Guild Wars 2

The sound of water came from underneath the rock. He went on his knees and started to grope the ground for a hole. He found one, probably the home of a poisonous animal, so he put his stiff left hand into the dark tunnel and started digging, using every muscle that was left in his forearm. After a few minutes, the hole was large enough to fit for his foot, so he turned around and kicked into the opening. He heard the sand falling down on the other side. He wasn’t able to think, he didn’t care what was waiting there, in this moment, his instincts had full control over every action.

Finally the hole was large enough to let him through, the sound of water now reached his ear clearly. He turned in with his legs first so he could land on them if the cave was deep. And it was. He fell several feet, landing kitten his legs and falling onto his back right after. But he was wet and his right feet touched water. He laughed while he got on his knees again and crawled towards where his feet felt the cold water. It was right in front of his face, he could see one star, that was gleaming through the hole he made, being reflected by the water. He sunk his head into the cold and clear water, started to drink and didn’t stop. With every draft of water, his mind took more control over his body again, and his hope rose again. He found the strength to extract the shard from his forearm before he fell asleep.

He woke up to a beam of sunlight reaching his face, the warmth slowly getting uncomfortable. He opened his eyes, his lids as heavy as always, but he felt no pain where his wounds had been. Confused, he stood up and stepped into the sunlight, looking down at his body. The wound on his chest was gone, as was every cut on his skin and his left arm more functional than it had ever been. His hand from which he fought was clearly dead, was hot from the blood that was squeezing through it’s veins. He heard of healing water before, elementalists were able to enchant it to give it healing qualities, but he had never seen natural healing water, not even in the grove. A frightening sound shook him out of his thoughts, Steps. Light shoes hitting wet stone. Without thinking, he stepped out of the light and hid behind a small rock he could barely see. The steps came closer, hitting the stone with determination Tailen knew from Soldiers, but also with a grace he never heard. The Thing the feet were attached to finally reached the cave Tailen was in. He didn’t know where it came from, but it certainly knew he was there. He could even hear it’s eyes searching through the darkness, noticing the unfamiliar opening in the ceiling. But then it kept on moving, slowly the sound was getting departed. Tailen let out a relieved breath, only to notice a pricking pain in on his throat. He touched the area and pulled something out of his skin. A needle. He could press out a ‘Grenth curse me’ before everything went dark.

When he opened his eyes, he was dragged somewhere. But he wasn’t carried in a way a prisoner was carried where he came from. His arms and legs were bonded onto a wooden stick and the stick was carried on the shoulders of two humans, he could see their brown-skinned legs, but they looked weird for a male. He raised his head towards the stick to get a look of the carrier behind him, only to see the face of a woman. The woman glanced at him with a ferocious, brown eyes out a face that he would consider friendly, if not for those eyes.
He let his head fall back into his neck again to see the carrier in the front. Also a woman, he could tell from what he saw.
Confused, he closed his eyes and tried to remember a story about a place like this in the Crystal desert, but it was hopeless. He didn’t know where he was and what those Women would do to him. He considered them a wild tribe and from all the Tribes he had encountered, some were friendly, but none were sane.

After minutes that felt like an eternity, he was dropped like dead hunting prey, hitting the ground hard with his back, still attached to the stick with all limbs and unable to move much more than rolling around. He rolled into a position from where he could see what his kidnappers where doing. He was laying in front of a wooden Gate, two female warriors with heavy leather shields, long spears and red tattoos on their bodies stood guard in front.

Summary
- The Captain’s Tale
—- The Captain’s Log => https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/Guild-Wars-2-Fan-Fiction-The-Captain-s-Log/first#post3014892
—- Fire from the Sky =>> https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/Guild-Wars-2-Fan-Fiction-Fire-from-the-Sky/first#post2978902
—- The Tribe => This Thread
- The Corruption of Orr
—- The City of the Gods => https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/GW2-Fan-Fiction-The-City-of-the-Gods/first#post3014873

This is Part 3 of my shortstory series of Guild Wars 2 – Fan fiction! As my skills in writing in english (it’s not my mother tounge) increase, so does the quality and quantity of the content. As always, I enjoy positive and negative feedback alike, don’t hold back your thoughts!

The Tribe

Tailen tried to open his eyes, but his lids were heavy. He managed to raise his arms to his face, rubbing the sand out of his eyes. He opened them and looked around. He was lying in a field of shards, purple and bloody, then he remembered. He saw the crystals his crew, his friends were trapped in, as they shattered when they hit the ground. But how did he survive? He had no time to think, the pain took the upper hand. His entire body was cut by the shards on the ground, his clothes torn open and blood covered his skin.
The sun was rising slowly, gentle light touching the sand around him. He was alone. Trying to stand up, he felt every cut on his body, thought his skin would be ripped apart if he moved.
When he stood up, he turned around in a circle. Nothing. Only sand. He tried to concentrate and looked up into the Sky. The night was retreating, light taking the advantage on the battlefield that was the sky and the soldiers of the night, the stars, were fading. But one bright star in the sky was still visible: Dwaynas Heart.
‘North is that way, then’, he thought, but in the moment he set a foot in the sand to wander north, a mighty thunder broke through the clouds. He saw a dragon, one of Kralkatorriks Lieutenants was hunting. For him? Was he that important? It didn’t matter, the north was not safe if the a dragon was there.
He tried to remember the maps of Elona he had studied on his travels. ‘No matter how far I’m away from the Encampment, the coast to Mount Maelstrom is east’, he remembered. He turned towards the Sun. And started walking.

The Sun stood right above him, burning down on his torn skin. He was weak as he started to walk, but after four hours, he didn’t think he could move on. But he had to. He would die one way or the other and he preferred to die fighting. Even if he was just fighting the elements. He looked at his feet, never thinking further than taking another step, ramming his foot into the sand to hold his balance. Most of his wounds were already healing, the cuts didn’t go deep. Only two drained the power out of his body; A deep cut on his chest, hurting him when he breathed and a crystal shard stuck to his left forearm he wasn’t able to remove. It went through the arm, missing the bone by an inch and drilling out of the flesh on the other side.
The hand on his left arm was numb, if he would survive, he’d never be able to use it again.
He kept moving, step by step, the Sun seeking the company of the horizon in his back. Night finally embraced the sky, cooling the air down and refreshing Tailen a little bit. But he was unable to move anymore, his legs were protesting, the wound on his chest was moving to his heartbeat and his left hand turned purple. He fell to his knees, but he wasn’t even strong enough to stay in this position, finally collapsing onto the sand. His spirit was still awake, ready to fight, but his body couldn’t. With closed eyes but active mind, he was laying there, somewhere in the Crystal Desert. His friends were dead, his fleet gone, he failed the Pact and all races of Tyria. He wanted to cry, but there wasn’t much left in his body to create tears.

In the desert, it was completely silent. No animal that made a sound was able to survive here, the clouds being his only company. But it was a sound that rushed through his body. The ear that was buried into the sand could determine something, not far away from him. It was the sound of Water, running away to an unknown destination. New strength filled his muscles, the will to survive took control over his body, leaving the hopeless mind alone in his head. He rammed his forearms into the ground, ignoring the pain in his left one and raised himself up on his knees. He tried to make out something in the dark, trying to find the source of the sound. He saw a lonely rock standing in the middle of the desert, like an island in the sea. He walked over to him, hugging the stone and listening.

Or just the fact that, despite all the hate and criticism from inside, Guild Wars 2 is a good and solid MMO.

This is balanced out due to the fact that there are way more saplings than ore veins, just look at Malchors Leap for example.

Yeah I love how I still get quoted even after I pointed out that I meant the Population of the Guild Wars 2 EU Servers, not Europe as a continent. I didn’t write that clearly enough, my bad, so you could do me a favour and stop quoting my mistake.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

There are no language limitations built in to the game nor are any needed. if you come across chat or msgs in languages which you do not understand: _simply ignore them as they are not meant for you

I agree with that. If they type their LFGs in german, they obviously only want germans to join and you can ignore it anyways, simple as that.

Looks like my post was misinterpreted and I didn’t type enough information about what I actually meant.

With my statement I didn’t mean EU as a Continent, I meant the Population of the Server Region Europe of Guild Wars 2. Of course German isn’t the most common language in Europe, that wasn’t what I was trying to say either. It’s just that because Germany is the Country with the highest Population in Europe (you can google that if you want) more germans play Guild Wars 2 than french, spanish or eastern european people and for the fact that most of the eastern and northern countries tend to speak english, because they don’t mind.

Germans and French do mind, it’s a national proud thing, especially from french people you can’t expect hearing english that often and neither from germans. If we can speak our language with the majority understanding us, we will do that.

Azraelle.1683:

And we should remove [DE] players from the forums.

NoooooooOoooOoooooooOooooo

As a german I feel offended. Just kidding. It’s just that most of the EU population is german, but I agree, there should be a language filter, yet you could have mentioned that less… discriminatory.

The world is just too small for mounts. No, it just wouldn’t fit.

Invictus.1503:

Really want Mordremoth introduced and the corrupted jungle revealed. Don’t mind if we don’t get to fight him/her, but would love to see his/her corruption and champion!

Do Elder dragons even have a gender? I don’t think creatures of magic have any kind of bodyparts that indicate the gender.

How can you ever be tired of laughing and smiling? I no I won’t ever be, so you can’t get enough of such threads!

Awesome, 10 Points to Griffendor!

I bought The Hunter from money I got from getting the Spark out of the Mystic Toilet. I threw 3 random exotics and a mystic forgestone in there, got spark, sold it for 600 gold and bought the Hunter

And that time I had played around 1.000 Hours.

Oh well that’s hard to say. If I ignore everything else except the PoI’s, WP’s, Vistas, Hearts and SP’s, I’m on 1-2 hours per region. If I collect Crafting Materials and do all events I encounter, 2-4 Hours. So you can do the math to know how long Map Completion will take, including the weeks of waiting for the WvW Rotation.

I’m doing map completion with every character anyways because it’s a lot of fun for me, even after the 100th time. But yeah, I’d welcome a bit more of a final reward than just a Gift of Exploration and a Title.

on the weekend it is open on atleast one server all the time in my experience (NA).

If you want to check: http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html

it’s just like refusing to let people from other countries into yours. Your basically servercist.

Yeah I don’t call getting ganked by a guild while adventuring “fabulous” either.

Cosume All
Buy stack
Buy amount
Buy 10

Basic stuff that I can’t find a legit reason for not being already in the game.

People like collecting stuff, maybe some leftovers from the whole hunter-gatherer society thing of our evolution. MMO’s are about loot, it is what makes people happy, getting those fancy items. You can’t simply take that away because YOU think it’s stupid, I don’t need loot either, but I can fully understand why people need it as a motivation and to have fun.

Map completion has a decent chance to reward a BL Key, also leveling up a character to level 10 and to the Story Mission always rewards a BL Key.

Sea of sorrows is the last novel to tie up the years between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. There may be more, hopefully, because at the moment this is the only way to get a good story in the Guild Wars Universe.

I don’t know on what server you’re on but here on Jade Quarry Orr is constantly being kept open by active players and Temple Runners.

Well the last 3 armor sets we got was a month ago, I don’t see the problem.

By making a new character, joining the Whisper Order with him and buying the mask, transmuting it on a white item and give it back to your other character to transmute it onto your armor.

You have to look at the right spots.

Different Developement Teams.

Different. Developement. Teams.

BUT…. GOLD SINKS?!?!?!?!?!?

Yeah the best way to solve this is to scream louder than the bells are, so you don’t hear them. Especially if you’re in a big crowd of people it’s very healthy to just scream as loud as you can “I CAN’T HEAR YOUUUUUUU”.

Well somebody has to sell those pesky trait books…

If you interpret the way Charr stand in the same way as I do, then that is the weirdest fighting stance I’ve never seen, and I do martial arts.

I don’t know where you come from but I’ve seen neither human nor animal walk like a hunchback in the way charr do because they were looking for a fight.

Actually they aren’t beasts. They are great minds of Tactic, Strategy and Engineering.
They built cities of metal, massive siege weaponry and strong weapons, they can be proud of that. However, they don’t stand like they’re proud, and no matter what animal you are, the way you stand indicates your feel.

Ever saw a dog walk that has been beaten in the past? He walks on four legs much like charr do on two legs.

Looks like you don’t know how Game Development Companies work.

They have multiple teams for everything, they have PvP and WvW Team, Bug fixing Teams, Expansion Teams and 4 Living Story Teams. They are working on everything at the same time, with every patch come patch fixes, you just have to pay attention.

Well there’s no item type you really have to work for (except Legendary weapons), and Colin said in an Interview at Pax that they thought exotics would be harder to get, but they weren’t. So now they added Ascended to give us something to really work for besides Legendaries. Colin said that they don’t plan on adding more tiers and the only thing we can do is trust him. I don’t, but I have to live with that.

It still works, yeah, just buy the piece, transmute it to a white item, then transmute it back onto the item of the other character you want it on and you’re done.

in the creation screen? Everywhere, those creatures are a nation of war, proud and strong, and they walk like they’ve been slapped by their masters too much.

Charr are poorly done in Guild Wars 2, in every visual aspect

We have that. It’s called a suggestion forum.

Anet does read here, just because they can’t answer to everything doesn’t mean they’re not reading.

Because Anet thought it would be fun.

Well the thing with Guild Wars 2 is, that they are TRYING to make it an epic story with all the Elder Dragon and Destinys Edge Friendship reunion crap, but are failing miserbly. If they’d just stop trying, give up and focus on Gameplay, It would be fine.

If I want to look at people doing their daylie stuff without stories, I’d go out into the City and watch people do that. The life of an average man can be boring. That’s why we create fantasy, that’s why I write such novels. That’s why I want to play an RPG. The Problem with Guild Wars 2 is, it’s too much of an MMO and too less of an RPG.

We have a lot of awesome MMO Features, but completly lost any kind of Epic Story that really thrills you, like RPG’s should.

The Books are really good, that is true, because they introduce characters that actually have personality, they make you like them without giving them a real face or voice.
Even with Visuals and Voice Acting, Anet’s writers are just not able to give any character personality, and it seems getting killled is so natural that people don’t even give a kitten if some of their friends die right in front of them.

In terms of the depth of writing probably about 8-12, even though I have seen Childbooks that had more depth than Guild Wars 2.

Liadri, I screamed, I cried

17th

The way they stand. They don’t stand tall like proud warriors who have conquered many lands, they stand like shameful cowards, lowered like they fear to get slapped by their master.
Would they look like they do on Concept Art and Artworks, then I’d play one, because the Charr lore and philosophy is awesome.

This game is not designed for Mounts, the Areas are just not large enough.
Could you imagine a Norn riding a mount? He would be taller than a house.
Also, the world is packed with detail, there’s something to see everywhere, there aren’t large, open areas where you could ride a mount around.
We don’t need anything else in addition to waypoints either, they make every corner of the world accessible in 5 Minutes of loading screens (kittenMIT ANET)

Thank you for your feedback, I’m glad I can help others, too!

Yeah I’m kitten ed at that too. Right when I’m building a legendary they slap me with the karma nerf, now I barely get enough karma for all the obisidan shards I need.