It was already bad already since if left alone the Elder Dragons would have transformed all life into their own ideal image then exhaust each other by spending their magical energy going to war with each other until they put themselves to sleep.
All we did was break the long stalemate each Elder Dragon have with each other and now all that Magical Energy Zhaitan had is now released and up for grabs by the remaining Elder Dragons which will allow them to become stronger.
In the past none of the Elder Dragons were killed due to each awakening never having a unified organization to fight them due to infighting among and within the ancient races.
@ trehearne bit…
is that a joke or serious reply?
Trehearne is not influenced by Mordy since Mordy didn’t awaken until recently. the new Mordrem info reveal that the Dream prevented any Sylvari from following Mordy’s commands so he had no influence by Mordremoth.
It is part of their God Complex they have. Each Elder Dragons think the other races are nothing more than tools to expand their influence along side some belief they themselves above the other races.
While they hunger for magic they also appear to be trying to turn the world into their ideal world such as Zhaitan believing a world of Death is a ideal world and Mordremoth beliving a world that flourished in Nature is a ideal world. However, they also want to rule that Ideal world as Gods so their minions worship them as such.
However, from GW2 lore the Elder Dragons have never once succeed due to a constant stalemate between each Elder Dragon which eventually leads to them consuming all magic among themselves and falling a sleep again until they awake and begin their cycle once again with consuming magic and trying to shape the world into their own ideal world.
Yet now that stalemate has been broken since the Pact has successfully killed Zhaitan thus leaving a power valcuum which has never happened in the past cycles when the Elder Dragons awakened.
I just hope Treehearn turns and we get to kill him.
You really want to take Trehearne’s Job?
Pact Leader Job requires you to take part in diplomatic discussion, Resource management, Connections for supplies and recuits, Ability to perform Desk Job tasks for 6 hours a day, Military meetings with officers, Recuiting members into the Pact, and a pay of 0 copper every day. Not to mention all your Dailies will be filling out paper work in your office and make certain to meet with each Pact officer everyday to discuss military strategy. Pact leader is not allowed to enter PvE, PvP, and WvW zones until Player complete all Dailies in their Pact office.
Compared to the Player character, Trehearne has a actual job while our character is just a freelancer until he or she joins a fight against a Elder Dragon.
Maybe the Commanders require a larger amount of Magical energy to maintain which is why Mordy doesn’t have a lot of them. Don’t forget back when we were fighting Zhaitan his strongest minions cost him a lot of Magical Energy to create and maintain so there may be a limit to how much each Elder Dragon can control in their army until they reach a certain level of strength after consuming enough Magic.
Think of it like a Unit limit where a Commander type mordrem cost him 10 Unit slots but a lower rank only cost him 1 unit slot.
Managing the amount of Magical energy spent seems to be part of the Elder Dragon’s army building since they are spending the Magical energy they consume to create their minions and with the stronger ones costing the most it would be unwise to spend so much of their own Magical Energy just to build a army and leaving themself in a weak state.
I’m already assuming they may have plans for certain future Elite Specialization to be focused on current weapons the Professions can use but they may have those Elite Specializations give those certain weapon new skill sets for that specific weapon.
I will use Forge because I’ve always wanted to use a Melee weapon on my Engineer.
As Anet said there are more Elite Specialization arriving in the future and certain people will certainly find it better to stick with basic Specializations until one of the future Elite Specializations catch their eye.
Not to mention Elite Specializations are not meant to replace basic Specialization but to provide new gameplay style to the Profession.
I saw golem elite skill. I think drones have gone by the wayside. Can I just say, great we are getting a second weapon type, hammers suck. Am I a barbarianeer now? Do I hit nails in my off time? Am I a clown? Do I amuse you? If we are going to deviate from the motif, can we use 1h sword so at least shield skills can be kept? Hammers are the worst choice you could have gone with, bar none.
I can’t tell if this a serious post or not?
Hammer was actually on my top 3 things to expect if Engineer was given a New Weapon.
It fits the theme of the Engineer being builders because Hammer is also a tool to build things and can be designed with a rocket propelled function if Anet put effort into it which the current trailer seems to have with the flame animations. Second being Mace like a close range stun button and third being staff for some kind of Technomancer theme.
Two-handed swords and one handed swords were the last two I think Engineer may get since Engi is about technology and less about stabbing things. Unless they had Engi modify the Sword and Two-handed sword some how to fit into their Tech theme.
I don’t know how many of you used mutliple Beta characters but the amount is most likely due to how Mastery is a Account Bound leveling system so all characters, even ones that are not lvl 80 yet, will share the Mastery Benefits unlocked for your account.
Guess the large Exp pool is due to the Mastery System being account bound rather than character bound so Anet may be expecting players to be leveling Mastery through multiple characters due to how certain players will be playing through HoT Main Storyline to experience how different it is for different characters.
Isn’t Lord Faren a bit dumber than most of the nobles anyways considering the game has him as the comic relief character of GW2?
A lot of nobles and other NPCs in GW2 find him a bit annoying and dumb in their standards.
Heck he was even run out of DR by a angry mob of Nobles and commoners due to causing Chauncey von Snuffles III losing 1st place and ended up 2nd place.
Both of his eyes seem to be intact, though that might be either a replacement or an illusion (as the event fight with him has us fighting clones of him).
One of his eyes may be a fake eye.
After all he mentioned losing the eye to Faren due to how horrible Faren was when he trained him.
Until we get a weapon swap, which probably won’t happen any time soon if ever, kits are gonna be a mainstay of the Engineer.
Unless a future Elite Specialization gives Engineer Weapon swap ability but in exchange the Kit skills are turned into new Ultitiy skills while getting a small hand full of new skills as well to go with that new Elite Specialization.
Given all the indications of hatred towards sylvari ever since Scarlet that have been in LA, I am doubtful that the death of one sylvari would be tied to three massive dragon heads.
Well from current lore it seems Bubbles was heading towards LA anyways, no matter what Scarlet did or not, due to how most deep sea refugees mentioned being pushed into Kryta no matter how far they ran from DSD influence.
Guess DSD just had a very long pit stop over these hundreds of years.
The only ets that didn’t suck were the earlier ones aetherized, dreamthistle and fused. It has been all down hill since then
I wouldn’t say down hill completely since Dwayna set are a nice addition to the BL weapon sets in a while.
The Dwayna weapon skins has that Hall of Heroes feel to them which is something I would have loved to see back in GW1 with HoH themed weapons.
However, I don’t quite fancy the rifle and pistol look for Dwayna weapons. I feel they could have put a little bit more effort into the rifle and pistol dwayna designs.
The Dwayna Shield is the most interesting in the Dwayna weapons.
I would have gotten the sword but since my main character is a Engineer I went with the Dwayna Hammer due to the Forge in HoT and I don’t quite like the Forge Elite Spec Weapon skin being a giant wrench.
We never learned that they died so it is completely logical that we never learned where they died. Or are you talking about the physical bodies the druids left behind when they became spirits?
I’m talking about their bodies that they left behind when they became spirits.
The Druids had to leave their physical bodies behind to become their Spirit forms so where they left them remains unknown.
Back on Topic:
Considering the importance of that Tree I’m expecting we are going there for a HoT Main Story Mission to get our answers.
I’m still hoping we may see Malyck once again in HoT since he went searching for his Tree in the Maguuma Jungle in the Magus Falls
With so many Sylvari I’m guessing the place where the Pale Tree was placed had a lot more bodies underground than was original thought.
We still don’t know what happened to most of the Druids of the Maguuma Jungle after all and only know that they died and became spirits. However, we never learned where did the Druids die.
Well from what you two said, I guess our next new weapon skin won’t be released until maybe on or near HoT release.
Guessing it may have a HoT theme skin to it for hyping HoT more like how some BL weapons are themed around released contents while others are themed around outfits.
Of course some BL weapons are themed for other things when released like the Chaos weapons.
However, there could be other reasons why Cantha would no longer be interesting to the Elder Dragons.
One hypothesis I have is that the Ministry of Purity and Canthan Emperor erased the existence of Magic from Canthan society so current Cantha may no longer have Magic users and citizens may think Magic as a myth or legend.
No magic users would mean less demand to create and use magic powered items which would lower the amount of magic in a area for the Elder Dragons to eat.
We know before they were cut off 100 years ago that they still traded with the outside
so they may have gained Engineer knowledge to advance their life without the dependency of Magic.
A lot of things can happen within generations of isolation and 100 years after all.
In truth, most only have a mention from armor sets. A lot don’t even have graves unless I’ve missed them. I know the Ebon Falcons have there graves at Ebon Hawke, along with Nicolas and Yakkington, Gwen and Kieran. I’ve not see the graves of any Hero’s or henchmen from GW1. But I may have missed them.
The graves of henchman can be found in the Shiverpeaks.
In the Spearhead Bane you’ll find the graves of GW1 Henchman.
The graves in Spearhead Bane are…..
Alesia, who was a healer henchman.
Hagen, who was an armorer.
Hagnon Warblade, who collected frosted griffon wings.
Hoknil the Lesser, who collected azure remains.
Little Thom, who was a brawler henchman.
Makar Thoughtslayer, who collected dredge manifestos.
Merin Trollsbane, who collected mountain minotaur tusks.
Reyna, who was an archer henchman.
Tharn Stonerift, who was a monk henchman.
Volsung, who was a merchant.
Kilroy Stonekin, who was a famous brawler.
Stefan can be found as a Boss in Charr Personal Story for Loyal Soldier revealing he went back to Ascolan after losing a drinking game against Kilroy Stonekin and is now one of the Ascalonian Ghost due to being hit by the Foefire
Well looking at your mapping most of DSD activity is at the southwestern locations.
Though I wonder how much spread out is DSD influence since so far the path you made seem to show that DSD is moving more towards Tyria.
However, it still a bit odd how DSD avoided having his influence spread to Cantha. The path in the map makes it appear as if something is luring DSD to Tyria slowly or something may be keeping it from having interests in Cantha.
As for the refugees from the Deep Sea, we can also assume they did not all fleed to Tyria only. Some may have fleed to Elona or Cantha as well but for now we lack any info if any refugees made it to Elona or Cantha.
But nothing even indicates that the DSD would have territory in or around Cantha. There is, quite literally, NOTHING that indicates such.
calm down. It is just a hypothesis I have considering we don’t know how Cantha has been surviving unharmed for all these years.
We yet to know how much DSD reach is and so far only two Elder dragon we know that have the ability to reach Cantha is Zhaitan and DSD due to the Ocean being the only thing that is cutting them off.
Zhaitan is removed but DSD current remains unknown but may be the only one that can reach Cantha.
DSD only expands his army through bodies of water such as rivers and lakes. If the Emperor of Cantha has some secret deal with DSD then of course there would be no hints of DSD having influence. The Emperor, after all, wants to keep Cantha a Pure Human society so anything that would cause them to reach out towards the outside would be something that ruins their Human Society the Ministry of Purity built since their isolation.
A crazy hypothesis but what if Cantha’s Emperor made a secet deal with the DSD which has allowed them to remain unharmed by the DSD for all these years? While keeping this deal a secret from the citizens of Cantha.
We know the Elder Dragons are not so mindless as others may think since each ED can think, strategies, and so on. ED, like Jormag, even bargain with people as their way to lure them to their side mostly promises of power in certain forms.
If DSD is has territory in Cantha, it is rather strange that it remained unharmed for all these years considering how the Zephyr describe the place being so beautiful.
I don’t get where people are obtaining their info that Drones are AI minions.
The current trailer shows that Drones will be hovering around the Forge so with Forge designed to be melee Specialization for Engi it would weaken Forge too much if the drones can be destroyed due to Forge’s melee nature.
I kind of question how does Razah remain unnoticed for such a long time from GW1 to GW2 timeframe. Each Henchman and Hero has some mention on their fate except for MOX and Razah.
There is not even a small mention of him in GW2 current nor any subtle hints of him any where. Not even the Durmand Priory have any records of Razah.
I’m assuming Ogden may remember him but I’m a bit surprised there is no mention of him considering Ogden shared his knowledge of each GW1 Henchman and Heroes with the Priory.
Guess there are still some secrets he keeps to himself.
Not much of a info but some leak info for the mystery image in HoT Main Website Elite Specialization page for the next Elite Specialization reveal appears to be the Druid.
Guess Engineer’s The Forge may be the last Elite Specialization revealed.
If you look back in the trailer you’ll notice the Drones are hovering around the Engineer.
Due to this I don’t think Drones are minions.
Until they reveal more on how Drones functions I’m sticking with the self attatchment skill hypothesis I have being Drones passively attatch to the character if they are equipped into Engi’s Utility.
Going to the Mists isn’t exactly unusual though, so I don’t know about the Revenant’s introduction facilitating Razah’s reintroduction. However, assuming that Razah’s cells are not subject to the same failure to take care of waste that others are (aka, mortals), then he should be able live forever, yes. Hm… I guess if he’s still connected to the Mists, the source of all things, then it could potentially renew him continuously, thereby making him immortal.
Razah should not be able to age due to being a Entity of the Mist so he should be still alive assuming nothing bad happened to him between GW1 and GW2.
Back in GW1 Razah mentioned Abaddon had trapped him in the Gate of Anguish for centuries so by GW1 he was already hundreds of years old. Among that it appears Razah does not become hungry so he can spend centuries without food and water.
Only question now is did Razah developed into something Human or did he become a Demon.
Not to mention there are way more interesting stories than HURDUR evil dragon is about to destroy the world.
I for one am a big fan of the Human Charr peace treaty and the tensions around it.
but in the end the Elder Dragon is always involved in some way.
For example, if we lose the Human Charr peace treaty we will lose support from both Charr and Humans for the fight against the Elder Dragon.
Caudecus doesn’t support the Charr peace treaty because he is using the hatred between Charrs and Humans as a mean to gain support. Not to mention he doesn’t see the Elder Dragons as a threat so if he succeeds in ruining the treaty and take the throne Tyria is most likely going to be screwed by the Elder Dragons.
Well Lore wise it is currently impossible to move to a different Continent because Elona and Cantha are cut off.
Elona lost contact long ago due to Joko’s rule and the only way to Elona now is through the Crystal Desert and that is where Kralkatorrik currently hides.
Cantha was cut off by Zhaitan and their isolation policy but with Zhaitan gone the only thing keeping people from making contact with Cantha is their Isolation policy and Xenophobic Policies of no other species allowed in Cantha except for Humans thanks to their Xenophobic Emperor. The Zephyr mentioned a beautiful contient they been to that remains unharmed by Elder Dragon influence which people currently suspects to be Cantha.
Cantha is only believed to be still standing due to how Canthan ship remains still wash up into Kryta.
I hope so as well since we only have 2 elite specializations left and only 2 months away from release.
If Anet does a 1 beta weekend per month thing then we may only have 1 or 2 beta weekends left after 3rd beta which means Druid and Forge will only have 1 or 2 betas to be tested and adjusted.
What if Bubbles is the real power behind everything and Mordremoth is just like Algae?
Yes he is that evil antagonist hiding behind the scenes. Pretending to not be a threat but when the time is right he takes off his mask and say “I am THE Elder Dragon.”
EVIL LAUGH
Jokes a side and back on Topic:
I a bit curious on how the DSD makes his minions and where are they located. Current lore says that DSD is creating minions only in water based locations such as Lakes and Rivers beyond the Unending Ocean within his territory but this would imply DSD may have claimed some land zones already during the Movement of the World.
The question remains what land zones did the DSD claim and where are those places.
So what happens to the children when it involves Elder Dragon Corruption anyways?
We only know Jormag doesn’t corrupt the children and females of each species but instead have them sent to himself for unknown reasons.
Other Elder Dragons that can corrupt other species so far doesn’t seem to corrupt the childrens of the races and the only assumption we have is that they just kill the childrens and only corrupt the adults of each race.
Do you think one of the Elder Dragons may actually use Dragon Corrupted Children?
…have we even heard what the cost will specifically be?
I heard rumors the cost to unlock all skill and trait for Elite Specialization is 170 Skill points ( 85 for all skills and 85 for all traits)
However, that is just the rumors I heard.
If this is true I wonder how will they provide more skill points for future Elite Specializations since currently there is not enough to support a 2nd Elite Specialization if they decide to release new ones during Season Updates with the 170 skill point requirement.
There is also the matter of how many new Skill Point challenges will be in HoT.
60 unique skins, 175 guild hall decorations, 2 guild hall types, 1 wvw map, who knows how many raids, 1 new pvp mode, who knows how many pvp champions, 1 pvp legendary back, pvp leagues, mastery system, 9 new elite specs, 1 new class.
And I may be forgetting stuff
Also “4 maps” means nothing, in good or bad. It really depends on the contents
Don’t forget 3 new Legendary Armor sets with 1 Legendary armor set for Light, Medium, and heavy Armor.
So the new masteries page on the HoT site has this three-headed dragon attacking LA from the seas….
DSD?
oh nice find. I have not seen the new arts yet for HoT but if this is true then we may kill both Mordremoth and DSD in HoT era. Early art did show DSD to have 2 heads but Anet often changes things until the final product is done so it wouldn’t be far if Anet decides to make DSD has three heads now.
I can only guess it may mean DSD may appear in HoT and have us fight both Modremoth and DSD or maybe Mordremoth remains the focus of HoT Storyline and Season 3 serves to be the Storyline for DSD.
Fortunately, that’s the GW1 lion statue. As long as we leave it at the bottom of the harbor, this catastrophe can clearly be averted.
It may be a glimps to what caused the fall of the original LA since we know a tidal wave hit the GW1 LA. People assumed it was Zhaitan but may be it was DSD all along.
I always thought a big part of the reason for doing a headstart was to reduce the load on the servers by staggering when people start, and so the inevitable crashes and lag which result from everyone trying to get on at the same time affect preorder/purchase customers who are more likely to stick with the game in spite of that.
Since HoT uses the same servers and everyone who bought it can play already that’s not needed.
I’m more concerned if the new maps can handle the large swarm of new players.
