Guild Wars 2

There’s an important note, though:
The journal, which is called the Living Story, is unlocked for free when you log, but only if it’s the most recent chapter. If it’s not, then it becomes gem store property. Just by logging in during that period you unlock the chapter in your Living Story Journal.

the Living World is something else, though, the Living World includes Current Events, Wintersday, Festival of the Mad King, and various similar events. Some of these have remained permanently, some last 2-4 weeks, this is important to look up before deciding ‘oh, i’ll do that later’

Wouldnt a perma rev-orb be pay to win?
Im saying that because the orb lets you revive in fractals where normal people wipe.
I distinctly remember almost wiping on a jellyfish battle in tier 4, followed by one guy using an orb in time and rezzing us all.

While you’re at it. Fix the fact that red light fills your screen in first person mode when wearing these

Felahr.9830:
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Thank you for screenshot

kdaddy.5431:

Amaimon.7823:

kdaddy.5431:

If we are to think about it logically and break them down. Primordus should be the strongest since it has been awake the longest therefore eaten up more magic.

From a personal hope, Jormag since im a bigger fan of the norns.

But if i had to put money on dragon fighting, Zhaitan to me would easily be the strongest. He raised ORR back up and turned them into his fighting slaces as well as corrupting everything on water and land.

Mordremoth tried to recreate zoija, Logan and trehearne. Think of all the great warriors who have fallen and Zhaitan resurrect them back to full strength. Instead of fighting great armies and giant undead beasts. Imagine fighting Achillies on the ground, straight fear would come on everyone.

So if i had to realistically say which dragon was stronger i would of gone with zhaitan.

Your logic for Zhaitan easily implies all dragons. Jormag turnt a mountain range into a oceanic Fjord. Kralkatorrik was a mountain range when he slept, and I believe primordius could easily create volcanoes should he see fit.

Ohh of course, obviously strength of the dragon depends on power level.

Lets just say all the dragons are of equal strength. 1000 vit, 1000 strength etc etc etc.

Now you simply grade the varibles, Zhaitan has the ability to corrupt water/land/air and the undead. For instance the legendary megalodon or the legendary undead champion gorilla king.

Now i believe Zhaitain would lose in 1 vs 1 fights vs the other dragon since there powers are imbued with a element of power. A power that would come from great individual strength. Zhaitans greatest strength comes from a ability of just sheer numbers. Tyria right now has literally hundreds of great hero’s and in the story line how many champions of Orr did we face? 2-3 and then maybe 1-2 giant monsters. It was a very unrealistic fight.

If i could compare, i would say Zhaitan was a Queen Ant. To me the other dragons in line they would be lizards, chickens, spiders etc etc etc. A small ant colony has no chance but given time and once a army has risen. Even animals like dogs and cats fear ant hills. Zhaitan was a Queen Ant and she had a army, we are just playing a game where the story says it has to end now. Thats the only reason Zhaitan is dead.

Zhaitan ‘could’ win in numbers, but numbers need to be extreme, Icebrood and Destroyers are a lot stronger than risen on their level.

Jhoul.6923:

After seeing the trailer for LS3 ep2 now I want to play a kitten Skritt like the Skritt Pirate!

Skritt only have a society/commodity when in big groups. Kingdoms and Pirates (in this case) have a ‘somewhat poor, but still excuse’ right to call themselves functioning creatures. When a skritt is alone, he posesses the ability to process one thought at a time, making them so dumb that they wouldn’t be able to fight well. A lone skritt would use rifles as hammers and pistols as maces.

Destroyers, by a mile!

If you’re talking about the WvW and Achievement Point Leaderboards, they’re working just fine here. Maybe reset your internet cache and try again.

EDIT: top 5 works fine, and the full list of WvW, but the full list of the AP-leaderboard gives me an internal error as well.

kdaddy.5431:

If we are to think about it logically and break them down. Primordus should be the strongest since it has been awake the longest therefore eaten up more magic.

From a personal hope, Jormag since im a bigger fan of the norns.

But if i had to put money on dragon fighting, Zhaitan to me would easily be the strongest. He raised ORR back up and turned them into his fighting slaces as well as corrupting everything on water and land.

Mordremoth tried to recreate zoija, Logan and trehearne. Think of all the great warriors who have fallen and Zhaitan resurrect them back to full strength. Instead of fighting great armies and giant undead beasts. Imagine fighting Achillies on the ground, straight fear would come on everyone.

So if i had to realistically say which dragon was stronger i would of gone with zhaitan.

Your logic for Zhaitan easily implies all dragons. Jormag turnt a mountain range into a oceanic Fjord. Kralkatorrik was a mountain range when he slept, and I believe primordius could easily create volcanoes should he see fit.

They’re the thives guild. If we knew who they were, where they hide or how to aproach them, they’d be a very bad thieves guild. Only the ‘player’ knows of them, but also only in the sense of how to call them out. They’re obviously trusted with that information to not spill the beans, so your character even manages to hide that knowledge from the player

Primordius is and has always been regarded as such by the elder races. He is the concept of destruction after all, and the oldest of the six.

I think I do, but then again, im a white male, so I might not have an opinion.

Don’t worry, we’ll propably get a trailer tomorrow
15 seconds of flashy text animations on blurry backgrounds
5 seconds of 200000 frames too fast or too unspecific to actually learn anything
25 seconds of displaying the GW2 logo and the date of release

please send them to me, I’m working on the Ad Infinitum and have an extreme shortage

should everyone who plays need their share of mystic coins, there would never be enough. There are enough mystic coins considering only a small populace actually uses them. So you need like 25 people to generate one person’s need of mystic coins.

Its just either a timesink or a gold sink, whichever you have more of, you use.
but it takes an awful lot of time to generate them sufficiently, since you need almost 400 coins for 77 clovers.
So one person would wait their share of monthly coins, and spen the rest of that time grinding for gold to buy the rest.

Destroyer Armor, because right now I’m running around in a mix of Hellfire (achiement) en Flame Citadel Heavy, with Balthazar’s Backpiece, just to look slightly destroyer-ish.

The map you dont like is the one most apparant. I dislike the underground mining facility so I feel like that one’s up every other day.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

@Amaimon: Primordus’ only known domain is fire. We don’t know his second domain. While destruction is a decent educated guess, it’s far from likely given what little we know. Could say his second domain is earth and be just as likely.

Fair enough, I’ll concede destruction isn’t the confirmed true domain, but what we’ve seen from the other elder dragons, one domain is more materialistic while the second domain is more ideological, or surreal.
Like Zhaitan’s true domain was Shadow, Mawdrey’s was Mind, and while not confirmed, sailor stories tell us that the deepsea-dragon is propably related to terror/anguish/fear and according to the Norn we believe Jormag’s to be Corruption.

So destruction is a more believable true domain than earth, as earth is an element, and destruction is more of a concept. If it’s not destruction it could also be violence, chaos or something similar.

Afaik Primordius is the only one who hasn’t interacted with intelligent races yet. He doesn’t enslave, corrupt or manipulate, he just creates spews minions and destroyes everything in his wake. Whereas other minions turn intelligent creatures into puppets or servants, Primordius doesn’t.

This next bit is just a theory, but let me know it’s plausible:
Primordius behaves like an Ant Queen. When he still was underground, most destroyers looked very alien, but I looked them up recently, and they turnt out to look a lot like underground insects, tunnelers and plants/fungi. And now in GW2 when the minions surface, they suddenly look like crabs, harpies and trolls. So I’m wondering if they’re devouring creatures and using their bodies as blueprints to creature destroyers.

Woofzhumzhumzhumzhum. Like some kind of magiteh system booting up

Okay, first of all. We’re lucky if we’re even gonna see primordius before the next expantion. We dont even know IF there are any destroyers in the Ring of Fire. It could just be Primo’s champion moving there to feast on the bloodstone or something.

Secondly, the inquests won’t easily give out their information, not without a deal or scenario that leaves them out better.

Thirdly, Primordius is the domain of destruction. He would be a threat o all races, the Norn as much as the Asura since until not too long ago he was in the central transfer chamber feasting on a leyline node, which I have reason to believe he is still there, after all, why would a dragon abandon a banquet of magic.

Fourthly, ls3ch2 will be the end of taimi’s mission? What? What even made you think that? And the ring of fire is the culmination of what Taimi did? What? I’ll have what you’re having.

In short, all of taimi’s “mission” was that she would extract and translate all rata novan information on the elder dragons, god knows how long that would take.

I wonder, would raid-mechanics be good for a story instance. Designed for 10 player groups, but filling empty spots with ‘stupid NPCs’ if you cant meet the 10. I’m not discussing its difficulty, but rather, the thought that it would allow for more realistic big fights. The thought that we killed zhaitan with a cannon, and mordremoth in his mind was fine by me. That superstates the need of ‘many’ people. But that kind of warfare is about to run out, and we’ll soon run into the real champion of primordius, or else (I never considered the megadestroyer a general, just a big baddy).

So I think it would be cool to have instanced content like normal story chapters, but for bigger groups of people. And using the raid mechanic for it, it will lay a good foundation to make a story mode, and a raiders hero mode with par level of rewards.

Your opinions?

Danikat.8537:

I take it you haven’t been doing the ‘scavenger hunt’ Current Event achievements?

That strongly implies Primordius is moving (underground) to the Ring of Fire islands, and we know that’s where we’re going next, so it seems likely.

I have. But i stand by my point that its really.. No extremely cheap if we find primordius on the RoF, especially when neglecting lazarus and the bloodstone, since the RoF is a familiar terrain of the mursaat and lazarus is bloodstone hunting. Im not saying Prim wont be there, im just saying it would be a sore lazy writing.

Ayrilana.1396:

I’m personally hoping that Lazarus is the one who kills Primordus to absorb more magic and the 2nd expansion focuses around him. Having each expansion be about destroying a dragon would get repetitive.

Of any dragon I would approve of doing that, Primordius is the ONLY dragon that would make me uninstall gw2 if they pulled a stunt like that

Why do people say primordius is there? I think that’s stretching the obvious because if it’s fiery realm. Since it also houses a bloodstone I have hope we go there because of Lazarus and not primordius. I read several articles including the “official teaser” and there’s no mention of destroyers and rings if fire in a single paragraph

Edit: to clarify his domain is destruction. And his realm is underground. His minions are made of earth, with a burning hot core using fire as a favorable method of destruction. He even dove into the middle of the shiverpeaks for his last resting period

Ayrilana.1396:

Amaimon.7823:

Malediktus.3740:

Amaimon.7823:

Malediktus.3740:

5 mystic coins for a reward track would be way too much. Essentially 150 mystic coins per month for every WvW player.

that’s about a 10th of what you need for 77 clovers with a drop of 0-2 on the 10 coins.

what? On average you need 231 mystic coins to forge 77 clovers. Not sure how 150 coins can be 1/10 of what you need to craft 77 clovers.

Here’s your basic math. Drop rates per 10 is 0-2 so if we take 2 is the best case scenario we get: 10 coins to 2clovers. 5 coins per clover. That means 77 clovers cost 77*5 coins in the best case scenario if you managed with 231 mystic coins I would almost report you for cheating, as 385 is the best case scenario. Meaning 400-450 would be a reasonable answer since 0 on 10 its more rare than 2 on 10.

So maybe 150 is 1/10th was a bit of an exaggeration as its a bit more close to 1/5th

Drop rate is roughly 30-33%. You’re basing yours on a very small sample size that is subjected to a high degree of variation due to RNG.

2 legendaries, ad ininfintum. And guild mates, I don’t call that a small sample size. In my experience and those of many close to me I find that 30% number extremely overbuffed

Maybe I’m popping a bubble herr but maybe Scarlett was so good because you never got to farm it. Nor dud people have enough time to find mechanics to exploit

Malediktus.3740:

Amaimon.7823:

Malediktus.3740:

5 mystic coins for a reward track would be way too much. Essentially 150 mystic coins per month for every WvW player.

that’s about a 10th of what you need for 77 clovers with a drop of 0-2 on the 10 coins.

what? On average you need 231 mystic coins to forge 77 clovers. Not sure how 150 coins can be 1/10 of what you need to craft 77 clovers.

Here’s your basic math. Drop rates per 10 is 0-2 so if we take 2 is the best case scenario we get: 10 coins to 2clovers. 5 coins per clover. That means 77 clovers cost 77*5 coins in the best case scenario if you managed with 231 mystic coins I would almost report you for cheating, as 385 is the best case scenario. Meaning 400-450 would be a reasonable answer since 0 on 10 its more rare than 2 on 10.

So maybe 150 is 1/10th was a bit of an exaggeration as its a bit more close to 1/5th

Malediktus.3740:

5 mystic coins for a reward track would be way too much. Essentially 150 mystic coins per month for every WvW player.

that’s about a 10th of what you need for 77 clovers with a drop of 0-2 on the 10 coins.

Though several posts have been made for individual cases, this bug is more general in nature, and didn’t see it on the Known Bug list, I thought I’d post here a concise bug form:

In first person mode, regardless of race, several worn objects (equipment skins) obscure the field of view.

Currently know items to obscure the field of view include, but are not limited to:
*Bloodstone Visage
*Most, if not every, Long- and Shortbow

I want to keep this post civil and as clean as possible, there are plenty of articles to discuss the effects of individual items. If you have other items that obscure your field of view in first person mode, please let me know and I will ammend the list.

I would love to hear from a dev if they are aware of this problem yet.

As I move about, I think it would be fair that laurels should be convertable to Mystic Coins.. in say a.. 5 to 1 ratio?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

There’s three huge holes in your theory:

First, dragon corruption that’s purified remains purified and cannot be recorrupted. If such were possible, then Glint would have been recorrupted rather than killed, and the Pale Tree recorrupted rather than assaulted and attempted to be killed. Even the sylvari do not get corrupted in the traditional dragon corruption sense, but rather fell to mental whispers disguised as the individuals’ own thoughts (same with Scarlet).

Second, Wyld Hunts are not given by Mordremoth – nor are Dark Hunts. They are given by the Dream and the Nightmare, which have been heavily implied to the point of “do you really need it explicitly stated, bookah?” levels that the Dream/Nightmare is what protects sylvari from dragon corruption (leading them to instant deaths); Mordremoth can only turn sylvari via ‘the call’ because he too is tied to the Dream/Nightmare, and is able to effectively hijack the channel used to give Wyld/Dark Hunts to plant those whispers. However, he couldn’t do this while asleep – the only sylvari influenced by him was Scarlet, and that’s because she distanced herself from the Dream/Pale Tree’s protections (as shown in the What Scarlet Saw short story).

And if neither of those were convincing enough, there’s the third flaw, a fatal one for your theory:

Mordremoth can send his mind to any of his corruption. If he could send it to the purified dragon magic, then he could have done so to any sylvari or the Pale Tree at that time; in addition, he could send it to any of his actual corruption – the non-purified stuff – such as the vines right around us. He could not, however; he was left with his mind in only two places: Trahearne and his own physical body (Mouth of Mordremoth), where his mind was already before we fought him in the Dream; once those were destroyed Mordremoth was gone for good. This is shown in the second raid wing, Salvation Pass, with a Mordrem Vine being devoid of all life.

And as an aside: there would be no way for Mordremoth to fathom he may die. Elder Dragons are nigh immortal, Mordremoth more so, and none have died for tens of thousands of years – if ever. So the notion of him sending a “sleeper agent” or whathaveyou to create a back up in the change someone may decide to attack him in the Dream is… ludicrously low. He would never consider such because he would never consider someone would be capable of killing him. At least until Zhaitan is killed – which is why he goes directly after DE, Trahearne, and the PC.

You’re saying that M couldnt retake a cleansed sylvari, but then wouldnt trahearne have been safe at the end? He pepsi’d somthat his body wouldn’t host M. If he could do that, then he could also claim the pale tree as a new body

Greatest patch ever. 6.9/10 too much lava

Eragon.8234:

Randulf.7614:

Don’t worry, he will be dangerous for ele’s at least.

Destroyers are immune to burning

OH MAN! I forgot about this. This makes Condi Engi’s all over the world sad.

Don,t worry, if we can light up the megadestroyer like an australian forest, lesser destroyers are gonna be burnt to a crisp.
Kinda strage that destroyers in gw2 aren’t immune to burning, or icebrood to chill, risen to poison, branded and mordrem toooo….. Something?

Living World = the world changes with the story
Living Story = the questline/story/the-actual-gameplay-journal

LW = the gift and its fancy wrapping
LS = the content of the gift

I’m currently slightly worried on where the story is taking us.
My main concerns lie in the fact that Primordius spent an entire campaign making us learn he’s kinda the big brother of the Elder Dragons. my point being is, he’s been awake the longest, he’s already described as the strongest / most capable, if we defeat him now in the middle of the story while the pact is at it’s weakest point.. I fear the elder dragons lose all imago they have.

My second concern, albeit not as big a problem, is the choice for the Fire Islands, should the story revolve around Primordius there, rather than Lazarus and the Bloodstone, then I feel like it’s a cheap stretch. I feel like if we face Primordius, it should still be underground. He claimed the depths and turnt them into volcanic wastes. Now, this doesn’t mean in any way that Primordius shouldn’t even surface, but I feel like that’s the type of domain his work would be done justice most.

(ps, when I heard that Braham was losing steam on an increasing numbers of icebrood, I thought Jormag was gonna be next. And since the Depths of the Shiverpeaks were Primordius’ terrain, I had a kinda hope for a threeway battle, between the Pact, Icebrood and the Destroyers)

Well, loot is always a driving factor.
People like me with limited playtime/week need to utilize their time. Result; we prioritize high reward contend. I love the game ad a whole. Even queensdale has a lot to offer. But Im not given a lot of incentive to prioritize those maps in ym very limited gametime over CS, MultiLoot-Basin, and fractals. And I think a lot of people share a similar sentiment. Whether they just need the money or dont have enough time for unrewarding content.

woohooo, for the first time since the begin of the summer we had a daily mystic forger again

KaKakitten.3019:

The range option for warrior is bad for my taste. Even the only option for rev which you throw hammer is better/more fun than having rifle and longbow :/

The balance of ranger is too good for example, range to good close combat, huge mobility but its ‘healer’ expectation and due to that having low power damage is so sad.

Again necro is so fun but not mobile, i am sa again..

yea, but the point is, necro doesn’t need to be mobile because the whole point is to keep enemies away from you.
I suppose the thief is pretty mobile on the battlefield, but its ranged is not so good, and to use a thief above mediocre is a drag.
Revenants are a lot squishier than they look like, I had one for a while, and it felt like I was melee’ing with a caster class.

Guardians have a drop in dps compared to the warrior, but they’re just as mobile, and if you invest in the DragonHunter, you got a strong ranged option, too

The warrior fills all those needs with a chanting choir a parade of banners following its glory!
Seriously though, the warrior comes closest to the no-aim move hack’n’slash gameplay. Most of the warriors attacks hits all targets within its swings, you can moving around as only the greatsword 2 skill requires you to steady. Keep your dodge on shift, and it’ll feel li,e youre playing castlevania, only in 3d

Behellagh.1468:

Daily mystic forger comes up 4 to 6 times a month. Now there’s Ley Line anomalies to hunt down that drop one as well.

I’m currently crafting the backpack, and have been saving up mystic coins. If as you said the Daily Forger comes up 4 to 6 times a month, your acount is bugged. Because there’s no way I would miss a single one of them, and I’ve only seen 1 in the whole of august,

There is also the daily mystic forger which sometimes occurs a month. If you do all of the daily mystic forgers you might get 4-5 per year

Konig Des Todes.2086:

What we’re told about the Elder Dragons’ gender is, as close of wording as I can recall: “the Elder Dragons have gender that Tyrians do not understand” – though it’s unclear whether this means they simply do not know the gender, or if “male” and “female” are both inaccurate descriptions for the Elder Dragons regarding gender.

That said, Glint is oft referred to as female, while Glint refers to Kralkatorrik as a male, and Mordremoth sounds male, and we have another dragon champion referred to as female (Pale Tree).

Its that part that I believe male and female is assigned to them more based on their personality rather than their biological function.

Orangensaft.7139:

Amaimon.7823:

Please no, they’re already 496337% the size of normal warhammers

I dont want my characters wielding a weapon they cant wield. Im already annoyed by the greatswords fighting style as a Liechtenauer student.

those seem to be 1 hand warhammers or almost a mix of mace and hammer….

When looking at the 2 handed hammers in gw2 the biggest problem with most of them is not even the overall size itsself in my opinion

But instead the size of the staff part where you hold the Hammer

To me it feels like on ~90% of hammers it is so ridiculousy thin that it looks like as if the Hammer would immediatly break after using it for one attack….

some of the bad examples is Balthazar’s Hammer, Tormented Hammer or
Fractal Hammer
one of the good examples for a proper size would be Magmaton

These are pikehammers. They’re meant 1.5-handing. Meaning you can wield them with one hand for swinging, but aimed techniques require a second hand.

Lambent.6375:

Gw2 characters gave magical powers that give them the ability to wield large metal weapons as if they were plastic.

So I don’t have a problem with more giant hammers.

Its the magically enhanced strength that makes the current oversization possible. Magic has its limits

Please no, they’re already 496337% the size of normal warhammers

I dont want my characters wielding a weapon they cant wield. Im already annoyed by the greatswords fighting style as a Liechtenauer student.

To OP there are plenty of topics, the search bar is just broken. And almost all of them are hatemail. Its because:
A) it shines through the back of your head.
B) it literally makes you see red in FPM

Hundreds pf topics in discussion and bug and not a single dev has yet replied any of these so we don’t even know if its miserable design was intended. For nu, just use the red version of glints gaze if you want red eyes.

I always just kinda assumed they were genderless. I mean, all elder dragons create minions, so that would make them female? I think not. What the ED do is create bodies and imbue them with magic that fakes life.

The only dragon I’m willing to bet a gender on is Glint, and even then I feel like the gender is more because of their personality than their function.

(Come the fact that dragon minions are fake lives, what happens to the ‘soul’ of a sylvari?)

Kal Spiro.9745:

Tachenon.5270:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Tachenon.5270:

Swagger.1459:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Evolution is NOT about wants. It’s about change in response to the surrounding environment, but there has to be a “path” possible towards this change.

So you’re saying that a charr mating with an asura is due to a change in the environment? Well wouldn’t you know it, Primodus is awakening. When his rein of terror blankets the land in death, nature will call forth a new type of hero. One born of the fires of war (charr) with the intellect to succeed (asura). And there you have it: Charrsura.

Basic Fantasy 101: When a foe is too powerful, you power up. Think of it like Goku’s fusion technique.

Hybrid species are not happening in gw2 for a multitude of reasons.

You mean like centaurs?

Centaurs, in Tyria, are not hybrid. They have humanoid parts, the torso, but the entire rest of their bodies are beastial in nature. Their heads are more similar to goats than humans, even than horses.

The only creature that can truly be considered a hybrid is most likely the Norn, who were created by Koda magic more than evolution. It’s more than a little unclear how they were made and if humans were involved in any way. But even they are not compatible with humans, primarily due to an incredibly increased body temperature that would kill off human sperm, and would probably damage a human egg as well.

You seem to be referring to the centaurs from Elona, which are a three-way between horses, gazelles, and big cats. However, see —

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Centaur

— for the Central Tyrian variety.

No, actually I’m I’m talking about the Centaurs in Kryta. I’ve never been to Elona. Hell, just looking at the pictures in that wiki you can see they don’t have human heads. Not at all human.

The krytan centaurs look almost more minos than equine. The elonian centaurs look like gazelles. Conclusion, its inconceivable a human was ever involved in either

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Amaimon.7823:

the Eye of Janthir has zero relation to the methods of ascension. All it did was allow the white mantle to see which people have ‘strong souls’ to fuel the bloodstone engine with. The player doesn’t know this and thinks they’re helping the white mantle find saintly people.

Yes and no. That ‘strong soul’ (never called that- it was only said that they had an innate talent for magic) was called being Chosen, and supposedly, only Chosen could ascend. While it had no role in the trials of ascension themselves, it was a way of picking out those who had a chance at completing said trials.

That.. Is true. I should’ve worded it better. But all the eye does is point those people out. I sincerely doubt a farmer wouldve ever completed any of the tasks regardless of their heroism. I guess the eye does point out if you should even bother seeking ascension.

Quince.6037:

I think Konig hit the nail on the head… I think he knows OF the PC but Lazarus doesn’t know who the PC is (doesn’t know what the PC looks like or where he is).

Also I think it would be VERY cool (unlikely but VERY cool) if we end up having to go to the Isles of Janthir in order to become ascended… here is why:
The Eye of Janthir was claimed by Saul D’Alessio for the White Mantle long ago. It was from Janthir because the people there were said to have “the gift of True Sight, the ability to see someone for who they really are”. Sounds to me a lot like Ascension. Would be interesting if we need to travel there to unlock a mastery or something after a quest line so that we become able to do the same and see the Mursaat… it would also open up a world completely unexplored in any of the other GW lore. Only problem is the Isles are currently over run by White Mantle and Mursaat… sounds a lot like how Bloodstone Fen is now though….

the Eye of Janthir has zero relation to the methods of ascension. All it did was allow the white mantle to see which people have ‘strong souls’ to fuel the bloodstone engine with. The player doesn’t know this and thinks they’re helping the white mantle find saintly people.

Ascension as described in Prophecies is the method where a person, under observation of the gods, performs three-ish tasks, and must then face their own weaknesses. If they can overcome three trials and face their own weakness, then they receive ascension.
In Cantha you receive ascension by gazing to the stars, I don’t really know ther backgrounds, but battling the celestial avatars must be something mist-entwining as well.
In Elona you don’t actually Ascend. They just say after a while ‘from this point on you have the benefits of ascension so you can have the same game mechanics’

Its not impossible to conceive romance between two, but it is impossible for them to have children, basic genetics 101 won’t allow it.

As for society, every race has a personal way of dealing with daily life, and for the big part these aren’t very compatible. As a result, you wouldn’t see a human live in Rata Sum if not for the expressed need for that society. As evident in Scarlet’s past, where she attended the Soren Dra communities to get them engineer knowledge.

There is a place called Lion’s Arch where people with one common interest of all races common together, that common interest is Economy, Trade, Swindling and Politics. Thats one thing all races like to have a hand in