Guild Wars 2

VodCom.6924:

Wandered around in Brisban Wildlands with a low level character when I noticed a destroyed probe.

What does this mean ? Anybody found this in other zones ? So far probes in lornar’s pass and bloodtide coast are working and guarded.

This is part of the Origins Of Madness patch. There is an Achievement for the probes as well as killing the guards. You also need the power cores from the probes to access Scarlet’s Lair.

Silvercyclone.1462:

What they should do is just release the novel in audiobook form and sell it on the gem store so players can listen to it while playing.

For the Lulz….

People buying an audio version of the Personal Story while they do the Personal Story… lol

Personally, I’d much rather experience the Personal Story rather than read about it in a novel. I love reading and letting my imagination take the lead, but there’s something a little more exciting about living those moments in game and experiencing them. It would make reading about it not as exciting.

Colly.4073:

Welcome to “Lets Frantically add something to this game in a desperate attempt to stop it failing”

But it failed.

As evident by so many people playing it…..?

I do hope this does get answered within the next 2 patches.

Well.. You can check all the maps where it spawns. I believe it’s every 35 and up map? Something around there. If it’s spawned, you’ll see it on the map. If not, look for an Aetherblade ship in the air. There is an Aetherblade event before the portal opens up.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

What if the Dream is actually Mordremoth’s dream, and its continuing existence is what keeps it from awakening? In this way, the Pale Tree could be the one thing that is keeping the Elder Dragon from awakening.
(The Nightmare Court is not trying to end the dream, but to corrupt it into its opposite.)

This kind of runs with my current thoughts on the Pale Tree and the Sylvari as well. What if the Pale Tree was planted on a strong Ley Line of magic. One where a Dragon might sleep to get some good old Dragon Magic. Because of this, it grew to what it is, but because of Ventari’s teachings there is the good part of the dream. The bad part is Mordremoth, and that’s what the Nightmare is. The Nightmare Court isn’t trying to end the dream, but follow it’s true course and thus it’s true master, Mordremoth.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Also, Marjory’s powerful antitoxin (which Scarlet purloined) worked against the evil toxic plant inside the Tower of Nightmares. Therefore, it was specifically proven to be poisonous to gigantic mystic plants. So it is indeed a possibility that Scarlet may intend to use it against the Pale Tree.

This sounds spot on. IF not for the Pale Tree, than whatever may be hiding under Lions Arch.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

A final question to ask is what the plant inside the Tower of Nightmares actually was. It was grown by sylvari, it grew the Toxic Hybrid from one of its pods, and it was immensely big. My theory is that it was grown from a similar seed that sprouted the Pale Tree itself, and that either Scarlet or the Nightmare courtiers had somehow acquired it.

Perhaps the cave where the Pale Tree seeds were found? Where is that cave, and what else could be growing there?

kta.6502:

Cormac.3871:

Delvoire.8930:

Mordremoth can’t have control over the Sylvari like that. If he were to awaken, all the Sylvari would then be his minions, right?

Perhaps one of the Gods planted the seed for the Sylvari. Thus creating them. The dream by the Pale Tree is connected to the God’s protection. With that gone, then an Elder Dragon did invade Scarlet’s mind. Or perhaps a Champion of a Dragon.

But if something has control of her, and she’s fighting that, would they not know she’s planning this attack on them? It does seem like she’s actually going after the voice in her head and Tyria is just the collateral damage.

We know who planted the Pale Tree. It was Ventari. He got the seeds from a cave, and nurtured the tree and placed a tablet at its base. What we don’t know is how he knew the seeds would create living beings and how the seeds got into the cave in the first place. I personally think that the sylvari were intended to be servants of Mordremoth, but were corrupted by Ventari (in a good way). The seed was not planted before the Gods’ exile.

You’re both wrong. The Pale Tree seed was planted by Ronan. Go to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ronan

All Ventari did was be a mentor to the Pale Tree, and he’s the guy who created the Ventari Tablet.

Signed,

Lapis <<<—- Loves Sylvari so much that she plays 2 of them.

I did actually I never looked into the Pale Tree until I noticed the response by Cormac. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle

I enjoyed the parts about the Nightmare Court as well and how they think the teachings of Ventari are wrong. I actually sympathize with the Nightmare Court. They may be right.

Still, where did the beans come from? It says it was a cave filled with other oddities and plants? It also didn’t say where the cave was. I didn’t play GW1 so I’m unaware. Whose cave was it and where are the OTHER plants that were there?

mexay.3902:

finishing your personal story,

5 lvl 80’s and I’ve yet to finish the PS

Mochann.5298:

Delvoire.8930:

Mochann.5298:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

Mochann.5298:

I love PVErs, they’re so cute in how scared they are of coming face to face with competition.

I’m sorry. What competition is that? WvW is no different than champ trains. It all comes down to it being mindless zerging. I’ve been in the EotM and all I’ve seen is groups conquering objectives, avoiding each other, losing the objectives (on purpose!) then reconquering them, all along just by fighting the AI, for the loots.

Exactly. And yet, for some reason, PVErs are allergic to WvW like the plague. It’s like they’ll have a heart attack the moment they see a player with red text over their heads.

Some people just don’t want to do PvP. That shouldn’t be forced upon them nor should they be looked at differently because of this.

What’s so PVP about it? As pointed by FrozenStar, it’s just zerging like a champ train. I will never understand these PVErs. I’m not looking down on them though for that. I look down on them for all the whining they are doing over this small change.

Most games have PvP sections or servers dedicated to that function. Thus making people who don’t enjoy that aspect of a game to never have to do it. ANET is forcing it upon people though with putting a Living Story aspect in there.

If you never gathered ever in the game and they forced that upon you, would you have a legitimate reason to be upset?

Yeah. I hate gathering. Yet I’m forced to do it, because otherwise I’m not gonna get enough mats for gold and stuff. I would have a harder time doing my dailies. Shame on ANet for forcing me to do it.

But you know what? I suck it up and JUST DO IT. Because if I want to achieve my goals, I need to.

Do you see me complaining on the forums about the need to Gather? Of course not.
And it’s not just that. If you think Gathering is such a small assinine thing, there are tons of other stuff I don’t enjoy at all in this game but I’m “forced” to because I want my legendary. Let’s start with stupid kitten Map Completion. Reknown Hearts. UGH!!! I hate doing that. But I’m “forced” to do it, right? Do you see me QQing in the forums that they take out Reknown Hearts? Of course not.

Because then I’d look as stupid as the guy who started this thread.

I’m just saying I see where PVE only players come from in that aspect.

Personally, I like pvp mixed in with my PVE experience.

The winning Team gets an extra supply drop in their Borderlands Keep I believe.

It would be a bad move to give it it’s own great reward. The purpose of the map is to help alleviate que’s and que time waiting for the main WvW maps. If they give a really good reward for the 3 hours of EoTM map play, it then has a huge chance to really mess up WvW.

Why go to a BL WVW map to help your server with PPT and stay within the same basic match ups when you can go to EOTM and get some nifty rewards instead.

I, personally, see that as a chance to hurt WvW and could see why ANET would steer clear of that.

Mochann.5298:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

Mochann.5298:

I love PVErs, they’re so cute in how scared they are of coming face to face with competition.

I’m sorry. What competition is that? WvW is no different than champ trains. It all comes down to it being mindless zerging. I’ve been in the EotM and all I’ve seen is groups conquering objectives, avoiding each other, losing the objectives (on purpose!) then reconquering them, all along just by fighting the AI, for the loots.

Exactly. And yet, for some reason, PVErs are allergic to WvW like the plague. It’s like they’ll have a heart attack the moment they see a player with red text over their heads.

Some people just don’t want to do PvP. That shouldn’t be forced upon them nor should they be looked at differently because of this.

Most games have PvP sections or servers dedicated to that function. Thus making people who don’t enjoy that aspect of a game to never have to do it. ANET is forcing it upon people though with putting a Living Story aspect in there.

If you never gathered ever in the game and they forced that upon you, would you have a legitimate reason to be upset?

I notice the Badges don’t Auto-Loot when I hit the take all function for the chests. When I click on them individually they do look as if they are collected though. I’ve never gone to my wallet to verify though. I really have 0 use for badges.

videoboy.4162:

I’m confused. I thought her “big secret” was revealed to be that she was actually dirt poor and her father died in Debtor’s Prison. That’s also why she uses illusions to hide her actual attire.

When did they state that she has another secret? I feel like I missed something. LOL

You didn’t. As the Living Story is winding down people are getting crazier and crazier with their theories. Just like how people are still thinking her pricking her finger in the Nightmare Tower was foreshadowing of some future impending doom.

There may be some deaths at the end of this Living Story who knows. I don’t think one will be Kasmeer suddenly falling over dead due to a finger prick.

It would be amazing if Trahearne showed up to pull off one of the greatest moves known to man with his Greatsword. Sheathing the Sword.

“There will come a time when you must achieve a goal at all costs. It may come in attack or in defense. And the only way will be to allow the sword to be sheathed in your own body. … when the price is worth the gain, and there is no other choice left to you. That is called Sheathing the Sword. Remember it.”
—Lan Mandragoran

I remember dearly Dai’Shan.

Terrahero.9358:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’ve seen a number of posts here where people seem to think that the 30 ranks replaces the 500 badge price. The way I read it, “Added a requirement to attain rank 30 in WvW in order to purchase the Gift of Battle.” means you’d need the 30 ranks to be able to spend the 500 badges. Please correct me if this is incorrect.

You are correct, however as people also pointed out the value of a BoH is far lower then it once was.

It was harder to acquire. Now there are far more sources in WvW, and the existing ones got buffed. Additionally, and by no means a small factor in this, is how Boh now come from achievement chests. And you get a lot of badges from a single chest.

To the point that getting 500 badges is very easy, to the point that its become a no-effort for a pve player. You will earn these badges plentifully from your pve experience.

100% Correct.

I knew a long time ago to get 500 badges was going to take some time. I never had gone into WvW much and at the time had no lvl 80 toons. Then when Achievement Chests came in, I had 1,000 Badges of Honor in a few days. I’ve had the Gift of Battle sitting in my bank ever since.

It is a shame they put a Rank requirement to that, but obviously they see the error in that and will now be taking it away.

This map is more of a PVE with some WvW map added in. It’s actually something that appeals to me greatly.

I love the fact that this map favors a 10-20 man group that can both take PvE points, kill champs, get loot and on top of that have some PvP thrown in.

The only thing that is missing is a nice TS to jump into. I know each server tends to have their own, but that doesn’t work well when you’re on a map that is mixed with 6 or 7 servers.

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

Have any of you noticed the voice at the end of Guild Wars 2 – Our Story So Far sounds different from the Scarlet we’ve known?

Are we even sure it’s Scarlet and not the Personal Nemesis(who according to ArenaNet was someone we knew and since we didn’t know Scarlet at the time the Nemesis is obviously not her)?

Could Countess Anise, Queen Jennah, Kasmeer and the voice whispering into Scarlet’s head all be the Nemesis in disguise?

If so how is she/he going to make it personal? Kill Destiny’s Edge maybe? What does she/he mean by playtime? Is she/he drawing Scarlet on a goose chase after her for her/his amusement?

What is this Personal Nemesis stuff?

Mordremoth can’t have control over the Sylvari like that. If he were to awaken, all the Sylvari would then be his minions, right?

Perhaps one of the Gods planted the seed for the Sylvari. Thus creating them. The dream by the Pale Tree is connected to the God’s protection. With that gone, then an Elder Dragon did invade Scarlet’s mind. Or perhaps a Champion of a Dragon.

But if something has control of her, and she’s fighting that, would they not know she’s planning this attack on them? It does seem like she’s actually going after the voice in her head and Tyria is just the collateral damage.

Mikuchan.7261:

thaooo.5320:

Lions Arch has personal story quests inside it:
- The starting location (green marker)
- Some personal stories take place inside Lions Arch, they’d have to remake the personal stories.

Hence Lions Arch will not be destroyed in any large scale or meaningful way.

ANet has called that “anything is fair game” and “anything can be destroyed”.
They have some 350 employees and guestimatingly about 80 working on living story. There is a -huge- room for rewriting the entire personal story if needed.

Now I’m not sure they would do it…
But if they really want to show us something spectacular, then that’s what’s happening.

Yeah. What better way to introduce new players to Scarlet than having her incorporated into the personal story slightly. Just enough to change the LA pieces.

EoTM will be a great training ground for WvW. I’ve already had some pretty epic battles in the game against the enemy team.

You can bring in PvE only people and introduce them a little more subtly with EoTM. Take out some champions. Get some Loot. Kill some people.

Also the map seems built for small groups ~20 and roamers. That could draw some of those crowds away from the normal WvW.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Delvoire.8930:

I guess all that’s missing is a transgendered person and we’ll have everything tied up neatly in a bow

You mean a sylvari?

Whelp.. I guess they have every base covered then

CharrGirl.7896:

Arcturus.8109:

Destiny Edge 2.0 (and all LS-related team) starts to remind me annoyingly politically correct action movies. I have nothing against all that groups in particular but it is just statistically improbable that we will have it all at once. Just stahp, I want realistic characters.

Thats why I also hope that Taimi die horribly. Cartoony baby-genius is even worse than Scarlet for me.

Having a disease is realistic… .

Also, it’s not like the fact that Taimi is a cripple isn’t there to show that doesn’t stop her to do what she wants, and not succumb to disabilities.

Nope, they added a cripple because they want a rainbow of political correctness. Guess they’re racist too, since Braham isn’t black.

/ sarcasm off

Now, who votes for Bro-ham being her new personal golem carrier?

nope. They have Braham and Rox for that inter-racial couple.

It looks to be right with the political correctness of current hot topics in the world.

Racial Issues – Rox/Braham inter-racial couple
Sexual Issues – Marjory/Kasmeer lesbian couple
Disabilities – Taimi with hers

And what better way than to tie up Political Correctness than with……..

bah dun dun

Wait for it…..

A politician!!! I’m looking at you Ellen Kiel!

I guess all that’s missing is a transgendered person and we’ll have everything tied up neatly in a bow

As a green team.. it did suck last night to hit a couple outnumbered maps.

I solved this dilemma by just simply leaving the map and re-entering. I was then put into an overflow that had more equal numbers (well my outnumbered was gone at least) and that made the experience more enjoyable.

I would like to say this.

OMG THE LOOT!

I only played a little last night, but man was the loot epic. At one point I was up on a wall shooting down on a bridge with Cluster Bomb and was just collecting bags like crazy.

It’s a beautiful map from what I’ve seen. I wasn’t able to get out of the Snow area though without running into a zerg. Still epic to come around a corner and see a blob of red names running your way.

Helcor.9527:

This is a huge joke. Almost like anet is trolling on purpose with this. WvW is the only reason i play this game and at this point looks like the reason im going to leave. This is garbage. Strategy? Its numbers all over again. Move away from this zerg kitten. You think putting a bunch of cliffs in this will make it “strategic” get real.

a good 10 man group can take a lot of points on that map. It’s spaced out well and that group can kill a lot of Champions that are everywhere it seems.

Well.. they would be ideal for more groups to roam. No need for 6 in one zerg though.. lol

Perhaps it’s a set up for the next LS arc? Taimi will become the villain.

In her quest to be like Scarlet, she’ll find a way to stop her, only to harness her evil intentions so that she may be strong and “walk”. She’ll be half asura/half watchwork and her army of Toxic Molten Aetherblades , lead by Colonel Scruffy, will rain fire and brimstone across Tyria!! AAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

Long live QUEEN TAIMI!

Oh no you didn’t.. lol

Ohoni.6057:

What’s next on the PvE side? I know WvW is getting some updates but that’s irrelevant, and both of the Origins of Madness events are complete ghost towns now, impossible to even progress with the current player populations, so they’re done, what will they be adding for us to do during the Feb 4-18 cycle?

There is going to be some new story information coming from Marjory and Kasmeer at the Dead End. From the sounds of it, they’re going to stumble upon something and send us out on a hunt. That should keep us somewhat entertained for a few days (longer if you play less) Then of course you’ll want to check out the EoTM map a least once to kill some Aetherblade scum!

Yeah. The problem isn’t getting caught up on the story because it’s a Living Story. You experience the events as they happen instead of just reading it in Lore. Unfortunately for your friend, they now have missed GW2 lore and have to do research to get caught up.

As others have said, there is the Scribe in LA that helps with the story a little as well as gets you caught up on the Characters. There is also the Wiki and Youtube Vids to help if need be. As for playing parts, you can do Fractals and hope to get the Flame and Frost and Aetherblade Fractals. They both give you a small fraction of those LS dungeons. The Flame and Frost one I played for the first time over the weekend and it was pretty cool the nostalgia that one brought back.

Tell your friend not to leave the game anymore so they don’t miss out on all the cool stuff

A simple solution is to block the offending party.

The OP is right, where you see less of this type of trash talking unless you venture into WvW and sPvP.. It’s a great aspect of the game, for sure.

Rizalee.4593:

You have to do the event in Lornar’s Pass, and Bloodtide coast.

^^ This.

In the upper Right Corner where the gold Living Story stars are you should have on that is for the Escort Mission in Bloodtide Coast as well as the meet your friends in LA. You can’t do the LA one until the Bloodtide Coast one is done.

cheshirefox.7026:

it’s a clue so you know what the code for the control panel in her lair is
if you didn’t read the story, i forget if there is any in game source to know who omadd is..
it’s kind of sad that i get most of my in game information from out of the game, sigh

It’s in game now. There is a scribe where the LA instance is (that you should do before doing Scarlet’s Journal) and that goes over most of Scarlet’s history.

Essence Snow.3194:

I thought this bit was rather amusing:

We’ve been doing some behind-the-scenes work on our systems to provide more transparency with the queue and to fix some of the frustrations players have had with it.

In other words…. people did not like the fact that the ques were random and did not actually go in order of people who joined up them. Yeah… who would like that system?

OP, you should spread your wings a little bit and do some research. Developers (Colin for one) have said that most of the things you want will eventually make it into the game, but at a later date.

They can’t say a new map will be out next month and then have techinical issues that pushes that back (AKA Precursor Crafting). Then the community get’s enraged because something was “promised” to them and it didn’t happen.

Just play the game and enjoy the things that come. You know, the new things you get for free. Eventually the stuff you want will be here. If you don’t have the patience, take a break and come back later when it’s here.

They’ve been pretty adamant since launch that new maps/zones don’t add to Map Completion. Southsun Cove doesn’t add to it and that Map is nearly a year and a half old.

Well maybe this post got some people to try killing the Wurm. Map is in overflow and it wasn’t like this 24 hours ago I like to see that.

Aeolus.3615:

Delvoire.8930:

CharrGirl.7896:

jessiejay.3625:

Kasmeer on Kasmeer

…mini giving biggie a shoulder to lean on

This is both hilarious and disturbing xD

and hot

Why it looks that Marjory is making a meme "me gusta " face ?

No.. i just like seeing Kasmeer in her bikini

Yeah it will really help the que. Another cool thing is the overhaul to the WvW tab. I’ll attach a picture to show you but it’s pretty cool. We’ll now be able to see our que spot as well as be able to open the wvw tab and view it from anywhere. Unlike before when it was blocked in overflow and instances.

Nothing to see here

Danikat.8537:

From what I’ve seen while guesting to many different servers this is the big difference between servers that can do it and ones that can’t – organisation.

Servers that can do it have consistent, organised groups. The same people are there for multiple fights (not necessarily in a row) with the same commanders, all working together to coordinate the fight. Ideally all/most the people involved are on TS too.

Servers that can’t do it are trying the event with whoever shows up going to whichever wurm they feel like fighting and doing whatever part of the fight they feel like when they get there. Which often leads to things like cobalt being overwhelmed with champions because everyone wanted to run kegs instead.

Yeah. It’s generally a mess when I show up on my native server (Fort Aspenwood) and it’s a ghost town. There may be about 70 people there to do the event. Like I said though, they seem to be satisfied with just barely doing the escort event and then mobbing up on 1 specific wurm for the achievement.

I’ve done countless attempts with TTS. The coordination and the same commanders leading the troops is a recipe for success. I’ve watched a few videos of Deso doing it as well. I commend everyone who can get the amount of people together and coordinated for this.

I’d attempt to coordinate it myself with my guild (LUST), but we can’t field 150 people into one map. It would be amazing if we could.

It would be awesome of some prevalent WVW guilds or something wanted to get this done on our sever. Perhaps it’s too hard to pull them away from their loot bags though

Fellow Fort Aspenwooders… Why do we continue to fail so heavily at doing killing this Wurm? It’s sad to see a server that sits high on the population ranks, does fairly well in WvW, but yet can’t fill the map for the Wurm event.

There’s no one trying to organize things. We can barely do all 3 escort missions without a failure. It’s disheartening. It really makes a player like myself feel the need to join up with TTS or quest to a server that wants to accomplish this.

We shouldn’t be satisfied with trying to kill just ONE wurm head so that an achievement can be made. That’s very sad, honestly.

Rally the troops Fort Aspenwood! Let’s get some coordination and some Wurm kills. WE CAN DO IT!

Boreas The North.1892:

Becka Williams.4978:

Exactly how do you introduce someone, except for writing them into the story? Everyone has to show up at some point.

Traditionally, (and I know this is difficult for some to understand) characters are given an introduction, a bit of background story, maybe even another NPC making some kind of reference to them, and then they are given lines and a part to play in the story. With Scarlet and Taimi they just…appear. If Zojja had an apprentice, do you not think it odd that this is the very first time she has ever been mentioned in over a year of gameplay?

Unless…. and this may sound crazy.. she JUST became an Apprentice of Zojja’s.

I will admit that it is weird that they just kinda had her pop up. I was hoping more for her to step forward and make more of an introduction in game. That part has been a little Meh in my opinion.

CharrGirl.7896:

jessiejay.3625:

Kasmeer on Kasmeer

…mini giving biggie a shoulder to lean on

This is both hilarious and disturbing xD

and hot

Only Josh can help us with this. Where are you Josh Foreman!!!???

Guess I know where I’ll be guesting for Wurm kills

Gratz BG.

Taisia.2813:

Delvoire.8930:

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

Taisia.2813:

After our second kill I took screenies to demonstrate the difference between Wurm and Tequatl Loot. I think the picture is self explanatory. Basic differences:

1. 2 champ bags vs 4 champ bags
2. No karma pots from wurm.
3. A lot less items from wurm “physical” chest
4. 20 item pool vs nearly 50 item pool

Comments?

2 Gold item from Wurm ?
watch on my loot from Wurm …
http://i.imgur.com/3XZE1uj.jpg

Uhmm. you didn’t take a shot of your whole loot. Just the side bar showing what popped. That stacks though so what you’re showing isn’t everything.

Kinda disappointing though. If there was a guaranteed Ascended for the Wurm, now that would be awesome. With the difficulty..it’s not like that is a bad thing. 300 players max have beaten this thing now….

That is everything!

You get the 2 chests that you see on right side, when you open them (and 2 champ boxes that drop inside) the end result is a 20 item pool. Not one more, not one less.

I was quoting that other guy who only showed a screengrab of like 4 greens and a dragonite ore.

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

Taisia.2813:

After our second kill I took screenies to demonstrate the difference between Wurm and Tequatl Loot. I think the picture is self explanatory. Basic differences:

1. 2 champ bags vs 4 champ bags
2. No karma pots from wurm.
3. A lot less items from wurm “physical” chest
4. 20 item pool vs nearly 50 item pool

Comments?

2 Gold item from Wurm ?
watch on my loot from Wurm …
http://i.imgur.com/3XZE1uj.jpg

Uhmm. you didn’t take a shot of your whole loot. Just the side bar showing what popped. That stacks though so what you’re showing isn’t everything.

Kinda disappointing though. If there was a guaranteed Ascended for the Wurm, now that would be awesome. With the difficulty..it’s not like that is a bad thing. 300 players max have beaten this thing now….

Yeah. To the person who said you can’t farm this.. well you very well can. Keys drop pretty good and then you go and loot Scarlet’s Lair.

Uhmm… They did this intentionally. They staggered the timers for Wurm and Marionette so people could do both. It works too as I’ve done both repeatedly. You show up for one event, finish, switch maps, and you only have about 30 minutes until the next event.

It’s actually a good concept for people who want to do both.

.001% health Shibby.