Do we have any indication that another Pale Tree would also be sentient?
As the Dream does not appear to be of Mordremoth’s design (since the Pale Tree manages to protect it from him), who is to say that the sentience of the Pale Tree does not come from the Dream rather than the seed?
If Pale Trees are just hatcheries of minions, I would assume it’s in Mordremoth’s best interest to give them as little will as possible. Basically all it needs to do is bear fruit, they don’t need to be self-aware for that.
And let’s face it, as champions they’re pretty useless. They’re immobile and most of the power the Pale Tree shows is connected to the Dream, which doesn’t seem to be an inherent power of a Pale Tree.
My sweet Leyliana has had it rough ever since it became common knowledge that she is supposed to be a dragon minion, but she tries to weather the storm with as much grace as she can muster.
I can’t deny that the news of no new race has me extremely disheartened. While this indeed doesn’t add any mechanics, cosmetic changes are a huge part of Guild Wars.
That said I’ll try to keep an open mind.
Pretty sure Guild Wars only ever had one race. And cosmetic changes were added with new professions and skins. In other words, HoT is following in its predecessors footsteps.
Irrelevant. Guild wars 2 already has 5 races right now and it’s commonly known that Tengu were at some point a playable race in development.
Also, while Guild Wars did not add races, it did in fact add nationalities with distinctive features.
I can’t deny that the news of no new race has me extremely disheartened. While this indeed doesn’t add any mechanics, cosmetic changes are a huge part of Guild Wars.
No one is pointing out that the three “Mursaat” in the trailer have different colours?
There’s blue, red and yellow.
Also they only have two energy tendrils coming out of their backs instead of the typical 14 black feathers. The one at the end also looks nothing like a Mursaat in body and attacking stance.
I’m not at all convinced these are Mursaat, in fact they appear to be much more like Djinn.
In that vid it is clearly visible that is has feet, so that it’s a snake is rubbish
I don’t see any feet, not at 1:00 or at 2:48.
Also, Flame and Diamond Djinn don’t have 4 arms.
But I digress, to me they are as alien to Mursaat as they are to Djinn.
There are other energy based creatures that have appeared in the gold, red and blue variety, namely Djinn.
At any rate, the last bit of the trailer which has the ‘Mursaat’ firing an energy beam shows a long, serpentine body. I don’t remember the Mursaat being serpentine. Perhaps they are ascended Forgotten?
No one is pointing out that the three “Mursaat” in the trailer have different colours?
There’s blue, red and yellow.
Also they only have two energy tendrils coming out of their backs instead of the typical 14 black feathers. The one at the end also looks nothing like a Mursaat in body and attacking stance.
I’m not at all convinced these are Mursaat, in fact they appear to be much more like Djinn.
The whole perma retaliation thing was incredibly annoying and not thought through well, especially considering that boon removal is very rare and the golems recast it every couple of seconds.
The Tengu are all but released and have been for quite a while, I’m sure. Their homelands, cultural background and general body build are already established.
I would be very surprised if they are not included with the new expansion.
EDIT: Oh and totally an extravagant coloured elementalist.
Also, as it seems Ceara was under the influence of Mordremoth since birth, but she did not face the Shadow of Dragon in her dream.
while i agree with most of what u said Ceara wasnt under his influence since birth
that was omaads machine that caused her to go mad
before that she was just a brilliant sylvari with a knack for inventing (probs an engie heh ^^)
Actually, it was already inside her mind long before she went into Omadds machine. At that point however, she looked past the locks in her mind and finally understood what it was.
The Pale Tree, though exposed as the pathological liar she is, mentioned that only two of her children have had this dream. Caithe and the PC.
She even went as far as to manifest Caithe in your dream to help you out, with the dialogue implying that this is a first. Safe to say that whatever your dream meant, it was mighty important to the Pale Tree.
I don’t think that the Shadow of Dragon was trying to convert you in the Dream, but instead was out to kill you as it tried to snuff out Caithe. Most likely because both of them will turn out to pose a serious threat in the future. If the Pale Tree can see the future to some degree, it’s very likely Mordremoth can as well.
Also, as it seems Ceara was under the influence of Mordremoth since birth, but she did not face the Shadow of Dragon in her dream.
It’s possible (probable?) that the vision our character has received from the Pale tree is in fact a Wyld hunt. One that Caithe might have received too, or at least knows about it.
I know this makes more sense with your character being a Sylvari, but it could work for every race as we were undeniably linked to Caithe first Wyld hunt. She might just have a better understanding of the vision and want to guard us from some sort of painful situation that will occur.
At the very least, I’m really doubtful that she is corrupted by Mordremoth.
I just wanted to add that locking the new pact skins behind the BL wall makes absolutely no sense from an ingame world perspective.
How is it that we, the glorious Pact commanders, are the only scrubs that can’t get the weapons specifically designed for our faction but instead need to buy them from an independent trading organisation?
Seriously, every grunt in the pact has these weapons, but to us they are elusive. Pah
Actually, the reason I’d like additional Mawdreys is, amusingly, that it’s the rare piece of gear that actually likes you back. Mawdrey is half a pet, and that’s why I like her. I like having some emotional investment in my games.
(yes, I know the Shop of Horrors reference and the possibly dual meaning of the “embrace”, but I choose to interpret it in a positive way).
Well as you know it’s inspiration, I think it’s more fitting to call it a he. But with plants it’s always difficult to say. [/nitpicking]
Having actually bothered to play the new system I have to say it’s really not that bad as I’ve been reading. To me, getting rid of your alts over this is kind of over-dramatic.
In fact, your characters are probably even better of than before. Slap a food primer on yourself with a birthday cake, birthday booster and maintenance oil and watch those levels fly by.
And you actually get backslot items and aquabreathers now. So you should be better equiped than ever before.
I’m still not hot on the changes, but it’s a mixed bag at worst.
In all fairness though, these have never worked for me…
I always ended up with the Apatia storyline and after the orb was returned the story continued in the direction I chose, which made no sense whatsoever for my characters…
“Hey you’re back! “Someone” dropped of this magical orb so lets go confront that traitor who got the team you never saw killed!"
I understand there’s some charr vendor in Lion’s Arch somewhere who sells apples. You might go look for him sometime. Though it might be finding the unfindable.
No, he’s just part of the level 30 personal story, named “Meeting my Mentor”. He doesn’t actually sell apples, and you have to be inside the personal story instance to see/interact with him. He’s just supposed to be an “undercover” Priory agent who’s cover is selling apples — that he doesn’t actually sell.
I doubt these will be rolled back. I’m fairly certain it’s one of those “suck it up, kitties” updates.
I used to think that the whole mess would calm down in a few days/weeks and all would return to normal, but I’m not so sure anymore. The cracks in the foundation are getting too big to fix with a little coat of paint.
So you’re one of those “Press 1 to win” people who keep insisting all you need to play GW2 is your auto attack. Well, you are entitled to your opinion, but it appears that quite a bit of people do not share that sentiment and are being pretty vocal about it too.
Where you used to have to option to dumb your game experience down to just that, it has now become mandatory for the early game. And that is not ok for me either.
Also, you’re clutching at straws with your random Key farmer arguments.
And finally, lets be honest. Most complains are from kitten key farmers. If they leave the game I can assure no one is going to miss them.
Actually, out of the plentiful complaining topics on this matter, I have seen little complaints about key farming and much, much more about the tediousness of it all.
Mmh, can you make a simple list of complains not related to the key farm nerf?
People play alts for other sakes than key farming you know. This affects a far larger amount of players than you make it out to be.
But I’ll give you a short summary of what I’ve been reading: “Lv1-40 is terrible.”
And finally, lets be honest. Most complains are from kitten key farmers. If they leave the game I can assure no one is going to miss them.
Actually, out of the plentiful complaining topics on this matter, I have seen little complaints about key farming and much, much more about the tediousness of it all.
You’re arguably using the best looking complete set to illustrate your point…
Well anyway, as a whole set, I agree they look horrible. That said, some of the individual pieces can be very attractive when dyed and combined correctly.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It’s impossible to make THE unanimously loved armor set. That’s also why I fear for Legendary armor…
Elementalists have very high active defenses (blinds, projectile nulls, invulnerability, blocks) so adding high vitality is relatively unnecessary unless you’re running very high level fractals. At the same time they already have the ability to AoEbuff 25 might permanently, so adding power has somewhat diminishing returns at very high buff rates.
Elementalists and engineers are the only classes that properly benefit from Celestial at high level fractal content, but for easier content it’s usually more efficient for an ele to stack precision-ferocity-power and use might the rest of the way to complete the damage.
That’s obviously spoken from an experienced point of view, but not very helpful for new players. (granted I don’t know how experienced the topic creator is, but I doubt he’s running high level fractals at level 40)
New players probably won’t understand half of your first paragraph.
Vitality/toughness are ace if you’re not that experienced at the game yet. Honestly, if you’re starting out with elementalist, the most squishy class of them all, and you’re having a difficult time staying alive, then add some vitality and toughness.
Yes, the fights will last longer, but it gives you more space to slip up and more time to learn. If you start noticing that you aren’t taking much damage, swap your stats out for power, precision and ferocity. That should be your goal for PvE.
Many people will say it’s offensive sets or go home. Do not let yourself be pushed into this before you are ready or it’s going to be a very frustrating experience and you will likely lose enjoyment.
I wholeheartedly agree that any MMO needs to keep attracting new players. I just don’t think they need to have the mental capabilities of a chicken, that’s all.
I asked the question before, last QoL-update, if people were really struggling so much with traits. Apparently even back then new players couldn’t count to five anymore.
And now people are so confused about the downed state that they even removed it for the first five levels.
I’m sorry, what? How does this in any way make it more simple to understand?
What level of quality end game players are we raising with this, I wonder.
For the exotics and BL Salvage kits, use it only if you need the next step up ectos (I forget what they are called) and if the sigil/rune is worth the cost. If not, just use the Master or sell it on the TP.
Also, unconventional inscriptions or insignia like soldier or magi.
I am so excited about this exciting blog post of excitingness!
You see, for years I have struggled, often crying myself to sleep at night, with my failure to teach my dog how to play Guild Wars 2.
As clever of a girl she is, she just couldn’t grasp that downed state. It was just too overwhelming. But now I see the light at the end of the tunnel! Thanks to these wonderful features coming in September, I can finally explore Tyria with my best canine friend.
In fact, I’m sure if I can convince a couple of chickens from the neighbourhood to pick up the game, we could even form a dungeon team in a couple of weeks. It’s just that easy!
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Tsssk, as a veteran I have to say fowl play Anet. At this point, do you give a cluck about us still? Because you’re really ruffling some feathers.
Anet’s goals seem a bit scrambled, but the yoke is on us.
I am so excited about this exciting blog post of excitingness!
You see, for years I have struggled, often crying myself to sleep at night, with my failure to teach my dog how to play Guild Wars 2.
As clever of a girl she is, she just couldn’t grasp that downed state. It was just too overwhelming. But now I see the light at the end of the tunnel! Thanks to these wonderful features coming in September, I can finally explore Tyria with my best canine friend.
In fact, I’m sure if I can convince a couple of chickens from the neighbourhood to pick up the game, we could even form a dungeon team in a couple of weeks. It’s just that easy!
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Tsssk, as a veteran I have to say fowl play Anet. At this point, do you give a cluck about us still? Because you’re really ruffling some feathers.
Regardless, karma is not abundant for casual players either since the bountiful karma era has ended.
I too use a karma infusion, and it helps quite a bit gathering those shards and recipes I need when crafting ascended or filling up my wardrobe.
I personally find the MF infusion absolutely pointless as chests and bags, arguably the most ‘rewarding’ parts of the game, are not even influenced by it. And drops, which are, have a modest, questionable increase from it.
So you disconnected twice. What harm did this cause you again?
With the lag I’ve experience the last couple of days I’ve disconnected far more by the way. I guess I have a Game Dev stalking me for the heck of it. ¬¬
The advantage of Mawdrey is that unlike the other ascended back items, every part of Mawdrey can be gathered without too much luck involved.
The foxfire clusters are the only random thing, but if you craft everything yourself, and are thus limited by the timegating, then it gets very doable and pretty cheap actually. But that also means it will take at least 3 weeks to finish it.
I had never noticed that the wolves were actually fleshy and controlled by a flower. Those hounds are so fast after all…
My goodness, now it’s even more absurd that we willingly doused ourself with Mordrem spores. If anything, his corruption starts to look like Zombie Fungus
It’s not surprising, plants are some of the most gruesome living things in our world.
Actually, as a Commander of the Pact I think it is way more in-character that the player character defers to the Council Asura, instead of giving in to Taimi who – despite being a traveling companion and genius – is still a child and has acted irresponsibly several times throughout the story. That’s of course very much in-character for her, but from the viewpoint of a Commander it is clearly the better choice to defer to the experienced Asura of the Council. Phlunt might be a snarky kitten like most of them, but he probably didn’t obtain his position (in a culture that seems to be based on meritocracy) by being incompetent.
Forgive me if this point was addressed above, but isn’t a major plot point in the DE book and in Asura lore that the Council are not the cream of the crop?
The Council is formed from Asuran with modest academic achievements who failed to find adequate reasons to not be on the Council.
In this context, doesn’t seem like Phlunt wants to use the waygate tuning research as his ticket off of the council? Which is about as self-motivated a member of the three colleges can get; any other forms of self-motivation would drive that Asuran out of the colleges and into other entities (Orders, pirates, Inquest, etc)
Regardless, there are rules in the Asuran society. If any invention made by a student is property of the school they are in until graduation, then that is how it is. It doesn’t matter which official office Phlunt has.
If we would break any society’s rules, it would reflect badly on the Pact.
I’ve rerolled a couple of characters, certainly, but past lv50-60 I usually don’t any more. Well technically if they’re still around by that time, they’ve earned my blessings
I do however regularly use a total make-over. Mostly on my Sylvari characters because they have the most dramatic transformations. Depending on new weapons or items they can get a colour and foliage change.
For me, it’s Asura I don’t really enjoy at all. I have one token Asura, but she gets little play time.
It’s the community’s own fault that we’re stuck with this awkward silence. They used to be far more vocal about their vision and dreams for the future of GW2.
Consistently A-net has been punished for their ambition by the players. Things that didn’t turn out quite as they had hoped it are being thrown in their face time and time again.
In the end their solution seems to be silence and vague pointers.
Isn’t it interesting as well that Minister Estelle claims that Countess Anise was wearing a red cloak when meeting with Scarlet? More specifically a dark red cloak.
I immediately considered it odd that she would be so specific about that encounter, even if she was lying. Jennah wore black and Anise wore red. How is this in any way relevant?
If you want to look deep into this, all of Livia’s outfits were red. But then again it could just be a red herring.
I didn’t consider it odd – cloak colour is a pretty obvious thing to see, and liars like to add little details like that partly to make their account seem more real, partly to forestall being caught out when someone else asks about that detail and they hadn’t prepared an answer in advance. The colours she chose were likely based first on being dark colours that can provide concealment at night, and second on being opposite to the colours that Jennah and Anise are normally wearing (white and blue respectively versus black and red).
Well thinking about it, it’s probably not that weird. I suppose I was just in a strong Phoenix Wright vibe at the moment.
However, red is still a strange colour to consider stealthy, even if it’s “dark” red. I mean it can’t have been that dark red, because you would not be able to tell it apart from black in the dark then. And why pick two different cloak colours to begin with? Why not both wear the obvious black cloaks? I can’t shake the feeling that there is some truth in this.
And I don’t trust Anise in this either. We tell her that Estelle claims she was there when meeting with Scarlet and all she has to say is “Well that’s silly, here’s a message from E.”
Oh ok, if you say so Miss Shady. I’m sure the torturing of Estelle will nip that rumour in the behind rather quickly anyway.
