Guild Wars 2

Kyrel.8942:

For some reason I’m convinced Livia is Anise.

Not the same person no, but maybe Anise is Livia’s daughter.

Kal Spiro.9745:

The 14th achievement IS the meta, so no, there aren’t. I have done 3 dailies and 5 LS achievements, I am at 8 and there are exactly 8 left for me to do. What does that tell you?

The meta achievement does not count to the 16, why would it? YOu need 16 other achievements to get it, how could you get 16 if the 16th was only available if you already got 16?
And no, I did get no point for doing that yesterday, since I had my tab open before and after I did the torchrun and didn’t give anything for that. I later got a point for doing all the runs, but not for the daily. Do you finally understand that it was bugged or do I have to write it down yet another time in different words?

Kal Spiro.9745:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Galen Grey.4709:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

This update is bugged as hell. The bugs drain all the fun from it. I could have had my mini watch knight already, but no the daily achievement was bugged and didn’t count yesterday. Now I want to play the gauntlet, I pay for my entry but wait 23 minutes, watching countless people that cleary came after me go in, but I can’t. A whole ticket and much time, simply wasted.
Well let’s go look for the champions, I just need stone shield. Oh there he is, but he buggs out and disappears (without the fight event triggering) and get’s replaced by whirling blade (who I of course already did). FIX THOSE FREAKING BUGS ALREADY!

The only issue I am aware of with the daily yesterday was a typo. I suppose you’re talking about the beacon lighting thing. The achievement asked for anyone but only one applied, the one in the center plaza.

Doesnt help you much now I guess but that was it.

But I did exactly the one in the central plaza and it counted for my daily, but not for the jubilee event, preventing me from getting the mini today. Now it’s tomorrow, if not another major bug screws me over.

The central plaza Torchbearer daily makes 15, as long as you did the daily before it. So assuming you got all the straight Living Story achievements already you couldn’t possibly get the meta until you complete todays achievement, which is to travel on a single balloon to Divinity’s Reach. So I’m not really clear what you’re complaining about here. There are 13 achievements of the total 16 needed, so that’s minimum three days worth of dailies.

Wrong, there are 14 achievements, meaning you only need 2 dailies (which btw the game doesn’t tell you at all), to get to the required 16. I did the daily yesterday, the torchrun in the central plaza that is and it counted towards my daily achievements, but it did not count to the jubliee achievements (at the time I had 13 of them done, so it would have been 14, but nothing happened).
Today the daily achievement is riding the balloon to DR, which I did and this counted for both the daily achievements and the jubliee achievement. If yesterdays achievement would have counted, I would now possess a mini watch knight. Now I have to wait another day and hope that the daily isn’t bugged yet again.

Galen Grey.4709:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

This update is bugged as hell. The bugs drain all the fun from it. I could have had my mini watch knight already, but no the daily achievement was bugged and didn’t count yesterday. Now I want to play the gauntlet, I pay for my entry but wait 23 minutes, watching countless people that cleary came after me go in, but I can’t. A whole ticket and much time, simply wasted.
Well let’s go look for the champions, I just need stone shield. Oh there he is, but he buggs out and disappears (without the fight event triggering) and get’s replaced by whirling blade (who I of course already did). FIX THOSE FREAKING BUGS ALREADY!

The only issue I am aware of with the daily yesterday was a typo. I suppose you’re talking about the beacon lighting thing. The achievement asked for anyone but only one applied, the one in the center plaza.

Doesnt help you much now I guess but that was it.

But I did exactly the one in the central plaza and it counted for my daily, but not for the jubilee event, preventing me from getting the mini today. Now it’s tomorrow, if not another major bug screws me over.

This update is bugged as hell. The bugs drain all the fun from it. I could have had my mini watch knight already, but no the daily achievement was bugged and didn’t count yesterday. Now I want to play the gauntlet, I pay for my entry but wait 23 minutes, watching countless people that cleary came after me go in, but I can’t. A whole ticket and much time, simply wasted.
Well let’s go look for the champions, I just need stone shield. Oh there he is, but he buggs out and disappears (without the fight event triggering) and get’s replaced by whirling blade (who I of course already did). FIX THOSE FREAKING BUGS ALREADY!

Sleel.8365:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

While the Citizen of Tyria for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow fully support Evon we must congratulate Kiel on a well earned victory.

Who cares for Kiel, let that hag run the buisness. Now let’s talk about Abaddon, the guy we’ve been all really voting for. How high are the chances we gonna get a Living Story Chapter dedicated to him and his glory?
It’s not like we need to get more stories about the petty consortium, or some smelly pirates. A round up on Abaddon is what 48% of the community wants. Seems too much to ignore, don’t you agree?

If we all had been voting for him, kinda woulda won. Hate to burst your bubble with a little pesky reality.

Hate to burst your bubble but with “we”, I ment the Gnashblade voters. Now educate yourself with this article. Judging by your reading comprehension skills shown so far, it will take you a while to get through, sparing us from your nonsensical post a little longer.

Harper.4173:

To some extent I’m glad Kiel won, at least the charr didn’t take it. And yes -i’m biased against the charr. Anyone who’s played GW1 and loved the heck out of it will be forever broken in this way.

We will never forget Ascalon, and never forgive the Charr for what they did.

Nope, played GW1 and loved it, but I also like the Charr. More than the humans in fact, since I never liked Ascalon to beginn with (and I started to actually dislike it with EotN). The only good human nation of Tyria was Kryta, but it was ascalonified in GW2… whitewashed you could say. That’s not the tribal, subtropical Kryta I fell in love with. With Cantha and Elona not being available, I can honestly say I like the Charr way more than the humans currently in the game.
How much I wish I could see the wonders of Elona though… what a magical, beautiful place it was.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

While the Citizen of Tyria for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow fully support Evon we must congratulate Kiel on a well earned victory.

Who cares for Kiel, let that hag run the buisness. Now let’s talk about Abaddon, the guy we’ve been all really voting for. How high are the chances we gonna get a Living Story Chapter dedicated to him and his glory?
It’s not like we need to get more stories about the petty consortium, or some smelly pirates. A round up on Abaddon is what 48% of the community wants. Seems too much to ignore, don’t you agree?

I want more than just a fractal, I want a whole month dedicated to the awesomeness that is Abaddon! I priests on the streets telling the story of his fall (and letting us relive it that way), I want the other races to understand how much influence that guy had, how he was way more powerful than any of the dragons and I want little Abaddon masks!

New living story, Abaddon’s Fall. Needs to be done, to make up for this mess.

I always thought it was odd that they “outsourced” EoD to King, considering they always claimed it to be the most important one to the storyline of the game (which actually turned out to be not so true).

kikojak.7051:

dude this lore includes the gargoyle story because when u your read further it will connect with the charr lore so it wouldn’t kill you if u read it whole

I read it. I only need one word to describe it, but sadly that would be censored to kitten, so I guess my opinion on your creative masterpiece will be forever shrouded in mystery.

Stopped reading when I came to this “The true origins of the charr is led back to the beginning of time when the first vampire stepped upon the first world”.

Ha, you liked EoD? Interesting, I thought it was poorly written garbage. :P The other two were awesome though, especially SoS. I’d love to see more books, maybe closer in timeframe to GW1, since we wont get too much lore anymore from that time. A book about the actual event of the Guild Wars’ would be nice, how Adelbern became king and the beginning of the Charr invasion. It could include the fall of Orr too.

Good Job Kiel voters. Really, you did a great job there, voting for your boring goody two-shoes character, that you just chose for cheaper way-points (because 4 weeks of cheaper travel will have such an impact in the long run!), or because you know her so well from the living story (in which she did basically nothing but standing around telling you where the action is happening).
Oh what was that? You voted Kiel because of her fractal? Oh yeah, another story in which the inquest are the villians, that’s what we needed. I mean, they only appear in 2 dungeons and and the skypirates storyline, but no let’s find out how they managed to screw up yet again! Not that we wouldn’t have gotten that information anyway if it is so important as Anet claims. No we need a fractal for that and thereby totally ruin the chance to get insight in one of the most interesting and important parts of tyria’s history in general.
I mean, who needs to see gods fighting when you can experience how some shaved badgers blow up a reactor. That’s way more important.

Oh so that also wasn’t the reason you voted for Kiel? It’s because you hate RNG and don’t want to support black lion keys? Guess what, I never bought anything from the shop and I never will. I don’t care at all about 4 weeks of cheaper keys since I wont by a single one of them. But it’s really a great idea to led an amazing part of Tyria’s lore slip away to punish evil Anet and it’s plan of RNG-based world domination. Or maybe you just voted for Kiel because she is a human and you hate Charr. I mean it’s not racism if the victim is a pile of data, isn’t it. It’s a crime without victim, you can be proud of yourself that you realized that.
You made the smart decision by voting for Kiel and I just wanted to tell you that with a pat on the shoulder. Now go and enjoy your cheap travel as long as it lasts.

By the way, you better not use a sarcasm detector on this post, it might blow up in your face.

Glad to see you enjoy the game so far, but how exactly is this a lore topic?

Well in GW1 we had some skills that had the word vampire in the name, like Vampiric Touch which were from Prophecies, but Proph had no creature called vampire. They were introduced in Factions and only lived in the Echovald Forest. They are mostly based on the chinese jiangshi, who aren’t really vampires, but close enough in mythology to be confused with them I guess. However, keep in mind that the Echovald Forest and the people who dwelled there, the Kurzick are based on gothic themes, which is also a usual setting for vampires, meaning we have another connection.

That said, I’m glad we don’t have classic vampies in Guild Wars because I’m so sick and tired of them. Unlike what seems to be 90% of the internet population, I never found them interesting to begin with and them being so popular now through all that Twilight garbage and what not, I think it’s refreshing to have a fantasy setting without them.

Werewolves as mentioned also don’t exist in Guild Wars, yet there are quite a few shapeshifters, most of them still have complete control over their body though. We do have mummies, if you are interested in them too, Palawa Joko is one for example (he also happens to be a lich).

Wordwyrm.2753:

We already know what happens to Abbadon, just not how.

You know nothing, Jon Snow!

Gandarel.5091:

About this insulting stuff, this is, without offending anyone, because Evon supporters are either GW1 veterans who were waiting for a chance for the Abaddon fractal for many years and can’t stand if newcomers destroy this never returning chance, or because Kiel supporters vote for completely nonsense reasons.

Evon supoorters vote for interesting permanent content.
Kiel supporters vote because "yay she’s cute" / “omg dude cheaper wps (they don’t even know that it’s temporary and expect it to be like 90%)”

The 2 aren’t on the same scale. Gnashblade supporters can see the real reasons and blind or ignorant people just make us rage, mostly if we lose this chance to these nonsense reasons.

Man, I never thought I’d say this, but I agree with you Gandarel. Hard times man, hard times.

What you guys don’t realize is that if we don’t get the Abaddon fractal, we will most likely never get anything with him. See the Thaumanova reactor incident is an important part of Tyria’s lore, as stated by Anet themself. Do you really think if we don’t get the fractral we will never know what happened there? Are you kidding me?!
Of course they will eventually tell us in one form or another, we will get this lore, stop crying like little babies over it!
Abaddon is different though, this is mostly GW1 lore and not really important to GW2, so the chance of getting to see this, is practically 0 right now. Only if we get to Elona, we might see something about him, but it’s not even clear if we ever go there. Getting the Abaddon fractal is an unique opportunity and you short sighted idiots through it away for cheaper waypoints or because Ellen helped you fight oversized lobsters. Try to see the bigger picture for once! Abaddon is probably the most important part of GW1’s lore and you are willing to let it past by for lore we will get eventually anyway?

Make the smart decision, #VoteEvonGnashblade

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’m quite appalled really at how much blatant favor you (ArenaNet) is giving to Evon Gnashblade. You’re just giving players more and more reasons to vote for Evon rather than Kiel, which makes the voting process overly biased and unfair to those who’d rather vote for Kiel.

I would have expected better from you. This thread is ridiculous and you know it. I wont even comment on your evidence because it’s absurd and outlandish. And people give me crap for my emotional based opinions. Atleast I don’t make threads with silly titles about them, I just bring them forth whenever someone mentions Gwen a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the East.

It’s not Evon that wins, it’s me, because I want to see Abaddon again. Evon gives me Abaddon, so I allow him to be in the Captains’ Council (besides, that thing is not the right place for Miss Boring-Do-It-By-The-Book). Now you have to know that you all win too, because if I get Abaddon I will leave this tiny blue planet you call your home untouched. If we get that hamster-build reactor though… well I might get creative with a certain doomsday device that lies around in my basement.

Pifil.5193:

Azure Prower.8701:

Who cares? What did the human gods ever do for the humans any way?

Well, there’s the aqueducts…

Don’t forget sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, but besides that, what have they ever done for us?

1.) The Charr didn’t kill their gods, it was the humans who did it, both times (the titans and the destroyers, the latter weren’t really seen as gods anymore though).
2.) Abaddon was weakend while we killed him, the other gods probably wont be. Besides they stopped communicating with Tyria long ago, to kill them you have to find them first. Why kill something that isn’t bothering you anymore, especially with the followers of those gods now being your allies.

Evon is most likely just interested in the being behind the titans. Don’t forget that it was Abaddon’s will, that the Charr attacked all of Tyria’s human kingdoms. He used them as tools and I’m pretty sure the Charr don’t like being used, especially since it led to the death of thousands of them in Orr and Kryta.

Why does everyone keep comparing the Thaumanova Reactor to Black Mesa? I loved Half-Life, but I wont call it being like it, until I see that the Arcane Council decided to send in some Marines and Black-Ops as clean-up crew. Also you would be only allowed to play as engineer, you know, they have the crowbar. :P

Lord Trejgon.2809:

actually he started – You missed the part when he ordered margonites to devastate temples….

That was after he already was at odds with the other gods. Defiling the temples is of course evil, but considering how enraged he must have been it’s somewhat understandable (not justified though). Being prone to anger and rage is not a good character trait, but it doesn’t mean you are outright evil, you just aren’t very good at controlling yourself. If it was an evil trait, Balthazar must be considered evil too, since he is a sore loser who likes to punish mortals for being better at him in board games.

Abaddon is the god of water, according to some official asian GW1 website (I think it was taiwanese, but I’m not sure).

I still doubt it will be an underwater fractal since Abaddon fell into the Crystal Sea, according to what we know, so the fight must have been above the sea, not in it.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

erm… nope Abadon was evil and he wants to make harm – he have done much more things that every one of this ended bad – even humans were praying to the six to take away abaddons “gift” and then abaddon thought he is stronger than the rest and HE started a war.

he was imprisoned and even then he didn’t stop to doing bad thing – it’s because of him Khilbron destroyed orr and after that released titans to tyria.
and because of his serwants (another titans) chars have destroyed Ascalon (cauldron of searing was from titans and by then – from abaddon) madness of Shiro is also counted as his working to came back to tyria – and after all that things, he wanted to come back and destroy all the thing with the nightfall and after that he wass permamently killed – bud still after all – anaddon WAS evil. and You cannot make him “prometeus” of tyria – because he wasn’t.

Abaddon didn’t start out evil. It’s clearly mentioned that his years in the realm of torment changed him. In the beginning he just wanted to gift the races magic. Reason? We don’t know, but seeing that he is the god of secrets, he might have known about the EDs and saw training all races in the arts of magic as a way to fight them. His brethren didn’t agree though, so they asked him to stop.
He wouldn’t however, maybe it was miscommunication, or overconfidence on Abaddon’s part, but whatever the reason, they started fighting and the five gods didn’t like that they had to fight over the matter with their brother. Abaddon on the other hand was outraged, but that doesn’t mean evil. Anyone can get outraged if they feel betrayed by those closest to them.

Only in the realm of torment, locked with his own thoughts of defeat and anger, in this nightmarish environment, Abaddon became what he was in the original GW series.

Well for the most part, the races didn’t know they were living near a sleeping ED. Arah for example was chosen by the six gods as a place to build a city, the humans probably had no idea why there, and we don’t know if the gods knew about Zhaitan, or if they just sensed a source of powerful magic. Either way, I assume the reason they build it was Zhaitan’s magic leaking out of him.
The Norn did not live near Jormag, the Ice Dragon actually slept further north in the arctic sea, where the Kodan come from. The Norn only knew about the beast in the Drakkar lake and for the most part, kept away from it (until Svanir meddled with it).

The Asure build their central transfer champer on Primordus because their asura gates need a lot of energy and Primordus provided that. Similar to Zhaitan and most likely all EDs, he bleeded magic while sleeping (not sure if they also do that while awake). The Asura had no idea what Primordus, they just harvested the strange energy without thinking too much about it.
The Krait maybe even worship Bubbles, but we have to little information about it to be sure. They could have been attracted to the source of magic and power deep in the ocean, or they don’t live at all close to Bubbles and were only later pushed out by his minions. We simply don’t know.
Kralkatorric probably leaked magic too, but we aren’t sure if the charr used it for the searing or not. But they certainly didn’t choose to live near him, since the land they actually wanted is Ascalon, which is further to the south. They were just pushed into Kralli by the humans.
The Jungle Dragon (possibly Mordremoth) lives in Maguuma, but that’s all we know for sure. He could have slept somewhere else (or is he still sleeping?)

Konig Des Todes.2086:

A powerful force of Forgotten was sent to safeguard Abaddon’s prison. Perhaps the Five had hoped that given time, Abaddon would come to his senses. […]

Fan translation of one of two known Asian lore docs.

I know the text (there is even a post I made in the thread), but we don’t know if that is canon or not. And besides, reading it is still not being there. It gives a good general idea, but witnissing it could probably give us a match better idea about the personality of all gods.
But yeah fewer new lore is true and makes more sense. So I call this cleared up.

It’s still new information, whether you care about it or not.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

While I’d love to see the fall of Abaddon, lore wise, the Thaumanova Reactor’s more interesting to me. There’s not going to be much new lore to the fall of Abaddon beyond what we see. It’ll only be seeing what the Crystal Sea could have looked like and what Abaddon and perhaps the other gods could have looked like at the time.

Maybe I’m understanding it wrong, but that point doesn’t make sense to me. How can you know we will get less lore from the Abaddon fractal simply because we know that stuff happened? We know barely any details about that event, more than the Thaumanova thing yes, but not to the point, were the only thing missing is how everything looked like.
We now for example nothing about the relation between the gods at that point in time. Were they upset they had to turn against Abaddon? Were they full of rage? Sorrow? Pity? All of that?

To make an analogy (yes I like doing that, sue me), that’s like having the ability to use a time machine once in your life, but you have only two options:
1: The Tunguska event, a fairly recent event (~100 years), that’s not fully explained yet, so you going there could maybe solve the mystery. Was it a comet or something else?
2: Julius Caesar on the 15th of March getting assinated. Yes you know what happened, but seeing it with your own eyes, noticing the emotions of all participants is something entirely different and not less interesting.

In the end it comes down to personal preference, not how much lore one or the other gives, they just give different kinds of lore.

Abaddon wins! Fatality!

Abaddon is the correct spelling, even though Abbadon would make more sense, by the way it’s pronounced, but whatever it’s hebrew and earth languages rarely make sense.

Erukk.1408:

I like how everyone assumes that Evon’s fractal is going to be more epic, simply because Abaddon is going to be in it. We don’t know how much we are going to see of him in it, or of the other gods for that matter. For all we know, the whole fractal could be just us taking down his human Margonite followers.

Trying to get that fractal, just because of Abaddon, is basically buying the name and not the product, since we have no idea what is in either of them.

I’m not necessarily assuming it to be more epic, but I’m vastly more interested in lore that conects to GW1 and Elona, than stuff about the Inquest and the Elder Dragons. When I came to Tyria, EDs weren’t even a thing, that’s some modern day knick-knack. Back in the day we also couldn’t just use waypoints, we had to walk through the whole instance… 30 miles through the snow, with bare feed!

Avariz.8241:

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The real world Avatars are use by followers as a believe in two and more different gods in different epochs are in fact one and the same at the time of the followers who believe so, and each Avatars are reincarnation of the same essence but of different worldly emanation at that particular age for that particular god. However unlike people who dies and get reincarnated gods do not die so hence the formation of the believe of Avatars as a substitute for reincarnation of the same godly essence into another godly being in another different creation myth. However, other followers of the gods involved might have different believe that their own god are not the same as another in the grouping, and they do not use the term Avatar for their god. Their god is their god and is separate.

Modern day multimedia culture borrow the word avatar and used it to mean an image used as an substitute or representation for a person who is not of the image, such as an popular image not of themselves but use used to represent themselves on social multimedia interaction.

In GW 1 and GW 2, Anet has used both the traditional avatar and the modern multimedia avatar for their rendering of character development. The Pale Tree Avatar keep more in line with the traditional believe of avatar. She, the Pale Tree Avatar, is the pale tree. They are one and the same.

Another use of avatar is the seven hero of Grenith, where the hero involved followed the modern multimedia usage where he use the image of Grenith in that epoch as a representation of himself acting on behalf of Grenith. Yes, the seven hero avatar do change in each different epoch as the Avatar of Grenith himself change in those different epoch.

Lyssa herself is two in one and therefore it is keeping in her essence to address herself as in the third person some time (the Lyssa Muse aspect) when in a first person usage as in the Temple Of The Six Gods scene talking to me (the second person).

Edit: short on time for editing typo error – will do so later…

Ok, I give it a shot. How the word avatar can be interpreted in the real world is of absolutely no meaning for GW2. They can basically use any term they want, describing something completely different. Of course they do it rarely since that would be only a confusing mess if you did it all the time.

But let me give you an analogy: The word god in our world can describe a whole ranges of beings. It can go from nature spirits, to ancestors, to former rulers (like a pharaoh), to immortals that live since the beginning of time and yes even mortal beings (though the latter is rarely the in the real world mythologies, while often in modern fantasy settings).
It’s a very vague term since all over the world different cultures worshipped different gods, with different rules and limitations to their powers (somethimes none at all).

So when ANet creates gods, they can make them however they want them to be. Mortal, malevolent, omniscient or smelling like a wet dog. There are practically only the limits of human imagination.
Same goes for the word avatar, they can use it however they want, since it’s not bound to the real world. They can have the word avatar mean that somebody just ordered fish&chips and is not satisfied with the greasiness of the food. However they chose to make it another word for projection. If you as a dervish player transformed into an avatar of Melandru, you did not die and Melandru was reborn into your body, no you simply transformed into an image of Melandru, using her power. The avatars you see in the temple of the six are also projections, in this case more like angels. They serve the gods as messangers, since the gods don’t personally interfere with mortals anymore. They project the will of the gods, but they aren’t the gods.

The whole Thaumanova Reactor incident never interested me, while Abaddon, and actually everthing that has to do with Elona, is my favorite part of Tyria’s lore, so the choice is more than easy.

Besides, Kiel might be an honest person, but I’m not sure if she is made for politics. She would probably stick very close to Magnus, which, while not a bad thing per se, shows that she doesn’t really need to be in the council. Evon however is a buisness man, cunning and ambitious, perfect for the council. Besides, his trading empire is a rvial to the consortium and he seems to be the lesser evil, so it’s somewhat likely that the consortiums influence in LA would diminish.
So I guess nobody has to worry that LA is doomed if Evon get’s the seat (which a lot of people seem to be, what has that poor little charr done to you?).

#VoteEvonGnashblade for a better tomorrow, starting today!

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Why experience the imprisonment of a god, or a massive experiment gone wrong, when you can experience the rebirth of Elona at the hands of a true hero? Vote for someone with centuries of experience and proven leadership abilities!

#VotePalawaJoko

Now voiced by Christopher Walken, you heard it here first folks.

#VotePalawaJoko

…and Evon Gnashblade, because Abaddon is kewl!

Voting for Evon so hard! Abaddon! Yes! My favorite part of the whole lore! Who cares about the Thamanova reactor? Boring asura stuff, get out! We want the God of Secrets to reveal his greatest mysteries!
ABADDOOOOOOON!

Getting from the bottom of the thing to the very top, could indeed be seen as a jumping puzzle, a very easy one though, fortunately. Finding the crystals though is a jumping puzzle, since some of them take skill to get. The 4th one for example, where you need to dash over that thin wooden plank.
And to be honest, I’m so sick of all those jumping puzzles. With every update we get a new one, and I never liked them to beginn with, since I just can’t do them with a keyboard. I need a game pad for precise jumping, which I don’t have for the pc. That means a sizeable chunk of the content of new updates is not possible or immensely frustrating and not the least bit fun or rewarding for me.
I would be in favour of no more new jumping puzzles for a very long time. GW1 didn’t have them and the new content was still fun and diverse, so GW2 doesn’t need them either.

Well I think the red backdrop is the strongest hint. Why would sky pirates use red? When I think of the sky, the colors blue and white come to mind. I guess most people would rather think of those than red (okay the sky can be red during the evening but still…).
Besides, it’s not only that both show skulls, but both show pierced skulls. Of course it could be coincidence, but why would it? It’s not like Anet has forgotten about GW1. Maybe the Aetherblades aren’t related to the Crimson Skull, but I’m still certain that this was ment to resemble their flag.

Kinda belongs to the topic. I was reading through the wiki when I saw the banner of the Aetherblades

To all you GW1 veterans, looks familar doesn’t it?

With Usoko taking power and the Ministry of Purity hunting down criminals, it’s not too unlikely that the Crimson Skulls set sail for new tides, maybe Lion’s Arch. The Aetherblades could be descendents of some Crimson Skull members, maybe even the whole gang. Would be a nice little nod to Factions.

Well Mesmer may be able to change their voice, but we already know that E is a necromancer, atleast he uses their magic. "The other necromancer had already turned tail and run, leaving an energy trail I could follow if I hurried. " I’m pretty sure Majory could tell when other people use her arts.

Dustfinger.9510:

GuildMag: Can you give us more information on the Great Dwarf, is he really a god or more like a powerful spirit (like the spirits of the wild)?

Jeff Grubb: The Great Dwarf can best be thought of as collective consciousness of the dwarves themselves (indeed, in making the prophesy of the Great Dwarf defeating the Great Destroyer coming true). Has anyone MET the Great Dwarf, and found him to be a real being? Well, that has not happened. http://www.guildmag.com/gmblitz-lore-interview-with-jeff-grubb

I have nothing to add, I just wanted to point out that this was my question, and I’m still proud of it. :P

I think it’s in an area we can’t go to right now, I’d say to the west of the Frostgorge Sound and north of the Snowden Drift.

Narcemus.1348:

I’m saying that it is possibly the reason they didn’t do that in the first place, not why they haven’t done it now, lol.

Okay sorry then, I was (and still am) confused by the way it’s written.^^

Or the knowledge of how to create a bloodstone was lost with the disappearance of the seers.

I personally believe the dragons are actually just elementals. Very very powerful elementals, but elementals. So they are basically raw magic that bound together and developed a consciousness. And they are incredibly old, they had tons of time to absorb enormous amounts of additional magical energy, making them what they are today.

If I can use a search function before creating a thread, everyone can. And this particular topic comes up every 2 weeks it seems, it shouldn’t be hard to find (and isn’t). People who can’t do that deserve being called out on it, how will they learn from mistakes if they don’t know they made one?

It’s okay, I prefer the Dragon Arena from GW1 though.