Guild Wars 2

CHIPS.6018:

Lostwingman I don’t know why you keep saying Soviet anti tank rifles (like the PTRD) are effective against heavy tanks. I have no idea where you read this stuff up. Feel free to post links to prove your point.

Anti tank rifles didn’t work. That’s why they invented the likes of RPGs and Panzerfaust for infantries to kill tanks.

As for the Tiger II, its 5 to 1 kill/loss ratio (conservative estimate) spoke for itself. Some estimates are as high as 10 to 1.

Panther wasn’t a heavy tank, it was a medium. Also the source is Hilary Doyle, the highest living authority on German WW2 AFVs. I’m at work but I’ll find the interview where he states that shortly.

Anti-Tank rifles did work, very well. It’s just they were generally heavy and only really developed by a handful of Eastern European countries.
For lack of a better source till my contact replies:
“During the initial invasion, and indeed throughout the war, most German tanks had side armor thinner than 40mm (PzKpfw I & II: 13-20mm, III & IV series: 30mm, PzKpfw V Panther (combat debut mid-1943): 40-50mm), but the PTRD teams needed to be close to very close, sometimes at point blank distances, to have a chance of penetrating the sides of these tanks.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTRD

Oh sweet Jesus no, not the kitten ed inflated kill ratio thing.
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/07/28/please-dont-use-the-5-m4s-1-panther-myth/
King Tigers, they have no appreciable ratio positive or negative because they were incredibly rare, even rarer when they were found working. The more common big vehicle the Shermans ran into was the Panther and by Army evaluation they found that the Sherman was 3.6x as combat effective as the Panther. A British evaluation of the Normandy campaign found that when the allies had a 2.2:1 advantage, victory was assured.

Star Ace.5207:

Lostwingman.5034:

Star Ace.5207:

Lostwingman.5034:

cesmode.4257:

Lostwingman.5034:

For just leveling? At level 51?
Throw 20 into Fire and get conjurer, throw 20 into water and grab yourself from cleansing wave and vital striking. Then put at least 10 into Arcana for renewing stamina and the rest wherever you want. Maybe 10 into earth for stone splinters?
Then get yourself that Lightning Hammer on your utility bar. I’d throw in Arcane Shield for sure on your utility bar. From there you have one of the easiest leveling set ups in the game imo. So good. Just spam that auto attack because every third swing is an AoE blind. Combine that with your soothing mist from sitting in water and you have yourself some decent survivability. Seriously, taking down multiple vets above your level and undergeared becomes very possible with this build.

Ive tried this and had two issues with it:
1. If I wanted to melee, I’d just log onto my 80 thief or warrior or guardian.
2. After spending charges on the hammer to kill one pull of mobs, I need to grab the second hammer. And then its on cooldown.

1. The point is to have an easy time leveling and one of the highest DPS’s in game for dungeons. This build will give you the easiest time leveling and get you used to being a squishy in melee. Also, as you will well find out, this game encourages getting within 600 range. Sorry, if you wanted a pure ranged class you will be suffering no matter what. MH Dagger? That’s melee. Guang’s Staff? He encourages being in melee with staff with Stone Splinters for that damage benefit plus the might stacks you get from your constant fire fields. S/D? Yea you can do some at a little range but you’re away from teammates dropping blast combos. Additionally your own combo rotation will have you in melee very often.
tl;dr GW2 is fought in melee, get used to it.
2. Having run the LH build into the ground, that isn’t an issue. You reset before your second hammer is used up. Even if it is or someone else grabs it you can drop a combo rotation for might stacks and then drop into Air to bide out your LH cd which is really fine because Air autoattack in MH Dagger or Sceptor are decidely solid, especially so with MH Dagger.
tl;dr Isn’t an issue practically speaking.

I disagree that GW2 is all about melee combat, though of course I agree it generally does the most damage and tends to be the most effective strategy for most encounters (shared boons, etc.) But the way you put it seem like an exaggeration, much like those people who say GW2 is all DPS and nothing else matters-an oversimplification (no offense intended.)

I do admit Elementalist is easier (for me, that is) with Conjured weapons, even on the PvE map, though I wouldn’t fault any player for not liking the playstyle. I wouldn’t know what to tell the OP other than being patient and avoid expecting similar results vs his/her other Professions, especially since they tend to be much easier and simple to play, at least theoretically speaking, and as he/she keeps learning the Profession.

In terms of PvE, there is nothing inaccurate with what I said.

“Nothing” is an absolute. That’s why it’s inaccurate, but don’t take it personally, as I doubt you are the kind of person to think like I do, and we’ll never agree on this.

5 is a greater whole number than 4.
Wow, an absolute.
The fact of the matter is you get more out of playing close to your allies in PvE, where are they? usually in melee barring some kind of boss mechanic. This isn’t really a disputed matter. Sure you can play back and do your thing but you’re going to be missing out and not getting the most out of the class. You’re basically arguing my “it’s most effective this way” with “I can do what I want!”.

Mystic.5934:

any items above white in rarity are “unnecessary”

One counterpoint to this:
“Except for looks”
I wish we at least had a ton of Fine, Masterwork, or even Common armors to make that just looked cool and could be sold for people to transmute the stats they want…
Just imagine all the people buying transmutation stones…it’s like ANet doesn’t want people’s money…

Star Ace.5207:

Lostwingman.5034:

cesmode.4257:

Lostwingman.5034:

For just leveling? At level 51?
Throw 20 into Fire and get conjurer, throw 20 into water and grab yourself from cleansing wave and vital striking. Then put at least 10 into Arcana for renewing stamina and the rest wherever you want. Maybe 10 into earth for stone splinters?
Then get yourself that Lightning Hammer on your utility bar. I’d throw in Arcane Shield for sure on your utility bar. From there you have one of the easiest leveling set ups in the game imo. So good. Just spam that auto attack because every third swing is an AoE blind. Combine that with your soothing mist from sitting in water and you have yourself some decent survivability. Seriously, taking down multiple vets above your level and undergeared becomes very possible with this build.

Ive tried this and had two issues with it:
1. If I wanted to melee, I’d just log onto my 80 thief or warrior or guardian.
2. After spending charges on the hammer to kill one pull of mobs, I need to grab the second hammer. And then its on cooldown.

1. The point is to have an easy time leveling and one of the highest DPS’s in game for dungeons. This build will give you the easiest time leveling and get you used to being a squishy in melee. Also, as you will well find out, this game encourages getting within 600 range. Sorry, if you wanted a pure ranged class you will be suffering no matter what. MH Dagger? That’s melee. Guang’s Staff? He encourages being in melee with staff with Stone Splinters for that damage benefit plus the might stacks you get from your constant fire fields. S/D? Yea you can do some at a little range but you’re away from teammates dropping blast combos. Additionally your own combo rotation will have you in melee very often.
tl;dr GW2 is fought in melee, get used to it.
2. Having run the LH build into the ground, that isn’t an issue. You reset before your second hammer is used up. Even if it is or someone else grabs it you can drop a combo rotation for might stacks and then drop into Air to bide out your LH cd which is really fine because Air autoattack in MH Dagger or Sceptor are decidely solid, especially so with MH Dagger.
tl;dr Isn’t an issue practically speaking.

I disagree that GW2 is all about melee combat, though of course I agree it generally does the most damage and tends to be the most effective strategy for most encounters (shared boons, etc.) But the way you put it seem like an exaggeration, much like those people who say GW2 is all DPS and nothing else matters-an oversimplification (no offense intended.)

I do admit Elementalist is easier (for me, that is) with Conjured weapons, even on the PvE map, though I wouldn’t fault any player for not liking the playstyle. I wouldn’t know what to tell the OP other than being patient and avoid expecting similar results vs his/her other Professions, especially since they tend to be much easier and simple to play, at least theoretically speaking, and as he/she keeps learning the Profession.

In terms of PvE, there is nothing inaccurate with what I said.

cesmode.4257:

Lostwingman.5034:

For just leveling? At level 51?
Throw 20 into Fire and get conjurer, throw 20 into water and grab yourself from cleansing wave and vital striking. Then put at least 10 into Arcana for renewing stamina and the rest wherever you want. Maybe 10 into earth for stone splinters?
Then get yourself that Lightning Hammer on your utility bar. I’d throw in Arcane Shield for sure on your utility bar. From there you have one of the easiest leveling set ups in the game imo. So good. Just spam that auto attack because every third swing is an AoE blind. Combine that with your soothing mist from sitting in water and you have yourself some decent survivability. Seriously, taking down multiple vets above your level and undergeared becomes very possible with this build.

Ive tried this and had two issues with it:
1. If I wanted to melee, I’d just log onto my 80 thief or warrior or guardian.
2. After spending charges on the hammer to kill one pull of mobs, I need to grab the second hammer. And then its on cooldown.

1. The point is to have an easy time leveling and one of the highest DPS’s in game for dungeons. This build will give you the easiest time leveling and get you used to being a squishy in melee. Also, as you will well find out, this game encourages getting within 600 range. Sorry, if you wanted a pure ranged class you will be suffering no matter what. MH Dagger? That’s melee. Guang’s Staff? He encourages being in melee with staff with Stone Splinters for that damage benefit plus the might stacks you get from your constant fire fields. S/D? Yea you can do some at a little range but you’re away from teammates dropping blast combos. Additionally your own combo rotation will have you in melee very often.
tl;dr GW2 is fought in melee, get used to it.
2. Having run the LH build into the ground, that isn’t an issue. You reset before your second hammer is used up. Even if it is or someone else grabs it you can drop a combo rotation for might stacks and then drop into Air to bide out your LH cd which is really fine because Air autoattack in MH Dagger or Sceptor are decidely solid, especially so with MH Dagger.
tl;dr Isn’t an issue practically speaking.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Not that it matters to this thread but I would have to say that one of Germany’s most successful designs of WW2 was the 88mm AA for its versatility as an Antiaircraft and Anti Tank weapon.

Virtually every AA gun could be and was used as an AT weapon. German commanders were just more receptive to the concept. Additionally it was the weapon used on one of the more iconic tanks of the war. As a counter to it the Russians used the hell out of their 85mm which was a much lighter gun and able to be fitted to medium tanks.

SkyChef.5432:

Try this. I wholeheartedly recommend it. I even used his build 10/30/10/10/10 for WvW (armor & D/D changed only)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Zelyhn-s-Advanced-D-F-PvE-Guide/page/6#post3321237

Yea I run this set up currently with DD.
Ran LH for a long time though, just got bored with it.
Still easy leveling though.

For just leveling? At level 51?
Throw 20 into Fire and get conjurer, throw 20 into water and grab yourself from cleansing wave and vital striking. Then put at least 10 into Arcana for renewing stamina and the rest wherever you want. Maybe 10 into earth for stone splinters?
Then get yourself that Lightning Hammer on your utility bar. I’d throw in Arcane Shield for sure on your utility bar. From there you have one of the easiest leveling set ups in the game imo. So good. Just spam that auto attack because every third swing is an AoE blind. Combine that with your soothing mist from sitting in water and you have yourself some decent survivability. Seriously, taking down multiple vets above your level and undergeared becomes very possible with this build.

Omg stop quoting wiki.
Panther was awful. It had a highly specialized gun that did didly against infantry which was the primary target on the battlefield. Awful HE shell = Awfully specialized tank.
Panther could also be penetrated by the vintage 14.5mm rifles the Russian infantry were running around in. It was such a kitten ed shock that they were losing Panther’s left and right they nearly rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up before someone slapped the engineers and told them to stop wasting steel and just throw skirts on them.

Panzer III was arguably Germany’s most successful design of that war. It had some pretty good upgradability as a tank in and of itself but where it really shined is in the massive numbers of SPGs it was retrofit into. Wanna know what tank the Germans built that killed the most tanks? Protip: It wasn’t one of the awful big cats, it was the StuG III.

Also no they didn’t solve Panther reliability problems. The things needed rebuilds after 150km of travel, that’s AWFUL from a strategic perspective, hell even a tactical one. Their steering mechanism never even reached close to what even the Americans had in their tanks and was only ever designed for the original 35t proposal, which it was still stretched for. The only thing they managed to solve after Kursk was improving the probability the thing would be moving after one action. The engines were typically fine but the transmissions, steering mechanisms, and drive? HAH!

Citing the French is pretty hilarious too. They tried, they tried their kitten dest to get those stupid things working for them postwar. There is a reason no tank developed post-war was based off the Panthers or Tigers. They basically just mulled them around evaluating them because they were relying heavily on Maybach to work out engine issues for their AMX 50 heavy tanks.

You’re missing the point, everyone and their mom had tank recovery units but to support the ludicrous weight of the Panthers and Tigers they had to dedicate far more resources. Especially to the Tigers which were so inefficiently stacked with weight it’s painful. They needed dedicated units to themselves to pull them out.

Stop with wiki crap. The reason the Germans started work on the Panther 2 armor upgrade was because the side armor above the tracks was only 40mm flat. The data for 1943 shows 17% of combat losses were due to the 14.5mm Russian Anti-Tank Rifle. It was literally because of that that you start seeing schuertzen above the tracks on Panthers as standard. Something to keep in mind that the biggest hunter of tanks isn’t other tanks, it’s the infantry. The Shaped Chargers, the AT Guns, the mines, etc. Guess what the big cats were awful at? Combating infantry. Some 80% of engagements the Sherman was involved in only involved soft targets, no tanks, as an example.

German’s were behind everyone in mechanization, they were also behind everyone in production. They stuck hard to their batch production methodology instead of moving to assembly line production. They were never going to have enough trucks and half-tracks.

On topic, there wouldn’t be a war with the Charr. Unless one of the Legions really really really felt like it had something to prove by doing something like capturing Rata Sum. In which case they’d probably get goomba stomped alongside the Asura because some dumb Asura got it into their rat brain to use a dimensional super weapon, but in typical Asura fashion it blows up in their face and levels everything Orr-Style.

CHIPS.6018:

WW2: Germany have the better tanks. Russia can build A LOT more tanks. Russia wins.

What? No. Fascist box tanks were awful. They constantly broke down, would go up in flames if run at too high revs or on an incline, and their guns were terrible in terms of a KE to Weight ratio.
The Tigers had to have whole maintenance battalions assigned to them because of how awful they were and the Panther could be knocked out by 1930s AT RIFLES. Not AT Guns, freaking rifles.
PzIII and PzIV were mostly fine, aside from Krupps absurd obsession with Elliptical springs for the PzIV but the Tigers and Panthers were abominations of industry magnates overridding the Wehrmacht for design imperatives.
Additionally the Germans were entirely backwards, they still relied heavily on horse transport for their logistics when they invaded Russia.

Mentalhead.5721:

So my question to you is, why do you think people stop playing Guild Wars 2?

It became too much of a grind. Started hurting people with lots of alts.
Made the Living Story a grind dedication-fest.

We have two cool downs to manage and one of them is prohibitive to our “versatility”.

minbariguy.7504:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Regarding Cadence of release: This is not something we plan to change in terms of timing and I wanted to make that clear from the outset.

Well, I guess that pretty much tells me everything I need to know about the future development of the game. Honestly, I still feel that whoever is in charge of this decision simply does not want to admit that it was a mistake, no matter how many times people say it. But if that is what you’re planning on sticking to… so be it.

I wish you the best of luck. It’s clear that this game is not for me. I just can’t support a game that insists on prioritizing quantity over quality. But at least now I know.

Ah well. Plenty of other games out there.

I think it is important to note that there are two parts in the “quantity” that you are referring to, this is “frequency” and “content”. Currently we are getting a relatively high frequency of fairly grindy content. Since ANet seems to recognize that LS achievements are becoming grindy we can hope for more story meaty and less grind meaty updates.
Although I am in the same boat as you in terms of being overwhelmed with grind, I think there is some hope.

Noviere.7309:

Petra and her Dad should be investigating the new Krait menace instead of Kasmeer and Jory. That way players won’t feel intimidated.

I think we’d mostly be confused that characters from the personal story are being used.

Dott.5672:

So, what, now we can add godhood to her resume?
God kitten Mary Sue.

EDIT: Since when is "kitten " a word so dire it has to be censored?

The real low blow is that I can’t even say kitten nal.

A—r—s—e—n—a—l

Eurhetemec.9052:

deeply outraged

I can barely breath I’m laughing so hard.
The only people deeply outraged and guffawing are the ones that think that having a male MC that isn’t a doofus or part of the main story is sexist.

hedix.1986:

TamTiTam.9574:

You are FORCED to play alone?
That sucks….

Indeed. Solo should be an option for people who prefer it (though why are they playing an MMO in the first place?), but solo should not be enforced, this is a MULTI-PLAYER game.

Personally I like doing these story things solo because it is harder to focus on the story, harder to immerse yourself as a protagonist in this story, and distracting and limiting to be as worried or more worried about what your teammates are doing than what is going on. I always feel rushed in dungeons, even story mode ones by teammates wanting to simply go forward. We all move at different paces.
I’ve never understood this kittenlish, elitist, snobiness that people have with someone wanting to read or watch the story at their own pace.

SirMoogie.9263:

How many will be enough for you?

You should read the thread.
Also, no, every single minor character does not count as a “hero”.

“Past the introduction phase”
Oh God…we aren’t past that yet? How long has it been since F&F started?
whelp

TBH I like the solo instancing, it lets you focus on the actual story. I mean, you don’t spend your time in a movie talking to your friends right? (Unless it’s The Room ofc)
Although it should work like the Personal Story where you can bring people along if you want.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Difficulty aside, I don’t think they will solely due to aesthetics. The early fall look is iconic to Ascalon, and a large part of what makes the Shiverpeaks distinct is that they are the only place we see snow- and on top of that, people will be unhappy if a third of the game was switched to a primarily white and gray palate.

The look is iconic to Ascalon because that’s all we’ve ever seen it as. Similarly with the Shiverpeaks if we had rolling seasons it would snow more places.

Rym.1469:

and have hell lot of fun.

lolsure
Make it just a bit harder to grind in Grind Wars 2. Keep adding those paper cuts to the rag doll that is the playbase’s patience. That’s what we need. Less rewards. Everything tedious.

Laurelinde.4395:

“The dudes I don’t like don’t count!”

Sorry, but Logan, Trahearne, Braham and Faren are still male and still living story characters no matter how much you or I or anyone else likes or dislikes them. You can’t just discount them all together and then claim that supports a lack of male characters.

P.S. Plus, men get Hobotron on their team, so that’s a win right there.

All but Trahearne are doofus’s or muscleheads. I’m sure you would feel there wasn’t a lack of good female characters if all of the female MCs were changed to ditzy airheads?

Xar.6185:

I posted this in another thread in response to a similar post by someone who was horrified that the krait would form any sort of alliance just before the patch.

Xar.6185:

And this is why you are supposed to be all the more impressed / afraid of Scarlet as she will be the one to make the krait ally with the nightmare court.

Scarlet has already made the racist, sexist, xenophobic flame legion char work for her, alongside another race.

Scarlet has already made the xenophobic dredge, who have freed themselves from very oppressive leaders twice before, work for her along side another race.

Scarlet found an army of pirates that were pretty much non-exsistent before her.

Scarlet creates portals to other worlds and imports armies of steam creatures.

Why wouldn’t she be able to make the krait & nightmare court work together? This is her M.O. to a tee. She is above all. Better than the best Norn blacksmith, smarter than all the asura, the best char legionaire since sliced internet bread.

Make no mistake about it. Whether they fight against her or for her, the krait are now allied with the nightmare court and it is because of Scarlet Briar.

I wish I was wrong…. but all of the evidence suggests that I am not…

The question is are you more impressed / afraid / respecful of her threat or just even more annoyed by Scarlet’s superiority?

No one except a child is impressed by a Mary Sue who can do all that but fails face first doing anything impactful to the major races that Centaur and the like weren’t doing already.

Equinox.4968:

What if the point of these alliances is for the devs to make us aware that we should be feeling they’re very wrong and probably should never have existed? It could be a way to lead up to some lore-friendly explanation in the end…I hope.

The only lore-friendly explanation I can think of so far is “it was all a dream, a very annoying vegetably dream”.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

It’s called “poetic license” Anet can do what it likes with the story & lore of their game and Krait, like anyone else can evolve. Being rather intelligent, they are quite capable of changing their mind about other races, at least once given enough incentive to do so.

Yea they can do whatever they want with the story, doesn’t mean any of it has to make sense, be logical, or be good in any fashion.
Also lol
“The term poetic license is also sometimes used in a humorous or pejorative sense to provide an excuse for careless or superficial writing.”

I don’t mind when the female version of an armor set is skimpy, as long as its translated the same on the male version and they really look like they’re supposed to be the same armor set. The barbarian set is a good example of it being skimpy, but it’s skimpy in both genders and stylistically supposed to be that way. This set just seems off because either the female or the male should be different. Though with a name like “Phalanx” you would think the female armor would be heavy like the male armor.
In short, I agree with many of the complaints here.

Here’s something that always bothered me.
What is the life cycle of the grub?
What do they turn into? What lays their eggs? Why don’t we see hordes of moths as kittenemi-trucks all over the place?
ANet give us giant moths. It is needed.
Or beetles, giant beetles will work too.

Might not be released until the second part of this story arc.
The axe, her dagger, and Kasmeer’s Staff were all datamined out though.
http://guildwars2.mmmos.com/index.php?page=view&id=19595&title=data-mining-upcoming-features-from-tower-of-nightmares

Seras.5702:

She’s got a golden tongue.

The only problem is that we the audience are unbelieving of that because we have never seen it in action. The only reason we are given for things happening is just “ohhhhhh! Scarlet is just thaaaaaaaaaat awesome!”. That’s not good writing. That’s not a good character design. That’s schlock. We don’t want schlock.

I wonder if it’s possible for ANet to scale the hp of enemies dynamically to how many people are in the nearby area.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Without giving anything away, I will say that the Kessex Hills you’ll see in November (and December, and next year…) is not the same as the one we had last week.

I wonder if it is possible for you guys to do a more thorough changing of the zone. By that I mean so that DE’s and hearts in the vicinity of these LS changes reflect this.
Also, cleansing Orr and other places (habitable Blood Tide?). I worry you guys have bitten off more than you can chew with the LS ambitions.

Personally I think it makes PvE combat more interesting.

Jordo.5913:

but what do you guys think that thing is behind her!

A plot device, probably a bad one. We can hope that ANet has finally gotten their act together with the Living Story but anything involving Scarlet does not exude confidence.

Asmodeus.5782:

Astralporing.1957:

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, the ascended materials are a way to make people go back to doing them, got any other ideas to make trains any less popular in comparison to normal questing?

Most of the champs in Queensdale Train are also events. No, i don’t think that making DE’s more valuable will make it any less popular.

That’s why I proposed diminishing returns, to make the champ event farming inefficient in comparison to roaming the world.

>Make it harder to make money
Hey gaiz! Let’s make the grind HARDER!
I see no drawbacks whatsoever!

Nerfing rewards to force people into other content is a REALLY BAD strategy and lead to people just getting burnt out and quitting.

Danikat.8537:

Personally I think the quaggan in the research camp who says the krait have enslaved the nightmare court might be on to something.

Whether that’s literally the case or if it’s just how the krait have been lead to perceive the situation it could explain why they’d be willing to work with other races.

But the NPCs in the camp have a lot of other theories, why the krait would ally with anyone, let alone the nightmare court, seems to be the main thing they want to talk about so I don’t think Anet are ignoring it. It wouldn’t surprise me if it became an important part of the storyline.

God I hope the Quaggan is right…

Marquie Thomas.1873:

Jeff.4680:

Marquie Thomas.1873:

There religion is there weakness it probably the reason why there being exploited for someone’s/SCARLET’S Gain

What exactly is Scarlet’s gain?

To watch the world burn and from the ashes rebuild it into something she envisions this alliance just causes more chaos so she can work from the shadow’s on her next plot we will find out what that is on November 5th.

She’s terrible at it and quite childish in doing so.
The more ANet tries to push Scarlet as some kind of super genius villain the more incompetent she seems.

Lord Kuru.3685:

So Marjory is now an expert in poisons. You think Anet’s slowling going to make her into a Mary Sue to counter Scarlet’s Villain Sue?

idk…she is supposed to be some kind of detective right?
Some kind of expertise in poisons would seem to come with the territory.

DiogoSilva.7089:

ANET: Take this opportunity to get the healing skill without having to spend 25 skill points! You must do it now, or you’ll lose this chance once living world moves on!

Players: But, ANET, spending 25 skill points is actually the best way to do it…

That moment where you realize that the shortcut, the “opportunity”, is actually worse than the normal way.

It’s all about tricking impulse buyers.

Think less TNG, more Voyager….

Treeline.3865:

This was my first thought too actually. But hey, let’s play! Maybe it’s not bad

And maybe my turds won’t stink THIS time

“What happens when the evil agendas of the krait and the Nightmare Court align? "
First line in living world notes.
sigh

Galen Grey.4709:

I have a honest question… Why do so many people play games for rewards rather then well for the game?

Because many people need goals in a game to make it worthwhile to them and rewards are one type of goal. This isn’t rocket science…

DE’s should drop tokens like the ones you get at the end of dungeons to buy zone specific skins, runes, sigils, and other do-dads.
Even if they buff the rewards of DE’s people still won’t do them unless they are the most efficient or were already interested in doing them. Therefore what the devs need to do is provide unique incentives for doing them. Much like the dungeons.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Scarlet is the best so far

Only on a scale where Scarlet is the only villain we’ve ever had. Otherwise…

Arrow.3856:

I don’t read the stories and this is all I know from what Scarlet is and what she is upto etc. This is most likely relating to most people in game…

Scarlet is a sylvari who had some Asuran sensei. She betrayed her sensei and became evil. Took on the name of Scarlet. She is angry at something not sure what. She somehow controls the aetherblades who follow her because of some reason? She tried to invade Tyria but we killed her over and over. and over. without actually killing her. She is a God because she is immortal. She attacked the queens speech because she couldnt beat liadri. Her training grounds are in caledon forest.

Thats all I know of what Scarlet is. Due to the story or lack of story Scarlet doesnt mean anything to me. She is just a poorly introduced plot device. I would have wanted someone that was already in the game to be introduced as evil but hey…thats what I know.

The background presented in short story on the main site basically painted Scarlet as a Mary Sue who excelled at everything and whose prime motivation is that she doesn’t want to listen to mommy (the Pale Tree) and that she’s a big girl and wants to do her own thing. Scarlet just isn’t a terribly good villian. At least what we’ve seen so far and we’ve already know her for several months. It’s no surprise then that people don’t like her.

Durzlla.6295:

Lostwingman.5034:

Hmm, so people seem to think Scarlet is a Dragon Champion now.
What if the Krait were corrupted or are being led by a corrupted “prophet”?
I think I’d like that…I hope it’s not just another “by our powers combined!” situation…

What if Scarlet used holograms to make the Krait believe there was a prophet wanting them to align with the nightmare court?

They would think their prophet is lying to them probably.
I was thinking a combination of a clockwork golem and mesmer magic. Then after the prophet/Scarlet lures the Lion Guard/Seraph/etc to the Nightmare tower she drops the mesmer facade and makes it look like the PC and his NPC allies are responsible for the fake prophet. Enter massive Krait loathing and epic dungeon crawl out of the tower to find Kessex, Caledon, and Bloodtide overwhelmed with Krait attacks in fury.
Maybe culminating in a massive Krait assault on the entrances to Lion’s Arch in Gendarren Fields and Bloodtide? Would be fun I think.

Durzlla.6295:

Scarlet isn’t that bad, I actually like that she didn’t pull the stereotypical, give huge monologue about why she’s doing everything she is and explain in explicit details how she’s doing it, like all of you seem to want from her.

I don’t think most people are looking for a Bond-villianesque monologue describing their entire plan. In addition we have seen enough of her background now to get a feel for her motives and frankly it’s uninspiring. It feels no more complex or threatening than a rebellious teenager mad at mommy.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

I will tell you the same reason that I have been saying for both Trahearne and Scarlet why I dislike them, they are both more scholarly types with knowledge in specific areas who would make great advisors or researcher ect in those areas, yet they are placed in the role of a commander of which neither one has any experience and they do abysmal jobs at it huge wastes of life, have you seen orr, there is no front line it is a scattered bunch of semi fortified position that form no front line from which to push forward or fall back to. Did you see scarlets invasions? these were even worse then Trahearne’s tactics. “hmm maybe if I send in enough troops and have them land on my enemies weapons we will dull their blades or they may just get bored and give up…”

edit: also I never had a problem with Kormir

Traehearne always struck me as a figurehead and advisor.
The ones coming up with the actual plans and doing the legwork were the various orders. Who then went to Trahearne. Trahearne, not being terribly experienced in this would leave it to you, who’s been adventuring, working with the orders, and doing a lot of fighting, to decide. I get a lot of the hate on Trahearne is because he features prominently in the “personal story” but I think the devs probably either ran out of time or ran out of resources to adequately divide the “personal story” and what is essentially a “campaign” after the order segment.

Hmm, so people seem to think Scarlet is a Dragon Champion now.
What if the Krait were corrupted or are being led by a corrupted “prophet”?
I think I’d like that…I hope it’s not just another “by our powers combined!” situation…

A Massive Headache.1879:

The scarlet explosion gift was pretty funny actually. the first time, but no need to send one to every single character on my account.

I like how I made a new character this week, and got sent a gift.
Wat.