Guild Wars 2

BrotherBelial.3094:

Ronin.7381:

Celestina.2894:

BrotherBelial.3094:

onemantankwall.3641:

Invidia.9074:

I’ve got another idea.

We know that Scarlet used the Breachmaker to direct a surge of energy from the ley-line to Mordremoths sleeping place. I am wondering if redirecting the flow of magic in the ley-line did not cause it to become permanently connected to Mordremoth. This could potentially allow him to feed on a much more rapid rate than he did.

My guess is that Mordremoth has not awakended yet, he is in a sort of pre-awakening state, and needs more magic to do so. As a dragon connected with plants, he might be using the vines as a root system to suck on magic from every major source (much like Mouths of Zhaitan). Or this might be a sign that a major branch of the ley-line became somewhat corrupted by Mordremoth linked to it.

don’t see this being it either, it goes against scarlets vision/her motive of doing everything she did, if she wanted the pale tree choked by vines she wouldnt prolong mordys awakening, plus the vines isnt just sucking up random magical energy, they ATTACK the pact directly knowing what happened to zhaiten, mordy didnt take any chances of getting pewed pewed, ur theory would hold if it wasnt for the strategized attack against the pact

And how do you propose Mordi knows what happened to Zhitan? Did he leave Mordi a voice mail? As far as we know Mordi has been asleep till scarlet woke him up.

Mord has been in Scarlet’s mind, it’s pretty safe to assume she knows about Zhaitan’s death unless you’re seriously gonna tell me news like that doesn’t spread fast. Anything Scarlet knew, so did Mord.

That and it was described in the story as being the case for Zhaitan. All of the dragons minions and champions act as conduits for reconnaissance. Not only in assimilating the individual does a dragon learn who they are but also what they know. We also don’t know how long Mord has been active while asleep, as he was only awoken recently but clearly Scarlet had been under his influence (whether sylvari are minions or not) for some time prior.

We do not know if it was Mordi. People keep moaning this with zero evidance to back it up. It’s best guess work. As I said in an earlier post, the voices could be anything. From her just being nuts. To it acutely being Mordi. We do not know. So just saying yeah it’s because he can read her mind is not an answer it’s a guess.

Then why was the breach maker only able to address the jungle dragon when it was only a rumor to exist?

And when she says she sees the pale tree being strangled by a vine, isn’t it odd that vines are appearing in droves in Tangle Root. You’re telling me they have no correlation.

Also, Fort Marriner in LA is flickering.

Someone mentioned Concordia is now doing it too but we all know Concordia is DoA come Tuesday :P

Strange too. Seems like it’s out of synche because Explorer Campell is setting “important artifacts” from the Tower of Nightmares right beside the vine in Fort Selma. So far no other NPCs accept maybe one Quaggan is taking notice. Although the one Quaggan’s commentary could refer to the Centaurs instead. He says something along the lines of, “It’s too dangerous here.”

Lasica.5068:

I don’t know if these vines grow underwater, but if they are following the route of the ley line has anyone checked the breechmaker drill site in Lion’s Arch?

The other day but nothing seemed different. LA still makes weird noises and when you go down you see the same graphical affects that were there at the conclusion.

Advent Leader.1083:

Has anyone noticed that most of the WPs with personnel in them, or is a location with a lot of people the ones entangled fully yet? I have a bad feeling that they’re going to cut off reinforcments to those places…

I’m not sure that’s the case. Seems odd then why the Tunnel’s Waypoint was the first of them to get get wrapped around by the vines. Story wise, it doesn’t see too much traffic given that the cave system has three WPs. However, it does seem for right now that the Waypoints on the Northern tops of Kissex Hills are only be subjected to. Not finding any South. All the same, the Waypoint next to the zone-in for Metrica isn’t being touched either.

Did anybody mention how the WP in Fort Selma is now being grabbled, yet?

I’m not necessarily seeing a pattern yet but I haven’t checked all. The WPs in Dry Top are still only being “tapped”.

Either way, on the plus side as long as ANet maintains their servers, nothing is preventing you from logging in and playing again… well except maybe the downtime you might have to do endure if you uninstalled.

ipan.4356:

The problem is that everything Anet does – trying to herd people into the gem store – actually will have the opposite effect, as it pushes people away from the game itself.

While the prices and uses of somethings I do not like (cough assassin outfit) at the same time I am way more ok with them focusing on the gem market than say what The Old Republic is doing. They actually take out lousy tiny elements and force you to sub in order to have those unlocked, or you have to unlock most features in order to use them. You take an experience hit and you can’t get exp boosts via the rested bonus as this is locked away from players who are F2Ps or Premiums. Plus, you can’t take in game credits and turn them into CCs – but you sure hell can in GW2 via their in game currency.

lordkrall.7241:

So they should never ever have sales?
You are aware that every single product ever released does always have sales or price-drops at some point, right?

Not to mention there’s the whole, “Do so at your own risk.”

Maybe it’s the game playing tricks on me but it seems like two handed weapons expand when unsheathed. Could we get two-handers to be built for scale for Asura?

Wanderer.3248:

If the NC is aware of it, it’s likely that the knowledge is in the Dream, and therefore the Pale Tree and other Sylvari would be aware of it too.

If Caithe knows of it, it’s even more unlikely that others aren’t aware of it.

The Pale Tree is aware of it though, that’s why it was pleading with Ceara “not to go any further”. In efforts to prevent others from following in the footsteps of those such as Scarlet, the Pale Tree is trying to hide something from her children. It could be argued that the Pale Tree has known about the existence of Mord since it became aware of itself and was acting preemptively to prevent others from straying too close. As we see with Scarlet, she got too close and as a result became instrumental for Mord’s cause.

EDIT: Although there’s reason to suggest that Scarlet may have had some ulterior motive based on the quote found on the complete Spinal Blade’s Blue Print: “Caithe, one day you’ll see that Tyria needs me.” She just became a tragic villain in that her death of course lead to the breach maker meeting its destination – there is nothing at this point telling us what she would have done had we not intervened and she were allowed to continue.

She was however still instrumental which appears to be working for Mord’s benefit.

Chokolata.1870:

What is this obsession with the PC being the main guy. I am perfectly content being one of the main guys but part of a bigger picture.

I don’t think it’s about being “the main guy” but rather recognition. Think Elder Scrolls, everyone reverse to for being The Champion of Kovach or The Dragonborn who saves the Empire/Stormcloaks. People don’t like some minor character who ends up taking center stage using you as their idol in which they rouse the crowd with. That’s what Traehern did, he knew what we were doing for him and even looked to us for council but in the public eye he was the one above everyone giving a speech of encouragement.

Personally I don’t care much either way. I don’t need recognition for good deeds but I can see why people didn’t like Kormir and furthermore weren’t fond of Traehern either.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

So, I guess people complain if they do, and people complain if they don’t. It’s unfortunate for the Devs.

You can’t make everyone happy. Many will complain just for the sake of complaining, some love their soap-boxes.

Wanderer.3248:

The idea that Scarlet might use an Elder Dragon against the pale tree makes more sense to me than the idea of Mordremoth using Scarlet.

Heh, Scarlet is dead and there aint no using Mord in her future.

Perhaps it would have played out that way. A common flaw in most villains is hubris, thinking they’re in control when they’re actually in way over their head. Though I don’t think it had fit her MO, she didn’t hate nor discriminate the Pale Tree – more so she simply wanted to be free of the burden that was limiting her curiosity. It’s not like where the Nightmare Court is literally trying to change The Dream in their image, Scarlet was just pursuing knowledge and as such was driven mad by what she found.

Reminds me a little about Saren from Mass Effect who thought the only means to survive was through working with the Reapers. Arrogantly he thought he could learn to resist indoctrination and then lead the Reapers under his control instead. Clearly it didn’t work out like that, he was being the puppet and not the master.

Right now it’s difficult to determine but hopefully that’s what these coming episodes will divulge in.

Celestina.2894:

BrotherBelial.3094:

onemantankwall.3641:

Invidia.9074:

I’ve got another idea.

We know that Scarlet used the Breachmaker to direct a surge of energy from the ley-line to Mordremoths sleeping place. I am wondering if redirecting the flow of magic in the ley-line did not cause it to become permanently connected to Mordremoth. This could potentially allow him to feed on a much more rapid rate than he did.

My guess is that Mordremoth has not awakended yet, he is in a sort of pre-awakening state, and needs more magic to do so. As a dragon connected with plants, he might be using the vines as a root system to suck on magic from every major source (much like Mouths of Zhaitan). Or this might be a sign that a major branch of the ley-line became somewhat corrupted by Mordremoth linked to it.

don’t see this being it either, it goes against scarlets vision/her motive of doing everything she did, if she wanted the pale tree choked by vines she wouldnt prolong mordys awakening, plus the vines isnt just sucking up random magical energy, they ATTACK the pact directly knowing what happened to zhaiten, mordy didnt take any chances of getting pewed pewed, ur theory would hold if it wasnt for the strategized attack against the pact

And how do you propose Mordi knows what happened to Zhitan? Did he leave Mordi a voice mail? As far as we know Mordi has been asleep till scarlet woke him up.

Mord has been in Scarlet’s mind, it’s pretty safe to assume she knows about Zhaitan’s death unless you’re seriously gonna tell me news like that doesn’t spread fast. Anything Scarlet knew, so did Mord.

That and it was described in the story as being the case for Zhaitan. All of the dragons minions and champions act as conduits for reconnaissance. Not only in assimilating the individual does a dragon learn who they are but also what they know. We also don’t know how long Mord has been active while asleep, as he was only awoken recently but clearly Scarlet had been under his influence (whether sylvari are minions or not) for some time prior.

Evans.6347:

The known ‘facts’ about Abaddon is that he was apparently beautiful and kind, and highly proficient in the use of magic. Slowly he corrupted, with his physical appearance changing accordingly.

He really didn’t start going into diabolical territory until the other gods stepped in and tried to moderate the amount of knowledge he was allowing the humans to have. This kittened him off more than anything, offending him because he thought the knowledge he had should be shared. The gods of course were worried that man would become too powerful.

Once the gods acted against him, that’s when he started to retaliate. After the gods gathered the bloodstones, put them into the volcano, and let it erupt to spread them out thus preventing mortals from putting them together.

skullmount.1758:

Oooooh, new pictures on the tumbler: http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/post/91269491739

I wonder if those pistols are going to be new skins too. Shame they’re pistols but hopefully they’ll have rifles too if not bows (short and long) as well.

Mugiwara Luffy.1087:

I thought they released it just so that eventually every stat combination becomes available.

Agreed. It was the only combination that seemed like a no-brainer, to not have it was nea mind boggling. Sadly though I don’t think it changes much, it’s at the point where it’s just come in too late.

Lishtenbird.2814:

narwhalsbend.7059:

There was also Ventari and his followers in the Maguuma that planted and founded the Pale Tree.

Would be an interesting twist if this centaur turns out to be an ally offering help in protecting the Pale Tree… say, from an evil corrupted Nightmare Tree which is the source of the vines (because as we know from sylvari personal story, there’s more than one sylvari Tree in Tyria).

Personally I’m wondering if the Centaurs are the bandits whom the citizens of Prosperity pay dues for in exchange for supplies. However, it would also be understandable that a tribe catering to Ventari’s teachings could build up and thrive in the span of 250 years.

I just hope they’re not so connected with the plot and more of civilizations established in what is believed to be desserts. You know… nomads.

My feelings are that the Pale Tree, in gaining sentient life,. knows where it came from (Mord) and knows what being tied to such a beast entails. Being that the Pale Tree grew based on Ronan’s courage and Ventari’s ideals, it came to conclusion that Mordremoth is more destructive than helpful to all of Tyria (ED’s are practically bulldozers on a world-wide scale).

So by trying to beg Scarlet, “not to continue further”… keep in mind that Mord was awoken seven years earlier than he should have been. I think maybe the Pale Tree was dreading this moment and that’s why it was trying to keep the truth of The Dream secret, because the secret is at the heart of it there’s Mord – the grandfather everyone hates or should.

I’m inclined to believe The Nightmore Court nor Feolain or Caedern, know the Pale Tree’s origins. They’re more or less blind to the threat and merely saw Scarlet’s goals in some way coinciding with their own while not realizing what it was Scarlet had seen. There’s a disconnect in that whole mess, that the Nightmore Court unknowingly is playing into some plot beyond their control but in being unable to see it they of course believe they’re trying to make a better life for the Sylvari without Ventari’s teachings.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Sylvaris didn’t exist when the world began because they are non-essential to the well being of Tyria. That’s nothing but a Sylvari propaganda — the Sylvari race can disappear and Tyria will continue to exist.

Technically, humanity can disappear from Earth and it would continue to exist, too.

Honestly, there is a point here . . . the sylvari are not here to keep the world in balance, I think. They’re here to help ensure this iteration of the cycle of Elder Dragons waking doesn’t end in everything being destroyed and them going back to sleep.

That’s right. The sylvari are Tyrian Commander Shepherds.

. . . kill them quickly before we get to the asura building a machine they don’t know how it works based on desperation and it offers only a choice of red, blue, or green.

I hope not. I really hope that isn’t the case. The Sylvari just being a new product of Mord’s children are more plausible to me than making them out to be Tyria’s antibody. Especially considering the Dragons don’t devour magic and instead, via incorporating it into their being, slowly give it off while they sleep. The EDs themselves are Tyria’s reset switch… making the Sylvari pretty much redundant.

I hope we don’t kill it. Rather have them simply drift off into hibernation after passing out and rest for another cycle of centuries.

Kalavier.1097:

Fort Salma is said to have a vine at the waypoint as well.

Anytime you see a Waypoint flicker too, you can be sure a vine is soon to appear.

Well the Pale Tree is in the Grove but the vines are going East and are spreading into Kissex Hills now. If its target was the Pale Tree, it’s making one hell of a detour.

Kalavier.1097:

Ronin.7381:

Kalavier.1097:

Like when Zojja comments on the Iron Forgeman being a dredge creation. I wanna punt her, but I know that she truly doesn’t know better because the original forgeman was destroyed 250+ years ago.

I don’t think it was destroyed. You didn’t fight it in Sorrow’s Furnace, it was just a set peace where you oogled at it and went, “Wonder what it would be like to fight that.” That being said, the Asura then weren’t really breaching the surface so they had no idea what the Stone Summit and Dredge were doing then. If anything the Stone Summit would have fought them out, tried to enslave any Asura who entered, and/or killed them. So yes, they really didn’t know much about it.

Um, you explicitly destroy it. It’s a quest. You kill the rage-binders (that’s their name IIRC), then kill the three djinn/elementals powering the forgeman, and he exploded after that.

The dredge/inquest simply gathered the wreckage and started rebuilding it.

Right but you don’t actually fight it is what I meant to say.

Dakota.4591:

munkiman.3068:

Attached is the path. Some of them i notice are flickering, some aren’t but have vines and some have both the flicker and the vine.

I’m wondering if the flickering has been there since the end of LS season 1, after the drill punctured the ley line, and we’re only now noticing it because the vines are starting to follow it backwards.

Nope. It wasn’t doing this in Dry Top last Tuesday at the launch of the update. And now it’s moving East. There are now three vines in Kissex trying to tap on the Way Points. So far though only the one Way Point in the cave is actually being grabbed and wrapped around. I’m surprised Dry Top isn’t being devoured yet.

Still no signs in Timberline Falls yet though. This is kind of exciting.

Fawx.9064:

This is amazing.

I have to admit, all the hush-hush while we keep downloading new small patches is pretty interesting. It’s literally growing and most people have no idea. Now they’re wrapping around the WPs.

Wonder if any Asura say anything about it. Or any NPCs for that matter.

Tiscan.8345:

Funny/Scary thing is… a device like this is mentioned in game (in scarletts room if i remember correctly)

That’s because that’s how she was dispatching Aetherblade units on Lion’s Arch.

I miss the rewards for completing the achievements myself. This RNG BS is annoying.

Kalavier.1097:

Like when Zojja comments on the Iron Forgeman being a dredge creation. I wanna punt her, but I know that she truly doesn’t know better because the original forgeman was destroyed 250+ years ago.

I don’t think it was destroyed. You didn’t fight it in Sorrow’s Furnace, it was just a set peace where you oogled at it and went, “Wonder what it would be like to fight that.” That being said, the Asura then weren’t really breaching the surface so they had no idea what the Stone Summit and Dredge were doing then. If anything the Stone Summit would have fought them out, tried to enslave any Asura who entered, and/or killed them. So yes, they really didn’t know much about it.

Galen Grey.4709:

Scarlet was a prodigy sure but no where near as perfect as people make her out to be.

Well even Taimi remarks about how simple the Steambull’s head is when you get to enter Scarlet’s little cubby in Dry Top.

darkace.8925:

Don’t worry, she’s wearing Plot Armor. She’ll be just fine.

Super-Armor. FTFY

I’d think if there was any dragon-fight for him to get involved in, it would be this one. Better now and take the opportunity so once this threat is over we can hop into the next Season focusing on Prim, Jorm, or Kral.

Why would Svanirs care anything at all about Mordremoth? They serve Jormag’s purpose and the EDs do not have allegiances to one another.

Ashandar.2570:

Things change. Doesn’t mean they get better
Personally I don’t mind if they do something to the pact camp in Timberline, It will just be another reason for visiting that zone, which I think is one of the most beautiful zones in the game

It’s my personal favorite. So I’m interested in seeing us go back there and what will be shown.

However, I do admit that Kissex Hills was done poorly. For the event it was cool but now it’s all gray and flat where the Tower was. Would have liked to see the place grow back around the destruction at least.

Tanith.5264:

I know we’re still processing the information, but I’m a mite surprised that no one’s remarked on the centaur at the beginning of the clip.

I figured they were the bandits of whom the Town of Prosperity gets its supplies from. Everybody seems really hush hush about how they survive there around the us, strangers, when we ask questions.

So I wonder, the objects floating around that beam of energy… they look like bones. Is Mord materializing using the Ley Lines as it’s frame work? That would be trippy but also make it incredibly large (maybe that’s what the tree represents being in the center of Scarlet’s drawing,). I doubt it’s the case and am inclined to believe I’m over thinking it, the skeptic in me is shaking my head but I see this screen shot and tilt my head.

!http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gw2-entanglement-release-teaser-33.jpg!

EDIT:

Also
!http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gw2-entanglement-release-teaser-141.jpg!

Looks like a schematic of Rata Sum. There’s another screen shot of them inside of a cave looking at some kind of cube-like holographic.

Those three months and some weeks were probably spent trying to develop the entirety of Season 2 all together. Either they’re half way done or just about finished in order to ensure updates on a two-week rotation. I don’t know about you OP but I’d be pretty mad if they left us with Dry Top and had us wait another four weeks but we so far have Episode 2 right around the corner with the new trailer already up – telling us it’s on schedule.

Yeah Dry Top is smaller than I would have liked and I do hope they open up the map more if not all the way and at least bigger than Dry Top itself. However, comparing this to Season 1 Episode 1? I like the direction they’re going here. Story is bleh but I usually quick read and click away.

I’m thinking Meguuma Falls is the endgame so it’ll probably be some time before we actually arrive there. Plus with Timberline Falls, there’s some detour to be had.

My only request is that for Kralk they rip off WoW’s Deathwing. :P Of course balance it for GW2 but none of that Zhaitan nonsense.

Xenon.4537:

Looks to me like we will get to actually see a layline for the first time! At least that’s what I think the floaty energy thing is at 0:17.

My thoughts exactly. I think that’s what’s in the mine since the last time Scarlet was there she was digging in the mines. The Troska said they found a Ley Line but after Scarlet went in deeper the place collapsed after her. This leads me to think we’re going to use the mine to escape. Don’t quote me on that but it looks like we’re getting boxed in.

Also it looks like the town of Prosperity is going to get overrun with Mordremoth’s vines.

And this is where I think we’re going to use the mines to escape. In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a vine attacking the first Waypoint in Drytop. Although I’m not sure when that started but it’s constantly trying to tap it. Not to mention a couple days ago that waypoint and some in Brisban had been flickering like something was interfering.

With the Vines encasing the zone entrance like it is, bandits which appear to be approaching, I think what’ll end up happening is we escape through the mine. That would explain the ability to cross over and get to Timberline which appears to be getting sacked just as hard.

It does make me wonder though if we’ll be locked out of Dry Top for some time then… similar to what happened during the Defense of Lion’s Arch where you could only go in at certain times and for a limited time. I’m thinking we may get locked out permanently for following two weeks while we change course and head to Timberline (my favorite zone in the game no less!) and investigate why the Pact is being attacked there.

Gotta love speculation but also gotta be careful, it’s easy to get hyped.

lordkrall.7241:

Indeed, it does seem to go straight for the Pact at least, which would suggest it has already identified one of its major opponents. (And Prosperity if it sees us as major threats as well ^^ )

Well Prosperity is a given. I mean it’s Meguuma territory so Mord is right bellow it. But it’s going practically right across the continent.

I wonder if that’s a ley line the emerald things are coiling around. That could mean maybe we use the mine to escape? You have the thorns on the zone in to Dry Top and the vine is attacking the first waypoint which has been causing it and some in Brisban to flicker. With Bandits on one end and Vines on the other, I’m guess (not certain) we’re running to the mines.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

StinVec.3621:

Wow…it’s the exact same giant.
How…disappointing.

Not really….

We only see a couple in the existing game. Doesn’t it make you wonder where they came from? They have to have an origin somewhere.

It seems more like this giant is with the bandits that seem to be converging on Town of Prosperity. Man, I knew Prosperity was fishy but it’s in for a world trouble… and it’s coming in doubles.

Also, Timberlin Falls tho!

Headcase.4618:

Just thought I’d let you all know I found this in Skrittsburgh in Brisban, Tunnels Waypoint a few minutes ago. I think the vines have started spreading out of Dry Top

EDIT: Just found the Ulta Metamagicals WP is flickering the same way as the one in Prosperity

Well that’s quite interest now that I think about it. Though I figured the Eternal Alchemy was in some way connected with the Ley Lines and since it was through the Breachmaker striking the Ley Lines that awoke Mord, I wonder what’s in store. What makes Mord different than the others besides it being flora-based and all that jazz.

The large thorns in Brisban with a purple tip seem to move too freely for a thing that’s supposed to be composed of heavy vegetation. Here’s to hopping Mord is truly big and when he rises up he leaves a crater for us to traverse.

draxynnic.3719:

Ronin.7381:

But:

It takes human activity to extract the materials and put them together.

This is my point exactly. It requires intervention. Similarly, that is what the Asura have done. So we bring ourselves back to square one.

You have completely missed my point and presented it as a major victory.

When you try to respond and prove what someone is saying, you there in by help support their point. The keyword being Ingenuity. You keep passing it off as irrelevant not accepting that there is a hand being used to combine properties, it wont disavow the credibility of the claim. All you can do is disagree with it, erroneously so. You even say it further yourself that in order to make a nuclear weapon you must grab all of the necessary materials and put it together which nature simply doesn’t do. So, you’re basing this off of theoretical nonsense – a logical fallacy.

You missed my point completely, again.

The Inquest has successfully created multicorrupted minions…

Lets look at this. Having just run Crucible of Eternity Story mode for a refresher. You meet a lab assistant who tells you that under the facility is a mechanism that splits dragonic energy. Basically, the Crucible takes raw energies and refines them.

Again, Subject Alpha, whom you cite as your winning example, is subject to scrutiny because it’s been tampered with. It also only occurs in the lab and doesn’t exist anywhere else both as a test subject and a species.

Therefor, corrupting a sylvari is more difficult than corrupting a minion. Therefor, the nature of sylvari protection is something different to – or stronger than – already being a dragon minion.

Cue the Pale Tree

It still doesn’t argue that the Sylvari are not Dragon Minions themselves. Where’d the seed come from, why was it in the cave in the first place protected by forest creatures?

With the above, it doesn’t matter if creating multicorrupted minions is simply a matter of putting two minions together…

I simply disagree, I think the origins do matter. Shedding light on explaining why or why not something occurs is very important. Unfortunately this game does poorly at it.

EDIT: I should note that I am playing Devil’s Advocate when it comes to answering the Sylvari are minions. Saying they aren’t while providing nothing but opinions and no proof is not discounting those who say they are and also, in the same manner, applying thoughts that they are.

We simply do not know, the evidence is not conclusive.

Rauderi.8706:

Dreiji.5419:

And as usual in this game, the reward is not worth the time.

Yup. Going through the story got me… two blues and green. Hyperbole, but I got nothing memorable.
The same will be for the achievement rewards, if I bother to do them at all. :\
Woo, some geodes or other salvageable garbage…
And then there’s the piles of (empty) sand…

I do admit, having completed all of the achievements, that the rewards are pretty lousy. No unique skins or gear, those are based on RNGs with the Locked Chests. Which is unfortunate. The thing I liked about the Nightmare Tower (which is the point I picked the game back up since the Fractals release) was getting all of those achievements gave you the Gas Mask and later the Toxic-back piece (which I think is crappy looking but a unique skin-reward none the less). In other LS episodes, you got different kinds of back pieces – even beating Scarlet got you a unique head-skin.

Here’s to hoping the rewards improve.

I had to buy my scarf and goggles in order to craft the Mantle because I don’t like running around repeatedly hoping the next locked chest I open has something good. Gotten a few recipes but that’s it.

Khisanth.2948:

It is not just traits. There are also consumables and sigils that are affected.

Yeah, instances and dungeons aren’t giving me stacks on my sigils

Azure Fang.8605:

After clicking my reset, I’m stuck at “Read Your Mail”. I can repeat any step, but it never progresses linearly. It’s rather annoying.

Same and I have no “new mail” to speak of.

Ventari’s tablet was just a stone with words chiseled in. It didn’t have any magical properties from what we can tell. If anything, the Pale Tree modeled itself off of Ronan and Ventari’s influence and ideals and not just a piece of refined rock. The tablet is simply the only thing we’re told of that the Pale Tree has to remember them.

Niels.5396:

They do not stay calm. They go in an all out frenzy when they sence Mordremoth.

I think you’re confusing yourself a little here. The similarities between Aerin and Soundless stop at their disconnect from the Pale Tree, the Soundless practically meditate to hone their consciousness; to them everyday is a risk of falling back in line. There isn’t much to prove the Soundless are anyway more aggressive than the Nightmare Court – it’s a lifestyle that these Sylvari have to continuously choose. A tug of war.

Now you could make the argument that the Nightmare Court was an offshoot of the soundless, and only through this kind of disconnect was Faolain managed to come up with the idea to create a Tree of her own that emphasized everything the NC stood for.

My point is, Soundless are not inherently violent. They might be potential targets due to the lack of a block that acts as a way to prevent Mord’s influence but they themselves aren’t insane. Something happened to Aerin and I don’t think it was as simple as losing contact with the Pale Tree.

Could we have Soundless enemies? Certainly but I don’t think they themselves are an aggressive culture of Sylvari.

Lastly, the idea that Sylvari are an anti-body… I’m not seeing it. It’s more asinine than the theory that the seed that births the Trees are connected to Mord and suggesting the Pale Tree is some form of lineage/champion. I’m actually more comfortable with the idea that Ronan and Ventari played a vital role with the power of suggestion to influence the Pale Tree’s ideas than to say that the Sylvari are are apart of Tyria’s immune system…. The EDs are suggested to be Tyria’s immune system: they rise, they destroy, go back to sleep, and after everything is demolished – it eventually goes back. Almost like controlled burns. They don’t consume the essence of magic like it was believed, they re-purpose it and through the lands left in devastation, new life sprouts up.

IE: Mt. St. Helens

Kain Francois.4328:

Seriously, just because people voted for Kiel, doesn’t mean the community doesn’t want to see Abaddon again.

Abaddon is gone. Dead. Usurped. All you would get are references but nothing amassing to a conversation.

While the Fractals do make interesting realities, I doubt it would even allow a god to be reborn when his essence was consumed completely by Kormir. Despite how free the Mists can be there are still fundamental laws that still are followed. The Giganticus Lupicus for example was imprisoned but wasn’t artifically created, as what’s her face says “I wonder where he came from.”

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

Or have Menzies hijack the plot as Abaddon’s successor as the Nightfall bringing villain seeking to finish what Abaddon started using all methods including the Elder Dragons to merge Tyria with the Realm of Torment.

As much as I want to see Menzies back, why would he even care for the realm. Why not Dhuum? Menzies just spited his half brother Balthazaar, hence the feud in Fissure of Woe.

Although Dhuum is more interested in death than anything torment related, he just wants his throne back.

lordkrall.7241:

Dakota.4591:

Given how they stuffed her into the Thaumanova reactor fractal, I have no doubt that if this was taking place in FS instead of Maguuma Wastes, she would have been up there too.

But how was she stuffed in?
We KNEW that she was working with the Inquest at some point.
We KNEW that the Inquest had a “new consultant” prior to the disaster.

The fact that the leyline went straight through the Reactor would also give her a rather large reason to be there.
But sure, lets ignore all the logical reasons for her being there

Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of Scarlet but harking on her for silly reasons is a waste of time to me. I actually like how they brought her into this Episode… so to speak. Looking forward to more backstory as long as it it doesn’t shaft the progression of the present.

I would like to see to Dry Top get a revision after the conclusion of Season 2 but otherwise Episode 1 is more enjoyable than just about more than halves-worth of Season 1.

Practice-practice-practice.

Teutos.8620:

• The sandstorm influences my sight too much. Don’t care if it feels more “real” that way. I want to be able to find my way through the jumping parts without any interference.

Just be patient and let the sandstorm pass.