Guild Wars 2

TD’s meta is the hardest to accomplish. Not because it’s difficult but because there isn’t much value in doing it. Therefore, most people that are there are busy doing things like HP trains. There’s also all the AFK folks. It makes it hard to organize for the meta.

Djinn.9245:

There are probably a large number of players who figure they should just be able to play the game and never go to forums, wiki, etc. who think that DS and lots of other content is just broken. Cause really if you have to go research content outside the game it is kinda broken.

This is kind of like saying “if you have to read the manual to figure it out, it’s broken.”

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Hesacon.8735:

Mordremoth slays Lazarus and frees the sylvari. Mordremoth rules Tyria for a thousand generations and everyone lives happily ever after. Except the humans, charr, norn, and asura, since they’re all dead.

There will still be quaggan.

Well, at least there will still be quaggan until bubbles, the underwater starfish dragon is destroyed, which we can really, really hope takes them with it.

They are, after all, the water equivalent of the sylvari, but without players of the race, we might get to purge them entirely as they so richly deserve…

Quaggan can’t be the underwater of Sylvari. Quaggan can be corrupted. Which reminds me, how does Jormag corrupt quaggan. Do they first become sons of Svanir? Quaggan sons of Svanir would be… interesting.

Any ways, I don’t think Lazarus will survive the next expansion.

I wouldn’t call his statement a promise and it’s still not someday.

I’d rather see Drakkar introduced than Claw of Jormag updated. However, Claw of Jormag could use an update.

The whole festival needs an update. The whole thing is boring. I was done after the first day. It’s needs to be freshened up a bit. It’s still better than the lunar festival though.

Adry.7512:

CMM.6712:

Adry.7512:

CMM.6712:

Adry.7512:

DarcShriek.5829:

Adry.7512:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

CMM.6712:

Adry.7512:

What I find funny is that some people think that a AAA game such as this that focuses and exploration and diversity wouldn’t add a new race. Yes guys I’m sorry but eventually they will. This game has finally found its format for creating and delivering content. The only thing they are missing is a deep focus on lore and storytelling. The addition of a new race allows developers to focus on lore expansion and story development. I’m sure that most developers in Anet have realized that what the game lacks now is lore and depth. Not only that but we will be going to new continents with different races, and you think they won’t include them into the game??? This isn’t like gw1 that you only played one race. This game needs this. It will happen. No matter what you guys think. Eventually it will come.

Since you are a developer for Anet, with the red logo right over there <———-

we can just go ahead and use this as a source then, right? New continents too, meaning

NOT Cantha and Elona? You heard it here first folks, breaking news!!!!

Ikr!

Telling us soooo confidently that Yes, this will happen. The game needs this. Eventually it will come.

In reality he’s just one more anonymous poster on the forum and he doesn’t have any more insight into whether or not anything will happen than any other person who comes on the forum and gives their opinion.

Foolish remark. New continent to the current map. So yea Cantha and so on. It’s an analytical statement. To me it makes the most sense. If you can’t wrap your head around it, then that sounds like a personal problem.

It only makes sense to your biases. Also, it’s pretty sad when you accuse people of having problems simply because they don’t agree with you. It’s time to come down off your judgmental high white horse.

What is sad? It’s what makes sense to me? Your assumptions are funny. Judgmental high white horse??? Are you sure you’re using the term appropriately? You seem to not get it at all. I dont care about “judging” anyone. What is said is an analytical statement and what makes the most sense??? When did you interpret that as a reality? sigh it seems the judgmental one is you.

Really… what I’ve seen is you making a post and telling people how things are gonna be whether they like it or not, nothing we can do to change it or stop it. So you are being put on notice that this isn’t your game, and you don’t get to make these decisions. Feel free to discuss though!

Its a high probability. When i make those posts its towards people who are adamant on a definite “NO”. Which is wrong. I am speaking in terms of probability. Hell they were even considering it in their first Xpac, which was rather small and heavily rushed. Therefore, you honestly believe that it WONT happen at all for a future PLANNED Xpac? Yea right! I’m not saying YES, im saying its highly possible.

I never said “NO” and I never said “won’t” personally, I said I’d rather see new content, which in my mind is maps, story and lore. Of course a new race is possible maybe even probable, but I will say it isn’t likely for a while, maybe until all the elder dragons are defeated.

Anyways, I dont think it will be on this Xpac, maybe on the fourth one….if we’re lucky, the third.

Not exactly “high probability”.

Seera.5916:

DarcShriek.5829:

Adry.7512:

DarcShriek.5829:

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Your “shoehorn a race” into the game isn’t what people want from a new race. No matter how you state it or how you portray it.

Don’t speak for everyone.

For one, your “shoehorn a race” argument might seem reasonable to some but from my perspective, you’re just being unreasonably picky. For two, you’re specifically picking out the suggestions you don’t agree with while offering nothing to replace it. For three, I don’t even think all the checkpoints you list off are even wanted by the majority and you only want it there to specifically sabotage the implementation of a new race.

Would it be nice to have a “like the original” Personal Story? Sure. How many people actually liked the majority of the PS? Not just the 1st chapter, but going through the orders, making the pact and following Trahern’s lead…How many people like the changes they made to the PS? How many players go out of their way to replay the PS on all their new characters? While I do enjoy the PS on my characters, up to a point, after you go through it once then explore some of the branching options, I don’t tend to go through most of it after that. Even with there being the PS for a new race, it’s still not a big deal (I’m certain it wouldn’t take that long to create…just about 3 Living World updates worth of missions should do it). Regardless of how much effort and time it would take to make a new race’s PS, I’m not dead set that it MUST exist just like it has for every race prior. It can be changed, it can be updated in pieces, it could coincide with living world updates, it could be something completely different. Encouraging Anet to create something polished and unique is good, but suggesting they must follow a stringent formula even if that formula is lined with hiccups and mistakes is not.

I don’t have an issue with there being a new race. I do have an issue with sidesteps and shortcuts and it not being properly implemented. Adding it by Living Story episodes, and it not having the same types of features the other races have… I and “some others” (is that better?) do not think that is the proper way to go about it.

And what would you and others know of proper? You’re not making the content, telling the story or investing the capital to have it made. My point is, if the devs want to seek a different method or outcome, partially because it would be easier, cheaper, faster, make more sense for their choice in delivery or just because they want to do something experimental, who are you to label it as a short cut when ultimately adding a race would still require a massive amount of work? I guess this truly is the age of entitlement where the only time you won’t get called out as lazy is if you take the path of most resistance and still get whined at for not devoting all resources to every individual persons desire. They could try to go above and beyond to add something but if they don’t bend over backwards while also adding some other thing while simultaneously fixing all bugs, they might as well shouldn’t have bothered at all.

Speaking as a game designer, there is no way I would take the steps you’ve mentioned to shoehorn any feature, new race or otherwise. The reason is that I care about my product. For example, voice over is tricky enough already with professionals. To have a non professional do even the simplest of tasks is just asking for problems. You mentioned using someone with a less demanding job than others to do it. Let me be perfectly clear in game design all tasks are demanding.

Speaking as a consumer there is no way I’d want to play a game that cares so little for it’s product that it would take the steps you recommend. If your looking for cheap, shoddy games to play I think you should try the indie market.

Exactly! and that is why adding a new race in the long run is brilliant. It’s the perfect chance for Anet to focus on lore expansion and story development. Its the depth and richness that will add even more flavor to this game. Now that Anet has found a platform for their game, I think that lore and story are the next step. A new race would be a perfect opportunity to focus on these things.

Not really, the story is one of the five races against the dragons. Promoting a minor race to major goes against the lore that the new races won’t emerge until after the old ones have defeated the dragons.

The new race’s personal story does not have to be shoe horning them into the Zhaitan story.

I didn’t use singular meaning just Zhaitan.

It seems to me, that the people arguing for a new race are arguing for a mediocre product.

fishball.7204:

Reporting in:

I’ve mined the nodes every single day for months (like legit never missed a day since Bfen came out) now, noticed little to no change. Some days I get bad RNG and only get 3 rubies, other days I get 13. RNG is RNG.

I have 11 stacks of rubies right now as a sample size (at least 8 from gathering, maybe 2-3 from dailies; I don’t usually do hab either).

Why do you have 11 stacks of rubies? What possible use are they?

I think it would be nice to see some kind of alternative to the current gliding controls.

Adry.7512:

DarcShriek.5829:

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Your “shoehorn a race” into the game isn’t what people want from a new race. No matter how you state it or how you portray it.

Don’t speak for everyone.

For one, your “shoehorn a race” argument might seem reasonable to some but from my perspective, you’re just being unreasonably picky. For two, you’re specifically picking out the suggestions you don’t agree with while offering nothing to replace it. For three, I don’t even think all the checkpoints you list off are even wanted by the majority and you only want it there to specifically sabotage the implementation of a new race.

Would it be nice to have a “like the original” Personal Story? Sure. How many people actually liked the majority of the PS? Not just the 1st chapter, but going through the orders, making the pact and following Trahern’s lead…How many people like the changes they made to the PS? How many players go out of their way to replay the PS on all their new characters? While I do enjoy the PS on my characters, up to a point, after you go through it once then explore some of the branching options, I don’t tend to go through most of it after that. Even with there being the PS for a new race, it’s still not a big deal (I’m certain it wouldn’t take that long to create…just about 3 Living World updates worth of missions should do it). Regardless of how much effort and time it would take to make a new race’s PS, I’m not dead set that it MUST exist just like it has for every race prior. It can be changed, it can be updated in pieces, it could coincide with living world updates, it could be something completely different. Encouraging Anet to create something polished and unique is good, but suggesting they must follow a stringent formula even if that formula is lined with hiccups and mistakes is not.

I don’t have an issue with there being a new race. I do have an issue with sidesteps and shortcuts and it not being properly implemented. Adding it by Living Story episodes, and it not having the same types of features the other races have… I and “some others” (is that better?) do not think that is the proper way to go about it.

And what would you and others know of proper? You’re not making the content, telling the story or investing the capital to have it made. My point is, if the devs want to seek a different method or outcome, partially because it would be easier, cheaper, faster, make more sense for their choice in delivery or just because they want to do something experimental, who are you to label it as a short cut when ultimately adding a race would still require a massive amount of work? I guess this truly is the age of entitlement where the only time you won’t get called out as lazy is if you take the path of most resistance and still get whined at for not devoting all resources to every individual persons desire. They could try to go above and beyond to add something but if they don’t bend over backwards while also adding some other thing while simultaneously fixing all bugs, they might as well shouldn’t have bothered at all.

Speaking as a game designer, there is no way I would take the steps you’ve mentioned to shoehorn any feature, new race or otherwise. The reason is that I care about my product. For example, voice over is tricky enough already with professionals. To have a non professional do even the simplest of tasks is just asking for problems. You mentioned using someone with a less demanding job than others to do it. Let me be perfectly clear in game design all tasks are demanding.

Speaking as a consumer there is no way I’d want to play a game that cares so little for it’s product that it would take the steps you recommend. If your looking for cheap, shoddy games to play I think you should try the indie market.

Exactly! and that is why adding a new race in the long run is brilliant. It’s the perfect chance for Anet to focus on lore expansion and story development. Its the depth and richness that will add even more flavor to this game. Now that Anet has found a platform for their game, I think that lore and story are the next step. A new race would be a perfect opportunity to focus on these things.

Not really, the story is one of the five races against the dragons. Promoting a minor race to major goes against the lore that the new races won’t emerge until after the old ones have defeated the dragons.

I think cowboy outfits would be cool.

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Leo G.4501:

CMM.6712:

Your “shoehorn a race” into the game isn’t what people want from a new race. No matter how you state it or how you portray it.

Don’t speak for everyone.

For one, your “shoehorn a race” argument might seem reasonable to some but from my perspective, you’re just being unreasonably picky. For two, you’re specifically picking out the suggestions you don’t agree with while offering nothing to replace it. For three, I don’t even think all the checkpoints you list off are even wanted by the majority and you only want it there to specifically sabotage the implementation of a new race.

Would it be nice to have a “like the original” Personal Story? Sure. How many people actually liked the majority of the PS? Not just the 1st chapter, but going through the orders, making the pact and following Trahern’s lead…How many people like the changes they made to the PS? How many players go out of their way to replay the PS on all their new characters? While I do enjoy the PS on my characters, up to a point, after you go through it once then explore some of the branching options, I don’t tend to go through most of it after that. Even with there being the PS for a new race, it’s still not a big deal (I’m certain it wouldn’t take that long to create…just about 3 Living World updates worth of missions should do it). Regardless of how much effort and time it would take to make a new race’s PS, I’m not dead set that it MUST exist just like it has for every race prior. It can be changed, it can be updated in pieces, it could coincide with living world updates, it could be something completely different. Encouraging Anet to create something polished and unique is good, but suggesting they must follow a stringent formula even if that formula is lined with hiccups and mistakes is not.

I don’t have an issue with there being a new race. I do have an issue with sidesteps and shortcuts and it not being properly implemented. Adding it by Living Story episodes, and it not having the same types of features the other races have… I and “some others” (is that better?) do not think that is the proper way to go about it.

And what would you and others know of proper? You’re not making the content, telling the story or investing the capital to have it made. My point is, if the devs want to seek a different method or outcome, partially because it would be easier, cheaper, faster, make more sense for their choice in delivery or just because they want to do something experimental, who are you to label it as a short cut when ultimately adding a race would still require a massive amount of work? I guess this truly is the age of entitlement where the only time you won’t get called out as lazy is if you take the path of most resistance and still get whined at for not devoting all resources to every individual persons desire. They could try to go above and beyond to add something but if they don’t bend over backwards while also adding some other thing while simultaneously fixing all bugs, they might as well shouldn’t have bothered at all.

Speaking as a game designer, there is no way I would take the steps you’ve mentioned to shoehorn any feature, new race or otherwise. The reason is that I care about my product. For example, voice over is tricky enough already with professionals. To have a non professional do even the simplest of tasks is just asking for problems. You mentioned using someone with a less demanding job than others to do it. Let me be perfectly clear in game design all tasks are demanding.

Speaking as a consumer there is no way I’d want to play a game that cares so little for it’s product that it would take the steps you recommend. If your looking for cheap, shoddy games to play I think you should try the indie market.

Leo G.4501:

DarcShriek.5829:

Leo G.4501:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Leo G.4501:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If you don’t have money for voice talent, use free talent,

This strikes me as the most out of touch, unlikely comment I’ve seen so far.

Just round up 10 people (2 sexes and 5 languages) who are willing to come in and work for all the hours it would take to record the dialog and not see a penny of payment? And round up 10 people not once but every time they need new dialog? Are there no laws against having people put in hours of work for a company for free and they intentionally profit from this unpaid work? Are there no unions that would have an opinion about a company getting around voice actors wages in this matter? I’m betting this isn’t even legal as it had people put in a full time hours for a company while they are not getting paid.

It depends. I don’t think it’s uncommon for companies truly strapped for cash to use their own workers who are willing to offer their voice to further the group’s projects. Regardless, I think if there is a great audio master available on the books that can take and alter a voice to make it more easily duplicatable. That is to say, it’s not about rounding up the same individuals to voice future content but just use available imitations that can then be altered to sound close enough to the original (or better!).

I’m not going to lie, I don’t have much knowledge on the realm of voice acting beyond the strike that occurred last year (don’t even know what it was for) but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years of working various jobs is there’s a way to get around people being lazy and cheap. It depends on how lazy and cheap people are being, how dumb the customers/client are/is, how much effort you want to put in and if you’re willing to put in similar effort in the future. Asking for a bigger budget may be suicidal without result and asking for more time could receive similar results without something to show for the request. People may see cutting corners as lazy but if you NEED results to get more time or money, consider any options available. And I’m sure Anet knows players want their cosmetic options and they’re willing to cut corners, so…

It depends. I don’t think it’s uncommon for companies truly strapped for cash to use their own workers who are willing to offer their voice to further the group’s projects.

This isn’t what you suggested then. This isn’t free talent. It’s using their own workers and paying for their hours. Of course, while the employees are putting in the hours to do voice acting, all the other projects that they are working on is sitting there not being worked on.If the person is someone who was working on brand new content or QoL feature or anything else people want, (because they can speak one of the 5 languages fluently and also not sound terrible) well, that isn’t getting worked on. The more outside work you put on them the less of their main job will get done. Not a good suggestion.

This insinuates that all workers work the same. Just because you’re part of the same company doesn’t mean your work is equal. Some is more demanding and some is less. If the person who agrees to provide voice work has too much on their plate, look over them to someone who has less. Passion and altruism can also play a role.

I think you’d have to be looking for potential flaws to magnify to make an argument here. Again, I’m not suggesting ONLY free talent, just utilize what work-arounds you can to cut costs. Pay for what you can’t. My suggestion may not be good but it seems better than yours.

So tell me, what jobs at Anet are less demanding than the others?

Give me a list of all the positions of the company and I might be able to make said assumption on a basic title and description of the position. But if you think every position is just as demanding as all others is an even more deluded assumption than men and women being totally equal.

Your posts just keep getting more and more offensive. If the sexes aren’t equal, which one is superior?

Leo G.4501:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Leo G.4501:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If you don’t have money for voice talent, use free talent,

This strikes me as the most out of touch, unlikely comment I’ve seen so far.

Just round up 10 people (2 sexes and 5 languages) who are willing to come in and work for all the hours it would take to record the dialog and not see a penny of payment? And round up 10 people not once but every time they need new dialog? Are there no laws against having people put in hours of work for a company for free and they intentionally profit from this unpaid work? Are there no unions that would have an opinion about a company getting around voice actors wages in this matter? I’m betting this isn’t even legal as it had people put in a full time hours for a company while they are not getting paid.

It depends. I don’t think it’s uncommon for companies truly strapped for cash to use their own workers who are willing to offer their voice to further the group’s projects. Regardless, I think if there is a great audio master available on the books that can take and alter a voice to make it more easily duplicatable. That is to say, it’s not about rounding up the same individuals to voice future content but just use available imitations that can then be altered to sound close enough to the original (or better!).

I’m not going to lie, I don’t have much knowledge on the realm of voice acting beyond the strike that occurred last year (don’t even know what it was for) but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years of working various jobs is there’s a way to get around people being lazy and cheap. It depends on how lazy and cheap people are being, how dumb the customers/client are/is, how much effort you want to put in and if you’re willing to put in similar effort in the future. Asking for a bigger budget may be suicidal without result and asking for more time could receive similar results without something to show for the request. People may see cutting corners as lazy but if you NEED results to get more time or money, consider any options available. And I’m sure Anet knows players want their cosmetic options and they’re willing to cut corners, so…

It depends. I don’t think it’s uncommon for companies truly strapped for cash to use their own workers who are willing to offer their voice to further the group’s projects.

This isn’t what you suggested then. This isn’t free talent. It’s using their own workers and paying for their hours. Of course, while the employees are putting in the hours to do voice acting, all the other projects that they are working on is sitting there not being worked on.If the person is someone who was working on brand new content or QoL feature or anything else people want, (because they can speak one of the 5 languages fluently and also not sound terrible) well, that isn’t getting worked on. The more outside work you put on them the less of their main job will get done. Not a good suggestion.

This insinuates that all workers work the same. Just because you’re part of the same company doesn’t mean your work is equal. Some is more demanding and some is less. If the person who agrees to provide voice work has too much on their plate, look over them to someone who has less. Passion and altruism can also play a role.

I think you’d have to be looking for potential flaws to magnify to make an argument here. Again, I’m not suggesting ONLY free talent, just utilize what work-arounds you can to cut costs. Pay for what you can’t. My suggestion may not be good but it seems better than yours.

So tell me, what jobs at Anet are less demanding than the others?

Adry.7512:

Amaimon.7823:

you seem focused on the armor bit, but thats not the main argument why it’s unlikely:
1) it’d need a home city with a home zone. And thats why tengu is unlikely, there’s no space for both.
2) Personal Story needs to have a unique twist. Luckily, if lorewise the race doesn’t join the pact until after Zhaitan’s death, they can just have their own unique story until lv80 and then ‘join the pact’-right after the assault on Lion’s Arch (they’d still need a good reason why they weren’t in Orr)
3) dialogue, it would several new voice actors
4)

Good points! This is not very difficult and yes it would have to be after whichever dragon we have killed (so far mordy, but it could be after the second Xpac who knows). Therefore their story would be after that Dragon’s death. It could be that they join us in battle for Primordus and therefore we can start the race at lvl50 since they would join us in what would be considered experience warfare. Honestly the possibilities are endless. As for tengu, there is plenty of undiscovered areas that could be used around tengu rejoin.

You have no idea how much complaining your idea will cause. People will rightfully complain about not being able to play the old personal story with their new characters. Vets will complain that they can’t play the new story with their old characters. The story of GW2 was designed for the five current races, any attempt to shoehorn another race in is doomed for failure from a writing perspective.

I’m betting sometime in February.

Zilong.1407:

DarcShriek.5829:

She doesn’t wear an outfit. It’s an illusion, she’s actually naked.

Exactly! In fact you, me , all of us are naked under our outfits!

The difference is that we are covered in some sort of material. She isn’t. She is as naked as a newborn baby. She just doesn’t look like she is.

zealex.9410:

At the anet hq getting her new outfit for the gemstore done.

She doesn’t wear an outfit. It’s an illusion, she’s actually naked.

I hope it’s chromatic oozes!

I can’t seem to get credit for the letters at Viathan’s arm and Arca Lake.

Djinn.9245:

DarcShriek.5829:

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Thuggernaut.1250:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Man I could kill everyone who’s ever bad mouthed me the world would be one empty place.

But really. Kill them off just because they disagree with you? Seems like a foolish thing to do. If story killed of everyone who disagreed with the protagonist they would all be the same.

The sidekicks/henchmen can disagree with each other, fine. That’s interesting and amusing. But the moment they disobey, insult, or disrespect the player, they need to go. If they express disagreement, fine, but if they do what Braham and Marjory did (defy orders from the player that has killed two giant dragons in a row), they need to experience retribution.

Then you have no idea about story telling do you.

In a fighting situation there has to be a leader. If the leader isn’t respected, you get infighting and the group accomplishes nothing and falls apart (like what happened to Destiny’s Edge). In this game, our character is the leader and the leader must demand respect. Everyone doesn’t have to agree or like each other, but when push comes to shove they have to take a direct order and give respect.

This “storytelling” might be “realistic” in the sense that some people react that way IRL, but this is Heroic Fantasy, not Reality. Heroes acting that way just doesn’t make any sense in this situation which is why some people object to it.

If they where in the middle of a battle, then yeah, you’d have a point, seeing as the disagreements happened after the battle was over and won, a good leader knows when to give his troops time to cool off so they can talk it out rationally, not walk up to Braham and kick him down a well screaming “THIS IS SPARTA!”. That would just make things worse and splinter the group even more. The way you want the story to go make is seem like “I’M THE COMMANDER YOU WILL RESPECT ME!” runs off sobbing

I can’t imagine why you would think I’m asking for the commander to be emo as well lol. I guess you haven’t seen any military movies/books if you think those are the only options for a commander to demand respect. And no, you can’t only demand respect in the middle of a battle. You must have respect 24/7 so that in the middle of a battle you don’t have to have that convo.

Having been in the army, I know what command is about. There are times to stomp a mud hole in someone and walk it dry, and there are times that would kit be the way to go. But movies and books are so real right? All of them and made by people who have an actual clue, the only war movie I have ever seen that got it right, is We where Soldiers. You don’t see people screaming at each other there.

Who said anything about screaming? You said you were in the army – you think the way to demand respect is by screaming? Watch a Clint Eastwood movie – he commands respect and never raises his voice.

Everyone knows that if it’s in a movie, it has to be real.

Its called “an example”. I could give an example from my own life but it is less likely that lots of people would know what I’m talking about.

Are you trying to say that you don’t believe you can demand respect by speaking quietly?

Your Clint Eastwood example is funny. He would talk quietly while sticking a gun in your face. Try it in real life sometime, I dare you.

Ugh, I hated the snowball fights.

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Djinn.9245:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Thuggernaut.1250:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Man I could kill everyone who’s ever bad mouthed me the world would be one empty place.

But really. Kill them off just because they disagree with you? Seems like a foolish thing to do. If story killed of everyone who disagreed with the protagonist they would all be the same.

The sidekicks/henchmen can disagree with each other, fine. That’s interesting and amusing. But the moment they disobey, insult, or disrespect the player, they need to go. If they express disagreement, fine, but if they do what Braham and Marjory did (defy orders from the player that has killed two giant dragons in a row), they need to experience retribution.

Then you have no idea about story telling do you.

In a fighting situation there has to be a leader. If the leader isn’t respected, you get infighting and the group accomplishes nothing and falls apart (like what happened to Destiny’s Edge). In this game, our character is the leader and the leader must demand respect. Everyone doesn’t have to agree or like each other, but when push comes to shove they have to take a direct order and give respect.

This “storytelling” might be “realistic” in the sense that some people react that way IRL, but this is Heroic Fantasy, not Reality. Heroes acting that way just doesn’t make any sense in this situation which is why some people object to it.

If they where in the middle of a battle, then yeah, you’d have a point, seeing as the disagreements happened after the battle was over and won, a good leader knows when to give his troops time to cool off so they can talk it out rationally, not walk up to Braham and kick him down a well screaming “THIS IS SPARTA!”. That would just make things worse and splinter the group even more. The way you want the story to go make is seem like “I’M THE COMMANDER YOU WILL RESPECT ME!” runs off sobbing

I can’t imagine why you would think I’m asking for the commander to be emo as well lol. I guess you haven’t seen any military movies/books if you think those are the only options for a commander to demand respect. And no, you can’t only demand respect in the middle of a battle. You must have respect 24/7 so that in the middle of a battle you don’t have to have that convo.

Having been in the army, I know what command is about. There are times to stomp a mud hole in someone and walk it dry, and there are times that would kit be the way to go. But movies and books are so real right? All of them and made by people who have an actual clue, the only war movie I have ever seen that got it right, is We where Soldiers. You don’t see people screaming at each other there.

Who said anything about screaming? You said you were in the army – you think the way to demand respect is by screaming? Watch a Clint Eastwood movie – he commands respect and never raises his voice.

Everyone knows that if it’s in a movie, it has to be real.

What is the explanation for all the unbound magic in the Bitterfrost Frontier?

Thuggernaut.1250:

As soon as the sidekicks/henchmen start to get sassy and disrespect/insult the player, the writers need to kill them off. The fools need to learn a harsh lesson for their insolence.

These Living Story henchmen were only marginally less irritating than the “Destiny’s Edge” fools from the main story, and now they’re becoming just as whiny and melodramatic.

Braham and Marjory need to go. These two worthless little punks have gotten too big for their britches.

At least (you know who) was loyal to the end, even if he was bland and milquetoast.

These people aren’t required to follow you. Braham isn’t even part of your guild. If you go around killing everyone that disagrees with you, you will run out of companions fast. Do you think you can kill a dragon all by yourself?

With magic being as crazy as it is right now, why are we even considering killing any more dragons?

If you’ve been with this game since inception, then you didn’t just find out about this. You’ve known for years.

My character in GW1 had a lizard fetish. Now he’s on the hook for 1000 years of child support.

Amaimon.7823:

In fact, only Glint and now Aurene are truly depicted as female. All others are all considered male or unknown, …

Exactly my point. It’s sexist and it’s offensive.

Amaimon.7823:

Theres also the matter that not all dragons even have an identifyable gender but are simply gendered based on their behavior.

This is something that’s been bothering me lately. I’m beginning to find Anet’s sexism on this issue to be offensive. Why is that all the nice dragons seem to be identified as female and the mean ones are identified as male?

I won’t be surprised if we get a call from Taimi claiming that Kralky is active. Then we can go to the crystal desert for the next update.

Balthazzarr.1349:

Give us a race of Elfs.

Elves have been done before, by just about everyone. Same as dwarves. If we have to be burdened with a new race, lets make it something new and original.

I fully support the idea of a playable race of chromatic oozes.

Did you say capes?

TyraeL.7965:

why spear weapons just usable under water? ?t is obiviously a warrior weapon in history and in all the games. ?t can be a new weapon for warrior/guardian etc. class. What you think about this ?

What do other games have to do with GW2? Is it some kind of requirement that if another game has a feature then GW2 has to have it also? If so, then I do not like this requirement.

Most people don’t know this, but Scarlet is from Canada, so “blame Canada”.

I think a race of necromancers would be pretty awesome.

I haven’t seen him there.

Hopefully, there will be more reasons to collect petrified wood and the bloodstone rubies.

You know, once after killing the matriarch, I received a chest that had bladed chest armor in it. I was quite surprised, because up until that moment I thought it was only possible by completing T4.

They can’t keep minis active on the screen now. Mounts would only make this problem worse.

I’m ambivalent towards player housing. I’ve already got a home instance and a guild hall.

sophiewhite.3149:

jinfury.9504:

Honestly you don’t need more than 8 bags unless you use the exploit and multi loot AB

so you dont want anet to make more money? to keep the game alive. the multi loot is irrelevant to the conversation. go to the right thread and stop dragging it into every thread in the forum.

Are you actually arguing that Anet needs to increase the limit of bags to keep the game financially stable?

Or are you just playing forum cop in order to dissuade any discussion of the AB multiloot exploit?

Sometimes a locket is just a locket.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

That’s my thought as well. How did he even know about the egg in the first place? Or that it would hatch, or that we’d need help? What if we didn’t need help – would he have just showed up and gone “Uh… Commander, I know this is awkward with me being in this super secret, highly defended place of vast importance but I want you to trust me and let me help you fight the Elder Dragons.”

Plus there are some holes in his explanation for wanting to help.

It’s either betrayal, one hell of a coincidence, or bad writing trying to be epic writing (and yeah, the scene was epic, but once you get past the “fighting alongside a mursaat” bit, it becomes “wait… why?”)

There may have been a “disturbance in the force” when Aurene hatched. Currently, Laz is pumped full of magic from bloodstone. It may be how Primordus also knew. Of course we really don’t know if Primordus knew or if it was just and incredible coincidence.

Sounds like another excuse to troll people.

Taimi needs to build a golem for Rhoban.

xXMapcoXx.9614:

Amaimon.7823:

So since HoT came out, I thought these would be adressed when we got to leave the maguuma jungle, but I’ve not heard any of it yet:

- What happened to the nightmare court? They’re ‘leaderless’ now since Faolain used to be a nightmare courtier until she took an Eir-row to the knee

- What happened to the Zephyrites? After mordremoth awoke, a sylvari travelling with the group caused an accident that made them crash. Until this day they are still picking up the pieces and collecting their dead. Maybe in a future Current Event we can help them rebuild a base south of the Dry Top, there’s a thin-ish unused area we can use to make a small town map.

- Zojja (and Logan), I’m surprised that we havent visited them yet. At the end of HoT Zojja is left blind, and Logan comatose, yet we took the time to visit Eir’s remembrance, but not them?

Maybe are still more un-adressed gaps after HoT, discuss?

I can think of about a hundred story plots that anet either forgot, or had no idea where they were going to go with it anyways. ANyone remember the locket? or how about the identity of E? What about the second pale tree? See all anet does is set up useless plots that they will never ever finish.

Sometimes a locket is just a locket. The only reason the mordrem was after it, was because it was a powerful magic item.

I wonder if there is any harm in absorbing magic that is not part of a dragon’s sphere of influence. While on the one had, it allows a dragon to create new minions it may also be slowly killing it.