Guild Wars 2

Maybe it’s an idea that after an event has finished, the scripts are made public on either the site or the forums for people to read them and use it for future reference

Anyone who’s finished Fable 2 knows how disappointing an underwhelming final boss can be (in Fable 2 he literally just stood there, and if you waited to long to one-shot him, an NPC would do it for you). So if they do anything like that, I’ll be severely disappointed.

If what she’s drilling for is indeed an elder dragon, I could live with an overly dramatic cinematic in which she is killed by said dragon. But it has to be extremely dramatic and with lots of slow-motions so that we can all enjoy it to its fullest.

Actually I think it’s secretly Snaff, who’s been resurrected by Zhaitan and is now having his revenge on the world that allowed him to die.

Yay, in-game screenshots with crappy filters applied to them

The moral of this story, never stand too close to an active portal.

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it a “crime against fashion”. Also, before complaining about crimes against fashion, stop committing crimes against the English language.

And nobody is forcing you to wear them, there are plenty of alternatives.

Why is it always that when people don’t like something, it should not exist at all? Talk about self-centered…

I second that, Marionette was awesome and quite possibly my favourite event since I started playing GW2

Vol.7601:

Hmm I stand corrected on the Anet tag representation button! I swear I read a redpost here that said they can turn it on/off :/

I wonder what kind of stuff Anet employees dump into the guild bank ;o

They can, I was in a party with a dev once but he wasn’t representing the Anet guild at the time so he didn’t have the tag.

You don’t have to wait for that though, you can just jump into the Asura gate in Hoelbrak, it’ll take you to the Vigil Keep where you can take another portal to any major city (Rata Sum for Asura, Divinity’s Reach for Humans, Black Citadel for Charr and the Grove for Sylvari).

I often first explore all the cities and starter areas with my new characters, by the time you’ve done that you’ll have leveled quite a bit

All maps are available to all players, every race has its own racial city and a starter map but these maps are free for characters of other races to explore.

I think to be on the captain’s council, you have to be a captain of a ship. Apparently, Evon is just that.

But he’s not a captain in the military sense.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Evon Gnashblade already owns this title. But it would be nice if players could share in his glory!

Evon’s the kittenbag of Lion’s Arch, closing portals to prevent people from escaping isn’t exactly a heroic thing.

It seems that the NPC’s in the refugee camp get swapped every once in a while, Ogden’s Hammer guy is gone again, and someone else is in that spot. Also, other NPC’s have moved around.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Morrigan.2809:

Axiom.6137:

Why is this even in game? Love trolling players that much? Have things really devolved so badly?

They have been warning people away from their city since launch.
at the moment there is a war on their doorstep.
They have never been exactly friendly- what did you expect they would do.

As for why it is in they game, because it makes sense?

If any thing I think it is a really nice reminder from Anet, considering the amount of “oh the Tengu will open their doors” threads on the forums recently

I don’t know about you but if they ever come out of there?

. . . that night I dine on chicken soup. There will be deaths aplenty, and enough to put the massacre of Caromi for feather farming to shame . . .

Unless the devs decide to make them all friendly making it impossible for you to attack them.

Problem?

Found him again

I tried to res someone yesterday, he then ran away (not even a simple “thanks”) and promptly I got swarmed by a bunch of goons that killed me off

Vol.7601:

It doesn’t take long to press ‘Skip’

That sounds like an effort. OmaiGod, not an effort

Sankofa Jimiyu.1567:

the Asuran woman that lost her spouse, who had died in her arms then was taken away to a mass grave…

kitten you, ANet. I am emotionally invested.

My thoughts exactly. Had a bit of a “wtf?” moment there, didn’t expect writing this dark in GW2. People dying in a tale of adventurers is one thing, talking about the actual horrors of war is another because we know this kind of stuff happens in the real world.

This update is much closer to our physical world than a threat by a bunch of Dragons that you never get to see. Wars happen. Look at Syria right now. I think that’s why this whole thing with refugees is much more investing that a bunch of invisible dragons.

WyldKat.4712:

“Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.”
“Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His.”
- Béziers, 1209 A.D.

I say we take off and Skyhammer the entire site from Rata Sum. It’s the only way to be sure.

Why? It’s pretty simple to distinguish between our people and Scarlet’s goons. They have red text floating over their heads.

My guess is that they’re going to rebuild LA, but only with the services you currently find at the Vigil keep, so no more crafting stations. You’ll have to go to the racial cities for those, or fork out gold/gems for a special pass. I think the idea behind this (next to making money of course), is to force more people into the racial cities.

Grimno.6172:

What concerns me most is what Evon and Heal-o-tron is cooking up.

Heal-o-tron wants to help in the assault… Evon says they can come to an… agreement.

Evon is looking for a way to annoy the council, and I think he believes helping Heal-o-tron might help him do that.

I don’t trust him though, he’s a sinister one. I hope it won’t cause more trouble for Heal-o-Tron, he’s only trying to help

Never noticed how most of the Tengu speak with a stereotypical Japanese accent?

I don’t think Hobotron was in LA during the attack, after the attack he saw a possibility to find a new designation for himself, and a way to clear his name. According to one of the healers “He just showed up, wanting to help”.

Marcello is a lazy coward so he won’t do anything like that.

I was almost sympathising with Gnashblade after talking to him in Vigil Keep, but then I read a comment by Smooth Penguin and that smashed it.

I think Smooth Penguin is actually hired by Kiel, to make people hate anything or anyone associated with Gnashblade.

Yesterday I heard the happy line “My krewe’s on the verge of a breakthrough” in the Vigil Keep refugee camp… And then that Asura talked about having carried someone all the way there from LA, and when she arrived at the refugee camp they buried said person in a mass grave. WFT Anet?

Ashen.2907:

OmaiGodman.2098:

Overreaction of the year?

Honest question, do you read the news ?

Even so, I am not sure that logging out of something that is supposed to be fun when it annoys you is an overreaction at all.

If it was something that’s difficult to overcome, I could understand the reaction, but the solution here is to just WP out of Lion’s Arch and presto, the whole issue is solved.

But maybe that’s just me.

I just think they don’t want to take any risk. The air is red with fire and full of toxins. They’re not going to take their time to see if who’s approaching their wall is friendly or not, they’re just not going to take any chances.

Ashen.2907:

This annoyed her sufficiently to convince her to log back out.

Overreaction of the year?

It’s not for Asura PS, it’s for the priory part of the PS.

Obvious trol…

Naii.9810:

Anet should hire Michael Bay

I wouldn’t be surprised if they already did. This was probably his first contribution to the story.

Soon: The dragons actually turn out to be aliens, female characters will have to stop fighting and can only stand around and look sexy, black characters are all going to die and of course, more explosions!

Did I miss anything from the usual Michael Bay Stupid-Sexist-Racists-Exploding method?

I agree, I think whatever’s going to be the replacement for LA should just be an Asura Gate hub, and the services should be available in the cultural cities. This might actually make other cities feel more alive.

Looks like Anet made a completely new set, not based on another set, so now people need something new to whine about. Let’s whine about it being sexy and skin-tight \o/

I really like these sets. I’m not sure if I’m going to use any of them because I’d have to see if they fit on any of my characters, but I’m gonna check it for sure. And if you think it’s too revealing, nobody’s forcing you to buy it. But I take it that you also never go to a swimming pool where people wear even less clothing?

I saw him talking to Gnashblade yesterday in Vigil Keep.

I think it’s called “Out of the Dream”

edit: Actually, I think I’m wrong, just a part that seemed similar.

Shiren.9532:

OmaiGodman.2098:

Shiren.9532:

korelg.7862:

totally agree with OP, this has been really fun, i had a fun time following heal-o-tron xD and then watching Evon being threatened by that pesky little asura from the lionguard

That was really bizarre. Evon is in Vigil keep. No way does the Lionguard have jurisdiction there. Have I misunderstood something about the authority of the Lionguard here? First Kiel is telling Dessa what to do in the freaking Mists and now she’s telling Evon what to do in Vigil Keep. Where does her authority come from?

Since he’s a citizen of Lion’s arch they probably do. He could run away but if they catch him doing so, they’ll gun him down. It’s a warzone right now and then, other rules apply.

But I feel sorry for the guy. First time I ever sympathized with Gnashblade. On the other hand, given the current situation he should co-operate in arming the forces to defend/take back LA, it’s just the right thing to do. Times like this shouldn’t be times to look at money, best he can do is document everything and see if he can get his money after the whole ordeal is over.

No-one is a citizen of Lion’s Arch right now, it was destroyed. He should be free to do whatever he wants outside of Lion’s Arch (can all the other former Lion’s Arch refugees be conscripted under threat of execution?). Even if he were, he’s not in Lion’s Arch any more, how can they enforce their laws on him? Isn’t it out of character for Kiel to use legal technicalities to control people? She seemed to have a problem with the consortium doing that exact thing yet she herself isn’t above doing it to a Lion’s Arch refugee.

He’s still going to profit from all of this and I suspect he would have helped regardless of what Kiel did (he says on more than one occasion, what’s good for Lion’s Arch is good for him).

I’m not saying what the Lionguard are doing is right (I liked Gnashblade’s comment on them being useless, because to me that’s what they are) but I’m not a lawyer and even if I were, I’m not schooled in Tyria’s laws so I don’t know what kind of rule they’re using, but it seems that the Lionguard are in charge of the refugee camp where Gnashblade is currently based, he could probably run but if they catch him he’ll be shot for being a deserter, if he got away he’d never be able to set foot in Lion’s Arch again even if it got rebuilt, and I guess he just doesn’t want to risk that.

That said, the snotty little Asura kind of kittened me off.

Zen Way of Harmony.7980:

CorneliusCoffin.3169:

Well, there’s lots of small pieces of lore in all the refugee camps. If you go there, you’ll find a lot of familiar faces from Lion’s Arch and they’ll tell you what exactly happend to them (although that rarely goes beyond “oh my god, it’s all gone, I lost everything, what am i gonna do now?”)
A lot of it, I find slighty confusing. Like, why is Commodore Lawson Mariner degraded to a simple merchant? Why isn’t Evon Gnashblade selling his stuff through the Blacklion’s tradepost?
And why do people in the refugee camps keep insisting that Scarlet’s attack came totally out of the blue?

Evon is standing right next to several trading post merchants. He never sold things directly, so that makes sense. In lore, the attack did come out of the blue. Marjory, Kiel, and etc. tried to warn the council but were met with no success, extended from the last patch. A lot of citizens are “merchants” now probably to give them more function beyond just npcs standing there.

True, we all knew this was going to happen because of the announcement, but the characters in-game didn’t know anything. They could merely speculate Scarlet’s next move.

Shiren.9532:

korelg.7862:

totally agree with OP, this has been really fun, i had a fun time following heal-o-tron xD and then watching Evon being threatened by that pesky little asura from the lionguard

That was really bizarre. Evon is in Vigil keep. No way does the Lionguard have jurisdiction there. Have I misunderstood something about the authority of the Lionguard here? First Kiel is telling Dessa what to do in the freaking Mists and now she’s telling Evon what to do in Vigil Keep. Where does her authority come from?

Since he’s a citizen of Lion’s arch they probably do. He could run away but if they catch him doing so, they’ll gun him down. It’s a warzone right now and then, other rules apply.

But I feel sorry for the guy. First time I ever sympathized with Gnashblade. On the other hand, given the current situation he should co-operate in arming the forces to defend/take back LA, it’s just the right thing to do. Times like this shouldn’t be times to look at money, best he can do is document everything and see if he can get his money after the whole ordeal is over.

Mine didn’t because the roof of the bank was gone. So now my character was on the ground :P But yeah, that surprised me because they said people would be transported out of LA. Maybe that only happened for low-level characters under lvl 35 or something?

Actually since the Twisted Marionette, I’ve grown quite fond of Scarlet’s story. I wonder how it’ll end

That, or she just marked the locations of the order HQ’s, and then the refugees decided to put up camp there.

I think so, yes.

Such a shame that some people can’t take a moment to look past game mechanics and just enjoy the scale of the event that’s happening in front of them. When I said epic, I was referring to what is happening and the scale on which it is happening. I wasn’t talking about the bugs (there are always bugs in a new release) or the fact that it’s a zerg fest (which, IMO, in this case helps to create a feeling of scale so in this case I see it as a plus).

This is just a lead-up to the series finale, I’m sure next update all will become clear when whatever Scarlet is drilling for is revealed.

Warrior I presume?

I could only play for an hour or so last night but my first impression is best summarised in one word: Epic.

I totally love it.

Updating! /15char

Melborne.1476:

kitten, the world just ended.

Na, it’ll just be LA and it hasn’t happened yet.

And I think it’s a shame that the update has been postponed by a few hours, but to be bitter about it and whine on the forums? That’s just kinda sad…

Gate of Madness is having a small party on top of the bank