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Gw2lfg.com malware

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Avast puts out false positives all the time. That’s what you get for using free antivirus software >.>

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AMA Request - Writers & Lore Developers

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I’d love this! We really don’t get much of ANY lore news from the design team

@Narcemus an AMA stands for Ask Me Anything. It’s a reddit phenomenon where people ask questions and the poster responds

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Stunlock issues.

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Dodge the stuns and bring skills to break the ones you missed. Standing still and casting is a sure way to get yourself killed. If you’re not CONSTANTLY moving you’re playing the game wrong.

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HM for old dungeons?

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I’d be interested in a Hard Mode if it actually made things HARDER (i.e. like in GW1). I want to see new mechanics and better AIs on bosses in HM. Just throwing a bunch more HP on bosses and buffing their damage would not something I’d be interested in.

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Jade Maw 40+

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Right but you have to use 2x rez orbs during the jade maw which makes the runs very expensive.

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Fractals cap 80?

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Wow, that’s impressive! I’m not sure any players can help you, you guys might be the only ones up that far. Here’s hoping a dev will comment, I’d love to know the answer to this as well, hope you guys will be able to continue progressing!

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most effective pve cross class combos?

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Well it depends a lot on what you’re trying to do. Combos happen when you use a combo finisher in a a combo field. Different combo finishers have different effects in different combo fields. The wiki has a great page on combos so you can read up on the fields/finishers available to each profession there and decide on which profession combinations you prefer most. I don’t there’s any mix of professions that provides a significantly better combination of finishers/fields since they all have different advantages in different situations

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Question about Ascended item (Infusion)

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From what i know there is option to infuse Ascendent item (Uninfused) by using Mystic Forge.For my back piece it coasts around 250 ectoplasm to upgrade it to “Infused”

However,I saw something called “Simple Infusion” that can be bought inside FoTM dungeon from golem merchant,it is pretty cheap

I want to know what is the difference,and what should i do for the time beeing

Ascended gear come in two types: basic and infused. Basic have only an open infusion slot (which you insert the simple infusion from FoTM in). An infused version is an upgraded version of the ascended item which has an INHERENT +5 agony resistance AND an open infusion slot. So a basic ascended item can only have +5 AR, but an upgraded (infused) version can have a total of +10 AR.

It’s understandable that you got confused, the naming system is a little bit odd =P

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Fractals: The World Below Jade Maw

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I hate to burst your bubble but the entire map of Tyrian is above a great big sea. Dungeons; instances and maps are all layered on top of each other with at the bottom a great big sea of nothingness.

Yep if you manage to fall through the map anywhere in game you’ll find a big empty stretch of water. It’s everywhere under the terrain ingame

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Gear progression

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Gear gets better up to a point, which would be Exalted items. Exalted and Legendary share the same quality of stats, but legendary items tend to look a lot more awesome.

Ascended stats are a slight step up from the Exalted. And yes, if Agony ends up being a common part of endgame play (lets hope not), you’ll want to get ascended gear just for the infusion slots.

At the moment: Agony only exists in the Fractals dungeon, Ascended gear only exist for the back slot and rings, and 99% of the game is completely do-able without either.

I think you mean Exotic, not Exalted =P

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QUESTION about the twilight

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Changing the sigil will not change it’s legendary status. It MIGHT affect your ability to combine it with Sunrise to make Eternity though.

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Jade Maw 40+

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So… how exactly is this supposed to work? Did ANet actually intend people to wipe 3 times over and get ranger to pet rez them? I have a bit of a trouble accepting that.
My guess this is sort of reserved area until more infusable gear comes out, but that also seems pretty lame…

Basically that. For now it’s doable with rez orbs. You just have to think of it as people doing content ahead of schedule.

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This is ridiculous.

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So Kicker, what you’re saying is that your groups take two days to finish an instance? I wouldn’t want to be in your groups to begin with, then.

Honestly, relying on pugs isn’t a good strategy. This is a cooperative game, and finding a good guild to run with is imperative. If you’re looking to have fun running dungeons (story or explorable) your best bet is to find a good guild to play with.

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Salvaging gears acquire through dungeon token

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you won’t get any ectos from salvaged items under level 70

Actually it’s level 68+ items that can give ectos when salvaged, common misconception.

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Dye Help

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My guess would be the Hydrangea dye but it depends a lot on the armor you plan to use. Different armors tend to have different colors when the same dye is added to them. I.E. when I use the Brick dye on my Pirate Mask it looks dark red, but when I apply it to my exotic boots from AC it looks very brown.

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Is fractal back Soulbound on acquire?

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Hi, I need a fast skill points gathering, but with my main i already got 100% map complete. So i wanted to get 24 skill points while leveling my alt.

However, i noticed that philosofer’s stone are soulbound to the character who buys it. Does this happens also for thing crafted in the mystic forge with that character?
Even the Fractal capacitor?

It should be account bound and soulbound on use, see here

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Q: Whats the best way to monetize karma?

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You can stick karma items into the mystic forge and sel lwhat comes out ..but it isnt very efficent.

Actually it’s pretty efficient to buy level 68-80 greens at 1-2k karma apiece and throw them into the forge trying to get rares. Then you can either dump the rares back into the forge for a chance at exotics (NOT very cash efficient, usually lose quite a bit of profit potential) or salvage the rares for ecto (pretty decent profit potential)

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salvaging dungeon gear for ecto

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I was checking the dungeon gear and notice only 4 dungeon sell rare item above level70(through the dungeon token vendor)

So if I want ecto, I can only run cof, coe, hotw, arah? Since only those dungeon vendor sell level70+ rare? Dungeon like AC give only 35 rare?

If I salvage the gear I get from AC token vendor does that give ecto? Since it’s silly only a few dungeon is worth running for ecto.

Also what salvaging kit should I use to salvage? I’ve been using master salvage kit. I’m not sure if that gives more ecto.

You will only get ectos from rares/exotics level 68 an higher. The AC token vendor sells level 80 exotics, so you can buy those and salvage to ectos, but ofc they’re much more expensive

Master salvaging kits give the best chance for salvaging ecto of the kits that can be bought with gold. Black Lion Salvage Kits can be bought with gems, but given the exchange rate of gold→gems, you’ll loose loads of money buying them.

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Starting on Ascended Gear

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Dulfy has a great guide on how everything involving ascended gear works!

http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/

There’s two types of ascended gear Backpieces and Rings. Basic versions of these have an open slot which you can put an infusion in to get +5 agony resistance. The basic versions of Rings and Backpieces can be upgraded to have an inherent +5 agony resistance in addition to an open infusion slot. So every piece can give you a total of +10 agony resistance.

Dulfy explains in detail the ways you can obtain + upgrade your rings and backpieces, but I can sketch out how it’s done later this evening when I get in from skiing ^__^

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Level up -Craft

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Right — so they closer you are to 400 in your crafting discipline, the more powerful items you can craft

Common materials can be obtained by harvesting nodes in the open world (i.e. ore, trees, plants).

Fine (blue) materials are uncommon drops from monsters and are used along with common material to make blue, green, and yellow quality items. The power scale for items looks like white < blue < green < yellow < orange/purple

Rare (yellow) materials are rare drops from specific mobs/chests and are used to make exotic (orange) quality items.

Alternatively you can buy all these materials from other players using the trading post. Hope that helps!

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Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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The Dredge Powersuit is easily one of the easiest bosses of all fractals, with the exception of the jellyfish.
Every time you fail, it’s your fault, every single bit of damage is totally avoidable.
The bombs have a max range, you can outrun the bombs the second you see him getting ready to throw them, and the ground-pound-agony ability can be dodged entirely.

The damage is absolutely not entirely avoidable at 20+

Sure, he’s easy before that, but once you hit 20 he is totally out of control.

He does this AOE ground stomp that lasts for 4 seconds, so you have to perfectly dodge it TWICE or you get ticks of agony. He uses it far too often, and it doesn’t matter where you are on the map you’re going to get hit by the agony.

The boss is fine <20, but above it he needs some serious tweaking. I have no idea why his ability happens so often or why it lasts so god kitten long (with 2 rounds of nearly unavoidable agony).

Poor gating mechanics at their finest.

WAIT WAIT WAIT, you mean you actually have to be GOOD at dodging to avoid damage at 20+? HOLY KITTENS BATMAN NERF IT NOW. This is the highest-end content in game, it shouldn’t be HARD. I shouldn’t have to be TALENTED to run 20+ fractals, let me zerg through this and get my tokens ASAP.

zzz baddies trying to ruin the only part of the game that is CHALLENGING so they can zerg rush their gear.

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Skipping getting out of hand

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I laughed so much at people saying “don’t dictate your gamestyle”. LOL. And what are you doing, refusing to kill the trash in a group that states they would ? You IMPOSE your gamestyle to a majority of players.
I don’t care, when I join a pug of 3-4 people, their will to skip trash, I’m pug, I follow the group.
However, what I do care is pugs, when you are 2-3-4 guildies join and try to IMPOSE skipping trash and if you don’t, usually, they don’t first leave, they want to kick you … LOL ?!
THAT is the problem in skipping … people willing to impose their skipping policy on everyone even if they are in minority.

When I talked about “fixing” it, I did not mean ban skipping people or something. I only meant, as it was said above, giving more value to loots frop trash. I mean, when we see only hunk or white items, or even nothing from trash, I understand that nobody wants to kill them … they should at least loot blue or green …
Other “fix” possible, in the revamp, is having more events/trash that must be cleared to progress.
Still, I find this 2nd option not very good as it imposes rules. I prefer having ways to encourage people not to skip.

Then your problem isn’t skipping, it’s morons who don’t pay attention to group composition. You can’t fix stupidity. Don’t try to lump all speedclearers in with idiot pugs.

If you don’t want to skip, clearly advertise that, explain it to your pugs when they join, and votekick them if they don’t obey those rules you set down. I do the same thing when I form a speedclear group.

tl;dr don’t make a post/thread complaining about how much you loathe speedclearing when your real problem is that you don’t like dealing with idiot pugs.

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Am I the only one who hates Risen?

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Stop trying to face tank and use your abilities to dodge/mitigate damage and level 80 zones are easy to solo. Unlike traditional games, GW2 is all about AVOIDING damage through awareness and mobility instead of trying to sit there and absorb/heal away all the damage that comes at you.

If you’re into face-tanking and don’t really enjoy the active playstile GW2 promotes, it’s probably not the game for you =\

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Skipping getting out of hand

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I do think it’s a problem. The solution isn’t going to come from better loot either. I firmly believe a lot of it is just mindsets. For example, I love taking on the “trash” mobs not just for loot, but it’s a challenge sometimes, and that’s fun to me. So I have a reason beyond loot, which sadly others don’t share. Poor ol’ me.

Still, the mindset I see across the board is “gold, gimme gold, l337 gear & fame! I wanna be a specialz person! RAWR!”.

It might be a challenge the first time you see certain trash, but when you’re running AC or CoF or CoE for the 50th time, there’s really no challenge there. The trash just becomes a time sink because you know the mechanics and if you’re capable of skipping them, more power to you. If you’re not interested in skipping trash, the advertise for a group that wants to do a full clear.

I respect that other people may enjoy clearing dungeons, they should respect that I enjoy speed clearing dungeons. Don’t try to dictate my playstyle because you don’t enjoy it as much as I do.

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fractal drops....what the....

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They’re meant to be very very rare skins. I’ve gotten one fractal weapon (dagger) in ~100 completions of level 20+ fractals (came from the daily reward).

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Can't equip 2 infused rings

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Really? Because i could equip 1 non infused and 1 infused at the same time.

Take a look at your Ascended ring. It should say “Unique” under the stats. This means that you can only equip ONE copy of that ring at time (so you can’t have 2x Red Ring equipped but you can have any 2x different Ascended rings equipped).

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Urban Battlefield best drops in the game

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My group I run with clear Maw’s trash.. The drops are amazing.

Yepm I averg 3-5 t6 mats + 2 rares off the trash in Maw at 20+, it’s insane to skip it

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Is it still "cosmetic"?

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That is where Ascended Gears comes ; they represent power and you litterally need hundreds of gold to get them, while someone can get them much faster with real money. While you will be trying to get the needed gold, those people will be more powerful than you in areas like WvW. Isn’t that unfair?

What’re you on about? I’ve got +25 AR and I haven’t spent any gold getting my ascended gear =\ Other than upgrading the backpiece, all of the ascended gear can be gotten 100% with fractal tokens >.>

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Increase 250 stacks to 1000 items per stack?

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As the title suggests. Can arena-net increase the 250 stack items to at least 1000 per stack of items? it is quite frustrating when you like to play as a power trader in this game and, I like playing the gw2 economy about 70% of my play time.

If other players are interested in this please post your opinion about this subject and if you agree state it in your reply, lets make this thread into a petition form.

To make this a bit more clear, I am referring to the ability to sell or buy at stacks of 250 items on the trading post, I am only requesting an increase to the limit you are allowed to sell or buy, not inventory stacks.

Thank you
-LittleJoe

People called for ANet pushing the 250 stack limit back in GW1 for years but ANet never did anything about it. It’s not in thier business interest b/c storage limitations mean people will go buy more characters/storage space.

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Legendaries on TP?

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I mean seriously -.- I thought you weren’t able to sell Legendaries on Trading Post (thank god).

What’s up with this? You can preety much buy every material needed for it except a few, and now you can just buy it completely? It’s kind of…kittenty to say so.

It’s supposed to be a hard work and feeling of achievment to succeed in getting a legendary, not just a gold farm, or gold buying, or god knows what else.

+ that guy must have had some money to throw to put it up for that price

9500 gold is 10x the cost of making the item. This guy is just showing off that has the gold to eat a 450g listing fee

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How to make 1 glob of ectoplasm, into stacks!

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Unfortunately the BL salvage kits are so expensive right now that this isn’t profitable unless you get the BL kits from drops, and you’ll get much more bang for your buck saving your BL kits for rares with valuable runes/sigils

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Bag of Wondrous Goods?

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Just completed HotW P1 and I didn’t pick up a single bag. From what I remember, it was something of a guaranteed drop whenever you take down a boss or sub-boss, but I didn’t get any during this run. What happened?

It’s an 80% chance for a bag off of bosses/chests. So, unfortunately, you can get pretty unlucky and not get a back. Should be very rare though, the probability of getting ZERO bags when facing three bosses is (1/5)^3 = 1 time in 125 runs.

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Wintersday Gifts in the Mists?

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I thought the lore said Wintersday gifts were dropped by Tixx’s airship? Yet they do spawn in the mists. Does this have any relevance or is it just a gameplay thing?

Just gameplay, all mobs have the same chance of dropping wintersday gifts. Not a lore thing.

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Shard of Mist Essence New Recipe?

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Backpack or ring would be my guess.

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AC isn't fixed

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Detha bugged out on the final phase for us.

We ran through the last 2 groups of gravelings/ooze adjacent to the final room, and Detha died on the steps just outside. We killed the gravelings/ooze and rezed Detha. She followed us into the room, and stood in the middle, but failed to begin working on the traps.

We tried bringing in the ooze at the other door, but even solo, Detha managed to kill them all. Afterward, she just reset at the centre of the room. After 20 minutes of trying to pull in gravelings without them resetting, we finally pulled in one Graveling Scavenger. Unfortunately Detha, after 8 minutes, killed that solo. It took a Graveling Stalker to do the job ><

Thankfully when we rezzed her after she was kiled by the graveling, she immediately progressed the event, and we successfully finished the dungeon)

Tried all these, weren’t sucessful in progressing the event and had to start over =( Thurs 12/13 @ 5:25 EST

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Jan + February Content Speculation

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http://gamingbolt.com/guild-wars-2-interview-we-talk-to-areanet-about-how-the-mmorpg-has-been-doing-post-launch

So Colin Johanson did an interview over at gamingbolt and had something VERY interesting to say about the new content coming in the January and February event/releases:

" January and February are actually are biggest updates to date. They’re even bigger than all the stuff we did in October, November and December. And I think that when people see how much stuff they’re gonna get for no monthly fee in January and February, they’re probably going to be blown away. These two months combined are basically an expansion’s worth of content for free."

The first thing is what “expansion” means. In GW1 EoTN was considered an “expansion” while Factions and Nightfall were new “campaigns.” Assuming a similar scale of content to a GW1 “expansion” is coming at us, we’re looking at a LOT of new stuff to do + a LOT of new lore information in the next month or so.

So let’s get the speculation started! What do you think the focus of this new content will be?

If I had to GUESS I would speculate that we’re going to see the Jormag storyline pushed forward. This mostly has to do with the hinting in the end cutscene of HotW and the fact that the only non-Orr level 80 zone is in the Shiverpeaks.

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Asura Gates

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Hi guys, when I was rollin’ through Lion’s Arch today, I saw the Asura Gates in Eastern Ward ’’working’’. They’re not accessible, yet, but they have the purple thingy now. I never noticed that before, I’m sure that the last time I was there they didn’t have the purple thingy. What do you guys think? Maybe they will release something new during Wintersday/January 2013 updates?

Interesting, but not necessarily indicative of any imminent content. The same “activated-but-not-enabled” asura gates have been in Rata Sum (for polymock and a few other inaccessible zones) since launch.

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Let's see some thief pics

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Love my thief’s armor =D

Head: Pirate’s Mask
Chest: Guild Medium Armor
Rest: Leather exotics from AC

Dyed Abyss + Autumn

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Titans, Seers, Mursaat, and Abaddon

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Pretty much all of this is complete speculation though, with nothing supporting it in GW1/2 lore.

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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The functionality of the Dream is also eerily similar to the “sight” Zhaitan has. Zhaitan sees everything its minions see and knows all that they know, and in turns, gives this knowledge to his minions so they can act according to his will. Imagine the same system in place without a central figure to direct the data. The experiences would be scattered among the collective, exactly as it is in the Dream.

The opening sequence for Sylvari characters also provides some evidence for lingering effects of the dead Dragon’s will. The plant Dragon fought in the opening sequence is unique among all other draconic creations we’ve witnessed, and could not have been (at least under the Dream mechanics we know of), a consequence of the Nightmare Court. The dialogue about the Shadow of the Dragon implies that it is coming from within the dream itself, not being spawned by outside forces. The Shadow of the Dragon is a literal shadow of The Dragon; a fragment of the dead Elder Dragon’s will trying to retake control over the Dream. This could also explain the Nightmare Court and the physical changes that result when Sylvari join them. By acquiescing to the corruption of the dead dragon, the Sylvari of the Nightmare Court are, effectively, ascended servants of the Dragon. Much like Sons of Svanir can become Icebrood, Sylvari become Nightmare Court.

Most likely the dream (as well as Zhaitan’s “sight”) are manifestations in the Mist. Also, the presence of the dragon in the Sylvari opening scene is an indicator of your Wyld Hunt, i.e. your quest to defeat the dragons (I think it’s Zhaitan specifically that the character’s Wyld Hunt is focused on).

The presence a dragon in the Dream would MUCH more likely indicate that active presence of an ED’s influence. Having it represent a dead dragon’s lingering will is way to contrived and doesn’t have any basis in existing lore.

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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-We can’t be sure that Mordremoth is actually the 6th Elder Dragon, Google Translate told me that ‘Mordre’ is Slovenian for blue = DSD, even though we don’t know anything of the actual meaning of the name

Mordre is a french verb (with a similar latin root) which means “to bite.” Given Anet’s penchant for using romance languages as roots for names I think it’s more likely they were referring to the French/Latin verb and not the Slovenian adjective =P

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Mithril Ore

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My guess is market manipulators: check spidy the supply completely dropped off over the course of a day. My guess is somebody bought up a bunch of supply to push the price higher (i.e. create an artificial scarcity)

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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@Errant: However, if the Pale Tree doesn’t know of Mordremoth’s existence, then she may be wrong in her claim.

Do we have any evidence pointing one way or another? I suppose it’s logical that the Pale Tree would have TOLD someone if she believed an ED (awake or in the process of awakening) was responsible for the Nightmare Court. So the fact that she hasn’t would indicate that she’s not aware of any ED influence (assuming it exists) in the Nightmare/Dream.

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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@Konig Regarding the nature of the Nightmare Court: I agree that it is most likely that the members of the NC aren’t being corrupted but are instead choosing to spread corruption (similar to the Sons of Svanir). When speaking to the Pale Tree as a Sylvari, she indicates that the members of NC have made a misguided moral choice, not that they have been compelled to become minions against their will. When prompting the Pale Tree on the nature of the NC she responds, “Once beloved to me, as you are, these poor misguided children have—through free will—taken a dark path. Their disdain for Ventari’s words leads them astray and does harm to the Dream.”

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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Umm i just found some cold hard facts that the pale tree cannot possibly be the elder dragon.

Ronan the human soldier planted the seed which then became the pale tree sometime around 1180 AE whilst it says that the dragons previous cycle of awakening was something like 11,000 years ago.

I don’t know if people have a found a loophole in this or what. Please tell me.

The Pale Tree cannot possibly be one of the Elder Dragons. Some people have suggested that the Pale Tree COULD be the champion of the 6th dragon (which we’re now calling Mordremoth) but Konig has presented some pretty compelling evidence above that this is not the case.

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On the Sixth Elder Dragon and its corruption

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Errant Venture.9371

Very cool.. Interesting to note that “Mordre” is a french verb whose latin root is mord?re and means “to bite” Definitely makes sense for the name of a dragon.

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Collussus Rumbulus bugged/buffed in patch?

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Posted by: Errant Venture.9371

Errant Venture.9371

Dunno if there was a stealth buff to this guy or what. But since path his cone attack is actually hit people BEHIND him and he’s targeting the lowest health/lowest toughness players of the party. Basically if you get downed he burrows straight at you and screams so downed = instant death. I know AC was easy but you didn’t need to make Rumbulus STUPID hard.

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Mursaat

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Posted by: Errant Venture.9371

Errant Venture.9371

Who is interested in fighting the Mursaat? With the Fractals addition, more specifically the Giant map, it gives me the feeling of fighting the White Mantle or Mursaat followers. It also has the scenery of Janthir Bay (even though it was never opened for players, based off the map)

I got a similar feeling at first, but now I’ve come over to Konig’s view. At first I thought the Archdiviner’s looked a lot like the White Mantle Ritualists and the scenary reminded me of the Northern coast of Kryta from GW1.

After running through the dungeon a few more times I’m much more convinced we’re looking at a Shing Jea/Pong Mei Valley setting. The Archdiviners and Novices seem to resemble Am Fah fairly closely and they count as “Bandits” in your Slayer achievment tabs. The foliage + presence of bamboo-like flora is very reminiscent of east asia/Cantha and the seals all possess Asian-style symbols which are similar to the Canthan alphabet from GW1

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Race specific classes.

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Posted by: Errant Venture.9371

Errant Venture.9371

I was reading that the Dervish will be off limits due to the heavy human god interface with the class so I got to thinking why not introduce race specific classes.

Human- The Dervish
Charr- A suped up version of the engineer or a class that relies on guns to an extreme.
Norn- Shaman (think spirit shaman from DnD)
Aura-Golemancer
Sylvari- Warden (kinda like a mixture between a warrior and a ranger).

This would solve any lore problems with introducing the dervish THE BEST CLASS FROM GW1

This is merely the explanation for why we won’t see Dervishes in terms of lore. The real reason is due to mechanics: Dervishes never had a clearly defined or unique role in GW1. GW2 has already covered just about all roles imaginable with the existing classes and the addition of new classes would result in something like the Dervish from GW1: a class that’s an odd hybrid of existing professions with no clearly defined role.

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Ecto bubble bursting?

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Posted by: Errant Venture.9371

Errant Venture.9371

Hard to say

There is no reason for a sudden increase in supply, and demand is high as ever so price will rise. The current dip in price is due to investors and speculators cashing out thus temporarily increasing supply but this is a short lived phenomena.

However on the flipside, (And this is why some of the ivnestors are probably cashing out) we have wintersday coming up and events always cause a glut of rare materials due to the extra players online, so the price might be depressed for some weeks. Also, you’d be gambling on arenanet not implementing changes to make ecto easier to obtain in the wintersday patch

I think there is some cause for increase in supply: high levels of Fractals of the Mists. More and more pugs are getting to the point where they can handle the upper levels of FoTM and above level 10 rares and even exotics drop like candy (I ran level 15 in an hour with a guild group last night and got 8 rares and an exotic). This will start increasing the available supply of ectos pretty significantly in the next few weeks I think (at least until Christmas gives people other stuff to do than FoTM).

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