Guild Wars 2

Forgot to mention this as well.

The image on this page also has similarities to the layout of divinity’s reach.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bloodstone

After the orb smashes into the middle orb, probably representing Tyria, you see the circular movement come together into a symbol which i thought looked familiar to the one seen in divinity’s reach map layout. So i put them together and the result is this….

Coincedence or not?

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u23/iRoElonar/DRandEA_zps6a37443f.jpg

Possible spoilers here.

Tried to make a speculation on what happened in the eternal alchemy with a description in the video.
I’m not sure, this information could have been discussed already. But I made a video just for fun. wondering what people think and what their thoughts are on what this cutscene means exactly. I think that in the living story, our character and other characters are not really on the right track when it comes to understanding the eternal alchemy just yet.

What I’m trying to speculate is that the cutscene shows us information about the order of awakening of the Elder Dragons and that the orb that smashed into the middle orb is symbol for Zhaitan’s death?

There’s some logic in my opinion, but it can be awfully wrong as well.

Finally, but very far fetched is the last screen of the cutscene where a type of symbol emerges. This symbol, if laid on top of the map of Divinity’s Reach, could be literally called a blueprint for the city’s layout.

Wondering what people think….?

In previous games, one my biggest reason to keep on playing and improving myself was the guild vs guild battle feature, fighting with your guild against other guilds. I really enjoyed WvW, but it’s getting stale to be honest, and not challenging anymore. It’s available for everyone 24/7 which makes it perfect for anyone to play whenever you want. But seriously, you’re so dependant on others from so many other guilds, and so dependant on your coverage, timezone, numbers, etc. It’s more a battle about who can show more people over all time zones now. WvW is still fun, don’t get me wrong, but even though it’s available 24/7, doesn’t mean it’s fun to play 24/7.

I’m getting homesick to the old games where weekly preperation was needed to get ready for your weekly fight to attack or defend anything against other guilds. You needed to plan and organize and try to synergize people/classes/builds with eachother with each a different role to play. GW2 has no classic healer or tank etc, but the classes are so incredibly creative here that it would make me really exciting to try to synergize different groups together for a big battle plan.

It would be so thrilling and exciting if you can actually fight over certain objectives in a 1 vs 1 guild situation, where challenging any guild from any server is possible. Be it capture the flag, death match or whatever where you can fight in a 70 vs 70 situation would be epic.

In my previous game, I was responsible for rostering 80 players over 13 squads each with a specific role. A lot of organization was needed for it, but it was VERY rewarding if you actually won in a 2h+ battle, or lost but know you improved things. It wasn’t too hard to mobilize 80 players in a max 200 member guild, because it was only once or twice a week event.

I’m not saying that World vs World isn’t fun, it’s very fun. But honestly what GW2 really needs, is something that gives most guilds reason to invest and play with eachother. Gw2 should definitely not copy other games when it comes to guild competition, but we really need something that isn’t as broken as WvW right now.

Kasmeer is going corrupted?

The golem is clearly inquest, and inquest have recently formed an alliance with the aetherblades, so it wouldnt be weird to think they are part of the living story. I’d rather see white mantle back though.

The explosions on the Zephyr Sanctum seem to be from within. Maybe what Taimi could detect inside the cargo, but didn’t know what it was?
No idea though :P

The monsters you see are the Thorn Devourers. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Thorn_Devourer

Helioz [HEL]

Helioz is a hardcore World vs. World family guild with a very relaxed, respectful and mature atmosphere. We have a deep history on the Sanctum of Rall server and recently transferred over to Tarnished Coast. Helioz is both NA and Euro based with respectable numbers in both time zones.

Even though WvW and tier 1 tends to become very competitive and we strive to do well, for Helioz, fun is the most important drive for us in WvW. We have a very tight group who enjoy each other’s company on the battlefield while kicking kitten .

We run WvW raids almost every day in both European and American time zones (Euro raid starts at around 1 pm server time and NA raid starts at 5pm server time), lead by one of our own commanders. Every Thursday at 5pm server time we’re holding profession night in which everyone is encouraged to play the same class that is being discussed that night. Of course we do reset night each Friday in World vs. World. We also offer guild missions every Sunday at 12pm server time.

What we are looking for
We are looking for both beginners and veterans in World vs. World in either NA or Euro time zone. We have no class or build restrictions, we only ask you to attend the scheduled raids which are mandatory to attend if you’re online and to have mumble installed. If you’re interested in joining, you must be either on Tarnished Coast, or willing to transfer over.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them by contacting one of our leaders!

Rules

• Respect guildies and non guildies alike. Drama won’t be tolerated.
• Scheduled raids in WvW are mandatory when you’re online.
• You must at all times represent Helioz. We won’t be difficult about personal guild banks though.

Website
Helioz.enjin.com

Guild Leads

• Lord Green Arrow
• Desdemonas

Thank you very much!

I don’t think it’s a loss for anet (or for me and many others) to lose players who only think that farming gold in a queensdale train is how the game should be played.

Maybe it will appear in Aurora’s Remains (north or south of this area?).

It would be fun if Livia is still alive. If so, she hasn’t been showing up yet. She might have run off to cantha? Wasnt she last seen on a ship near Orr?

As for the scepter of orr, i didnt see any info of where it is now. The most logical explanation would be that the scepter is given to Livia’s successor as leader of the shining blade.

Helioz is still recruiting

JoeytheHutt.1742:

I dont understand why ppl have a problem with goodbye posts. I understand why Anet dont want them, but other players?

Because 99% of the goodbye posts are simply QQ posts (just like this thread), where OP is crying over what he/she didn’t like about the game. So instead of just moving on, he or she has to keep on posting and giving their reasons for why this game supposedly sucks.

Nobody cares if you dislike the game. If you can’t let go, it just proves you’ve been highly addicted.

Their reasons for not liking the game are often not even valid. Take for example the OP’s reason for the role a class play’s (The OP’s essay on multiplayer play). From half reading his/her post, it seems that queensdale champ train or Orr train, some casual dungeon and living story content was the most this OP has ever done.
Go into WvW and experience real combat at first hand and you’ll learn how important certain class roles are in real PvP based battles.

Only yourself can make the game as boring or as interesting and exciting as possible.

Stormcrow.7513:

Is nothing sacred?

Every mini panda is sacred, no matter how many there are

4527 hours. 0 drops from mystic toilet or normal drops.

But in the meanwhile, made 4 legendaries through farming.

Rewards in EotM is too high.

Take the karma/lvl exp and other rewards away, or decrease it by a lot, and you get a lot less karma trains. You’ll get a lot of QQ though if anet does that. Also, the amount of karma train seekers in the borderlands is luckily now very very low. So it all has ups and down sides :P

Anet should give us better loot reward upon killing players, would totally motivate those karma whores to engage in fights instead.

A presentation video of our guild. A little long (11 minutes), but worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgNqhlRTW0

Anyways, we’re recruiting and especially looking for condi necro’s. But any class is welcome

arcticface.5372:

I personally believe that the obsidian sanctum should be a non-pvp area. Majority of people go there to do the amazingly difficult jumping puzzle that i for 1 adore and try to do daily.

I find it more interesting to discuss why people even try to do that jumping puzzle daily…

To me, EotM is a playfield with lots of bags walking behind a commander tag. Only worth it if normal WvW has little to no action. We go into EotM to hunt bags, and look for orange swords on the map and go there. Then wipe entire zergs with a lot less numbers, uplevels melt easy.

WvW borderlands is where the actual fun is. If you don’t have a lvl 80 player, don’t worry about following a commander. Don’t think, just follow, and make sure you’re listening on voip. Because not knowing what’s going on is worse then uplevels tbh.

Don’t expect to be accepted in groups all the time though, uplevels are often seen as easy rallybots for the enemy.

Of course, the server you play in also play’s an important role. Not all servers have decent WvW going on.

http://captiongenerator.com/15374/Super-Secret-BG-War-Council-Meeting

This is just not getting old yet

Yak escort roleplay in WvW, seems like fun

Simon.3794:

my zerker staff ele fire aa squishies for 5k…
and bunker staff ele are so hard to kill.
i seriously don’t know what you are talking about.

My thoughts exactly. My ele is seriously doing awesome in WvW.

I’m pretty sure that 95% of the posters here never properly played staff before in WvW/PvP, based on the comments made….

Head: Reading Glasses (turned off)
Coat: Phoenix Light Armor (Gem Store)
Gloves: Heavenly Bracers (from Hall of Monuments)
Leggings: Masquarade Leggings
Boots: Phoenix Light Shoes (Gem Store)

Dyes:
Celestial and Fling

Today we did bounty. We only had about 4 to 5 groups. So a max of 25 people who participated. We split 2 bosses over the groups, 3 to one boss, 2 to the other. When one boss died, we made those groups come over to the other boss, however, everyone there ended up in a different megaserver map. We were all repping the same guild, so i don’t really understand why it would go wrong?

Megaservers clearly proof to be not working correctly for guild missions.

I tried the sigil of water. My healing power was 300, and i did 432 healing or so. Not that much, but after i traited aquatic benevolence, i healed people for about 540.

I was wondering what other ele’s think about this sigil, what do you think of the amount it heals and would it be worth it for zerg play in WvW ?

Sigil of water is actually pretty good…..

Restoration isn’t reliable enough. It depends on if the people you can tag, will die or not. Surely nice if it kicks in at the right time, but overall not too reliable.

Also wondering what your first sigil is. Renewal is on weapon/attunement swap. Take in mind that two sigils with the same mechanic/type don’t work together. Like sigil of battle and sigil of energy won’t work with renewal.

Eitherway, sigil of water procs a lot because it’s ON HIT, not on crit. With a bit healing power you could heal up to 500+ per time it procs, and in a zerg you heal multiple people per time.

I don’t see the reason for all the QQ about megaservers. I find it a good development by Anet. It will seriously make things more alive for all servers.

Anet already explained how megaservers work. If you have 100+ members who want to kill tequetl, simply let them join into one guild first, then invite em all over. You know, when a map is full, a new one is created, if members of your guild go into the new one, the other members can join on those who are inside that new one. Simple as that.

And non casual PvE? lol

The PvP skins you own are going to be put in your wardrobe?

That looks a lot like my build.

I’m 100% staff though, and always in a zerg. I also use another heal (arcane brilliance) and use lightning flash (uber important imo). Also use tornado for elite.

I do switch between 30 water or 30 arcana though, but the 20 in earth for geomancer’s freedom is what i never switch out. With melandru runes and lemongrass food it’s just too good. Of course i use blasting staff (must for any WvW staff ele) in my arcana trait.

And i also have ascended soldier armor, trinkets and all that stuff.

It’s a good build, and often im the lone survivor. Of course positioning is really important for us, because no matter, if you’re focused by many, you go down.

In the future I’m going to try and build it more so it’s going to be better for support maybe.

This thread made me realise that megaservers makes a lot of things possible that would help the game lore wise.

It’s now much more feasible to make seperate maps for Orr (The corrupted Orr and the cleansed Orr). And keep the population high enough for either maps to work.

Healing power (main)
Vitality
Toughness

Narthexia.1836:

Retsuko.2035:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ornate_Ruched_Shirt
So will i be able to use this in combat (usable as armor skin)? or is this one of the items that they change into an endless tonic or whatever?

And i take it, Reading Glasses can now be used as armor skin for headgear?

Because it’s a single item it will become a tonic.

You will not be able to dye it and you will have Anet fill in the rest of the clothes with it, you can’t just put this shirt on and have pants of your choice.

That would make it pretty pointless to me to keep the shirt. Wish gems could be returned for it, not going to wear something obviously where i have no freedom of mix and match.

Also funny, i once made a thread with a suggestion.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Town-Clothing-thoughts/first#post2750914

I guess they indeed don’t listen to us at all :P

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ornate_Ruched_Shirt
So will i be able to use this in combat (usable as armor skin)? or is this one of the items that they change into an endless tonic or whatever?

And i take it, Reading Glasses can now be used as armor skin for headgear?

I already have an effective staff bunker build
Stone heart is interesting of course, but definitely not necessary.

Peetee.9406:

If it was about building a better game, we’d have account bound WXP by now. But we don’t have it because it doesn’t make them money. Money money money money money…..

You got a point…

And it’s been so long ago that anet told us we’d get account bound wxp, I totally forgot about it.

That’s only an assumption you’re making.

From the news post on gw2 site.

This is to allow players who don’t have enough tickets after 1 tournament to purchase a weapon and upgrade it after a subsequent tournament.

Meaning, either buy it with 300 tickets now, or spend some now on 1 item, and buy another in the next tournament to eventually get it as well.

It still motivates players to move over to the more stacked servers right now, simply because they don’t want to get the weapon after the 3rd tournament, but want it now.

I think it’s a VERY bad move by Anet to put the price (300 tokens) of mistforged hero weapons as high as that. Only the servers placing 5th or higher can get the weapon, while those on the servers on 6th place and below won’t get enough tokens to buy it.

Surely it all depends on how well your server does, but seriously? any pve player getting the achievements can get the weapons, while the hardcore wvw player on the lower placed servers won’t? Excluding players from getting the skins, only motivates players to server hop to the bigger ones.

I’d love to see orr getting updated with signs that orr is being cleansed from zhaitan’s corruption. I’m sure gw2 can make a new updated map of orr, accessible to those who finished the personal story line. Just like in GW1, it should be an area that you only get access to by finishing content. Of course, Arah dungeon is accessible from both cursed shore maps.

Helioz having fun!

The white mantle has never been gone.

If you done the human personal story line with “unknown parents” choice at the char making screens. You’d encounter the white mantle who killed your parents, and try to kill you. But instead you get to kill the white mantle yourself with logan. According to Anet, they are clearly not just hiding in maguuma jungles, but also infiltrated within kryta.

Maybe the next expansion or living story arc will show us more about the white mantle, who knows.

A master and ruler are two different definitions. Surely a ruler can also be regarded as a master. And a master can be a ruler. But the difference between them is that a ruler owns land, while a master owns people.

At least that’s how i look at it. From scarlet’s point of view, the sylvari’s master until now would be the pale tree. The new master for the sylvari could thus now become mordremoth. Of course that’s just guessing. Maybe she just talks big and just tells us all to bow down and submit to mordy.

Jelle.4623:

To cut your theory off, secondary corruption does not kill an individual. When a charr gets corrupted by let’s say Jormag, he can still be corrupted by Kralkatorrik and followed by perhaps Zhaitan. This is shown in the Crucible of Eternity dungeon. Sylvari die before they get (fully?) corrupted. That’s a difference with other races.

Also, on another note, I’m not 100% sure of this but I believe that the Nightmare exists within the Dream. I therefore believe it to be plausible to be corrupted by the Nightmare, you also have to experience the Dream.

Ok, thanks for the additional info.

If sylvari die once corrupted, was scarlet just going insane, and she wasn’t corrupted?
Each dragon has a different type of corruption, honestly I don’t know what mordremoth does exactly. Maybe he can simply make minions out of plants and seeds. If the nightmare is not a type of corruption (initially it’s a corruption) that comes from mordremoth (maybe the dream and nightmare is only related to the pale tree), maybe it’s feasible that sylvari are just mind controlled by what mordremoth put in the seed or something. One thing is certain, mordremoth’s presence was inside scarlet before she entered the machine and the pale tree knew. Quote from a wiki page: " Vorpp has speculated that since the only things that were in the chamber were the things that she had brought herself, she must have been exposed to a part of her psyche that had been walled-off, perhaps for her own protection".

Why scarlet and not someone else? Maybe it was simply coincedence. The pale tree tried to protect her from the dragon’s presence to keep her from being controlled by mordremoth (probably not directly). But she kept going, and clearly it only takes 1 sylvari to get him to wake. If it wasn’t scarlet going insane, his waking would have probably happened later sometime in a different way?

DarcShriek.5829:

If the Nightmare is a form of corruption, why didn’t Mordy just use Faolain. Instead, he chose someone that wasn’t part of the nightmare, wasn’t part of the dream, wasn’t soundless. Also, why a sylvari? The other races don’t have a dream protecting them, did it have to be a sylvari for Mordy to corrupt? IS he not able to corrupt non plant based life?

Like i mentioned, if all sylvari share the same nightmare, it could be that the nightmare itself is some sort corruption that is programmed inside the seeds. That’s why i think that sylvari are minions of mordremoth. The seeds delivers his army, the nightmare within controls it.

Question remains, where did the seeds come from? All we know is that they were guarded in a cave by plants, and there were a lot of seeds. How old are those seeds, and how did they get there is a mystery. Would be cool if they were from the last time mordremoth was awake, means they are VERY old.

I know this theory is not popular, but I’m starting to think that Sylvari are actually minions of Mordremoth. And maybe what I’m saying isn’t quite correct or this theory has been shared already.

In the final scenes with scarlet she told us that Tyria will get a “new” master. If you think about it, the first question would be then, who is the old master? Second question is how would you define the word “master”. What sets apart a master from a ruler is that a master has slaves. So to answer the first question, you might want to look at the pale tree and the tablet’s teachings. The sylvari are basically slaves of the pale tree. The dream of dreams which includes the ventari’s tablet basically shapes the sylvari before they are awakened.

The sylvari can’t be corrupted. But how would you explain scarlet? Maybe, just maybe, all sylvari are already corrupted already by an elder dragon before they awaken. And because of that, they can’t be corrupted by another dragon.

The dream of dreams is shared with all sylvari who awoke from the pale tree, and only from that pale tree.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dream_of_Dreams
The link explains it on the wiki. What they know when awakening is planted inside their brains basically. So when scarlet got into the machine made by Omadd, I suspect that the dream of dreams that protect all sylvari from Mordemoth wasn’t able to keep her protected from the elder dragon. The pale tree told her to stop but she didn’t. afterwards it slowly devoured her and she was unable to keep her sanity. As the writers have said, she lost her sanity over time. To me it was an obvious hint towards the jungle dragon when in Scarlet’s Journal it mentioned that it called her from the forest. Also it’s said that what drove her mad, was something she carried within her already before she entered the machine, something I believe all sylvari carry within them.

I think the nightmare tower living story update might have been a huge hint for us about Mordremoth’s way of corruption. The nightmare is something all sylvari share as well. I know Malyck doesn’t share the dream of dreams which is only limited to everyone related to the pale tree. But if Malyck shares the Nightmare with all the other Sylvari, it could very well be related to Mordremoth in my opinion and a very valid clue on who the sylvari are exactly. It’s the nightmares that Scarlet witnessed (according her journal) that made her insane.

In short, I believe the source of the Nightmare within the sylvari is from Mordremoth, and is his method of “corrupting” or bending his minions to his will. And scarlet might have been the first to get exposed to his corruption. The dream of dreams, fueled by the ventari tablet protects the pale tree sylvari (excluding scarlet) from mordremoth. Probably the nightmare court and any other sylvari not bound by something like the dream of dreams are most likely vulnerable once mordremoth has awaken (which just happened).

Mattargul.9235:

Heh, CDS. Those were the days.

“WvW – Defending Bay SBI map against 2 servers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYRhBIAg5fE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxv38aBA3M

edit: Just watched it. Doesn’t quite show the epicness of that whole battle. 2 hours holding a swiss cheese Bay against SBI and TC assaults. If you were there and remember it it was fantastic. One of the great days in my GW2 time.

Awesome vids from miasmic
So many names i still recognize! Only a few CDS i know I still see in WvW now and have transfered to TC, like Aurust, Kayku, Raes, Crom, Faal and Fudge. I wonder what happened to the majority i saw on the vids.

jojojoon.8607:

TC has also gotten a massive EU guild in that outnumber every thing on BG so right now we do not have the advantage.

Which guild did TC get? At the moment, HB which resides on BG is the largest EU guild that I know of on NA servers ? If an EU guild that is larger than HB just transferred to TC, I think there would be more buzz about it. So far, I have not heard anything. Please let me know which guild it is or I am assuming you are making it up. It is just very difficult to believe what BG says about EU coverage, since not to long ago, BG claimed that SOR outnumbers BG in EU even though IRON and a few other guilds have transferred off already. It just seems like we hear BG say every server they face outnumbers them in EU.

TC gained Helioz from SoR. Hel has mostly NA’s, but also a good amount of euro’s and NA’s who run at EU timezone. Think Hel puts out about 15~20 people daily during EU.

Bharel.4328:

Retsuko.2035:

Normally i’d believe that too if not everyone moved away. And with everyone, i mean all the WvW guilds are literally gone. In the early days SoR had WvW guilds that made the difference (Choo, TW, Caedas and such). I wouldn’t be surprised if SoR moves down eventually to tier 6 or even tier 7 because with no real WvW presence, it’s really hard to get new WvW guilds to your server when the general WvW population is going down so rapidly.

In the early days I am speaking of, we were ranked #17 or below, which is tier 6 or 7. The server was starting to come together and find our footing in the GW2 world, heck WvW still had orbs back then. Caedas was a really big presence in WvW for us. There were other guilds specializing in WvW, but I specifically remember CDS because their commander Alpaca Owl was a near constant presence in WvW as was Mara from EPIC (Thank you, Kyro for straightening me out on that) and they were quite good commanders at that.

Yes, it may be difficult to get new people transferring here while server situation is in a state of flux. I think our first steps in stabilizing our WvW presence, is awakening the dormant WvW population of the server and re-engaging the lapsed WvWers. Sure, this may not mean huge numbers or send us shooting up through the tiers, but it is important to start at home for us.

That is probably your best bet as server, to get everyone else active.

I remember alpaca Owl, wasn’t he in Choo though?
Miasmic Spiritsong was the commander for Caedas. I was in CDS at that time, when Miasmic left the game it was kinda done with CDS in WvW as guild.

Bharel.4328:

Back in the early days Sanctum of Rall was known as a fun server to fight against, there were posts on the forums from other servers telling us how much fun the match was. We weren’t a big threat or anything, we just tried to have fun out there. I think that’s where we are headed to now as a server. WvW isn’t a job or real war, it’s meant to be fun. So enjoy yourselves and have a blast out there.

Normally i’d believe that too if not everyone moved away. And with everyone, i mean all the WvW guilds are literally gone. In the early days SoR had WvW guilds that made the difference (Choo, TW, Caedas and such). I wouldn’t be surprised if SoR moves down eventually to tier 6 or even tier 7 because with no real WvW presence, it’s really hard to get new WvW guilds to your server when the general WvW population is going down so rapidly.

Quite interesting to hear all the theories on what made “SoR” implode. :P

Anyways, many of the SoR WvW community (several guilds) actually transfered together. So in a way the community isn’t gone, it’s just partly on TC now.

For my guild it was a choice between either a stable T2 server or TC. The latter was chosen because most agreed it would give us more prospect in the long run (activity during our euro raids and recruitment). I don’t think the euro presence would be enough in tier 2 to keep us satisfied, and going back to tier 1 to TC proved so far to be a really good choice.

Fun idea, but anet keeps saying they won’t do what other mmo’s have already done. And fishing with a rod for fish is already done

I was touring through Tyria, looking at houses and discovering places, like in Lion’s Arch which is gone tomorrow

And suddenly something hit me. I’ve never seen a bath, a shower, a sink or toilet or anything that has anything to do with common hygiene.

The only conclusion i can come up with is that the people of Tyria have never heard of hygiene, and just smell really bad. If dragons’s won’t wipe out humanity (and other races), i’m sure an epidemic will!