Guild Wars 2

Ithilwen.1529:

That would be awesome, here’s hoping.

beware, it’s just a theory,
it’s got backup, but it’s still but a theory.

I need to know when it’s coming back. my razah cosplay (the big scroll) is waiting for me and I NEEEEEED it

you should go to fort trinity, they have these huge cannons aimed at each other

Sojourner.4621:

My problem with the Joko theory is that it makes no logical sense. Sure there may be hints at us moving towards the Crystal Desert in the future, but by the same toke, Joko is established to be up and about and pretty much more or less fully dominating Elona. He has an army of former corrupted sunspears at his disposal (a group he has a personal grudge against) and an even larger army of undead that is no longer even being kept in check by Zhaitan’s minions, so what use could he possibly have for an army of white mantle (a group he knows literally nothing about)?

He knows about the bloodstones, and as an old lich, it makes sense he would know about groups using them. He hasn’t sat still before his encapturement, nor after the period he was freed.
Yes, he’s dominated most of elona, but then kralkatorrik came. And now we don’t know whether they’re at a stalemate, or Joko is actually losing ground and desperately wants/needs more power. He might not’ve had knowledge of the white mantle inherently, but upon searching for the bloodstones, he came across them. And I wonder if he could just overtake the risen as easily. They’re still flowing with zhaitan’s magic, so he’d have to break their bodies beyond repair, and then once zhaitan’s influence is out, the bodies are so damaged theyré useless to him.

Fluffball.8307:

Serious question, should you be playing video games at all, especially alone if something as mild as that give you seizures?? You could literally hit the back of your head and die.

I think anyone that experiences seizures from video games is going to have already vetted this stuff. This coming from a guy who had to go to a bunch of neurologists for a random black out disease.

Edit: Or are you confusing mild disorientation for seizures? A single seizure is VERY serious.

Sorry, but I agree with OP here, the boss stage room isn’t something mild at all. Spinning, multiple mods, AoE indicators, there’s a LOT going on in that room. Especially when you get thrown around like a ragdoll and the camera tries to make sense of it.

I mean, of course, if you’re prone to seizures the gaming industry might not be your thing, at least don’t play alone.

Behellagh.1468:

Amaimon.7823:

Behellagh.1468:

Yes you can. The item buys you one key and a permanent port into the safe room, which after the first key you will have to leave and do the heart to unlock the vendor again to get another key.

Then I don’t get the problem of OP.. there’s a lifetime supply of those keys

I think he believes there is some super advantage with that item, therefore the notion it’s only available as an uncommon drop from the BLC as a “cash grab”/P2W where in reality it’s barely a convenience item.

I know more people upset over previous “exclusive” glider skin/mini pet from previous seasonal uncommon item in chests.

but if a merchant sells the key.. then what’s the profit of adding it to a blc?

draxynnic.3719:

Another possibility, given the evidence, is that Bauer gave fakes to both Xera and Caudecus, because he wanted the credit reviving Lazarus himself. Xera’s ritual either fails or is only a partial success, and the four aspects of Lazarus are brought to Bloodstone Fen where Bauer has the fifth aspect.

Or even a step further back and Bauer already hakittene, thinking it was the real one. the Lazarus imposter exchanged it for a counterfeit before Bauer ever got it

Ardid.7203:

Amaimon.7823:

Ardid.7203:

I don’t see where is the pejorative.

he means you disregard other opinions on the premise that they’re not in line with your way of thinking

Yes, I see that he implies that. I just don’t see why. I don’t think I disregard other opinions (In this topic at least).

when you disregard something based on whether or not you like the answer there isn’t really a reason why

Shadowstep.6049:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Vez.7418:

I feel like I’m on the same boat. I’ve just started playing a couple of months ago (played a bit a few years back but there was no raid content back then).

Pretty much did all the content progression I could, got all masteries, explored all open world content/achievements, full ascendant gear, spec as per meta and over the last two weeks been trying to find a way into raiding (checking LFG, forums, any eventual recruitment shouts) but it seems I’ve hit a wall.

I have 0 LI and I have no clue how to get any since I can’t find any groups/guilds that do not request someone that raided already (in GW2) to some extent.

I know I’m coming late to the party, but are new players locked out completely from raiding content?

I saw a couple of posts about groups that accept new players like myself, if you know any, would you be so kind as to provide some more information I can look into (EU servers)?

Glael.7643:

Well what I think is more of a community problem is that if you want to raid but you got a low amount of Li you can’t get into a group nor guild. I really want to raid properly but I only got 5 Li and it doesn’t really matter from which boss I got them since people won’t let you even join for vg without having 100 + Li. (even if you got your low amount from said boss or the boss you want to do).
Is it just me or is this just ridicoulus? For me it is like saying : you can’t join on ascalon dungeon without having around 1k dungeon marks.
How can I get raid experience if I can’t join a group or a guild because I lack on Li?
Ofc the more Li you got the more experienced you are but tbh it gives new-ish raiders 0 chances to get into it :/
Also I think it would make it easier if the Li would show from which boss you got them.
Yes I might be complaining but for me it also kinda destroys the community :/

There’s at least 5 EU guilds that are recruiting that don’t specify prior raid experience as a requirement on the first 2 pages alone.

yeah those guilds also
1. ask you for LIs anyway in game
2. don’t take you in raid unless literary nobody else showed up. So chances you get even VG kill are slim and you would have to wait for it weeks and months.

Have been in those guilds.

Let me introduce you to R T I
Happy raiding!

Behellagh.1468:

Yes you can. The item buys you one key and a permanent port into the safe room, which after the first key you will have to leave and do the heart to unlock the vendor again to get another key.

Then I don’t get the problem of OP.. there’s a lifetime supply of those keys

Felahr.9830:

Obtena.7952:

Collect berries in BBF and eat them all. Repeat with each level 80 you have.

how many can you hit on each character before it stops?

I don’t remember really, maybe 30 berries a day per character?
and then you get like.. what? 25 magic each on average?
I don’t know the exact numbers, but it should be plenty

To everyone here who has trouble starting, look for a guild called RTI, they do all kinds of training runs, but also kill runs.
They’ve really helped me out

what I personally think happened is simply that Palawa Joko was in a pinch with Kralkatorrik, and wanted the bloodstones, so what better way to get it than deluding an army of humans who have been using the bloodstones for generations, so he popped in waiting for the ritual, donned mursaat armor, and voila. He can begin his easter hunt for the bloodstones. In the meantime, as per his modus operandi in GW1, he would gladly side with the humans if it meant killing the elder dragons, but he wouldn’t be above betraying them thereafter

can’t you just buy the key from a nearby heart vendor like every day?

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Beware of the “get good” and “learn to play” comments.

raids and fractals have a ‘learn to play’ curve. This was just chaos. the problem with this instance was mostly the fact that the stage was very small and a lot happened randomly, there wasn’t a pattern or a logic to it, it was just that, chaos. I got through just fine because I’m used to a little chaos, but I can see how this is considered difficult. Can you imagine a fight with vale guardian in such a small stage, but with all the red orbs, two green fields and several blue fields, all the while some adds constantly throw CC around. I don’t think that’s so much a learn to play issue as it’s getting lucky between all the chaos issue

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Do you have down skill 5 yet, I admit I was downed half a dozen times but the passive from down skill 5 always brought me up.

It’s usefull, but not all powerful, I think you were mostly lucky that were people around whose health was low enough to die from the blast

Felahr.9830:

what was the exploit? i dont recall getting anything weird from the jade frags. so confused now

I think a combination of instance hopping and multicharring

not forgotten, abandoned. Since she’s a purified mordrem champion and mordremoth is dead she’s no longer relevant to any story, so you can just delete all your sylvari, they won’t be mentioned anymore.

Ranael.6423:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I agree with others: Canach is great. (I miss [that other Sylvari who shall not be named to avoid spoilers], though.

Did you mean Malyck ?

What if malyck is the Lazarus imposter?

cptaylor.2670:

Could he be a disguised forgotten?

You want to cram a snake with four arms into a golden humanoid armor? Good luck

If you played ls3ch4 and saw the papaya leak; good news. Elona is now very propable. No guarantees, just a probability that’s slowly getting more evidence

Consensus seems to have stopped at; that’s propably where he hid Lazarus’ sixth fragment

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Amaimon.7823:

Not really, Janthir was mentioned, but it was only player speculation that led to some people believing Caudecus was there.

It was more than just player speculation. At the end of Crack in the Ice Rox says “Canach says it looks like [Caudecus’] making his way up to the Isles of Janthir.”

ah, you’re right, in my memory I had it as just ‘the mantle going there’ but if it was really caudecus. Maybe he was going in that direction but was stopped by something beyond his control, or returned because something was not right back here

I can almost guarantee we’ll not see that many episodes.
My personal hamfist is that Lazarus is Palawa Joko, plenty of reasons to believe that so that we’ll get 1 or 2 more episodes in which I think the anarchial breakdown of the white mantle will occur and Rytlock will have a trial or encounter of sorts, after which episode 8 will in fact be the next expansion if my previously spoilercovered hamfist is correct, which would take us to Elona

Sojourner.4621:

Possibly Palawa Joko is an option, but there’s someone else connected to the bloodstones and the mursaat that no one seems to be considering. What about Vizier Khilbron the lich?

While I can share the sentiment, I really think Khilbron is 100% dead, I mean, we encountered him in the realm of torment. Joko was only sealed, and Lazarus was broken in spirit and form, but not in soul. Khilbron was broken completely, he died, and went to the realm of torment for his eternal punishment. Without an outside source of almost divine power, I don’t think you can leave the realm of torment that easily. like maybe an envoy could’ve released his spirit back into the world, but then Khilbron wouldn’t have had a physical form, and unlike Shiro he wouldn’t have had the necessary magic for rebirth. Long story short, without some retconning on the lore, I don’t think Khilbron is a viable option

Death.9268:

There is also a portal in Harathi Hinterlands that leads you to Lake Doric ^^

I haven’t found it yet, but my guildmates say it’s a one way exit to Harathi, but I’m not sure.

btw, I haven’t heard anyone say it out loud yet, so I wondering about the pronounciation. Harati, Harafi, Harasi, Harafthi..

Genesis.8572:

I guess he had an errand to run during episode 3 and then he brought his posse down for episode 4.

Maybe the guy who imitated Lazarus went there. Our some goons of Xera

Sounds good for druids and eles who want a middle ground of support and damage

Goldfox.5729:

What? This is not some Forex daytrading, it’s a game.

I feel like OP doesn’t speak English and quickly translated this so a discussion might not be very fruitful.
On one end is a nice idea to get a notice when a liked gen store item is for sale. But really, just read the patch notes if you want to stay up to date

The final issue is going to be, I can never actually spend my LI because then I lose the profit of entering raids.
Maybe players should get a title achievement. earn 1 point every kill, 5 if you do a wing complete (so 2 bonus points) and every 25 points is a title upgrade?

Taimi’s short for her age, but asura like Zojja and Kudu are what we consider ‘young adults’ (20-25 in human years?) so I don’t think they normally get much taller.

webtoehobbit.4201:

Wasn’t Caudecus going to the Isles of Janthir? But then in this episode he’s just back at the most obvious place, his house? Idk, maybe I’m missing something here, but to me I feel like they rushed his death and all the excitement of him going to Janthir is just out the window now. Please tell me I missed something.

Not really, Janthir was mentioned, but it was only player speculation that led to some people believing Caudecus was there.
Caudecus in the end just turnt out to be a mockery of himself

Sykper.6583:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Close? Unless I missed something about the end cinematic, my second line of thought was correct The prisoner is...Saul D'Alessio.

Though the exact circumstances behind the prison are still unknown to me, though. I just got into a cleared instance before the final (?) boss.

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From my understanding, there were a bunch of human males that oddly all look the same with different degrees of age to them imprisoned and hunted down by a demon (who seemed to be either an escaped prisoner as well, or the prison warden). There were also jotun, Forgotten, and oddly ettin prisoners.

The human corpses make me think that Saul was being “cloned” and imprisoned with himself with no knowledge of this happening – the clones all being at different spans of aging, and with different names (Brandt being one), but if they weren’t clones of Saul made to suffer time and time again, why did they have the same appearance except hair color and why was the hair color only black to white? If they wanted the corpses to be obviously multiple prisoners, why not change the hair and beard or at least the color to red or blonde?

What’s truly fascinating was that the Eye of Janthir’s presence slowed down all aging, including decay of corpses.

I think there was a little ambiguity, you did getSaul right and we did uncover his fate, but we saved him with death rather than bringing him back to Tyria which catered towards my theory about sending someone off like an Envoy (hence Legendary Armor theme).

What’s bothering me is that when didthe mursaat start employing demons? Maybe I misinterpreted things but weren't the Mursaat more or less against things from the Realm of Torment? Or maybe the demons we fight in the raid were created from the Eye of Janthir, manifest from Saul's own sins. Actually the coolest thought of mine was that since Forsaken Thicket showed a preview of the White Mantle, maybe we might start encountering demons soon in the Living Story.

Either way, from what I am looking at right now, strategies will start forming soon about the encounters, from what I’ve seen the first three are extremely straight forward.

The last one though I did personally touch on a bit tonight, it’s multiphase with continued added mechanics and plenty of potential wipe scenarios. The enrage timer isn’t even close to a problem, the easiest enrage timer by far. But they just threw a dozen mechanics at you and said ‘Have fun!’, it’s rather difficult.

More or less, they were just anxious of the Titans because the flameseeker prophecy told they wold meet their end at the hand of the titans (although it turnt out the player actually killed more mursaat than the titans did in the end)

RoseofGilead.8907:

Frioniel.7126:

Amaimon.7823:

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

OriOri.8724:

Ayrilana.1396:

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1. corn
2. charr

Not necessarily, I had different answers, which leads me to believe that the questions are randomized.

Same for me

I got Chicken; Centaur, they’re really primitive riddles, really

I think the answer varies between races. With humans, the answer is always Chicken and Centaur.

My human female got corn, charr each time I took her through.

maybe there are random sets, like the first one is random, but the second one is based on the first one, so it would always be charr second if the first was corn, centaur second if the chicken was first

Amineo.8951:

Makai.3429:

Episode 5: Blood Legion Homelands where we fight bloodstone-infused branded (why not?).

Episode 6: Whatever happens will lead us to the area south of Fields of Ruin.

Expansion: Elona.

Yeah we’re gonna learn more about Rytlock and Kasmeer next episode I’m sure of it, the fact he got arrested is suspicious, I think the Charrs thought he was using ancient magic which is forbidden if I recall right because of what happened with Abaddon, the Titans and Ascalon…

While I believe we’ll see some rytlock glory, I have honest doubts we’ll go to the flame legion homelands

Besides the fact that I believe it’s Palawan Joko it could be a retcon on the actual Lazarus because many people disliked the change of heart and found his current motives unbelievable. Saying that he’s incomplete would be a lore friendly fix of attitude. But if it’s not Joko I can’t think of anyone but Seers, Mursaat or Joko to be able to drain a destructed bloodstone

what?
what is this about now?
the portal
to lake doric
is right there
in divinity’s reach

Like, literally all you have to do is listen to jennah’s blabbering and and GO THERE..
come one.. you can’t seriously be this lazy?

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

OriOri.8724:

Ayrilana.1396:

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1. corn
2. charr

Not necessarily, I had different answers, which leads me to believe that the questions are randomized.

Same for me

I got Chicken; Centaur, they’re really primitive riddles, really

I already figured it out
“Lazarus” is Palawa Joko or an avatar/servant thereof

Read at your own risk

If this topic gets deleted, assume I was right

Look for RTI on Enjin. They do a lot of runs without LI requirements

Ardid.7203:

I don’t see where is the pejorative.

he means you disregard other opinions on the premise that they’re not in line with your way of thinking

what’s the problem, actually? new players can just manually get LS2 and LS3, and play.
If you come in later to the game you should be expected to not be the first to do something, that’s like common sense. I mean, if I go boot up WoW now, I shouldn’t be expecting many people, if any at all, for the earlier raids. It would be my own incurrection if I did, not the gamemakers

Fremtid.3528:

Salvage more for more luck, the higher your magic find the more rares you’ll get.

I care to disagree.
The difference between a 0 and 300% luck is close neglible, salvaging ectos for the purpose of maxing luck, you would to play like 300 years before you break even with how many ectos you’d end up with

Sister Saxifrage.7361:

We know the blighting trees are corrupted; part of the VB map meta is to halt the corruption process of one.

We know the Pale Tree is inspired and fortified somehow by the influences of Ventari and Ronan.

Maybe Malyck’s tree is what happens when the seeds are left completely alone? Maybe one escaped all notice and was allowed to grow unaltered? A seed implies a parent plant; maybe the whole “print plant-based copies of life forms and send them out into the world” strategy has been going on for some time, just using animals (sometimes so loosely they passed as more ordinary plants) and only recently using sentients.

Not sure how to square this with Wynn’s revelation that the trees come from Mordremoth and belong to him. But then why would he need to corrupt them before they’ll make blighted Mordrem? Is Mordremoth as we encounter him in the game also somehow blighted, deviated from his original state? Maybe by the release of Zhaitan’s magic?

But as for Malyck’s tree. Do you think they’ll ever pick up that thread again, or will they just say Mordremoth got to it and it became an ordinary blighting tree, end of story?

I don’t think Malyck is still canon, he was in an early ps chapter, and then completely neglected by anet. As for the seeds, they’re already mordremoth’s, corruption in this game doesn’t necessecarily mean he corrupted the thing. Some things only exist in the corrupted state, which means the elder dragon controls it, or his magic flows through it. The blighting trees are most likely the ‘native state’

rochersuchard.9751:

Amaimon.7823:

flog.3485:

DoctorDing.5890:

Multiloot, oh Multiloot. As your time ticks away I can only wish you goodbye, my friend.
You were fun. You were frantic. You were lucrative.
You were hugely entertaining.
You brought together players from many walks of life.

I’ll miss the superbly organised ones.
I’ll miss the chaotic ones.
I’ll miss the random ones.
I’ll miss “that guy”, who never quite grasped the concept and entertained us all in chat.
I’ll even miss the ones where the comms went mad with power. Kick, kick, kick.

Multiloot, you were my fool, my friend, my lover.
Well, OK, maybe not my lover but I’ll miss you anyway. <sniff>

And where will I get all my stuff stuff stuff now????

You do realize there is more meta events besides AB multiloot, right ?

you do realize where the multiloot was the only place where people bothered to communicate

You should try raiding

• Raiding with my guild: good communication
• Raiding with pugs:
  what’s this, what’s that, there’s dead bodies everywhere. what’s this, what’s that, why is the boss still here.
  What’s this, what’s this, there’s something very wrong
  What’s this, there’s teammates fighting wrong
  The raids are lined with corpses and everybody’s health is red
  It’s wonder that the boss after all time isn’t even close to being dead
  Everybody seems to think they’re in a different raid altogether
  What’s this?

flog.3485:

DoctorDing.5890:

Multiloot, oh Multiloot. As your time ticks away I can only wish you goodbye, my friend.
You were fun. You were frantic. You were lucrative.
You were hugely entertaining.
You brought together players from many walks of life.

I’ll miss the superbly organised ones.
I’ll miss the chaotic ones.
I’ll miss the random ones.
I’ll miss “that guy”, who never quite grasped the concept and entertained us all in chat.
I’ll even miss the ones where the comms went mad with power. Kick, kick, kick.

Multiloot, you were my fool, my friend, my lover.
Well, OK, maybe not my lover but I’ll miss you anyway. <sniff>

And where will I get all my stuff stuff stuff now????

You do realize there is more meta events besides AB multiloot, right ?

you do realize where the multiloot was the only place where people bothered to communicate

They said they had no plans to continue on “Lake Doric”
they didn’t say they were never going to make a map in or near that area.
What they said was, we won’t make Lake Doric.
Besides, the area to the east isn’t considered Lake Doric, Lake Doric is to the north of DR, not to the east.

Sky.7610:

OriOri.8724:

Sky.7610:

OriOri.8724:

Was there a point to this post?

you’ll find the point if you read the first paragraph… the first.

I read the whole thing, and I don’t see a point in your post.

The point is, people are complaining about “evil TP barons” ruining the market and making things expensive for them. That’s a misconception. They are upset at the wrong outlet. You would of understood this if you actually understand the post.

Haven’t seen those people yet. The people I associate with work for and share their coin

During festivals I can complete dailies in a minute. Other days I do one pvp round and fill it up with daily vista or gatherer