Guild Wars 2

NiffyinaJiffy.1532:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

They stated that rare drop items would not become available. This would include things like the Monocle and the Molten Jetpack.

It’s only the achievement stuff that’s obtained. Which should include the Tequatl wings (@Lilith).

That’s funny, considering this:

Winning fights in the Queen’s Gauntlet will award players with Gauntlet Chances, which have a rare chance to drop a further set of rare returning rewards, such as a monocle from the Sky Pirates of Tyria.

That’s copy-pasted directly from the patch notes, by the way.

It is interesting and shows that the original statement was about sure-fire ways (Festival Tokens) would not give the rare drop items. I read the patch notes afterwards and saw that, so it seems that the Gauntlet Chances and Zephyrite Supply Boxes may give the Molten Backpack.

The kind who works at ArenaNet, obviously.

When can I join?

Ella said she wanted to join them during the Bazaar too.

Why do you stop being awake? It is an active conscious action and if you do one thing at all times you won’t be able to do other things.

Kralkatorrik did try to corrupt Destiny’s Edge, and made several passes (this is why there is a big kitten blot at the end of the Dragonbrand), but Glint and then Snaff’s mind distracted him, and he thought they were insignificant until Snaff entered his mind (it was at that point – between battling Glint and Snaff entering its mind) that he made most of those passes.

It isn’t poor writing, because nothing indicates corruption is passive nor does anything indicate that they can corrupt 24/7. You not understanding doesn’t demand something to be bad.

Why didn’t Jormag corrupt Aesgir is a mystery we don’t yet know, but there are hints that he had a jotun scroll with him that aided him.

Why Zhaitan didn’t corrupt the Pact is because he couldn’t, thanks to Zojja modifying Kudu’s reseaerch into o Dragon magic – the entire reason we were able to kill him at all.

All of this is shown and told in game or in Edge of Destiny. Just because you don’t know or understand it doesn’t mean it is sloppy writing. It is not clumsy because it is told to us. But it is obvious that they choose to because we see it as something they can do or not do.

Anomaly.7612:

Where can we get blade shards now? I’m trying to make spinal blades!

Three ways. There is a mystic forge recipe. Mined from Sprocket node in home instance (requires Gift of Sprockets). And killing Aetherblades (TA Aetherpath, Gendarran jumping puzzle, or in the center of Edge of the Mists). If you have enough t1 and t2 dust and money for Sprockets, I’d go with the forge. Best do the mining too daily to save money.

You don’t have to pay to start boss blitz. You pay to hasten it’s starting.

I don’t think Taimi was ever “shaken” like Jaken says. I can’t think of a time she was. She’s always had a friendly teasing relation to Braham.

Rox isn’t into occultism. She’s highly superstitious about luck (this has been known since Queen’s Jubilee). The two are very different, and not something that I would find surprising in even charr.

The Biconics already said in the aftermath party that they all heard it – though they didn’t know what it was (the PC, aka our characters, did and told them).

Well of course there’d be nothing new on Scarlet – this is just a festival, and not the start of Season 2. Think of it like the prologue of a book. You only get questions in those, never answers.

They stated that rare drop items would not become available. This would include things like the Monocle and the Molten Jetpack.

It’s only the achievement stuff that’s obtained. Which should include the Tequatl wings (@Lilith).

Humanity is in a tight spot but as the Queen’s Jubilee was meant to point out, they’re stillstanding tall. They’ve fallen from their former height – a fall that began with GW1 – but they’re still a major power, and this is shown right off the bat. The war with the centaurs has been doing poorly but they pushed back with Caudecus’ antics lessened (see every human lvl 1-20 personal story, as well as Caudecus’ Manor story) though they’re not gone completely.

ANet just overstated their “down”, while underplaying the “but not out” part.

Our characters never die. They just get knocked out. Respawning is just a mechanic. Nothing says our characters are killed.

The dev comments mainly from here:
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Nora was there but she couldn’t hear Drakkar communicating directly into Svanir’s mind. Read those posts by Stephane relating Jeff Grubb’s words. There are other places but that is the main bit.

And if Dragon corruption is “as active to them as digestion is to us” explain how Kralkatorrik stopped corrupting at will during Edge of Destiny. Explain how the Elder Dragons do not corrupt at all times. Explain how we fought Zhaitan or Aesgir fought Jormag without becoming corrupted. Explain this to me. And give examples were we see the Elder Dragons corrupting without intending to.

We explicitly see that the Dragonbrand’s creation was an active action. Go read Edge of Destiny and you will know that you are wrong. It is, as I said already in both this and my previous post, shown that Kralkatorrik choose when to corrupt.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

source:

In Guild Wars 1 we had the expansions and we also had a Live Team constantly adding free content to the game and their still, seven years later, still adding free content to the game.

We’re going to do the exact same thing with Guild Wars 2 the difference being that the teams will be much larger supporting the game on both sides so we’ll have an Expansion Team working on expansions for the game and we’ll have a Live Team constantly providing content for the game and both of those teams will be extremely large, supporting the game from day one, right from the day it ships the Live team will be supporting the game and they’ll be supporting every aspect on the game, they’ll be adding free content to the game, updating the online store, setting up events in the game like our holiday festivals we had in Guild Wars 1, we want to give real breadth to the things that we add.

http://www.screamingjoypad.com/2011/09/exclusive-guild-wars-2-preview-and.html

Their “Live Team” being referenced there was not a Living World team but rather akin to GW1’s live team – that they’d be maintaining and on occasion adding content. They scrapped this after release, and made 4 Living World teams instead, with constant mentions of “there is no expansion on the table presently, we’re wanting to give expansions via Living World” (not verbatim).

Unless Ree and Jeff are working on Season 2, or perhaps even Season 3 (woah now! let’s not get ahead of ourselves), I am finding it hard to figure out what they could be working on with all the constant mentions of “no expansion” – despite how much I would love an expansion.

Axialbloom.8109:

The season one Living Story actual underlying story was REALLY GOOD. The whole pale tree being a corrupted/freed dragon champion, keeping the sylvari from corruption, and Scarlet bypassing that protection and going mad: all awesome.

The problem was, it was told soooo badly, with poor pacing and horrendous dialogue.

The funny part is that this is not the story that was told. Not even as underlying.

It’s amazing what connections people will make when there’s nothing solid there. Nothing to show that the Pale Tree is some champion of Mordremoth (let alone a freed one), and certainly no reason for how she became freed.

@Fluffball: I’m actually referring to the fact that for a long time it was commonplace perception that all of the shaman caste were of the Flame Legion – and vice versa – since the Flame Legion ruled over the charr… and so did the Shaman caste.

In actuality, the Shaman caste is just a group of shamans from all four legions.

@Kalavier: The difference between the maps and the cannons is that the map was physical and written by a ghost not affected by the Foefire. In the latter case, there’s actually hints of Kasha being unaffected by the Foefire… And iirc, Stephan had a white ghost appearance, rather than the typical Foefire-blue. It wouldn’t be surprising if some ghosts – such as Vassar and Relena – were buried (since those two actually have coffins). Given that it seems only ghosts are seen as what they are by those affected by the Foefire and we know there were a lot of restless spirits in Ascalon both before and after the Searing, it wouldn’t be surprising if some of the ghosts in Ascalon are, in fact, non-Foefire ghosts.

Still not the same thing. :P

It’d be like saying the charr Shaman caste and the Flame Legion are the same thing (fun fact: they’re not).

I find it hilariously pathetic how so many people are complaining about the lack of ArenaNet responses.

Go to any other official game forum, especially MMOs, and you will be hard pressed to see developer posts as common as ArenaNet’s amount of posts. Honestly, I prefer for them to post less. So that they don’t have to deal with the constant bull that is this and similar threads, and can instead save their brain cells.

It’s just a giant spherical building. Nothing hints nor implies that it is at all in any way related in function or reference to the Star Wars Death Star. That is just wild player speculative comparisons. Like Rata Sum and muraat being related.

We actually do know that Drakkar actively affected Svanir. I’m on my phone atm so it’s hard to find and link but Jeff Grubb did mention such and in the novel Edge of Destiny, Eir mentions Drakkar doing the same to the early Sons of Svanir group (not naming Drakkar mind you). Svanir tapped into power he felt, which was Drakkar. Drakkar, in turn, whispered into Svanir’s mind with promises of powerful prey to hunt and the power to hunt them, and thus turned Svanir into an icebrood.

The dragons’ corruption is most certainly active. We see Kralkatorrik stop corrupting in Edge of Destiny – and start again – on a whim. He decides to breath corruption at set points in the fight against Destiny’s Edge. And all Elder Dragons seep out magic without corrupting while asleep (otherwise the Bloodstones would have been corrupted and so would the asura gate network). It is not a passive act, but you are right that it is tied to them feeding (though not necessarily solely or always).

As for the objects, since they have no mind obviously those aren’t active but that is entirely different from Elder Dragons, their champions, or their minions. They would have to be corrupted in a way in which the corruption spreads to the wielder.

Lakdav, throughout the Personal Story and in Edge of Destiny we see that corruption is active. Svanir was corrupted by Drakkar whom was stirred by Svanir tapping into it. It wasn’t a sleep (whether Svanir woke it is unknown). Champions can corrupt in their dragon’s place.

That has been brought up many times and it is in fact in that very mission in which the notion of only creatures whom are pregnant before corruption can lay eggs/give birth. Though the Destroyer Queen was not once a Living being – we were told by Jeff, Ree, and Scott that we have not seen any creatures corrupted by Primordus even though he is capable of such – at least, none which is pointed out as such.

Given the name of the jumping puzzle, Zuhl is likely a name or adjective.

The other three aside from Alph and Zhed (the latter being a highly likely nod to the NF character, as mentioned, making the first a likely case of being the name of another centuar), appear to be asuran names.

Likely these are all cases of centaur and asuran names being used for points, and if they’re used for alphabet designation it would be for their respective alphabets, not New Krytan.

Dragon minions are repeatedly stated to be unable to reproduce at all unless they’re pregnant when they get corrupted. The whole body being made out of crystal and all, in the case of branded, kind of prevents such.

Glint’s “baby” may be more akin to a dragon champions making more – same with the Crystal Guardians and Crystal Spiders of her lair in GW1.

When the electricuting harpoons end, his right (I think) giant wing/arm turns red and shrivvles up (this is why he cannot fly anymore, other than lack of tails for steering). I don’t recall any body parts ripping off – just a bunch of “blood” exploding out of his body (basically seems like internal explosions).

Is that bit about risen pledging allegiance to Zhaitan/shouting for his help a question or a statement? (Worded like a question, but you have a period and is the case per Arah story so…).

But just because he’s dead doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t stop acting on Zhaitan’s behalf or praising him. After all, their mentality has gotten twisted into being fanatical towards the dragon – so why wouldn’t they still pledge allegiance to the Zhaitan and the corrupted state of Orr?

And as said in another thread, I wouldn’t take the dungeon tokens as canon lore until brought up as such.

I would take time to note, however, the fact that the Evolved Jungle Wurm consumes risen is a very important point. While Zhaitan was alive – or rather, before he was assaulted in Arah – consuming a risen turned the consumer into one too as seen throughout Sparkfly Fen (a lot of hylek complain and mention that wildlife are eating risen corpses and thus becoming corrupted themselves, which results in less food for them). But if doing such is not corrupting the wurm then:

1) it’s a risen (highly unlikely)
2) that rule changed due to Zhaitan’s death (possible; corruption is an active act, so if the one causing the corruption dies/goes to sleep, the corruption ceases to spread it seems)
3) that wurm is immune to dragon corruption (unlikely)

Though acting like that is basically like saying “anything is possible if not explicitly pointed out” which is… odd to say the least.

Almost all races are heavily hinted to predate humanity, and humanity came shortly after the Six Gods’ arrival. So if they’re not Tyrian, they were either brought by other high-powerful beings, or arrived on Tyria by their own devices (which none really show to have sans mursaat and Forgotten).

Only three of his largest tails (including some wings) were cut off. As Kalavier said, the rest was in-tact. Though his body lacks anything from the stomach area down (sans the tails), which makes him appear much like GW1 bone dragons (the lore for their missing lower body being that when they rose from their ‘graves’ they pulled themselves up with such force that the hind legs and tail were ripped off due to old rot and decay).

I also wouldn’t take the tokens as much canon – I mean, the Honor of the Waves one are freakin teddybears while the Citadel of Flames one is the motif of a Flame Legion giving the peace sign (or victory sign, funny how they’re the same).

As in, if such exists? Or as in if there’s any story behind them? If the latter, not to my knowledge. If the former, almost all NPC faction emblems (if not all) are available as guild emblems. There are six asuran-looking emblems (all next to each other) and four of them I recognize as the three colleges and the Inquest’s emblem. The two unknown asuran-looking emblems are:

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No creature known to us is outright capable of involuntary animation. There’s other active threads with similar theories going on, anyways, such as Consumption of Zhaitan presently.

That concept art is the final (known to us) concept art of Zhaitan which is for his Arah model. That is the “dragon comprised of dragon” look that Kekai made, and is actually less intact-looking than the actual model. But nonetheless, concept art != canon lore.

Guns and cannons are not the same thing.

Like Drax said, the first to use cannons (as far as we know) were the Luxons, while the first to have guns were charr (whom got blackpowder from dwarven ruins we’re told).

We never saw cannons outside of Luxons in GW1, though there are cannons used by Foefire ghosts, though how much hold this has on “what they had” over “what they’ve copied since” is unknown – but the latter doesn’t make much sense with the whole “reliving the last day of their life” situation.

Gods have indestructible power, and seemingly unchanging while being blinding to those who look up on the god, while the power of the Elder Dragons rise and fall. An Elder Dragons’ power would not explode, because it remains in the corpse (should they function like dragon champions) and slowly seep into the world like when they’re sleeping.

@Kalavier: Or… that’s just how he naturally looks. Maybe there is no fusion to speak of. The concept art was to “look like” a bunch of undead dragons mashed together, but nothing actually says that what he is in-game.

Besides, it was developers who mentioned Zhaitan’s “carcass”/“corpse” – once before release (saying that we’d see it in Arah explorable, though it got cut from there due to the model change, and the other being when asked what the Pact is doing with it). For the latter, more recent case, see here.

@Horst:

Closest confirmation we have beyond the original intent less than a couple months prior to release.

BobbyStein.2315:

I hate to burst your bubble, but I think some overzealous fans misinterpreted the announcements from China. Ree did not work on the Festival of the Four Winds content. I can’t comment on* what she’s been working on lately,* or on any unannounced future releases.

It’s great to see so many fans of hers express support, though. I’m sure she’ll be excited to know you’re looking forward to whatever she’s involved with.

Y’know, this has been bugging me. I get you cannot comment on unannounced future releases, but Ree and Jeff’s projects has been in the shadows since release. This is… befuddling. We ask, and for over a year we’ve gotten “cannot comment”.

Given there’s been interviews with them and Anet’s not one to hide employees leaving, we know they still work for ArenaNet but… what could possibly be in the works for lack of any hint in any way, shape, or form for so long?

And I should note, that back in January there were comments about two large projects being in the works that’d be announced after Season 1 ended – projects untold about, and such other than the feature pack and China release.

Are these two related and the “announcement date” just got pushed back? Or… what?

The lack of ANYTHING is driving me mad!

Nothing says that Zhaitan is not dead. He’s defeated with the Personal Story and there are, in fact, a few cases of Zhaitan being said to be dead or references to his corpse.

Lakdav, we know where Primordus awoke – next to the Central Transfer Chamber, which is along the border of Frostgorge Sound and Fireheart Rise, on Frostgorge’s side. There is no cataclysmic change there.

Mount Maelstrom may be Primordus’ doing but it was not when he woke up, as it is halfway across the continent N/S wise.

And if we think of it, Kralkatorrik’s waking was only cataclysmic because he went after Glint. If Glint didn’t get turned then Kralkatorrik wouldn’t have made the Dragonbrand.

Jormag’s awakening doesn’t seem to have been cataclysmic either, since it took four years before he assaulted the norn, and chances are the creation of Frostgorge Sound was after that given if it was before then most norn would have drowned.

On the second point, it was more of an agreement on champions waking their master, but it isn’t really “possibly” since there are multiple examples and potential examples. I wasn’t commenting on the “Zhaitan is not dead, just sleeping”.

Kurrilino.2706:

"""""""It is said all dwarves who participated in invoking the Great Dwarf’s power to battle the Great Destroyer were turned to stone"""""""""

What part of that don’t you understand ?
I highly doubt they turned Woman, Children or Farmer who are essential for a race
to multiply and create food sources support into stone.

Under how many mountains in Elona and Cantha have you been ??
How do they mine their metals or gems ??
I haven’t seen any. Having weapons and gold tells me there must be some mining though.

How people deny the Dwarfen race with even written down that not all of them did the rite is far beyong me.

It is explicitly stated by both Ree Soesbee via an old interview and Ogden Stonehealer in-game that eventually all dwarves underwent the Rite of the Great Dwarf. And according to Ogden Stonehealer, this happened within 50 years of Eye of the North – it wasn’t immediately, but each and every dwarf underwent the rite. So the first line is not wrong, but it is not fully accurate as it doesn’t state the full truth of every dwarf having undergone the right.

Dwarves were a Tyrian (continent) race. They weren’t under Elona and Cantha.

How do they mine their metals and gems? Simple. They don’t anymore.

But you see, all of them did undergo the rite. And this is something you seem to be missing. First performing the Rite of the Great Dwarf triggered something in the minds of each and every dwarf alive, and this drove them to cease their infighting (thus finally bringing an end to the Stone Summit/Deldrimor conflict) and – within 50 years (which is not even 1/8th of dwarven lifespan) drove them to undergo the rite and go underground to fight Primordus. The Rite basically created a compulsion in every single dwarf still living to undergo the rite. This includes the Stone Summit – which is why in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, the Priory members state that the Stone Summit returned to Deldrimor before going underground (this is said around Granite Citadel – SE corner of the map).

It would be silly to ignore Mordremoth entirely, but not for it to focus elsewhere. The Festival isn’t the start of Season 2 anyways, and keep in mind that there were dozens of hints in the initial release that Jormag was next – or at least that the norn will try for going after Jormag.

I don’t see how the Kurzicks’ treatment of the dredge – they claimed that they were attacked first, BTW (both sides claim this, we have no clue which is true) – has any holding on the Tyrians’ treatment of the dredge. I somehow doubt that the Canthan dredge returned to Tyria with news of how they were treated there, since there was still 6 years of enslavement up north.

The aspects are utilizing the magic that was within Glint’s corpse. The aspects magic comes from Glitn, basically.

First thing I noted wrong in your comment: it isn’t always accomodated with landscape changes. Primordus, for example, awoke with next to no show. Mordremoth seems to be the same. Just a few scale 1-3 earthquakes it seems, which don’t do much unless the places are already unstable (like the case was for EotN I believe).

It also doesn’t require a great amount of power – they’re HUGE, so naturally minor earthquakes will happen when they move while shaking the dirt from over their head.

Second, it doesn’t seem to be just “on some occasions” – not only Primordus, but Jormag also had this. Zhaitan’s also known to have a minion from the previous rise (the Giganticus Lupicus) which could have contributed to this. Only Kralkatorrik seems to not have had this – but that’s just to our knowledge due to Glint. And first thing he did was corrupt – which appears to require consuming magic.

Tequatl is mentioned to be dead in the storyline, so I wouldn’t be so sure about his “continuous return”.

Read in the thread before the necro’ing posts. The old blog posts says

The krait have always been an unapologetically evil race. While we take pains in many instances to provide two sides to any story and to show that even evil races, cultures, and characters have good reasons for their actions, the krait were designed to be straightforwardly “black hat.” We approached their focus on religion very cautiously, knowing that the word “prophets” would bring to mind modern religious references. It is important to note that we in no way want to compare krait fanaticism to any real-world faith. The prophets of the krait are false religious figures invented by a ruling priest caste to maintain their control. No part of the krait culture or religion is based on, or intended to resemble, any real-world parallel.

There was a discussion on the interpretation of it – and one was that they’re not real in Tyria’s setting, the other being that they’re not comparable to a real religion.

Either way though, Angel McCoy had already stated elsewhere that since the blog post was written, some things were changed, since it was pre-release stuff.

I’m going to take the guest/transfer to be 100% pure mechanics, and I hope ArenaNet doesn’t try to explain that away. I also hope they don’t mean “all versions of Tyria are just the servers” and instead mean “the servers are some versions of Tyria, but not all” – thus giving way to the potential of other Tyrias that we see hints about elsewhere. Even if most (all?) were April Fools jokes.

Horst Hortensie.5420:

Well … those mists would explain the Melagga Melandru problem.

That makes me wonder…

If each Tyria has its own Six Gods, then what if this Tyria’s original “Six Gods” include Melaggan and Koda (and perhaps others, those that Thruln the Lost talks about – maybe Zintl truly is a god, or perhaps more of a dead god now and has changed from a god to the sun, and the Great Dwarf may be included too), and that humanity was something that just “didn’t happen” on this Tyria – instead forming human-like races like norn, mursaat, or other. The Six Gods we know come from another world, so what if the theorized threat to their world was the Mists itself destroying the world, and they escaped with humanity and their Forgotten arriving in the world in 1769 BE.

This would explain the apparently godly duplicates, and it would explain how the Forgotten “arrived in this world”, sent by the Six Gods, yet were one of the oldest civilizations on Tyria and around for the previous rise. Would also explain their apparent schism – with some Forgotten being devoted to Glint, and others to the “Ancient Ones” (one of their many terms for the Six Gods).

With Non-Human God to Six God apparent parallelism, you have:

• Koda = Dwayna (“Keeper of the Skies” is a title of Koda, and he’s treated as the top deity by kodan, and is implied responsible for life)
• Melaggan = Melandru (thought to be the same by humans, very similar domains either way)
• Great Dwarf = Balthazar (both have a thing for forging and weapons and battle)
• Zintl = Lyssa (“Temple of Eternal Radiance” is where I’m going for here, though Lyssa is said to be of lost origins)

Which leaves Dhuum/Grenth and Abaddon’s predecessor/Abaddon/Kormir without a parallel.

Not likely, tbh, but an interesting thought that fits together very well.

My theory is that the magic that Zhaitan had consumed (do keep in mind that we began starving him near the later-beginning of the weeks-long invasion of Orr, so he wouldn’t have as much magic by the time of death as he would have otherwise, even if it’s still a huge amount) would do two things: slowly seep out into the surrounding area and, since there’s no indication of the connection between minion and Zhaitan being cut, continues to flow into his minions (but now without a drawing from them side like previously heavily implied). This results in a double expulsion of magic, but the risen – all of them – becoming stronger over time (thus explaining why they think he’s still alive, as they’d be receiving magic from him under this theory, and also explaining the increase of Orrian risen size update a long while back now and the increased difficulty of temple priest events update also a long while back).

I still call into question the Movement’s mention of Balthazar opening that portal, since aside from the Mist Warriors and now-removed dialogue, there was no mention of either Balthazar opening a portal, or the existence of a portal, since the Movement. And no portal in-game either – just asura gates that are younger than Destiny’s Edge.

Tale just about everything from reddit and what I quoted with a grain of salt, since this is all purely off of someone’s memory of an open discussion.

The person who asked the questions gave more detailed explanations of what he was told on gw2rp, so I’ll quote him over here for you:

DeviantBias”

Apologies, Forest Guard! I have no direct quotes for you All you have is my word that I got this information from Ree Soesbee. I’ll try my best to say the finer points she told me. Keep in mind this is a mixture of both memory and extrapolation, I’m not a reporter by any means so I didn’t take notes while I was talking to the Devs, so please bear with me!

Sylvari Have No Hearts: From memory, Ms. Soesbee explained to me that Sylvari don’t have the pump mechanism to move sap through their bodies. Instead, Sylvari use the same method used by other plants for sap transportation. Some quick wikipedia’ing tells me that sap can be moved via phloem, which could potentially be moved by the pressure flow hypothesis. I really wouldn’t look too deep scientifically in this though, because Sylvari are basically magical plant people. For all we know, it could be magic moving the sap through their veins (if they have veins).

Sylvari Can Poop Mulch: It was explained to me that the main reason Sylvari can eat and poop is to make certain game mechanics make sense, eg. Sylvari learning cooking as a crafting profession, or Sylvari eating food buffs. If Sylvari are in-taking nutrition, there will have to be some form of waste disposal mechanism…so poop. I would try to offer some explanation regarding how the poop would be like mulch, like an absence of bacteria in the Sylvari gut or something, but really I have no idea. Ms. Soesbee kind of just mentioned “it would be like mulch” to me.

Sorry I don’t have much

DeviantBias”

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What I have issue with is that these other worlds are other Tyrias – where the past is the same, where history unfolds the same, where some people are the same and some people are different and yet it doesn’t effect the history. It just doesn’t make sense (to me).

Honestly, if they are other Tyrias, then why aren’t people communicating? Why aren’t they cooperating? Just what ARE people fighting for in the Mists? Again, it just doesn’t make sense (to me).

I’ll try to explain this to the best of my ability.

I asked Jeff Grubb if ordinary citizens of Tyria would be aware about the existence of multiple worlds, and his answer was no. His reasoning was that there’s already so much chaos and destruction going on in the daily lives of the vast majority of Tyrians, that they would not have time to be bothered with the existence of other worlds. Every world is in their own crisis with the rise of the Elder Dragons and each world needs all the resources they can get for their own battles. If every world is equally in crisis, how could they cooperate? It would be awesome if one world could spare soldiers for another world’s battle, but then the donating world would be at a disadvantage in their own struggle.

Moreover, I don’t think it’s a matter of choosing to fight each other. The Movement of the World does state that Balthazar opened the portal to the Mists to incite an eternal battle. That’s Balthy’s thing. He likes giant wars for his amusement. Perhaps he used the premise of fighting over resources (WvW world bonuses?) for the individual world’s battles with the Elder Dragons to start the Mist War?

Robin also brings up a really good point. The Mist Warriors that recruit for the Mist Wars are always talking about how they’re “fighting evil” in the Mists. We know that this is not the case, but I don’t think they do. The Mist Warriors might think that they’re fighting shape-shifting monstrosities or abominations in the Mist that steal valuable resources from their world, when in reality, they are warriors from another Tyria who are fighting for the exact same reasons they are. It’s almost poetic :P

I think he’s the very first foe you fight.

If you played the content last time, the quaggan has a buff that increases his size unless he is struck. Or is it “when struck”.

And the norn can get that short, actually. While most average at 9 feet tall, some can be as short as the tallest humans.

Kranxx is the asura’s name, and he does indeed die. The fate of the Golem’s Eye was never touched upon after Kranxx headbutted Adelbern while atop the Tomb Guardian.

As for Trahearne’s shockedness, I think it was more of how abominations were made, rather than seeing an abomination.

Liope.2948:

Talking about skins , I had the green quaggan back skin , and a bunch of other back skins in my bank. After the patch I distroyed most of them ( unlocking the skins in the wardrope), except that the green quaggan didn’t unlock anything, because it has no place in the wardrope, so I lost that skin.

You did something wrong then because it does have a place, and I have it unlocked myself, having gotten it as a freebie.

Festival of the Winds will give a chance for the achievement skins for all players. So you should be able to get the Sclerite Karka Shell and Fervid Censor backpacks.

Interesting given that ArenaNet was very tightlipped when asked about the nature of the servers and WvW in lore before, even recently.

Do keep in mind, however, that at various points the Chinese lore differs from other countries’ lore. ArenaNet customizes it due to all the regulation the Chinese government has. For example, in China’s lore, Caithe and Faolain aren’t (former) lovers.

It’s highly likely that this doesn’t pertain to these questions and answers, though it is interesting that they loosened their lips on the topic.

Glad to finally see the Infinity Ball situation cleared up. Though it was already said in-game to be a potential future.