Guild Wars 2

Jtor.7543:

I don’t think that its Scarlet thats the bad thing, i think its the continual Scarlet story. There are sooooo many other stories and mysteries to explore that just seeing this one for an entire year is a bit of a drag…

We know what the dwarves have been doing. Gargoyles, while an enemy type, never really had that much for them being interesting.

Glint’s baby/other dragons would actually be interesting to see. Crystal desert is part home to elder dragon, part lush area now cause the redirected river.

Movement of the world kinda establishes what Elonians or Canthans are doing. Hedge of Denravi you actually can VISIT ingame. It’s near the ruins of Fort Koga. White mantle likewise is touched upon in certain human storylines.(though they apparently have some islands with names referencing white mantle/mursaat).

How Rytlock got the sword would be interesting, but I doubt it’d be worthy of a chunk of Living story.

Where the sceptor of Orr went? Possibly interesting. Why Tequatl is growing stronger? We know the champions are fully intelligent. Perhaps this is just an effect of Zhaitan being killed/put back to sleep. Extra magical energy is going to his champions. Possibly interesting.

Caithe’s background. Maybe. Canach? Who cares. he is in prison. I’m more interested in the Sylvari from their storyline that came from another tree.

“E” doesn’t sound like Scarlet at all. Simply because when have see seen Scarlet actually be helpful to anybody?

Not to bash you at all, but some of these mysteries are… less interesting to me (and possibly others) then others. I’d rather see stuff about Glint’s children and eggs then gargoyles. Being honest, I’d rather hear about how Rytlock got his sword then where the sceptor of Orr went (because I’d see people trying to claim it/say their characters have it). Scarlet’s story has a planned end. I’m going to bet after that we’ll see something with dragons again. I do hope they release any new storyline with a dragon as a personal story since that is more major then Scarlet (and allowing people to experience it after the release of the next part).

Qawsada.4251:

Angel or Scarlet? In a sense, I would say both. For Angel, we got this whole thread dedicated on how Angel basically retcon or twisted the lore of Guild Wars 1 to its knees.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Angel-McCoy-Interview

Scarlet? There is a laundry list of lore breaking alliance, how she is accepted as a student to a bunch of racist characters in the stories so easily, and basically sticking the middle finger at the Asura Lore and how she get to learn from all the college, get to see their religion, and said she is the smartest person in the world. These stuff are mention, repeatedly, in any of the Scarlet thread out there. That audio interview did not change my view of her and it gets a lot worse from then on.

I’m unsure how she retconned most of GW1’s lore with that. but oh well.

A: Molten alliance. Dredge and Flame legion were on shaky terms at the best during the whole affair, and afterwards it seems to have shattered soundly.
B: Aeteherblades. formed from (supposedly) sky pirates and inquest, but the only group showing REAL fear of her.
C: toxic Alliance. as I’ve seen it, it seems to be an alliance of “Both groups believe they are simply using the other for their goals.” The Krait want to bring back their prophets. The Sylvari just want chaos. And the fact INGAME it’s treated as odd. It’s not as if everybody in the world accepts it. Everybody else is like “This is REALLY odd for the Krait”. Infact, it may simply be that SINGLE group of Krait who allied with the Nightmare Court.
D: What racist people did she tutor under bar the inquest? who she went to AFTER getting the ‘degrees’ in the various colleges. Infact, ALL the other ones accepted her as a student without issue or complaint. Besides the Asura. Who she worked to impress. The Inquest as I’ve seen it isn’t xenophobic, they just don’t let morals get in the way of simply experimenting on other people all the time.
E: first off, she basically took a SINGLE SEMESTER/course worth of each collage, and was treated as a curiosity by the Asura council. As noted in the one audio interview, she MAY have seen it, or she may have simply gone insane and imagined the entire thing. She is hardly the smartest person in the world (She believes it, others do not), and her entire backstory outisde of her first learnings with the Sylvari is pretty much a “I stick around for a little bit, learn some stuff, then move on.” The Norn and Charr both treat her as if she is leaving before learning everything she can. The Asura case explicitly said she took a single semester worth of classes. She was with the Inquest for a VERY short time, and the Hylek a short-medium time.

Qawsada.4251:

Singer.8740:

I am not crazy for scarlet but do not hate her ether.

The next person who says “Scarlet did it” however better give a very detailed explanation of what “it” is because quite frankly no one knows what she has up her sleeve and its getting annoying.
Also the term Mary sue is getting thrown about to much. reality is she is not one.
here.

http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/60458277036/this-lorespecial-is-about-scarlet-briar-the-evil

An in depth discussion about scarlet briar with the story devs. Makes allot more sense than most of the biased drivel in these Scarlet hate posts.

Yes, because listening to Angel McCoy talking about how awesome her Original Character ™ is while wreaking the lore a new one just to make her exist is consider “acceptable”.

Sarcasm aside, the good writers from GW 1 need to comeback and replace her.

How is she wrecking the lore? I’ve already seen people in this topic (the only one I’ve read) skewing her backstory in ways that aren’t even HINTED at in the short story. At times, it looks like the people hating Scarlet are wrecking the lore to justify their hate of the character. (Such as saying she learned super carefully kept ‘trade secrets’ of the race, like a great hunt that the Norn totally don’t BOAST about publicly.)

Besides the Asura bit (which as said, it just saying “Coursework” and apparently the devs outright said she didn’t graduate the collages. She completed a course and earned a degree(in record time). Hell, the way it sounds to me is the “collages” are more like superguilds for Asura(Just like being in a specific legion for charr). You don’t ‘graduate’ from them at all really.

Also it’s a guy in the audio(He’s talking more then the other person, who I assume is Angel), and he did confirm that basically she was given a semester of work, completed it, and moved on. And that she FEELS she saw the universe. “It remains to see how much is accurate and how much is her broken pysche.”

An interesting comparison made is how she acts like a player does. “The world is a game/my playground. This plan didn’t work? Oh well I’ll do something else. This is fun!”

Okay, so as you do the personal story, the home instance gets changed bit by bit to show it. NPC’s you meet appear in the instance (Like the race you help) as well as others.

However, if you pick the “dead sister” story, she NEVER appears in the instance even after being rescued.I only now found out that she only appears if you do the vigil tank missions in Orr, as a crusader.

Why? Why can’t she at least appear in the home instance at some point (and maybe later gets upgraded to be a crusader instead of a Seraph)?

On the same line, you get various ‘items’ in the personal story panel. Things like a banner or other little objects. Why don’t they appear in the home instance (unless I missed them)?

Rooen.5317:

2. She’s very VERY poorly written. From any stand point. 1302 AE is the first appearance of the first born Sylvari, we are not told but are pretty sure she’s not a firstborn as most of them seem highly regarded as plant people royalty. This puts her to be at most 20 years old. Not only does no one know anything about her, even the pale tree herself the ‘mother’ of all Sylvari never mentions this possible threat at any time. Seems like something an all knowing mother tree would give a hint about. That also means in only 20 years time Scarlett managed to graduate from all 3 asura colleges, travel to the home cities of all the other races, become accepted and lean all of their trade secrets (warband leadership for Charr, great hunt for norn, her own Wyld hunt, and whatever it is humans do…join the army?). As an example Asura are put into pre-classes for their colleges as prodigy (children) so young that one class is ‘nap time’ Asura train their whole lives to be part of a single college. The greatest mind of their race, Snaff only graduated from one. And what’s even a worse kick in the teeth to the pre-set lore is that she ‘saw’ the eternal alchemy? That god like magic to the Asura, the thing they have been trying to understand since their creation? Yea she just kinda saw it for funsies. I would complain even if it WAS an asura who managed it in such a cheap way.

3. Going along with everything stated above she is NEVER mentioned before the Queens event. Not a single bit of info is given by any NPC of this grand master of all races. No matter what town you go to they say and do nothing to tell you that anything in her story ever took place. You would think SOMEONE would know something. If anything a pretty prominent Asura died and even he’s never mentioned. It was only less the 20 years ago.

First bit I quoted. As I recall, they state she was ACCEPTED in the colleges, not “She graduated from all three.” I’ll look in a bit.

Second bit. Bar the Asura (who seem to have put her in the “We don’t talk about that person” area), in the Charr or Norn (Did she ever go to humans? I don’t think it’s stated) she dealt with… at most, a handful of people. Probably more likely the single person she ‘learned’ from. Warband leadership? I don’t recall that really being a secret. Nor is the great hunt.(Given how ANYBODY who goes into the great hall or Hoelbrek will hear Norn talking about it. This is a secret how?)

Traveling between cities isn’t that huge an issue. you know, the asura gates?

A: She studied with the experts of sylvari for 8 years
B: She spent a single, long winter with a norn blacksmith before leaving. The Norn trying to get her to stay so he could pass on his full knowledge.
C: She spent 2 years with a charr gladium. “She learned all the gladium’s secrets.” and announced she was leaving. Which got a comment of being a “feckless cub”. Immediately after that in the short it says “Firearms and artillery are fun, but too simple.”
D: She completed the dynamics coursework in under a year s the highest ranked in her class. Did the same for statis and took longer with Synergetics.
E: After that, she went to the inquest. Is it really shocking she was around for the reactor when her backstory EXPLICITLY says she worked with the inquest for a brief time? After that she was stripped of her credentials and kicked from Rata Sum (gasp, explaining why the Asura wouldn’t talk of her!)
E: after that, she studied hylek alchemy.

So basically, besides the Asura bits, the rest of her backstory involves with her learning a bit, then going “CYA!” and moving on. The Norn and Charr bits both imply heavily she left before even learning everything about the fields. The Hylek bit as well does such.

Her backstory never says a thing about learning the “entire trade secrets of every race.” (infact, she never visits the humans at all), and pretty much implies that besides the Asura coursework, she went “Meh. boring!” and left halfway (or not even that) from learning from the other races.

At the end, she pretty much turns into a villian who claims to have seen this all powerful essence/vision (or has) and then goes mad.

Yes, parts of her writing are lackluster. Other parts are being overblown by people. As noted, she’s really only shown to have TRUE holding over the twisted watchwork and the aetherblades. Molten Alliance was fragile, and the toxic alliance may have had some prodding, but they never talk about her. They focus on the hybrid.

So, A.net has said her story has a planned end. It will come. Screaming to retcon everything they’d produced is just stupid and would ruin the story further. Screaming for her to be ripped apart in super gruesome ways is just overdoing it. Maybe her end comes when her tech fails, leaving her stranded and then captured. Maybe it backfires and we see her teleport near a dragon champion or an elder dragon. Who knows. But it will end.

I understand these are special items, but can we only get a single one per account or is it possible to get multiple ones so different characters can use them?

I was wondering, is there any way to buy gems from the site instead of ingame? I’ve heard of a 2k gem gift card in walmart, but not anything for online website (Like firefox browsing).

A work around, load up GW2 launcher, hit “forget password.”

Then do the password reset email stuff. It changes your password (Thus solving the requirement of having to do so), and works. I literally just did that after the change password page wasn’t loading.

My problem with a playable dwarf.

A: We’ve been told in GW1 and GW2 that the Dwarves mindset has pretty much been turned to “WAR WITH DESTROYERS AT ALL COSTS. KILL THEM ALL”. IIRC, when you reach the Central Transfer chamber Jalis screams and leads a charge into another section of caverns to fight the destroyers while the heroes goes against the great destroyer. Odgen is the last dwarf above the surface, and the Dredge believe he is the last dwarf… EVER.

B: All the other races you can start as somebody who is either skilled, or learning and new to the world and their class. A stone dwarf would have been fighting for 250 years+ against the Destroyers. The element of “Learning the ropes” is completely gone with them as all of them are vets.

C: There are other races that can be used for playable ones. Tengu for example, Kodan is another (While they are all polar bears, we’ve seen some with black paint/tattoos). Largos might be an option, Centaurs maybe (there have been groups friendly to humans in the past).

D: It’d frankly (IMO)… ruin the experiance. It would remove the aspect of “Odgen’s the last dwarf working with us. Let’s find out as much as we can about the dwarves from ruins and Arah to learn what we can!” and replace it with “Hey, let’s ask one of our handy dandy Dwarves just around the bend of the road!” A thing in GW2 is of the ancient races that had encountered the Elder Dragons before, only the Jotun truly remain. And they have lost everything and won’t help. Mursaat, Seer, Forgotten have all disappeared. Dwarves are to public knowledge extinct (those that know better know any survivors are deep, deep underground in constant battle).

So, one thing that bugs me for my engineer (charr) is that all the rifle shots are done from the hip. I’d personally rather that she use the aimed/against shoulder pose for them.

In a discussion, somebody made the comment about how they could add ‘shotguns’ which use from the hip animation, and then tweak the rifle to use the aimed pose and maybe have new abilities.

Another option I thought of would be to have some sort of a toggle for engineers/warriors using rifles/pistols to have the aimed pose, or the fire from hip pose.

Might as well put my name in here too. I never even noticed the chest until I was running around LA on a different character. Had 17 slots open in bags so definitely had room for the items.

To Theguf, you do know that sometimes bugs literally don’t appear until it’s in the main game? It’s why they always wanna know what happened before the bug hit so they can try to recreate the situation and thus know how to fix it.

In the lore, friendly necromancers NEVER have summoned skeletons or zombies.

The ‘good’ necormancers user minions, which are UNDEAD but are techincally neither skeletons or zombies. Your traditional zombies/skeletons are used by the undead lich (proph) Joko (evil lich), and Zhaitan.

Ghosts have been the realm of ritualists, and not necromancers. Vampires don’t exist in GW universe, and ghouls… eh.

What demon pets do we get? Oh that’s right, none. Unless you count the shade as a demon, which it really isn’t.

The minions are clearly undead, which fits the OP “Undead pets are necromancer” I have a flesh golem out at all times with my necromancer, did that suddenly stop being undead?

Ratphink is correct. While I’m unsure where the “zombies/skeletons are taboo to use” came from, only the big, clearly evil guys use those. Aka the guys who don’t give a damn. In GW1 you hear a few times about the necromancer guild who self-polices and makes sure they ARE not kicked out of society.

GW2 has necromancers fitting of the LORE and following the traditions of the GW1 necromancer. As somebody who has a level 80 necromancer in GW2, and a level 20 GW1 necromancer who has been played a good bit, I can attest to that.

Hell, I can easily see during the 200-250 year timespan they decided it was better to have a few hard-hitting minions all the time instead of a powerful force… only after a battle with a lot of corpses and being not as useful the other times because minions decayed and the MM builds didn’t really have much offensive ability before minions. In the game, blood, curses, and whatever the third tree was typically was used more then death magic (aka minions) because it had MORE use. It was applicable to any situation, where minion masters are for high corpse areas with high amounts of bodies OFTEN happening. If it’s “3 man patrol, then half a minute before another patrol is attacked” it’s useless.

I’m not seeing how a GW2 necromancer is in ANY way related to warlocks or demon mastery.

Suggestion: Add more waypoints to dungeons. I’ve noticed on some paths of explorables there is literally a SINGLE waypoint and that’s just insane the amount of running to do if you wipe at the endboss.

The demon mask looks great I suppose if red is your theme color :P. Wraith mask isn’t awful either, especially if one was going for a blind-look without the blindfold of the exotics at 80.

But the skull mask (the one I chose) is just BLEH for humans.

Something I’ve noticed more recently (leveling alts causing me to see more of the facepaints on other low level necromancers) is that the facepaints on other races (like Norn) are frankly seeming to be far better in terms of design/quality over the ones of humans.

The human skull masque frankly looks like a Clown face to me, do any of the other races have equally bad looking necromancer face-paints?

SniffyCube.6107:

one loot of the chest per account – people that haven’t done it can EASILY get together and do it.

An easy way to allow repeats and avoid farming.

Tom.8571:

Couldn’t get off of work fast enough, so that’s a potential 200 hours of farming i missed out on in 1 hour because I couldn’t get in the event and get a shot at a precursor. Why not repeat the event for people who couldn’t get the chest, seriously. So angry, done with gw2 for a while…

Perhaps if enough suggest it/put it forward, A.net may do repeat events for these things later on. Hm. Or possibly do something I just thought of. Instanced mission/dungeon style thing. For the duration (final day or whatever) people can talk to an NPC, which transports the team into the finale ‘event’. After that day, the actual entire area swaps to the post-finale look.

Well, while I personally feel the event was decently done (could’ve used some closer waypoints to prevent as long runs after dying.), I had a guild member who logged in right as it ended. He missed the chest by mere minutes. Now, while I enjoy the idea of “This happens, it’s done deal.” in a way, I feel that something could be done to increase the amount of people available to do it.

Now, definitely not a “after event ends, hour later it is back again,” I was thinking more along the lines of the world bosses like the claw of jormag or Tequatl the sunless. A bit of time between goes, but have it go through a few times allowing everybody around the world at least a chance to go through it. Now, to counter people farming rewards from it perhaps do a “Once per account completion” and after that the chest doesn’t work for them or it simply doesn’t give the same quality items as the first time.

I will say I enjoy the fact the reward accessory and box are account bound instead of soulbound, this means that they can be swapped around on my characters.

This specific event was pretty long, so a “repeat hourly” would’ve been hard. Just as well, you’d see people complaining about somebody hitting every repeat and thus getting awesome rewards out the window.

Now, I agree it’d be nice to repeat. This particular event I felt could’ve had a waypoint at the camp where the megalasers were to shorten respawn running times.

I have to agree with Ledzep… would you all who HAVE pictures of your characters on the bank roof kindly at the least give a hint about how to get on there?