Is it possible that the conclusion that the Shadow of the Dragon is a representation of Zhaitan simply be a flawed conclusion from NPC PoV?
Completely so, but unlikely that the Pale Tree would make such a blunder, or the PC wouldn’t mention s/he felt his/her Wyld Hunt wasn’t complete to Caithe at the end of the PS.
Yes, makes sense with 2nd argument concerning PC feeling its Wyld Hunt is done, but as for the Pale Tree making a blunder of such proportions, that could be seen as a result of being “blinded” by Mordremoth’s corruption – that the true nature of the Shadow of the Dragon wasn’t revealed. It was faked to take the guise of Zhaitan although Mordremoth was behind it?
But yes, I agree it seems most likely to be Zhaitan and not going to change as result of further story development due to both of these arguments.
We simply do not know what Mordremoth’s minions look like – despite your constant belief that we do.
And it isn’t like they don’t make new models for the Living World content, right? :p
I seriously hope they will continue to do this, we need more variation in the mob bestiary
I can’t say I’m feeling very kindly towards Tengu after the LA evacuation, or at least the Tengu near the wall. Jerks.
And I don’t blame the Tengu for their resentment of humans, they fled behind those walls because humans (albeit in Cantha) threatened their (and other non-humans) existence. So when anyone got close to the wall under the battle of Lion’s Arch, they were met with arrows, us the “good ones” as well as the Alliance forces of Scarlet Briar. They simply want to remain undisturbed – at least until Anet make a story that let us do more than meet their few trading emissaries.
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Posted by: Dondarrion.2748
Hi,
I just received this e-mail today about an impending 72 hour ban due to currency transactions or abnormal login – neither of which I can understand. It is true I recently made a tiny gold donation (as do all other TxS members) to my guild commander to purchase required foods etc for our guild raids of the Three-Headed Wurm and Tequatl, but that exchange can hardly be called abnormal.
In any event, I did not click any links in this e-mail – because I find it suspicious and also the wording of the e-mail subject doesn’t sound like something Arena.Net would write… “Guild Wars Account Be Shut Down Inform” … surely their grasp of English language is better
Anyhow – I just logged in and cannot see anything unusual about my account – so I just wanted to post this topic to alert others to perhaps receiving the same scamming e-mail and that they should avoid clicking any links in those e-mails and rather login directly to the game/forum.
Hope it helps others
Enough with the quaggans already, they’re a bad stain on Tyria and all too cutesy in #gw2 for a proper dark setting to unfold… Just too much…
Actually, I don’t necessarily miss the Wings of the Sunless, but I’d kill for crystalline Wings of the Branded or something like that. Purplish, crystalline wings to go well on a mesmer
Or forget about all the purple and let me change the purple hue on my mesmer to another colour! (ed. although that’s an entirely different topic!)
It was reward for Boss Week achievement category; I know so well because I missed getting mine because I miscalculated when the final Boss Week daily would be, and there wasn’t one on the patch day for next update.
So far completed all other achievement categories, bubble burst.. oh well, playing more relaxed now.
Depending on your timezone, the jungle wurm spawns on the hour and the marionette on the next hour.
For GMT, it’s on even hour for Marionette and odd hours for Jungle Wurm. If you’re there half an hour before the event you’ll see things starting to warm up, people streaming in, etc.
Oh, but I agree with your thoughts, the story content is a bit thin and requires you to learn the spawning pattern initially and “wait around” so you can progress the story. It’s obvious how, just not doable at your own whim.
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Never managed to get in on my home server for either Marionette or Jungle Wurm so far, beaten Marionette several times in overflow
Because the player base is a diverse lot, ANY amount of tension will frustrate SOME amount, causing them to be turned off. So fundamentally we have to ask ourselves if we want to ever ask the player to stretch, or keep them all in a happy abnegated state of chillaxing. Does the benefit to those who want some tension from time to time outweigh the frustration of those who don’t?
The other question that I hope is answered in the positive is this: Can the average player skill be raised by challenging content like this? We know that X% of players don’t know about traits. We know Y% never swap out their 7-0 skills to accommodate specific challenges. And there are probably dozens of other systems that go unused by some portion of the player-base. If even 10% of that group hits a challenge like the Marionette and the subsequent tension causes them to look into these systems and they learn a new depth to the game they otherwise never would have, I think that’s a win for everybody. The average skill level rises, and in turn, we devs can make more interesting events that utilize the depth of the systems we have.
Having said all that, if after a week the Marionette is still only being beaten 1 out of 10 times, then I would say we may have tuned it a bit too difficult. On the other hand, we don’t know how long it takes for the aggregate skill level of the player-base to grow. I don’t know how long it takes for information about traits and builds to disseminate to those who had previously never looked into them. As with all our content, we are closely watching and noting these things so that every future project can learn from it.
P.S. Because several people brought up the idea of buffing the other platforms when one succeeds, I thought I ought to let you all know that this has always been the case. When one platform’s power regulator is destroyed the players on the platforms adjacent get Electrify Aura which gives 60 seconds of protection, swiftness, regeneration, fury, might, vigor and retaliation.
A resounding yes! Please keep making content that makes the player have/want to stretch in order to overcome new challenges. This is fun!
I’d say the Marionette is pretty close to perfect in difficulty, first week only a few did it and now that more and more people know how to do it, you get more and more successful events in pugs in overflows – provided of course people bother to coordinate in map chat, etc. If people don’t bother, it’s not the event’s fault.
Just out of curiosity, do you guys (Anet) have figures of s of how many out of the player base actually defeated Liadri back during Queen’s Gauntlet, and could you also keep us updated and let us know after this LS update is done, how large a percentage of the player base defeated the marionette?
You say you tune events on the basis of this, but it’d be interesting to those of us who managed, just how difficult it was to overcome. I’d feel pretty good about myself if only 10 took out a boss, compared to a world boss that 99% (and their grand mothers) can do.
Like I posted in a similar thread, been having fun trying to coordinate some of the overflows I’ve done this in and either we’ve succeeded or come very close.
Mostly we’ve failed due to:
- lack of skill to take down a warden and you cannot fault that
- lack of knowledge to take down a warden → BAD at this point in a 2-week event and we’re halfway thru. You should know by now + I always type out every warden’s strat up front and it’s quite straight-forward really
- lack of interest of taking part → being countered with “i’m here just to have fun not work” or players without map chat enabled at world boss events… here I am busting my kitten off trying to coordinate it through map chat which is all you got since voice comms on a open world pug is not possible, and people either
Bottom-line though, it’s a massive pug event, bound to fail and as long as people put in a real effort and the failure comes from bad luck, it’s fun. Ignorance though gets me a bit more heated!
Rarely got lag issues elsewhere nor do I suffer dc’s, so this is kind of the first. And from here in Norway, I can assure you we do have fast internet connections compared to many other places in the world (well- not everyone, but my service definitely is)
Can’t resist posting the great solution to this as it appeared on Reddit. That’s no cipher you’re looking at
This has been happening so frequently for me lately, but after Phase 2 completes and regardless whether our lane’s been successful or failed, I often get a DC instead of the loading screen of Lornar’s Pass taking me back into my lane…
Not sure if it’s the overflow struggling, but it seems to be happening frequently for me
With full overflows it’s a hassle/rush trying to log back in and getting back into my overflow with “join in overflow” on my party members…
Well, nothing stopping him, but splitting himself up into aspects seemed like a way to hide from the threat of the Abaddon and the Titans. We already know he’s in hiding and he’s doing a good job of it, so why should he need to go to the trouble of splitting himself into aspects and hide even more… it already seemed like a dangerous hassle putting himself back together the last time he did.
But don’t get me wrong, I agree Lazarus will probably – or definitely should – return in GW2!
That thing with the aspects was all done with back in GW1, and we killed Justiciar Naveed in Tarnished Coast back then, to bring Lazarus out. The only thing we know now is that Lazarus fled to go into recovery, but not before vowing vengeance against “countless generations”.
So, he’s presumeably hiding in recovery, but the aspects is not a case now. He’s “whole”, just not strong. But of course, that was 250 years ago, so he could return at some point. As many of us do hope!
