Guild Wars 2

Hamfast.8719:

NYG.2568:

And remember like my signature says. Language and text have evolved! No more drawing on cave walls.

Language and text are going backwards. People complain when corrected instead of bettering themselves by learning.

I wlil agere taht lnagugae adn txet r giogn bakwrads, btu olny bceuase our barin has a btteer udnersatndign of it, adn it dosent nede crorcet splelign to be albe to udnersatd teh wrtire’s thuohgts.

Laiznses, srue, btu huamns crae mcuh mor aobut effcieincy. If it’s sitll 100% udnersatndalbe, eavn atfer bieng msispleled or shrotneed, tehy see no ponit in “btteernig tehmsleves by laenrnig”.

Alga.6498:

1. Tengu
2. Kodan
3. Some sort of an Elf race, High-Elf prob. I would LOVE to have Elven characters… ohh my god.. Best race ever!

I think the Sylvari are the closest we will ever get to an Elf race. It’s for the same reasons they didn’t bring back the dwarves as a playable race. They kinda want to stay away from the typical fantasy races for the playables.

Other than Humans of course… >.>

Rebound.3409:

Also “Rome” happened thousands of years ago. Even if it’s a saying..should we still use it in our day and time? It’s kinda reminiscent of how the game development’s speed don’t u think?

Yes. Even with modern day technology, that adage still very much applies. Because where technology advances in complexity, so does the projects it can be used in.

If they were using any sort of realistic time set for the rebuilding, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if its going to take 1-2+ years.

• The removing of the wreckage of the Breachmaker alone will take months if not a full year, since they have to dismantle it piece by piece and bring in heavy equipment to pull the pieces out of the water.
• Housing development, or any sort of structurally development really, will take just as long. They have to clear the land first and foremost, fill in all holes and/or faults the laser cannons and explosives caused, make sure that land is stable, and they then can either lay foundation or just start building. A ramshackle house might be able to be put up in a day, but anything beyond that will probably take a week to a month. (Depending on how large a work force, materials, and funding to pay the workers of course.)
• LA’s farmland and waterways might have to be periodically checked and cleansed of any poisons the TA might have introduced.
• Talks with the citizens and refugee groups will have to happen. The rebuilding will probably displace some people from where they use to live and commendations will have to be made.

And the cherry to top all of that, depending on just how the Captain’s Council might like to run things, any of those listed above might need permits. Permits as far as the eye can see.

Coulter.2315:

Tengu do seem the most polished and “player ready” looking models we’d be likely to play. But first things first lets make some space around here by annihilating those Charr ^^ I love the smell of burnt fur any time of day ^^

Funny you should say that. The models the Tengu use are just reskinned Charr models.

Deifact.3095:

I’d also add spaceships, hover boards, unicorn mounts.

Unicorn mounts are serious business…

Random Asuran researcher #533 accidently creates a black hole, which then devours all of Tyria, the Elders Dragons, the entirety of the Mists, and all the possible things it contained in it. Thus ending GW2 the game as well all the entire GW universe.

…No refunds!

FlamingFoxx.1305:

they just look like they shouldn’t sound ‘human’ and I’m not really sure I can explain/quantify it better than that :S (specifically the Quaggan and Grawl). Their voice is not creature like, they just sound like people trying and failing to put on a funny voice, it kind of speaks to the unfortunately lighthearted tone of GW2.

For races that look like they shouldn’t sound human, I think the Hylek suffers from that much more than the Quaggan or Grawl do. Given the sheer size of their mouth, throat, and possibly their vocal cords, I think they voices should be much much lower in pitch.

Not to mention how they mouths only just barely opens and closes when they talk. It’s a miracle that they can vocalize the “b”, “p”, and “v” sounds.

MaxTNT.3154:

Corruption of the living aside, Zhaitan does use corpses for his minions(the Corpse Ark proves this.) and Necromancers have magical power over the dead. So a conglomeration of powerful Necromancers should have the potential to return the basic minions of Zhaitan to their dead state, thus pacifying them. Stronger minions, those who received Zhaitans Premium Package deal, would possibly be a different matter since they have a conscious mind and a limit amount of free will.
Also, the Risen Abominations are little more then Necro Minions 2.0, they are corpses fused together and resurrected. They show about the same amount of brainpower of a Necro’s minions.

They might be both using dead being, but the magics used to control and animate them are completely different. Necromancers use death magic, and Elder Dragons use a their own brand of magic, as I linked above, it’s “ancient, powerful, and barely understood by the greatest magical minds on Tyria.”

Necromancers trying to work their magic on Risen would be like us trying to play a PS game on Xbox, or visa versa. Incompatible software.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Are the GW1 and GW2 towers the same tower ?

Because they look very different.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Wizard%27s_Tower.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Wizard%27s_Tower.jpg

Isgarren did some DIY renovation after he got the Tower.

The average Risen and necromancy might mostly share the “(un)dead” part, only because it’s Zhaitan’s preference for minion, but any similarities between the two kinda break down past that, and the key to those differences lies in the magic used to actually corrupt/turn things into dragon minions.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/New-lore-interview-to-Anet-lore-team/first#post4226670

• What is the exact process by which someone is corrupted by a dragon? Is there any way to protect yourself from dragon corruption or repel it?

The magic Elder Dragons use to corrupt things is ancient, powerful, and barely understood by the greatest magical minds on Tyria. There have been spells that could successfully cleanse a living thing of dragon corruption (see the Ruined City of Arah dungeon’s Forgotten path, or the climax of the Pact’s campaign in Orr) but they are not well understood, require significant resources to cast, and must be cast in a particular geographic location, so they are not universally available.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Did you even read the person’s rant I was responding to before “fixing” my quote?

Indeed I did. It was a complainer complaining about someone else complaining. It’s all very circular, and even more so because your response to him was exactly the same as his response to the OP…

Man up, guys and gals. If you don’t like where GW2 is going, LEAVE. Just like I did with EQ II, SW and Conan. LEAVE.

if you don’t like what a thread has to say then just leave…that’s all just leave.

“If you don’t like something, or where it is going, just leave it.” As I stated before, it’s always nice and fun when the same argument can/is being used on both sides.

MorDread.2378:

Tap dancing Mordremoth perhaps? Little birds and deer and rabbits could jump around in front and fly and land on their heads. NPCs and our chars could stand and scratch their heads in amazement and stifling bewilderment.

Mordremoth would obvious be the Elder Dragon Princess.

His smooth deep singing voice would have the magical effect of enslaving the fuzzy woodland creatures (and plant folk) of the land to do his bidding.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Obvious irony aside, if you don’t like what a game has to offer then just leave…that’s all just leave.

Fix’d

It’s always nice when the same argument can be used on both sides.

Thorn doing something productive and helping the good denizens of Tyria in a time of need?

…

Now that’s a joke Thorn would love!

narwhalsbend.7059:

Other than some of the titles, there was nothing else grindy at all.
I wouldn’t call Cartographer grindy at all either. You’re not doing anything over and again; once you explore the area you don’t need to come back. Don’t confuse “grindy” and “difficult” on that title. Maybe you just don’t like exploring and running at walls.

Not doing anything over and over again?

I can’t remember how many times I had to rescrape zones because I was missing a whole whooping .2% and I had no idea where it was. It was only after a week or two of overwhelming frustration that I finally broke down and cheated by getting CME.

The thoughts and ideals in the Manifesto are nice, but Life is Life, and Life sucks and forces us to change to fit new circumstances.

Both Anet and the players have to learn to deal with these changes.

It’s truly a pity that the break couldn’t have happened from Nov-Dec though. I’m sure myself, a portion of the playerbase, and a good number of devs would have liked a couple of months alone with DA:I when it comes out.

Since I forgot to post it earlier…

The customary warmhearted (and slightly sinister) welcome from the entire community to the new dev!

I very much doubt the mortals would ever ally themselves to an Elder Dragons or their minions is any major way. The soul purpose an Elder Dragon seems to have is to consume magic—- until they can consume no more, and their minion’s motives is to help in anyway they can. They might have other motivating factors, but the consumption of magic is how the Elder Dragons live and stay active.

This wouldn’t be so much of a program if it wasn’t for the fact that all of Tyria, including all the mortal races, is imbued with magic. One way of the other, everything is on the buffet table for them.

On a side note, the theory that Kralk desires perfections originated from Konig, I believe. It has nothing to really deal with art or visually appealing objects or structures. It’s more along the lines of Kralk trying to become a “complete being” as it were. Or as Konig put it, “In other words, Kralkatorrik is attempting to obtain all that he is not yet. And when one obtains everything, they become “perfect.”

Dulfy is saying Nov 4th.

With what appears to be possibly the gate to Fort Vandal as well…

So, no singing Elder Dragons?

Can we at least get a Sons of Svanir recruiter breaking into a song and dance version of I’ll Make a Man Out of You?

This belong more in the LW Discussion than the Lore and Story, but I’m probably going to take a break from the game for a bit and wait for prices to drop in the TP.

Angel McCoy.1832:

Rym.1469:

McCoy’s Angles.

LOLOLOL! Veto.

Oh good, you used your veto on the decoy!

I’ll formally submit “McCoy’s Angels” now.

Hmmm… Green isn’t a primary color.

The primary colors are red, blue, and yellow, with green coming from blue and yellow obviously.

Sadly, RNGsus cares little of our mortal woes…

Farewell, and I wish you the best on your next game!

Vayne.8563:

XApocalypse.8739:

zenleto.6179:

Yeah, but I sort of thought you still wouldn’t take a leave of absence the day before a major update. It might not change his mind but he could take a gander before heading off.

“Major update” Lol okay.

Good thing other people like Wooden Pototos, who actually tried it says it’s a major update. Sometimes an update is greater than the sum of its parts. This is a major update for the game, even if some people can’t see it.

I think people are just still hung up on the differences between features and content. It’s a major game update, but since they don’t view features as meaningful as content, no matter how difficult or troublesome they are to program and install sometimes, it doesn’t count as anything major to them.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi there,

We haven’t made an official announcement yet when the Season 2 will start again. Please make sure to follow us on social medias (see icons at the bottom of forum and website pages) or to regularly check the website for any future announcement.

Thank you.

So, “soon”?

I’m not all that surprised that Q2 profits dipped a bit. Other than the Feature Pack, April to June offered a whole lot of nothing really. I know I, and I’m sure many other players as well, took a long break from the game during that time, and the decrease in player activity would naturally lead to a decrease in gem sells.

Personally, I’m surprised the dip in profits wasn’t bigger.

Mystic.5934:

I imagine it’s more for entertainment/see what everyone has to say than engaging in a discussion.

I would have jokingly suggested that maybe the John Smiths have a drinking game for it, and they pull up a thread and take a shot every time someone uses inflation incorrectly, but that would be impossible. Because if they did that, they would have all died of alcohol poisoning a long long time ago.

I’d much rather have Anise turn out to be Livia’s protégé and/or daughter personally. I’m hoping for her return, but to have it as a, “Haha! I’ve been here along!” would be kinda irksome.

Lishtenbird.2814:

It works both ways. Think of it like you’re a child who runs into grown-up businessmen in a conference hall and they get extremely annoyed by you. It may turn out that tomorrow they may wander into your kindergarten and will annoy you and your friends. And in 30 years you’ll likely become that grown-up who’s annoyed by children. So just try to be considerate and go play with your own type of people without accusing anyone, okay?

The difference being that the “child” would run into a conference hall full of “businessmen” because it might be fun and they don’t know any better. The only way a “businessmen” wanders into a kindergarten is because s/he purposely goes in with intent.

here’s the thing… you’d assume “zerker only ap+ only” are elitist…. but you wouldn’t imagine elitists that take joy in making fun of everything you do in a friendly sounding group name that seemed like they just wanted to relax and have fun… Went in expecting fun, and was mocked for 30 minutes straight.

From what it sounds like, from this end anyway, the group description was a bit misleading. OP thought we was grouping up with like minded relaxed people, but instead he went into a room full of “businessmen” because they didn’t advertise “Businessmen Only-No Children”.

I usually just leave if it gets too bad, since my tolerance for stupid only goes so far.

Though, since I usually try and stay away from the heavily populated areas if I can, I haven’t been privy to too many bad arguments or jerks, and I like to make it stay that way.

On a side note, I was apart of a very weird argument awhile ago. It was about the origins of chili, and how real chili doesn’t beans in it. The whole thing was totally absurd, but I guess I would rather have an absurd argument than a trolly elitist one.

Haishao.6851:

Vikkela.7261:

Now I need a calculator to actually see how much money I will get in my hand when selling items?
This specific feature doesn’t sound like an update, more like a downdate. Other things with the Trading Post update are actually updates

You always had to calculate it. Before this update the 10% tax that is taken when the item actually sell wasn’t showing. It just displayed the listing fee which is 5%
Now it show both but doesn’t do the total.

use this http://tpcalc.com

I never really had a problem with it, since I’ve always have had a calculator by my computer at all times, and something simple like multiplying by .85 is no great labor on my part.

Farothion.7604:

I haven’t played for around 4 weeks now. I logged in once or twice but I had no clue what I was coming back to. A game where you have 5 level 80 chars but know nothing to do isn’t really worth coming back to no?

This problem is in no way unique to GW2, and all MMOs, or any game really, suffers from it, because players will always be able to complete content faster than the developers can make it.

After years and years of mystery, and us pondering and theorycrafting on the subject for so long, I kinda want them to never touch it now, because it will loose its magic if we finally have an answer to all our questions.

I wouldn’t consider them spreading out the reveal info over three weeks as hype, per say.

Too me, while it can drag on for a long while, it allows the community to better absorb and discuss each topic. Some people might that think as such, but Anet does read the forums to get our opinions of subjects. Them spacing it out allows them to get a better read on our views on the subject, because if they only did a big info dump a week or so ago, some topics might have been left out of most discussions because they are easily overshadowed by others.

The best and shortest answer?

It will continue to live until it doesn’t, because no one can predict the future.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Well they’ve had over 2 years already. That’s enough time to develop two expansions, or one really big one. That’s how it worked with GW1. Right after Prophecies, they started working on Factions, and then Nightfall, and then Eye of the North.

Instead they chose to develop the Living Story, which has been of very mixed quality, and is a lot of content that is temporary. They could have used that time to expand the game with permanent content.

GW2 can’t pull of what GW1 did in this day and age. It’s only been a short amount of years, but the cost to build any sort of high quality MMO has gone up. People can keep on trying to hold up GW1 as an example of how things should be done, but budget wise, and I’m sure coding wise as well, they are two different beasts.

And unless you are suggesting a subscription fee, that doesn’t really answer the question. There needs to be something to fund and pay the developers with in between expansions, because on top of the expansion they would be working on in the background, they will have to work on the content patches, server maintenance, bug fixes, general balance issue, and etc. to release in-between the expansions as well.

The money from the expansion sales might be able to pay a chuck of the developers year round, but I doubt it would be able to fund everyone.

Geekfox.4267:

Lightning Pull stops half-way, and I wonder what is up with that.
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Obviously, you haven’t released all your earthly ties in your spiritual trainly.

I wouldn’t be all that surprised if Anise sent Canach there to root out any unsavory elements. There is still that hanging bandit plot thread that started this whole season, and I wouldn’t put it pass the Ministers/WM to have sent some spies and/or saboteurs there.

A Norn’s beverage of choice might be alcohol, but that doesn’t mean they’re drunk 24/7.

It’s been stated lorewise in gw1 that a single Norn can takedown a Charr warband. This might have changed a bit in the last 250 years, but the general rule is still 1v1 is heavily in the Norn’s favor, while any sort of organized combat will go to the Charr.

Lazarus sent Mordy the time/date of the meeting using the players’ messenger pigeon system.

….The convenience always works against us in the end.

That isn’t a vision of THE future. It was a vision of a possible future. A future where the Pact failed, DE still hates one another, and Zhaitan and the other Elder Dragons were probably going to kill everyone. That Caithe joined Faolain because that all she really had left at that point. It might have been a monster wearing her ex-lover’s face, but at least it was something I guess.

All of it is kinda a moot point now, since we know that future, in that form anyway, isn’t going to come to pass. With the player’s actions, and the magical powers of friendship yada yada, Caithe has a reason to live on and continue fighting the good fight.

Those People.

Npc1: Quick! We need help with this. Call Those People!
Npc2: …
Npc2: What do you mean by “Those” People?
~Awkward silence~

Season One of the LS wasn’t built with the same systems as Season Two, so it is unplayable at the moment. They said they might go back to s1 it to retrofit and make it replayable for everyone again, but there is no set time or schedule for that as of right now.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The book idea was scrapped – as I heard – because they couldn’t get it to how they wanted it to be before launch. I presume it hasn’t been reinitiated due to constraints and low on priority listing. It was just about the creatures and factions of the world as it was, anyways, though I do wish they brought it back. In force.

Maybe if we wish/whine hard enough they’ll add in into a feature pack in the future.

saventis.1485:

no idea why theres that big blank space btw

Do you have some type of adblocker? I know mine blocks any type of videos on forums like this, and they show up as blank areas in a thread unless I allow them.

There is already a thread on the front page of the LS forum about expansions. Is it too hard to use that one instead of creating a new one?

SkiTz.4590:

We are at a halfway point with LS2 and some you believe we will see xpac like content through LS updates… thats cute lol.

I very much doubt this is actually the halfway point for s2. The Feature Packs seem like they are going to be coming every four mouths or so, so we will probably be getting a “mid-season” break every 3-4 months to match.

It would seem you can use the Birthday Blaster while under the effect of a tonic and other shapeshifting effects. It can lead to some interesting combinations…

Oh Yeah

Flytrap.8075:

Tell that to the people who keep upvoting me.

Doesn’t mean much in the end, since there is no downvoting in these forums that I know of. It only shows that your statement appeal to a certain group of people, and it in no way shows that your statement appeals to everyone.