Guild Wars 2

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Or just is blinded by “little young kid isn’t going to do that”, clearly not familiar with how evil the asura are.

We prefer the term “morally flexible”.

As for Taimi’s role, we’ll probably see her filling the practical (ever so slightly demented) techno-wiz of the group. Since Zojja is busy doing… something, hopefully Pact and DE related, Taimi is going to be the only one on hand with any possible understanding of Scarlet’s technology.

After a bad breakup with his necromancer girlfriend, an embarrassed Sylvari goes to see a mender. The mender asks him why he came in today, and the Sylvari simply drops his leggings. The mender then exclaims…

“Oh my, that seems to be the worst case of root rot I’ve ever seen!”

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The issue with this is that at the end of the journal, she gives into the force.

She gives into the force? I didn’t get that impression at all. How did you come to this conclusion?

It could go either way really. The final entries of the journal are a bit ambiguous on it.

“Control of my world, of myself, is slipping through my hands. And yet, I’m no longer scared.”

This could be taken any number of ways. On one hand, Scarlet could be saying she’s losing control of herself to the “Entity”. On the other hand, it could tie in with the previous entries about the lack of sleep. The sleep deprivation, constant paranoia, and tormenting visions during what little sleep she does have, is slowly driving her (more) insane. Something that she has accepted now.

“It communicated with me through images of death, destruction, and destiny. I must know more. I must confront it and put an end to this madness.”

Obviously, the Entity is trying to convert her to its side. Whether or not that is working at the moment is up to question, since Scarlet isn’t one to be bossed around easily. Not to mention, if I remember right, she isn’t one to really join another group.

To me, personally, it sounds like she might try and kill it first. That might lead to totally opposite results though, because she would have to get to it first to kill it. If the Entity is Mordremoth, and she accidently awakens him, she might lose her choice of whether she wants to be it’s champion or not.

So far, the manipulation has only been seemingly mental: whispers from the forest, nightmares, and visions. Scarlet already has its mental hooks into her, if it awakens and its able to turn its full attention to her, it could probably overwhelm Scarlet and forcefully convert her.

Like others have said before, you are very much allowed to criticize their work, as long as you keep it constructive and at least semi-polite. I know that semi-politeness might be a stretch for some people, but they aren’t going to read a wall of text that repeatedly tells them how much you think they suck. There is no point in that, because you are adding nothing to conversation.

Here’s another weird theory about why Scarlet is creating an army to add to the pile. It’s on the premise of her being an Elder Dragon champion…

What if she’s gathering forces together simply for the dragon to corrupt them? One of the first things the EDs seem to do when they awaken is create minions. Both Primordus and Jormag (and their champions) were creating minions before the awoke. Zhaitan rose Orr on this awakening, and he then proceeded to make minions out of the long (Orrians) and recent (pirates) dead. DSD is unknown, other than it possibly corrupting and shaping the water, and Kralky created the Dragonbrand right after his awakening, on his way to confront Glint.

I’m not exactly sure how it would go about corrupting them in this theory. My best guess it could possibly tie into the ToN spores. Living beings would breathe in the spores, and the spores would probably settle in their lungs. Add a bit of the dragon magic, the spores would then begin to spread inside the victim’s body. Before long, the host would be killed, and the plant inside can use the body as a support structure and fertilizer.

Kinda disappointing, but we also kinda knew it was coming. Anything that even has the possibility of being future content probably can’t be discussed in-depth, because there is always the possibility they might want to change their minds on it later.

Worse comes to worse, and we still want some answers on some things, we can always try and get Angel to the forums again, and ask her what she can discuss. She was nice and helpful the last time she was here, and I’m sure we were all grateful for her taking the time to answer our questions. Though, I’m not sure what would be the best way to get her attention. Simply asking her, or an elaborate dark ritual requiring a stone alter, blood of a virgin, a full moon, and a pint of her favorite brand of premium ice cream?

It’s hard to resist the pull of free Ben and Jerry’s or Haagen-Dazs.

Doggie.3184:

Rox and Braham will have cute Giant Werewolf-charr children together.

It would have to come from an Asuran test tube, because interspecies relationships can’t produce children in Tyria.

Understandable, since they were basically a plot device for the Captain election. I really enjoyed it because they were an evolution of gw1’s Brotherhood of the Dragon. We finally got to see some of gw1’s history start to blend with gw2’s.

Hopefully, we will see them again later this year, and their story and culture can be expanded upon.

Since this is part of the Season One LS finale, they probably put a lot of extra work into making it special and enjoyable for us. As for most enjoyable? It’s tied with BotFW for me.

What can I say? I loved bouncing around the Bazaar and falling to my death.

Healix.5819:

If all you want is the meta reward, simply participate in the event each day for the daily, which will raise your meta progress.

^^This^^

That’s the reason why they added the LS daily. So that people with little time on their hands can finish the meta achievement. It just takes time.

Not to mention, if push came to shove, the Pale Tree probably could defend herself. The Wardens and even the Nightmare Court will be the first line of defense, but lets face it; she’s a huge magical tree in a fantasy setting…

Rule #3 for fantasy villains: You never, ever, get on the bad side or anger magical sentient trees. It will only be your downfall.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The quote was, I believe, “we won’t see dragons before Scarlet’s arc is over.” Though that doesn’t mean it won’t somehow lead into a dragon arc.

I’ll laugh if they’re extremely literal with that wording. After we kill Scarlet in the final battle, or she kills herself (since it’s hard to tell with crazy people), that could technically be considered the end of her arc. She would be dead after all, and her demise either outright or by domino effect triggers the awakening or emergence of the Elder Dragon.

Jaken.6801:

I have to be a bit more critical here, but first off i really liked the story part here as well.

However, i do not think the Kasmeer part fitted the whole thing. To me it felt like they took one of their story-blogs and just dumped it into the szene to get the last questions sourounding this character out of the way before the big finale.
The day being heing her fathers birthday just felt a way to let her say that (even though she is not part of the group fighting against the marionette).

The story about her father relates back to her Dragon Bash/Sky Pirate dialogue. Which was easily missed by a lot of people.

“This festival reminds me of when I was little, and my father and I used to go to the carnival in Divinity’s Reach.”
Does your father still live in Divinity’s Reach?
“No. He’s…He’s gone. My mother died when I was young, and my father…He was taken earlier this year.”
You must miss him.
“I miss the man who used to hold my hand at the carnival, yes. But, let’s not talk about that. It’s too nice a day!”
You work for Marjory Delaqua, don’t you?
’I work with her, yes. I joined Delaqua Investigations a few months ago. I needed some excitement to break up the boredom, you see?"

The story instance gave a lot of clarification on her background and her reasons for beginning to work with Marjory.

As for her not being apart of the group fighting against the puppet, she’s the one guarding path 5 isn’t she?

ThiBash.5634:

The story from Kashmeere was a bit out of nowhere, but the rest seemed very fitting.

Actually, the story about her father relates back to her dialogue from Dragon Bash.

“This festival reminds me of when I was little, and my father and I used to go to the carnival in Divinity’s Reach.”
Does your father still live in Divinity’s Reach?
“No. He’s…He’s gone. My mother died when I was young, and my father…He was taken earlier this year.”
You must miss him.
“I miss the man who used to hold my hand at the carnival, yes. But, let’s not talk about that. It’s too nice a day!”
You work for Marjory Delaqua, don’t you?
’I work with her, yes. I joined Delaqua Investigations a few months ago. I needed some excitement to break up the boredom, you see?"

Jaken.6801:

The patch hits and one of the infos the priory gives us is that she gatheres the power of the elements. so far she has earth, fire, water and air…
Yep she is definetly calling captain planet

That kinda reminds me of the golem battles outside Rata Sum. They have one golem for each element, and there is also one supposedly programed to have emotions. When an Inquest members comes up to challenge them with his “unlimited energy golem”, the other golemancers combine their five golems into a META-golem.

We have to attack it with an equally large magnet. It will render the puppet immobile, disrupt all of Scarlet machines in the area, and it will also take care of the local steam creature problem.

Sadly, warriors and guardians will not be able to do the event….

Traveller.7496:

As if there’s not any homosexual overtones with Logan & Rytlock, I agree that ANet couldn’t get away with showing gay main characters (even if it would just be in the dialogue like Mar & Kas). In a world where gamers consist mostly of young males, a lesbian relationship is not so tough to pull off.

I wouldn’t say that gamers consist mostly of young males, since gamers have been growing up since the 70s and 80s. I would say that its marketed to mostly young males.

I do agree though. It’s much easier to get away with a female couple than a male one. Not to mention, if they feature a prominent male couple, there is a possibility to draw some negative media (cough)FoxNews(cough) attention.

@Mad Queen Malafide

In other words, they have a bromance.

Blade Syphon.4325:

I don’t really understand how getting content that, if you don’t intend to grind achievements, takes less than 2-3 hours to complete curves long droughts of content, but hey, to each their own I suppose.

I personally would rather take a substantial update every 3-4 months like Blizzard does with WoW, that generally takes the majority of the time between updates (Expansion drought withstanding) to complete over hollow LS updates where the biggest “meat” of the content is grinding repetitive objectives to make your Achievement Point number go higher, but that’s just me.

I wouldn’t really say that. The only thing that usually takes anywhere close to 3-4 months to do is a raid’s gear treadmill. The raid itself can be finished in a matter or days or weeks, depending on your raiding party. Any repeated raids, simply for gear, could easily fall under the “repetitive grinding” category, since you already completed it and you are simply there for a random loot drop.

The same usually goes for all other major content in a large patch. A new faction’s storyline and rewards (reputation mounts, armor, weapons, recipes, etc.) is usually behind a timegate, in the form of dailies, which in another repetitive grind in and of itself. It forces the player to either log in everyday to complete the same dailies over and over again, or the player gets the choice to run already completed dungeons for a small amount of rep.

For Guild Wars 2, we get new content every two week, and we can complete it in a matter of hours or days. For WoW, we get new content every 3-4 months, and we can usually complete it in a matter of weeks or a month. It’s basically the same to me. I prefer GW’s model over WoW because of the subscription cost and long wait time between patches.

GW’s LS might be a bit more hallow, but WoW’s patches become just as hallow to me after I finish them. Then, I get to wait through 2 or 3 months for boredom for new content.

Donari.5237:

(I intend to try out TESO and perhaps split my time with it, but fully expect GW2 to remain my prime game experience).

I did the same thing for WoW the last three months. I went back to do all their MoP content. I maxed out all the fraction reps, completed all the crafting, did all the raids, got most of the tier gear from Org. The only thing I stopped doing was the legendary questline for the cape, since there is no point in doing it that late in the game.

Needless to say, I ran out of things to do, and I got bored very quickly when the only thing left is lving alts. At least with GW2, you get new content to do every couple of weeks. It beats sitting there on your character and thinking, “What else is there to possible do?”. I do freely admit I get that same feeling sometimes on this game, but the LS helps curb that a bit. Not totally, but it helps a great deal.

Depending on reviews, and whether my friends are going to try it as well, I might do the same with TESO. It looks interesting enough to try, even though I’m not really a fan of The Elder Scrolls.

kokiman.2364:

Erukk.1408:

They’re talking about something different. We’ll be getting the regular LS updates like we have been for the past year, but they will combining and spacing out the the feature patches into larger updates throughout the year.

You make it sound like we will be getting multiple feature bundles this year but i really doubt that. The first one will be released between march and june/july. This means that they worked on it for about 1/2 year. The feature bundle after that surely will be released at the end of the year.
I am pretty excited to see what we are going to get, the wording in the interviews was, as always, vague.

From the wording, I thinking we might get maybe 2 or 3 feature updates a year. Depending on their definition of a “short break”, which I’m hoping is only a month or two, the first one might be in either April or May… hopefully. If there is only 2 a year, that would give them until either November or December for the next one.

For 3 updates a year, they would probably have to put one towards the end of summer vacation. There is a lot of player activity then, and if they put it at the end of August; they can attach it to the anniversary patch. The last one would be in December, to go along with Christmas break and Wintersday.

Of course, like you said, the wording is always vague on these matters. I would lean more towards two, to be on the safe side. It doesn’t hurt to hope for three though.

Soulstar.7812:

Like this upcoming patch…

That will include two bosses, one of them a wurm… all dropping blues and greens. Nothing else.

Exciting times we live in.

They’re talking about something different. We’ll be getting the regular LS updates like we have been for the past year, but they will combining and spacing out the the feature patches into larger updates throughout the year.

Concern: ArenaNet won’t stop banging on about the Living World update plan and so will stick with it even if it’s not working.

Not true. ArenaNet is changing it this year.

The original idea was to have four story teams making a month’s worth of content each, to be released in fortnightly bumps, and whatever mechanical features were ready at that time could be rolled in and included. ‘An online world updated more frequently than any other’ was the dream, but the reality was confusion.

“It’s very distracting to players,” observed Johanson. “It’s almost a muddled message, where we put these releases out and we want them to be excited about the story, to follow the story, and we also want them to be excited about the features that are coming with it. And either one or the other tends to be the thing that people cling onto.” And the other thing, people ignore.

“What we’re going to do this year is we’re actually separating the two of those out.”

All the big mechanical features ArenaNet is working on will be held back for a bumper update presumably in the spring/summer.

“When [Living World Season One] ends [on 4th March], we’re going to take a break for a little bit and then we’re going to do one really big feature patch that is more akin to what people see from some of our [MMO] competitors,” said Johanson, "where they bundle a lot of features together into a really big patch every now and then.

“We’re going to provide that experience and have this huge feature build that has a whole lot of gameplay-changing elements, a lot of quality of life improvements, a lot of features bundled together into one big patch. And that’ll come some time not too far after Season One completes.”

Thank you for the link. I found it a nice read.

So, once they finish season one of the living story, they are going to be doing a large feature patch update after a small break. Fascinating. I wonder what will be in it. The one thing I give Anet props for is that they aren’t afraid to change things up a bit. It’s hard to suit the needs of all their players, but they really are trying to find a happy medium.

Protoavis.9107:

It’s good that she’ll be Ceara again then It seems pretty telling that as soon as she went “insane” her identity changed from Ceara to Scarlet Briar…outside force there you go….she’ll be back to Ceara again by then end of the LS.

Ceara was still a sociopath though. She cared about nothing but herself, and she only saw other people as tools to further her own knowledge. The only thing she gained from her “transformation” into Scarlet Briar is violent tendencies and a sadistic streak. Which she may or may not already had, since her short story was vague on any details about her life outside her learning.

Jaken.6801:

This next part will sting, but it brings me joy
Sometimes to change you must destroy

• it might be something she herself has to give up for somethign greater. maybe she transfers her mind into the mists or tries to ascend mortal means… i do not know. However she admits that it is a forced thing she is doing. Something drives her to change things

She’s going to somehow combine all the different technologies she’s gathered together, and she is going to fuse with them to turn herself into…

Scarlet Briar, the Steam Creature (Borg) Queen!

“Resistance is futile…. Now die, die, die, die, die!”

(maniacal cyber laugh)

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

I do look forward to what Caudecus is going to do about all this but I have other suspicions for his actions. Especially considering his silent partners.

I’m personally hoping that Caudecus is going to try to discredit Jennah for her lack of foresight on the matter. She and her Shining Blades obviously knew about an external threat to the celebration and general population. Yet, they didn’t do anything to try and guarantee the safety of the people, and in their inaction; it lead to the death of countless of innocent bystanders.

Everyone knows that Scarlet was behind the hijacking of the watchknights, which is backed up by her entry and the envoys of all the major nations. So, that is a dead end for a political attack. The true dirt for a political attack is in what Jennah didn’t do. Caudecus could say, after the disaster that was the Opening Ceremony, that the Queen should have shelved the watchknights until a thorough inspection, because there was obvious tampering by a hostile third party.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…. political jargon. Long story short, Caudecus tells the public and his fellow nobles that the Queen cares more for her own safety then her people’s. Add in some senseless rabble rousing statements like, “Obviously she doesn’t think our own safety is her concern.”, and, “She’s the one to blame for the death of our loved ones.”. There you have a nice political fight on your hands.

I actually find their possible relationship understandable, or at least from Kasmeer’s pov. Kasmeer’s entire life got turned upside down only a short while ago, and Marjory was the one to help her in her time of need. Marjory picked her off of the ground, gave her a job, gave her life purpose again, and Kasmeer is probably eternally grateful. Any feelings on Kasmeer’s part, probably came from the fact that Marjory is the one stable encouraging force in her life at the moment. I’m sure it also helped that Marjory is a strong person with a personality that draws people in.

That’s my view anyway…

DarksunG.9537:

It’s been confirmed that it is a “love story” so you’re reading it wrong.

There is no right answer, unless we get the writer that wrote it in here to confirm either way. I could easily say you are reading too far into it because its been confirmed a love story. Just because we now know there is a romantic destination between the two, doesn’t mean all their dialogue has subtext and innuendo now. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Heck, we don’t even know if they are actually together yet.

While I see Marjory trying to defuse a possible argument, you see her liking the idea of Kasmeer naked. It’s a matter of perspective.

You read that as Marjory liking that Kasmeer was naked? When I first seen that, I saw it as Marjory wanting to drop the subject, because Kasmeer was asking that question in a semi-challenging tone. If Marjory would have said, “Yes, I do have a problem with that.”, she would have been questioning Kasmeer decision on the matter. Which could have possible led to an argument. So, Marjory took the disbelieving diplomatic approach, and she simply answered with a “nooo”.

DarksunG.9537:

yes, it is. I mean you’d have to have the sound off or look at the ground during most of their sections no to notice. You come out of a cinematic right next to a vendor that everyone & their mom is using to have fully voiced dialog about how hot they think Kasmeer’s nakedness is… you have to be pretty focused to miss that.

Unless i’m missing something, I remember only one conversation about Kasmeer being naked ingame, and it is only between Kasmeer and Marjory, with no other npcs involved.

Marjory Delaqua: How’d you get out of all that without a single smudge or tear on your dress?
Kasmeer Meade: It’s not a dress. It’s an illusion. You think I’d take my best dress into a place like that?
Marjory Delaqua: An illusion? You mean you’re…
Kasmeer Meade: Naked. Is that a problem?
Marjory Delaqua: Noooo. Not a problem.

Do you happen to have a quote or transcript of the fully voiced npc dialogue, describing how hot Kasmeer is, by any chance?

Maturity doesn’t always equal blood, gore, and sex. If I really wanted to play a game with those, I would play the Witcher or DA. Like Konig said, this game is a teen rated game, and it is being written as such. Any “mature” elements they would add to the game would be less blood and more of grey morals. They stuff that makes you question if you are on the right side, without you having to step over a mound of dead bodies to do so.

Which I would very much prefer they add more of.

CHIPS.6018:

Watchknights, killing 10000 humans for every 1 human it protects. Great success!

That’s why Queen Jeenah should abdicate her throne. Her “gift to humanity” failed big time. She cannot run this nation.

She may have better luck as a mesmer fighting for the Pact.

That’s like saying YOU should be punished, because a thief stole your car, and then he or she proceeded to try and mow down as many innocent people as they could.

Meh. I, personally, like her, but I would rather see her end in a blaze of glory which opens up the LS to whatever is coming next. There just isn’t really anything redeeming about here, other than her technological advances, but we can simply take her toys after she’s dead.

Kryta, mostly likely the Ministry, would love to get their hands on Scarlet’s added designs to their watchknights. She might have used them for evil, but she did improve them by a great deal though. And, I’m sure, or I at least hope, that the Pact descends on her lab/HQ like a swarm of locusts, and they pick apart and examine all of her tech to modify to use against the Elder Dragons. In a fight for survival, you never turn down any new weapons you might be able to use.

As for her reasoning behind her actions, I’m hoping she is secretly getting manipulating by an entity from the Mists, personally. Or, what she saw in her vision/hallucination/whatever was her taking a deep dive into the Dream, and her brain was scrambled by all the visions of Tyria’s possible futures, hence her making and advancing seemingly random alliances for their tech.

I guess the latter could be used for your “saving the world” speculation, but this is still Scarlet after all. If she was saving the world, it would be only for her benefit.

Luquatic.3825:

However I think that this boss is only a part of something bigger, something that is still unkown. It could have something to do with Mordremoth, but I doubt that.

It is possible, though I’m not sure how much.

Although you’ll need only to participate in fighting the Great Jungle Wurm in order to progress the story, there are plenty of new rewards awaiting those who manage to defeat it.

Either the Priory is trying to study all the Great Wurms, or there is a possible connection between the two.

I guess we will have to wait to find out if she was awakening the hydra wurm on purpose, or if it was a nice side effect from the thumpers, since it draws the hero’s attention away from her. It said in the article that you only need to kill the Great Jungle Wurm to continue the story. It would be fascinating if all the wurms were connected to one another in some way.

Though, I was happy to hear that she is rallying her forces in Lornar’s Pass. We might finally get some more information on her ties with the steam creatures. That’s really the only place that has a constant force of them there, and the only place where the steam creatures are actually trying to somewhat invade and hold ground. Hopefully, they will delve deeper into that subject as the final arc continues.

I’m not all that surprised with Scarlet’s “UFO”. This is the land of airships after all, and we already knew that Scarlet’s Aetherblades already had some. It doesn’t take much imagination to think Scarlet might have a special one for herself.

I wouldn’t really call it a fanservice unless it makes its way into the LS openly, and it becomes a major part of their storyline. For now, it is only suggested in their dialogue. We (see: the people that actually watch them and forumites) only got official confirmation with the livestream. Whether or not it actually makes its way into the game, and to what degree, is another matter entirely.

There is a big difference between, “Look, lesbians! Look I tell you!” and “Oh ya, they’re together btw.”.

NinjaChris.9340:

Feel free to link to those blog posts you’re speaking of.

I really had to test my googling skills to find it.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/17543-arenanet-the-sylvari-soul-%e2%80%93-angel-mccoy-on-writing-the-sylvari/page__st__240#entry835571

Regina Buenaobra: I’m not actually irritated about the sex discussion. Perhaps I should have included some smilies. I think it’s totally fine that people talk about those things, even if they are not part of the game that people can play.

It was more a reaction to the fact that fans’ focusing on sex, subsequently asking questions about sex, and then finding out that sylvari do have sex somehow gets turned into “catering to sexual fantasies” when we treat the sylvari about the same as we do other races with respect to sex.

NinjaChris.9340:

In terms of Faolain and Caithe, keep in mind that gender distinction with Sylvari are almost arbitrary, since a: the relationship is never sexual and b: gender roles are not present in sylvaren society, as there is no difference between genders (as far as we know). Introducing “genders” to the Sylvari was basically just to make the race feel a bt more familiar.

From what I remember of the old dev posts and interviews, the Sylvari do have genitalia, and they do engage in sex as well.

You’re welcome to your opinion, but this thread doesn’t belong in the lore forum.

Change the face of Tyria forever they say…………..

Are they implementing my suggestion to permanently send Tyria into Nightfall(Kryta kingdom of Pain, Maguuma Jungle of Fear, Bloodpeaks of Madness, Ascalon land of Secrets)?

If they are(even if they plan to have Scarlet be behind it) that will make me really happy!

I doubt that. While Scarlet might be powerful in her engineering might, I doubt she would have the power to pull off something of the scale of Nightfall. It took Abaddon centuries, if not millennia, of planning to almost pull that off, and although he was weakened; he was a god. Scarlet is no where near his level.

If I remember my dev quotes, they are suppose to be adding new zones in this year. So, I would imagine that would be part of the “change the face ofTyria forever”. The other part would most likely be their large scale changes to zones. The Tower of Nightmares was their first attempt at that.

In my opinion, it was a very good first try, and I hope they build on that later down the line. It would be nice to see villains and Elder Dragon attacks being able to permanently change a zone like that. It actually makes the Living Story feel living.

Them cutting cut a forest of perfectly harmless innocent trees, then dragging their dying bodies through the streets of every city, dressing them up in sparkly ornaments for the people’s amusement, and once their have turned into a withered husk of their former self; they get tossed in the garbage and/or burned.

They thought the Sylvari might find it offensive.

Just because they don’t reply back, doesn’t mean they aren’t reading the posts. The same applies in this forum. How often have we gotten a dev post on different subjects here? Very rarely. The most red in a thread we got was probably the one about the Angel interview. We were causing such a ruckus in that thread, that they had to respond.

What’s that old saying? “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

Also, there isn’t much of anything to discuss lore-wise on the original topic, since it was merely a suggestion for Anet to add some more shades of gray to their political plotlines.

Ya, we didn’t even get a free town gear hat from the gem shop like we did last year. While the flopping Gandalf the Grey hat didn’t match my Asura as all, I still liked that they continued the wintersday hat tradition from gw1.

I was deeply disappointed that they didn’t seem to bring it back this year.

I always wondered how that wasn’t harmful to the player at all. If Zhaitan was anything like Glint, we know that its body was probably steeped in magic, possibly corrupted magic as well. Then we have the players bring home handfuls of it home after each dungeon run. It’s a disaster in the making.

I wonder if the Pact gets the fun responsibilities of being Tyria’s magically equivalent of the CDC now…

I’m not sure if Felicia Day is expensive, but I’m sure she has a very busy schedule though.

I’ll agree with what Sindex said. Zojja is probably focused on other issues at the moment. Not to mention, Rata Sum has been relatively untouched be Scarlet’s actions so far, so there wouldn’t be much to draw Zojja’s attention away from her current pet projects.

Also, if Scarlet ever got into a magitechnical engineering battle against Zojja, Zojja would probably curb stomp her. Scarlet has the numbers and surprise on her side, but Zojja would most likely be able to figure out how most of her stuff works just by looking at it. After that, it would be simple to develop counter measures against her weapons.

Nicholas S Lin.6187:

Btw the last three post don’t belong to this subject matter that I started.

Not counting your own posts, the last eight posts were off subject. I doesn’t matter much in the end though, since we already answered your question from the OP. There are no known ties between the Elder Dragons and the Six.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I agree FlamingFoxx, sadly it would seem that ArenaNet has written two separate lores for the game series – having spoken to a guild member who’s part of the Chinese community about the topic a bit, I have learned that a lot of elements are downplayed in China’s version of the game, or outright altered/removed. For example, the notion of sylvari sexuality is downplayed greatly – to the point where, for example, Caithe and Faolain are not lovers.

I wouldn’t be surprised given the number of restrictions and outright ban-able material they screen for. It’s a lot of hoops you have to jump through to get to China’s large online gamer market.

I wonder though. How do they explain Faolain’s obsession with Caithe over there? That she’s a really clingy ex-“best friend”? Wow, they probably had to change her nickname for Caithe too. It’s hard not to be a little suggestive when you’re calling someone else “dear heart”.

Enaretos.8079:

But there is a correlation between the Gods and Zhaïtan though.

I don’t remember where exactly I read it (GW1 Wiki, GW2 Wiki or the novels), but the gods actually decided to build Arah because there was an immense source of power there, not knowing it was Zhaïtan’s dormant power.

Edit : source @ http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zhaitan#History

They settled in Tyria and build Arah because the Artesian Waters drew them there from across the Mists. They only unknowingly drew upon Zhaitan’s powers when they were tinkering with the Bloodstone, after they revoked the gift of magic. I’m sure if they knew an Elder Dragon was literally sleeping under their feets, they would have packed their bags and moved their humans somewhere else in Tyria.

It would be interesting to see how the Ritualist has evolved in Cantha over these past 250 years. If we ever go there anyway. The influx of magic would effect them as much as it did the other professions, and they might have picked up and/or augmented spells from other professions, like we did to them here, over time. And since the Ritualist is rooted in Cantha’s cultural traditions, they can’t simply write them off.

Though, I’m kinda afraid they might be the “monk” of Gw2’s Cantha. They’re there, and you can see and talk to them, but you can’t play as one. It wouldn’t make sense for the other races to suddenly gain to urge to study the ancient magically arts of Cantha’s humans. Unless they use the…. monk example from WoW, and they just seed a bunch of ritualist trainers around the world for no reason other than to train the players.

kitten …
Now I want to play as a Charr ritualist, and he/she got into the subject as a possible way to help combat the Foefire spirits, since necromancy seems to be a dead end. It all makes sense in my head. Nooooooooo!

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