Guild Wars 2

Panda Shepard.1248:

I just wish the fights were longer and required a bit more strategy. My favorite big events are the temples in Orr and I wish the dragons needed at least the bit of planning needed for some of those.

I’ve never gotten anything all that great in terms of loot from these things. I just really love the group activities.

Well to be fair some of the big bosses live in relatively decent areas. Take Behemoth for example, yeah its a swamp but it is liveable.

I can imagine the poor thing psyching itself up, readying his plans for conquest, even mixing up the timer to confuse the players. Then on its debut, “Oh fudgesticks they’re still here!” and he dies in a matter of minutes.

Now take Orr for example on the other side of the coin. It is creepy, it is strange, and I be the property values are….underwater (yyeeaahhhh). I doubt many people would want to live there, heck I bet even some of the Risen think “This place sucks I’m moving to Kryta, there’s better weather.” They have the time to plan, plot, and create fulfilling events that require multiple strategic movements to even scratch out a victory.

So either I’m thinking way too much into this or we should just plan to build a suburb in Orr that way we can screw up their plans.

Make Countess Anise the Queen.
Okay I’m done. That’s all I need.

I guess you do get skills with all that speed running the forums. How much silver did you earn Snow?

Oh yeah there’s money in this game.

I keep on forgetting that’s the real reason why I should play.
Who needs a silly thing like enjoying my experience and such?

I play the megabosses because either it is an achievement I haven’t won yet, the chats with people are fun, or I just enjoy whomping on the big critters.

I would not, because Zojja would not approve.

Because if I could overthrow gods with technology I’d want horns.

Nope, I bought it as a continuation to the Guild Wars storyline that I’ve been interested in since Nightfall came out.

Leo G.4501:

Haven’t played Brahm’s part yet but I started it. It brought up a question about his origin though…just a simple one really.

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Why is Rytlock so positive that Brahm isn’t Eir’s son? At first I was like “Oh, your last name is Eirsson…I could see how Rytlock made that mistake” but then he starts clarifying and I’m like “Hmmm….well how are you so sure, Ryt?”. That he’s known Eir for years doesn’t quite cut it since Norn can live pretty long lives…

For Rox’s part, I was kind of clenching as I entered the instance as I was expecting her to sound like a girl…but her voice and mannerisms thus far are just typical female charr…although I sort of kick myself for forgetting to talk to Rytlock after their scene.

Can anyone clue me in on what he says?

I think Rytlock’s reaction to Brahm is similar to the fans. ‘We know so much about her and he was never mentioned’. Maybe Rytlock just never asked if she had a family.

As for Rytlock’s conversation after Rox, it was the standard “You are going to tag along with her to ensure she doesn’t die right?” dialogue. Nothing too different than the mail you get from him.

Forget the Karka, I want the Grawl to worship the Consortium.

“We bow before your might!”
“Good…good, now repeat after me my minion: ‘Quarterly earnings’ can you say that?”
“Qu..Quarterly earnings.”
Evil laugh “Oh I do love my job”

I want a mini of that now.
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BobbyStein.2315:

Glad that people like these. We’ll do more in the future, perhaps.

You, I like you, I like this bit of news.
Good job.

darkace.8925:

SilveryBeing.5082:

I actually ran that cutscene multiple times in order to screencap her responses so I could read them later at my leisure. The fact that I had to do it at least three times is ridiculous though, girl needs to slow down.

Thanks for the caps.

I’ve got to say, Eir’s dialogue seems off. What self-respecting norn tries to talk their grown child out of a chance to earn glory?

Echoing what others said, it probably has to do more with his safety than anything else.

Put yourself in her position: You’ve got refugees pouring into your lands, your people are hunters and not professional armies, and for a hunter/gatherer culture like the Norn a city is quite an accomplishment. Hoelbrak needs to find a spot for these refugees.

Now aside from that you’ve got some alliance between two vastly different forces working as one. No one knows much about them yet, it would be foolish to rush in and take them on right now.

We need to learn about them first then smash their faces in, but this kid (who is a kid and hers as well) wants to take the fight to them now.

In her mind, to also prevent another loss like Snaff, the kid needs to stay put right now. Eventually glory and battle will be won, but not today.

I finally played her mission and overall she’s not that bad.
Maybe its because she reminds me of my cat, maybe its her enthusiasm to join Rytlock’s warband, or because she was a decent ranger, but overall I can’t find too much to hate on her.

I’m still playing Braham’s stuff first because he’s Guardian and Norn and I like both of those things first, but I won’t neglect her side of the story.

I don’t mind the guy. From the looks-department I’m not too keen on the hair, but I want that mace! My Guardian would love to have that and he’s human, so the blasted weapon would be bigger than him.

I’m also one to agree that Eir didn’t talk about her kid because possibly no one asked.
I don’t think there’s too many people who spill everything about their families and lives to everyone, unless you count Facebook or Myspace then all bets are off.

Maybe it was a sore spot in her life, maybe her mate had a falling out or something.
If anything it makes me want to play alongside the character more because he’s a young brash kid who wants to help his people. I want to know more about his life. Also a village gal he’s sweet on was captured.

I’ll go help him, but I hope we don’t have to go through 6 or 7 castles all while being told by a friendly dredge “I’m sorry she’s in another mole hill”.

I like her look.
It has a certain “I can haz warbandz?!” feel to it.

Mia Wynd.2367:

Does anyone else’s stomach do a little flutter when your character jumps off a cliff?

Yes, I get that “Ohhhhh geeez” moment.

I would have flipped my table then uninstalled.

I love this game at the story, but I entertain no subscriptions.

I didn’t hate him, but I was rather uninspired by him.
There’s a whole listing why in the thread on the personal stories side of this forum.
Long story short I wouldn’t have minded him being the adventerous scholar running around the dungeons trying to find something help fight the Dragons.

That would have been awesome, but he was tacked on at the later act of the story and I never did get much of a chance to work with him before. That’s even with my Sylvari character. We at least saw the failings and successes of the other hero proxies in previous games before something big happened. We didn’t get much with him.

So I’m more on the pity side than hate.

Freya Norgarde.4517:

I suppose what I’m having a hard time seeing is what exactly a charr would do when they aren’t running around trying to bash something’s skull in. I mean, do charr even have hobbies that aren’t somehow related to creating new machines of war? Do charr even get leave, for that matter?

Hang around Lion’s Arch and Diessa, just listen to the NPC conversations.
That will help you imagine things differently about Charr.
In Lion’s Arch you have a couple deciding on sending their kids to the fahrar because not sending them would help them relate to other races better when they get older. On the flip side it was how the parents were raised and they wanted their kids to keep the culture.

I have to say there are moments where this game really does work well to show the differences and similarities to each race.

Just yesterday I was playing the DE defending the water pipes from bandits.
I used my healing shield to cover the bandit’s bomb, as it goes running to it the guy just pops off and hits the ground.

He’s still trying to get at it while the group was pounding on him and the other mobs.

Maybe it was due to the late night, or the sound effect, but I found that funny and repeatable for a while.

“It’s explod—-”
THUMP
No, no it isn’t.

VOLKON.1290:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I do think of Mesmers as a feminine-style profession, I guess. The butterflies and all the purple feels girly to me. I know guys that won’t touch the profession because it feels too “girly” to them. Personally, I enjoy it, but then I’m a girl. lol

Oh please. What could possibly be more manly than not only destroying your enemy, but destroying them with butterflies while you’re at it? I mean, “Dude. I killed you. With butterflies. Yeah, purple butterflies. Deal with it.”

“Some butterflies have poison on them. You know what poison contains? Death. So yeah butterflies contain death, now you have it in you.”

lol

Charr in a sense have the honorbound culture trope like the Klingons of Star Trek.
Yes whatever they do is for the Legions, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be geared for war.

A farmer maintains and sells his cattle in order to fuel the Charr civilization. The Engineer would make a better aqueduct so the Farmer can supply his cows better.
The Scientists would work with the Engineers to clean up the water because everyone needs a clean drink! These aren’t geared to war, but the soldiers in the Black Citadel can afford to have a hot meal, good drink, and a well constructed barracks to sleep in because of these other professions.

Since the warriors of the Legions are supplied well enough due to those efforts, they can expand on the territory and defend what is theirs. Thus the civilians don’t need to fight on their own.

It is really no different than the Humans to some respects.

Wow I hope your hungry, at least you can get that one food achievement.
Personally I’d sell them, but have it your way.

I’ve played both GW2 and LOTRO, I tried WoW’s play for free up to 20 model as well.
The first two I still play. Sometime I just want my Dwarf Guardian to take the hits or my Hobbit Burglar to sneak around. Other days my Human Guardian in GW2 will help rez someone or my Norn Necro spawns countless minions.

Both have that thing which helps scratch an itch.

As for WoW, maybe the game doesn’t really kick in until after the ‘starter’ areas but I just couldn’t get excited. I’m not going to say it is a bad game, like I said the starter area was the only place I could play in effectively, but I’m glad I did get to try it out without feeling a buyer’s remorse over subscribing.

Though I do like Scenario 5, I already know my future for crafting.
Assuming I level 2 crafting disciplines for each character to cover it all, I’d then start using the crafting for vanity reasons.

Yes I could purchase all my stuff on the trading post, but that’s not my style and I don’t get that little rush by purchasing things. I like knowing that the stuff I’ve collected does go to a goal even if it isn’t a money-wise decision.

So everything will be scrutinized on my characters: Looks, stats, and even the colors. When all of my characters are done I will randomly award people level equivelant stuff on the maps as a way of thanking them or just clearing out inventory space.
I’ll sell off the stuff I don’t want to randomly distribute on the Trading House.
Then I might pop into a guild, say hi, drop off all sorts of food/trinkets/dyes/etc then leave the guild.

This is all assuming I have the Legendaries I want after all.

Though like I said earlier, #5 sounds fun if we ever get housing set up properly. I would love to craft out things to hallmark the events of my adventures or even just for showing off purposes.

Name: Carth Blair (the 10th)

Approximate Age: 30

Affiliation: Krytan/Ascalonian Heritage

Race: Human

Profession:
Carth is a Guardian, first and forever. Either he’s in the field killing the enemy while trying to heal a wounded friend or behind the lines shouting chants to strengthen the line.

Appearance
Tall, short dark hair, blue eyes, and a powerful voice. His armor honors the Lionguard mostly in appearance due to his sister’s initial love for them. He is nearly the spitting image of the original progenitor of the Blair family line.

History

Youth
His childhood was similar to many children in the Shiverpeaks area. He hunted alongside his sister and father while mother struck deals with nearby Humans and Norn. The Blair family line established itself in the area centuries ago after the Great Destroyer was stopped. The first Carth Blair settled near the Norn and was friendly with many of them, retiring as a pseudo-diplomat/merchant for the newly established queen.

Early Life
Carth’s first big shakeup in life came when his father died in a rockslide protecting families evacuating the area. His shields could only hold for so long before he died. Mother and sister traveled with Carth to Shaemoor where his mother became ill and he tended to her.
His sister earned money working at a nearby tavern, becoming fast friends with Petra and Andrew. Her dream of signing up with the Lionguard was put on hold due to lack of recruitment and she turned her attention to the Seraph after that.

His mother’s illness got worse later on and her last words on her deathbed to him were, “My little Guardian. You always put people ahead of yourself, Gods bless you.” After his mother’s death and his sister’s supposed death to the Centaurs Carth threw himself into a rage after the herds.
Taking his father’s sword and training with a woman who retired from the Seraph, Carth ran straight into the Centaur herd promising revenge with every drop of blood shed.

Current Status
Recovering Deborah, his sister, was the best day in his life. He now works with many of the advanced races though has some concerns over the Sylvari. At first he saw them as lackeys of the old dead Centaur Ventari until he met with Grayson Sunrider (my Sylvari alt). After hearing the stories of Ronan and Ventari he now sees them as impressionable children. Carth does agree with the idea that all the races need to get together against the Dragons.

Guilds and Groups
There are no guilds in Carth Blair’s life and he’s fine with it. During his studies he came to the conclusion that guilds were the main problem within the Guild Wars of old. No one king or queen held power over all humanity. Now that Queen Jenna rules most of the humans, he doesn’t see a need for further fragmentation. He will still assist them from time to time, but offers of joining are met with his polite silence on the issue.

Family and Friends
Deborah still lives, which calmed his hatred of the Centaurs now. He still doesn’t like them, but he no longer flies into rage at the sight of them. Hostile herds will be put down quickly by him though since they conflict with his Sylvari friend’s teachings.

Grayson became a good friend in the short time they adventured together. Apparently even the peaceful Sylvari have nightmares to fight and Grayson left because it was an internal issue to deal with: preferably no humans at the moment.

Warmaster Forgal Kernsson was almost a second father to him. They bled together in battle and connected due to Carth’s familiar upbringing near the Norn territories. His death caused a void of rage in Carth much like his sister’s ‘death’. He has the experience to control it now, taking down Risen as a ‘kindness’ to the poor undead that are plagued with this condition.

Personality

Temperament
In battle he is a mix between fire and ice. Sheer hatred for the enemy, but a cold calculating mind factors in where the battle lines are faltering as he reinforces it. He never hesitates to bring aid to a falling soldier. Out of battle he’s quiet and polite, willing to supply food and drink to even the lowest ranking soldier or simplest traveler. He prefers to listen to stories than tell them. He also becomes enamored to redheaded women who try to get more drinks from him whenever they discover this.

Quirks
His Lionguard inspired style armor will always be preferred compared to the stronger types out there.
Though he and his sister never joined, they do get appreciated nods from soldiers from time to time due to the acts of heroism.

Stories and Art Involving This Character
No stories yet, but screenshots provided.

Other
No need to roleplay nor am I looking for a guild, but I did love this little moment to play out why I use the character like I do.

Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova’s recommendations. Ivanova is God….sorry that was by pure reflex.

Raven has not provided that Norn much insight it seems. lol

Still might be worth it.

I’m still enjoying the game, my friends are too.
GW2’s hype of being a gaming revolution did probably fall flat with some.
Others saw it as a fun game still, even if it wasn’t a WoW-killer or the revolution of the next gaming era.
Personally I never really bought into the gaming revolution campaign. I bought it because its Guild Wars, its set into their future, and I wanted to see what stories come out of it.

Chances are it will get a patch or two that will wow some audiences and then the popularity will jump. That’s what happens to some games. As it is this game isn’t that bad so as a starting point that’s rather good.

I loved the quaggan backpack and the charr one. Maybe the dichotomy of having a huge Norn warrior with a cutesy backpack is giggle worthy for me.
Town clothing should be worn even if you take damage, that would make them worthwhile.

Though I’m probably not going to buy the hoodies, but I’ll see how they look on my Sylvari first.

I’m not really that much of a “name rebel” and to be honest I don’t care if people are such. If they play well with me then I stick around or even add folks to my friends list.

I do tend to name my characters within the suggestions I found in the strategy guide, but more for my sake since I like taking my time creating characters.

I’m not a hardcore RP’er, in fact the only thing I really care about at times is how my character looks and their name. I think my tolerance comes from the fact I read a lot of old books with bad pun names like ‘Ty Wu Non’ and ‘Ni Ten Doh’

Ghost cows, the horrible mooing.
I remember just staring at my screen for three minutes and chuckling at the sheer insanity of that idea. I enjoyed it, but it still had that moment of “Ghost Cow? Really? So are there haunted hamburgers or something?”

In fact it gave me a quote I want on a shirt : “Bunnies don’t moo!” Make that happen Arenanet, make this a shirt and I’ll pay you.

Cosmetic changes?
Puts aside the book of other changes he had in mind
Okay first off dances would be broken down by Race and then Gender.
I’ll give the K-popish dance to the female Sylvari, but the male Sylvari would have something like the Monk dance in GW1.

Maybe even scrap the current dances and have male and female equivelants for ballroom dance like the typical Arthurian stereotypes we see in movies.

Norn Males could keep the Carlton, its just so funny. Norn Females get something equally silly like the Wobble.

Asuran, either gender, keep the Robot. One of them though gets something Daft Punk-club-stylish in dance as well to compliment.

Charr keep the current dance, but the other gender gets the Masai jumping or some other warrior style dance.

I really don’t care much for the Human dance, so I’ll award them square dancing just to punish the Humans.

Then throw in more armor cosmetic purchases, weapon skins, and waypoint vouchers that allow one free waypoint travel anywhere. This way I can go from Divinity’s Reach to Orr without spending a silver or more.

Even though I like the premise of the living story I’ll admit Feb was slow on it, but its the beginning of the story. Personally I like how we’re seeing more and more refugees pile up in Hoelbrak, Citadel, and Lion’s Arch. It gives me the sense that something is growing.

I’m also one to talk with nearly any NPC I can find too.
I guess in the meta gaming sense there’s not much right now, but from an In Character perspective its more confusing than empty. Suddenly these areas are piling up with people, wierd stuff is happening up north, Dredge and Flame Legions working together, what the fricking heck?! That’s at least how I assume mine would look at it.

Hopefully by March or April there’ll be more of a face to it, some characters we’ll like or hate, and then things will pick up.

Althea!

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

. . . he could have done worse. He could have hooked up with that norn lady at Olafstead. The one with the bunions.

My characters wouldn’t have minded a Norn gal. I’m strange though.

azureai.9764:

As others have said, the Charr Guardian’s powers stem from the Charr’s pact mentality: the desire to use the means learned by the Charr to protect their warband. Jeff Gubb specifically cites this in his description of the Guardian that’s quoted on the GW2 wiki entry.

Yep, especially this part from his quote:

They are not tied to a particular race, philosophy, or group of gods but rather to a larger concept of proactive defense, of taking the fight to a foe and protecting those you fight alongside while appealing equally to humanity’s defensive nature and the charr’s desire to rule the battlefield.

So how do they work? Quite effectively once you think about the Charr Warband.
The Legion is mother, the legion is father, but the Warband is family.
No one hurts family without paying a hefty price.

viennapleads.1784:

My norn would like to make a man of Logan. In fact here she is showing Queen Jennah how superior her height is. XD

thumbs up
I approve.

sad sigh
What positive things can I say about this video?
Well I want that Charr mask for one, and the gal holding the teddy bear was cute.
Okay that’s two things and I’m out of ideas.

RL versus GW2

In GW2 my character can eat cake all he wants.
In RL my character could eat cake all he wants, but then gets cavities and diabetes.

Sorry, but GW2 wins and RL is only here to support my gem store purchases.

Ellisande.5218:

Yeah, right before he dies. But that isn’t a matter of character development, that is just heavy handed story telling where the writer’s wave their magic wand around and say “it must be so.”

For better accuracy it was the mission before if the wiki is right, but still every character’s actions are the result of a writer’s magical wand,

All the growing that my character did and was going to do happened between the time I was level 1 and saw Destiny’s Edge fall apart.

Which is entirely correct. Arenanet’s structure for the stories were in three parts:

• The first is based on you, your actions, and whatever regrets or loose ends you need to tie up

• The second is learning what the orders do and working with one of them based on your choice

• Help Super Salad and fight the Elder Dragon now that the three pacts have formed a Justice League.

The entire middle section of the personal story devoted to the 3 orders was nothing but unnecessary filler during which absolutely nothing of note happens and nothing gets developed, either your character or the plot.

I’ll agree about the former, but the latter I won’t.
It may be unnecessary filler to you, but all the races had to get their crap together and fight the Dragons. That’s all the second and early parts of the third were for. There needed to be some transition. Was the transition clunky? Sure I’ll vote on that, but was it needed? Yes it was, at least in my eyes.

Peronally I’m more miffed I didn’t get to ride with parts of Destiny’s Edge more than what we got, but I put that all in another thread.

John Widdin.9618:

SneakyErvin.3056:

-The asura mesmer girl you have with you in Orr, the sidekick to that other “older” asura. He keeps telling her to stay quiet and she keeps making these gigantic very lowd clones that sound like a boxing match promoter.
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I really want to know what Character options you picked to get her. I got Shrieksy the Raptor.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealing_Light

Elli! she’s adorable!

Tybalt as Beetlestone, I get a chuckle out of that every time.

To be honest, I never really pay too much attention to them.
As I play they get filled up rather quickly.
The only two exceptions are healer and aquatic kills, but I’ll usually swing by Nageling for the first and go kill everything as I get clams or coral for the second.

Ellisande.5218:

Atlas.9704:

Tybalt and Fogel, they learned and grew and even Fogel said at one point to the player that he considers them a child of his.

Forgal has no development either. Nor is there ever any situation which should cause the player to grow fond of Forgal nor Forgal to grow fond of the player.

Forgal is the same from start to finish and keeps the player at an arm’s length until he is about to die.

In game he does mention how your character has grown and he considers you like a child of his.

It isn’t in the cutscenes, but rather in the in game dialogue. So at some point Fogel does care about the player character.

International.7980:

As for Kormir fixing her mistakes and loyalty to her troops….this thing explains it -> Kormir’s Great Legacy

Note: Kudos to Dashface for this awesome comic.

I will admit Dwyana looks nice in that comic.

SouthernCross.5286:

I imagine the average norn looks at humans like humans look at asura, sure you may think some of them are cute and become close to one but an actual romance would be a step too far.

I’ve seen furries love Charr. Nothing is sacred to me anymore. :P

I would love to see a bar brawl mini game and the pirate drinking contest game as a mini game in towns.

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Would you watch one of those movies for 1500 hours?

Is it Blazing Saddles, UHF, or Spaceballs?

Because adding those three movies up I might have done that many hours.

I’ll admit two thoughts came up when I read his dialogue about my character being a second child to him.

1. Wow, that’s a nice touch. I’m actually glad he said something like that.
2. Whenever I hear that or “3 weeks until retirement” it means you’ll be dead soon. Bummer.