Guild Wars 2

Tim.9850:

Arleii.5304:

What’s so hard about it? Kill the menders and dps the statue when RYTLOCK TELLS YOU…

I don’t recall him ever telling me when to.

He couldn’t be more blatant about telling you without grabbing your hand yelling “YO, FIRE IN THIS DIRECTION YOU GOD kitten ED IDIOT”

Though looking at your post history I’m not shocked you somehow missed that.

Warrior is most played, which also leads to the warrior running the risk of being redundant in a group. Generally any more then 1, maybe 2, warriors is a waste of space. Though that only matters if you’re worried about speed running, if not then play whatever you want.

Personally, I prefer my ele. It’s great for all content and just brings out the evil laughter in me when I meteor shower a zerg.

Hmm…I haven’t checked, do these apply to a GTS 450 also?

(Yes I need to upgrade it soon, I know)

SCREW YOU SIERAN IS NOT DEAD

On topic: There’s an ascended item heavily implied to belong to Sieran. Magistars Field Journal I think.

Not sure about Forgal.

I’m not sure what else you’d expect him to do when his sword, a magic artifact that is all but required to rid his race of the Ascalonian ghosts, straight up flies into the mists.

He’s a Charr, he knows his people require that sword, and he doesn’t fear a god kitten ed thing.

Sorann Peace.9056:

I think this is a hint at something coming in the near future. Perhaps in part 2 of the Dragon’s Reach? Seems interesting, to say the least.

It likely is, it’s very unusual for Anet not to add something like this in and do nothing with it.

Dawdler.8521:

Capes are coming along with light armor pants.

HA!

I feel I should point out ascended light armor does, in fact, contain pants.

This has to be a joke or troll thread.

I refuse to believe the player base can be this bad at level 80.

Shpongle.6025:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Shpongle.6025:

…is literally the worst thing you have ever put in the Living Story, season 1 included, besides Liadri. It literally took me 25 minutes to kill it, and I did not die once, and I always killed all the menders…if I knew it was like that I would’ve found a group of people to do it with.

Next time, put a warning label on it ‘’this content should be attended with a group of people’’ or something like that

not.fun.at.all. way.too.long

You are way.too.bad.

Get out of your Clerics/Nomads comfort zone and try to learn the encounter (not that there’s much to learn). You barely had to dodge at all, you were able to simply kite the spectral flames which real name I forgot und the ascalonian menders were slow as hell, not to mention the obvious tells and the nice, orange-red aoe-indicator which basically screams “press V now!”

Seeing that you have so much problems with such an encounter, may I ask you which class you play with what kind of build? We might be able to give you useful tips so that you can improve your gameplay.

Saint.5647:

Shrug. You’re just a bad player.

Nothing about this takes 25 minutes. For the record, I’ve not been a living story fan in the past. They’ve made big steps in the right direction though. This is a fun fight with some mechanics and attacks to mind.

It’s not difficult but does require you to pay attention to attacks and enemies. It’s very easy to solo. You mind Rytlock’s instructions, evade attacks, and put out damage on the statue. Also mind mender pathing and hop back to CC and burn them down. If you need the mender achievement, you let them buff him and continue as normal.

It’s actually engaging and interesting. An absolute lolmode quest with a group though. You’re just a bad player. They’ve made some great content here.

And I never said It’s bad content, I think it’s great content.

“is literally the worst thing you have ever put in the Living Story, season 1 included, besides Liadri.”

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong.

My issue with it is less that it shows skin, and more that there is nothing keeping those flaps from flaying around and getting in your way.

I favor your suggestion. It reminds me of my favorite armor from GW1 as far as the top goes.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Monk_Kurzick_armor_f.jpg

At first I was, then I saw the episode 1 ending cut scene.

pdavis.8031:

I just don’t see it happening, and it would be WAY too complicated to do anything like that, as it would negate the entire GW1 game and everything in it, as well as totally mess with this game. Yes it’s up to the writers, and as far as I know we havent dealt with time travel yet. Although it would be cool to have something like that, a totally changed timeline as part of the LS season 2 story arch….

We did have time travel actually……though in a completely “for the lulz” April Fools event in GW1

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Annihilator

Also, isn’t there an Asura PS that involves you fighting yourself from a possible future?

pdavis.8031:

That was my first thought when he jumped down the hole. I would expect to see him appear in the Ascalonian fractal, maybe trying to stop The Searing so the Forfire wouldn’t happen, thus changing the future…but not likely as we all know how changing the time line works out in the end…

As anzenketh says, it’s REALLY up to the writers as to what the universe of GW2 allows as far as toying with time.

Edit: Meant as anzenketh said, not pdavis x_x

Arikyali.5804:

There are also Norn ghosts in Cursed Shore, so humans aren’t the only ones.

From the wiki:

Most restless spirits have some sort of reason for hanging around a place: an unfinished task, a wrong that needs righting, and so on. They’re often coherent, and you can hold a reasonable conversation with them. They can be obsessive, or angry, but they’re sane—sane for ghosts, at least.

Something is holding her back from going into the Mist. What could it be?

My guess?

Either Marjory is doing/did something and/or Belinda will play some fairly major role soon. Anet doesn’t normally do stealth changes like this and never do anything with them, not to mention the fact that this was added in the very same episode dealing with ghosts.

I take it no noticed that right after Smodur said it failed, he also said it wasn’t over.

For all we know, the sword’s wielder chasing the sword into the mist may very well be part of the cleansing. If one doesn’t have the courage to jump into the mists alone in order to break the curse, what right do they have to be the King?

shrugs was easy enough for me.

JustTrogdor.7892:

An item that a character holds that gives a speed boost is not a mount IMO. It’s just an item with a speed boost. Mounts are something a character rides, sits on.

Visually, you are correct. But functionally, they are the same from the sounds of it.

For example, this is considered a mount in SMT: Imagine Online

Xyonon.3987:

I hope they increase it’s damage overall, but fix that godkitten FGS. Really, An Ele is nothing more than a FGS delivery right now.

If your ele is only good for an FGS, you are doing something wrong.

Tbh, I think both are niche sets. The ley lines weapons really only look good for the glow, the color/texture of the rest of it just clashes with kitten near everything.

snow.8097:

Izaya.2906:

Terravos.4059:

Never Forget My friends…never forget

It would be fun if we get a water world patch.

Dungeon purely underwater, pvp/wvw maps purely underwater. LFG’s would be like “RANGERS ONLY – NO NOOBS” lol.

underwater is probably not noobfriendly enough for anet.
And all in all was underwater fight a bit unbalanced. Guards Engis and Rangers were the kings underwater while thiefz should not even try to fight another one in water.

Of course it is a lot of fun for the ones who know how to Play there. But the most cant handle it and describe it as not fun.
I hope anet bring water fights back because it was real fun, they just to Balance it out and make it more appealing for others.

Eles are pretty nice underwater as well………but maybe that’s just me.

One major flaw:

There are at least two vines in LA

Obsidian.1328:

Celestina.2894:

Obsidian.1328:

Celestina.2894:

You really can’t make an argument that most of the lore was not a human perspective. Certainly a more human then charr perspective.

Truer words are rarely spoken. I doubt a dog, a cat, or even a chimp wrote GW1.

Come on, surely you can make a better troll attempt then that.

Ikr.

I was going to imply that GW1 was not written in a 1st-person perspective…and therefore not a (Tyrian)human perspective. Then I realized that was old hat for me. And I was tired, so I went to bed.

Shameful display.

Obsidian.1328:

Celestina.2894:

You really can’t make an argument that most of the lore was not a human perspective. Certainly a more human then charr perspective.

Truer words are rarely spoken. I doubt a dog, a cat, or even a chimp wrote GW1.

Come on, surely you can make a better troll attempt then that.

Kohlteth.3715:

Xenon.4537:

You can get the entire GW1 complete pack on steam sale for like 20 bucks. Keep an eye out for it. You would spend that much in the gem store anyway. Why not have an entire game full of content instead? It’s not that hard to unlock the skins the normal way.

Actually if you look, the packs only have 1-2 of the expansions, not all 3, same as the Anet site, there does not seem to be a pack that has them all. ( I looked other day )

IIRC, there is but for some reason it’s a EU thing only. Though not on steam.

Edit: Found it, not sure if EU only afterall

http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/guild-wars-complete-collection/98664

Obsidian.1328:

Changer the Elder.2948:

…the relevant information is more likely to be found in Guild Wars 2 rather than the first installment.

That’s all I needed to hear. Thanks!

It really doesn’t matter what you think about GW2 “retconning” or contradicting the lore in GW1. He/She has a valid point.

Obsidian.1328:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Obsidian.1328:

Changer the Elder.2948:

Taken verbatim from the very first thing a newborn charr player hears in the game:

“I am a charr. In this world of constant battle, I am the deadliest weapon of all. I respect no authority but the clenched fist of my Legion. With engines of destruction, we have killed our gods. We reclaimed our homeland of Ascalon, and we planted victory banners on the graves of our enemies.”

I’m just going to leave that here for the “what do charr call their home” debate.

You’re quoting a line from the GW2 wiki which contradicts GW1? Are you new here?

>implying GW1 told everything from the perspective of the Charr

>implying it told everything from the perspective of the humans.

You really can’t make an argument that most of the lore was not a human perspective. Certainly a more human then charr perspective.

PopeUrban.2578:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Lévis.5489:

Anet writers ignoring their own game’s lore again. You need Sohothin, Magdaer and a descendant of Doric to break the curse.

That was based on a legend that is yet to be proven. According to Charr’s account of the Foefire, King Al struck the ground in desperation to kill Charrs and cursed them in the process. Thus, Rytlock thinks it would be the same way, striking the ground, to release the curse…maybe.

I would like to see Rytlock summons the Prince instead…it would be very interesting seeing the ghostly Prince confronting his ghostly dad.

In an epic quest in which he suicidally runs in to large packs of enemies in a mad rush for an alternate weapon that… makes it drizzle a little.

Side note:
A ghostly stormcaller that the costantly reliving rurik blows every hour would be hilarious. Add some charr nearby with earmuffs and umbrellas who constantly complain about all the racket, and an event that makes it stop raining for a little bit.

Oh god my sides.

sorudo.9054:

i don’t think a charr can lift a curse only a true ascalonian can lift, it’s like having an average joe killing apocalypse, it’s just not possible.

The thing about curses is they have a tendency to be either extremely literal or extremely vague.

For example in the recent movie Maleficent, “true love’s kiss” was the kiss of a mother/mother-like figure on her daughter’s forehead because no truer form of love exists according to that movie’s version of the curse.

What IS a true Ascalonian?

Is it the humans that dubbed the land Ascalon?

Or is the Charr who first conquered it, lost it to the humans, then made it the goal of their entire species to take back and succeeded? Doesn’t that also sound like a “True Ascalonian”?

Or, are BOTH races considered true Ascalonians?

GIRLS GIRLS

BOTH of you are beautiful!

Levetty.1279:

My thirs thought was ‘I thought it was supposed to be a descendant of Doric that was supposed to lift the curse’ Then I realised it was a Charr doing it and of course it was going to be a member of the mary sue race . Can’t have humans doing anything in this game, not sure why they even have them in the game.

Wait

I thought the Mary Sue race was sylvari?

Or was it asura?

OH OH OH OH IS NORN NEXT THEN!?

If it is a new one, he did a good enough job to fool me.

Ronin.7381:

Yeah, upon a closer inspection that does look like to be Plains, Daessa, or Iron. However… those aren’t thorns. Those are motha-flippin roots. Big ones.

Indeed, those aren’t just “probing” vines, those are straight up territory markers.

skullmount.1758:

Fuin.8361:

What will this have to do with Mordremoth?
I’m curious!

Well at about :15 seconds, you can see Mordy tendrils (the big thick kind) in the background of an Ascalon area (can’t place the area off the top of my head).

That was Iron Marches from what I could tell.

Bilacus.6104:

Noviere.7309:

Along with Rox, Taimi is the only biconic I want to keep around.

I’ve seen this use of “biconic” a few times on this forum and I’m wondering what it means. I hope it’s not another word for woman (two cones…).

[EDIT] I found a post on Reddit and it’s apparently supposed to be “B-iconic”

Yeah that’s it, honestly it’s an insanely stupid term but meh >_> I just choose not to use it.

Zaxares.5419:

Celestina.2894:

I still have nightmares about Danika shudders

What about Chain Smoker Rhea?

Don’t remind, Factions was just overflowing with terrible VA x_x

So this is just a fun little theory I’ve been toying with since we learn just how kitten aggressive of a dragon our little friend Mord is.

So, why do I think this COULD be a possibility?

1. The dragons are forces of nature. Bubbles = water, Prim = volcanoes etc etc. In an ideal situation, forces of nature keep each other in check, a constant push and pull.

Now, Mordemoth can be said to represent growth/life while Zhaitan was death/decay. In most stories, what happens when one force if nature is weakened or even outright removed? The opposing force becomes more powerful, potentially growing out of control. Essentially, we may have kittened up royally by slaying Zhaitan.

2. Tequatl’s power buff is in the lore, and has been said to relate to current events. Considering Mordemoth was stirring around this time, it’s very possible Tequatl is now a servent of Mordemoth. Obviously this one has some flaws, as everything so far has told us that each dragon controls their own domain and that’s it but I can’t really think of any other reason that relates to current events.

3. The end of episode 2. In that cutscene we see the dragons floating around a center, in balance, after their awakenings. And yet, Mordemoth charges straight into the center. The very thing all other elder dragons are revolving around.

Some people think this represents the pale tree (including your character and Scarlet) but I think this represents what the tree is grown above. That being, potentially the ley line “source”. If Mordemoth could claim that, possibly the highest concentration of magic in Tyria he could very well increase his power by unheard of amounts.

4. Mordemoth has been extremely aggressive, to a degree not even Zhaitan could have hoped to match. He has already spread as far as the Iron Marches ( I believe that’s the charr zone shown in the trailer) which is not only on the other side of the map, but strangely close to Kralk’s territory. In addition, we see the edges of Jormag’s territory. Now unless we’ll going to politely asking Jormag for his help, that scene implies to me Mordemoth also has his eyes (vines?) set in that direction.

Again, this is just a fun little theory I’ve been toying around with since release. I’m sure it’s got plenty of holes you guys will be able to find, but eh, just thought I’d toss it out there.

Chrispy.5641:

The only thing in the trailer that confused me was the 3 second scene showing ice brood. Anyone want to explain that one?

Personally I’m thinking Mordemoth plans to go after the other dragons. He’s shown to be extremely aggressive in his spread, much more so then the other dragons. Hell for all we know is vines could already be in the territory of other dragons.

It almost makes me wonder if we caused this by slaying Zhaitan.

Will Lucky.8703:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but does the the legend not state only the rightful King of Ascalon wielding either of the swords can lift the curse?

Either this attempt fails as he doesn’t he considered that. Or Rytlock perhaps becomes the Kahn-Ur which could be interpreted as the King of Ascalon.

Or the Legends wrong and you only need the sword.

Keep in mind, it just says KING. And Ascalon was Charr land well before it was Human.

It’s very likely the curse doesn’t give two kittens about your race.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

darkace.8925:

Lue.6538:

I wouldn’t mind dragging around Trahearne in an effort to get him killed.

lol, poor Trahearne. The man’s the most hated being in all of Tyria, and his only sin is not being a kitten.

And the terrible voice acting.. when he talks he just sucks all the atmosphere out of the moment.

This is a problem pretty much during the whole PS. I would blame whoever directed it, rather than the voice-actors/actresses.

Hmm…I don’t know, some VA WAS pretty terrible and done by people who obviously lacked the ability to voice action so I can’t really blame it all on one person.

Though nothing, not even Trahearne has managed to top the atrocity that is Factions VA.

I still have nightmares about Danika shudders

Thuggernaut.1250:

Mass Effect:
1. Reapers awaken every 50000 years to consume life
2. Player experiences a vision of the reapers from a beacon (which he inadvertently triggered to save Ashley)
3. Player builds a multi-species coalition to fight reapers

Guild Wars 2:
1. Dragons awaken every 10000 years to consume magic
2. Player experiences a vision of dragons from Omadd’s machine (which he inadvertently triggered to save Taimi)
3. Player builds a multi-species Pact to fight dragons

I think anyone that saw the new cutscene from the most recent episode (that also played Mass Effect) instantly got a flashback to Commander Shepard. At first I thought that the writing got marginally better (compared to season one), but come on… now they’re blatantly ripping off another game with a threadbare plot to begin with?

You can’t seriously be claiming any of that wasn’t done long before Mass Effect.

kta.6502:

Only those who played TA dungeon, Aetherblade Dungeon, and LS Season 2 can read this!

hide spoiler

Here’s my thoughts about Caithe’s secret: Caithe is really an undercover Nightmare Courtier, and she is in cahoots with Faolain. Note that we never killed Faolain at the end of TA story. The duchess just escapes. Plus, Faolain’s attempts to get Caithe back are pretty much a sham.

I think that Scarlet used Omadds machine as a divination device as well as to find out secrets about her family. Why? Caithe was a bully to those who were younger than her, and the Pale Tree let her get away with it. Remember what Caithe said to Caedyn before he created the Nightmare Court: You are either firstborn…or you are simply sylvari.” I believe that statement illustrates Caithe’s REAL personality, and I bet you that she said the same thing to Ceara (aka Scarlet Briar).

Knowing Scarlet’s personality, she wanted to get back at Caithe in any way possible, and she used the machine to stalk the thief. How else would Scarlet have devised a plan to trap the Firstborn in the Aetherblade Dungeon? If you’re going to catch a thief, you have to find out their fighting style and their weaknesses.

……There are some pretty large leaps of logic in that theory, no offense.

I’m quite pleased with my norn ele personally. Granted she’s female, though I suspect the outfit would still look good on male.

darkace.8925:

She has the judgment of a child.

Because she is one.

Ascimator.6735:

I mean, sure, she was a little bit too fascinated by Scarlet’s work, but she’s an Asura child, an especially smart one at that, and she just charges into the machine that drove Scarlet mad and she KNEW it? Did she skip her safety classes? It seems like nothing more that a hook to make the PC enter as well.

You honestly have no idea what Asura are like if you think she even saw danger there.

1. Asura have a superiority complex, a MASSIVE one.

2. Taimi says on multiple occasions that “Had Scarlet been Asura, she would have been fine” or something like that.

3. The machine was designed to see into the Eternal Alchemy itself, something every Asura dreams of being able to see and study. Of COURSE she’s gonna want to jump in.

In short, she saw no danger. It’s completely in-character. She’s a prodigy, but she’s also still young.

Also, is it just me, or are people grasping at straws for things to complain about with this story lately?

Cameirus.8407:

Humor.5763:

Ok, thanks guys. Appreciate it

better question would be: why is the female version so different from the male one….no hood, and massive stupid kitten bow.

How about we not hijack someone else’s thread to inject your relatively disagreed with opinion from your topic.

SnowHawk.3615:

‘Super protective fantasy armor’ is what it is all about these days, the males get the bad kitten armor that could protect them in an actual fight – while females are stuck with thin cloth and string essentially, it’s a fantasy game- but anet will not deter from the stereotypical kittenty female outfit.

You can’t be serious, GW2 is one of the most modest games when it comes out outfits for females.

http://i.imgur.com/qHxNATR.png

^example of my norn. She’s pretty well clothed all things considered.

You’d freak at Tera, or even some GW1 outfits I think.

The biggest thing is as someone said earlier, they don’t match a lot of looks at all and they aren’t flashiest for the people who only want to stand out.

Though tbh, considering the high price still I have to imagine people like them.

This is me, and then I spend 1 week or more debating on the race, a few days of toying with armor, and then repeating.

Seeing as how they are stated to be simply a part of a larger body (Mordemoth) I think it’s safe to assume it’s not that simple to cut them down.

Hold on, what makes GW2 a direct competitor more so then oh, I don’t know, games that are actually sub?

So I just HAD to make a norn ele after seeing that new gorgeous hair style. This is the result, of course we have my favorite head piece, the magnus eye patch. In addition the shoulders are the stately shoulder skin and the rest is the honor of the waves light armor.

I had intended to use honor of the waves shoulders also, but sadly they have fur lining that can not be dyed.

The staff is of course the phoenix skin, the dyes that I used are winter sky, midnight ice and brick.

So I just HAD to make a norn ele after seeing that new gorgeous hair style. This is the result, of course we have my favorite head piece, the magnus eye patch. In addition the shoulders are the stately shoulder skin and the rest is the honor of the waves light armor.

I had intended to use honor of the waves shoulders also, but sadly they have fur lining that can not be dyed.

The staff is of course the phoenix skin, the dyes that I used are winter sky, midnight ice and brick.