Guild Wars 2

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Thieves know the tricks of the trade.

Agreed. To elaborate a little more, thieves might know where to even begin looking or even who they should start questioning in the first place.

Whithout a person who is involved, a Mesmer could very well be at a loss where as a thief might be able to identify elements of a situation without the need for a present, sentient consciousness who is involved, being right there. really, that would apply to any of the classes. Like Odyssius said in the movie Troy, “We all play with the gifts the gods give us”. Or a present day related saying “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”.

Stramatus.5219:

Dustfinger.9510:

Stramatus.5219:

See EOTN, Charr Homelands. Bunch of camps, I think I recall one stronghold, but certainly no cities.

I’d say that stronghold is evidence against the charr being nomadic.

This is what I am thinking of: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Assault_on_the_Stronghold

A fortification is one thing. It was hardly a “city”.

It doesn’t really need to be a city though. Those fixed stairs are a good indication that that stronghold isn’t made to pick up and move with the bison herds.

Obsidian.1328:

That kind of thinking leads to all sorts of problems. How do we know there aren’t vast Grawl cities as well somewhere off the map? Or Centaur? Or Ogre? We don’t, but we can only presume based off of how the game portrays a given culture. The GW1 Charr gave almost no impression of anything urban or settled in nature. Everything points to a nomadic and/or tribal way of life. Extrapolating from those precedents seems a logical thing to do.

If anything, the Ascalons would be the one’s to have cities/towns outside the known one’s we see in-game. They are known to be both explorers, and permanent settlers. Who’s to say they didn’t have vast settlements back behind their homelands away from the front lines?

ascalonians may well have. This is the purpose of measuring both species with the same ruler. It helps to keep the problem of having a double standard away.

if it isn’t addressed, there are only possibilities. But it definitely isn’t set in stone as we have clearly been shown. As the saying goes, “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence”. Factors such as the fact that charr were launching a fast aggressive, large scale attack that may not reflect the lager overture of the culture need to also be a taken into account.

So sure, let’s acknowledge the possibility that they were nomadic. But to state it as a fact is to be disingenuous at best and a liar at worst.

Stramatus.5219:

See EOTN, Charr Homelands. Bunch of camps, I think I recall one stronghold, but certainly no cities.

I’d say that stronghold is evidence against the charr being nomadic.

I think we tend to take for granted out own RL strengths. Like our RL human ability to organize and mobilize on a large scale for common and specific goal. Norn don’t seem to have this strength. Charr have it. Humans have it to a slightly lesser extent. Asura have it even less. And norn may form a pack if they follow wolfs teaching but beyond that it may not even be a real possibility outside of an ED threat. And that’s only because an ED is a big enough challenge to draw the bulk of norn in. Not because the norn have decided to work in concert.

Full scale war is charr specialty. Norn would be at the same disadvantage that charr are at in a one on one competition. Sure, norn can win battles as they did but in the end, it’s the charr who would come out generally on top. Also, as a-net has confirmed.

Hmm. With that in mind, if commoners don’t tend to get a full trial then they probably have a lot less scrutiny when crimes happen amongst themselves. “Some random commoner dead? No big deal until it becomes a bigger problem. Commoners are animals. Noble gets robbed? Get the Mesmer investigator”.

I’d automatically guess the god.

Learn to feed on their sweet, sweet tears. They’ll comfort you. Then they’ll sustain you. One day, down the line you’ll find that you thrive on them. Embrace it. Good. Gooooooooood.

We know almost nothing of that other trees connections. So it may indeed have had interaction with humanity at some time in the past.

But addressing the other plant creatures being relatives of sylvari, keep in mind that there are a multitude of flesh and blood creatures that aren’t related to humanity. So

No, no. In the post you stated that the charr never won a major battle. Neither of us were talking about winning the major war.

What im referring to is what Zaxeres was responding to:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The Charr actually never won a major battle against humanity.

-Ascalon:
They only laid waste to ascalon because the Titans gave them a magic nuke. All the Charr had to do was clean up the survivors that were left. And they couldn’t even do that because of the foefire.

It says the charr never won a major battle and cites the fact that they had titan help as a reason.

edit:

All I said a few posts back is that the Charr never would have broken through Ascalons defenses without titan help, which is true. And the same counts for Kryta’s victory over the charr, which wouldn’t have been possible without help of the Mursaat. I never claimed otherwise.

Ah, THAT’s where it went wrong. I misinterpreted the message there. :P

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Never said that.
All I said is that it’s only fair that humans call upon the Mursaat because the charr called upon the Titans.

Charr layed waste to Ascalon with the help of the Titans.
Humans layed waste to the charr invasion force with the help of the Mursaat.

Oh, definitely. I meant earlier when you said that the charr never won and then cited Ascalon as evidence because they had Titan help.

Ehh……., I think Zaxares went through a lot of trouble to delve into the specifics but his/her main point seems to be the double standard here. When charr win with aid it doesn’t count but when humans win with aid it does.

Different skills take into account that different classes need to be balanced around their other abilities. otherwise, each class will just be one class with different animations skins.

What happens when Claudeus hires his own mesmers to say that it is untrue? or when they say that they read the initial mesmers mind and he is lying to frame Claudius?

It really just turns into a bunch of he-said/she said. Especially if you even do find a body. Who killed them? My Mesmer says you did, your Mesmer says I did. I can see why a-net has stayed away from it. Though, we do know that charms can reproduce the magic of mesmers so maybe it may not be such a hard thing to have charms that block mesmers mindreading. or maybe not ever Mesmer can do what every other Mesmer can do. There might be simple mind excercises that can block all but the most powerful mesmers.

edit: on finding murder weapons, I imagine one sword slash looks very much like another. There’s an old saying that pertains to the modern justice system. “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove”

So, like a polygraph test, I imagine that Mesmer skills are used by low level law enforcement to help provide them an arrow, but they would be far from the be-all end-all of crime solving.

Apparition.1576:

Nice rebuttle…

Thank you.

Nicholas S Lin.6187:

The Charr were still a relatively primitive race during the events of Guild Wars and were given the Searing Cauldron magic by the agents of Abbadon to cause chaos for the chosen race of his siblings the other 5 gods of Tyria, as a form of petty vengeance.

They had no means to develop the means to research or develop advance science and engineering know-how since they had no fix place of settlement and were a warlike society of wonder war-bands. They as a result were a very tribal people.

Even if we grant that they were not “evil” as a whole just that one faction that’s purely psychotic and unbalanced in the extreme. It has not been explain how the whole Charr race was transformed from a tribal/nomadiac culture to one that is now very much urbanised, and capable of pursuing and developing advance science and engineering.

How is this possible in 250 years? How was this social transformation achieved? What caused this profound change in a very warlike tribal society where ones worth is determined by conquest?

How do we know they were nomadic in GW1? That they didn’t have vast cities back in their homelands away from the front lines of their invasion?

I think the answers in this thread make it clear that there is no right answer. Detectives can come in all shapes and sizes and personalities. And to add to that, the people that choose professions can come in all shapes and sizes and personalities. Coming up with detective archtypes from any profession will only be limited by our imagination.

Oo, so many

Engineer: Batman

Warrior: The old gumshoe detective movies where the detectives fight badguys around every corner.

Any scholarly class: Sherlock Holmes

Thief: Batman again.

Guardian: John Hartigan from Sin City

Stramatus.5219:

Funny, never saw anything like this prior to GW2…

The charr were one dimensional baddies at the inception of GW1. They really had no history at all. but when a-net did delve into their history, this is what was established.

Though, keep in mind that it also says this:

“The Charr were once a primitive people, filled with rage and a primal drive to dominate and control.”

“The Charr subjugated or destroyed any and all who dared defy them within their territories”

“Only the strong personality of the Khan-Ur kept this ferocious and, yes, still-primitive race unified.”

So when the charr were given a history they established that they were still savage and primitive. Even when they had an empire.

arthurobenzi.2619:

Dustfinger.9510:

I’m really sorry if my sentence was misleading, but i’m french and my english isn’t very good( and it’s very hard to keep the exact meaning when I translate ). But I hadn’t misinterpret that dialog, I have say than the Norn says that her ale-fist hit hard ( not necessarily more than normal fist ).But same with that, the study of referential remains consistent. And for the Norn’s strenght , “Not that their strength is limited to lifting power.” -> I’m sorry, but in the lore, the norn ( not with the spirit form , huh ) are only described to be much more stronger about their lift strenght .
(-> I just see it after twice reading , nice kitten placement ^^ )

But If you take a Norn vs a Charr , with a spirit form Norn, the Norn should not be able to lose.
After I do not want to dwell on the debate, my point of view it’s just that in a duel without weapons or armor or magicpower, with similar size, both opponents have a chance and that the fight will be tight.

No need to appologise. That’s understandable

I agree, in a one on one duel, a charr does have a chance. The lore evidence only shows that norn “tend” to win against more charr. But that in no way means a norn will always win no matter what.

As for their strength, I have seen nothing in lore to indicate that their strength is only limited to lifting power. It may indeed be so but nothing has ever indicated it. So going by the principle of occums razor, it is more responsible not to assume their strength is limited to lifting power. but we can atleast agree that the possibility is there that it is limited to lifting power. However, when addressing it we should clarify that it is only a possibile lore theory rather than an actual lore fact.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

And the indians were, just like the charr back then, tribals living in tents. It wasn’t even a nation back then.

This is false. The charr had an empire.

“Internal strife, reckless power-mongering, and brutal feuds threatened to tear apart this otherwise secure empire.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Ecology_of_the_Charr

Obsidian.1328:

Deflection, but ok I’ll roll with it.

There’s a lot to be said for your comment. From the establishment of Ascalon and Kryta, to guilds killing each other in the streets of Arah, to Elonians slaughtering Forgotten in the Crystal Desert, all the way to Meerak shouting “Repent for your sins!” like a crazy man. Indeed, GW2 could be seen as a logical continuation of that premise.

I would argue humanity had already paid that price. Unrestricted magic-use cost Tyrians the full use of it, and humans in particular the protective presence of the gods after their Exodus. Unending Guild warfare cost them the strength to resist the Charr invasions. The Cataclysm and Searing themselves can(sort of) be seen as fate finally coming ’round on the irresponsibility of human privilege and power.

But are humans really the bad guys in all of this? Was it humans who came to this world of their own volition? Was it humans who created unrestricted magic to abuse? Was it humans who imprisoned a god, only to have that act come back to haunt them tenfold? Was it humans who decided to push into Charr lands in the first place?

No. The real bad guys, if we must decide, are the gods themselves. It was their irresponsibility and arrogance which has caused, directly or indirectly, most of the strife in Tyria’s history. Humans are by no means innocent, but to say they are the bad guys of Tyria is more than a little misguided.

It’s really not deflection at all. My point was that it wasn’t a new concept created to include the other races and it is demonstrated. They were conquerors from the first game. if we choose to describe that as “bad guys” or merely “misguided”, the result is the same. The image of them is consistant. That they are not the shining heroes of the allian….erm.. Tyria. They are fallible and susceptible to the same base drives that RL humans are.

So sure. We can see that the gods had a major hand in their actions. But let’s not delude ourselves into thinking it only started for GW2.

Obsidian.1328:

Dustfinger.9510:

Ehhh….

“They arrived naked and defenseless, except for one thing: their desire for control. //in no time we began to take over.// Soon humans had everything we required, and it was then that we began to prey upon the other creatures. We hunted animals for sport, chased the druids from the jungle, and took up residence in lands that did not belong to us. We became the masters of this world. We took all of the privilege and none of the responsibility.”

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Tyria

That ^ can be found in the guild wars manuscripts that came with the first game before any expansion.

Well if yer going to take all that literally, then you gotta believe this too from the same source:
Despite the serpents’ retreat, the gods never halted their work creating the world, and with the benevolence of indulgent parents, they decided to create magic. It was to be a gift to all the intelligent creatures—meant to ease a life of toil and make survival a less arduous task. When they had finished creating their gift, they presented it to the humans and the Charr, the Tengu and the dwarves, the minotaurs and the imps, and all the races of the land.
;)

We don’t need to believe the npc’s are infallible in order to show that “humanity was actually the bad guys” is not a new concept created for other playable races. It was established from the very begining of the game. That image of humanity has remained consistant from the birth of GW1 into GW2.

Kurodius.7463:

Can you provide a link for this confirmation? I would be wholly satisfied with this answer if you would.

it was in early interviews. Sadly the links are no longer working. Hopefully they were saved in the official wiki somewhere :/.

edit: so far all I found that was saved is that they have the appropriate bits and can’t reproduce. I will continue looking.

“Physically, sylvari are male or female, and the relevant external biology is accurate on both, but they cannot sexually reproduce as the other races do; they have no internal organs capable of creating children.” http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dream_and_Nightmare

edit 2: here’s another reference to sylvari sexuality:
“Sexuality is simply a natural part of life, and so long as it is entered into with good will and joy, the gender doesn’t make a difference.”
http://gaygamer.net/2011/10/interview_guild_war_2s_ree_soe.html

We see that the term “sexuality” here isn’t used as a synonym for gender because it is being compared and contrasted to gender.

edit 3: confirmation of what sylvari limbs are made up of:

“In exploring the anatomy, you can see a lot of different details. The forearms, for example, are not a human arm with leaves tacked on top, but rather a shape created by many stem tendons and long leaves coiling around one another to create the structure. The faces of the sylvari are not restricted by the anatomy of the skull as a human would, but are created by layers upon layers of plant materials that press together, forming the illusion of anatomy. On the outside, they are beautiful and elegant. Looking closer, you’ll see how different they really are.”
http://www.talktyria.net/2011/08/11/sylvari-lore-interview-with-ree-soesbee-kristen-perry/

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Yes our land. This whole “the humans were actually the badguys” thing was just shoehorned in by the developers to make the races more equal. Nothing more.

Ehhh….

“They arrived naked and defenseless, except for one thing: their desire for control. //in no time we began to take over.// Soon humans had everything we required, and it was then that we began to prey upon the other creatures. We hunted animals for sport, chased the druids from the jungle, and took up residence in lands that did not belong to us. We became the masters of this world. We took all of the privilege and none of the responsibility.”

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Tyria

That ^ can be found in the guild wars manuscripts that came with the first game before any expansion.

Stramatus.5219:

When the treaty is done with, I and my brothers will rise up a drive the Charr back out of our homeland.

Sounds awfully familiar :P

Apparition.1576:

Kimbo Slice lost a fight to a little shrimp.

Give it up with this superhuman stregnth crap, that has nothing to do with getting whipped in a fight. Skill, agility, experience are all equal factors. Go to the gym and watch all those big guys lifting all those weights, put him in a ring with a trained fighter and watch what happens. Skilled, vicious, and none of that stregnth means anything.

Chars are bred to fight, they have trained since birth, you guys are hilarious. This is a fight we are talking about people.. not a rock lifting contest…

It was given before you even tried. 4th page 11th post down

“And we have already been shown what would tend to happen. So personal anecdotes about getting beat by smaller guys and issues about other advantages being a factor have been addressed. At least by me.”

So by your logic a valid rebuttle only needs me to reference to a big guy beating a small guy.

Apparition.1576:

Awaiting your rebuttle….

almost 20 minutes later….

The ball is …. how you say…. “in your court”.

A-net has confirmed that sylvari are sexually active but lack the approrite organs to reproduce. Like all sylvari limbs, their “sexual organs” are simply imitations of human sexual organs made from plant pettles/stems/leaves/bark/vines/etc. wrapped to form a shape that produces a similar physical function. they look and operate similarly without he reproductive aspect.

arthurobenzi.2619:

There was a dialogue on page 4 of this topic , where a norn told him that he was hitting hard under the influence of alcohol ( ale) and a charr replied that the charrs hit hard all the time. In this dialogue , we can easily understand that the figure of style indicates that the repository is put on the person who first mentioned the subject ( the norn ) and the charr answers in relation to this repository.
In terms of lore, I based on what we can found in written form (in game, or other) , but the lore does not indicate that the norn are more powerful than the charr , but it is mentioned that the norn can lift very heavy loads.
( But I can granted , alleging lore , in ancient times , the norn and jotuns was extremely powerful because they could use magic (before human gods restrict magic) ) .
And theory crafting is only there to fill the lore . If the lore already answered all these questions we would not be here to discukitten

arr “You can’t fight if you’re drunk”
Norn: “Ale hardens norn fists”
Charr “Ha! Charr hit hard all the time”

Sounds more like playful banter to me unless you are also implying that norn go through a Popeye-effect and suddenly get super strong only after they’ve had their brew. And then further reason that charr are as strong as these drunk super norn at all times. That doesn’t seem to line up with the lore at all. So if the norn are always as strong as these drunk super norn, how do the norn keeping beating charr with larger number and organizational advantages?

If you acknowledge that lore doesn’t answer the question then you can’t rightly claim that charr and norn have equal hitting power as you have been doing. Right now the lore we do have simply indicates that norn are stronger. Not that their strength is limited to lifting power.

edit: and you misinterpret that dialog. The norn isn’t saying he is hitting hard because he’s under the influence of alchohol. the norn is defending his choice to drink alchohol in the near future when the charr tells him that alchohol has negative effects on the body and he’s going to need his senses keen because they have to go on patrole. It’s the dialog at the end of the champ svanir event.

clear truths:

-Charr were one dimensional baddies in the beginning of GW1
-Humans ruled the world.

That means that anything less than humanity ruling the world is unbalanced against humans when using GW1 as the benchmark.

No one is disputing the evolution of how the idea of charr developed. But let’s not confuse that development with lore development. they are related but they aren’t the same. The writers have given the world depth by making the one dimensional charr into a one dimensional view of the charr. Everyone knows this. But I fail to see how that pertains to in-world lore discussions. Constantly breaking the 4th wall in order to dispute in-world lore is pretty nonsensical.

Monoman.2068:

I’d like to see them say that with a serious face after watching some of the videos they push as a part of their “make gw2 a e-sport” plan.

If there was a choice to swap races into other ones, I’m sure most players would only be up against norns. Anet is just face first in lala land.

Competitors that would be heavy in e-sport would look for any advantage no matter how small. The only way to know how big an advantage it really is is to have those same players play the same class with the same builds on different races.

Otherwise small pros smashing on large noobs is always going to look one sided.

Kalavier.1097:

Pretty much a “Meh, they are spreading my corruption and icebrood around. Who cares?”

The impression I got was that they use his power without him even noticing because they are mere fleas. Ill try to find the link to the interview after work. It was a fairly recent one I think.

it’s almost like Jormag is more interested in fighting his own fights than actual world domination.

Kalavier.1097:

Jormag’s are also agressive, but they haven’t been making the pushes and purposeful invasions the Risen were.

To add to this, a-net also said that while the SoS get their power from Jormag, it isn’t because he acknowledges them as “his army”. That they are really beneath Jormags notice.

McFribble.2349:

The idea behind dual wielding is nothing but high fantasy

This is false as I have demonstrated.

I would also suggest people stop getting their knowledge about practical weapon use in war and fighting from trashy anime.Fencing is a sport, not a combat style, and most martial arts “weapon training” you see these days are for display purposes for tournaments only (this is coming from someone who has his black belt in martial arts).

I was a hand to hand combat instructor in the Marine Corps. As I said before, escrima urilizes dual wielding and has proven highly effective for centurines even into this modern age.

The modern martial art of krav maga that the Israeli military uses and that the Marine Corps takes from also advocates dual wielding. Your asertions that it is only for high fantasy is plain wrong as it is utilized in modern military training.

meanwhile many of the dual wielding styles from the far east didn’t originate for the purpose of tournaments. They originated for the purpose of self defense. e.g.: Butterfly swords are the length of a human forearm because they were concealable in the sleeve or boots and carried while traveling the dangerous roads.

edit: Any weapon set or style that is effective for single self defense was just fine in barabarian style wars that focused more on the individual prowess of each warrior rather then the group cohesion of phalanx type stratagies. Native Americans are perfect examples of this.

Nightarch.2943:

Dustfinger.9510:

Xovian.8572:

As to the topic, I’d like to see all weapons opened to all professions personally.

This. And a-net did say they are working to make it happen.

They said they would rather expand existing weapons to other professions before introducing new ones. As it is right now they currently have no plans for expanding them unfortunately.

They actually said that they are currently working hard at giving all weapons to all classes.

I’d like some sort of lore reference that says the punches of a charr are about even with a norn. I don’t see how anybody can make that claim without lore examples or hard numbers to say that any potential charr mechanical advantage is enough to match the strength adavantage of the norn.

because as far as small skirmishes go, we have seen in lore that norn tend to take on forces of charr that outnumber them. So all the theory crafting about the anatomy and the difference between lift strength and punch strength doesn’t seem to be reflected in the lore. perhaps the advantage for the charr is there mechanically but it doesn’t seem to be enough to contend with the power and skill of the norn. So all factors considered, the powers don’t tend to balance out.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

You make my soul hurt with “skaven of Warcraft”, Dustfinger. It’s called “Warhammer”

Xovian.8572:

As to the topic, I’d like to see all weapons opened to all professions personally.

This. And a-net did say they are working to make it happen.

McFribble.2349:

You want to know what all of the weapons you suggested had in common? Not a single one or combination of them was ever used in war. Dual wielding is nothing but high fantasy that is insanely impractical in reality (like the myths around katanas. They aren’t anything to write home about).

Tomohawk/knife were common in war. Tomohawk/club also common. Miyamoto Musashi, long credited for being the greatest swordman in history created a two sword style while advocating that 2 swords is better against multiple opponents while one sword is better against a single opponent. Also sword/jute were common in feudal japan.

The Filipino martial art of escrima also focuses on dual wielding many different kinds of weopons and has been used very effectivey thoughout history in actual war.

Dual wielding is time and battle tested. And can be highly practicle and effective as history has shown as long as you have the training to do so effectively. krav maga also utilizes dual wielding.

magic fly.2041:

They said they don’t feel that it is a problem. The keyword is feel.
Much more importantly, that was an extremely old article. Before the game was released. What was said about what they ‘feel’ about balance between races at a time so far ago has no weight at all.

I wouldn’t believe just whatever I was told, especially when the advantage is so blatantly obvious.

They may well base those feeling off of the data they can see. Really, the only counter to what a-net said is how some players may “feel” in an environment that they have no controle over. So if a-nets feeling mean nothing then players feeling on this matter can only mean so much less than nothing. Not sure how you can compare their feeings on their own data to your own admitted wishful thinking.

edit: As far as how blatantly obvious that advantage may be, the interviewer even acknowledges how “slight” that advantage is. So the question acknowlges that it is slight and a-et agrees that it isn’t significant.

arthurobenzi.2619:

(Norn have more strengh, but not more power),

I’d question the definition of power here. Then I’d ask for the source.

yeah, in order for us to really know how much of a (dis)advantage the size is, we’d have to watch extensive battles with the same people using the same class and builds with different races of differing size in a controlled environment. And then take the kill/death ratios from there.

A-net may well have done this. If they are telling people to l2p, it could actually be a l2p issue. If they say the diffrences are negligible, they are probably negligible.

I think that hyleck are like grawl. Not united and not strong so each tribe is besieged by it’s own problems but the hyleck as a whole are so spread out that they are in no danger of extinction. They just aren’t a power.

Kodan really are like furry norn. Everything said about how kodan may be becoming extinct also applies to the norn.

Quaggan are the dodo. A protected sanctuary is their only hope.

Do you have the kill/death ratios? For all we know they may prove that the size of the asura is somehow a disadvantage.

Shirk.6421:

Please… staaaaahp… rapier + dagger, saber + dagger, tomahawk + knife, axe + seax in the western world, dual butterfly knives, dual sabers, dual swords, dual axes, dual sais, dual hook swords in the eastern world – your argument about the reality issue is invalid.

Ahh, thank you. People assume that because they aren’t automatically good at something while LARPing that it somehow means it isn’t effective with proper training.

or they compare it to wielding a sword and shield while forgetting that the shield didn’t conquere the world until it started being used in concert with other shields. Forcing the dual weilder to fight 3-5 opponents rather then just one with a shield. One on one, the best benefit of a shield is that it is effective with minimal training, meaning you can replace that warrior sooner then societies that may produce more skilled warriors but take a lifetime to replace.

Blunderbuss were fired from the hip because the backflare from the powder would have burned your face when fired. Even without powder, it is a scattershot at close range that doesn’t require precision aiming.

Why isn’t the CIA out patrolling the streets of NY helping to catch muggers? Don’t they care about our fine citizens? A neighbors got mugged and the CIA did nothing to stop it. They have the ability to catch a single mugger but they simply failed my neighbor.

Q: Many people that played PvP, including BOON Control members, said that asura characters have a slight advantage due to their small size and therefore reduced visibility compared to other races. Do you believe this is a problem? What about putting all asura player-characters in golems during PvP matches?

Eric: We don’t feel that this advantage is significant once people become more familiar with the game.

http://guildwars2.pl/about_lore_and_mechanics_with_eric_flannum_guildwarspl_exclusive,a545

awww. That means no playable hyleck :*(

Heedlessly throwing troops into the meat grinder just to spite the opponent sounds like the skaven of Warcraft. And it only works for them due to a high birth rate. And only by subjecting their troops/slaves to brutalization and torture from an early age.

Fluffball.8307:

So presumably Malyk’s Tree was influenced by… let’s say the druids. Other sylvari we meet might look like aloe husks.

I’d say so. Walking plants from a Pale tree type figure may not be so new. They could have been encountered many times in the past but if their own Pale tree was influenced by any other of Tyrias mobile carnivorous plants then it’s version of sylvari would have been near indistinguishable. especially without the influence of a tablet or the desire to interact with humanity due to Ronan. Maybe they would have just been more intelligent and better at killing.

Lasica.5068:

It could be that homosexuality is a form of natural population control bought about by the overpopulation of the human race. The ability of a species to self manage its own population at sustainable levels would be a pretty major evolutionary advantage over other species. Only a theory, but it seems to fit.

Definitely plausible. We see some other forms of population controle in tiger salamanders. When a population gets too dense, some babies will simply grow into larger cannibals. Interestingly, these cannibals will choose to eat non-related tiger salamanders rather than their own kin. http://backyardzoologist.wordpress.com/tag/tiger-salamanders/