Guild Wars 2

From a pure PVE mesmer, please, can we look again conditions and more specially confusion?

Either give us a trait (grandmaster?) that turns all confusion into something else (like torment)
Or rework Confusion… I can understand that getting killed by your own spam is unnerving. Why don’t we change confusion into a permanent stackable condition that disappears on consuption? If we put 4 stacks of confusion on someone they remain until : he uses one skill and they are consummed/he gets a condition cleansing.

This way no more autokill unless you let yourself be drowned in stacks, and no more PVE crying when the mobs run from you to your clones loosing all those nice confusion stacks because they are so slow…

Thalador.4218:

Wait… wait… so you knew everything (your previous life, your mother, your time in her womb, etc.) prior to getting born, right? And the rest of humanity are all suffering from an early amnesia for not remembering anything from the birth trauma and the preceding events and months, hmm?

Malyck’s tree isn’t connected to the Dream of Dreams, so she couldn’t impart Malyck with any pre-birth knowledge of herself and the world, unlike the Pale Tree. Malyck’s a fully-grown, magical newborn, plain and simple.

??? Come on, don’t go comparing real life with sylvari please.

And you might want to pretend that Malyck’s tree has no conneexion to the dream, but nothing, really nothing in the game can make you say if Malyck’s tree has a dream or not (or is connected to the dream or not). We know nothing about that tree. Period.

Malyck came to his senses injured on the river side, looking up to a bridge : the injury can explain a ‘memory loss’
His pod went downstream before Malyck was born. He was born far from his tree : this can explain why he is not connected to his tree and the eventual dream, if there is any.
Or, it is also possible, his tree has no dream.

Three theories… Pick one. Don’t be so adamant on knowing the truth.

@Konig Des Todes.2086

Well, it seems you don’t see my point. All ‘normal’ sylvari know about their past before being born from their pod thanks to the dream and the accumulated experiences of their predecessors.
Malyck does not know where he comes from and nothign about his own(he knows nothing prior to getting out of his pod). Call it amnesia, call it anything else. But the fact is that he knows nothign about his past prior to awakening. Huge plot twist placeholder here.

I disagree about the other things, but it is a matter of point of view, no use of arguing for years.

Well… Malyck ‘amnesia’ is also a matter of point of view But I so wish to see him return later in the history to know what he found when returning ‘home’. This is one part of GW2 history that keeps me interested and wanting to see more.

@Konig Des Todes.2086

It is evident from the dialog that Malyck has not gone through the dream/nightmare. That I agree. But please don’t disregard part of what I said. When I talk about amnesia I am talking about how convenient it is that Malyck does know nothing about his tree. He just knows where it is. He knows nothign about his past.
This is really convenient to introduce later plot twists.
Now, is the lack of dream/nightmare because his tree does not have such? Or it is because his pod travelled far from the tree before Malyck was mature enough to enter the dream?
We can’t say.
Malyck talks about a feelign of distance and a loss. The distance might be his tree. But the loss? Can’t it be because he is missing something like the dream?

About neutrality : he is rescued by the player when the nightmare court was assaulting his friends. Of course he would side with him! But when the player tries to explain the difference between the dream and the nightmare, Malyck answers :

Player (about the dream/nightmare) : The two concepts share origins, but ours come from the Dream. Theirs spawn from the Nightmare
Malyck: I do not wholly understand the difference, but I see that it means a great deal to you.
Later he goes with the player because “You’ve been kind, while those courtiers bring suffering. So I can agree”
As I said, he sides with the player because he was nice to him while the nightmare court chased his friends (and during many dialogues, he finds them to be mad :

Malyck:The Knight of Embers is a fool. Whatever this “nightmare” is, it led her to obsession and madness. Is your “Dream” the same?
<Character Name>:No. The Dream is a vision of hope and a feeling of purpose. It guides us toward the light, not into evil.
Malyck :I wish I could say that I understood the difference, but I don’t.

Again : he does not know the difference. The are the same for him.
For me it means Malyck is neutral in the dream/nightmare fight. He sides with the player for some reasons, but not because it is his nature to side with the dream faction.

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About the lab discussion, it is a matter of feelings. For me anything happening in an Asuran lab can not be taken as ‘natural’. Asura tend to try to combine impossible things and defy the usual laws of ‘nature’.

This again is a point of view.

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I have read your theories about the sylvari and agree with most. But I am not as sure as you about those two points : Malyck being more like the Dream sylvari and dragons being able to corrup other minions.

Malick not knowing nothing about his tree is most convenient for later plot twists. Asuran experiments should not, in my opinion, be taken as reference for ‘natural’ rules.

Now, I talk about my opinion. Only time and further story development will tell.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The theory that sylvari are Elder Dragons has been practically debunked.

Malyck and their immunity are the two strongest points (ED minions are not immune to other ED corruptions; Malyck acts no different than standard sylvari). If there is any amount of connection to the ED for sylvari, it is either that they were made specifically to counter them, and/or the Nightmare in the Dream of Dreams (which btw is not unique to sylvari – see White Stag) is originating from Mordremoth.

Never understood those two arguments.

First, Malyck indeed acts different than the standard Sylvari. Malick is the Switzerland of the Sylvari and cant really make a difference between the Nightmare and the Dream, implying that being born far from its tree he is missing the ‘final formatting’.

During hsi dialogues he implies that he follows the player because he is nice and the others look kind of mad, but not because he understands this notion of nightmare/evil Dream/good.
Malick is neutral.

On top of that he has amnesy. Talk about a nice way to later find that upon returning to his tree, he lives through a terrifying episode of ’I am your father! Noooooooo" (have you noticed how sylvary nightmare/dream is reminder of certain Jedi light.dark side? Up to the physiical changes upon abusing of the dark side?)
Amnesy was always a nice way in fantasy novels to later find that the hero is the son of Satan.

Edit: I talk about amnesy in terms of not knowing nothing about where he came from/ not knowing his own past/ not knowing his parents.

About minions being immune… Is not about being immune, is more about the fact that as far as I know, no minion was corrupted by another ED (as if they could not do it)
The special examples in game are all found in a Lab! Come on… we can find in labs mouses growing human ears in their backs for prostetic purposes. It does not mean mouses can grow human ears… They can’t… unless in a lab…
And why would asura try to combine corruptions in the first place if this was possible ‘naturaly’?

I like the theory of the sylvari being linked to a dragon and I dont find it at all rebunked by those arguments.