Guild Wars 2

Lord Trejgon.2809:

btw. she fough along our side in Aetherblade Retreat, ofc. while fighting Canah she send us to fight….
but she was always the brain of these operations we were just the guys from dirty/funny work

Trahearne did exactly the same thing, mind you. Do you like him?

Lord Trejgon.2809:

I’m sure Evon would sell all Lions Arch to Elder dragons if they only would name the prize worth of it as for now it that kind of NPC.

What’s that bad about it really? So you don’t want to be rich?
He would never “sell” Lion’s Arch, this is where all his profit comes from.
He will do many good things for us because that’s how he can earn money. Win-win.
Kiel may be good at being a captain or a soldier, but I’d never entrust her any sort of political power.

CuRtoKy.8576:

1. Evon is a Charr and they are responsible for the destruction of multiple human civilizations. More important due to the Charr’s actions we lost historical knowledge and understand of Orr, the gods, and its secrets. The Charr invasion led to the sinking of Orr by Vizier Khilbron. This helped grow Zhaitan’s army of undead that led to the countless death of Pact forces during our invasion of Orr to reclaim it. To be honest, it was a pain going through waves and waves of undead namely Arah where we seek ancient knowledge. If it wasn’t for the Charr, Pact forces would have a much easier time against Zhaitan, Zhaitan’s army would be much smaller, and we would still have some knowledge and understand of various ancient Orrian artifacts to use against the Elder Dragons. Don’t trust Evon for a second on his research into Abaddon, in fact Charrs are the reason we don’t know much about Orr and the actual gods.

If Vizier Khilbron didn’t use the Lost Scrolls and just surrended to the charr, your historical knowledge would be probably right now in Priory’s hands.

CuRtoKy.8576:

2. Evon is the owner of Black Lion. He is the same person taking a cut from every sell order you place on the market. On top of that Black Lion is where people “flip” items on a daily basis and this affects people who don’t have a lot of gold. Prices of goods are raising, people losing money on patch days (buy orders ? t6 dust), and speculation of goods. In the end, Evon gets 15% from everything that is sold from the Black Lion Trading Post and the rich get richer. The keys are a lie since the only ones that benefit from it are the ones with a lot of money to buy a lot to get contracts and Evon himself. Noticed gem conversion isn’t 1:1, just because 100 gems cost 3g 20s doesn’t mean selling 100 gems give you that much. Evon takes a BIG cut. He cannot be trusted. Waypoint discount benefits everyone unlike keys.

So a rich person lets you get rich by using his tool and you blame him for wanting to profit from that? Don’t use Trading Post then.
Waypoint discount is temporary, a few CoF runs will be equal to the money you might save from it.

Lol, Evon only releases these chests, it’s up to you if you waste money on them. Don’t blame him.

Serious.4839:

Evon has my support.

Considering how divided and angry some people on this forum seem to be, I’m actually kind of worried about what the community will do once this patch goes live.

That’s pretty obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677sFuas9BQ 1:00 – 1:40

Sirius.4510:

You do realize that the one that isn’t picked may well also show up, just a little later? Especially if they’ve already started production work on them.

There are four Living Story teams.
Each team has four months to create their content.
When the election is over the team will have more than 4 months to create the fractal.
So I guess they didn’t start making it yet.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

1 out of 5 Tyrians is interested in human gods.

5 out of 5 Tyrians visit the Thaumanova Reactor every day to clean it up.

#TeamKiel

I have much more interesing things to do than cleaning up somebody’s mess.
#TeamGnashblade

Don’t look at it this way. Anet learned something from the past, look at the Bazaar items.
Or maybe you really think that with Kiel there won’t be RNGs anymore. Ha-ha.

“Hmm, I need new greatsword”
“LF HUSBAND WITH TWILIGHT.”

Jemmi.6058:

I agree that Evon is the logical choice given the points you have said.

However, one thing politics have told me is that you never get what was promised, and even if you do, there are often a 100 other hidden and unwanted changes that pop up after the election. Evon seems like one heck of a shady character and I don’t trust him.

#TeamKiel

Thing is, this is a game and people want to get what they were promised to get or they will rage on the forums/stop playing the game if Anet say “pfff, was just kidding, nothing cool for you”.
Also, Evon is more interesting character for me, I never cared about Kiel really.

skullmount.1758:

So you mean just standing there smacking his face? I’d rather see the reactor than do that again. If it was how he became evil or whatever, that might be interesting, but not if its just the fight we did in GW1.

This could be about Abbadon giving magic to human and further wars because of that but it’s gonna be in FoTM so I don’t know what players could do there.

Eldryth.6831:

Ugh… As someone who really loved GW1, it’s really hard to pass up Abbadon. At the same time, though… It’s obvious imo Ellen Kiel is a better choice from a story standpoint. So now the choice isn’t who to put on the Council, but “put someone good on the Council and get future Living Story content based on that, or get amazing backstory?”

Evon’s not going to destroy all of us or make us slaves, it’s a game overall and it must be entertaining.

Who cares about waypoints.
Evon forever! This better be good.

“hosting a permanent rotation of well-loved mini-games”
Players wanting both games at the same time in 3, 2, 1…

New players will have to grind for legendary more than at the game launch because ingredients are more expensive now. MAKE LEGENDARIES EASIER TO OBTAIN!!!

Necro: Midnight Yew, Midnight Olive, Wine (for eyes)
http://i.imgur.com/XlppduN.jpg

Warrior: Midnight Ice, Tarnish, Heirloom
http://i.imgur.com/HmjMr6W.jpg

This is how Living Story works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVrPWwSlRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib084tzN8H0
And again, and again, and again. They just can’t do a good story with enemies that last one month.

Play necro.
/15chars

astroboy.5431:

I guess it was because there were so many twists in gw1 storyline leaded my friend to suggest such theory to the “death” of Zhaitan.

Forget about it, it’s Guild Wars game only by its name. Living Story Forever!

While it’s cool to have theories, the fact is that the whole fight was poorly done, just like almost every fight in the game, and there’s no way Anet would want to disappoint 90% of their playerbase by giving us a crappy climax just to show us something cool a year later.

SundayTrash.9562:

is there a way to disable the dramatic combat bgm when ur health drop below 50%.

What music plays below 50% hp? (using GW1/GW2 playlist since June, did they add anything?)

I don’t remember Anet changing the cost of anything that NPCs sell. They won’t this time. Buy it or not. The end.

- Better Personal Story / remake of the existing one
- Elona
- Arah story remake

Too bad they are just reusing old music in all their trailers.
But the map itself looks very interesting, evne though I don’t PvP. There should places like this in PvE world.

I’m sure Anet will troll us and this boost will not stack with others.

Erasculio.2914:

Where are the extremely polished cinematics we saw in the Bonus Mission Pack, when Turai Ossa defeated Palawa Joko or when Gwen found the Ebon Vanguard?

Lastly, the more cinematic pieces of concept art, such as in the first Guild Wars 2 trailer or right after character creation, are incredibly missed through the game. They appear once in a while, but that’s not nearly enough for something so unique to Guild Wars 2 and ArenaNet. I understand most of the team who did them no longer works at ArenaNet, but still, the company should do what it can to recreate this style.

I believe Anet said some time in the past that they’re not going to do more of these because it’s too expensive.

MithranArkanere.8957:

People would not have to resort to such things so much if it wasn’t for the camera issues.

They would anyway, but I agree about camera issues.

Sinbold.8723:

If I had to nit pick, my only gripe would be that Destiny’s Edge doesn’t rez downed players like Rox and Braham did, nor did they fight as enthusiastically.

That’s probably because Anet didn’t think about it until someone (I guess) suggested in on the forum so they could implement it in the future content.

Nitescape.6984:

2nd idea for you, i am currently working on a legendary. yet i really dont prefer to pvp and for some odd reason i have to go do that.. because i want the legendary i am willing to do the pve work .. but ur forcing me to spend countless hours grinding pvp. something i dont play this game to do and for a PVE skin of all things.. how smart was that call. and yes for u reading i know you can buy legendary weps in AH now. i get it but i never thought that was very smart to allow anyways. i like the idea of earning it. it is a LEGENDARY weapon after all.

What if I play only WvW? I am forced to do map completion! To do that pathetic PvE! Unacceptable! Make it so a legendary weapon requires 5 ectos and there we go. Isn’t it a perfect solution?

Talmaru.7865:

Invulnerable mobs firing at you with cannons is not a “mechanic”

I’m all good with kiting a boss but nope don’t pass that invisible line or she will 1 shot you with a teleportation attack great “mechanic”

Magic lasers that phase through solid objects not a “mechanic”

The boss that can jump 50 foot tall walls to avoid her own cannon barrage not a “mechanic”

All in all this dungeon is nothing more then a cheep trick at best.

Suggest something better.
I guess you won’t.
Continue crying then.

Zhaitan battle > The Battle Of Claw Island
Both have terrible fight mechanics at the end, but Zhaitan feels more epic.

And if people wanted BWEs’ events back, let’s say a magical cloud flies through Planes of Ashford or Metrica Province and can transport players (with their consent) to an alternative reality when the event happens. This is a lore reason how it would happen, because players have their own personal story missions or want to do normal stuff, so let there be an option to join it or not.

World bosses are kinda meh without such preparations (destroying 3 portals to spawn Shadow Behemoth is a lame preparation).

It’s gonna be there only during the event, don’t be afraid.

I bought Krytan armor and used only chest piece, the rest is sitting in the bank. Do I care? No. Buy the whole armor and stop crying.

I like it.
But you have no idea how much rage would go into the forums from all casual players. They are crying on the current dungeon mechanics.

I love the dungeon. Molten Facility’s final boss’ aoe attack and the laser part in the newest dungeon remind me a lot of Ratchet and Clank, so +10000 for these mechanics.

spalt.6938:

Uhm… what? This seems like a pretty good dungeon to me. The only part I dislike is how much health the last boss has. Feels like overkill.

Agree.

echo.2053:

higher the requirement number for an achivement because your giving the players a month long event – " im kitten ed off becuase i didnt 100% everything within the 1st hour"

This exactly. I don’t understand why people farm holograms for hours when they can just play the game and the achievement will be finished after a few days and they won’t even notice.

I won’t play the norn because they look like hamburger while dodging.

I MIGHT try male sylvari, but his voice is just too gay to handle (sorry for the voice actor…).

I won’t play male human because it reminds me of Logan Thackerun.

Bright.9160:

That DwG was a broken skill, but that the DwG DoA clears were a complete joke run by terrible players and a big waste of time.

Well, I enjoyed these runs, even if they could be done faster.
I don’t consider anything enjoyable a waste of time.
I understand that you were able to play with skilled people and consider DwG a lame thing, but I wasn’t, so I had to do DoA with pugs.

Bright.9160:

DoA before EotN release would like to have a word with you.

I didn’t play GW before EotN (I heard that Factions missions were hard without NF heroes), but right now I think there’s nothing hard with all the stuff you can use.

Bright.9160:

The thing is, your proposed system of running all paths consecutively, although not necessarily bad, would require a complete overhaul not only in mechanics, but in design as well, and I doubt that they would want to put so much effort in a part of the game they obviously don’t care about.

It all depens how much they want to change dungeons. I just gave an idea, it’s not that I was thinking about it since GW2 release.

Mathog.3157:

Wait, why is this thread back on track?

Because I don’t like posts that only bring offtopic to the thread.

Bright.9160:

First of all, the gems were 1-2-3-4 in NM and 2-4-6-8 in HM, not 2-4-8-16.

I wasn’t sure about that, good to know.

Bright.9160:

Second of all, the famous DwG build? What are you, high?

What do you mean?

Bright.9160:

DoA was a faceroll with a good SC team. Taking 35minutes or less per run. DwG was a travesty to be honest.

Everything is a faceroll with a good team.

Bright.9160:

Not to mention, such a system will be very hard/impossible to implement in GW2 dungeons, because many paths have overlaps. In Arah p1 and p2 have overlapping sections, and p3 and p4 have as well. Not to mention, all of them have Lupi. In CoE, p2 and 3 are exactly the same for 70% of the run. CM has overlapping parts as well etc.

It’s obvious that they’d need to rework all the dungeons if they wanted to implement it here. I guess, if reworked, there will be a new reward system anyway.

About rewards:
Look at Domain of Anguish in GW1. There are four “paths”, each rewarded for (if I remember) 2 gems, so you can clear one path, exit to the city, change builds and jump into the next path. However, when you decide not to exit after you do one path, the next one is open for you and when you clear it, you get twice as many gems, so it goes like this: 2, 4, 8, 16. Imagine how many tokens you would get from this system.

But beware, DoA was very hard, even with famous DvG build you couldn’t just faceroll this place. You had to really think what you are spawning (there were mobs hiding in the ground so if you rush forward, you’d die literally in a second). So what I want to say is that I’m not sure how it would work in GW2 system, when you can change your traits and skills whenever you want. Maybe if entering the dungeon locked this ability, we’d see better coordination in teams instead of just dps builds.

kitten I miss DoA.

I know but I want to know the name of the second one.

Crossplay.2067:

Countess Anise!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/BlackRhapsodyX/Guild%20Wars%202/gw021_zps2b7acd4e.jpg

She spawned all 10 of those phantasms at once! (Yes, there are ten! The two in front of Serpentine are hard to see.)

How about Trahearne that spawned like 10 Flesh Golems at once?

Can somebody tell me what’s the name of the song playing right after Dragon Bash menu music?
I think it’s not new, yet I don’t remember hearing it anywhere.

Sword MH animations are the reason I made asura ranger.

Dafomen.7892:

Zhaitan should have been a world meta event final on a whole map only dedicated to that final fight and you would only be ale to enter that map if you have done all previous story quests ofc.
And the Zhaithan meta only activates when all temples are free for example….you know, add some kind of “epicness”. ;-)

Forget about it. Look at every big boss in the game, it’s pretty much “press 1 and make yourself a tea” lagfest. Fighting Zhaitan in the dungeon was the best they could do, we just need more epicness during the battle.

Kiayin.3427:

darkace.8925:

Divinity’s Reach has no defense? Umm… you’ve seen those walls surrounding the city, right?

I wouldn’t rely too much on walls! Prophecies clearly showed me that. First when a bandit used the fire storm aoe on me (sending me to the nearest res shrine free of charge, very nice of him) and then when the charr aoed the whole of Ascalon.

They do look nice, so I guess they have a certain decorative value..

x).

Exactly. We all know that the enemy will ALWAYS find a way to go through any mountain or wall (Claw Island lol). We should talk about how races can defend themselves inside their cities. That’s why I think only Black Citadel and Rata Sum have any chances.

There is actually any sound effect? Lol, good to know.

You can use food for healing per second before you enter the fight http://i.imgur.com/DTGMlj7.jpg and you are basically impossible to kill.
Fix this.

What do you think would happen when something big like the whole Flame Legion army attacked capital cities? Which one would survive?
Hoelbrak, The Grove and Divinity’s Reach seem to have no defence at all. Black Citadel has turrets and snipers everywhere, not to mention tanks (kitten I wish we could see their true power in action). Rata Sum probably has many tricks to deal with the enemy so the asura seems to be safe.

The problem is, most (all?) armors were used by human characters, here in GW2 we have many playable races. Imagine Shiro’s gear on a charr.
They should just remove named armor, it was a stupid idea.

I guess they needed a dragon skin for this event and just reused the dragon that is already in the game.