I don’t quite follow the logic of granting better armour after completing the kind of dungeon you needed better armour for.
And then they said they weren’t planning on making any expansions.
Just because it was in the manifesto doesn’t mean it’ll happen. Odds are they’ll just keep pumping out level 80 zones because balancing classes and keeping people playing existing zones is complicated enough without taking the cap to 90.
I get quite a wide gap on the tubbiest female charr build available. My guess is you’d need to use the biggest male to remove the gap.
Every plot moving character in the living story since southsun, all of them women.
New band of heroes, all women except for Rox. Rox has mommy issues: that’s all we know about him.
Um
I think you might be talking about Braham.
I admit, I have a habit of rolling at the bottom of a jump as well… particularly when there are mobs at the bottom.
Evon is pretty much Scarlet in the opposite role.
Depends on whether he’s still with the Legion or not. It looks like the BLTC was an Ash project, but LA has a tendency of dissociating people from outside influences.
That the BLTC is not exclusive to Lion’s Arch, and in fact has a presence even in charr lands, indicates he’s still on-side with them to some extent. Appearing to be a LA-based organisation just makes it easier to work with the other cities that might have issues dealing with an overtly charr-run organisation.
Losing LA is bad for business, and if there’s any priority Gnashblade holds above all others it’s what’s good for business. I still can’t pick what Ash is getting out of the deal, though. It could be a project intended to procure supplies for the legion that they couldn’t easily get east of the Blazeridges – that’s probably how it started, anyway.
Perhaps they’re making a profit from Gnashblade’s endeavour – but power in charr society is derived from firepower, not gold. That much gold would only help them if they need to pay for something expensive.
Perhaps it’s the information that’s more desirable. Ash tends to collect that regardless of whether it’s immediately needed. Much like the Order of Whispers, they’ll send operatives into every place they can – including the Order of Whispers – just to learn what’s going on. Even if Gnashblade is a money-hoarder with little interest in his legion, providing them with information would be an easy way for him to keep them happy.
What they intend to do with such information, if anything, is anyone’s guess. I doubt we’ll be seeing them in Demetra again any time soon.
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I’m actually curious to, wonder we’ll get any legitimate hypotheses or theories in this thread.
Haha. In this thread? This thread is not that kind of thread.
Who’s to say he wasn’t?
That’s the way charr society works. Foolish commanders get replaced one way or another. Doesn’t bother the Tribune much as long as he’s pulling his weight.
I wonder what the Ash Legion is getting out of his business, actually.
E may be more than one person, and I suspect Livia may have some involvement there.
Pirates are his best customers in LA – he knows how to keep them on side. And the BLTC has branches in every major city in Tyria, plus several trading outposts. He’s got it sorted.
And when the pirates have to move from LA, he’s moving with them. Because unlike a certain someone on the Captain’s Council, it’s people that matter to him, not the ground they’re living on.
At least, until he starts dealing in real estate.
Which Ellen Kielbern was clearly responsible for. Rytlock confiscated Sohothin so she couldn’t do it again in LA.
Little did he know she had sylvari backup…
The channeled blocks deal very significant damage – they’re not purely defensive skills. As far as multi-hit attacks go, you have Blurred Frenzy, Distortion or not standing in them – which when you’re wielding a staff is pretty easy to manage.
It might be reasonable to put a 2-3s Distortion on staff 4, but it would come at the expense of possibly giving it any other utility. Given that Phase Retreat is already a very handy way of getting out of trouble, I’d rather see a condition cleanse, stability, or something to address areas the mesmer currently is very poor at.
It’s possible they would, actually. They’re already going to have to instance the present Lion’s Arch for the personal story.
For the meanwhile everyone’s going to the Vigil Keep because it’s accessible by land and it’s close. They could, in theory, travel via gate to Fort Trinity, and from there start to clear/rebuild Arah.
What happens when the Mystic Forge blows up?
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:O It was their plan all along! No Mystic Forge = excellent way to introduce precursor crafting!
Um.
Don’t you need the Mystic Forge to make the legendary with that precursor?
Actually, it’s a terrible point. You can’t profit from ruined property that no-one wants to live on, and his trading company doesn’t work without traders. He’s going to have to move the BLTC to where the people are.
And maybe Ember Doomforge can find something else to do.
These posts are hilarious!!!
Evon is apparently the Chuck Norris of Tyria.
I agree. Evon is revered as the new the Jesus and Kiel is somehow being portayed as the new Hitler. This whole kiel vs evon thing keeps being humorous.
It’s brilliant – though I am desperately hoping no-one’s taking it too seriously.
1. Mesmer
2. Warrior
3. ElementalistYou’ve voted at least five times on this thread, lol.
I hope whoever’s tallying up these votes keeps track of who’s voting.
With a script it’d be easier. Unfortunately it’s tricky enough to read through the non-standard posts without keeping track of who’s voted too.
It’s not too hard to see that attempting to pad votes that way just means mesmer has a weird number of first places despite being far behind the engineer in importance, though.
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Out of interest I decided to collate votes from pages 1-7.
Second or third votes for a class were ignored. Only one top 3 per poster, so where more than one was provided I chose buff lists where available. PvP/PvE/WvW posts I had to skip.
Class / Rank——1—-2—-3 -Total
Ranger_____150__87__39__276
Elementalist__74__78__68__220
Necromancer_43__49__56__148
Engineer_____17__47__55__119
Mesmer_____24__22__28___74
Thief _______15__23__27___65
Warrior______3__11 __13___27
Guardian_____3___2___7___12
1. Ranger
2. Engineer
3. Thief (clarification: it needs to be able to fight without abusing stealth)
After spending enough time dodging zergs in cramped lords’ rooms, dungeons start to look easy. Mesmer, though…
My mesmers were the first characters I levelled, so I didn’t know the tricks I do now. They seemed horribly weak through most of the mid-levels – they really do require a power-focussed build to do very well.
Most of their defense comes from clones and phantasms as distractions – I would strongly recommend putting Decoy (or Mass Invisibility if you can afford the 30 skill points) on your skill bar to reset AI on them when they all gang up on you.
Staff and greatsword are probably the best weapons to be levelling on – staff is the defensive one. Skill 2 is a useful way of easing some pressure on a short cooldown, so generally it’s the first skill I use for the job. Skill 5 is basically the only AoE field a mesmer has, but more importantly it slows and stuns things moving through it.
Greatsword has good AoE damage, particularly on skill 4 (Berserker) when traited for phantasm damage.
Sword/focus is even more powerful but it’s strictly a melee set, and at low levels it’s not easy to stay alive in melee combat.
I still think Lion's Arch isn't the target.
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Primordus was under Yak’s Bend in GW1, so he’s moved quite a long way if he’s under LA now.
Sry but they did literally nothing in this game but fly away from their problems or ignoring them.
Hahahaha.
If the Sensali are still around, you’re lucky the wall is there.
I don’t think that she is a champion of him. If you compare her behavior to the corruption of the other dragons you will find a big difference. She still is aware of what she is doing and that something wants to control her and this is why she wants it to stop. Other corrupted creatures are like zombies only following one goal and not thinking about it. There also is no interaction with them.
She did want it to stop. There’s some suggestion she lost that fight.
Most dragon minions do seem to be rather unintelligent but that certainly doesn’t apply to all of them. The Great Destroyer acted as a hive mind for its subjects, Glint was an oracle, and the Eyes of Zhaitan were leaders in their own right, very much aware of what was going on.
Remember Ascalon.
Best massacre ever. Props to Vatlaaw.
LA isn’t even close to the last connection between the games. Almost every settlement between there and Divinity’s Reach was in GW1, and that’s just scratching the surface.
A bit of everything – even rangers.
Can’t recall if I’ve seen any play engineers though.
Presently there’s only a handful of workable medium skins for charr, but they do exist. Light armour is only slightly better.
I’d suggest going with the ranger because there’s always a chance of better skins down the road.
More excuses from Gnashblade supporters. Isn’t the Ash Legion about spies and assassins? They could easily be placed in the city and act on a moments notice.
Or behind a gate in the city and still act on a moment’s notice.
There’s no sense sending an army into LA when they’ve got a better garrison in the Black Citadel.
If he was going to build a defence force, it’d probably be sitting on the other end of the Black Citadel gate waiting for the all-clear. Wouldn’t be much chance of getting that into LA during peacetime.
They’d have to make historical instances for the personal story, though. A lot of mid-level content revolves around Lion’s Arch.
…but doing so means they’d be free to do a lot more with the living story.
What happens when the Mystic Forge blows up?
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Aren’t there mystic forges in the WvW citadels?
Not quite. They’re in all the borderland garrisons and Stonemist.
Depends whether he still answers to them. Having a member on the council would be a great asset to the Ash Legion.
I find it interesting that sylvari alone could not be corrupted by Zhaitan.
It’s not just by Zhaitan – they are immune to dragon corruption full stop.
Right… and if it turns out that’s because they’re already minions of another dragon, it would explain that nicely.
The more mundane explanation is that dragons can’t work with the sylvari physiology, but given that Jormag and Kralkatorrik were able to corrupt elementals, I don’t think it’s physiology stopping them.
So everything up until now is just like presearing in the first game. February 18th is when gw2 actually starts
This makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
…and maybe outside.
What if her target is not Mordremoth but the pale tree itself. Similar to how Kralkatorik killed Glint, maybe Mordremoth wants to get rid of the “free” champion of himself….and has been guiding Scarlet to “get rid of the voices” one being Mordremoth himself, and another being the Pale Tree. If she truly wants to be free of all influences she has to get rid of both. The Ley-line in Lions arch is a means to power the marrionette….which can then be used to attack the pale tree directly (heck, it wields a giant sword…what better to hack at a bunch of vines with than a machete??).
Plausible. Possibly through Mordremoth, Scarlet already knows there are other sylvari from another tree, potentially more (we don’t know how many yet).
If the sylvari are there as Mordremoth’s army, it seems the Pale Tree isn’t complying and is shielding her offspring from him. Perhaps Scarlet’s job is to reclaim them.
I wasn’t sure either, until Vorpp said this in the Dead End bar.
VorppCeara encountered something that literally broke her mind, but the only things in there were things she brought.
I surmise she was directly exposed to a part of her own psyche that had been carefully walled off. Perhaps for her own protection?
Initially I had thought she’d somehow contacted Primordus, but if Vorpp is correct she can’t find anything in that device that isn’t part of her already. This seems to be something the Pale Tree is aware of, and warned her about.
If she is under the control of an Elder Dragon, it has some rather unpleasant implications about what the Pale Tree(s), and sylvari by extension, are. It also indicates that the Pale Tree is shielding them from this influence, making her role something like Glint – she’s there to raise an army for her dragon commander, but has no intention to obey.
I find it interesting that sylvari alone could not be corrupted by Zhaitan.
Laugh even harder, most likely.
would love to play Skritt – i would sooo reroll all classes again
A Skritt thief with daggers and sunglasses screaming “Shinyyyyy” is coolest thing everand i hope they never bring quaggan – this fat emos are uggly and overhyped
and for tengu and the birdies i dotn know why people want this – another oversized big race moving like a truck dont need this game. Just make all jumping puzzles with a big norn or Chaar and you will hate this idea^^
I’m fine with it.
Agreed – I’ve already done every JP on charr, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Owing to Talon Silverwing, playable Tengu would be top of my list.
I could see something like 1200 badges+3 laurels+10 Gold for Shoulders, Gloves, and boots. 1500 badges+4 laurels+15 golds for Helm and Pants. 1800 badges+5 Laurels+20 gold for Chest and Weapons.
Throw in backpieces and we have a winner.
Those would take me a while to get (which I guess is the point) but at least I’d be able to get them doing something I enjoy.
As a member of one of the High Legions, a warband is supposed to be very important to charr characters. Are there any plans to bring them, and similar NPCs from other races’ early personal stories, back in focus?
I don’t want to risk Euryale getting bored.
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The horses in CNY looked like Kirin because that was the closest thing to a horse model they could find with no artists left working on GW1.
You guys do realise every map in this game is an instance, right?
False, if every map in the game would be an instance it would mean that every person that goes onto a map would get a separate distinct copy of the map. You would never find other people in the open world, outside your party. In GW2, maps are divided into smaller sections connected by portals. But the whole world is still open world and uninstanced.
Well…
Technically, players are, in fact, always on some instance of a map. Usually it’ll be the server’s home instance, occasionally it’ll be an overflow instance, or for some areas it’s a group / solo instance.
“Instance” has taken on a second definition in MMOs, though, which is more specifically a closed instance. And this is what people generally mean when they’re talking about MMO content… so…
You guys do realise every map in this game is an instance, right?
…yes. And?
Back to the topic, (single-player) instanced content has actually been my favourite part of the LS stuff, mainly because it’s the only place where you see much story going on. I would actually like to see more of it, but the open-world stuff keeps people playing longer and doesn’t take as much time to create.
That said, with the number of staff they’ve got I don’t see why that’s a problem.
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No, the Tengu were actually planned to be a 6th playable race at release (I believe it was actually mentioned in the GW2 artbook that came with the Collector’s Edition), but they got cut due to lack of time.
I’ll quote.
Minor Races, The Making of Guild Wars 2 p. 62Character Art Team Lead Aaron Coberly explains, “The tengu were originally considered for inclusion as a playable race, but we pulled back and settled on the five races you now see in the game.”
Considered, not planned. With the events of Winds of Change going on at the same time in GW1, it’s likely they wanted to reserve some room for a starting area should they ever be introduced in an expansion, but they were always talking about the five races for release. Had been since 2007. It’s possible they considered them as a release race before GW2 was announced, but not after.
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Suppose the Pale Tree and its sister trees across the deep Maguuma Jungle are Glint-style rebelling champions of Mordremoth? We do know there’s at least one other such tree, and its known offspring is not hostile. That said, I’m not convinced that Scarlet actually resisted Mordremoth’s pull (it may even be Primordus, but that doesn’t fit so well).
I’m not exactly sure why Lion’s Arch would be a target myself… there was never much of consequence there even in GW1; it was just a good place for a sea port. Nowadays it has access to the Mists and is the nexus in inter-city travel, but taking that away wouldn’t stop the Asura from redirecting gates, and Rata Sum has enough gates to spare that it could take over from Lion’s Arch the very next morning.
So… there are only two reasons that seem to hold any credence at all to me: there’s something important in LA we don’t know about (perhaps it’s also a nexus for those magical energy “ley-lines”) or it’s a unifying force to the world that must be shattered before an Elder Dragon can advance in the ensuing chaos.
Given that the three Pact factions are also targets, I’d pick the latter. There’s nothing important about Lion’s Arch, it’s just what it represents that makes it a target. But since LA is hardly the principal base of power, I’m struggling to see what Scarlet / Mordremoth hope to gain by striking mere symbols long-term. Take LA and the Pact out of the picture and you’re still left with all of the main races’ population centres. Any credible threat would at least have to address Rata Sum and the charr legions – those two alone can eclipse the power of the Pact given the right motivation.
Back in GW1… access to the Fissure of Woe and Underworld were based on which region had control of the mists.
BRING THIS BACK ANET for the WVW’ers!!!!
portals to FoW and Underworld, where riches beyond imagination lie (ascended item tokens… etc) and make them fight for control of the portals… whoever has 80% zone control has access to FoW and Underworld. Make it an area of competition between the regions of the mists or something like that…. and in FoW or Underworld, players killed have a chance to drop precursors!
Tying UW/FoW access to region control was probably the single most hated feature among the PvE community of GW1, so let’s not make the same mistake again. Throwing some PvP into it might change things, but while the idea of a PvP dungeon sounds interesting at first, I remember what Obsidian Sanctum was like at launch and really we’re not missing much.
Players already have a chance to drop precursors, it’s just statistically insignificant. If we’re going to see FoW and UW returned to GW2, it’d make more sense to implement them as PvE raid instances (in GW1 they were 8-player instances; GW2 is missing that sweet spot between 5-man and map zerg, but the marionette shows some consideration in that area). Fractals of the Mists are already similar lore-wise, but the gameplay and settings are different.
Every class has access to stability (some more than others… necro vs guard…). Use it if you want to not fall off.
Anyone running Mantra of Concentration for this reason is going to change their mind almost as fast as their stability wears off.
GW2 always had the five races planned for release, ever since Eye of the North in 2007. It looks as if tengu were going to be an add-on race for a Cantha expansion that has yet to materialize for a variety of reasons.
Hard to guess at what the future holds, but I’m sure ArenaNet is well aware of the demand for an expansion.