@erukk, sever the head, arms and legs, seal the torso and limbs in different places in the world, give the head to grenth; alternatively, throw the severed remains in lava – mount maelstrom has to be useful someday
It wouldn’t work. Turai Ossa tried something similar given the inscription on the monument of Joko’s defeat.
“This monument commemorates the defeat of Palawa Joko at the Battle of Jahai. After 100 days of bloody battle, Turai Ossa and his elite troops defeated Joko’s undead forces of grey giants and undead centaurs. Yet, despite attempts made with magic, blade and even darker means, Palawa Joko could not be killed. Turai Ossa’s elite forces chained him by magic and bound him deep in the earth. Thus the undead lord’s defeat was complete and Palawa Joko sealed away forever in a location kept secret by the Order of Whispers.”
@PopeUrban
To be fair, we don’t even know if we can kill Joko, because liches have a horrible habit of being unkillable. The only way were we able to kill Khillbron is because there were soul batteries involved. I would imagine those are really hard to come by now though, since the Mursaat are gone.
Now that I read her quotes again, Scarlet sounds like a only slightly more crazed (engineer) version of her.
Possible ulterior motives aside, we know from a dev interview that the Elder Dragon’s balance Tyria’s magic levels, by keeping it in a constant state of flux. When they awaken, they devour the world’s magic. Once it reaches a low enough level, they go back into hibernation, and then they radiate a clean(?) magic over time.
The rub, of course, is that the entire world is infused with magic: the earth, water, plants, living, dead, possibly the very air, but most importantly us. As long as we carry magic, we’re up on the dinner table for the Elder Dragons’ “balancing”.
In the end, no matter how dangerous, Joko is never going to be as dangerous to us as a whole as the Elder Dragons are going to be, because Joko can be bargained with. The Elder Dragons are always going to try and kill/devour us. It’s their very nature.
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No.
Joko might be a dictator ruling with an iron fist, but at least he can be reasonable on certain regards He also seems to be content just ruling Elona for right now. Kralk, on the other hand, still wants to corrupt and rule the entire world.
And the little girl transformation? It sounds like that idea got ripped off from an anime or manga.
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Neither of which is actually living story. SAB is a game type they stick in when ready to keep us busy when they’re working on other things and tequatl is the test for them revamping all the world events. Neither involves the LS team or actually changed the events in the world. Technically at this point of the LS tequatl should be dead.
Other than the fact, that a dev has already stated that Teq’s evolution IS going to tie into the LS in the future.
SAB, on the other hand, seems its going to get its own storyline. Something dealing with the krewe that Moto use to belong too, and how his Genie of the Box seems to be bent on destroying their work. If that ties into the LS, is another question all together.
If they do return, I can see the Mursaat not using the White Mantle. The White Mantle has proven to be loyal fanatical minions in the past, but they have also proven to be unreliable as well, by not being able to take down the Player in gw1. Not to mention, all the White Mantles activities, other than maybe the ones in the Isles of Janthir, are under constant monitoring and/or investigating by the Shining Blade.
No…
…just no.
You are vastly overestimating her powers. Omnipotence and omniscience, really? If she had anything near that level of power, she would have no need for an army. She would just erase us from reality with a thought.
She seems overly powerful, because she’s the main LS villain for this arc, but you have to remember all her powers come from her gadgets. She needed her vast intelligence of engineering to make them, but all her powers still come down to gadgets, minus the actually briar manipulation.
Teleportation? Gadget.
Damage Immunity Shield? Gadget.
Control of the Steam creatures? Most likely programming and a gadget.
Watchwork? Gadget.
Once we find a way to nullify her gadgets, she is just as vulnerable as everyone else.
The possibility of an undead king of Orr being elevated was one that crossed my mind. Probably not such a bad plan, if the result is a decent and effective monarch that won’t die of old age.
For some weird reason, I can’t stop imagining an uncorrupted Risen King still having Zhaitan verbal ticks.
Risen King: Thank you heroes for releasing me from Zhaitan-SHALL DEVOUR THIS WORLD!-’s influence.
It is hard to relate him to Scarlet
Yet I still did, using the same categories you used to find Scarlet as a bad character, because they share a lot of characteristics.
The reasons you listed why Voldemort can’t relate to Scarlet is part of his backstory and his motives. Something he didn’t get until later in the book series. Heck, in book one, he was only just a powerful evil wizard that killed Harry’s parents. We didn’t really get to know his history and motives until book four and beyond.
So, I’ll ask you this question: why can’t the same be true for Scarlet? We only just met her. She is a new character. One that we have a far, far, from complete backstory on, and we have absolutely no idea what her true motives are.
How is she any different than any other villain in the beginning? It takes time to fully flesh out a character.
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It would explain how her dress defies gravity.
Actually, her dress doesn’t defy gravity at all, for it is only an illusion. The deepest darkest secret of Queen Jenna is that she is a nudist. She believes that clothes constrict society, and they put up too many barriers between people.
Sadly, there is an ancient Krytan law preventing her from fully expressing these values. It expressly forbids any human of notable rank from exposing themselves indecently to the public, or promoting the nudist lifestyle. Though, she found a loophole in this law. As long as no one knows she is exposing herself indecently, she can continue living her nudist lifestyle, hence the illusionary “gravity defying” dress.
Her going barefoot is her own private way of expressing her views against said nudity law.
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Suffering at a young age has nothing to do with making a good villain. Its all about their thought processes and motives. A good villain can start out with an ok childhood, just like a good hero can start with a bad one.
Lets use your “Villain Sue” checklist against a very popular villain… Lord Voldemort.
-Suffered nothing in childhood. He grew up in a orphanage. Not an ideal upbringing, but he suffered very little. If anything, he was the one to make all the other children suffer.
-Suffered nothing in adulthood. He was a well liked member of the community. They also thought he would do well in the ministry, maybe even make Minister.
-Surrounded by nice people and mentors that showed and taught him things. Tom Riddle was charismatic. He was able to charm all the teachers, other then Dumbledore, into basically giving him whatever he wanted.
-Cared for by a loving mother. He had none, but neither did Scarlet. The Pale Tree is there, giving comfort to those who seek it, but she is always at a distance. She rarely interferes into her children’s lives. Something that Scarlet preferred, since she neither liked, loved, or cared for the Pale Tree, and she wanted nothing to do with the being.
-Betrayed his “mentor”. I put mentor in quotes for a reason. Neither Tom Riddle or Scarlet have mentors, since they never trust anyone or view anyone as their betters. They only see them as a means to an end. That end being increasing their power or wealth of knowledge. Anyway, he betrayed Slughorn’s trust after he asked for information on the horcruxes. All for the greater purpose of his path towards of immortality and power.
-Looked down on everyone. Need I say anything?
-Became smarter than everyone else, in an incredibly short amount of time. Again, true for neither of them, since they were both born naturally intelligent. Tom Riddle was naturally gifted with both his intelligence and charisma, and Scarlet was born with a deep understanding on the interconnectivity of all things and how they effect one another. Hence, her deep understanding of engineering and the College of Synergetic’s study of the Eternal Alchemy .
-Raised an army from nothing, in an incredibly short amount of time. Lord Voldemort was able to create the Knights of Walpurgis, the precursor of the Death Eaters, from his followers at Hogwarts.
-Invented weapons that defied logic. Numerous dark spells and rituals. Not to mention, the grand total of 7 horcruxes. Something that was mindboggling and never heard of before.
So, by your definition, Lord Voldemort is a horrible character, and JK should be ashamed for writing him.
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If you think they are such rookies, maybe you could try your hand at coding an MMO? I mean, if they are hiring people that fell right off the turnip trucks, someone with your passion and drive can swing that company right back around!
Though by your definition, it would seem I’m a casual gamer, since I don’t think any game or company is anywhere close to “sacred”. It’s sad when a good game fails, or its takes a downturn, but all I mostly do is shrug my shoulder, sigh, and go out and find another game.
Casual Player Pride!
I said it in another thread, but I doubt it will happen. I’m would like to see, after a big fight against one another, Scarlet to injure Caithe and possibly capture her. Faolain being still in love with Caithe, in her dark and twisted way, gets enraged and goes after Scarlet personally.
After Faolain chases Scarlet away, with the help of the heroes of course, she would do what anyone would do with an injured loved one. She would try and convert Caithe to the Nightmare in her weakened state.
Final fight would be against Faolain of course. Lol
But I would honestly enjoy Canach becoming an ally we fight with. His story is already set up to being an anti-hero. He fought the Molten Alliance so he may have ran into Braham and Rox even though we didn’t then. He would make a perfect anti-hero for the GW2 story. If done right. He sees himself as a hero of the people, but he goes a little too far (at least when Consortium is involved) and doesn’t really think about how his actions affect the people, making him a conflicted character through his actions if nothing else.
I hoping for something like this as well. It would be a tough sell to the players, bringing him back, with the job they did in SoS. Not them mention, in the LS, they would have to get him out of prison, LA’s dungeons, or wherever he’s at first. That would either take him escaping, by himself or with help, or him getting a pardon by the Lionsguard or Captain’s Council for whatever reason.
Though, the thought of Kiel having to release him is a fun thought. They are both in the need for some character development, and they could be a good foil for one another if written right. They both want the same thing, to protect the weak/innocent, but they have different views on how to achieve that.
I never understood where people get the “Destiny’s Edge 2.0” from. Even more so, since we have barely used the regular DE for all that much ingame so far. They only just reunited at the very end of the PS.
Anet is just adding support characters to the LS, and the Charr and Norn ones happen to be friends. That’s all we’ve seen so far. If there is ever a LS where they all play a big part in, where they all group and help one another, then I’ll start believing they are making another super guild to suck up all the story with.
As for Scarlet being a part of it? No. They have already labeled her as the LS antagonist. She kills without mercy, has no empathy for anyone, and she is running an allied multi-national army that she uses to hostilely invade regions with.
Just no.
They would have better luck on expanding Canach’s story and motives, or just adding a new character altogether.
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I found it an enjoyable read. The only critique I had is Scarlet’s late entrance. If she is going to be in this LS arc, I would introduce her a bit sooner. Her suddenly showing up at the end, with the final boss no less, would probably get a bit of backlash from the players. I would have her either crashing the Faren’s party with the Shadow Mobius or hinted at or mentioned by Boltof and Coventina in chapter two.
Though, I think her crashing a party would be more in her character. It would also allow more joke filled dialogue. Which she seems to love.
“I decided to barrow someone else’s goons, since I thought you might have grown tired of seeing my Aetherblades.”
lol they are already retconning her because they realized what joke she is! that’s good. the less smart & less powerful & less influential they make her the better. they surely can’t line up that new data with what they’ve said & shown. retcon retcon lols.
It’s not really a retcon. If people read all the dialogue in the Closing Ceremony instance, they would have heard Vorpp say she got engineering degrees at each college. The player base then assumed she also did the entire course work for each college on top of that as well.
You know what happens when people “assume” something…
He was thrown at us because there weren’t hints he existed before Nightfall, even though they went out of their way saying he was pulling strings the entire time. They had to add his entire backstory and motives into Nightfall, because he didn’t exist before that. The only way they could explain something as major as them adding a new god in lore, is to say “Well he is actually an old god. You just don’t know about him, because he was so bad, he had to get totally erased from history.”
As for the Scarlet thing, I never said she had a better story/plot. I said at least she got foreshadow before being revealed to be the “big bad behind everything”.
If I believe Abaddon follows the stereotypical dark fallen god storyline? Let’s go down the dark fallen god checklist…
- God leads rebellion against fellow god(s) over a slight or to take leadership? Slight. Check.
- Other god(s) defeats said god? Check.
- Imprisoned in a hellish/nightmare dimension? Check.
- Demon minions? Check
- Evil Cult/Followers? Check
- Tries to use evil cult/followers to release said god back to the mortal world? Check
- On said release, will he/she tries to destroy said world? I think warping it into his own nightmareish world, and your demon minions probably killing the population counts. Check
He might not follow the stereotypical dark fallen god storyline for you, but he sure did for me.
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Abaddon wasn’t much more than that.
He was a big evil floating ball of energy that was playing puppet master with the events of the world. Once he got the ball rolling with the Jade Wind, the Searing, and the Cataclysm, he had Varesh start the rituals to start the Nightfall. Which is the event that leads to his complete reformation, though he only was able to get to a big evil floating head and hands stage, and destroy Tyria by basically reforming it into Realm of Torment 2.0.
I would let all my arguments against him slide if we actually knew he existed before Nightfall. Instead, we got a surprise “big bad behind everything”, and his previously nonexistence was explained away with, “Well… he was erased from history…”. Then he got quickly patched into Prophecies and Factions lore with secondary quests, saying he was secretly behind most of the major bad events all throughout history.
Dare I bring up the subject, but at least Scarlet was hinted at being behind most of the events in the LS, before they revealed her. Abaddon was thrown at us from out of the blue.
Also, Abaddon never said anything throughout the whole game. So he would be a dark fallen god out to destroy the world. “….”
The humans came to Tyria from the land of… (No spoilers!)
It had a long and dark history of the people of power inholding information from the eyes of the populace, for they were the worshippers of Abaddon! As the God of Knowledge and Secrets, Abaddon was the patron god of (No spoilers!). It was through his guidance that the rulers of (No spoilers!) bent their people to their will, and it was also because of his guidance that the people went against their masters.
Fed up on their ruler’s constant (No spoilers!) the people of (No spoilers!) started a rebellion! For they believed it was their right to see what exactly the (No spoilers!) would indeed spoil.
Any further information regarding the world of (No spoilers!) now, was forgotten, even by the other gods, leaving Abaddon the only being to remember the world of (No spoilers!) until his death. The only god that knows of (No spoilers!) now is Kormir…
=P
A better theory would be that Anise is Jennah sister or something like that, even lovers (hey, caithe).
That can’t be true. Because if it was, that would make Logan the luckiest man in the GW2 universe. That would officially kill the game’s lore for me.
ANet seems to have good story writers on staff, but for some reason they fail in turning those stories into game content.
Probably the same reason it’s hard to turn a good book into an equally good movie. The material is there, but they’re limited by their tools when actually making the finished project.
Time to stock up on cannonballs!
Why would we need another main storyline guild taking all the attention for everything? We already have Destiny’s Edge. Rox, Braham, Kiel, and the like are support characters. Let them stay support characters…
I’m kinda hoping that Scarlet injures Caithe or something. That way, Faolain can go on a personal crusade against Scarlet for daring to hurt something that belongs to her.
On a side note, I don’t think Caithe would ever ally or team up with the Nightmare Count. She sees them as too much of a threat against the Pale Tree. Plus, she seems to enjoy stabbing them in back too much.
I’m kinda hoping he survived, although weakened, and retreated to the Ring of Fire. Then Anet can make another Zhaitan fight. One where we don’t just stand there and press a single button.
Crossing my fingers, but I’m doubtful that will happen.
However, I’d like to argue that all of those abbadon connections were retcons invented specifically for Nightfall, to add credibility to there sudden having been added a fallen sixth god to the lore, and so they could put Shiro and the Lich in a mission just to bulk of the street cred of the new villain.
Honestly, I wish they hadn’t done that. The lore was far more interesting when people had motivations that weren’t just “oh right, because an evil god told them to.”
You know, just like how Charr were put in a retcon blender for GW2.
Nightfall was a great story, but it could have been the same great story without making abby an apperantly important ex-diety that we hadn’t heard about until that moment.
I’ll have to agree with that. Abaddon felt a bit jammed in at the last minute lore-wise to me. Then they patched him in quickly by saying he was behind all the bad stuff previously. It was very irksome.
I would have personally preferred if they kept Varesh as the main antagonist. Just have Abaddon be dead, with his powers imprisoned in the Realm of Torment, and she was enacting Nightfall to get access to the RoT and to claim his powers as her own. Her mindset/motives would be, “No matter the costs, only as a god would I be the leader my people truly need and deserve.”
It’s a better motive than, “I’m a dark fallen god that wants to destroy everything! MAHAHAHA!”.
Generally speaking, practitioners of one profession won’t trade secrets with one person from another profession. That’s why Necromancers can’t make illusions of themselves, and Mesmers can’t raise the dead.
It’s going to be harder and harder to keep such knowledge secret with Tyrian society advancing has it has. Give it another hundred years, the Priory are probably going to partner with the Asura to create something akin to the internet, then all such secrets to the professions are going to be s.o.l…
Future number one video on YouMagi: “How anyone can raise the dead in 3 easy steps!”
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If I remember right, though I could be very wrong on this, the Asura allow people to use the gates for free as more of a good faith deal. It raises the view of Rata Sum and Lion’s Arch in the public’s eye, and it also helps build ties between the different cities.
Merchants or anyone moving a large amount of good, or just large items, do get billed to use the gates, and possibly very heavily too, since the gates allow the instant transportation of goods across large distances, bypassing all the dangers the road might offer.
Also, most, if not all, of the Asura Gates in Lion’s Arch are owned by Captain Shud. Going by her own words, she is the richest captain on the council.
I wasn’t saying they were a good thing, just a natural thing.
And we will have to fight them, since, as Oola said, “We embody magic”. The entire world is infused with the stuff. The land, water, plants, living things, dead things, and more importantly us. All of those things are targets of the Elder Dragons corruption/balancing act, since they are all part of the greater magical whole of the world, and we will stay targets as long as the Elder Dragons are active.
A war of survival in the end. Though, with unclear outcomes if we actually do kill all the Elder Dragons.
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@Erukk: who says the Elder Dragons’ roles are natural? Because all I got from Angel McCoy is “they consume magikittenil there’s none left, then they hibernate during which they expel magikittenil the world’s saturated with it, where they wake again to consume it” – the Elder Dragons, from this, are indeed a cycle. But a self-replenishing one.
Remove the Elder Dragons, and magic is constant. That’s how I see the interview. Of course, it wouldn’t be so if the Elder Dragons radiate less magic than they consume, and consume the same amount each rise (meaning that there is a constant increase in the world’s magic, but the Elder Dragons hasten that increase while hibernating, perhaps so they can rise sooner – given SoS, I don’t think the Elder Dragons ever have intention of going back to sleep).
Angel did in the interview…
Angel McCoy : Magic is the lifeblood of Tyria. The entire world is infused with it, and it flows through everything via ley lines that criss-cross the planet.
The natural role of the dragons is to keep this magic balanced. From time to time, in the long history of the world, the dragons have awoken and begun to draw the world’s magic into themselves, reducing the level of magic flowing through the ley lines.When the dragons have consumed enough and thus reduced the world to a low level of magic, they go back to sleep. From then on, the magic leaks from them, back into the world at a reasonable rate. Eventually, it builds up in the world again, and the dragons awaken again to tip the teeter-totter back in the other direction.
I’m guessing that at least a small amount magic is essential for survival, since she said the whole world is “infused” with it. It would explain why the Elder Dragons keep a low magic level behind when they go into hibernation. “We embody magic” afterall.
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I would argue that there has to be a constant increase of magic in Tyria, because if there wasn’t; magic would already be balanced and constant, as there would be no increase or decrease in the level of magic. Then, there would be no need for the Elder Dragons, since they natural role is to keep the magic balanced.
There would have to be either an outside force or a natural production adding magic to Tyria to have it become unbalanced, and therefore the need for the Elder Dragons to constantly keep it in check.
It has been stated in the Angel McCoy interview that the Elder Dragons balance magic. Tyria’s ambient magic is always increasing, and if it reaches certain levels, it becomes dangerous too everyone by being extremely chaotic and uncontrollable. The Elder Dragons basically work as Tyria’s immune system to a degree. Once Tyria’s magic levels reach a dangerous degree, they wake up and start devouring magic. When it’s back to an acceptable level, or there is no magic to be found (incase of the Bloodstone), they slowly starve and go back to sleep.
To start off, I think what you classify can “forbidden magic”, and what was considered forbidden magic or practices in gw1, are two totally separate things. Just because a spell is powerful, doesn’t automatically make it “forbidden” magic.
Forbidden magic/practices comes from either a consensus agreeing that a type of magic is too dangerous when used or practiced against the populace. Which was the cause of Verata. He was studying death magic to increase the resilience and longevity of minions. Which was considered a good thing, but he was abducting innocent people to experiment and hone his spells with. Which is considered a forbidden practice. That’s why he became and outlaw.
Another type of forbidden magic, is when the gods themselves say it’s bad. The Lost Scrolls are a good example of that.
The Foefire wouldn’t be considered “forbidden” magic, when to the best of our knowledge, that spell didn’t exist until Adelbern unleashed the magic of Magdaer by breaking it in a fit of rage. With the power source broken, and possibly used up(?), there’s really no reason to outlaw it, since there is a good chance it can’t be cast again. Plus, the Pact and a few Charr researchers have made good use of the ghostly fire itself, against Zhaitan’s fleet, since it isn’t effected by water.
The same can be said about the Searing, which wasn’t even a spell, much less a “forbidden” one. It was a ritual. Also, the Charr wouldn’t care what the humans might or might not consider “forbidden” magic. Even more so, when they are using it against them.
And finally. Zhaitan’s Risen =/= necromancer minions. It’s like comparing apples and oranges. They might both be fruit, or undead minions in this case, but they are totally separate magic wise.
Well, there goes a huge lore opportunity to expand on the Elder Dragon, and how their death might effect their minions…
/sigh
I’m starting to think we should start a petition for them fixing the Living Story timeline. It’s not much of a LS when, going by the personal story timeline, all these events “magically” happened months ago for the character.
/faceplam
Would it really kill them to put a disclaimer on the Personal Story? Something like they did in gw1, with the non-native characters doing the beginner mission? I can totally understand their reasoning behind them trying to sync up the PS and LS, but in the end… it just wont work. The more LS they make, the more the timeline gets convoluted. The more the timeline gets convoluted; the harder it is to not form a paradox. If they have to jump through hoops to just make the story work, it ruins the story in the end, and it severely hobbles them creatively.
On a sarcastic side note, anyone want to take bets on if Halloween is pre or post death of Zhaitan?
For one, we really have no idea how the Foefire spell actually worked. I doubt Adelbern did either, if he even knew that Magdaer could do that in the first place, since he was in no way an master spellcaster when he was alive. By the end of his life, he was a 79 year old half mad warrior king that struck his magic sword against the ground in a fit of rage.
Even if the Ascalonians did some how pull off the Foefire in the Charr homeland, it wouldn’t have done much. Unless of course, the Foefire could cover a landmass much larger than it did with Ascalon. The Charr empire was huge in gw1, and is even larger in gw2, since they gained Ascalon. If the Foefire wiped out the Blood Legion homelands, it wouldn’t have saved Ascalon. The Charr still have a large unknown portions of controlled land east of the Blazeridge Mountains.
It might postpone Ascalon’s destruction for a couple of years, at most a decade, but the Charr would have still destroyed Ascalon in the end.
And those who say that we are not forced to have ascended, really haven’t been paying attention. Within the next couple of months, that will be a necessity in order to get on a dungeon team. If you don’t show up with a Zerker ascended weapon you will get kicked off the team.
Can I barrow your crystal ball that you use to see the future? I can use some good lotto numbers for tomorrow.
All the dungeons were build for people that have rares and exotics. The only people that will care if you have an ascended weapon are fractal groups, and elitists that you wouldn’t want to group with anyway. Plus with the LFG tool coming soon, you will be more than able to fill out your group with people that wouldn’t care either way.
I think you are giving The Order too much credit in that regard. The were a group, maybe a secretive guild(?), of spellcasters, seemingly mostly necromancers, that studied magic and policed the actions of their members. Even if they did allow its members to study the forbidden magics, and kill portions of the remaining meager population of Ascalon to perform/hone the spells, I very much doubt that would have saved them from the full might of the Charr forces. Not to mention, people don’t really buy the “for the greater good” argument when their friends and family can taken away to be killed and studied for horrific magical experimentation.
On a side note, when did Adelbern have anything to do with the Order? Even more so, that he followed their rules when it came to magic? Adelbern was very much a warrior in GW1. The only magic trick he seemed to know, was strengthening Magdaer with a conjure flame spell.
And her little short stories have been rather cringe-worthy and poorly written, I might add.
You do know that Angel isn’t the only one writing those right? I think the last ones she wrote were during July, for the BotFW. The ones with Evon departing and the Zephyrites trek through the Crystal Desert.
I will admit that MoP was a huge jump storywise, but it took WoW about 8 years to get there. 8 long years. MoP is nice, but we can’t forget all their bad storytelling from the years previous. I know a good portion of their beginning years was me cringing at the villains. The WoW writers had a horrible habit of beating characters with the crazy stick to turn them into loot piñatas. Now they can wield the mother of all crazy sticks to power their plot, the Old Gods.
Not to mention they get to use a GINORMOUS budget for their game.
I can see them building the meta-bosses into something like raid content. Though, it might take them awhile, and a few tries, to find mechanics that work with zergs. They have to find that fine line between punishing a mindless zerg, and the mechanics having enough leeway for new players and a semi-competent zerg to actually complete it.
Its a fine, fine, line.
Pity. Here was a good discussion on the nature of divinity in GW, and it all got derailed because someone mentioned Scarlet.
/sigh
@mexay
Insulting a dev on the forums? Really? It’s one thing to question their handling of lore, but insulting them personally? Ya…
Plus, the human elite skills aren’t actual avatars of the gods. They pray to the god of their choosing, and the god leads them strength in different ways. Dwayna heals, Lyssa gives boons and conditions, Kormir cures conditions, Balthazar sends hounds, and Grenth and Melandru empowers the players to take on the shape of one of their servants.
The only avatar of the gods the players can possibly meet is the Reaper of Grenth during the PS.
Red on a thread!? Impossible! Now, we all have to make baseless assumptions on what your two sentence response could possibly mean.
Back on topic. I think it would make a good new dungeon. Let us hope that this mysterious Wizard sends out some “dinner invitations” soon, or something.
It would be interesting if Zhaitan wasn’t actually the dragon we killed, but he/it is the corruption itself. The Zhaitan we killed at the end of Arah story was just the physical manifestation of the corruption, and it chose the form of a dragon since it is perceived as the strongest. As long as Zhaitan’s corruption exists, so does Zhaitan.
Pity, devs confirmed that Zhaitan was dead though, didn’t they? Let’s all hope that Teq survives this new encounter, and he becomes the new leader of the Risen. I want to see him evolve again. Something like Zhaitan’s original undead composite dragon abomination concept art.
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They don’t fit lore, or you can’t think of a way they fit lore? As long as there is holographic technology, mesmer illusions, and magical enchanting, almost any type of armor can fit into lore.
Maybe they came to Tyria because their original world was being overrun by a predecessor of the Pale Tree.
Feed Me, Seymour Trahearne!
Secluded in the sense of it being an out of the way place. A place that not many people will visit or know of. No mountains required.