Guild Wars 2

From “Forging the Pact”.

“We’re trapped. But I can summon the reinforcements we need to fight our way out. This will require no small effort, but it is well within my power. Stand by. I need a moment to gather my strength.”

Aside from summoning 2 Flesh Worms at the same time back while retaking Claw Island, he doesn’t ever do this again as far as I know, despite fighting alongside us quite a few more times through the game in encounters where having multiple Flesh Golems would be handy to have.

That’s a flaw of the Personal Story. We see cool things like this and they never come up again. This also contributes somewhat to people’s hatred towards him: If he had thought to do this back at the first battle of Claw Island, our mentor would have no viable reason to have to sacrifice themselves.

It’s the dynamic event that happens when you go to liberate the south camp of the Zintl Holy Grounds, where there are two Veteran Risen Krait that you have to kill.

Correction: I have looked back upon a previous thread and it is actually a Risen Krait Hypnoss. I’ll edit the above post so I don’t look as dumb.

Ah yes. That fight. It was annoying that I couldn’t just dodge/shadowstep through the fields without getting stunned/dazed. Also, he puts protection on himself through the whole fight. The only hard part is the abominations, after that, it’s just a matter of catching and hitting that slippery wraith enough. At least he drops a champion loot box now though.

The mission itself is okay, aside from the defense part taking a bit long and the constant stun/daze fields the boss like to use.

Ellisande.5218:

The personal story takes a dive the moment you are forced to join an order.

There was no real reasoning given why you couldn’t continue to work with all 3 orders simultaneously considering that this was supposed to be a huge problem that equally affected and required the need for everyone to work together. If anything, the story only really makes sense if you never join an order and instead spend all the time working to bring the orders together.

^This. You do an initial assignment, then another one helping out one of the sympathy races, then you’re brought right up to the highest rank right after that, then to Lion’s Arch and Claw Island. A bit too fast. And the orders’ constant arguing and biases towards each other got really stupid at times.

Pictured below: Doern has a rather…asinine view of the Priory and Vigil before they finally team up.

frifox.5283:

spoj.9672:

They should just remove jump so its just like gw1. Problem solved.

Make all encounters inaccessible (mobs green, interactions disabled) unless previous one is completed. Problem solved at its core.

No.

“This one. Kill.”

This has to be the dumbest thing I’ve seen in the Gem Store since the Royal Pass and Infinite Continue Coin. Why not just give us the ability to reset our traits outside of combat like they do in PvP? Sigh…

How does that even work? Charr look even more menacing than most werewolves already…

Also, in a dynamic event in Sparkfly Fen, a Veteran Krait Hypnoss can summon regular krait minions to attack you, not risen krait.

And later on in that same mission, a Veteran Krait Damoss during a defense part of the mission. Hmm..

From Forging the Pact: A random krait damoss sitting amongst the roaming undead.

A norn in a wolf transformation keeping their clothes on somehow? Maybe?

No feedback? I’m surprised. I would’ve thought that Gorr maybe having Inquest associates might be a little interesting at least. :/

TriggerSad.2597:

I’d like to agree that more sylvari armor would be a great, but a part of me hopes for an armorset that is a fusion of plant-matter and steel… Sort of have the plantlike molding itself onto the platemail. Would be neat imo.

They had a chance to do that with Twilight Assault too…(Sigh)

Ellisande.5218:

Yeah that sword was such a huge letdown. I was almost happier that Trahearne was forced to use the sword instead of me because my Guardian’s normal Greatsword skills are way better than the ones that come with Caladbolg.

Yeah. In fact, one of Caladbolg’s special skills is the guardian greatsword #2 skill(Whirling Wrath), except moving cancels it, and the energy crescents have the sound effect from the guardian sword #3 skill(Zealot’s Defense?), while Whirling Wrath’s crescents do not(unless they patched that in by now, I’ve noticed they been changing the sound effects on certain weapons for certain professions), which seems odd to me.

It doesn’t matter. They’ll still think that anyone who can’t do it just sucks or doesn’t try different strategies or needs to learn to play. They don’t care.

Talindra.4958:

ping me in game I am in EU server, if i have the time i will try to come along. <3

I’m on an NA server, no dice. And I don’t want to go back anymore.

Good topic.

15 forum brownies.

Get the mini when it comes out then.

Funda.7216:

I do summaries of each release which include all the cutscenes for you to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8wY-pBLajFYeyeyA3axtowONmbkNMRrx

How soon will you get Twilight Assault covered, if at all?

Well, I missed it. And the video isn’t on their channel, so I can’t even see the story bits. I’ll just wait until one pops up somewhere. If one ever does.

Even after the cell holding Wistt is destroyed, the event doesn’t finish.

Ok..so apparently the page is bugging a bit. Hopefully this post keeps that from happening. Or it’ll just break it further. Meh.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Plot twist: Scarlet marries Traherne and retires. The end.

No! You foo—

Shiro Tagachi revives, kills Kormir, steals her power and uses the Jade Wind on all of Cantha, preparing to slam Cantha into Tyria.

Vizier Khilbron comes back and absorbs Zhaitan’s power, becoming the new leader of the Risen and pushing the Pact out of Orr.

The Mursaat, led by Lazarus the Dire, return in force and descend upon Divinity’s Reach and kill the queen, then begin indoctrinating the citizens of Kryta to serve them, and killing/sacrificing those who resist.

Gaheron Baelfire returns and becomes and even bigger fire-lich, blowing up the Black Citade——

Ok, no, that one wouldn’t happen. But the other three probably would, and much worse, if what you say comes to pass. Besides, not even Trehearne deserves to have to put up with Scarlet. That’s just too evil.

That could just be a curse towards the oozes: Jormag tends to be reviled by everyone who isn’t a Son of Svanir/Icebrood. It’s like saying “D@#n these oozes to H#11!!” or something like that.

There is no indication of him being a Son of Svanir. And don’t ever bring that idea up again!

Um..just to be clear, I tried twice on the first day, then the third attempt on the second day. The first two tries went around 5 failures at the boss before too many started to leave, and as I pointed out, the third group held out until after 10 consecutive losses at those two, with no end in sight, even with us knowing the mechanics. Were we not geared well enough, not coordinated enough, not fast enough? No idea. So the answer is that I/they just suck.

So, three consecutive P.U.G failures, at least 20 failures at just the duo boss, and never getting past them to see what other stupid gimmicks would be in store for us. Not enduring any more of that.

Drakkon.4782:

She’s a narcissistic, psychopathic sociopath. She’s self-absorbed, self-important, incapable of empathizing with others, and she hates what everyone else is doing and refuses to try and fit in. Instead, because of her narcissism, she wants to make everyone love her and do things her way. She’s bullied and threatened the Aetherblades into conforming to her will (“Have you met my Aetherbaldes? They work for me because… they like living.”), and when she gets defeated at the Jubilee, she sends mailbombs to the players.

While she is one of the most unbalanced characters to ever have been kittened out of someone’s fevered imagination in forever, she isn’t enlightened. She’s too self-absorbed to ever be enlightened. She cannot even conceive of what true enlightenment is because it isn’t her, and if it isn’t her, she doesn’t care.

And then there’s her “back story”. I put it in quotes because it’s the sort of thing that I was writing when I was 6. She’s applied to and been accepted by all 3 colleges of the Asura. What? No Asura has ever done that, so why would the racially stuck up and self-important Asura allow a walking salad to do it? She’s a blacksmith, but quit because it was too easy. In what universe? Smithing is hard work and leave very little time for anything else. She’s the Six’s answer to everything you’ll ever need. Blindly fall to your knees and worship her.

Excuse me, I’m actually becoming physically ill thinking about how poorly written and implemented she is.

Scarlet isn’t the best villian ever. She’s the worse plot device ever contrived. She’s the laziest type of writing there is. Evil isn’t monolithic, and yet she’s quickly making every evil faction in GW2 fall under her sway. What’s next for her? Dominating the Elder Dragons? The Inquest is secretly working for her all this time and they would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling players? Grand conspiracies don’t all tie up neatly under one little bow. They’re big messy self-conflicting affairs. They have lots of heads and lots of agendas, and none of them get along with one another for too long.

This isn’t normal, but on Scarlet Briar it is. Scarlet. Not even once.

This. So much this. By this point, the Sons of Svanir are the only enemy faction with any dignity remaining, if only for the fact that they’re not working for/with her. It would’ve been neat to see them fighting the Molten Alliance in Flame and Frost, or also fighting off Scarlet invasions in their territory. They’re bad guys, but I’m sure they wouldn’t stand for these other guys constantly showing up on their doorsteps.

Maybe we’ve actually killed them all by now in the Living Story? I guess, since their last time in the spotlight was Honor of the Waves, and don’t really get mentioned now.

The point is that Scarlet is not a good villain or character, just a plot device to attempt to tie the Random Story together to some extent. She’s an utter insult to the sylvari race, and should be destroyed as soon as possible.

Good for you. I get it already. I suck.

I’m clearly not who this Living Story was made for, so I’ll just stick to farming nodes and running the same dungeon paths I can do. That’s a better use of my time.

sirsquishy.8531:

Nilkemia.8507:

In other words, trying to use the in-game chat itself isn’t sufficient. Well done, designers! Need to figure out how to get Skype to work then, I guess…don’t like talking, but who cares?

Good Players don’t need to use chat or VoIP. Good Players can see/understand encounters during the encounter, and then adjust accordingly. This new TA path is a perfect example of that. And since its only 5 players, its not nearly as organized as the new Teq2.0 encounter.

Oh, so I just suck then. Thanks for going that roundabout way of saying it to try and preserve my self-esteem, but I get it. I’m not going back to that awful place.

No. It just gets tedious then. But what would I know?

The offer is appreciated, but as of right now, I have no desire to run that path (or even Twilight Arbor itself) anytime in the near future. My will to even just play the game has slowed down, like I’m stuck in sludge. Thanks, but it would just waste your time and mine.

I don’t claim the “casual tag”.

I play just about whenever I can. In a good group, I can handle all the other dungeons without too much trouble(with the exception of Arah and a few paths like CoF P3, TA f/u, SE P2, etc.) And even when things go get messy, we don’t die over ten times in a row at the exact same fight over and over!

Except of course, Frizz in the Aetherblade Retreat. And now this. With the Super Adventure Box packed up, and Tequatl basically unbeatable with a small group now, there’s nothing else the Living Story has for me.

But of course, that’s clearly my fault, right? That’s what they’ll say…back to farming ore in Orr and doing the paths I’m used to once a day, because that’s clearly all I’m good for.

None of it. I already miss the old Forward/Up path. And I hardly ever ran it.

Have Trehearne create a powerful ritual to retcon her out of existence.

Is it sad that I’d actually prefer him being back in the Living Story now, rather than what we’ve got?

haviz.1340:

Funnily enough, if you want to do old TA paths you have to watch initial dialogue that takes about 2 minutes.

Um..you can skip through that though. Unless they added a new one? Oh wait…you have to watch Caithe and Turma talk….sigh.

Estevan.4065:

Agree with you guys, but its a new way to give “expansions and new content” in mmorpgs, they are still learning the right way to do it… lets hope it will get better with time.

So far it’s been few hits with a lot of misses. They’ve had a while to figure it out, and so far I’m left with barely any hope it’ll get better.

In other words, trying to use the in-game chat itself isn’t sufficient. Well done, designers! Need to figure out how to get Skype to work then, I guess…don’t like talking, but who cares?

Never again.

15 Rytlocks slamming my head in a door roaring “Are you having fun yet, b!$%#?!”

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Jordo.5913:

Ellen Kiel wins the election, now what?

WE DON’T KNOW!

Why did Tequatl get stronger even though Zhaitan is dead?

WE DON’T KNOW!

What is Scarlet’s motive for going bat kitten crazy?

WE DON’T KNOW!

And this sums up ‘The Random Story’ plotline.

Fixed for you. Apologies, it’s just more fitting.

I suppose Eir suddenly having a son out of nowhere works too, just because we didn’t know much of her past besides her time in Destiny’s Edge? No.

Even if it doesn’t turn out to be a retcon, it’ll just be stupid, or get dropped and never be brought back up.

No. Just get rid of it.

What could Scarlet possibly know about Caithe that even Faolain wouldn’t?

Don’t know.

Xalugami.2096:

Parisalchuk.9230:

We dont know. She never says… probably because their lore team would rather write a short story about it then put it actually in the game…

You make it sound like they actually thought of something. To me, I only see the whole “I know a secret but wont say it because I got stopped” as a move to take when you can’t actually think of a reason.

I smell either a fake-out or bad retcon on Caithe’s past incoming.

That’s still bad storytelling.

Still…this so-called “secret” seems like either a fake-out by Scarlet, or another bad retcon incoming.

Everyone in the last group was willing to learn and try to figure out the mechanics, had a great deal of patience and perseverance and it made no difference. We still lost. After that, I don’t feel like ever going into Twilight Arbor again. And even if I did succeed, I’ll never want to do it ever again, so no point in trying to learn/remember it for later.

It’s just no good.

Correction: Everything she’s accomplished up to this point is too nonsensical to be believable.

SynfulChaot.3169:

There are many people around here that would not mind helping you out, myself included. I believe a few a bit further up offered as well.

It wouldn’t feel the same. I’d basically have to be carried. I hate that so much. I’d hate having to put “experienced only, want to see the story” and being an utter liability the whole time, as even one or two people messing up can reduce the whole teams effort to nothing.

Correction: only one offered any help..and they were from EU, so no dice. The others are just more “hardcore” jerks who come here just to put people like me down even further.

It’s not worth it at all to go back there, since from what I’ve read, we don’t even get any good story, just more pointless hints. Sigh.. Living Story is dead on arrival again.

Mordalus.8146:

I hate Anet’s philosophy to make encounters frustrating and annoying instead of difficult. Why can’t we have difficult and fun instead of frustrating and not fun?

Because apparently frustrating and not fun is what the playerbase wanted, and we now suffer for it.

Well…that’s it. I’m done. I’m just not good enough. And I never will be. No more. I have no desire to endure that garbage path ever again. Everyone who worked on that should’ve been sent back to the drawing board to fix everything wrong and make it fun…or be fired and replaced.

I only wanted to run it once to see the story, help Caithe out, and keep her from getting turned evil or whatever stupid plot Scarlet had in mind, as well as maybe learn something more about her. But apparently bad gimmicks and buggy content matter more than actually having fun and telling/experiencing a good story.

I’d go watch a video of it..except the closest things related to Twilight Assault is a WoodenPotatoes video where he talks about lore that anyone who cares will know about already…and the preview from September 30th..which showed nothing past the stupid ooze puzzle. And this talk of “Caithe’s secret” already is beginning to look like another awful retcon incoming.

And those “hardcore” players will continue to flame anyone who points out anything bad about the dungeon, just to bloat their own egos and feel superior. What happens if this bad, gimmicky, hard-for-all-the-wrong-reasons content is the only new content from now on? What if the other dungeons get hit like this.?

I don’t pretend to be the best of the best, but I’d like to think I can at least manage somewhat decently as long as I know what to do. I’ve managed to go through every dungeon with P.U.Gs, and as long as the group is good and we know what to do, we can handle it pretty quickly and without much trouble, except for COF Path 3 (which I’ve never done) and Arah explorable(have done a few, but they always take so long to do, and suck).

Now I don’t look forward to any more dungeon revamps, seems like they’ll just make them worse. TA f/u had it’s bad parts with the instant kill swarms and last boss, but even that is better than what we have now..and you could just do the other two paths instead, since the story is pretty much the same between them.

I no longer regard the Living Story with a “wait and see, it might be good”, but instead, “This will probably just suck.”

First impressions tend to be the most important ones, and this dungeon path has left a horrible one for me.

Never again.

And with that…things finally fall apart. My third attempt, over 10 tries at just the duo boss, the best group I’ve had yet for the path, and nothing to show for it except all of my armor and back items damaged at this point. Time to give up.

Oh, the Jungle Wurm’s out? Whatever…I don’t care…