Guild Wars 2

Misslol.9741:

ilmau.9781:

To Anet, thanks for destroying one year work on our international server with the achievements on wvw. Thanks for making such a good game where i met nice people and then dismantle it giving us those achievement hunters that made a lot of nice guilds and persons leave my server.
If possible give us even more reason to have pve people come in wvw especially in international servers that have communication as their main problem so they can fill up queue spots without joining our teamspeak.
A last thank for always making we ask ourselves how is it possible to have a queue on a borderland when enemies from another server are three times our numbers, it would be much more interesting seing the borderland call , logging in and being outmanned but still not happening!

fixed it for you

just joking huh!!

Because SFR was the only server where you had the WvW achievements active?? Every server has had WvW achievement hunters, this is no excuse because all servers have had this issue.

But I too, wonder about those BL queues, how on earth does the enemy get such huge numbers while yourself are only a fraction of their numbers…

Troma.3250:

Very nice fights with GCK on sfr borderlands

We were 30 GCK to help VS. Sadly, after we draw a big V in front of your garrison with only GCK, then SFR made a big charge and wiped us, a french SFR guy told me i received mass insults, with some “kitten square kitten” etc. Bleh.

Ok anyway, we enjoyed charge you and SFR troops, Beasty. We saw your pink hairs moving while doing warscreams !

Yes, we salute you and Piken’s attempts last night, epic battles!
Haha, you should’ve heard us in TS in the end, especially when we knew Troma was present.
All night, wave after wave hitting garrison, we never had time to repair and were always outnumbered, but the most epic battle was the one where GCK entered the battlefield in the end, finally Piken had given up after failing over and over and over…

2 Vizu blobs, one on each side of the inner keep and a lot of SFR players digging in under Beasty and Rayya’s command, preventing capping. If there was an achievement for ressing the Keep Lord, I think we dinged on that last night :P
Such a glorious victory in the end too, finally breaking you and just pushing you up on the wall and rolling over your remaining fighters.

Saint Scarlet.2906:

@ Dondarrion: You obviously don’t read that well but i will say it again, all evidence was given to your alliance team. What they do with it is up to them. As far as Piken is concerned it’s over and done with. As for attacking Troma over an issue SFR caused Piken, there is no need for it. Troma is one of the most respected and upstanding guys on these forums. If you still have issue with it i suggest you ask your alliance leaders not other servers.

Please re-read my statement before you say stupid things like that. I’m not attacking, Troma, I’m asking for proof to backup these claims that SFR tried to buy an alliance with Piken. If asking for proof when standing accused is called attacking, well… I’m well aware Troma’s reputation, that’s not in question here.
In Troma’s post, he addresses pevepe.net admins about Piken players he has great confidence in whispering him the truth of the matter. He’s saying it’s “SFR guys” who made the gold offer, who knows who that could be?? So far, reading Troma’s post over and over, the proof is simply Piken players’ word whispered to Troma. But if SFR have really been posting on several forums, THAT is physical evidence, why is it so difficult to come up with that? Like Troma, I’d welcome those Piken players to speak up and show proof.

And like I wrote, it’s not just this case, but same goes for those SFR guys saying there’s a VizuPiken alliance going on now; please show proof to backup your claim. It’s war, it’s tactics. Vizu had their objectives, Piken had theirs, both want SFR 3rd in match-up, and some SFR people took it badly. I was playing again yesterday and yes, after both Vizu and Piken had driven us back in the Vizu BL, I saw Piken going straight to war and besieging & taking Hills from Vizunah.

2/3 more days of season 1 battles, see you on the battlefield!

Jrunyon.3012:

LOL have you not been reading the forums at all? Anet just tried this and the backlash was phenomenal (and rightly so).

In my opinion, this should never happen. Yes to new armor skins, no to changing cultural armors.

That was only because they took the human light T3 armor… if they’d released all races’ cultural armors in one go, I’m sure no one would’ve complained because everyone had been treated the same. And style versatility in how you gear up your char must be a positive thing.

Anyhow – why isn’t cultural armor possible to buy across races, the cultural weapons are?

Some logic conundrum right there…

Troma.3250:

SFR guys came on some Piken guild forums (like 10) and made a proposal…

If it’s on forums, it’s surely easy to come up with physical proof then? Screenshot or it didn’t happen and it all just gossip “he said, she said”…

All the %s of internationals, proposal me this, double-team alliance me that so far in this thread is only serving to fuel the drama here but possibly with NO truth in it.

Get some facts on the table; so far there’s only been the actions of each part in-game that has been speaking for itself.

DaveVN.5987:

I will make sure i get some decoy charrs with pink hair

Forget Asuran Rebels, next is Platina Charrs, 10 pink-haired charr mesmers.

Leorcyn.1063:

Barrigon.8965:

Please i beg u Viz to not just focus SFR, be impartial. I thinks it’s the most sportsmanship attitude

Sorry BB, you’re an unwanted casualty in this virtual war.
Vizunah has objectives, putting SFR third is one of them.

Yep, Vizu’s objectives are to subdue SFR so that we’re third, that way Jade Sea will tie for 2nd in Gold Lge overall… after all, wasn’t there someone who said many Vizu have 2nd accounts on JS, and vice versa? That’s why it probably seems to us on SFR now that Vizu gang up with Piken, ofc they want Piken to tick higher than SFR.

Right??

Well, some mod decided to delete my entire post about appreciating the fights versus VizuPiken over the weekend and looking forward to more this week. I didn’t have to wait longer than until last night; great battles going on in SFR BL, garrison nearly falling to Vizu, then Piken came rolling in, but SFR dug in and turned them back and by the time I logged at 1am Piken didn’t hold anything in the map and Vizu/SFR had roughly a 50/50 split… then came the nightcapping… oh well, back to square one today, we’re slowly catching up to you, Piken!

See you on the battlefield!

Tried logging your guard to see if it gets raised to 7?

Just to provide a balance on the weight scale here and cancel out some negativity, I like fractals, they’re good glimpses of memories/fragments of the past, both lore-wise and the content itself is challenging under somewhat tough circumstances.

What I don’t like is developers creating difficult conditions that don’t get tested thoroughly so that you get lots of spurious behaviour…

Molten Facility boss fractal anyone? If party wipes, and you click reset, hands up if only half your party or your whole party ressed immediately into the fight only to be killed off again??
That mechanism to port the whole party into the battle ring is really AWFUL! Why couldn’t they do like for Old Tom or the Snowblind fractal, put an object on the outside of the boss platform which you have to interact with in order to be ported into the fight ring? The fight against two crazy kitten bosses spamming agony left and right if huddled together is very unforgiving if you cannot enter the battle on your own terms.
Ankittenhe only one who doesn’t really see the point of a capped leaderboard? It will be static and first-come,first-served until next time Fractals get more levels… is that of any interest??

But on the whole – Fractals are nice dungeons to have in GW2.

But you’d think then that when they DO come up with a mechanism such as Mistlock Instabilities, that they would setup this table of instabilities per level, and then go through each fractal and look at the consequences of each?

Say, “Keem Them in Line” which gives damaged enemies boons when unattended… where does that happen, for example, oh, ofc, Mai Trin boss fractal where she ports out to let Horrik do her dirty work. If you’re lucky she gets regen and heals back up…

It’s stuff like this that needs thorough testing, yes, you can think of a difficult condition to fight under, we all can, but you need to ensure that what you come up with doesn’t break or become impossible in any of the game situations.

Same here, done fractals both yesterday and today and the Daily Fractal Runner never updates. Pls fix.

Everyone should be reset to max level 30 at the start of this patch; so if it was 39 for some reason on your alt that must be some weird bug.

If it’s 30, and you’ve not done any new fractals to progress your levels yet, then it’s correct.

sebz.1524:

What do you think about dredge button “fix”? For those who don’t already know: if you die on buttons you will be moved from them. So…..no more useless dying! YAY!

I mean, it’s obviously a NICE change. You can play the way it’s meant to be played. Right?
And what is this way exactly? 5 Thiefs? Guardians? Again?

Anyways I’m REALLY looking forward to this fractal on higher levels with pugs and some nice mistlock instabilites. It will be a joy as always.

Ah, that explains the ads I saw in the LFG tool then… “…No rangers or other useless classes…”

At least they gave us some new, unique armor skins in the gem store… they’re only like 800 gems for fiery versions of … oh wait… previously, unique cultural skins?! karma skins?! 800 gems?? omfg!

Ah, at least we got our fractal run going in the guild and the Aether paths were nice; however, another guild group got the Molten boss fractal which bugs out and doesn’t let people exit or progress so basically you lost 4 fractals worth of progress… :/

Oh oh, and I almost forgot, after an evening playing through fractals, I check my daily achievements and woah, Daily Fractal Runner was still not completed… hmm… how about that…

Anet – I appreciate the work your developers are doing, but this content was clearly rushed and way below par in terms of quality than usual… wth happened?

Sorry, I can understand your feeling of loss that your level progression is now brought inline with the new game mechanics, but you’ve already had your fun and challenge going past the “supported” limits of the game and obviously got your compensation through plentiful amounts of drops. That you “beat” the system and developers oversight in programming does not now entitle you to extra rewards now that they’ve revised the system and introduced a new ladder carrying from lvl 30 and onwards.

This all depends on whether the tower disappears at the end of this event; Tuesday in a week, or whether it actually stays until the players destroy it … so to speak, it will fall naturally when done enough times by players.
At least it’s not a daily linear percentage increase because we’re halfway through a 2-week patch and the bar is hardly at a quarter – so unless this is irrelevant to player input and a 4-week event all of a sudden? Which would seem odd because I cannot see how many players will want to go back there after the initial 2 weeks… in fact, if it relies on players injecting antitoxin, I’m not even sure all worlds will destroy the tower.

It would be interesting to see how far that bar has come if you compared a few worlds? I.e. is the tower gonna fall globally, or per server?

If you got a char who’s nearly 1 year old, you’ll get a birthday present with an Experience Scroll that insta-levels you to lvl 20, then you can craft your way to 30 with cooking, I’d think, using the gw2crafts.net approach.

DaShi.1368:

Who decides what is and what is not Guild Wars lore? The players or Anet? I’ve seen many posts on these forums telling Anet that certain things are not part of the lore. So if it is the players who decide, who among them get to decide?

Getting back to the topic at hand, I’d say Anet obviously holds the IP rights to the official lore of Tyria – both in GW1 and now GW2 with all its retcons. Fans making or claiming the lore is or should be different are simply making fan-fiction, yes, they may be passionate – and even right in refuting certain new lore pieces – but as for who gets to decide – it’s the people at Anet.

Draknar.5748:

Not sure if this was discussed anywhere, but I was speaking with some guildies about Scarlet and all of these story arcs they are putting together.

Molten Alliance, Aetherblades, Toxic Alliance = Vigil, Durmand Priory, Order of Whispers? The evil versions obviously. They are even growing an evil Pale Tree. Scarlet is creating evil versions of what we got going on.

She goes on about the Infinity Ball too, so maybe she can tap into alternative worlds like the one you’ve seen if you’ve done the Asuran personal story. There, the good guys of our world, turn out to be evil; so perhaps Scarlet and her alliances are all good in this alternative world set in the future – the same place where the steam & mech creatures come from, and only evil when they cross over into our version of the world.
If so, it’s very interesting, but at the same time the story being told is so lacking of these details that all these really interesting eventualities get lost in a menial hide&seek game with Scarlet as she goes from one place to the next.

My main problems with Scarlet are:

• Once again, we defeat her minions and raze her lair and she’s obviously already planned on that happening and whisks away with a crazy laugh… ok, I could endure that the first few times, but eventually she needs to stay put and die – her character isn’t strong enough to remain the “nemesis” of our new team of heroes.

• She got the Krait setup thinking she gave them their prophet, although it was only some champion hybrid that we dutifully escort out of this world. What happens now – Krait tower crumbles; Nightmare court retreats, Scarlet already said she’ll see us again so await LS reincarnation issue XX for a new alliance army.

• Guild Wars 2’s premise is Tyria facing the threat of several awakened elder dragons… is Scarlet at all linked to one of these – and why are we not seeing these stories develop in parallel?
  Zhaitan is dead and gone; Tequatl is angrier, but he/she is only a champion anyhow, so what about the other elder dragons. Well past a year in and it’s like no one remembers this is what is really troubling all nations of the world – and it’s this diabolical Sylvari who keeps pestering us.
  If it’s a Living Story/World you’re after, things don’t happen in sequence like this… Scarlet getting to do all she wants, then the next threat can come along.

We should be seeing stuff more according to an overlapping/parallel schedule; e.g.

June: Dragonbash & Scarlet’s Aetherblades
July: Captain’s Council politics, Zephyr & Bazaar + a thread to research whereabouts of Kralkatorrik and its still ongoing threat
Aug: Another Elder Dragon is slowly moving and stuff beginning to happen in corresponding region (e.g. opening a new zone in Maguuma to explore signs of the jungle dragon surfacing)
Sep: Scarlet returns, SAB & Tequatl is rising
Oct: New developments in Maguuma with more signs of dragon forces on the march, Scarlet reappears in TA + Halloween
Nov: Linking Krait Tower with Deep Sea Dragon, yet another Elder Dragon on the move + maybe toss in some teaser from Dominion of Winds seeing as they are neighbours to a giant Nightmare Tower built on their doorstep… The Nightmare Within would’ve been a great opportunity to have some Tengu warrior band come out to assist you in the story instances assaulting the tower – after all, if that tower would persist, the Krait would become a major force to be reckoned with whether they had a true prophet(champion) to lead them or not, and I doubt they’d let that wall between them and Dominion of Winds stand if they mean to enslave&conquor those around them.

And so on – and by saying new developments I’m not asking to see these elder dragons or fight them already at this time, this needs to be paced out, but things need to happen in parallel (and by that I don’t mean some festival running in parallel with a “real” story). The world is not setup like Scarlet begins, Scarlet continues, Scarlet continues, Scarlet gone, Next threat begins, Next threat continues, Next threat vanquished, etc. That becomes very boring and is far removed from – at least – my perception of a living world where a lot can happen at the same time.

Sorry this got long and a bit of a ramble, but this update seriously had me growing tired of Guild Wars 2. I find logging in a bit of a bore; I perform my tasks to do my daily/monthly and do some WvW (although 70% of the time I can’t get in due to queues) and with this story, it’s like we’re getting nowhere further in the big picture. It’s fun to zerg and do small groups in the tower; it’s kind of chaotic and somewhat challenging – but that’s just a mechanic – not the story content.

Tengu probably not playable, or another race for that matter, until late ‘14/early ’15 at the earliest, I’d wager…

They’re the new Antitoxic Four (Marjory, Kasmeer, Rox and Braham) – of course, Anet won’t kill off Scarlet, they’ll do like GRRM and kill off at least one of our dear hero NPCs first.

Sciva.4865:

As much as a cool idea it is, it just leads to the problem Rift has where every female character and loler is running around naked thinking they’re original and funny.

That gets old when no one finds it funny anymore, and those who persist are just regarded as kittened.

I agree with OP, this game needs a visibility toggle for every piece of clothing on the char sheet. We know you can do it, you already did for head, shoulder and hands. Now finish what you started and do it for the remaining 3 spots too.
So much Charr, Sylvari armor looks ridiculous where you could instead portrait your character better with ex. the intricate details of your bare, upper body. On my Charr mesmer I am forced to play w/o chest armor, and on my Charr warrior I have a harness, but still it conceals more than I’d like. You had bare-chested Charr in GW1, why cover it up now… :?

Going to argos-soft.net it says ’I’ll be back’ so I guess Mr. Argos is doing a little house refurbishing

Seen the release page banner/splash image?

From left to right; Aetherblades, Twisted Nightmares, Scarlet with a Champion Toxic Husk(?) behind her, Mechataur and another Aetherblade?

Don’t even see the Krait here anymore… but this one’s got Scarlet and her Toxic Alliance|Molten Alliance|Twisted/Clockwork Alliance written all over it.

I just hope the Tower of Nightmare could be an open world zone.

Any reason why Norway isn’t allowed to enter the video contest? Not part of EU – and EEA isn’t sufficient?

… Canada (excluding Quebec) and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom

To go even further; why stop at making town clothes possible to wear in combat?

Why can’t I take a set of light or medium armor that I like the appearance of and transmute its appearance on my heavy armor that I can wear?

Give us appearance diversity – I get it there’s armor class restrictions, but let people look like whatever they want. If you want a heavy soldier in a trenchcoat, fine; a mage in plated armor, fine, a thief in feathers, go do it

It’s just… this was all present in the last MMO I played (AoC) and when that piece of shambles could get it right with vanity gear, I am flabbergasted (to finally use that funny word) as to why Anet won’t/cannot.

Would kill for The Viathan Leviathan… wow, that’s a mouthful

All I know is that these rare stones will soon be in abundance as everyone gets a personal one in their home instance… (sigh)

Such a mysterious object in the lore and background of the Krait, and then baam! everyone gets their mini obelisk in their home instance??

As for discovery of these obelisks, the same sentence, Getefix, does say unique, dark stone and found exclusively and rarely, so I think the Krait come across these obelisk sites searching them out and thus having their prophecy with such a monumental expectation tied to them.

When it’s a question of investing hundreds/thousands of hours into a product; if the company doesn’t pay heed to the players soon enough in their demands and requests, the players won’t hang around to see it through. Anet doesn’t have the luxury of saying; oh, just wait a few years and see.

MMOs come out all the time, when GW2 gets dull (for the player base), it’s over; and the window of opportunity to meet requests for including GW1 lore and embellish it further and tie it in with GW2 is now. I agree, we don’t get to or need to dictate timetables or actual plot points, but dev’s simply being aware and not delivering on those expectations within reasonable time means heads will turn elsewhere.

When Wildstar/TESO land spring 2014, and EQNext/Landmark drops… how many players will still be in GW2? (I will, because I’m currently in the “see it through” bracket, but I want to see elder dragons, Mursaat, Cantha/Elona, Crystal Desert, etc. – a year-long LS as the current one that I don’t feel tell a coherent story is wearing on my patience because I NEED GW2 to deliver on story/lore).

It’s Tuesday, 2 weeks since last patch. Anet drops new stuff on us every 2 weeks.

Enjoy!

I have such high expectations, and I’m probably about to be let down by the patch… anyhow; my hopes for this tower story and lore-wise are:

• Krait linked with Mordremoth as the whisperer of promises and madness.
• Thus, a new Elder dragon appearing in GW2 with new lore and some dazzling twist to the story to make me really appreciate the LS and see how pieces fit.
• If these two happen, I don’t care if Scarlet is linked in some way as a villain with a conflicting plan or interest in all of this.

If there’s 6 elder dragons; having one appear and being center of attention per year would make sense if they want to go for a 6-year longevity of GW2. GW1 enjoyed that success, or actually 8? But Anet should really show us another Elder Dragon now.

Latinkuro.9420:

ColinJohanson.2394:

You’ll be able to acquire the skill forever, it’s simply easier to earn (doesn’t cost skill points) during the release window.

you said points plural, hmmm as long as you don’t make it grindy or something insane like 50 skill points to acquire I don’t mind, take into consideration that an elite skill has never been more than either 10 or 30 skill points.

Emm, most skills cost from 1 to 30 pts, so as healing skills go, maybe he just meant the usual 3 points instead of 1. So, maybe at most it would be 5 or 10 points, but to be sure, I’d just play in the next 2 weeks and you’ll get it for free.

Handin.4032:

PvE people come into WvW for achievements —> get addicted --> more WvW people. Sure, not 100% of the people who are achievement hunting will stay, but even 10% staying will be great!

^^ This – now they just need to sort out queues and maps because barriers to play is the biggest turn-off/obstacle to getting into enjoying something.

“Let’s see, what should I play tonight, oh I’ll try a bit of WvW again, that was cool last night. Hmmm.. full BL, queue up, ok, maybe I’ll try another, oh that’s full too.” etc.

Have this happen every day and you’ll turn newfound enjoyment over WvW into distaste for that gaming mode.

Edge of the Mists is one feature to help out sorting that, but it will arrive MUCH too late if it’s slated for 2014. Queues have always been bad for WvW, but this is just ridiculous now.

I hope so too, that we see the dungeon return, it doesn’t make sense that the Mad King only returns from Oct 30 – Nov 1 or something, and that’s it, while Halloween continues to run until Nov 12 just like it is now.

Scarlet’s involved… again…?

Hopefully – given the tower’s size and that it will probably not be around for long, maybe it’s the final show-off with Scarlet leading to her defeat.

The woman in the trailer says “whispered promises…” which could very well be how Scarlet is luring the Krait into perhaps believing she’s the Prophet, she could perhaps appear to them in a different form – maybe a holographic Krait resembling a Krait Prophet – so even if the Krait are xenophobic, they might not be aware it’s her. And of course, the prophet comes with armies and weapons (Aetherblades + Nightmare Court and their twine-tech technology) so to them that prophecy is fulfilled well enough to buy in on the ruse.

All town clothes/outfits should be possible to wear as armor; it should just be a cosmetic layer you can wear over your combat/stats armor.

Like in GW1, AoC, TERA, TSW, Rift, etc. etc. etc.

It’s like they (Anet) took something that worked everywhere in most current MMOs and made something that is … useless! Utterly useless!

And there is absolutely no understandable reason why…

Massive QoL improvement to the BLTC; can’t believe you cannot filter the search on armor class yet.

Yes, make a checkbox you can tick whether to show your town clothes or combat armor, but always retain the stats of your combat armor.

I hope it’s an easy fix because Anet do seem to add more costumes, but in their current state they are truly useless.

Keru.4289:

after standing up against that and refusing to die, i got flammed and called selfish etc etc etc, about how i refuse to help the majority…. I mean, seriously, im playing the game for FUN

I hope you reported those who flamed you – you’re playing the game it’s meant to be played – you did absolutely nothing wrong. It’s about having fun, and if those others had a problem with it, they should’ve just quit and moved tried to move instance or something.

I reported an exploit on these forums once and received an in-game tell saying I was lame to report the exploit. I blocked and reported that player.

Exosferatu.2961:

The krait build obelisks and its stone found exclusively and rarely on Tyria’s ocean floors. I don’t think an obelisk is buried in Viathan Lake. If the krait are just unearthing an obelisk they need to dig around it and they do not need to cut trees and let us hear the stuff they are building from distance.

But this assumes the Krait actually built the obelisks; what we know from lore articles etc. is that the Krait believe these rare obelisks of dark stone herald of their prophets’ return and so on. It doesn’t say the Krait themselves built them – I mean, wouldn’t that be a strange prophecy to believe in.

You believe that a prophet will return at a rare obelisk you believe has a prophecy connected to it. If you were able to build this obelisk yourself, wouldn’t you just build thousands of them to help fulfill/realise that prophecy much sooner? There’s a little paradox in this for me; the Krait cannot be the builders of these obelisks – they might be erecting some sort of temple on the site of such an obelisk, but the obelisks are just natural (though rare and mysterious) stone structures they’ve excavated at various sites across Tyria – and should not need to be restricted to the Unending Ocean where the Krait hail from. Their obelisk shard might just be a pretty “coral” to other races.

I’d say these obelisks can exist anywhere, and that the Krait are unearthing them and then worshipping these in hopes of having their prophet returning. Also, if they indeed are unearthing an obelisk on the ocean floor, how in the world of physics will it then surface to rage high above water… hence, why raise that sky-high invisibility veil above Viathan Lake. They must be building some other kind of tower there – possibly they’ve uncovered an obelisk skitten the ocean floor and then erected some “temple” structure around it?

Town clothes/costumes seriously need to become a layer you can wear over your armor soon!

The tech is surely there – this can only be on Anet’s part not willing to do it – and if it’s because it breaks with immersion / lore that I’ve seen before, I’ll direct you to all the other fluff they’ve already put in the game that breaks it beyond a point that town clothes ever could… bows shooting unicorn trails, popgun rifles, princess wands, SAB, etc.

Yep, lack of atmosphere now.
Only up to 4 other people racing with you.
Cannot race up the tower with friends.
Plus now you cannot get the chest more than once per account; it used to be per character – which blows for replayability.

What I do find odd though is that the Krait seemingly are building this obelisk, whereas lore so far has said they revere these rare and mysterious obelisks of dark stone in such wording that they discovered them but were not the creators.

After all; it’s an odd doctrine to believe the prophets return with the obelisks if they can construct these obelisks themselves…

spritefire.5234:

whosyadaddy.7941:

it’s ony been out a few days

Yep, I’d highlight that too
Give new players since Halloween last year a way to experience it, then we’ll see what more comes. We’re 3 days in for a 4-week Halloween celebration.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

In previous year halloween we had:
1. Story with fancy backpack item
2. 3 activity
3. BEAUTIFUL Mad King outfit, witch outfit, and lot of stuff in gem store
4. 2 titles, Master Carver and Emissary of Mad King
5. and more

Now we have:
1. Story with just mini candy npc and useless node (i’d prefer moar backpacks)
2. 2 same activity and lost reaper’s rumble
3. Nothing, just nothing in gem store worth to buy, not a single outfit and basing on random gambling with black lion chests for only 5 weapon skins
4. 0 titles
5. and even less

Halloween isn’t over yet; give them time to add the Bloody Prince outfit to the gem store, it will come, along with fancy paper hats, etc. Who knows, maybe the 4 week duration of Halloween adds something more in 2 weeks?

An obelisk is being built, I assume. Hence, and with reference to beliefs of the Krait priesthood, these obelisks "mark the sites of the “ascension” of ancient krait prophets to some higher realm".

Furthermore, the Krait believe in “the return of the obelisks’ prophets, bringing with them massive armies to flood the surface of the world and destroy other species.”

Won’t go into my general view of religion as poppy-kitten, but could the Krait be misled into believing such a prophet is returning (Scarlet appearing disguised as one) and of course, we know she has an army already, so could she be trying to lure the Krait into her forces as well?

If so we’re bound for condition hell with the Aetherblades and Krait on the same side; but enough about that – could it be just a classic ruse like this the LS is now taking?

Or will we actually see a new antagonist enter the fray – a Krait prophet – who will gather their armies in preparation for war. Of course, the Krait being xenophobic and attacking everyone, who’s their target?

The underwater dragon that drove them from the Unending Ocean? Humans because of their oppressive nature in Tyria and probable target of anyone feeling slightly resentful?

The krait were driven from the ocean floor by the underwater dragon (‘Bubbles?’); the obelisks are believed (by the krait) connected to return of their prophets. Could the Krait be preparing for such a prophet’s return?

So far we’ve already heard of the wake of most elder dragons and we “killed” Zhaitan, but we’ve yet to see one of them rise. Could the LS be taking a turn to let us experience the wake of an elder dragon? It’s been quite monumental each time it’s happened in the past; tidal waves, etc.

4 devs and the thread just broke page 2; my… something’s afoot! …or adrift, depending on which element we’re moving into next.

Gotta go check out this when I come home; would love to see Marjory and Kasmeer again.

Tip of the hat to Anet for actually sifting in unannounced threads of subsequent LS story updates; this makes it a living world – just because it’s Halloween and everyone’s crazy running rampant with the Mad King Thorn and the Bloody Prince, the rest of the world doesn’t halt. Here the Krait are moving towards some action; another place other things could be stirring.

More parallel stories unfolding that keep us involved!