Guild Wars 2

My main guild just spent a lot of money to move to another server largely because EB was getting too small to do many of the PVE events. Not more than two days ago, I paid 1400 gems to do a server transfer. Now we find out that in two weeks they’re getting rid of servers, so all those gems were kind of wasted.

Not less than two days ago, I paid 1400 gems to do a server transfer, and now we find out that in two weeks they’re getting rid of servers?

Thanks a bloody lot!

The two sound files in the newest section of the Atlas are not playing. The sound files in the older sections do play properly.

I cleaned my shower once. Why does the mildew keep coming back?

Celtic Lady.3729:

I’d really like to see this “cleaned up” Orr…

By “cleaned up”, he really just meant with less swearing. That whole ceremony is what created the forum’s magical kitten filter.

Based on the conversation with Rox, I decided to go to Rytlock’s office to see if he had any response.

He seems to have a rather… bizarre… concept of Tyrian geography.

I think we ought to go show those Tengu kittens what happens to people who shoot defenseless refugees.

Who’s with me?

ExAstris.8527:

Again, to reiterate, I don’t really want some sort of social media scavenger hunt for lore. If it’s not in-game, please, pretty please, just put it on the main site.

This. Sometimes it seems like ArenaNet is on a mission to make it as hard as possible to follow the plot of this game.

Humans aren’t native to tyria. The six gods brought them from someplace in the mists when they arrived.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

But they do not register as well as Keiran/Gwen or Koss/Melonni.

Kerian/Gwen made absolutely no sense to me. They fight constantly, spend no time together (to the point of actively avoiding each other’s company), and then suddenly they’re getting married.

And I still want Rox and Braham to be a couple.

What Braham did is best in terms of how someone should realistically respond to some situation. But the thing is, this isn’t real life. I’m not actually here to stop Scarlet from destroying the city; I’m hear to be entertained by a story. And after a year of being teased with “Scarlet’s plan will be soon be revealed”, I’m kittened at being cheated out of my denouement!

Thedenofsin.7340:

I think Scarlet was playing the long game and was planning on destroying Mordremoth, but our heroes came running in and killed her before she could finish her plan. I think it was a great victory that will ultimately be revealed to be the biggest mistake. In short, I think that, by killing Scarlet, we made everything worse.

I think this was her original plan, but after losing the Pale Tree’s protection, the influence of Mordremoth kept growing within her until by the end she was just Mordremoth’s puppet. If you read her journal, she had stopped fighting the growing presence in her mind by the end.

Thedenofsin.7340:

We can assume now the Nightmare Court are Sylvari who remain loyal to Mordremoth.

I actually see the Nightmare Court as the “goth kids” of the Sylvari. They really have no clue what the true nature of the nightmare is because for all their posing, they’re still really loyal to the Pale Tree. It’s their way of acting out because they’re not getting enough attention.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Bones and flesh of Norn guardian versus Human Necromancer are essentially equal (especially considering that necromancers have super high health pool and guardians super low) in terms of the game mechanics, I really don’t think it makes as much sense as you’re implying.

Except the guardian’s bones and flesh are wrapped in heavy plate armor and the necromaner’s are in light cloth.

nekretaal.6485:

Last seen in the mists planning the attack on LA.

If anybody is interested, you can see that Canach’s cell is busted wide open and that he’s not there anymore. Hopefully the lion guard helped evacuate the prisoners, and he’s in a cell someplace else, but who are we kidding, this is the lion guard: they probably left him to die so he busted loose and is currently at large.

He’s in a new cell at Vigil Keep. If you were in Fort Mariner near the end of the Escape from LA event, you see that Sheriff Siriam takes Canach out of his cell and onto Kiel’s airship when she shows up to evacuate Magnus and Commodore Lawson.

Shifu.4321:

That was Thamaunova, if I’m not mistaken.

Ah yes, I can see you are correct:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Thaumanova_Reactor.jpg

What was the Asura looking thing that blew up when The Breachmaster hit the ley line? Was that Rata Sum? The Infinty Coil Reactor? Something else?

Slayer Lord.5023:

The elder dragon is what destroyed the old Lions Arch. That’s the LA you see in the bottom of the ocean. The way it used to look in GW1. I don’t know what she is looking for since the dragon is gone. Could be a relic left over from the dragon I suppose.

Uh… there’s six know elder dragons so far, only one of which (Zaitan) is dead. Jormag, Krakoltorik, Mordremoth, Primordus, and Bubbles are still alive.

Tom Gore.4035:

Best of all, a lot of it is with voiceovers and NONE of it is with marionette shows.

Personally, I liked the marionette shows. The engine had a surprisingly wide variety of facial expressions for the various characters and I really enjoyed the subtle details in many of them. Sadly all that tech has gone unused since the Personal Story got ditched.

Manuhell.2759:

Except “my way” is wanting to do the objective of the event, as clearly stated by patch notes and a citizen counters on the right of the screen.
Whereas “farming champs” is yet another way people have found to abuse said events.

Who died and made you Captain of the Lionguard? The objective of the event, as with everything else in the game, is to have fun. People apparently are having fun farming bags. Deal with it.

cheshirefox.7026:

poetic justice for corrupting the sylvari dream so horribly

It’s the dream that is actually the corruption. The sylvari are minions of the Jungle Dragon and the pale tree was supposed to be its champion. But like Glint, long exposure to the other races while the elder dragon was sleeping caused the Pale Tree to betray its master. What Scarlet saw in the machine was what the Pale Tree was trying to protect all sylvari from… their true nature.

Even the Nightmare Court doesn’t know this. They did figure out that Ventari’s influence somehow changed their core nature, but they never figured out what their original purpose was.

Scarlet made that discovery, creating an opening for Mordremoth to begin controlling her again, and being controlled by the elder dragon made her even more angry than being manipulated by the Pale Tree.

The Kurt.2518:

If she wanted to fight the dragons she would most probably have joined forces with us.

1.) She doesn’t want to fight the dragons in general; she wants to kill Mordremoth specifically because it’s been messing around in her mind.
2.) The core feature of her personality is that she refuses to be dependent on ANYONE for ANYTHING. That’s why she’s insanely enraged at Mordremoth. That’s also why she won’t join with us to fight it. She wants to take Mordremoth down single-handedly to prove even an elder dragon will never force her to do something.

I think Mordremoth is under Lion’s Arch and she’s trying to dig it up so she can kill it. Her clockwork army is because it’s the only things that would be immune to a nature dragon; the toxin will poison the dragon’s minions rendering it unprotected, she can lower her giant robot into the whole to fight the dragon and then zap it with her giant aether cannon.

That’s also why she tested the Marionette on us: we beat Zaitan, so if her creation can be us, it can beat an Elder Dragon.

H___otron is obviously still around, but does anyone know where his foil, Marcello DiGiacomo, went?

Sneakier.9460:

“I don’t mind your a charr, lets play!” children near bank

Jordyn and Leyah are safe in the Gendarran Fields refugee camp!

Erukk.1408:

Interspecies coupling can’t produce children in GW.

Doesn’t mean they can’t have fun trying anyways.

As a charr, I’d like to remind everyone that Lion’s Arch was Evon’s military assignment from Ash Legion. And where are the other charr (presumably the rest of the Gnash warband) that was with Evon in the Black Lion HQ? They’re nowhere to be seen in Vigil Keep.

Evon’s time in Lion’s Arch made him soft. When time came for combat for the first time in years, he deserted his warband and abandoned his post. Now he’s just another honorless gladium. No, he’s worse than a gladium, most of whom at least fought by the side of their warband as they went down.

He’s a disgrace to Ash Legion and deserves nothing but scorn from all loyal charr.

A lot of people are forgetting a big detail here: the replacement for Lion’s Arch has to be in a low level zone because it’s one of the first places new characters will be visiting at the beginning of the game. You can’t put it in place like Orr or Southsun Cove where a level 15 character is going to get massacred if they try to visit.

It could just be that having new portals there will allow the current gate plaza (which is very close to Scarlet’s probe) get blown up during an attack on Lion’s Arch without making it hard to get there.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Elephant in the room: the heavily implied lesbian innuendo. The fact is that not everyone likes, agrees with, or is comfortable with homosexuality. It could be that they find the physical act to be disconcerting. It could be that they don’t agree with notion of contemporary homosexuality as a whole.

Why should the entire GW2 player base be limited to what you’re comfortable with? Whether it makes your comfortable or not, it’s part of the world as it is.

It’s funny you complain about the Living Story being bland, when it’s likely a desire to avoid making people like you uncomfortable that’s the primary source of that blandness. Everyone has things that make thing that make them uncomfortable. If we cut them all out, you’re left with bland inoffensive papp.

Some of us actually enjoy stories that make us uncomfortable; pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones is how we grow as a person.

warbreaker.8154:

Marjory in particular kittenes me off… though I think it might just be because of her terrible voice actor.

Majory’s voice acting is perfect. She’s supposed to sound like a noir-movie detective. Her voice actor is doing a great job capturing the “self-narration” rhythms from those films. You may not like the stylistic choice, but that doesn’t mean it’s being done badly.

Compare the way Majory and Kasmeer talk to each other to the way Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor talk in The Maltese Falcon:

I do like the relationships, but the one I’d actually like to see is Braham and Rox. What happens when you fall in love with someone who’s not even the same species as you? How would other Charr and Norn react? If they really want to explore tolerance, there’s the place to do it, because they can show people being intolerant to Rox and Braham without getting tangled up in RL politics.

Maybe Rytlock flips and threatens to kick Rox out of the stone warband. What happens to Rox when she has to choose between love and her dream?

Cormac.3871:

We know who planted the Pale Tree. It was Ventari. He got the seeds from a cave, and nurtured the tree and placed a tablet at its base. What we don’t know is how he knew the seeds would create living beings and how the seeds got into the cave in the first place. I personally think that the sylvari were intended to be servants of Mordremoth, but were corrupted by Ventari (in a good way). The seed was not planted before the Gods’ exile.

No, Ronan planted the seeds, which he got from a mysterious cave full of similar seeds, on the grave of his dead family. His friend Ventari wrote the tablet as a monument to him after Ronan died.

“What Ronan knew and never told still lingers in the Dream.” — Amaranda the Lonesome

To Rox about losing her warband:

Was it hard for you, left alone like that?

Came across really bizarre considering that after going through the Charr personal story I already know exactly how hard that is. It would have been nice if my response had reflected that.

But you don’t have to beat the Marionette. The story advances for just fighting the Marionette, even if you lose. You get loot for a partial defeat. And most of the achievements, including the meta, can be completed without defeating the Marionette.

And you if you don’t like fighting the Wardens, you can still participate in the event by helping with the lane defense.

So far The Origins of Madness reminds me of The Secrets of Southsun. We have a bunch of different things going on, but the narrative connecting them seems to be missing from the game.

Haven’t you noticed there’s no bathrooms in the Citadel? Of course Charr need plants.

Phoenix Ashbloom of the Ash warband.

And yeah it’s weird there’s an Ash warband in the Ash legion. But it was next on the list of warband names, so it was assigned to us and there’s not much we could do about it.

When I was in Farrah, some of the other Charr picked on me saying I was probably going to name myself Ashy Ashash. ears flit down at bad memories

Rym.1469:

Natchniony.
In free translation from polish, it means “inspired” “enlightened” “infused”, commonly in religious manner.
As for Charr Necromancer, I find it both quite ironiclly funny and unqie, moving away from traditional “necro” to more “tweaked cultist” like

5/10 Doesn’t really seem to follow any of the naming conventions for Charr, and given the way they tend to feel about Gods, “religiously inspired” almost seems like the sort of thing they’d consider an insult. Seems more like a Human or Sylvari name.

Phoenix Ashbloom

First name uses the softer consonants typical of female Charr names, as well as a Roman mythological reference.

Last name refers to the first flowers to grow after a forest fire, tying to her ranger affinity for the wilderness.

Both names reference things being reborn from fire, which ties to her driving personality goal. Unlike most Charr she doesn’t fight simply for the joy of combat. She fights because removing the “brush” of the world as it is must be done before the world that could be can grow.

My female charr ranger Phoenix Ashbloom (with Santa).

Thobek.1730:

They shouldn’t change the vanilla world physically too much, what they should do is expand and give us new areas to explore allowing our character to venture further out into the world and make those regions permanent. They should change the characters in the game and develop the relationships, leaderships, etc which they are trying to do but doesn’t gel well with me since I dislike Kiel and her mannish bullyboy attitude or the odd relationship between Majory and Kasmeer.

Two problem with this:

1.) If new content always appears in a new area, you quickly end up with the old areas being empty of players.
2.) It’s a completely unrealistic representation of how things are. “We already did the French Revolution thing in Paris, so we can’t possibly do this WW2 story arc you’re proposing. Now that one interesting thing has happened in Paris, nothing interesting can ever happen there again!”

One of the things that I like about GW2 is that new stuff happens on the current map. Yes I hope we get to see Cantha, Elona, the Crystal Desert, the Far Shiverpeaks, the Maguuma Wastes, etc. again, but it should be because a story arc requires going there. Not just opening up new zones for the sake of opening up new zones.

CHIPS.6018:

I want to see Logan Thackeray becoming a villain. Who wouldn’t want to see our perfect prince in shining armour fall into darkness?

Logan’s career as a villain would be severely limited by his inability to think anything without loudly announcing it to the entire room and his inability to understand that no one else suffers from the same affliction.

Yes Logan, Queen Jennah is perfectly aware that Minister Caudecus is up to something. She’s just not a fool and realizes how dumb it would be to announce what she knows WHEN HE’S STANDING RIGHT THERE.

Randall.7306:

If that was the introduction, I think is not a great introduction.

It wasn’t her introduction, it was just her reveal. There was dialog during both Fire and Frost:

Veteran Dredge Prisoner:

Yeah, the flaming cow pies and their fast-talking friend from the city. Never again! Lying silver-tongued, snake-nosed trickster! Never again.

Shame on me? Shame on my leaders! They let themselves be seduced by power. We were fine until we got greedy. Evil trickster! Evil!

Things couldn’t go worse. We’re doomed! Doomed by our own greed for power. Blinded by seductive words and slippery promises. And now, we’re losing our weapons caches. Our factories. (sob)

The plan was flawed from the beginning. We were not orchestrating our own momentum. Instead, we listed to the seductive promises of that snake and stuck our heads out too far of our holes.

And Sky Pirates of Tyria:

Captain Mai Trin

This has all gone to crud. Scarlet’s gonna have my noggin for screwing up.

That let people paying attention know that there was someone behind everything going on.

PopeUrban.2578:

The problem is that she’s written as functionally insane, while simultaneously displaying such an impressive command of tactics and manipulation that it’s just utterly unbelievable.

Problem is that until her ultimate plan is revealed, we can’t really tell if she actually is functionally insane, or just seems like it because without knowing her goals we can’t judge the sense of her actions.

So far I like Scarlett, but I must admit that a large part of that is because I’m assuming this story is going somewhere that will eventually cause it to all make sense. If it turns out to just be a shaggy dog story in the end, my opinion will likely swing dramatically to the negative.

Speculation:

It’s been theorized that the Sylvari are actually minions of the Jungle dragon (hence why they’re the only race that can’t be converted to minions of the other dragons), and that the pale tree is a dragon champion who, like Glint, has rejected their master due to long interaction with the other races while their master was sleeping.

If so, the “true nature” that the Nightmare court is searching for (but so far failing to find) is the way they would behave if they were still under the control of a loyal champion.

What if what Scarlett saw in the mists has to do with the above? Maybe she’s kittened at having to choose between being a puppet of the pale tree or being a puppet of the Jungle Dragon and this whole thing is about her trying to find a way to “cut her strings”? Would explain her fascination with mechanical creatures, which seems to be like trying to eliminate her organic Sylvariness.

Drakenvold.9761:

since the gender of Mr E is left uncertain,im hoping it is Livia from gw1,she was at some point the Master Exemplr and was alive in the book Ghosts of Ascalon and fairly un aged,hope they involve Canach in this new Destinys Edge kinda group and Mr E is indeed revealed to be Livia

I think Mr. E is probably (E)von Gnashblade

Tyops.5894:

It seems ANet has inadvertently created an amazing meta-villain. Scarlet is a more effective villain outside the game than she is within it.

Funny you should mention this. I did have a thought a couple a weeks ago of how cool it would be if the answer to the question of what Scarlet saw in the eternal mists is that she saw that she’s a fictional character in a video game.

Becka Williams.4978:

Ah, another “we’re annoyed Kiel won, so we’re going to make a thread about how she’s a big meanie” thread. What’s next? Asking for her long form birth certificate?

Except I was a Kiel supporter, in large part because Evon was largely making it clear he wanted to abuse the power of the position. So I’m kinda miffed Kiel is starting to turn out just as bad.