Guild Wars 2

They probably mixed up the wording instead of calling it dragon before talking to the pail tree. Which is first part of next living world.

Tiered rewarding is ultimately a great compromise a way to introduces increasing difficulty content with increasing rewards. This denies no one content while giving something to strive towards. To remove it is to deny one group interesting content every release.

One of the designers liked to put coins on the maps with his initials of ones he designed maybe another picked up the habit.

it is because you are trying to solo it if you bring a group it goes fast even with him blasting party members off the platforms.

I thought that is what diminishing rewards are for

The hyleck explains why there is no water at dry top. That a monster drank it all and we have to cut open its belly probably turns quicksand river into one with water.

Was not expecting this at all.

WereDragon.6083:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Malganis.7468:

How anyone can listen to Evon’s ambient dialogue in Vigil Keep after Scarlett attacked Lion’s Arch, and still think Evon is a nice guy is beyond me. The guy is terribly greedy, only thinks about himself, and has no regard for his fellow citizens.

1 – It’s thanks to him and his goods that we were able to defeat Scarlet. He provided the Lionguard with their equipment.

2 – Evon tried to warn the Captain’s Council, but no one listen to him. If he were elected last year, Lion’s Arch would have had air defenses. The citizens were slaughtered thanks to Kiel. Your friends, your family, all gone. And this is mostly because more players wanted to temporarily save a few silver on WP costs…

Wait, so your saying Anet would have scrapped an entire boss fight and an event if it was a separate person. Why wouldn’t the council have flipped Evon the bird if he was on it aswell? Hell he’s not even in the same species as half of them.

On top of that, conversations with Keil before the attack on LA said she was quite worried too but the council would not listen.

Sounds like a council issue not a Keil issue

And the only reason he supplied the lion guard was so he could secure his own assets in the city. Hell he was even forced to do it ala the conversion at vigil keep where they straight TOLD him he needed to donate supplies.

I think he is just saying we would have had antiair cannons and shooting down aitherblade ships before they released the gas bomb that killed/ chased everyone out

Malganis.7468:

How anyone can listen to Evon’s ambient dialogue in Vigil Keep after Scarlett attacked Lion’s Arch, and still think Evon is a nice guy is beyond me. The guy is terribly greedy, only thinks about himself, and has no regard for his fellow citizens.

If Kiel walked up to you saying give all your gold for the war effort you would be kittened too.

there was one in the leaked video so we should wait and see what we get.

a syilvari decided to blow up a lot of cities and kill a lot of people them we curve stomped her face into the ground when she was about to tell us why she did what she did.

i though best method was to stand far away from each other and side step the cannon fire. No overlaping aoes and very easy to dodge

I argue it is because you walk through a room filled with radiation in incert control rods to prevent a nuclear reaction. Which you fail to do so.

subcritical: lowering power
Critical: Constant power
Supercritical: Increasing power <-meltdown

If you are not making 100g a week you aren’t trying.

Donari.5237:

I’ve directly seen two times where disease was put in an MMO. So much griefing. SO MUCH. The intent was that the players had to work together to stop the disease. Instead, it became impossible to do anything in cities or anywhere else the griefers could find groups of people to deliberately infect.

Maybe ANet could find a way to make it fun to have any other player’s approach to you trigger paranoia and the need to log out, but I can’t think of one.

free waypoints and armor repairs what do you have to fear from death

Taimi and Zojia interactions has there been any yet. I think She misplaced her ward and then stopped looking for her.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Corax.7381:

However, other Pale Trees – and thus, other sylvari – without the moral anchor of Ventari’s teachings may be more susceptible, and if Mordremoth really needs minions, and has an understanding of their Dreams (unknown whether he does or not since we don’t know if he broke Scarlet’s mind), then it’s not far-fetched to see him corrupting them.

Ventari’s teachings would do nothing to prevent dragon corruption. Dragon corruption forcefully alters the personality of the corrupted, and no high moral standing woudl change that. See all those Orrians? They were fanatic towards the (to them) Five Gods (to others now, Six Gods), and now? They’re all “praise Zhaitan, hail Zhaitan, Zhaitan eats gods, the gods lie!” etc. etc.

Corax.7381:

Probably; there’s still some cool “evil plant” concept art out there, and it’s more than just the “evil clothes” worn by the Nightmare Court. I’m talking full-on, mossman, lurker in the swamp kind of evil plants.

Those are concept arts by Kekai Kotaki from long before release. They were the first iteration of Nightmare Court concept arts and were scrapped.

From Scarlet arc we know Sylvari don’t have access to part of their brain and this has something to do with the Pale Tree influence. We know once the Pale Tree influence is removed they are slowly driven crazy and kill everything around them. Sill speculation though however a decent Theory can be formed. It raises the question though what is the true nature of the Sylvari. I don’t think anyone is stating it as a fact either way because they are a 25year old race that was literally kidnapped and raised seperatly from its own race. The playable Sylvari are almost will not to act as Sylvari in the wild. I’d like to make a Wolfs and Dogs comparison.

I think this might be just as interesting as who shot them down. Fall strait into COE. And we get a new Dungeon path.

What if zepherite ship falls and hits the wizard city in kessic hills. ill edit latter.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I’m pleased to see such a well reasoned and fact-driven theory put forward. Clearly Evon Gnashblade would never have let this happen to the Zephyrites.

Of course not he would have given them captured aitherblade ships. For a coast of course to rebuild lions arch. A true merchant knows the value of an escort

Mortifer.2946:

I’ll tell you a secret. Anet decided to stop writing preview pages prior the release because of numerous reasons (in-game economic-wise, spoiler-wise, etc). We only get teasers like this one.

Next point: This is freaking Season 2! It’s Anet way of distributing a true datadisk. It was confirmed that new updates will be permanent. They need to attract back their players and there is no better way of doing it, than by Grand introduction of 2 new regions (by opening the first zone in Maguuma Wastes region). The patch need to be big and beyond players’ expectations to create OMG I LOVE ANET effect.

Story wise: The story concentrates around our new group of NPC heroes who are mainly investigators and thus, there must be some new secret villain and unexpected twists (taking down of Zephirites).

All in all, this first S2 update is created to blow our minds. However, we will have to see if Anet manages to pull this off without any major bugs, errors, instabilities, and other issues we’ve experienced in the former big patches.
fingers crossed

And you think developers don’t spoil it to trading guilds? or are doing insider traiding

DarcShriek.5829:

Azure Prower.8701:

It was Mai, Aether pirates and the Inquest.

She’s back.

Are you saying that after Scarlet blew up the Thaumanova reactor, the inquest decided that it would be a good idea to work with her second in command?

You must think the inquest is stupid.

Also, how is the first quote evidence of Glint’s offspring? Something could be anything.

For record scarlet didn’t blow up thaumanova reactor she just helped make it go critical which in reactor speak is to turn it on. The inquest are the ones who put it in and uncontrolled reaction.

Arctinus.7824:

Has anyone listened to these two audio recordings from the upcoming S2?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/audio-omens-and-portents/

I haven’t seen anyone mentioning them on the forums yet. Or maybe I’m just blind. :P

After you play them top one says Glint and bottom one says mersaat so if next update doesn’t have either i would be pritty mad.

I don’t think you can leach in this game. Low level characters argo mobs much more so if you want to tank for a party bring a 75 to an 80 fight would do it. you are basically kittened. Damage wise is considerably lower for lower levels to where they won’t be able to tag on maps or get completion for events.

Only place where it would be doable is dungeons where there is guaranteed rewards but is you are clearly under prepared you probably get kicked as soon as you get in.

pdavis.8031:

I think this pretty much sums up everything…..

Id say the pvp in the matrix is kinda stupid then. O wait there is none.

LastShot.4762:

Just to burst OP’s bubble, I have >1k sp scrolls sitting in my bank, and maybe another stack or two sitting across all my characters, since I am running low on bank space.(In short, it’s not hard to get 1k sp at all)

I am all for less grind, but as far as I can tell, precursor is the only thing barring most from having a legendary, since it’s the only all or nothing component.(which, I guess, is also why Anet take forever to implement precursor crafting, they afraid once it become a stable process, rarity of legendary will plummet.)

I thought this was ways to reduce grind or make it more interesting not what can you add so i can spend my 1k scrolls on. you are going to want them for the new skills that will cost 50 each just saying.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

pdavis.8031:

Kurrilino.2706:

What about we keep AR where it belongs, in Fractals.
If you guys need harcore stuff try teequatl alone or the Worms with 3 people
or play Fractals.
You can also join Pvp if bored.

You guys have to understand one thing.
A-Net learned that the majority player doesn’t want Raids, Zerking, hard core farming,
AR or whatever ultra stuff you guys play.
The regular player wants a nice fantasy world with epic storys and being a hero.
I don’t have any interest in changing the game play to a hard core game.
I am interested in the story not in loot or titles or whatever.

Thankfully A-Net leaned a lot and went back to personal experiences.

I’m not looking for “extra spicy hardcoreness of doom” content. But it would be nice to have another use for my ascended armor OTHER than high level fractals.

Ascended armor never should have existed in the first place. Anet just added it to satisfy the people who kept begging for gear grind.

They said they wouldn’t add anything for 1year i think and that was the promise they broke. Ascended was always coming. otherwise they wouldn’t have said that legendaries would always be the best on day 1.

Agony open world bosses arn’t coming till after all elder dragons are dead. Also we most likely will get fotm 10 agony which is no agony resistance required. So most are really complaining about nothing accent a different damage mechanism for bosses being implemented. Anet so far has been very conservative on what they add to GW2.

If we had a extreamly hard elder dragon fight where mountains we being cleaved and armies of npc and players by the 100s where being slaughtered. people would complain about the difficulty too. Difficulty and epicness walk hand in hand.

Maps above level 80 with higher level mobs which drop teir 6 armor have teir 6 farms. With out a large squad 50+ probably wont be survivable. Mobs argo lower levels a lot harder you will be swarmed mobs have increased damage and armor. To counter this drop tables for mobs higher level then you are also higher.

These maps could be considered guild content/untamed wild where holding any position in it is a fight for survival.

For precursor open world champions like pavilion that have to be soloed and give back story of weapon as you fight or afterward. 3 parts to each battle easy medium and hard phase. Exponential difficulty and rewards precursor for completion. Instanced so any number can try. Location of these bosses found by talking to a lore keeper of race legendary is attached to. One try per day per boss. A way for hard as kitten bosses to be added with a reward that matches.

Less grind and much more interesting maps and fights in PVE from both of these.

Did someone already mention Agony belongs with the Murssaut so we can expect agony events with anything mursaut and white mantal additions in gw2 Lore wise. Probably wont happen till dragons are dead though. Considering murssaut hid from dragons last awakening. I can see this being the post dragons LS easily though. Remerging to take over the world when we are weakened and battered. They hid last time why wouldn’t they hide this time.

Ascended jewelry can be gotten for almost zero effort 30AR easy. Agony is dodgable

munkiman.3068:

Since one of her offspring was in Elona, do we honestly think the Zephyrites have one? Do we even know if it’s under Kralkatorrik control? Could it be the Shatterer? So many questions.

They did travel the world. Also flying ships bubbles might not be blocking them

or inquest bombs which use dragon energy

id rather they add more bosses tiers to the pavilion then concentrate on ones already there.

2nd Tree will make it Sylvari oriented even if Mordy doesn’t.

I am not honesly pushing for this and truely hope you guys are right

Children are somewhere why no one is looking for them is only because no one knows they exist but us and maybe the zepherites.

On a side note:
An item to rehear glints eulogy would be nice anet and other removed ambient conversations. Or Youtube them so they are never really gone. Although maybe they will put singers in here Zepherite temple. Added missed content like the coming of the bloodly prince from the first Halloween event makes peacing things together difficult somethimes.

Races not happening

Dungeons 1 for killing the elder dragon should be expected

maps definitely 2 or 3 equivalent of Orr mostlikely

New dragon champion boss incounter

jheryn.8390:

Fafnir.5124:

As long as the LS is sylvari centered there will not be gw1 lore in gw2. Simply because the sylvari where not in GW1. I honestly don’t expect to much of lore being fallowed through. Anet likes to leave things open ended it appears so we close the loopholes ourselves.

Who says it will be Sylvari centered?

Anet on a few occasions. It is why scarlet was first villain and Mordy is first dragon. Main Lore wireter is heavly bias to sylvari and mentions how she wishes to expend there lore through LW.

They are a race that don’t know their own identity kidnapped as a child.

WereDragon.6083:

Zephyrite: The summer sun shone bright once more, warmed wood and cloth of home.
Zephyrite: We honored those who came before, and journeyed where they roamed.
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: Alas, alas, we’ve no more peace, no ally from on high.
Zephyrite: We’ll make our way to brighter day and into clearer skies.
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.
Zephyrite: She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: Alas, her magic strewn in sand. Alas, her soul undone.
Zephyrite: The clouds shed tears upon the land for the loss of our crystal sun.(voice says “mourning of crystal sun.”)
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.
Zephyrite: She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: Alas, alas, how time must pass. Ancient, magical friend.
Zephyrite: So terrible, so dreadful that so treasured should so end.
Zephyrite: (humming)
Zephyrite: No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole.
Zephyrite: She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.
Zephyrite: Alas, alas, alas, alas…
Zephyrite: Alas, and so we go…
Zephyrite: We fly on high into the sky…
Zephyrite: And cry, “Alas, alas, alas…”

That’s the song they sing aboard the ship and they also mention tending to “Her Legacy” We know a legacy is often times a child or offspring.

For them to bring the child along, instead of hiding it away, even more so with glints past beef with Kralkatoric it seems kind of odd to expose the offspring to such dangers.

Just wondering is it crystal sun or crystal son play on words or a name. I just read a my Sun a girl joke. sorry Child crying for parents maybe though. The ambient conversation in game is really what Anet needs to expand on because i think they are one of their strong points in the game.

As long as the LS is sylvari centered there will not be gw1 lore in gw2. Simply because the sylvari where not in GW1. I honestly don’t expect to much of lore being fallowed through. Anet likes to leave things open ended it appears so we close the loopholes ourselves.

Tanith.5264:

Fafnir.5124:

Going with Sylvari idea a little bit. There was a merchant who got to go along with the Zepherites who was very exited to get on board. His goods could have been source of explosives.

This. I’m practically dancing up and down like Aerin himself here reading through this thread: “Why are they so worried about Kiel and Gnashblade when we’ve got a Sylvari running around who’s acting really weird, even for a Sylvari?”

Trader Aerin is told that he must leave his possessions behind on the docks when the journey begins, but the Sanctum is still docked when he’s racing all over the place. He’s not carrying anything I can see, but who knows what he’s up to?

Just wanted to point it out. But i don’t think there is a lot to support it like he was talking to shifty characters before boarding or something.

The legacy of the brotherhood of the dragon is mentioned somewhere with the Zepherites. And this is attached to Glints inheritance of their new found powers and which is attached to glints offspring in GW1.

There are hints to it but no real proof.

Erukk.1408:

Top gatherer leaderboard would all be bots.

would be a good way to find them though

OmaiGodman.2098:

How is duelling different from a custom arena? Or is it just that people don’t want to have to buy a custom arena starter kit?

If duelling means randomly challenging people in the open world, then I’m against it. I already spend enough time filtering out all the goldspammers, don’t feel like also having to filter out the duellists.

I think it is more expanding custom area options of match types and description could include who scored most points in it aka who won most duels. although im not an expert on this. I think Leader board for custom arenas would be interesting.

This could easily be done with edge of the mist map by making your color selectable and then the wvw map becomes a faction battle ground. Just add something like guild buffs based on if you win a match for the week or something.. And we got significant guild content added.

Maylyck is the Harbringer so it will be awesome to see what he becomes

Going with Sylvari idea a little bit. There was a merchant who got to go along with the Zepherites who was very exited to get on board. His goods could have been source of explosives.

This could also be consortium plot against Kiel they are kinda kittened at her.

Im going with Aitherblade pirates. Flying ship battle is much more likely how they got shot down. cargo is carried in nets below. Explosions where on deck.

Did it get destroyed by scarlet. It was burned down by a flaming sword all the fire i don’t think it could have survived.

please elaborate. yes and no can only be used for voting and not discussing. Not trying to change your believes here but just how you fight for them.

Eventually they are going to have uncontested all temples event or merchant like in south sun. So that there would be a reward for defending. i wonder if that is where they where going to put precursor before that got thrown under the buss.

Have longer event cycles so that events in world are felt more. A waypoint being down for a day or a week will be more felt then one being down till a capture event is completed. Especially for chain events having them have greater build up and world effects would be interesting.

With LS2 I hope we are trail blazing hacking through jungle setting up waypoints as we go.