That is most definitely the pact camp looking from the west. Good to see that the effects of Mordremoth are spreading out…but that far? All the way in Timberlines across the sea?
Doesn’t make any sense. It would be better if the vines stretched into Rata Sum or anywhere along the Tarnished Coast…
It actually makes sense if you consider that Scarlet’s mind was Morde’s mind. She obviously knew about the pact and the death of Zhaitan, and as such so does Morde. It makes sense for him to directly attack their bases before they can confirm he exists by keeping his vines traveling below the ground.
Mmm good idea, though it sort of dampens the lore realistically. I mean, what’s stopping Mordremoth from summoning vines to kill Jennah or Ellen Kiel (#teamevon!)
True, it’s possible he just doesn’t see them as a threat. I mean let’s be honest, Lion’s Arch and the Krytan royalty did jack all for the Zhaitan offensive.
Also, in truth, Morde wouldn’t be the first who could pull that off. Prim could have done it decades ago.
That might actually be rather interesting, and might suggest that it knows exactly what Scarlet did, and as such uses her knowledge of (mobile) waypoints in order to find and disable them.
Or simply follow them to the enemies bases.
What would be cool is if Mordremoth took control of an entire map and closed it off for 2 weeks (sorry map completionists!). All WP’s disabled, and all portals blocked off by thick vines
After we finally burn down those vines we come up with Timberline falls full of green and thorns and no more snow.
And at the center we see what Mordremoth was doing all along…empowering one of his champions.
And that’s how a metaevent is born.
Part of me loves that idea, the other would cry at the loss of such a beautiful map.
That is most definitely the pact camp looking from the west. Good to see that the effects of Mordremoth are spreading out…but that far? All the way in Timberlines across the sea?
Doesn’t make any sense. It would be better if the vines stretched into Rata Sum or anywhere along the Tarnished Coast…
It actually makes sense if you consider that Scarlet’s mind was Morde’s mind. She obviously knew about the pact and the death of Zhaitan, and as such so does Morde. It makes sense for him to directly attack their bases before they can confirm he exists by keeping his vines traveling below the ground.
So I just noticed in the trailer, that base that gets destroyed is the pact base in timberline falls.
Oh, please no…not Timberline Falls!
Turned the beautiful Kessex Hills into a wasteland that still drives me away. I really hope they do not destroy/muck up my favorite of favorite zones!
:\ I wish they would put more effort into opening up new areas instead of insisting on “altering” (read: destroying) the beautiful ones we’ve come to love.
It might be just they plan to show Morde attacking the pact directly. I mean that’s some pretty kitten far reaching corruption, assuming the vines are his(her?) work.
They really need to just go back the way of gw1 cinematics, it was far better than anything they have given us so far, despite the machinima style.
Gw2 could improve upon that concept so much if they would out some work into the animations. They would be far more interesting AND we would be able to skip them.
Honestly, I find the concept art style cut scenes superior to every cut scene in GW2 AND GW1.
A lot of GW1 cut scenes are just plain horrid also tbh. Namely anything in Factions.
For those curious, the reason I use jade weapons instead of something red/black/gold is because I wanted a Canthan vibe to match. Plus if you look at the chest piece, it does in fact have jade embedded in it.
Also, I swear those ribbons for MADE for asuran animations.
As for the colors I used. It is a mix of Midnight Ice, Wrath and Antique Gold.
For those curious, the reason I use jade weapons instead of something red/black/gold is because I wanted a Canthan vibe to match. Plus if you look at the chest piece, it does in fact have jade embedded in it.
Also, I swear those ribbons for MADE for asuran animations.
As for the colors I used. It is a mix of Midnight Ice, Wrath and Antique Gold.
I don’t think Aerin is the cuprit at all. Yes, he went crazy, but I think there’s more going on.
It was hinted that Aerin was a soundless, but if I remember correctly, back at the Bazaar, he was acting very different from your general soundless Sylvari. He was excitable and cheery, and made several reference to the Pale Tree and the Dream. The Soundless are very quiet and contemplative, and want to be separated from the Pale Tree and the Dream.
Someone’s pulling the strings…
Because obviously the awakening of the jungle dragon had an impact on him…and most likely other sylvari as well. Soundless or not…the awakening effected and took advantaged of the most vulnerable plants out there…like cabbages and sylvari
I’m missing the “awesome-but-why-yet-another-Sylvari-villan-that-ruined-the-whole-thing” option.
Tbh, it makes sense if Mordemoth is the focus. Sylvari would probably be his target for corruption, so I’d expect more evil sylvari to come.
Personally, for a first episode, I have to give it a 10/10. If this first one is anything to go bye, they HAVE taken the feedback seriously. We just have to see if it continues to show.
Also bonus: I have not seen anyone complain of bugs, and I can’t say I’ve run in to any either.
Well, if there is sort of toggle weapon option, i will be a lot more happy.
I have rolled Charr for many times and every time i killed the character to make room for another race. It is because of the slow motion 4 leg run… if i can toggle weapon and always carry a weapon as a Charr, i am sure i can finally make a lv80 Charr….
Just seems lazy to abandon hearts altogether. It made the game more immersive IMO. Hearts give you a chance to slow down and take the story line in and help common folk with their issues, something a real hero also does. Dynamic events are more frantic in nature. I stopped feeling like a hero in this game after the main storyline was concluded. I didn’t give a kitten about Scarlet and her feelings. Just a bump in the road.
I’m expecting something greater than Southsun cove. That place is a joke. People should be prepared to be disappointed by Southsun 2.0.
They actually never intended for hearts in the first place. The only reason they were added in was due to complaints of players feeling lost IIRC.
The conclusion I came to was that any forthcoming zones simply wont have any underwater content associated with them. Maguuma looks to be pretty arid and dry, so there is a high chance of no lakes or rivers etc. They may have thought of the crystal desert beyond that, which also will have no water areas.
They simply may not be wasting artwork development time on them, which even if true, would still be a big shame.
IIRC, supposedly the CD is now a paradise when it comes to it’s environment.
At least in the portions that Joko rules over, I’m sure the dragon owned parts are less so.
Honestly, when I think of humanoids for my next class I always go through this throught process.
“Lets see, Norn have tattoos, actual muscles for females and spirits that actually do interact with them from time to time…………..Sylvari are the youngest race, have the rather interesting dream of dreams, the most beautiful characters when done well and they glow…………but humans have……………………………………………………………………Gods…….that do nothing now…….I guess…….no female muscle to speak of…..nothing that really stands out honestly…….”.
Thus I end up laughing at humans, and making a gorgeous sylvari thief that I have yet to see any human even come close to equaling visually.
On-topic: I didn’t like Rurick, but I’d take him any day over that worthless king of a father he had.
Also, there’s zero evidence that he murdered that ambassador, nor(before someone says it) Evennia either.
Of course not, at the time of when Adelbern called down the flame, Evennia was currently alive and well and sipping fruit-flavored drinks with little umbrellas in them with Jurah somewhere on a beach in Istan.
Yeaaah I’m with Tobias here, given our knowledge of Adelbern’s increasingly addled brain combined with the lack of Rurik to stop him, I think it’s very likely he at least did something with Evennia.
I’ve honestly never been fond of opposing factions (kurzicks vs luxons, horde vs whatever the hell they are in wow, etc) simply because it ends up making both sides look all shades of dumb kitten.
Ascalon is now an even more barren wasteland than it was before. All of the great human structures lie in ruins, and have been pathed over by grotesque metal bases by the Charr. And between it all, the Brand and it’s creatures terrorize the area. If Queen Jenna decided to have a big Charr massacre, good for her. I have little to no sympathy for those oversized horned cats. But Kryta is my home away from home, and I frankly couldn’t care less for Ascalon. It’s a ruin of a dead kingdom, full of dead people, and soon to be dead Charr. There is no glory to find there, but rocks and bones.
……….How in the hell can you say Ascalon is worse off now then it was just after the searing?
kitten I’m still not even sure how Ascalon survived as long as it did with what looked like tar where water should have been.
- DE 2.0 sucking all of the air out of the room
– “Collect 150 drill fragments from the rubble in Lion’s Arch” achievement
– a whole lot of bugs
– “new items in the cash shop!”.
^Lots of posts like this no matter what
I tell you what, if you can find anything in the track record ArenaNet has established for themselves that shows my expectations to be unreasonable I’ll sincerely apologize for upsetting your sensibilities.
Now now, no need for your jimmies to be rustled. I just pointed it out.
So you’ve got nothing to show my expectations to be unfounded? I didn’t think so.
Such needless antagonism. So typical of the forums…
- DE 2.0 sucking all of the air out of the room
– “Collect 150 drill fragments from the rubble in Lion’s Arch” achievement
– a whole lot of bugs
– “new items in the cash shop!”.
^Lots of posts like this no matter what
I tell you what, if you can find anything in the track record ArenaNet has established for themselves that shows my expectations to be unreasonable I’ll sincerely apologize for upsetting your sensibilities.
Now now, no need for your jimmies to be rustled. I just pointed it out.
- DE 2.0 sucking all of the air out of the room
– “Collect 150 drill fragments from the rubble in Lion’s Arch” achievement
– a whole lot of bugs
– “new items in the cash shop!”.
One thing I noticed was Braham using an animation I don’t recognize and I don’t recall them having any unique animations. (Unique skills yeah but not animations)
Likely of course just a simple pre-rendered cut scene, but who knows.
I levelled an elementalist to 80 (after ranger, mesmer, warrior and guardian) and found – and still find – it the hardest to level and most vulnerable class thus far. I still have troubles playing her (usually with staff), it all seems a lot more troublesome than the other classes.
What also makes me wonder is that the elementalist forum is full of PvP threads where threads about other classes are much more mixed. I guess ele shines more in PvP than in PvE?
I don’t know about pvp, but tbh eles are at the top of the food chain in PVE when it comes to group content.
Please make it so we can finish opponents through stealth, I am sick and tired of having my hard earned kills stolen because some trolling thief comes along and drops a refuge that gives 15s of stealth, all that effort fighting gone to waste so they can run off after being safely rezzed. By the time the stealth comes of they have a ton of range between. This is ridiculous, if thieves can perform a finisher through stealth, we should be able to finish enemies while they are stealthed, its not like their body moved…
Let me clear up some confusion-
If you activate a finisher, then your downed opponent is stealthed, the finisher should still go through and kill the downed opponent. So long as the finisher is activated before the stealth is applied to your opponent.
You could just…..you know……keep hitting them and probably down the thief at the same time.
If a thief drops a shadow refuge, they’ve now confined themselves to that small area till the skill ends. Just blow that area up.
The only way you’ll ever get true fairness is if PVP could only happen 1 vs 1, and we only have one class.
Posting using imgur, screen shots are not the right format for the forums >_>
The idea was a “wise warrior”, as such I felt tier 3 charr was essential for the veteran look, while I chose the lioness looking face for the wise part. The boots are arah heavy also btw.
Finally got around to making my charr warrior. The goal was a “wise, veteran” warrior look that could for example be just as at home in the Vigil as she is in the Priory.
So now every time we waypoint to an area where any events are occurring, our gold is taken, but we don’t go there. We go somewhere we did not want to go.
This is worse than having most of the waypoints show uncontested, even when they aren’t.
I’m concerned that a lot of players will look at this as simple robbery?
I think you should probably reread the patch notes and consider how the game was operating prior to the change.
This patch actually SAVES the playerbase coins.
Before patch: Want to go to Map A, WP A but it always shows as contested so you have to go to Map A, WP B first (spend 2s) and then go to Map A, WP A (another 2s) for a total cost of 4s.
After patch: Want to go to Map A, WP A. One of two things happens:
1. You arrive at WP A (spend 2s).
2. WP A is contested so you arrive at WP B (spend 2s) and walk to WP A.
Let me correct this for you.
Your doing the Boss train, traveling around.
WP A was a lie so WP B, also contested, is a lie and you end up at WP C.
There is no way you can get back to WP A where the event is before the Boss melts away to the Zerg.
You lost the cost of traveling.
You lost the reward from the event.
Did you die trying to get there? (Megedestroyer comes to mind)
Travel cost again to repair.
Did it make you late again? Lost reward.
Apply the concept to what players actually do and this thread wont seem so funny.
Race only matters as far as size, nothing else. Even then I feel the advantage is tiny at best.
While it is true certain skills will be more difficult to see coming, you can still predict them just as easily and honestly you’re only a tiny bit harder to target. For example, that asura warrior who just switched to axe, he’s probably gonna try and eviscerate you soon.
I tested a max height norn guard and asura guard the other day, same build just to see (medi burst) and I felt no significant different…….other then the asura feeling quicker, though that’s just a perception thing.
In short, go with what you like visually. I personally would play asura if not for the tiny as weapons and meh armor choices for heavy. Female charr is what I currently plan to make.
Well there are the extractors, but are there any runes that those are really cost effective? They seem absurdly high priced.
Not likely, I don’t think there is ever a situation where the extractor is worth it’s weight in gems when you look at the current gold —-> gem conversion rates.
MAYBE with the really high cost runes such as….strength I think….but even then that might be just barely, and I don’t remember the current going price on those.
High +AR value agony infusions. Those are the only things that can cost high enough to justify extractors.
Well there are the extractors, but are there any runes that those are really cost effective? They seem absurdly high priced.
Not likely, I don’t think there is ever a situation where the extractor is worth it’s weight in gems when you look at the current gold —-> gem conversion rates.
MAYBE with the really high cost runes such as….strength I think….but even then that might be just barely, and I don’t remember the current going price on those.
A complete collection is realistically only possible for someone who has played since launch.
Mr. Sparkles was available in the Gem Store during the month of December of 2013 for anyone who bought 4000 gems in that month. If they added it once they can easily add it again.
But until they do, it’s impossible to get it.
So again, the lama does nothing that has not been done already.
You argued against putting the llama in the gem store by pointing out Mr Sparkles. I then commented he was in the gem store at one time. He may be currently unavailable but that doesn’t mean he always will be unavailable.
Using the logic of how they sold Mr Sparkles, the llama could be sold in the gem store for a month and again periodically.
A better argument against putting it in the gem store is that it’s by achievement and that selling an achievement reward in the gem store is inappropriate.
Actually, my point was that this has been done before, that being we do have minis that make collecting all of them impossible and that the llama is nothing new. I myself couldn’t care less about the llama being in the gem shop or not, I simply pointed out that this isn’t the first mini to make a full collection impossible for most people.
So until Mr Sparkles returns or a sign of him being made available again shows up, a mini collection is impossible for anyone who did not get him through those fairly limited ways.
Also, Mr Sparkles was never actually in the gem shop. Instead he was a bonus for people who had purchased 4000 gems during a time frame or attended those events. He was a promotional item, essentially.
Another example is Foostivoo and the minis required to make him btw, while it is more likely to see another chance to obtain them, they oddly skipped Wintersday 2013 which implies they have or had no intention of bringing them back.
A complete collection is realistically only possible for someone who has played since launch.
Mr. Sparkles was available in the Gem Store during the month of December of 2013 for anyone who bought 4000 gems in that month. If they added it once they can easily add it again.
But until they do, it’s impossible to get it.
So again, the lama does nothing that has not been done already.
