Guild Wars 2

Don’t worry. She only used it once in Queen’s Jubilee and still missed.

Delvoire.8930:

Thanks for the Spoilers!!!!!!!!

:p

5 lvl 80’s and still haven’t completed the personal story lol

Whoops. Guess I should’ve spoiler tagged it…oh well. I suffered to save many.

I first thought it was a neat thing, but now I’d rather not see it spread. If it sticks to certain enemies, fine I guess. But if not…well, it might just make things more irritating.

Actually, what would be nice is if the invasive weed finally died or just vanished without any trace and was simply forgotten.

Killing/corrupting one or both of them soon into the story would just repeat what the Personal Story did with killing characters off, and then we’d stop caring eventually.

Also, seeing as an ancient Forgotten ritual is pretty much the only thing we know of that breaks one’s mind free of corruption, unless we have that on hand without needing the altar in Arah, being corrupted is pretty much irreversible. So…not sure how a few quests to break it would work at all.

So no. Keeping them alive and well is actually better right now.

Zaoda.1653:

Looks very abaddon’ish. I hope Anet release tormented weapon skins one day, similar or identical to those in GW1

Expect them to end up in the Black Lion Chests like most of the good ones nowadays.

zencow.3651:

Jennah pro tank!

http://youtu.be/7SWBSMO_daI

Wow…Separatists are stupid.

On topic, I’m surprised no one mentioned Agent Spire. Although, most groups I join kill the champion wolf now…

“I’ve never failed a mission, I won’t fail this one.” (Runs back to the wolves and dies)

“You’ve clearly never had any other missions.”

It probably isn’t, since you’ll still get some from the golem, Bjarl/Husk/Destroyer, and Subject Alpha. Still most teams I’ve been in will try killing it unless someone asks to skip it, or if we’re pressed for time (daily reset).

As long as they make sure to ask/let the party know ahead of time, it doesn’t bother me.

If you don’t want them doing that, just say no when they ask if it’s okay, or just put “no char swap” in the party description.

Seems intended for now, since they hadn’t bothered to fix it.

Meanwhile, that one bug that let people do multiple paths in one run got fixed.

(As far as I know, that one didn’t do anything innately harmful, and didn’t ignore diminished return, just allowed you do run them all without having to go back in and out each time. Of course, that was too convenient.)

Also, the Portal/Blink trick that let you ignore the turrets for the golem also got fixed.

(Although to be fair, that one messed up the instance if you killed the boss without activating the turrets, so that one was better off gone. And the golem goes down fast with boon removal.)

The champion icebrood wolf can still just be skipped anyway, though most won’t do that anymore unless they’re pressed for time.

No. It’s not worth it at all. Even Forward/Up was better than that. Why did they destroy that path for one that has nothing to do with Twilight Arbor itself? Seriously, aside from the jungle wurms and Nightmare pups in that one part, that place could be anywhere else and not much would have to change.

Forgive my generalization/oversight.

Correction: By now, most people who wanted to run that content have gotten what they wanted from it, or gotten tired of it and moved on to other things, be it the Tower of Nightmares, or other things they feel like doing. Now it’s a chore to do anything in the Labyrinth, especially if the Horror’s out and about.

Your best bet would be to find others who still want to do that content and all guest to a certain server…and I’m not even sure how well that would work.

-New patch.

-Read the mail.

-See whatever little story there is at the moment.

-Check meta-achievement reward/temporary rewards.

-If they’re useful/desirable, grind for them and get it done ASAP.

-If not, ignore it.

I used to care. Seeing the little story bits almost make me care again. Grinding for the meta rewards/other temporary rewards makes me quickly stop trying to care, as well as all the things that require a small zerg to have fun with.

By this point, I’m about ready to say that they should just go with expansions. I mean, it worked for the first Guild Wars, right?

That does bring another thing to mind. Not only do they probably not know we took it, they probably wouldn’t know where we took it either, since the krait have never shown any indications of knowing about the capital cities in the first place.

Xae Isareth.1364:

They did just set up what seems to be a biological weapon right on DR’s doorstep and plans to pollute the whole world with it (or they seem to) so they clearly do have some bite behind their bark.

That was after allying with a faction of the Nightmare Court, as well as a certain invasive weed. And it’s not clear if all the krait are in on this alliance, since the krait off in other areas like Timberline Falls and Mount Malestrom seem to be un-toxicated.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

If any doesn’t make sense, it’s the Grove. But even that place is heavily defended, otherwise the Nightmare Court would have assaulted full force.

Hell, I’d be disappointed if shards don’t get confiscated by the Priory, as they’re known to have a vault of magical and dangerous items.

The Nightmare Court did assault the Grove in the White Stag storyline, and it was implied that they’d be willing to wreck the place to get Malyck in the Where Life Goes storyline. Although, they may not have the ability to do that now.

Maybe the Priory got some shards and gave one to us for our home instance? Eh…just a thought on an in-game way to explain the shard being in our home now.

The deaths I can recall:

-Your mentor (Forgal/Seiran/Tybalt) at Claw Island. (the one everyone remembers)

-Demolitionist Tonn, if the fear you chose was of someone dying because of you.

-Lionguard/Crusader Apatia, if your fear was of someone suffering because of you.

-Explorer Hekja, if you choose to attack the Mouth directly.

-Tegwen (as Konig Des Todes said, it’s especially personal for a sylvari that picked Act With Wisdom) in the Vigil path when invading Orr.

-Explorer Kekt, if you choose the Priory Path.

-Arda Gyreshriek, at the end of the Priory Path.

-Agent Zott, right at the end of the Whisper Path (sniped by the last boss of that path, no less.)

-Havroun Grechen in Against the Corruption.

The sad thing is that most of those characters get just enough time for you to become interested in them, and then they’re killed off (Forgal/Seiran/Tybalt, Tonn, Zott, and Apatia come to mind especially so).

On top of that, even if you don’t pick the paths/missions for the that lead to the deaths of certain characters, they still don’t show up in the rest of the Personal Story, implying that they still died regardless.

Basically what Redenaz said. It’s uncertain if they even know we took one. That, and the krait have never raised a big enough army to invade a capital city. And considering the locations that the krait live in (along with them being snakes), the only cities that they’d be a threat to are the Grove and Divinity’s Reach. Maybe Rata Sum, if the asura don’t just shut down the entrance from Metrica Province. Hoelbrak and the Black Citadel are rather far away from any krait areas, and Hoelbrak’s cold weather might be a problem for them.

The only other way they could invade the cities is if they managed to take Lion’s Arch. (Again, unlikely. Only Zhaitan got close to doing that.)

-Fumesra/Fumesral

-Fungalus/Fungalia

Umm…that’s all I’ve got right now.

Hmm, asura?

Also, they probably didn’t test it. Seen how close Moogaloo village is to the tower’s wall? The quaggan might as well evacuate ASAP, since they can’t get food from the water now.

And that’s why I never play it.

By this point, everyone’s gotten their achievements and moved on to the Tower of Nightmares. You’re better off just doing the event dailies to fill the achievement requirement.

Still, you bring a good point nonetheless. Quite a bit of the recent Living Story stuff only goes really well with many others around too, otherwise it’s just annoying and painful to deal with.

Revival animations? Eh…I don’t care.

You realize they’ll give us an annoying achievement grind for that too right? Plus, unless Marjory continues to have those items for sale after this patch ends, it will be pointless.

Shiren.9532:

As much as I like Marjory and Kasmeer, making Scarlet an actual villain by allowing her to kill one of them would probably the best thing to happen to the Living Story.

No. After all the deaths in the Personal Story, I’d rather not have it becoming a trend in the Living Story. The only character that needs to die is that invasive weed.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Side note: Anyone else think that Kasmeer and Marjory are lovers? I say so because of:

Marjory Delaqua: I’ve been thinking about Scarlet.
Kasmeer Meade: She can’t have you.
Marjory Delaqua: She’s behind all these crazy alliances. I’d rest my reputation on…wait. What did you say?
Kasmeer Meade: (laugh) I think you’re right. She has all the landmarks of a blooming psycho hag.

Marjory Delaqua: You did your bit, Kas. Go on back to Divinity’s Reach where it’s safer.
Kasmeer Meade: You’re sweet, but I couldn’t leave you here alone.
Marjory Delaqua: I’ll be fine, cupcake. Go on now.
Kasmeer Meade: Mmm, I don’t think so. I would, but to be honest I’m itching to see what’s in that tower. I think I’ll stay.
Marjory Delaqua: Hm. If you insist.

(Marjory calls her “cupcake” – though Jory does seem quick on endearing nicknames, she only calls Kasmeer such, as well as “Kas”)

(less so)

Kasmeer Meade: Marjory?
Marjory Delaqua: Yes?
Kasmeer Meade: If we don’t make it out…
Marjory Delaqua: We will. Promise.

Then there was how Kasmeer says the final line in:

Kasmeer Meade: The moment they break into the tower, we should head down there.
Marjory Delaqua: What’s your hurry? Let them clear it out a bit first.
Kasmeer Meade: This whole place has mesmer magic woven through it. I don’t want to miss a single thing.
Marjory Delaqua: I see. Curiousity killed the cat, you know?
Kasmeer Meade: Meeeow!

And just their overall conversational tone. Kind of makes me wonder if there’s more than just “business partners” and “friends” between them… Which would prove to be an interesting plot development with potential.

Yep yep. I noticed it in the other thread asking about their working relationship and came to this conclusion. It was already kinda hinted when you talked to them in the Dead End, but now it seems all but confirmed.

Well…my thoughts so far.

-The story instance was okay, it was nice to finally see Kasmeer and Marjory fighting (and doing better than even Destiny’s Edge). Sadly, it’s just too short—we help them, they go back to camp, and we give Marjory spores so she can eventually make an antitoxin to get us in. I’m already wanting to see the next story bit, but I’ll have to wait until November 5th to get a peek at the next bit.

That’s a problem with the Living Story. The “story” comes little bit by bit, enough to get me a little interested but never enough to leave me satisfied, always leaving me wanting a bit more.

-The Toxic Alliance are…meh. Nightmare Courtiers and krait, both groups that hate everyone else, suddenly working together because Scarlet found some shards of an obelisk.

-The achievements were…okay, besides the three really annoying ones. One upside is that you can just do the “event dailies” and get the krait obelisk eventually. Still, it felt more grindy than Halloween.

The new Dreamthistle weapons are kinda neat. I think these should’ve been in Twilight Assault instead of the “Aethermare” weapons we got. Sadly, they were put in the Black Lion Merchants instead. Seriously, how is the Black Lion Trading Company getting these? Are their agents able to loot the skins off of the Toxic hostiles we kill or what? Thus, with them being bound to Black Lion Tickets/Scraps/RNG, I will most likely never get those skins. Oh well. Would’ve wanted a chance to get them off the enemies themselves, or be able to make them from recipes from Marjory somehow, but no dice.

And the 3 new armor skins…I don’t care. I saw them and while they’re not bad, they’re not really good either.

I think that’s all, unless I missed something.

Edit: I did…Marjory’s recipes. Oh well, I’ll look at them later. (yawn)

Look in the water, near the corsair who you play Belcher’s Bluff with. It should also appear as a skill point on your mini map when inside the home instance.

Wow, really? People do that? Yet another way for trolls to run rampant…that’s how bad this achievement is.

That still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a stupid, contrived, gimmicky achievement. When a farm train is the only reliable way to do it, something is wrong.

Well, good thing I stuck with the Consortium sickles I had. Do I keep my dignity with those?

Oh…her again. Sigh.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Because if those clumps of nodes had a 100% output rate, people would stop doing Offshoot events and collect Spores far more quickly than intended?

Try stopping and thinking about something besides your own gains and you might see the reason why next time. Balance, player-motivation, etc.. So many factors besides how easy you want the content to be.

Um…so? All of the things from Marjory cost 250 of the pristine spores apiece anyway, and believe it or not, I don’t feel like waypointing from offshoot to offshoot, dealing with things taking half a minute to load fully, and all the annoyances of those offshoots with it. Sometimes I just want to get something by myself without needing to be in farm train all the time do be able to get them quickly.

Unfortunately, that’s apparently asking way too much.

Never seen that before, it was always “Zojja” before. Interesting change though…wonder if any other important “characters” could show up here.

Queensdale again? Eww..I don’t like that place. Fine..if I must.

And now for the not-so-great achievements.

Krait Bane: You have to kill three specific champion Krait Witches, in Caledon Forest, Kessex Hills, and Timberline Falls. All of them are very annoying to deal with, and in the case of the Timberline Falls one, annoying to get to as well (and it can summon other krait to knock you off the tower it’s on. Because that’s apparently fun.)

Toxic Krait Historian: Find (and commune with) 24 krait obelisks throughout the world. Another scavenger hunt. The only hint you get is that they’re wherever the krait are already. Of course, it’s not indicated how many are in each of the zones they can be in, nor is it indicated which ones you’ve gotten already, so better have a pencil and paper out for this one! Sigh…

Toxic Spore Cleanser: Kill 25 spore-corrupted creatures. Sounds simple, right?…

Except…

-Only certain veterans/champions get this spore corruption to begin with. No regular enemies seem to ever get it, so you can’t just kill any of the Toxic hostiles standing near the tower or anything simple like that.

-The chance of them getting the spores is completely random. And not just as in “they might have the spores when they spawn or not”. You have to wait anywhere from several seconds to several minutes after they they spawn for them to maybe get spore corrupted.

-While this can seemingly happen in any zone, only veterans or champions from dynamic events have a chance of these spores being on them (can’t just go for the local wandering veterans/champions).

So the only good way to do this so far is to just stay in Kessex Hills and wait for the farm trains to call out champions with the spores and run over there as fast as you can, since the waypoints they spawn at get contested.

Sigh.

I guess no one else cares…just me then, whatever.

So let me get this straight:

-Only veterans and champions (that we know of so far) can get spore infected. Which makes no sense when all of the Toxic Alliance should be infected by just being around the tower. So I can’t just hunt regular enemies?

-They don’t get it when they spawn, instead taking anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes to maybe get the spores.

-There’s no clear cut way to tell if they get the spores except to sit nearby and target them to see the infection, wasting time.

Such an annoying achievement. Just why?

Then I should be thankful that whoever is in charge of these forums is more tolerant/forgiving than you.

As for Twilight Assault, I’ve learned my lesson there: any dungeon involving Aetherblades is a huge waste of time. I’ll avoid them and never run them again.

Well, it’s not my fault no one else has posted here up until this point. (shrugs)

Part of me would like to think it’s because they’re waiting for me to finish this, but I’m sure they just don’t care. And besides, it’s not like I can tell people to post/not post here, that’d be selfish and arrogant of me. (And I can’t even do that anyways.)

And apologies for the pictures making you bitter. I didn’t realize they could do that to people.

But, anyway….guess I’d better sum up the simple achievements before getting on to the irritating ones.

Toxic Siege/Demolitionist/Golem Gardener: Basically complete 3 each of the separate types of offshoot destruction missions for each of these 3 achievements. If you’re going for the “destroy 25 offshoots” one, you’ll probably get these without thinking about them.

Toxic Alliance Slayer: Kill 100 members of the Toxic Alliance. Simple.

Toxic Global Gardener: Destroy toxic offshoots in 5 different maps. Simple, as long as they’re actually up in those zones and people are there to help. Not so much otherwise.

Edit: And you also bump your posts far to much since they don’t invite discussion and could easily be pushed into very few posts. For example, why are you going over the achievements one at a time in separate posts when you could just combine them.

The main reason is that since attachments (the pictures, in this case) can only be placed on the bottom, below the text, and stacked on top of each other one by one. Condensing all the initial posts in here with the pictures would result in a huge wall of text, then a column of pictures, which wouldn’t look that good. As for the posts on the achievements, I though of putting pictures there later, and I wanted to talk about the more annoying ones separately anyway. (There is a limit to how big posts can go, after all.)

GoldenTruth.2853:

Another patch, another blog post spam thread by Nilkemia which could easily be condensed into 2-3 posts (though blog posts shouldn’t be on the forums anyway).

I’m just posting my thoughts on it, trying to be as thorough as I can in one thread instead of spreading it out over lots of them. And since I take lots of pictures, might as well use them.

So what’s your problem?

Isn’t it also per day? I read somewhere that you can get a skill point once per day from it.

Toxic Weed Whacker: Aid in the destruction of 25 toxic offshoots. You pretty much stick with large groups in Kessex Hills for this one, since there are up to four of them at any given time in the zone (compared to only two each in the neighboring zones where they appear). On top of that, most are surrounded by Toxic enemies, with quite a few Veterans, even when it’s just a few people around.

It’s okay…while people are still zerg farming these things. When they’re not, it’ll be a pain.

Does it bother anyone else a little that they decided to add another junk item? It just feels like a way to limit the speed of gathering Pristine samples from open world nodes, thus encouraging players to group up and farm the Toxic Offshoots, since those won’t give you junk samples.

The Nightmare Unveiled: Just do the story instance and you’ve got it. Nice and simple.

Toxic Spore Sampler: Give 50 Pristine Toxic Spore Samples to Marjory.

Pristine Toxic Spore Samples come from Toxic Seedlings which are spread about in many zones. (in groups of 3 or 4 clumped together in certain spots) They also appear from destroyed Toxic Offshoots and spore infected creatures.

This one’s…okay, for the most part. It’s nice that with the normal Toxic Seedlings scattered around anyway, you can do this yourself without relying on a group farm train being around for the Toxic Offshoots (although that does get more faster, especially in Kessex Hills.

Except…the regular ones will usually give you Mushed Spore Samples—another junk item. It happens with at least half of the open world Toxic Seedlings I harvest. (Thankfully, ones from Toxic Offshoots and infected creatures will always give the Pristine Samples)

The Mushed Spore Samples just feel like a cheap and unnecessary way to keep people from just exploring and gathering them all the time, thus encouraging players to attack the Toxic Offshoots for guaranteed Pristine samples. Still, this achievement is one of the easier ones..

And now for the achievement grind, because every Living Story has one of those…

The meta-reward this time is a Krait Obelisk Shard (basically a commune point which you can use to get skill points and charge quartz crystals) for your home instance.

Being something useful, I intend to get it.

It requires 14 achievements to get , and there are daily achievements for it as well (only one per day, due to Halloween still taking the other), some of which you need, since there are only 11 you can gain outside of the daily ones.

Once again, some are okay, other are just irritating. At least most, if not all of Halloween’s achievements could be done by yourself. About half of these are only okay to do with a zerg train.

Well, thanks you all. Guess I’m off to Queensdale then.

Should’ve realized the patch notes were full of junk when they claim elites are new when they’ve always been in the game. Shame on me.

Picture below. Either they’re not showing up on the map, or they’re not there. I can’t finish The Toxic Global Gardener achievement because of this.

So apparently Scarlet’s behind this too. Of course. Apparently she’s given them shards of a krait obelisk, which is apparently their most sacred object. This has managed to not only break their stubborn xenophobia, but get them to work with a faction of the Nightmare Court on equal terms (trying to revived downed courtiers and all).

I’m torn. While I like some of the new mechanics somewhat, the story is still rather nonsensical, with yet another improbable alliance with no clear goal besides just making things worse for everyone around them.

They really need to let you do that with every skin you get, especially the gem store ones.

Keehee! That paragon one made me giggle.

Zayd Akira.1942:

It’s pretty obvious they’re “together”. They might as well as had them wear “I’m hers and shes mine” T-shirts with arrows pointing at each other.
The line OP mentions isn’t the only one that lends to a romantic relationship between the two.

Yep. Even their dialogue from the Dead End sorta indicated it. All we need now is them holding hands or a kiss to confirm it beyond any doubt.

Veron.8645:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Why are people suddenly talking about this now they have always been in certain parts of the open world since the beginning of the game Example this guy has always been a silver/elite he just used to have the title veteran over his head.

I think it’s because the patch notes make it sound like a new thing. Poor communication.

Silver mobs have always been around, and very common. Their names used to either not say anything special or say “Veteran”. This was confusing because the bronze mobs are also called “Veteran”. Essentially all they did was add the word “Elite” to the name of every silver mob.

Pretty much this. Also, silver enemies counted as veterans for Daily Veteran Slayer and all that, just being stronger than veterans but not quite champions. Not sure if they still count now with the new rank.