Guild Wars 2

We need (in no particular order):

• Dungeons rebalanced (make all paths more like Aetherblade – something that requires more than mindless run-past-all-mobs, press-1-to-kill-bosses boring stuff)
• Underwater combat rebalanced (seriously needs rework, not ignoring like Anet’s doing)
• World bosses rebalanced (make most like Tequatl/Vinewrath – easy to do with a pug, but still some margin for failure)
• Standard foe rebalanced (make more variety in attacks, no increased difficulty)
• Fix charr tail clipping on armor
• Better mini-game activities that aren’t blocked by daily rotation (personally I only like Sanctum Sprint, but because it’s only available once every four days, I don’t bother to pay attention to when it’s available so I never do it)
• Introduce GW1’s Flux system into GW2 for PvP variety.
• Tengu playable characters

We don’t need tengu tonics.

Rebound.3409:

Personally i don’t like him because (summed up):
- Some of the most terrible voice acting i’ve heard in any game. Even picachiew has more depth and feeling then him.
- He quite literally takes credit for everything you do.

The flat voice acting has been fixed/redone.

He NEVER takes credit for anything you do, despite popular belief. The only crime he had of this was not giving you credit – but he never claimed credit himself – and this was done once with the name of Fort Trinity (asked for your opinion in one story mission, told others he decided upon the name you suggested in the next – but he never said he came up with the name, just that he decided to use it). However, a few other NPCs do give him credit for deeds you did – but they also give you credit as well, treating it as a joint effort (which it rather is – you leading the front lines, him managing the forces’ deployment).

And even those two cases might have been altered with the story rework last Tuesday.

Primordus woke in the Depths beneath the northern shivpereaks, but we don’t know where he is now.

Kralkatorrik awoke in the Blood Legion Homelands, but we don’t know where he is now. He is, in fact, NOT in the Dragonbrand – at the end of Edge of Destiny, he flew away from the battlefield that marks the southernmost end of the Dragonbrand into an unknown direction/destination; years later, the Zephyrites returned to that battlefield and retrieved Glint’s corpse, without interaction of Kralkatorrik or branded as far as we know. Unlike Primordus, we can make a guess that Kralkatorrik is either in Elona, or just north of Elona, however because the branded creatures are traveling south by southeast up in Ascalon – often trying to leave the brand in Fields of Ruin where it curves back west. In Edge of Destiny, the minions created then had pretty much two goals in mind: 1) Reach Kralkatorrik, 2) Kill/Corrupt all in their way to reaching Kralkatorrik

I would like to note that while Jormag is now in the Far Shiverpeaks, he did not wake there but woke further north (unless of course the Far Shiverpeaks reach towards the arctic coast which is roughly where he woke – presumably. Jormag’s timeline when waking is a bit weird, truth be told. We’re told he did a number of things when he woke – shattered the far shiverpeaks, topsized and scattered the kodan icebergs, and forced the norn south; the last one while often said to be in the same year Jormag woke in the books timeline is stated to have happened 4 years after he woke by NPCs in-game, and he’s constantly stating to be forcing south steadily (some NPCs say he was as far south as where Owl Lodge is when the norn were fleeing south, but in all honesty I find that hard to believe that he would fly so far south just to retreat north and then only steadily head south again). TL;DR Jormag didn’t wake up in sub-continental Tyria, but closer to the Furious Stretch or Icy Trundra

In short:

While four of the six Elder Dragons awoke within subcontinent Tyria, there’s no indication that two of them remained, while we have one of the two that weren’t heading towards subcontinent Tyria.

I could go into more about the indicated history of the Elder Dragons’ presence during the last dragonrise, to help explain why it seems so many dragons are close to subcontinent Tyria (and in turn, why two left), but that’s off-topic.

Asura devices do not fly, they merely float. The only exception are the small golems like o-Tron but their movement is minimal.

Charr don’t have helicopters – the Pact does. And the Pact’s been decimated. Also, good luck getting those helicopters through thick vegetation without the blades becoming tangled, damaged, or destroyed.

Sylvari ‘floating seed pods’ show no means of proper movement control, so I wouldn’t trust them for ‘flying’.

All professions fit the lore of all races, ArenaNet made it so.

In norn thief particularly, they’d be trackers who utilized stealth to hunt their prey, and trickery to fight it. Snow Leopard is a patron spirit of stealth, and Raven is a patron spirit of trickery.

So yes, it’d fit.

In fact, in lore, the least common profession for norn is necromancer (as it is low in every non-sylvari race), due to the desecration of the dead (aka creation of minions/undead) being viewed by many as an insult to the dead. But those who follow raven tend to look past that.

I would also argue that some “captains” amongst the Seraph is an oversight caused by not every dev being up to date on lore/muddling up different military’s rankings/not double checking themselves. One such I would argue for is the genericly named Seraph Captain who seems to not know what’s going on if he’s the one in charge – and said generic captain sits in the very same camp as Captain Marshall.

Captain Edwards seems to be another case, as the event chain implies that she works under Commander “Bulldog” Janson. With Mister Generic Captain, Marshall, as well as Blackeye and Ganes from other events, that’s five captains just for Harathi Hinterlands – seems excessive.

But the other six cases are one captain per map with the exception of Tervelan (who is killed in the PS) – Logan in DR, Tervelan (who is killed) and Lindel for Queensdale (placed in the Kormir monestary and Claypool respectively), Rendar in Kesse Hills (also only seen in Personal Story, so easily an oversight ranking too given how many oversights there are in the PS to open world), Bradin Glenavon in Gendarran, and finally Renata in Brisban.

If I were to guess, I’d say that only Ganes – who initiates the Ulgoth event chain – is properly a captain by the lore in Harathi, and that Edwards and Marshall are meant to be a lieutenants (given their role in the game and dialogue, that sounds more befitting). Hard to say for Blackeye given that the wiki has next to nothing on him, but I’d argue the same – meant to be a Commander or Lieutenant in lore given the apparent actions he does.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

At the risk of pedantry, it depends on what they mean by size. If they’re factoring all the dimensions, which is usually the case with quadrupeds (that or just length or just weight), the only way her height’d come out at 50 is if she was as long and wide as Kralk. Under the reasonable assumption that that’s not the case, she’d have to be quite a bit taller to compensate.

I would figure all figures were proportionally smaller, especially since both Kralkatorrik and Glint are stated to have huge wingspans for their bodies (Kralkatorrik’s wings ‘block out the sun’ while Glint’s ‘stretched from one end to the other of her sanctum’).

The Mouvelian calendar doesn’t have named months – only the Canthan Calendar does. To the Mouvelian calendar and Dynastic Reckoning (Tyrian and Elonian calendars respectively), months exist but like weeks are nameless. Dating is done by season instead of month in the format of <season> <day of season> <year> (in Cantha, it’s done by month in the format of <day of month> <month> <year>).

And apparently including the day was intended to be added to the story journal, and was the entire purpose behind adding those 5 days. They’ve scrapped that, resulting in just adding the year, but we still have that asinine 5 days.

A thing to note about the OoW base in LA now is that it’s not flying any OoW flags. If it weren’t for the PoI name blatantly calling it an Order of Whispers base, it wouldn’t be so obvious that’s what it is.

A case of ‘hidden right under their noses’ I think was the idea – and given how close it is to the Captain’s Council’s meeting place, it pretty much is right under the Captain’s Council’s noses.

The only thing that gives them away is the uniform and PoI name – the latter no NPC can ever see, and the former is presumably known to be an OoW uniform only to OoW, Pact, and those few trusted not to spread that fact (and those few smart enough with enough evidence to connect the dots).

It would seem that people completely overlooked my post…

Edge of Destiny states that Kralkatorrik is 1,000 feet tall when standing on all four, and twenty times the size of Glint. This makes Glint 50 feet tall when standing on all four – which is just under half of the size of Tequatl (who is ~115 feet tall when standing on all four).

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

other games have done justice to epic fights with huge monster, if any of you know or have played shadow of the colossus. you know epic fights can be done even with a ps2 console -_- so why not gw2

The fact that Anet hasn’t (either by choice or by limitation) added the ability to climb vertical platforms heavily renders comparisons to the Shadow of the Colossus to be impossible to do for GW2.

I think Andrew’s model is indeed unique. Why, I don’t know. But like the old granny model, it’s a one-of-a-kind human model (well, the granny one is more of four-of-a-kind but you get what I mean!).

I don’t think Gaheron has three eyes, just a splot of lava on his face in the middle of his forehead that makes it look like he has a third, molten, eye.

So did the thousands of people who ‘came up with’ the whole ‘six gods = six dragons’ or ‘sylvari are dragon minions’ (despite the fact that there are more inconsistencies with any other dragon minion’s shared traits – and with mordrem – than consistencies, both before and after the confirmation of the theory).

The blog post said that their comments was in response to their power being borrowed, etc. which indicates a real-time realization of what the revenant’s doing with them.

Never stated, however there’s an event in Wayfarer’s Foothills that says that a norn couldn’t make The Great Hunt (norn tutorial) because of a winter storm. That implies that the beginning of the storyline is either late 1324 AE or early 1325 AE (possibly depending on your race).

Donari.5237:

Goodness. I’m curious as to how they determined his size, is that included in the notes on the Reddit chart? As you say, there is no point of reference provided in the game visuals. So they could just be guessing, if that image is all there is.

Vyko – whom I quoted in my post above yours – was the one who figured it out. He has a program (forgot it’s name) which allows him to place the game’s models into an open 3d area. He took the size of a human that measured 2 meters and used that as a reference point.

He used that method to measure various other things: Tequatl, the Glory of Tyria, the Breachmaker, and the Twisted Marionette were what he showed. Though he used the program to place various things side-by-side (such as all four dragon champion models next to Zhaitan, a human, and Glory of Tyria, or Tequatl and Zhaitan alone, and Zhaitan, all four dragon champions, and the original dead Zhaitan model (the head and neck of which was the size of the entire current Zhaitan model).

Here’s one thread on the topic Though there were more.

The Flameseeker was Khilbron, not the PCs. In the Flameseeker Prophecies, the “Flameseeker” is the one who manipulates the chosen into opening the Door of Komalie in order to control the “Flame” within (aka Titans) who would then die at the hands of said chosen.

Anet has said that they want to bring Season 1 back as permanent content in the style of Season 2 (and despite constant claims that most of Season 1 was open world, most of Season 1’s main story was, in fact, instances – most of the open world story was preview/epilogue dialogues and Ellen Kiel’s stuff). However, such won’t happen for sure until after Heart of Thorns – though it’d be idiotic not to implement it sooner rather than later because as time goes on more and more new players are confused as to why there’s a huge gap in the story between the Personal Story (which people are now starting to assume is Season 1 because they don’t know what Season 1 actually is) and Season 2.

So when Season 1 comes around again, all those limited time items that are still desired today will likely return.

ArenaNet has explicitly stated several times that Abaddon is dead. The only way he would have ever returned was in the fractal option from Season 1.

As for the Six Gods in general – the only way I see them returning is if they pick up on the Menzies/Dhuum storyline and/or we go into the Mists (non-Fractal) as some form of elite dungeon ala Underworld/Fissure of Woe/Dominion of Anguish like in GW1.

Edge of Destiny gives these loose measurements for Glint and Kralkatorrik:

1. Kralkatorrik is 1,000 feet tall, with a wingspan that can block out the sun (mind you, this was from the perspective of someone standing underneath him).
2. Kralkatorrik is described as 20 times the size of Glint.

This would make Glint approximately 50 feet tall.

Some additional facts:

Vyko.6953:

Tequatl measures:
body width – 22m
wingspan – 188 m
height (when on 4 legs from ground to the top) – 35 m
length (head to tail) – 113 m

Zhaitan:
wingspan – 500 m
height – a bit unmeasureable, since he has no legs and each hand is different
length – 506 m

Glory of Tyria:
wingspan – 262 m
height – 158 m
length – 370 m

Zhaitan’s height ‘averages’ (saying such because both arms are different lengths) to about 1,000 feet, so Zhaitan’s model and Kralkatorrik’s description make them approximately the same size (a couple hundred feet difference tops).

If Edge of Destiny’s ‘20 times’ size difference description is accurate, this makes Glint roughly half the size of modern dragon champions.

Plagiarised.2865:

Two things

1. We do not know if Jalis is still alive.

2. And more importantly, the Mists constitutes the proto-matter of reality. It has everything that is, was or ever will be: the past, present, AND the future. Why couldn’t someone channel the energy of someone from the future, or in this case the present?

This, folks.

We don’t know if Jalis is alive or dead. And revenants aren’t (necessarily) channeling actual souls but sapient legends from the Mists. The Mists is capable of linking all times and places, and it is capable of creating copies of all times and places. The revenant legends might be souls… but they could be akin to creatures from Fractals, or they can be copies of souls, or they can be disembodied voices and powers. We don’t really know which is the case – we only know that we’re borrowing their powers (with or without their consent) and that they can talk.

I’m going to call artistic license on the eyes too, as there’s not much in the way of good coloring there – it’s lots of silhouettes in the trailer, especially the scene for Faolain.

My take on the PS’s canonocity is aligned with drax’s.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

So I was trying to make a play through where characters are consistent. Where the fewest things pop out of nowhere, and where everything has the most impact on future missions.

There’s pretty much one path like this for each race. For sylvari, you pretty much have it down for just the Personal Story itself – but when you add in Season 1 (should it ever come back) and Season 2, and the upcoming Heart of Thorns, it’s a bit more complex.

I will note that with Occam, you don’t have to save him – if you don’t, and talk to him during Forging the Pact you and he talk about how Caithe went in to save him afterwards.

As I see it, the choices with as much continuity are:

Sylvari:

• C1: Green Huntsman -> Forging the Pact; Victory or Death
• C1: White Stag -> TA story
• C2: Act with Wisdom -> Priory+Shards of Orr; Through the Looking Glass; Vigil’s Plan in C8; Source of Orr (if Vigil’s Plan); Victory or Death
• C2: Where Life Goes -> Season 2+maybe HoT
• C3: Trouble at the Roots -> if Whisper’s Plan in C8; Source of Orr (if Whisper’s Plan) + Victory or Death
• C3: Dead of Winter (Priory) -> if Act with Wisdom for Shards of Orr in C5+Vigil’s Plan in C8/for Estate of Decay

Humans:

• C1: Nobility -> if Whispers in C4; S2 (special lines from Kasmeer)
• C1: Street -> for S2 (Commoner/Street share special lines from Kasmeer), hinted to become relevant via Riot Alice in HoT (she was seen in open world during S2E1, said she was going north)
• C2: Dead Sister -> if Vigil’s Plan in C8
• C2: Circus -> CM story; S1; S2
• C3: Speaker of the Dead -> Cathedral of Silence

Charr:

• C1: Ash Legion -> has most open world dialogue from what I’ve seen, no influence on later PS post-C3
• C1: Iron Legion -> if Vigil for Defense Contract; Estate of Decay/Starving the Beast; Source of Orr; Victory or Death
• C2: Honorless Gladium -> if Priory
• C3: Whispers in the Dark -> dunno if ever nodded to, but has open world NPCs
• C3: Dangerous Research -> What The Eye Beholds; Source of Orr; Victory or Death

Norn:

• C1: Defeat Our Ancient Foes -> Forging the Pact; Victory or Death
• C1: Protect the Spirits -> Priory’s Plan in C8
• C1: Guard the Mists + Blessed of Bear -> Against the Corruption
• C2: Blacked Out -> Vigil’s Plan in C8
• C2: Lost an Heirloom -> Romke’s Final Voyage
• C3: Underground Scholar -> What The Eye Beholds; Source of Orr; Victory or Death

Asura:

• C1: College of Statics -> Cathedral of Silence
• C2: Transatmospheric Converter -> SE story/CoE story
• C2: Infinity Ball+Carry a Big Stick -> Forging Permission in C3
• C2: VAL-A Golem -> Whisper’s Plan in C8; Source of Orr; Victory or Death
• C3: Any -> Magic Sucks (Whispers C5); What The Eye Beholds; Source of Orr; Victory or Death

And unrelated to race, but tied to the order/minor race/fear you choose where you can meet the NPCs later on:

• C4: Vigil (Any) -> Whisper’s Plan/Priory’s Plan in C8; Against the Corruption; S1; S2; HoT
• C4 Priory (Any) -> Priory’s Plan in C8; S1; S2
• C4: Whispers (Any) -> Whisper’s Plan in C8 (meeting Benn Tenstrike’s parents); most open world dialogues
• C5: Hylek + Champion of the Sun -> Only one to return more than the others (Champion of the Sun nods back to C1/C2)
• C6: Priory + The Sound of Psi-Lance -> Priory’s Plan in C8
• C6: Priory + Shards of Orr -> same as sylvari’s Act with Wisdom
• C6: Whispers + Magic Sucks -> same as asura C3 (any)
• C6: Vigil + The Good Fight -> Victory or Death party
• C6: Vigil + Defense Contract -> same as charr Iron Legion
• C7: Let an innocent die -> Starving the Beast
• C7: Dishonor my allies + Volcanic Excavation -> Victory or Death
• C7: Make another suffer -> Retribution (continued from) + Temple of Forgotten God + Estate of Decay + Source of Orr + Victory or Death

@Tapioca:

Caladbolg would indeed be considered a ‘dragon artifact’ – but in the same light, so are all Zephyrite crystals, which house Glint’s magic. It should be noted that ‘dragon artifacts’ are not inherently bad or evil, as we see from the Pale Tree and Glint doing good and their magic being a lighter, brighter variation of their former master’s darker looking magic.

As for Orr’s cleansing… I suppose that’s a matter of perspective. The magic of the Elder Dragons is, as I said, not inherently evil. Given that the Elder Dragons consume all magic in Tyria, and it is harmless when seeped out during hibernation, one can argue that all Tyrian magic is Elder Dragon magic – we only see corruption happening when they are actively twisting things. Glint never twisted things after being freed of corruption, though as we see of her lair, she still could create crystals, and as we see of her sky magic that the Zephyrites use, that’s not corruptive either (though given that’s postmortem, that’s hard to argue properly).

So is Orr ‘cleansed’? Well, it’s cleansed of Zhaitan’s corruption, certainly, but would you consider good magic corrupting? It can change things, just like bad magic can, but it isn’t malevolent. So it’s a matter of perspective.

As for Trahearne – that’s up in the air and I would argue unlikely for immunity. All sylvari can be corrupted by any Elder Dragon, as implied by the Pale Tree during Rallying Call, but their connection to her via the Dream seems to be preventing this. Mordremoth has a closer tie to the sylvari, however, which allows him to overcome this protection – as indicated in Points of Interest Episode 18, he does this via Wyld Hunts and Dark Hunts (which means that even the Nightmare is protection against Elder Dragon corruption). During said PoI episode, it is said that it is a combination of the Pale Tree’s protection and willpower that keeps a sylvari safe from Mordremoth – as we see in the personal story, Trahearne’s will is… rather low. But this might have changed with his huge success in Orr given that said low will is because of being dismayed over an ‘impossible destiny’ (cleansing Orr).

In practice, Trahearne can be corrupted. But it’s a matter of his connection to the Pale Tree and his will that can prevent such. So in theory, being so close to Caladbolg may protect him from corruption.

@CureForLiving:

It was said in a twitchtv interview with Ree and Jeff (no longer up on Anet’s channel sadly, for some reason they took it down over a year ago now) that whether or not Glint’s children could be corrupted by Kralkatorrik is intentionally left as an unknown. This plot is probably why.

Given the lack of attempt to try to corrupt the Pale Tree and Glint, it seems that those who personally undergo being freed of the mental ties that dragon corruption causes become incapable of having those mental ties re-established. In other words, Glint and the Pale Tree (and potentially the other seeds in that cave – depending on when the Pale Tree was freed of corruption) cannot be corrupted. However, as we have seen, sylvari themselves can be. This means that this prevention-of-recorruption does not extend to the freed one’s children/creations.

This could explain why in Edge of Destiny, we see no hide or hair of the Crystal Guardians and Crystal Spiders – Glint likely destroyed any that remained after the events of GW1 to prevent Kralkatorrik from taking control over them.

This also means that Gleam, should he still live, can be corrupted by an Elder Dragon (Gleam is the baby dragon from Eye of the North), as could any other hatched egg – and the egg that Caithe took (the last egg – we don’t know if any other eggs beyond Gleam’s hatched). And that Kralkatorrik will have the easiest time of corrupting them.

Dracyon Imperius.6309:

You’re absolutely right, although the death of a such a powerful creature has consequences that are difficult to fathom. Zhaitan was one of the great magical beings of Tyria, after all, and his passing should have repercussions on the fabric of magic itself worldwide.

It’s heavily implied in Hidden Arcana of Season 2 Episode 5 that there will be heavy repercussions from killing Zhaitan – and that we may have already seen some in the form of Tequatl’s power boost – but that these repercussions take a long time (relatively speaking) to manifest, in the same manner that it takes a long time for magic to go from drained in the world to so heavy the Elder Dragons awake (the implied repercussions are that magic will become too heavy in the world, causing magical calamities – by my image, I think we’re talking about Thaumanova to Cataclysm/Searing/Foefire/Jade Wind level stuff).

Given all the foreshadowing there was in Hidden Arcana, it seems that this topic will be discussed in more length in Heart of Thorns.

Dracyon Imperius.6309:

Omadd’s machine suggested that there were not only consequences, but a chain reaction, since the departure of one orb causes all the others to go haywire. In that case, maybe part of the draconic magic flows within a cycle, making the dragons more powerful with each elder dragon dying. In that case, I wonder what will happen once the last dragon dies…

Omadd’s machine appears to have shown the Elder Dragons’ order of waking, with then one orb crashing into Tyria to cause darkness – the question is whether this crashing orb was Zhaitan’s (as the Priory’s map of The All – The All being what we see in the machine’s vision – implies, thus indicating that his death will result in something bad) or Mordremoth’s (which implies that he is more active than any other Elder Dragon, or more destructive).

The chain reaction of all orbs moving does not seem to be a result of Zhaitan’s death, but Primordus waking up (if anything beyond high magic levels being the cause).

Wyvern.5329:

shiro was known for corrupting people physically… the whole afflicted thing, demons if i remember only ate souls lol

He was only able to create afflicted due to the presence of his envoy-empowered soul. He lost his capabilities as an envoy when he was killed again at the end of Factions, thus in turn lost his ability to create and control afflicted. Similarly, he lost his ability to control spirits thus making it harder for him to create Shiro’ken.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

he was under the Influence of abbadon you find out from togo in the battle of abbadon in eye of the north.

….Wut?

Togo’s not the one you learn it from, and Abaddon’s dead prior to Eye of the North. You mean the Imperial Guardsmen souls in the Realm of Torment – in Nightfall.

But this isn’t entirely correct to say he was under the influence of Abaddon. Rather, what happened was that he was manipulated by Abaddon until his second death, where he then joined Abaddon’s ranks (it’s unclear if his actions during Factions were by Abaddon’s orders or not – but his act of killing the Emperor and stealing Dwayna’s blessings which allowed the Jade Wind upon his death were caused by Abaddon manipulating him towards insanity which in turn pushed him to take pre-emptive measures against Abaddon’s agent’s claim that Emperor Angisyan was going to kill Shiro).

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

I’m not sure about starting options for sylvari. For instance: do I meet malyck because he might show up in some capacity in HoT or the invulnerable armor route because of the Smith showing up in Concordia?

Why not both? Green Huntsman and Where Life Goes are different questions in the bio/different story chapters.

Personally, though, I love Carys and Tegwan too much, and if you’d go Priory, then you can experience their full story – Act with Wisdom, Shards of Orr during Claw Island arc, set a trap for the Eye, and Vigil’s invasion plan into Orr.

The White Stag storyline also introduces Sariel who returns in the Twilight Arbor story mode. Shield of the Moon storyline however is unlikely to be revisited because Tiachern may live or die at your convenience. And the “All Things Have a Right to Grow” one doesn’t seem like it’d hold any lasting influence since the Zalisco Extract possibilities was never seen in the Zhaitan plot.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

I certainly don’t know which lesser race to save.

Don’t think it matters, though there’s a small chance that hylek may prove to hold relations in the coming HoT storyline.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

would accesses to the random order of whispers secret bases/double agents make up for tybalts last stand making the least sense of all?

Why doesn’t setting off a big bomb to blow many risen and himself to bittly bits make less sense than a season warrior swinging axes until he falls?

If only they made a crater during Retribution.

Priory members do have some benefits in the open world though, and they do have some unique dialogue for Season 2 (and did for minor portions of Season 1, if it ever comes back like they intend).

Yeah, norn take on their own surnames if they choose to/have the merits for it.

@Genlog: We don’t really know why Garm’s the only adult black wolf we see in GW2 – there were numerous ones in GW1, but we do see Garm playing with a black wolf cub in one of the personal story steps. And there was an interview once that mentioned Garm’s uniqueness and his meeting Eir is an important story… we just don’t know it. Like, y’know, 99.99999% of all important things of GW’s lore since GW2’s development began – seems Anet finds ‘mystery’ and ‘not knowing there’s anything important there’ to be the same thing nowadays (which explains the horror of Scarlet’s plot).

Final boss?

Zomorros. His special skill will be utilizing every weapon ever thrown into the Mystic Forge. Gilgamesh from Fate/Stay style.

There are, it would seem, multiple types of demons out there. Torment demons were the most common in GW1, and are often what GW veterans think of when talking about GW-styled demons. But Nightmares, Imps, Oni, Titans, and Margonites all count as demons too, and its hinted that Fleshreavers are as well – of these, we see Nightmares, Imps, and Fleshreavers in GW2.

A note on Nightmares: While they’re referred to as demons occasionally and they live primarily in the Mists, there are indications in GW1 that they are malevolent spirits. It’s likely that unlike torment demons that formed in the Mists, they’re closer related to Margonites who were originally humans and transformed into demons by Abaddon – in that they were original normal souls but were transformed into demons through as-of-yet unexplained actions.

We do know why they mimic human appearance

The main key to the design was developing an obvious anatomy that clearly described the race as plant rather than an offshoot of human. However, because the race tightly relates to the essence of human due to the Pale Tree’s influences from Ronan, the overall form has a human silhouette. But if you look more closely, you’ll see the forms are really quite alien. They are a collection of abstract notions the Pale Tree had about what made up the human, as she really only saw the surface. They are a tree’s interpretation of humans.

The real question is: Why does Malyck look humanoid?

1. seems unlikely. Malyck says that he has no Dream and it is heavily implied that the Dream is part of the cause of immunity.

I’m expecting that the tree will be constantly fighting against Mordremoth the same way that Glint fought against Kralkatorrik immediately after it woke. I imagine a bit of a civil war situation there.

Otherwise, it’s most likely the source of the Mordrem Guard.

Skritt live in mostly-isolated communities. The skritt of Lion’s Arch has little to no interaction with (potentially even knowledge of) the skritt of Silverwastes. So they’re not related activities.

Aetherblades are still alive, and are hiding out in the Edge of the Mists currently.

We don’t know where Zomorros keeps his stuff, but if the flash-fiction segments that were given to us to hint to players on how to make the Reaper of Souls dagger is ever canon, he has some fancy building he lives in that is accessible to mortals.

The Stone Warband isn’t the prime warband of the Blood Legion. Traditionally, it should be the Blood Warband – but that piece seems to have been retcon given Swordshadow and Ruinbringer, so given Ruinbringer’s name, it’s either Ruin Warband or Bringer Warband that’s the Blood Legion’s prime warband.

To become Khan-Ur, one must be descended from the original Khan-Ur. All such descendants are in the prime warband of the legions – in other words, in Smodur’s, Bangar’s, and Malice’s warbands.

Unless, of course, that’s yet another thing they’ve decided to retcon/will retcon.

ArchonWing.9480:

Why shouldn’t it be?

Because if everything is about ‘more dps’ then it becomes boring, static. There would be one optimal build. The one that does the most damage.

Even the holy trinity would be better. I’ve got many friends who tire quickly of GW2’s combat because it is only dps focused, and find games that focus on the trinity to be a godsend.

GW2 has a lot of potential with its combat system, but currently it only matters for dps which results in our berserker meta, leaving any concept of support, control, debilitation, etc. gone in the dust.

Of course some people won’t mind such but from what I see, most people do.

In Sea of Sorrows, what happens is a fighter with a hammer slams down on the beach and a cloud of sand around said fighter/hammer shoots up. Which is possible, though not quite to the degree described, without magic.

I don’t think a profession is ever named, however, so it could easily be someone using magic with a hammer that an ranger might or some such.

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Well they said they made them bigger so that players can see their animations better, which is purely a mechanic thing. How is that a lore thing?

Because they tied the size into the hylek’s lore for their ferocity – particularly in the case of the Nuhoch.

And I just rechecked the blog posts Anet released on the new hylek tribes. Nowhere did I see it mentioned that their increased size is so players can see their animations.

Donari.5237:

There is a little old lady with a knife in Gendarren (and I think in other locations). She has no name that I know of, she just stands there creepily. But she’s certainly a unique model!

It’s a model used about 5 times or fewer throughout the game for a really old, and sometimes creepy, woman. There’s a hero challenge in Brisban – in the bog – where you get a soup made from imp meat from an old woman with that model.

Reflection is fine in PvP and WvW

But it’s overpowered in PvE, where NPCs can’t chose to stop shooting projectiles if it’s reflected. This is why so many NPC skills were changed from projectile to non-reflectible projectile. I wouldn’t mind most projectile reflects being turned into projectile destroy in PvE alone, but only some – not all – and NPCs should retain their reflects.

ArchonWing.9480:

pve is centered around dps

Just because it is, doesn’t mean it should be.

Just Iron. Blood NPCs are typically warriors and no-pet rangers. Iron NPCs are typically guardian or engineer. Ash NPCs are typically thief or necromancer. It depends on the NPC name usually.

But while we see a lot of guardian Iron soldiers, in lore they’re actually supposed to be the least common profession amongst the charr. I’d call this an oversight by giving a generic NPC guardian skills, and said generic NPC being used to fill in places to make the world seem more alive – without the designer who made the generic NPCs realizing that guardians are not common to charr.

Warriors can use magic, but it’s unclear if they actually do. But as said, it’s never stated that they do or don’t.

The thing is that all we see them do with skills could just be flashy mechanical ways of doing non-magical stuff. Banners falling from the sky in mechanics? Well in lore it could be that they carry it around with them all the time (like engineer with kits would) and them activating it is just waving it around to improve morale – same with shouts that remove/induce conditions/boons, etc. – just a case of morale improvement, not actual magic.

Or it could be magic.

Fjaeldmark mentioned warriors using magic passively to increase their strength, durability, etc. This is the more comment player speculation on how warriors use magic. But like said, nothing proves or disproves the thought.

Engineers, however, were explicitly said to not use magic directly – again, a case of “can but don’t”. They may infuse magic into their inventions (mainly their elixers) – either directly or indirectly – but nothing else they’d do would involve magic directly. And even then, it was said that they could be using chemical reactions to duplicate magical effects rather than using magic through elixers, etc. It’s an open-end there, for the sake of roleplaying.

Yes, you unlock the new weapon skin. I’ve been doing this personally whenever I craft a weapon – craft a cheap version I have the recipe for, then mystic forge it to the more expensive version I don’t have the recipe for.

Flame Legion. They’re stuck on the past (Revenants are scholars seeking knowledge of the past), and they like to mix magic with melee (which revenants like to do too).

But since they’re not playable, I’d argue Ash, then Blood second.

Iron doesn’t make much sense as they’re the most progressive of all three allied High Legions – and as I said, Revenants are scholars that seek to the past.

The reason I say Ash is because they’ve got the second heaviest use of magic users – necromancers, thieves, and mesmers are common members of Ash (more so than the other legions).

It needs to be kept in mind that Rytlock is a bit of an oddball charr, so while he’s Blood and a revenant, that doesn’t mean that Blood is the best legion for revenants. They’re all about brute force first and foremost – kill the enemy, right in front and center. Rytlock has, ever since Edge of Destiny, been hinted or explicitly shown to be a researcher of the past, to study one’s enemy to defeat them, and open to ideas that most charr are not. No other blood legion soldier or officer has shown to think like this – in fact, the ONLY charr to show thoughts like this is Smodur, who is also an odd charr, but rather than being a researcher of the past to learn about his enemy like Rytlock, he looks to the past to steer the charr clear of that past.

Rytlock is also more open to magic than other charr tend to be, outright suggesting suspected magic users to be part of the blood PC’s warband, utilizing his magic sword whenever possible, and hardly – if ever – scoffing at others’ magic. Very unlike other charr. And this was before his comment in Season 2 that if magic would cure the Foefire’s effect he’d put on a cowl and call himself Shaman Brimstone (that needs to be used in HoT or I am disappointed in Anet).

So yeah… I’d say Ash.

The Sons of Svanir break Jormag’s apparent preference of corruption – we see multiple cases where they corrupt unwilling converts. This is likely due to the fact that they themselves aren’t yet corrupted.

Veteran, Champion, and Legendary NPCs have a size increase to them – you see large NPCs in every dungeon path more often than not. Go do the Barrowstead meta chain in Frostgorge and compare the normal and elite (same size) to veterans and champions.

It’s not a lore thing.

The hylek races in HoT being much bigger is a lore thing though, not mechanics – and not one I quite understand, truth be told.

Raven.1524:

The point is that the lore itself is interesting enough to be in a book for those who like the story but might not be gamers.

Trust me when I say game story to book adaptations NEVER work out.

The best you’ll get are different stories told in the game’s universe being told.

Besides, why include GoA/EoD/SoS when those are books?

If Anet does more books, I pray that they choose new stories to tell – maybe using characters from the games, but never retelling the game’s story.

Raven.1524:

Yeah but if it’s something free Anet wouldn’t profit from it, and I believe getting people interested on the story outside the gaming community would be cool, I mean, from the main story with Zaithan, the season 1 and the season 2, plus now all the stuff from mordremoth in HoT… Give it a nice book cover, and I would buy the book If I didn’t play the game. And getting a little bit more profit to the game selling merchandise doesn’t really sound bad when you have almost all the script already written.

People not interested in games will not buy game-based novels except in very rare situations. Besides, novels already exist with unique stories (three, specifically).

As for ’doesn’t profit Anet’ – Anet’s already epressed the desire to make the Living World Season 1 permanent in Season 2’s format. They’ve also recently reworked the latter half of the Personal Story for free – no profit to them. Plus, they can get a profit from Season 1 – the same way they have for Season 2. They can use the historical achievements to determine if you logged on during those releases and give you related episodes for free when you log on, and the rest for purchase – thus any new player has to buy S1 to play it and get anything from it.

Raven.1524:

I was actually trying to focus more on the lore outside the gameplay without having to go to the wikis. (Yeah I’m kind of a bookworm)

Kind of pointless, truth be told, for a game’s story.

Step 1: Buy Asura cultural light Tier 3 armor
Step 2: Dye it black and purple
Step 3: Beg anet for a branded spike backpack and that helm
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Kudu Clone!

We have many cases in both games of flowers and herbs being used for medicine, but we neverare told any medical names for the concoctions made. Or sometimes the flower name… Sometimes we see things like ‘yellow flower’ for the item names.

Nep Leet.5491:

Wow, Peter! What a totally missed opportunity to put the eye patch on his other eye instead.

(Yes, definitely a Mel Brook’s thing:
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pointing to Igor’s hump] Good man. Didn’t you, didn’t you use to have that on the other side?
Igor: What?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Your, uh, oh nevermind.)

I was prepared to make this joke in case they put it on the wrong side. :P

Saturn.6591:

The Boxman.2863:

Didn’t he lose his eye during the Siege of Lion’s Arch or was it only slightly injured?

I actually don’t even remember that happening… o.o

Well; actually I don’t even remember seeing him anywhere during the whole thing; except I think announcing when the poisonous gas would rise up again or something like that. And I think I’ve even usually missed that and only ever saw the timer running out… I don’t actually remember reading or seeing his announcements. Uff… feels like it happened years ago.

During Escape from Lion’s Arch in season 1, he fought in Fort Marriner. He complained about his eye during the fight with the Molten Berserker. Next update (Battle for Lion’s Arch), he showed up with an eyepatch.

That was Captain Tark of the Captain’s Council.

That image shows that they are very clearly separate structures. Similar structures exist all along the Watchtower Coast along the Greater Giant Basin. None of them are arches, they are just built on a diagonal.