I haven’t used these yet, because I don’t want to end up somewhere weird and unexpected then have to pay to get back. So where do these go? Is this a fast travel to Vigil’s Keep from the other refugee camps?
It isn’t a mindless zerg fest it requires coordination between multiple shifting points throughout the zone. First it is split between three zones just to get in. From there it is split between three main defense events. Then the sweep up starts, completing defense events and also fighting the three simultaneous miasma events that repeatedly pop. Once it is all going to pot there are the three separate boss fights.
There is a lot to do and explore. And if you’re anything like me you also want to get your hands on the new Vistas which are pretty awesome.
I’m really not following how this is ANet’s fault, nor problem. ANet doesn’t control the market, we do. If Tailoring is so expensive that’s not ANet’s fault it’s ours. That’s what supply and demand means. Obviously the demand for cloth is high, therefore it’s expensive.
Besides that, complaining about it like this isn’t going to do anything good. They’re more likely to increase the required mats in leatherworking to increase the price than they are to lower tailoring.
Yeah, sorry, there is already a thread asking for picks of old LA and it is definitely not getting enough attention to facilitate this request. And since the destruction has begun that’s really the only option.
First off, why would you assume mechanized creatures are immune to dragon corruption?
Because all the other dragons’ powers indicate they corupt either living or dead organic matter. If they can corrupt inorganic matter, then Primordius could just corrupt the earth and stone and crush the dwarves. Jormag would have corrupted the mountains and sent them toppling on the Norns, etc.
Just to be clear the Dragons CAN corrupt anything. Primordius doesn’t corrupt harpies and trolls and crabs and turn them into lava monsters, he corrupts the earth and turns it into creatures. Most of the Dragons simply don’t because they do things their own way. Zaitan likes to raise the dead. Jormag likes to screw with people, offering them power and when they accept taking them, like the Devil. Kralkatorik just turns whatever and whoever into inorganic crystal, which he controls. As such there is no reason to assume that Mordremoth couldn’t, if he so chose, turn clockwork robots into his own minions, with plants on them or something. That could actually be really cool.
it was proven in the story line and anywhere in orr that sylvari can not be corrupted by zhaitan. other dragons don’t have corrupted minions of some races because there is so few of that race in the area if any at all.
another note is that no dragon can corrupt and take over another dragons minions. the last thing is that the nightmare court are an awful lot like a dragons minion, but with only slightly more intelligence than zhaitan’s minions and some freedom, probably due to not having a dragon to command them. faolen is much like an eye of zhaitan.
All you says is true, it is just not relevant to the topic at hand, nor anything you were quoting… so I don’t understand why it was posted at all.
Think it means that: For the duration of the active if you go down, you don’t have to wait for lick wounds to come off cooldown for your pet to pick you up and it does so at full health+quickness.
I don’t understand how the passive works
That passive works the way the trait already works.
lol kal..play pve sword zerker and tell me again it´s the easiest class
it´s rly hard to play the ranger well in pve or on the same effectiv lvl like other classes
Yes, of course you CAN make it hard for yourself, but that’s your choice. I also don’t care if I’m as “effective” as other classes or players. All that matters to me is that I’m consistently able to get the job done with minimal downtime, and that if I start a fight I can finish it.
LA is clearly not the target, but a obstacle in Scarlet’s way. For me the target is the Ley Lines or a source of magic under LA from which the magic get to the ley lines.
There is already an hypothesis about Mordremoth being the 6th Elder Dragon, a Jungle Dragon and that Sylvari could be Mordremoth’s minions. What if Mordremoth use a different strategy than the other Elder Dragon. Most of them reach a place and start growing an army of minons. Zhaitan was building his army at Orr, Primordius underground, Jormag in the North, Kralkatorrik in the Crystal Desert and Deep Sea Dragon in the sea.
But what if Mordremoth play it more subtle. We already know that sylvari, despite being a young race, saw their number growth really fast. Mordremoth could be growing his army right in front of the World without any hints of treat like the other Dragon do, so nobody will interfere with his plans. Just waiting the right moment to awake and take control of his minions who are free for now. Mordremoth could be the voice that push Scarlet to act, to attack LA and reach under the city where maybe Mordremoth is. Scarlet would be the first controlled minons and she’s only partially controlled since Mordremoth would be still asleep with weak power.
Actually, thinking about it that way makes even more sense. All the bits kind of fit into place.
Mordremoth is the Jungle Dragon. The Pale Tree is a champion of the Dragon. The Sylvari are it’s minions. Ventari corrupted the Pale Tree as a seed. Somehow he set the Pale Tree against Mordremoth and as a result she has been actively nurturing and blocking her children, his minions, from his influence. Some Sylvari are less influenced than others. Those Sylvari fall to Nightmare, from which there is no return. Nightmare court, whether they know it or not, are under the influence of Mordremoth, but they aren’t controlled by him because they still have the block that the Pale Tree imposed on them.
Scarlet removed the block. As a result she can be actively influenced by Mordremoth, just like all Dragon minions to their master. She’s still trying to resist though, because Sylvari are sentient, unlike most minions. Who knows how well she’s doing. While she is actively trying to kill Mordemoth, she could just as well unleash him on the world.
I’m pretty sure that the sylvari/pale tree are not dragon minions as one of the sylvari personal stories involves a sylvari from another tree that has neither a dream nor nightmare thus disproving that nightmare is the "natural" state of sylvari. This plus the consistent presentation that once a sylvari turns to nightmare it is irreversible points to the nightmare itself being dragon corruption rather than a natural state being suppressed by the dream.
Wait, which one is that? I’ve done four of the six and I have not run into this person.
Been a topic of some discussion lately. General thinking was that, if it did mean anything, she was going to die or need saving from Canach
But what if it wasn’t happenstance, but something dormant that Scarlet could later use for leverage?
Snake Plisken is always poisoned and forced to do the work of the president
I could just see Scarlet using Kasmeer’s condition to demand that Destiny’s Edge 2 stand down and let her get away with something, or even help her.
Scarlet: All right, I’ve heard enough. Would you explain to these foot soldiers why they’re going to do what I tell them to do?
Marjory: What’s she talking about?
Aetherblade 1: The Toxic Spore venom.
Aetherblade 2: Improved from the version you saw the Tower of Nightmares. 100% pure death.
Aetherblade 1: It starts with a slight headache, then turns into a hallucinations that gets worse and worse. After a short time, you crash. You bleed out like a stuck pig. Not a pretty sight.
Kasmeer: I get it. You figure that you inject that poison into me, and under the threat of death, I’ll do whatever you say…
Aetherblade 1: You got it, Meade!
Marjory: One question: which one of you kittens gets to die trying to stick her?
Aetherblade 1: You don’t understand. It’s already in her.
Kasmeer looks down at the scar from the Tower.
Aetherblade 2: Catches on quick, doesn’t she?
This actually matchs the “Escape from LA” movie plot perfectly. I really love this if they worked this in.
Wait wait wait! Now Kasmeer is Snake Plisskin? That’s kind of a let down.
I dont know why its such a secrete. I was excited yesterday when I found out the ending. I went and read all the lore about the dragon. I dont have a lot of time in my life so I dont want to waste it speculating and reading tons of useless information. But now that I have been informed and know what to expect I was able to go read up on it and I know the story of the dragon that matters. And I promise you that I was just as surprised yesterday when I found out as I would have been 2 weeks from now when they will reveal this ridiculous secret.
Because other people dont like to be spoiled. Think about that when you post something. The fact that you was surprised and dont regret reading the spoiler doesnt mean everyone will feel like you.
There is a difference between a spoiler and speculation based on facts that should be common knowledge at this point. If you haven’t bothered to learn what is happening in the LS up to this point you don’t get to complain that someone else has. It isn’t like this is a TV show that you can see reruns of, once it’s happened it’s fair game.
Since no one has actually played through the next installment nothing anyone says is a spoiler, it’s just speculation and pretty much the point of this subforum existing this early.
It was not speculation he mentioned something that was datamined and was therefore a spoiler. I probably know more of Scarlet than you lot. Follow the discussion before you criticize.
I know he spouted a lot of stuff, but I don’t know that anything he said was true or backed by anything true. So, again, until it’s actually happened it’s speculation. Even if he said a good friend of his was a Dev and he was told flat out what the whole story was I wouldn’t take it for more than bluster. And too bad for you if you do.
If you do decide to leave the class you need not announce it. Just quietly slip away.
This. No one cares. You tried Ranger, you didn’t like. Super. Some people don’t feel the way you do. Some people do, good for them.
I’ve got one of every class and I’ll put it right out there, I have no idea what anyone is talking about when they say Rangers need more skill. Ranger is the easiest class in the world to breeze through everything in. It’s absurd. I have to actually put effort into killing things and not dying with other classes. Admittedly not a huge amount with some of them, a ridiculous amount with others, but my main Ranger? None at all. I would also put it roughly middle ground for killing speed. It takes longer than some, but it’s quicker than others.
What matters is that it’s fun to play and works for what I want to do. Out of eleven characters it’s the one I keep coming back to.
We already have a skill on downed where our pet gets us up, and so does another elite when time right, the spirit. The active should do something else. Like buffs on your pet are transferred to nearby allies or something.
You guys are naivë to think that pet rez on downed would stay in the game after the release of an elite skill such as this :-)
So your opinion is that they would kick every single Ranger in the balls in order to provide a single questionably effective skill to a subsection of the population?
They nerfed both pet damage and leash range (with no offset at all) just to placate one game mode.
Anet doesn’t give much thought to their ranger updates nor do they seem to particularly care what gets mucked up in the process as long as the other classes are happy.
I knew what the answer was before, I asked, I just wanted it written down somewhere before it happened, if it happened.
First off, why would you assume mechanized creatures are immune to dragon corruption?
Because all the other dragons’ powers indicate they corupt either living or dead organic matter. If they can corrupt inorganic matter, then Primordius could just corrupt the earth and stone and crush the dwarves. Jormag would have corrupted the mountains and sent them toppling on the Norns, etc.
Just to be clear the Dragons CAN corrupt anything. Primordius doesn’t corrupt harpies and trolls and crabs and turn them into lava monsters, he corrupts the earth and turns it into creatures. Most of the Dragons simply don’t because they do things their own way. Zaitan likes to raise the dead. Jormag likes to screw with people, offering them power and when they accept taking them, like the Devil. Kralkatorik just turns whatever and whoever into inorganic crystal, which he controls. As such there is no reason to assume that Mordremoth couldn’t, if he so chose, turn clockwork robots into his own minions, with plants on them or something. That could actually be really cool.
I was with you to Update 2, but you got Humans and Asrua backwards. Primordius is the one that pushed the Asura to the surface, therefore it stand to reason they would be stuck with him.
As nonsensical as all of this is, though, it could have almost worked storywise, but everything past that point is just silly.
I dont know why its such a secrete. I was excited yesterday when I found out the ending. I went and read all the lore about the dragon. I dont have a lot of time in my life so I dont want to waste it speculating and reading tons of useless information. But now that I have been informed and know what to expect I was able to go read up on it and I know the story of the dragon that matters. And I promise you that I was just as surprised yesterday when I found out as I would have been 2 weeks from now when they will reveal this ridiculous secret.
Because other people dont like to be spoiled. Think about that when you post something. The fact that you was surprised and dont regret reading the spoiler doesnt mean everyone will feel like you.
There is a difference between a spoiler and speculation based on facts that should be common knowledge at this point. If you haven’t bothered to learn what is happening in the LS up to this point you don’t get to complain that someone else has. It isn’t like this is a TV show that you can see reruns of, once it’s happened it’s fair game.
Since no one has actually played through the next installment nothing anyone says is a spoiler, it’s just speculation and pretty much the point of this subforum existing this early.
I’ve been loling at everything Kal Spiro has had to say. It’s completely random and lacking support from anything factual to the game’s lore. I think the floating island that he “heard of” is garenhoff, which has absolutely nothing to do with the tengu.
BrunoBRS, thank you for trying your best with this lost chap.
That being said, the gate in Lion’s Arch merely leads to the Dominion, and doesn’t connect directly to it. This is confirmed on the wiki page for Dominion of Winds.
I love how people harp on the least relevant part of the argument, but whatever. It doesn’t change the fact that the Tengu area and an area for a city about the same size and Divinity’s Reach has been sitting between Lion’s Arch and Caledon Forest since launch. That all you have to do it look at your map to see the obvious borders.
It all just comes down to how they want to introduce them.
Why would they ever do that? Tengus are isolationist and don’t let anyone in. Why would they suddenly open their doors for refugees when they wouldn’t open them for people who might actually leave after coming in?
This isn’t to discount the idea. I think there is a lot of potential for the Tengu city and starter zone to open up. I just miss the logic behind this particular suggestion.
As I said in another topic;
_ Just because the Tengu are, by nature, isolationists doesn’t mean Scarlet may not pose a threat to them.
That wall may be a buffer to their lands as a whole. However, is Scarlet finds what she is looking for, that “thing” she may find may end up alarming Tengu as well. Where Scarlet may not pose a threat, whatever is under Lion’s Arch may potentially set them in motion against it.
Pretty sure if it’s a dragon/monster/demon/etc. that can shut down the very winds of the world and rot water, that would be a good time as any for Tengu to step up and go, “Awww hell no!”
Whether they be playable or not later (even if by means of “add-on” purchase through BL) remains to be seen, but I can see Tengu taking in some focus being that close to a threat larger than Scarlet’s personal army. _
So basically, this may not directly threaten the Tengu at first. However, they are the closest city that would be affected if Scarlet does find what she is looking for and it’s far more world-threatening than she.
Right, but that’s hardly the same thing as them saying, “Oh hey, look, you non-Tengu are getting the hell beat out of you. Why don’t you come in here behind our big wall, that we’ve been using to keep you out for as long as you can remember, where it’s safe.”
If they act like Little America when Little Japan knocked his lunch off the desk and became active that would actually make sense and give a good reason for them to suddenly open their doors to the outside races.
i offered you a couple facts: a map. a wiki page dictating that the island does not fly. the fact that the tengu do not walk away of those walls, save for traders with special permission.
you just chose to ignore it and say “you just can’t see it!”.
i’m not the one that will be wrong, so suit yourself.
I think I understand the problem now. It is the fault of trying to fit mechanics around lore rather than the other way around like I said.
The Dominion of Winds is the starter zone. Of course it would be. The area of the game map right next to Caledon, like I said. There may still be a floating island in there, we’ll have to wait to see. Since the Lore states that the Tengu congregated from all over Tyria into the Dominion. As I recall some of them took their home with them, which is where I got floating island. I never said anything about where they landed. That’s really unimportant though, and you need to stop getting hung up on pointless details.
The City Zone doesn’t have to be part of the Dominion, they could throw together some kind of traders shanty town, like you somewhat suggested. It would even make sense because it would have all the things you’d expect to find in a City Zone. It could even be erected after the fall of LA.
What if her target is not Mordremoth but the pale tree itself. Similar to how Kralkatorik killed Glint, maybe Mordremoth wants to get rid of the “free” champion of himself….and has been guiding Scarlet to “get rid of the voices” one being Mordremoth himself, and another being the Pale Tree. If she truly wants to be free of all influences she has to get rid of both. The Ley-line in Lions arch is a means to power the marrionette….which can then be used to attack the pale tree directly (heck, it wields a giant sword…what better to hack at a bunch of vines with than a machete??).
That goes against her vision. She doesn’t want to kill the Pale Tree. Her vision has the Pale Tree shackled in choking vines. The imagery indicates taking control of the Tree again. Besides, the Pale Tree doesn’t actually have any real influence over Sylvari after they wake from the Dream, so why would she need to break free, she already has.
the funny thing about that dominion gate on LA is that it makes no sense.
looking at maps of tyria, the only landmass on what you could consider the dominion of winds is south of kessex/east of caledon. there’s a whole sea’s worth of nothing but water separating that area and lion’s arch.
what’s more, the maps provided by the novels (including sea of sorrows, which was released post-launch) confirm that the dominion should not go as far as lion’s arch. add the fact that there’s nothing that looks like a wall behind the wizard’s tower on garrenhoff (indicating the dominion doesn’t even go that far) and you have pretty solid evidence that whatever that gate is, it’s not tied to the dominion of winds. at best it might be a small trading post walled off from non-tengu.
so yeah, i have no idea why that gate is there, but it shouldn’t be the dominion of winds.
The city of the Tengu is a floating island. It can be wherever they want it to be.
Look at the in game map again. As long as you have all the zones completed you’ll see that the Tengu starter zone is standing right along side Caledon with the outline of a city zone right next to LA.
umm… no it’s not? look at the map. the dominion is walled off and definitely grounded. there’s nothing that says it’s a floating island.
if it was a floating island, they wouldn’t need walls to begin with. they’d just fly somewhere people couldn’t get in.
There’s two zones, the starter zone and the city. If you talk to enough Tengu, and apparently there is also lore somewhere about them it is actually rather clear that their city is a floating island, not unlike the Zephyr area and Rata Sum. It’s hardly uncommon, earth in Tyria floats over water in the presence of a strong magical field. It’s well known Tyrian physics. As such they can put their city where ever they want, and they put it just outside of Lion’s Arc. Zone on the other side of the wall from Caledon and Kessex is not the city, it’s the starter zone for the Tengu player race.
Just because it floats and can be moved does not mean it doesn’t need to be protected and couldn’t benefit from a giant wall.
1- “starter zone and city zone” are player designations to gameplay mechanics. for all we know, the whole dominion is like shaemoor, a city sitting in the middle of an explorable zone.
2- the dominion is not a floating island. don’t make things up and then assume them as facts. here, let the wiki help you out: “Built atop the island formerly known as Sanctum Cay”, and Sanctum Cay is most definitely not floating.
3- again, they have freaking walls that don’t go even as far as the end of kessex, much less as far as lion’s arch.
i know you want tengu really bad, a lot of people do, but ignoring the game’s facts and making up your own won’t make them show up.
I don’t give a kitten about Tengu. I just like to use logic when solving a problem. Logic dictates that you build the game mechanics and then fit the lore around them, not the other way around. Look at the map and you will see the obvious outlines for the city and the starter zone. They are zones. The only thing that can possibly be inside them is the Dominion of Winds proper, because all the relevant boarders involve the outside walls.
As for it floating, believe what you want. It really doesn’t matter either way, but that’s how I remember the lore. I don’t really care what the wiki has to say. I also didn’t say the entire mass behind the wall floated, that would be stupid. The Dominion is like Queen’s Dale, not Shaemore. Shaemore is just a small part of the greater zone.
ah, but you see. baseless speculation isn’t logic.
logic requires basis. on facts. on well documented truths. if you deduce something from thin air, it’s not logic, it’s rambling.
and alas, i fear you are most definitely rambling.
There is nothing baseless about it. You just can’t see it. Therefore you have nothing to offer to this discussion.
the funny thing about that dominion gate on LA is that it makes no sense.
looking at maps of tyria, the only landmass on what you could consider the dominion of winds is south of kessex/east of caledon. there’s a whole sea’s worth of nothing but water separating that area and lion’s arch.
what’s more, the maps provided by the novels (including sea of sorrows, which was released post-launch) confirm that the dominion should not go as far as lion’s arch. add the fact that there’s nothing that looks like a wall behind the wizard’s tower on garrenhoff (indicating the dominion doesn’t even go that far) and you have pretty solid evidence that whatever that gate is, it’s not tied to the dominion of winds. at best it might be a small trading post walled off from non-tengu.
so yeah, i have no idea why that gate is there, but it shouldn’t be the dominion of winds.
The city of the Tengu is a floating island. It can be wherever they want it to be.
Look at the in game map again. As long as you have all the zones completed you’ll see that the Tengu starter zone is standing right along side Caledon with the outline of a city zone right next to LA.
umm… no it’s not? look at the map. the dominion is walled off and definitely grounded. there’s nothing that says it’s a floating island.
if it was a floating island, they wouldn’t need walls to begin with. they’d just fly somewhere people couldn’t get in.
There’s two zones, the starter zone and the city. If you talk to enough Tengu, and apparently there is also lore somewhere about them it is actually rather clear that their city is a floating island, not unlike the Zephyr area and Rata Sum. It’s hardly uncommon, earth in Tyria floats over water in the presence of a strong magical field. It’s well known Tyrian physics. As such they can put their city where ever they want, and they put it just outside of Lion’s Arc. Zone on the other side of the wall from Caledon and Kessex is not the city, it’s the starter zone for the Tengu player race.
Just because it floats and can be moved does not mean it doesn’t need to be protected and couldn’t benefit from a giant wall.
1- “starter zone and city zone” are player designations to gameplay mechanics. for all we know, the whole dominion is like shaemoor, a city sitting in the middle of an explorable zone.
2- the dominion is not a floating island. don’t make things up and then assume them as facts. here, let the wiki help you out: “Built atop the island formerly known as Sanctum Cay”, and Sanctum Cay is most definitely not floating.
3- again, they have freaking walls that don’t go even as far as the end of kessex, much less as far as lion’s arch.
i know you want tengu really bad, a lot of people do, but ignoring the game’s facts and making up your own won’t make them show up.
I don’t give a kitten about Tengu. I just like to use logic when solving a problem. Logic dictates that you build the game mechanics and then fit the lore around them, not the other way around. Look at the map and you will see the obvious outlines for the city and the starter zone. They are zones. The only thing that can possibly be inside them is the Dominion of Winds proper, because all the relevant boarders involve the outside walls.
As for it floating, believe what you want. It really doesn’t matter either way, but that’s how I remember the lore. I don’t really care what the wiki has to say. I also didn’t say the entire mass behind the wall floated, that would be stupid. The Dominion is like Queen’s Dale, not Shaemore. Shaemore is just a small part of the greater zone.
First off, why would you assume mechanized creatures are immune to dragon corruption? Second, in what way is a lone Sylvari a Dragon Champion? I seem to recall beating her up pretty easily. Finally, why do you think she is actively following orders? Nothing she’s done nor said indicated that she’s is following orders. She may be being influenced, but she’s not following orders. So she’s doing things her own way, toward whatever end she ends up accomplishing.
I know they said LA would be changing, but who said it would be gone for good? The merchants will be in Fort Marriner for the next release and probably the one after that. Once Scarlet is done, I bet LA will be back to normal, but with some changes from the invasion. Although, it would be cool if it were totaled and became a regular zone with monsters and stuff, but not likely.
It took them half a year to rebuild the statue after King Thorn blew it up, how long would it take them to rebuild the whole city? Especially if things are still there fighting them.
the funny thing about that dominion gate on LA is that it makes no sense.
looking at maps of tyria, the only landmass on what you could consider the dominion of winds is south of kessex/east of caledon. there’s a whole sea’s worth of nothing but water separating that area and lion’s arch.
what’s more, the maps provided by the novels (including sea of sorrows, which was released post-launch) confirm that the dominion should not go as far as lion’s arch. add the fact that there’s nothing that looks like a wall behind the wizard’s tower on garrenhoff (indicating the dominion doesn’t even go that far) and you have pretty solid evidence that whatever that gate is, it’s not tied to the dominion of winds. at best it might be a small trading post walled off from non-tengu.
so yeah, i have no idea why that gate is there, but it shouldn’t be the dominion of winds.
The city of the Tengu is a floating island. It can be wherever they want it to be.
Look at the in game map again. As long as you have all the zones completed you’ll see that the Tengu starter zone is standing right along side Caledon with the outline of a city zone right next to LA.
umm… no it’s not? look at the map. the dominion is walled off and definitely grounded. there’s nothing that says it’s a floating island.
if it was a floating island, they wouldn’t need walls to begin with. they’d just fly somewhere people couldn’t get in.
There’s two zones, the starter zone and the city. If you talk to enough Tengu, and apparently there is also lore somewhere about them it is actually rather clear that their city is a floating island, not unlike the Zephyr area and Rata Sum. It’s hardly uncommon, earth in Tyria floats over water in the presence of a strong magical field. It’s well known Tyrian physics. As such they can put their city where ever they want, and they put it just outside of Lion’s Arc. Zone on the other side of the wall from Caledon and Kessex is not the city, it’s the starter zone for the Tengu player race.
Just because it floats and can be moved does not mean it doesn’t need to be protected and couldn’t benefit from a giant wall.
LA is clearly not the target, but a obstacle in Scarlet’s way. For me the target is the Ley Lines or a source of magic under LA from which the magic get to the ley lines.
There is already an hypothesis about Mordremoth being the 6th Elder Dragon, a Jungle Dragon and that Sylvari could be Mordremoth’s minions. What if Mordremoth use a different strategy than the other Elder Dragon. Most of them reach a place and start growing an army of minons. Zhaitan was building his army at Orr, Primordius underground, Jormag in the North, Kralkatorrik in the Crystal Desert and Deep Sea Dragon in the sea.
But what if Mordremoth play it more subtle. We already know that sylvari, despite being a young race, saw their number growth really fast. Mordremoth could be growing his army right in front of the World without any hints of treat like the other Dragon do, so nobody will interfere with his plans. Just waiting the right moment to awake and take control of his minions who are free for now. Mordremoth could be the voice that push Scarlet to act, to attack LA and reach under the city where maybe Mordremoth is. Scarlet would be the first controlled minons and she’s only partially controlled since Mordremoth would be still asleep with weak power.
Actually, thinking about it that way makes even more sense. All the bits kind of fit into place.
Mordremoth is the Jungle Dragon. The Pale Tree is a champion of the Dragon. The Sylvari are it’s minions. Ventari corrupted the Pale Tree as a seed. Somehow he set the Pale Tree against Mordremoth and as a result she has been actively nurturing and blocking her children, his minions, from his influence. Some Sylvari are less influenced than others. Those Sylvari fall to Nightmare, from which there is no return. Nightmare court, whether they know it or not, are under the influence of Mordremoth, but they aren’t controlled by him because they still have the block that the Pale Tree imposed on them.
Scarlet removed the block. As a result she can be actively influenced by Mordremoth, just like all Dragon minions to their master. She’s still trying to resist though, because Sylvari are sentient, unlike most minions. Who knows how well she’s doing. While she is actively trying to kill Mordemoth, she could just as well unleash him on the world.
Why would they ever do that? Tengus are isolationist and don’t let anyone in. Why would they suddenly open their doors for refugees when they wouldn’t open them for people who might actually leave after coming in?
This isn’t to discount the idea. I think there is a lot of potential for the Tengu city and starter zone to open up. I just miss the logic behind this particular suggestion.
the funny thing about that dominion gate on LA is that it makes no sense.
looking at maps of tyria, the only landmass on what you could consider the dominion of winds is south of kessex/east of caledon. there’s a whole sea’s worth of nothing but water separating that area and lion’s arch.
what’s more, the maps provided by the novels (including sea of sorrows, which was released post-launch) confirm that the dominion should not go as far as lion’s arch. add the fact that there’s nothing that looks like a wall behind the wizard’s tower on garrenhoff (indicating the dominion doesn’t even go that far) and you have pretty solid evidence that whatever that gate is, it’s not tied to the dominion of winds. at best it might be a small trading post walled off from non-tengu.
so yeah, i have no idea why that gate is there, but it shouldn’t be the dominion of winds.
The city of the Tengu is a floating island. It can be wherever they want it to be.
Look at the in game map again. As long as you have all the zones completed you’ll see that the Tengu starter zone is standing right along side Caledon with the outline of a city zone right next to LA.
That’s because LA isn’t the target and never has been. LA is just in the way and Scarlet isn’t one to go around if she can just go through.
I don’t think it’s Primordius, though. I mean, I suppose a Dragon of fire and earth can pretty much go where he likes when he likes, but Primordius is the reason the Asura abandoned their caves in Maguuma, and the Dragons seem to like to settle, so it stands to reason he’d still be in Maguuma.
We already have a skill on downed where our pet gets us up, and so does another elite when time right, the spirit. The active should do something else. Like buffs on your pet are transferred to nearby allies or something.
You guys are naivë to think that pet rez on downed would stay in the game after the release of an elite skill such as this :-)
So your opinion is that they would kick every single Ranger in the balls in order to provide a single questionably effective skill to a subsection of the population?
It’s definitely fake, nothing about the design of this Signet makes any sense. It’s a passive that is only useful if you’re running Signets. AND signets you plan to activate. No Elites work that way. The Active is even worse because it’s completely up in the air. Presumably it would work like the new Engineer heal AED, but even so, how is that supposed to work?
How long do you have after activating it to be downed and still get the effect? Does your pet immediately stop what they’re doing and come heal you? What happens if your pet gets knocked around and interrupted while healing you, does it continue healing itself too? It doesn’t guarantee a revive, just that your pet will be potentially harder to kill while trying to revive you, assuming it can even reach you at all because you’re not on different levels at the time you go down.
Signet of the Beastmaster should remain a trait, not necessarily a grandmaster trait but a trait, or be ingrained mechanic of the class, not an Elite skill. That’s a terrible design.
Based purely on the Ranger this isn’t real. Signet of the Beastmaster passive is Marksmanship XI. And the active makes no sense. What are you supposed to do? Activate just before/as you die? Sorry, this whole thing is pretty stupid.
The active could work like AED on the Engineer and the trait could be reworked. They already told us that there are quite some changes that they can’t talk about just yet.
Yeah, that’s a terrible design. Think about it. AED has about a five second wait time. If you get dropped to 0 in that time it gives you a boost. If you don’t it sputters a weak heal then goes on refresh. For 5 seconds it’s just sitting there.
How is that supposed to work for a signet? What is the wait time? What happens if you’re not defeated before it runs out? What is the cool down? What is happening with the passive during the time between activating it and not doing anything? What is the point of using up an Elite slot for something that’s only useful if you’re going to die? It doesn’t even guarantee that you’ll get revived, just that your pet will be tougher while it’s trying, unless it get’s CCed, then who knows if it will even continue healing itself.
Signet of the Beastmaster, as it currently works, should either be a trait or an ingrained function of signets. It should not be an elite skill wasting the space of better elite skills in order to provide a function necessary to many Rangers.
None of these things make sense, and unless they are really really trying to get Rangers to despise them and Rangers this is a thing that should never be made. As such it is more likely that it is a thing that would never be made, is not going to be made, and that this entire thing is fake.
Based purely on the Ranger this isn’t real. Signet of the Beastmaster passive is Marksmanship XI. And the active makes no sense. What are you supposed to do? Activate just before/as you die? Sorry, this whole thing is pretty stupid.
For very long time I did not like the play of a Mesmer. I have one of every other class and multiples of some, but I just couldn’t get into Mesmer after a few halting attempts. I can say, honestly, that is no longer the case, and primarily thanks to this guide walking me through to relevant traits, weapons and skills for each type of Mesmer.
I’m now running a Sword/Sword – Sword/Focus Mesmer focused on Illusions. and she’s a bunch of fun.
If this ever gets updated, the new Healing Signet is definitely fun for Illusionists. Probably the one Signet you use for the passive and active power.
I would absolutely get legitimate skins, especially new models that made my pets older. I would not get steampunk ravens, the pink panther, nor Winnie the Pooh
