Guild Wars 2

I just want to point out that Delequa is fun to say.

I will gladly adopt this chicken. I believe it is well beyond the mandated time for the original owner to reclaim it. Send it to my wardrobe! Or send it to my home instance. I don’t care. I just need a healthy chicken. For reasons.

The time for constructive responses was 2394289340 “mounts plz!!!!!” threads ago. Someone was even kind enough to link to two of them, and both include many of the constructive reasons why mounts are not only useless, but a bit of a turn off to many players. Because no one thinks for a second that Anet will make these mounts available outside of gem store a’la flying broom and carpet aesthetics. At best you’ll be sitting pretty on top of a dolyak unable to use any real skills. And REAL mounts with mount specific skills are really not desirable enough to make a huge thing of it.

We really don’t know what technologies those races had. If they had telescopes and magical towers with scrying pools, who’s to say they didn’t have something great they could weaponize? The Cauldron of Cataclysm and the scrolls that caused The Cataclysm (interestingly not caused by the aforementioned cauldron) certainly didn’t come from the current races. In the Cauldron’s case, it was given to the Charr by the Titans, (as orchestrated by Abaddon), but did the Titans/Abaddon actually MAKE that weapon? (Serious question, I don’t know if it was ever mentioned)

It was many centuries and one apocalypse ago that these weapons would have been made. Any of the races that weren’t completely wiped out had to re-populate in a world that suddenly had several other races occupying it. I think the best argument for “they didn’t have good war tech” is the dwarves. Who have garbage war tech by modern standards. But I would argue that they might have had a much more advanced civilization before the dragons. There’s even a hint of them existing in Cantha. But the dragons nearly killing the planet would have probably put a hard reset on their civilization, and when it was safe for them to grow again, they were stuck with growing at about the same rate as the rest of the new races that filled the spaces that were once filled by Mursaat and Seers and Dwarves and such.

I would also argue that their lack of technology and unity would, in fact, make them chumps xD. We were able to get our kitten together and fight back given nothing but ingenuity and good old fashioned Tyria magic. What was their excuse? What prevented them from pooling together and creating better tech? What prevented them from setting aside personal grudges or self preservation and decide to fight together?
Very chump-like behavior, I think xD

I’d be happy enough just being given access to their city.

Titles are useless! Like achievement trophies in console games. Or titles in console games. Or really avatars in console games. Or really many aspects of any game. But it gives people something to work for, and thus something to do in your spare time. Which is kind of what games are for. Things to do. In your spare time.

Fun fact! Kryta was originally established as a colony of Elona. Maybe that’s where they got the idea of lions existing and named a town after it.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline

That’s the r/iamverysmartway of saying “Not everyone is having a bad time here!”
But it is a valid point. There are a lot of “This is why everyone does X” posts, when nine times out of ten it’s not what everyone does. It’s like a small handful of people with a complaint that just assumes everyone else thinks the same way.

Maybe The Pale Tree was in charge of the whole “make mordrem minions in the form of Sylvari” department. And maybe it would have gone swimmingly if someone hadn’t stolen Mordremoth’s general from a cave! I’m only speculating, but it seems like Mordremoth put a little too much of his plan on his pale trees. They seem to be the biggest producers of his most sentient minions. The hounds and thrashers and terragriffs are neat and all, but pretty mindless and stupid. The good soldiers are apparently produced by specialized trees. And one of those trees was given free will.

This has become the official “Dead horse gif/image” thread. And it’s great! Because we probably need a deadhorse thread more than we need mounts. Because mounts, as it was said over and over, are not only useless, but largely unwanted because we’d have something else useless to pay for with gems.

Or maybe we did have mounts, but the above images show what happened to them. You missed your chance guys!

What I don’t think people understand is, YOU do not determine what they feel they should spend their money on. If they say they don’t want to pay for 4 maps, they don’t have to pay for 4 maps.

Don’t bring this thread up again. Any bit of resistance is met with “You’re just wrong get over it!” There is literally no discourse to be had when OP is just stomping his feet and shouting “you’re wrong I’m right, not listening!”
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Not with you no, you seem to be set on your opinions so I’m not going to humor you anymore. Just going to tell you facts and let you deal with it.

Mounts is new for GW2, it is progress for this game at least, and will help the income and the overall experience for the players.

If you disagree, you’re wrong. End of story for you.

Unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything they can do to prevent them. Just rely on your reports to ban them as they appear.

I like HoT well enough, but still don’t think it’s worth what I paid for it. Hopefully living story stuff will fix that.

It should have been him on Clawr island

That’s not how buying things works! Paying full price for a game and then dropping money into it to make it better is like buying a beat up broken car for new car price and then having to pay to repair it.
People buyou products they believe are good. It’s the companies job to make the product worth buying in the first place.

Proclaim frequently in map chat that you’re looking for a specific legendary. RNG magic will see it and spawn every legendary but the one you announced! It also helps to be as far from the respective base as possible.

People are going to complain no matter what happens. Use Tangled Depths as a perfect example. It was too difficult before, so they nerfed it. But you don’t ever hear anyone say “I’m so glad this meta event is do-able now!” You just hear people say “They made this too easy. People complain too much now nothing is challenging!”
It’s not that people aren’t happy it’s easier to do, it’s just that the people who are satisfied see no reason to say anything, and the people who are not like to tell Anet why they’re unhappy hoping it can be fixed.

“A Carrion” is a bit weird. Carrion is just rotting flesh (“the decaying flesh of dead animals.”) But the point is the same xD This sort of thing happens all the time. Kind of like how no one in Star Wars, no one asked Han what the fook a falcon was. They’re just generic words that players can recognize.

I like Chiroptophobia! bats!

Mortifer.2946:

I really don’t get you guys…. The boss was actually one of the coolest ones I have seen in this game. I absolutely love his black hole attack. He was also easily defeatable. You just have to move. Pretty simplistic. You are already playing one of the easiest MMOs out there, please don’t ask ArenaNet to nerf primitively easy boss fight.

You’re talking to people who complained about the great invinci-box nerf on the Golem MK II world boss. Obviously moving around to avoid damage is a tricky concept to a large number of people.

Zenith.6403:

Ah the good old broken window parable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

I don’t think you actually read that article.
Or you just google’d “Economic fallacies” and grabbed the first thing you saw.

“The difference being that the humans were not the people originally living there, nor were they nearly as defenseless as the indians were.”

That was kind of a key idea behind my point. I know the humans were not the original inhabitants, but I wouldn’t call their removal “Swift” when they held the land for a few hundred years. If the Native Americans managed to take back North America 600 years from now, it would not be viewed historically as swift revenge :p

Probably me. A lot. Trying to get whatever bonus achievements it throws at me.

-Rytlock is already a solid leader. He’d be great to lead the pact. And I don’t think our characters would really mind his new powers. They seemed to like his help well enough, and if they still trusted Trehearne enough to try to save him, even after the great Sylvari betrayal (as I just now started calling it) I’m sure they’ll be fine with Rytlock.

-I don’t think there’s any indication the egg talks. That’s kind of a weird one for me.

-My personal fantasy is that Kralk is more busy with Joko’s armies to the south. I’d love to go to Elona one day to find that while Joko is a tyrannical ruler, he’s also the only thing saving Elona from total death by crystalization. But that’s just me fantasizing. I don’t think the ghosts really have much effect on the branded though.

-I want to know how Malyck looks human shaped when the rest of the Sylvari were supposed to be modeled after what they were buried on. Did some mordrem just go around planting seeds on dead humans?

-I think the Dream of Dreams is potentially too good a story tool to just get rid of all of a sudden. I think either the Pale Tree is the source, or more likely, it’s just a…realm? of sorts that the Sylvari just have access to.

-Your English is better than my…Spanish? I’m sorry. I don’t know which country Baruch Bay servers are on. The point is, I only speak English, so your language skills are already better than mine.

The TP might run low(ish) at some points but that will just make them more expensive, driving more people to sell the ones they get during daily log in rewards, and make them cheap again. It’s a neat little balance.

I have literally never had a major issue with this, but apparently I’m a lucky minority.

Diovid.9506:

The best you can hope for is a Necromancer or Revenant elite spec which is called or is similar to the Ritualist.

Squee.7829:

But most of all it’d be really hard to make a Sylvari ritualist make sense. It relies on using ancestor spirits as a source of power, Sylvari don’t really…have those. At least not enough to make a good power base.

Why would the sylvari necessarily have to use ancestor spirits from their own race?

I suppose they don’t have to. It’s unlikely every ritualist in GW was related to Glaive. Unless she really got around.

From a lore perspective, ritualists might be hard to work in. In GW1, it was described as kind of a dying art anyways. Or at least changing drastically to fit the amount of magic available.

" When magic was granted by the gods, many of the original abilities were strengthened and merged into their modern form. Though still relying on the power of the dead, their original skills are no longer a visible part of the profession."

But most of all it’d be really hard to make a Sylvari ritualist make sense. It relies on using ancestor spirits as a source of power, Sylvari don’t really…have those. At least not enough to make a good power base.

In a perfect world where everyone gets along, this might make sense. But it isn’t. And Anet doesn’t “allow” trolling. It’s just literally impossible to prevent it.
And sometimes people just don’t like each other.
But aside from all that, I can almost guarantee that at least half the people in GW have an ignore list FULL of bots that love to go into crowded areas and spam gold selling advertisements. Usually these accounts only exist for a day or two before getting banned, but for that day it is insufferable. And it has friends. tons of them. Occasionally it’s a good idea to look back at your ignore tab and clear out the list of bots that likely don’t exist anymore.

Kossage.9072:

Well, to be fair, the tengu were involved during Scarlet’s invasion of LA back in LW Season 1…albeit not in a good way. The tengu archers shot at anyone (yes, even the Pact Commander!) who approached their precious wall, and they were shooting to kill. I can only imagine how many terrified citizens, families and soldiers fell to those aggravated avians’ arrows while desperately seeking sanctuary from the fiery inferno and horrors that Scarlet had unleashed. I don’t exactly see the the survivors looking favourably on the tengu because of that, and the tengu have no intention of opening up their little dominion to outsiders anytime soon anyway, especially if we look at Izu Steelshrike’s rather direct commentary about tengu policy during the smith-saving run of the “Prisoners of the Dragon” story mission in HoT.

This is an excellent point AND a good starting point for starting a Tengu based story arc. Here we are letting them live (somewhat) inside Lions Arch and stay completely isolated, but we’re just going to forget the fact that they totally killed innocent civilians based on their paranoia? I feel like there can be a lot to go on to juggle the fact that they were reasonably suspicious but overzealous in their self defense. That’s just a diplomatic nightmare. It’d be like if the French killed other allied soldiers during world war 2 because “Foreign soldiers in our land=bad! Kill them on site”!

We can be the ambassador that tries to reason with the Tengu and keep the peace with LA citizens bitter about being shot at for being in the wrong place. And remind the Tengu that they kind of owe us for being pricks during the Scarlet invasion

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Sigh, this topic again. Designing the starter map/city and getting existing skins to work with the tengu character models alone would be a lot of resources for little gain in my opinion. All you are getting out of it is a character skin and some racial elites no one would use.

Literally my very first sentence in the post said this isn’t about playing tengu. You couldn’t be bothered to read the. Very. First. Sentence.

I’m thinking she created the eggs through some kind of magic or ritual. Considering that even if there was more than one of whatever species Glint is, there hasn’t been since at least the last dragon rising. And if she needed said ancient partner to make the eggs, that’d be one hell of a gestation period on those dragonlings.
And if nothing else, I certainly hope she didn’t have to manually lay those eggs. They had pretty rough looking edges.

I think the idea was to make armor obtainable through playing the game, and not have unique armor skins only available through paying real money.
It sounds good on paper, but in practice it only really works if they actually MAKE armors. But the outfit production far outpaces armor production in this game, so now it just seems like they don’t care about making new armor. It’s outfits or nothing.

I’m just going to put this out there, but I really hated Caithe by the end of HoT. I honestly would have traded killing Faolain for a few days in order to kill Caithe. Not that she was an annoying or poorly written character or anything. All of that was fine. I just really hated how she pulled us around. I know she had her “own agenda” or whatever, but that agenda seriously put the PC’s life at risk when all he/she wanted was pretty much exactly what Caithe wanted. But I guess we’re not good enough for her to work with or whatever, so she just stole our stuff and bailed.

I’m not going to rehash the age old topic of Tengu being a playable race, but I think it’s time to discuss the bird shaped elephant in the room. That massive walled district practically inside Lion’s Arch has been closed for…ever. I get it, they’re distrustful of people after the whole Cantha thing and the fact that most of them were attacked on sight in Tyria 250 years ago, but we’ve been peaceful for quite a while now. Not to mention we helped protect them against every attack aimed at Lions Arch. You can say they weren’t involved, but lets be honest, if Lions Arch goes, that bird city is going with it. I think it’s about time they open that place up and let us see whats inside of it. At least a little. Is there ever going to be any content that even remotely touches up on that place? It’s a pretty big spot to leave empty.

There will always be metas. People will always be exclusive to those meta builds. At least now the meta includes more than just “zerk or GTFO” nonsense.
Lets use necromancers for example. Current meta demands condi necros. But let’s say Anet makes lifesteal necros better. Now no one will accept any necromancer that isn’t lifesteal. You’re not being inclusive to both types of necromancer, youre just making condi necros obsolete. (my spell check is going crazy)
And outside of dungeons and raids, you can really use whatever you want. Even if it isn’t meta.

I think land based spears would be neat. Kind of on the fence about them being thrown weapons though. GW1 had paragons throw their spears, and I always thought it odd that new ones just materialized in their hands. Even the ranger’s infinite arrows didn’t bother me as much as that. But my issue with it is purely aesthetic. I just don’t like it because it looks weird.
I’ve always wanted a scythe, since dervish was by far my favorite class to play in GW1, but I feel like I got my scythe fix with the reaper. Not only from the literal scythe you get in DS, but also the GS works somewhat similarly to how I used the scythe in GW (i.e. attack 3 enemies at once with a melee weapon)

Every time a new MMO comes out it’s assumed it will be a threat to every other MMO already out. And nine times out of ten it is not. Remember Aion? Everyone said it would be the game that put WoW out of business. Of course we all remember how that went. (spoiler, it did not. At all)
The point though, is that it’s best not to speculate on what an MMO will do before it’s even out. It might be the next big game to revolutionize MMO gaming. Or it might be a massive disappointment and fizzle out. Only time will tell.

Kiza.5630:

Ape Ghosting.7396:

Sexual feelings do not belong in games.

But the game is already full of them. Many NPCs talking about their wives/husbands. Stories about how they lost a loved one. All this thread suggests is to add a tiny little background story or dialog to one of the areas about two male charr being in love. It would put a smile on some people’s faces and be ignored by the rest.

But honestly, why does it count only as “sexual feelings” if two males/females are involved and “just love” otherwise? Though Kasmeer and Marjory were a bit clichee to be honest, but look how the rest of the world around them reacted to it. Not all all. That is the message. It was just “normal”.

I agree with this. The best way to include same sex relationships is to not make a huge deal about them. They’re not some strange mythical unicorn. They’re just people interested in relationships. So let’s not worry too much about homosexual relationships just so we can all point and go “ohh, look at that!” That’s rude :p

I don’t know if Kryta was necessarily “white washed”. There are still plenty of tan tropical looking people in DR, whom I assume are native Krytans (a typically tropical environment). There are just a lot more paler white people now because of the huge influx of Ascalonians. Queen Jennah is a pretty tan lady, for example.
Just my little tidbit. I don’t mean to seem indignant about the above statement or anything. I’m not trying to be all “You SJW’s are ruining…whatever it is you’re ruining with being inclusive and fair!” xD

There are tons of NPC’s you don’t know the sexual orientation of. You can assume anything of any of them. Just like in real life. Most people don’t make a habit of meeting a new person and saying “Ok, before we converse together, what do you prefer to mate with?” I think unless otherwise stated by lore (which it has not) you can assume any race is capable of loving any gender. And just because none of them make a big spectacle of it doesn’t mean they don’t exist or are even in hiding.

Gliders don’t auto deploy unless you hold down the jump button. I’ve never made a habit of doing that until HoT, but other people might just do things differently.

If your kids learn it’s ok to abuse animals from a video game, you’re not parenting correctly.
But I don’t think this thread is really meant to be taken that seriously. Just enjoy the humor. It’s fun.

Edit: to clarify, I meant the thread is fun. Not innocent pixel yak murder. I mean, I’m not judging how you enjoy your time. I just wanted to say I like this thread.

Check the prices of tier 1 to tier 3 junk. It shot up. In short, HoT weapons and armor changed the game on what materials are relevant and in demand.

It’s had its bumps lately but I still enjoy it.

Change is scary!

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And I’ll remind you that teleporting through a dense jungle is still infinitely preferable to riding a horse/motorcycle through it. Terrain isn’t an issue. It’s not worth discussing.

Places without roads will opt to use horses because they can’t afford roads. Wether it be because it’s a poor country or because the terrain makes infrastructure too costly to bother with. Not because they think horses are pretty. And again, teleportation would make those obsolete. Especially if teleporting cost less than buying, caring for, and constantly feeding a large animal. Literally the only reason people would ride horses is for recreation.
So, not wrong. I challenge you to find any developed country with mass transit that still uses horses as its primary method of transportation.