll stick with my dialogues

all I say is.. find a party or someone to carry you.
I mean, no offence, but until recently all games used to be “play the story in order, if you get stuck, you’re stuck, there’s no skipping”

what

the

skritt

It doesn’t even have to be like caladbolg, really, I mean, just ANYTHING will do rather than HoT’s ‘out of nowhere’ style.

I get that the previous ones couldn’t have had a story because we were dumped into the heart of the maguuma, there wasn’t a window of time between the crash and the death of mordremoth (canonically) in which the player had enough time to forget about mordremoth and go do other things.

But lets say there was, and you take it into acount for the next expansions, some ideas of how I would’ve made the elite specs:

Reaper: Return to where Belinda died, deal with the spirits of those who died in the attack.
Tempest: Help the Zephyrites, find a deeper understanding of the elements.
Berserker: Lead a fight.. get into trouble.. realise you have untapped power.
Chronomancer: .. can’t think of anything at the moment.
Daredevil: .. can’t think of anything at the moment.
Dragonhunter: Change Braham’s diaper. Get into trouble and lose your gear, left only with Eir’s longbow.
Glint: In a desperate time, you need the power to defend your allies, memories of an old one reach out to you.
Druid: Shaman of the Raven is taken by the Sons of Svanir, whether you’re a Norn or not, an ally of the dragon is an enemy of you!
Scrapper: PLAYTIME! GO FUNKY IN THE SCRAPYARD.. no sorry.. can’t think of one right now

As a warrior main, I couldn’t be happier. Alle banners now buff 10 people, all shouts have double the power in some field, and no nerfs

Warrior can use it pretty well, but only to knock down or break stability bars. I prefer it over the shield mace combo in raids, even

TexZero.7910:

Also, assuming you’re on EU servers you should look into RTI (Raid Training Initiative) as i hear (can’t validate being on NA) that they frequently do training runs. They should have a reddit post or thread somewhere on the forums.

RTI is one of the best guilds for beginning raiders in EU. But you need to apply by form: RTI.enjin.com

Sometimes the rift bugs. Anet couldn’t fix it, so they added a breakbar to mordremoth so you could break that instead

You seem to not fully know what a first born is to the Sylvari. If you’re not sure what generation they’re from, then your skritt sure it’s not the first

Narcemus.1348:

I didn’t get that feeling from Ceera, the asura who you have to tell about her Husband’s death in the Zhaitan campaign. She holds a grudge against you even still in Heart of Thorns. Seems more like love to me.

Love is a feeling of matching personalities, in this case intelligence and status. Ceera was in love with her husband, in since they hadn’t split up naturally yet, of course she’d be devastated. But it’s not necessarily true that Asura ever split in their lives.

attachement attempt 2:

Astralporing.1957:

Amaimon.7823:

people don’t need to be afraid of rezzing in raids, i’ve seen it save it more attempts than ruin it.

That’s the point. People shouldn’t be afraid of rezzing. Some however will be, because that will cause their dps rating to go down, and might get them kicked. And please, don’t say that it won’t happen.

in my opinion, the people that kick others when dps falls down a little for 5 seconds in a long fight.. those aren’t the kinds of people you should wanna raid with anyway

Rognik.2579:

DarcShriek.5829:

Can’t be Marjory. She was with us when he showed up. There’s a reason you never see batman and bruce wayne in the same room.

I know that. Everyone knows that. That was my point.

then why is Marjory a more likely possibility than Joko or Livia?
I mean.. those two are solid options, Marjory isn’t an option at all

I didn’t see anyone bring it up yet, and WP hasn’t discussed it yet, either.
I take it this is a little foreshadowing on the current events, that we are able
to see magical instabilities in the world.

I’m convinced this blue fire is from the same source as the concentrated magics,
as well as the anomalies, but I have to question.. what is it.. and why is it blue?

It’s already interesting that it’s a blue flame, rather than a rainbow flame like
all other sources of magic appeared to us so far.
TBH, I don’t really know what to make of it, to the best of my knowledge it looks
like the same mistfire that the Guardians wield, or the raw fire from the Mists.

your thoughts?

Cynz.9437:

Amaimon.7823:

CptAurellian.9537:

Malchior.5732:

The problem isn’t DPS meters, it’s pugs.

This. Tools for analysis don’t hurt a game – on the contrary, they are valuable additions.

This. Really. If you can pull your weight in raid then there’s no negative side effect to having a meter. Unless you’re scared other people can see you’re not pulling your weight

And this is exactly the issue. People will be scared to get kicked because they are not doing desired dps so they will focus more on dps than fight mechanics or rezzing teammates etc (is already happening, see my post above). DPS meters promote nothing but selfish gameplay which is extremely harmful in overall fight. It was extremely widespread in WoW, it will be the same here.

people don’t need to be afraid of rezzing in raids, i’ve seen it save it more attempts than ruin it. and wow is a very bad example because the rushes are designed very differently. There the numbers matter more, here in GW2, the strategy matters more

Rognik.2579:

DarcShriek.5829:

Amaimon.7823:

Thesis ALPHA OMEGA: Lazarus is Palawa Joko

I think it’s more likely that Lazarus is Livia.

I think Marjory being Lazarus is more likely than either of these theories.

Palawa Joko is still ruling over Elona, last we heard, and I doubt he’s crossed the desert all the way to the Maguuma Jungle – the entire opposite end of the Tyrian continent – just to… what, fight the dragons? Take over the White Mantle? He’s got an undead army, he doesn’t need a living one as well.

Everyone wants to see Livia’s return, and while I don’t doubt that she still is out there in the game, somewhere, waiting for a chance to return, I don’t think she’s using mesmer magic at all (although if she really is Anise, I’m totally wrong on that front). How and when she’ll return, I don’t know, but I don’t want her to be posing as a mursaat to do so.

who needs the bloodstones more than palawa joko? he’s fighting an elder dragon with sandy ragdolls, I don’t think there enough bloodstones in he world to sate palawa joko

oh right, I forgot you can buy 3 a day per heart, stupid me,
but still, aren’t the drop rates extremely low compared to petrified wood and rubies?

Thesis ALPHA OMEGA: Lazarus is Palawa Joko

so they dropped about 0.5-1 per jade shard before the break.
Then they disabled it for a while
And now, consecutively I have to mine over 5 shards to get 1 jade.
At first I thought, okay, it’s just RNG, try again tomorrow
Day 2, only made 4 shards on the whole map.
Day 3, made 8,
Day 4 made 6…

This can’t be right.. right?
They ask us to pay 200 for the backpiece, but at this rate it’ll take till LS3ch5 to get 200 shards..

Ardid.7203:

I don’t see Asura particularly preocupied about sex. They clearly overcame that basic animal obsession a long time ago. Now they obsess with way less primitive, way more explosive stuff.

They breed based on social status since intelligence and status is a sign of good evolution. The higher your position, the easier it is to find a partner. But if your status is too high you might either find yourself scaring if candidates or having your peers hold you to a standard so if you fall in love with someone of a much lower standing, you might lose valuable credibility in your position.
Couples rarely marry, though, as Asura. They usually sick together as a lovers’ krewe until they’re satisfied with each other. Unless they continue to challenge each others intelligence, relationships end with the projects.
But they don’t worry about their kids as they can just dump them at a university as soon as they can walk