Guild Wars 2

Karizee.8076:

Glestad.1670:

It is clearly stated that Scarlet is not looking for something physical, but something magical and huge.

The Bloodstones maybe?

Scarlet: “Oh Bloodstones, Ive sacrificed many lives on my journey to reach all six of you (Mad giggle) and put you back together and confront you. What do you have to say?!”

Denial: “nothing, lets all go back home”

Preservation: “oh, cmon, lets hang out for a while, how have you all been?”

Aggression: “It was horrible”

Keystone: “I felt kind of useless this whole time”

Growth: “I hope people notice me when Im older”

Destruction “Supriiise FLAME BURRSST!!!”

And then we see her UFO blow up and we will never find out what happened… the end.

Unfinished JP in Caledon. If you do the Jumping Puzzle in the room with the aeterized underground pale tree and the panic gas, the consoles each give out a snippet of a code. Usually you don’t have the time to memorize them, but I took a video and then paused at the right spots and wrote them down. If you combine these snippets, you get:

C13 X04 U102 FR10

Why is there a thumper in the middle of lions arch. One should think that it should have been destroyed right away…

What if ALL life on Tyria is a corruption. Think of it – natural mass forced into a mobile structure spreading its influence. The sixth elder dragon could’ve broken out of the cycle populating tyria since aeons. The sylvari are called “the lands immune system” yet they are probably dragon minions.

When you play a game for too long you soon start to expect things from it that are completely unreasonable. If theres not enough RP in your MMO, go play a game that does that well and return to GW2 if you’re looking for a great combat system and world building. There are games that have new and even better approaches to RP than the GW2 Blockbuster that claims to be the worlds ever-new MMO. GW2 is a gorgeous game but its not the all-youll-ever-want-game. There will never be a game that fills someones entire free time (which I see a lot in GW2) and gives him all the happiness he needs. The world of game design is a big one. (and of course theres other things than games)

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Not something physical. So she’s not searching for an Elder Dragon…

The dialogue only sais, that the probes are not made to find something physical, they detect magic. If she’d be looking for caves or minerals, she needed to use probes that detect density like the devices we use in RL but thats not the case. So she can still be looking for a dragon since their most noticeable trait is how much magic they radiate.

But well, if you’re right, she’s looking for something big, magical yet non-physical and clearly spottable – like some peripheral underground sphere that infuses the earth and tries to control scarlet.. wat..

5:1

Six gods, one is a traitor
Six ancient races , the Mursaat betrayed the rest
Six members of destinys edge – Logan ran off
Twelve Firstborn – Two touched by nightmare (Caithe still struggling)
ca 15% of the Sylvari are nightmare court
Five Modern races – and maybe more behind the next corner.
Six Dragons, the sixth didn’t show up yet – why?
Five blood stones – really?

coincidence?

Interesting. This would play into the “all is part of the same concept”, the eternal alchemy.

Found this at a terminal, don’t know what it means, might be connected to scarlet

C13
X04
U102
FR10

I doubt, someone can decipher it, but maybe its possible. Good Luck

Hmm Dhuum, interesting.. especially because he was added to GW1 when GW2 was in the middle of development.. he will probably play his part sooner or later..

Lets just make a wild assumption.. Scarlet creates an underground base under Caledon with the flame legion technology, creates multiple pale trees underground because she knows Caithes and Malycks secret and found those seeds. And then she starts running tests while casually porting in and out through her X-men-Cerebro-like Teleport Hub.. And then we find out, this has all been planned since beta.. surprise! All wild assumptions…

Thalador.4218:

So this is how Guild Wars dies, with thunderous laughter over ham jokes . . .

I see, your too are a friend of GW1 lore? See that Ham and bacon are woven deeply into the history of GW. Its explicitly mentioned that Prince Bokka ate a lot of ham.

And in Kryta, quality Hogs almost went extinct at a Point (Partially because of the production of bacon) and later grew in numbers. (Probably, Dirk could buy another one to breed) This btw is still a mystery to the Community.

Braginger Bread, my next Norn char

Scott McGough.6897:

Kuh-ham!

Of course Braham likes ham.

But he likes bacon even more.

Wow, didnt expect you to spoil us about that facing its relevance in the coming patches, but at least we have certainty now.
Thank you, Matthew & Scott.

Aye.8392:

Forget the axe, next update Braham will be a Hambow warrior inspiring us to take a new look at our trait lines and weapon choices!

Wouldnt be too far fetched to say that Braham may be a Hamstorm Warrior himself. (Guardians using Flames and Swords, It would be awesome seeing him cripple and then Ascalon-Ghost-Firestorm somebody)

Scott even included the twist, that he likes bacon even more. Is it a hint about a Bacon Dragon that hides under Lions Arch? Think about it, the Lion Guard on Claw Island have used Signal-bacons all along..

Im pretty sure in the intro you see your character sleeping in the pod WITH helmet or mask or whatever starter item you chose.^^

How about Scarlet Briar is an agent of Mad King Thorn? Briar… Thorn… madness and the mists… would make sense huh? Shes about to create her own Candy Dragon out of the Mad Clocktower and then shell power her own generation of steam clockwork sylvari with it. Shes gonna break the next seal, youll see.. ^^

I looove the trend Anet is heading with the new encounters. Now, if I was to change something, Id make the rewards more immediate. People often concentrate on their own performance.

Guild Wars 2 is by all means a complex game, especially for the average Living Story player. My suggestion would be, if you keep on splitting the challenge into little pieces, make those pieces feel epic. Like, if you accomplish to win one of these fragments you are the hero of your server or overflow for a moment. Give them buff that is visible to others “Champion of Melandru” + 1000 vitality with a green glow around them and footprints. Bam! Legendary status – even if its just for 5 minutes. Or immediate tokens to trade in for epic Living World loot later on or unique RNG chests or something that says “This time I saved my server from defeat”.

If a server succeeds, reward it, that brings a whole different motivation and dynamic to the game – organizing 100 Players and work around the lfg tool and the overflow system is an achievement of itself. Just dont forget reward the individual players achievement – MMO’s are about the small stories and victories. Support them and make them memorable. And keep up the good work.

Celestial exotic with Golem Runes. The big buddy creates valuable distraction and the gear leaves all facets of my build relevant – conditions as direct damage as hp

Put her into custody and then bring her to court where her trial is dragged on forever while making very little progress with the prosecutor giggling and laughing all the time.

Shockwave.1230:

ANet confirmed someone is right about everything, they just didn’t say what or who

Whaat? Is there a source of the confirmation?

Personally I believe that the nightmare court is kind of comparable with the sons of Svanir. Still able to think and act with their free will but in a kind of twisted way. I too think theres more about Caithe and how she kills every Nightmare courtier that crosses her way. It kind of reminds me of Jora who had to kill her brother to reconnect with the bear spirit after Jormags corruption had touched her (or drained the magic from her). Maybe she had taken damage from whatever she and Faolain had encountered..

Also I want to mention theres a place in Caledon Forest right between the Nightmare village and the gateway to Brisbane wilds where there are dead Oakhearts (that twitch when you make a screenshot) and green glowing Shadow imps. And the walls look as if made from oakheart faces. And at the end of the corridor theres something that resembles an eye. Quiet an interesting place for everyone who speculates about Mordremoth imo.

Wow, looks like some Hex code, cant remember having found one of these..

Well, at first, it may be an odd question, but on a second glance (scroll down to Matthews Post) there is more to it than it seems. From all the characters, Braham has the least reason to mess with Scarlett from a character point of view. So what can Anet do to turn around this indifferent norn?

Well, if you played the infinity ball part of the asuran personal story you might have come to the conclusion that the shown characters emerged from the Scarlett storyline. One of the occurring characters mentions an attack on divinitys reach and hint on that they have taken over Lions Arch.

If thats what happens in the next Living Story Patches, if Divinitys Reach going to be sieged, parts of Queensdale will become contested and occupied by scarletts forces. Best suited for this would be a place that offers enough ressources and wood for Scarletts installments and isnt too easily accessible from the city for they could try an attack on her siege weapons.

Best suited for this would be a Region named Queens Forest. Unfortunately this is where most of the wild hogs are being hunted here and Braham didnt have time to hunt recently so he will probably get his ham from this region or just trade it for his own goods. So there’s gonna be a serious shortage of ham in a big perimeter.

Anet better turns this into a motivation for Braham. I suspect he’ll really be hurt by the loss of his precious ham and will now engage Scarlett with renewed zeal. Well.. exept the narrators find some other motivation for him to engage in the fight.. some minor motivation like saving Rox which might leading to her not joining the warband but instead keep on adventuring with Braham… but thats just kind of unlikely imo..

What do you think? Cant wait till the patches give the answer..

Well, the victory against Scarlett will need some kind of plot twist. With the community crying for cantha and the canthan district being removed from Divinitys Reach completely, its possible that they come saving Lions Arch in the last second and then from that point on are a playable race.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Miroe.2054:

If we assume there is a Plant dragon, it will probably align with the earth element and thus be underground.

No, plants are both above and below ground. A jungle dragon could be both.

Well, actually they have largely vanished in the Maguuma region

For the Sylvari to actually be free it needed an energy source that is strong enough to power a whole society of Sylvari which Scarlett has by now. On this point ill mention the steam creatures. The steam creatures are non-thinking, hostile, minions of some unknown origin and will in a possible future take over Tyria. The steam creatures are partially organic even they cannot sustain live. They are in fact incomplete. Maybe Scarletts tries to keep a sylvari alive while dispatching it from its live source – namely dragon energy. Experiments with sylvari have almost tradition with the asura.

Maybe Scarlett has been creating them for a while now and fail because she did not have enough knowledge. By now she mastered non-magic computer technology from the flame legion, the lets-fuse-a-sylvari-with-something-technoloy from the nightmare tower and yet more superior technology from the Aeterblades.

We havent seen Steam creatures in the LS for a while now. Maybe because they have evolved with the nightmare tower when Scarlett seemed so happy. If she actually succeeds and she can access the entirety of the sylvari by manipulating the dragon, taking over the pale tree or dispatching the sylvari from it while keeping it alive, she might have “freed” her people and gained an army to take over tyria as she did in the infinity-ball universe. To strike first in Lions arch would align with this possible future since Shodd (a character from the Asura Personal story that came from that place) had a Title that implies that new empire including Lions Arch.

I mean, look at the Clockheart that might indeed be a dragon minion that was clockwor-ized and taken by scarlett, why shouldnt she be able to do the same with the sylvary or an entire dragon by now? Destroyers have been seen to lay their own eggs (Skritt Personal Story) so autonomous reproduction might be possible for Sylvari too even if this probably wont happen in this story arch. Or look at that clockwork Moa thing we can get since the latest patch. Either its a joke or it might hint at scarletts green clockwork energy might have ascended to a base on which live is possible – like the dragon corruptions – we will see…

Probably A lot of this is garbage but id be happy if some of it would revealed to be right

I think scarlet might do just what she said. She wants to turn the forces that lead the sylvari to either nightmare or society against each other.

If we assume there is a Plant dragon, it will probably align with the earth element and thus be underground. Not tectonic level as primordus is, but at a fair depth. If she wanted to have that plant dragon (Mordremoth) fight the other forces – namely the tyrian society (Lions Arch Pirates and the Pact containing the three orders) she had to lure him there somehow. I think, that this is exactly what the thumpers do. Either lure him to Lions Arch right away or give her enough information about his position that she might guide him using the kind of mixed up magic that woke the dragons in the first place and caused the reality do dissolve at thaumanova. (Look at the yellow lightnings running down the thumpers are the same as the ones with the Thaumanova Anomaly and the surface lines of Subject alpha where different elements of dragon energy converged – the thumpers even are hexagonal – they might send magical energy waves into tyria that then are reflected at certain things and give information back)

But If such a dragon would be close to LA there would be signs, righ? Well, the recently added Wurm boss comes with a peculiar sort of enemy – half way digested Husks that it ate somewhere below. There are no Husks near Lions Arch Whatsoever. So how did Husks, possible dragon minions get in the underground of bloodtide coast If there is not more in the underground then we thought?

The projector in her base and a picture both show how shes going to drill down into the earth with the ufo she already has. (look at the fins). Its a mobile, flying drill of a dragon-worthy size that can drill wherever she wants – even lions arch. If the ufo contains all knowledge she has gahtered: Air ship technology and drilling technology. It will also contain the toxins and illusions she will probably use to deal with the dragon or to manipulate it. What if she wants to crack lions arch with her fleet, punture this underground jungle right there and unleash the recently awoken dragon?

The other one is about what happens next, scarlets long term plans, the infinity ball-world and the Sylvari. And its a lot more hypothetical. If we assume, the “pale-tree-is-a-dragon-champion” theory might be true (Compare Jora and Svanir to Caithe and Faolain exept that Caithe hadnt taken any confirmed damage from the encounter – maybe her connection to the dream has been severed) the sylvari are in an actuall dilemma since the only can choose between destroy themselves by destroying Mordremoth or let themselves be enslaved by the dragon and fighting the tyrian societies. In this case, Scarlett has an actual reason to try to save her people. But If shes going to turn the society and the dragons against each other and destroy each other, the Sylvari arent saved either. So what is necessary to do so if this dilemma actually exists?

There are actually two heads visible. One is halfway hidden under a blob of red color.

Stay on the Tyria Map, but make The Dominion of Winds as Cantha-esque as possible. Including its own Soundtrack (Im looking at you, “Tengu-Wall”) and new artworks. (The tree houses in Southsun look fapantly like cantha-content including kappa-skins)

I like the update
If you’re concerned for WvW, theres a Skill Balance update coming. The Zerging has been improved by the Marionette-Event where Groups of three players can save the day for their server and Scarlett finally gets a little depth. And of course the race between the servers to get the world-first Wurm kill. GJ

Aww maan.. and you can’t buy them off the TP?! Ill never get to get my own Worm-Bagpack-Wearing-Bagpack-Guy-Bagpack Pls Anet, I want mine with flames XD

1. AE that only hits 5 targets: It causes to everybody just stacking in the same corner and expecting the same from the other players. And when we while theres always somebody asking “Who moved?”. This little thing takes me out of the world every time and as a Mesmer Player it completely removes my play style from the game.

2. Ascended Gear: There are other things to grind for. I know, its just a few points of difference but still you feel like your char is incomplete when he’s not “full ascended”. And your focus directly goes towards the gear grind.

3. No Dual Classes: With this I want to address the lacking of vailable play styles. This raises expections to bring a certain skill into a dungeon because you don’t have that many choices anyway. Dual Class system brought a certain uniqueness to your class choice. This could be solved with skills that only unlock with a certain amount of points into a trait line. Like a new potion if you put enough point into alchemy and then display a little “Alchemy” symbol besides your class symbol.

4. “Everything has the right to grow” chapter in the Sylvari storyline and everything comparable. Its basically the story of two twins who couldn’t be more different. But as some Hylek start to conjure their goddesses power into their leader, things get all dramatic and the twins decide to now work together. And in the end it is explicitly stated, that “Now we’ve learned, that together we can achieve more”. Right children? Lesson learned? “Yeeees” Dam Anet, please try at least.

5. The gem/money economy. Well, at first glance it seems logical that if more people buy gems, they get more expensive and if people sell them, they get cheaper. Its a simulation of real world economy, right? NO, its not! Because this way Anet wants to ensure that there are equally as many gems sold as bough, that it balances out. Now lets put exclusive hairstyles or transmutation stones or skin splitters or minis or anything that is a “must” for a certain amount of players and then make sure that half of the stuff is bought with real world money in their free-to-play game. And then shrug and say “We don’t force you to put another skin on your Celestial-Pearl-Greatsword, thats all your problem. Well, you still have the Zenith skins, right?”

As I remember, Anet said at some point that they would unlock more Weapons to the existing classes. I posted this here since the “suggestions” topic seems to be in the archive now..

Now in this thread, I wanna see what weapons you wish for which classes and what the skills could look like. To develop said skills I suggest comparing to the preexisting weapon skills of the chosen class and to how the chosen weapon works with other classes.

Ill start with Hammer for Mesmer :P (I can dream, Harald)

1: Energy Crash (0.5s)
Bash your Foe
Damage: 280
Range: 500

Energy Smash
Bash your Foe Again
Damage: 320
Range: 500

Imagined Burden
Smash your Foe and enemies in a radius and applies torment to them.
Damage: 400
Range: 500
Radius: 250
2 Torment duration: 6s

2: Sudden Gravity (15s)
Launches a Hammer in an arch. When it lands, it damages cripples foes in a radius and creates a clone at its location.
Damage: 250
cripple: 4s

3: Phantasmal Brute (20s)
Create an illusion that attacks your foe and causes knockback.
Knockback
Damage: 450

4: Chaotic Protection (10s)
Block the next attack. Block by granting Protection and a random boon to yourself.
Block duration: 3s
Protection: 8s
Random boon: (compare chaos armor)

→ Power Snap
Launch a Projectile at your foe that dazes enemies in a line.
Damage: 500
Daze: 3s

5: Shared Burden (30s)
Damage and Immobilize all Enemies in a Radius at the target location and remove cripple, chilled and immobilized from allies
Radius:250
Damage: 400
Immobilize:4s
Removed Conditions: Cripple, Chilled, Immobilized

improvements are welcome

Horizontal Progression

- The visual customization in this game is gorgeous. Still missing are dyeable weapons and custom animations for skills (Path of Exile for example sells custom animations for skills in their item shop). And after a while you should srsly add the Makeover faces and hair styles to the normal character creation. Otherwise people have to automatically pump 30g worth of gems into their lvl1 characters just to get the face they want. (I think its okay to have a timespan where said options are exclusive though.

- Gif us mor skins. No, seriously, more weapons that don’t belong to a set à la Aeterized Weapon series. Maybe as the new, Ascended materials are added to the game, new recipes can be discovered. I really liked the champion skins

- push bad but fun builds so they become actual choices in competitive PvP. (Thanks for the Aether signet)

- Please more runes that have a lore based theme – like the Golemancer rune. I love that one and can’t wait to get a Husk rune where I can have my own little husk to push around enemies.

- Let each class use a new weapon like Mesmer – Maces or Hammers // Ranger – Rifles // Warrior – Pistols // Necromancer& Elementalists – Swords or Two handed Swords // Thief – Rifle // Guardian – Axe or Longbow // Ingeneer – Hammers

- More instruments in the Gemshop – Im waiting for a Violin

- More stat variety of course.. like Toughness/Vitality/HealingPower or Crit Damage//CondDuration//Healing Power

Vertical/Horizontal progression

- There could be ways to costumize skill effects – like after ascension – which hopefully takes place in the near future. In prophecies we mastered our class in this part of the story. (A class-based short storyline would be nice). Costumizeable skills would mean, that we could fine tune our skills. Choosing between 4 options of a skill where we could rebalance the ration between burn duration and initial damage of a skill or something of that sort.

Vertical Progression

- Seriously, Ascended perfectly fills the gap between exotic and legendary so please, don’t do more Item Levels.

- Adding more Item progression means more tension in the end game. Id love to just be able to unwind and go to the obsidian sanctum with some friends without knowing that I miss valuable farm time in which i could farm the 5 gold I totally need to craft one more exotic item so my Weaponsmithing gets from 426 to 428 and I get a liiiittle closer to an ascended great sword.

- Let the living world be as rewarding as doing Dungeons.

- Ascended Runes that need use the slot on the breathing mask (7/7)

- An Exotic Breather… or an Ascended one right away.

- With further progression, id suggest to add more Squirrels. This game is seriously lacking squirrels and I can absolutely not understand how Arenanet pays so little attention to the rodents that are most connected to the bloodstones and the dragons. Seriously, Arenanet. Squirrels please. Maybe the next Dragon or a Norn Spirit or something, just something…

The visual aspect of the trailer is just fantastic. That tower is really well designed and im totally diggin that blue green color combination of the toxic alliance. But that music… THAT MUSIC. Its generic, its trashy and it goes completely against the enchanted, exotic mood of the update. Please Arenanet, do that again. With some Norn themed update. And with a track that is a little more original. The game could take itself a little more serious outside of the festivals.

Two suggestions which direction the music of the toxic trailer could take imho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWUhIURJW_4 (for being more contemporary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0z08OpmEPc (for being more exotic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjcu1QdapLI (for being more PWNZOR!!!11)

Hey, why not just makin it a inofficial contest for the best soundtrack instead of the best movie? ^^

With all the negative reactions on the new celestial gear I really have to say that imo creating this whole set of armor incl. weapons has an epic feel to it even if I dont have to spend my whole time on farming gold. I get the “journey” and the emotional value of my equipment without actually doing something that isn’t fun. From my perspective this is good design. Apologies and stuff for my english.

Andelyon: + for sounding like Dandelion + for the flow of the name – for not having that rough sillable most sylvari names have 8/10 Total

NIphanae: + for somehow giving me the picture of water lilies + for sounding shady at the same time 10/10 Total

Kerivoula: – for being a thiefs name.. I just despise them.. + vor sounding like some spiky but delicious kind of fruit + for its meaning …. imo would have been more sylvarish if it started with a “C” 9/10 Total

My Sylvari Mesmer is called “Mironar” which should sound mesmerish in the first half and treeish in the second half. I think about changing it to “Meavon”