Guild Wars 2

Jaken.6801:

By that, let`s nourish the Mordrems with bloodstone dust cake (the debuff is just the right thing we need to win the fight)

Bloodstone Cake sling would definitely be devastating against the menders and the leechers.

There’s a 100% chance of it dropping every time you open the box. The odds are quite a bit less, though.

That would then be called “Uncovered Locked Chest”, right?

locoman.1974:

Sylvari look more human than the mordrem because the Pale Tree used Ventari (and humans in general) as a mold to create them.

Ventari was a centaur.

Since we can’t attack and burn the Sylvari PCs at our will, we don’t really have a chance other than to tolerate them.

Knighthonor.4061:

I want to understand why some of them are not under his control after all of this.

It seems the further you go from the source of the corruption, the less it has hold over you. The Pale Tree was grown far away from Mordremoth and as such, was free of his corruption. Also, there is a strong hint that Ventari’s teachings had a great part to play in nurturing the Sylvari out of their possibly murderous nature.

It’s also believed that the Dream protects the Sylvari of the Pale Tree from Mordremoth’s corruption. It could be it is not a solid shield but rather a curtain, that can be pushed aside with a force strong enough (such as the close proximity of Mordremoth).

Brothers and Sisters! It’s time to go vegetarian!

According to the laws of Karma your house will burn down.

On a more serious note, congratulations

Also they still need to get rid of the extra human, so either Kasmeer or Marjory has to die.

Could be of course they planned to do it, but didn’t have the guts and created/killed Belinda instead.

GscGunner.2419:

WHy would he be looking for something he already has? Rytlock has Sohothin… And if he didnt have it (which he did) you can see him with the sword in the trailer…

He tried to use the sword in a ritual to cleanse the foefire and the ghosts of Ascalon, but something went wrong and a portal to the Mists opened. The sword fell in and Rytlock jumped after it to get it back.

So for some time at least Rytlock definitely did not have the sword in his possession. Apparently he will find it, because we can see him wielding it in the HoT trailer.

I’m pretty sure the Mursaat will be the enemy, not a friend. Could be wrong of course.

By the way, as to the question why the Sylvari do not look like other dragon minions or like Mordrem. Could it be that it’s because they grew from the Pale Tree and she grew them into another image than what Mordy himself does.

From the wiki:

“Many scholars hypothesize as to why the sylvari look human-like at all instead of having a monstrous form, such as other “vegetable” races possess. Some suggest that the Pale Tree saw mostly humans during her youth. Individuals such as Ronan, who planted the seed, and others around the Pale Tree may have been physical role models for her eventual children. A popular asura theory is that the Pale Tree was planted on the graves of Ronan’s daughter and his ruined village, and their ”discorporate mass” was absorbed into the ground. The Pale Tree took nourishment from that soil, and therefore, the sylvari are predisposed to be shaped in a humanoid manner.”

Again, just a theory, but it could explain why the Sylvari of the Pale Tree look so different from the Mordrem.

gervasium.4567:

“Sylvari and the Pale Tree don’t even look like Mordrem. Yet they were intended to be dragon minions from the beginning? If this was so, wouldn’t Mordrem have looked like sylvari? Wouldn’t the Pale Tree look like a Mordrem tree? Remember: the one and only means of removing corruption does not change the physical appearance – it just gives free will.”

Considering that, these are are old GW2 concept art pieces by Kekai Kotaki:

Caithe (a sylvary) before the redesign:

Mordrem/Corrupted guys (obviously servants of Mordremoth). They look like the old version of Sylvary and you can’t say they’re just corrupted because I can’t find any other race corrupted in the same way in concept art.

Another one.

Then this one , which shows an obvious Mordrem with a Mord-sylvary that’s even listed in the wiki as Sylvary concept art.

I can’t look at these and not believe it was their plan from the beginning.

Yeah. Odds are they changed the Sylvari to be more “beautiful”, because ugly/monstrous races are generally not favored by players.

ElysianEternity.6215:

So, in other words the most cited, fanfiction-ish and unfounded theory since beta was supposedly one of anet’s story’s greatest mysteries?

I hope that isn’t something the writers are proud of.

I don’t even really know what to say. Just wow. Lame.

Considering the game has hundreds of thousands of players, it would be practically impossible to have a secret in the game that there are hints for, and still keep it a secret so that no one would guess it.

Yeah I think it was pretty evident from the trailer of Point of no Return, but you called it even earlier.

Now let’s see if I can dig out my prediction of the pact getting annihilated when they attack mordremoth…

Yeah I don’t have a strong opinion for the NPE. I think as a genuinely new player it is probably alright, and I also think most of the hate comes from the veterans who need to go through additional hoops when powerleveling alts.

Personally, I would change the trait unlocking to be account-wide, especially because unlocking the traits requires the same stuff for each race/profession anyway.

But after you do, the gaps will be bigger, as the story missions only appear every 10 levels. You’ll also notice that you won’t have your traits unlocked as you level, instead having to either buy them open with gold or accomplish the associated event to unlock it.

I would save your praise until you’ve gone a few more levels through the NPE. The majority seems to hate it.

Everyone forgetting the vision the pale tree gave us after the fight with the Shadow of the Dragon in the Grove? It had what looked like Glint’s egg being lowered into a series of Mursaat buildings.

No.

But for EOTM sure.

I would not mind an optional crosshair so I wouldn’t have to rely on the autoaim, which at long ranges can be fooled and avoided. Would also allow firing all projectile skills without a target.

As for the other suggestions like added damage for headshots etc. No. Just no.

Gratz

How many weapons did you have to throw in?

Jaymee.1560:

Does… this also mean that you deleted your Sylvari toons, cheeseball?

Who has Sylvari characters anyway? I mean, they are by far the ugliest race in the game. And my opinion obviously is the only correct one

Eirdyne.9843:

If you are starting to craft without any crafting skills and have never done ascended before I’d expect about a 650 gold cost. Maybe as little as 550 if you are lucky, 750 if something gets lost along the way.

Stage 1: is making sure you get your crafting skill up. That’s pretty cheap to do. About 70 gold to 400 skill. If you go out and get the metals you need and dungeon you should almost have that on your own. So Stage 1 is free to 70 gold.

Stage 2: crafting from 400 skill to 500 skill . … That’s expensive. I’d expect another 70 gold lost right there. It’s going to happen.

Stage 3: this is a weird part. You’re going to want a lot of damask. Where you get it is and how is somewhat luck (good or bad). I know for awhile I was able to craft the damask using dungeon loot I’d saved up for a couple years. Even then I still ended up spending about 400 gold in costs for the damask.

You can off set the costs if you mine frequently. Iron and Platinum sell pretty well. Mithril does as well. Don’t bother farming Orichalcum. It’s a giant waste of time to farm Orr. Just buy it. This is largely true of crafting a lot of the other materials. GW 2 is not like other MMOs. Farming is not a viable option unless your account was one of the ones granted permission to have drops.
If you don’t understand what I mean about drop permissions look up a lot of the discussions about Mystic Forge precursor drop rates. Some accounts are exceedingly lucky about this and others are not. The belief is that the game prioritizes accounts in a fixed way within the random number generator. For instance, my friend can practically sneeze junk into the MF and get Pres. Everyone else in our guild, myself included, has no such luck. That’s out of about 30 people. We even sat down and tried to work this out by giving one person a load of money to test the MF against the person who seems to always be so lucky. By all evidence, it’s an account thing. So, if you are looking for ultra rare materials or whatever and never find them, just admit defeat now and get on the gold grind.

Yeah if you’re in a hurry, by all means blow hundreds of gold to level a crafting skill you’ll probably use a few times before you realize everything except maybe the chestpiece are not worth it.

Or you can follow my advice above, take your time, and earn some gold while leveling the craft.

Your choice.

I also find it weird it doesn’t have an upgrade slot. As it is, it’s too easy to replace with something better.

The problem with the Guardian shield is it has very little use in PvE or PvP. That is to say the other offhand weapons are better in almost all situations. The focus has a better block than the shield, and the torch does more DPS.

Yeah this change was unnecessary and unfun.

All it takes is some cleaving melee to handle the bubbles in the “arena” and it’s golden.

You don’t get it. They were obviously all stacked with Superior Runes of the Snowfall.

Once there was a time where I would have loved to kick Trahearne’s butt for stealing all my glory in the personal story. After LS2, I feel sorry for him. I might even feel a bit sad if I was forced to put him down should he turn into Mordy’s minion. The guy might have stolen my glory in PS, but I cannot ignore that he’s a tragic hero.

There was pretty bad lag outside the instance yesterday evening, but once I got in it was smooth. I finished it on first try. Now to get the achievements…

I agree, the encounter is well designed, although I do have a feeling it might be a tad on the easy side, as I see it being finished almost constantly already.

Eirdyne.9843:

While I haven’t finished the LS yet, nor expect to any time soon, I watched friends completing it.

Here’s what I’ve gotten out of the experience:
- Anet isn’t exactly a creative bunch. If it can be solved poorly and inadequately then that will be the path taken.
- What I take from the above reality is that we’ll be dealing with the Sylvari issues as an instanced situation:
- i.e. Canach is going to get cornered somewhere and we’ll have to go help him out.
-Canach means Anise somehow.
- Rytlock is back by whatever time this all unfolds, so either he will magically birth himself out of the ground or the like is probable given how Anet is.
- If anything doesn’t make sense don’t talk about it and let the players make up reasons.
- We saw Eir completely unconcerned with the airship crashing, at one point falling toward sharp spikey stuff, the airship behind her, then a few seconds later standing on the airship shooting away with her bow. We can take from this that Eir has learned to teleport and is completely protected by ascended plot armor. Logain and Zojja are similarly in this way. First we see Logain and Zojja falling into open air, then we see them hanging from the bow of the ship.
- We can be fairly certain the next Anet-plothole… I mean patch… will be about rescuing people from the non-sense.
- We can also ask the question, if the vines can shoot that fast out of the earth, that large, what chance anyone has once they actually touch the earth. Unless they can crawl into a bag of holding for a week the plot has gotten pretty absurd.
- Nevertheless, we should expect to be on a rescue and preservation path for the next little while.
- Anything that happens will take place in instanced situations as evidence by the complete lack of signs of devastation in the base camp at the Silverwastes.
- Oh, but good news. Trehearne may finally be dead. We didn’t see him in any of the cutscenes post falling from the ship. More likely though, Trehearne is going to be the bait and hook for towing us back out into the wider plot arch following this rescue and preserve story arch.
- Sylvari characters are unaffected for “reasons”. Anet hasn’t decided that yet. We should all know by now Anet doesn’t think ahead or behind. This is a schizophrenic entity. It invents continuity in the course of the immediate delusion.

What if you take that cutscene as a recollection of the events, told by one of the survivors? I mean, it’s not like your character was there when it happened, so it’s all hearsay to him/her.

I’m starting to be glad that I don’t have any Sylvari characters.

I’m actually hoping that we will get a feature patch before the Heart of Thorns expansion that will give us the guild halls (along with more guild missions) already. One can dream, right?

For the Heart of Thorns expansion I hope/expect:

1. At least 4-5 new zones, all rich with secrets, DE’s and lore like the original maps.
2. A new profession.
3. A new race.
4. A new weapon for each profession.
5. New utilities and/or weapon skills.
6. New stuff to do in WvW, maybe even the promised unique borderlands.

We’ll see.

So… don’t attack a zerg at all?

Maybe Anet knows everyone hates playing against mesmers? Well maybe except thieves.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Tom Gore.4035:

For #4, if you allowed class swapping it would just end up in a class swapping war until time runs out. Let’s start the PvP only after the game starts, ok?

As someone in another thread suggested, don’t show the enemy team until the final 10s countdown – this way the only reason to class swap is to counter class stacking in your own team.

That would solve this problem, but would introduce another problem that the team would not have a chance to plan their strategy according to the enemy team composition. This could be alleviated by allowing class swapping for the first 30 seconds, then locking it and showing the enemy team.

For #4, if you allowed class swapping it would just end up in a class swapping war until time runs out. Let’s start the PvP only after the game starts, ok?

spiritus.7983:

the most pro ppl I seen are war+thief party in eotm, bursting alone low lvls. This week seen them few times same two ppl. Once they got me and after they kill me I got a whisper “noob necro”

did not reply, but got me thinking how low two ppl can be to put in such effort to kill a low lvl, block him, copy his id, unblock him, whisper him “noob profession”?

Believe me there are a lot of people for whom doing that is the greatest achievement they’ve ever managed in their lives.

SilverWF.4789:

Tao.5096:

I pop flamethrower and want to 30k burn anyone in a sec.
Oh wait, I’m downed….
Retaliation?!
NERF !@^%#%$

30k burn? Are we playing in the same game? 5k per 2 sec channel – that’s a real numbers. And this numbers pretty usual for another classes, but they do not have Retal problems only because they have less numbers of hits.

Probably the same guy is hitting 100k damage total on hundred blades (i.e. thinking the numbers that pop are individual damage readings instead the total).

rapthorne.7345:

Tom Gore.4035:

rapthorne.7345:

It may simply be a renaming of the game, much like other games do when they release substantial updates (IE, RIFT: Nightmare Tide/Storm Legion, AION: Ascension/Steel Cavalry, etc)

A substantial update is pretty much what an expansion is, by definition.

Have the naysayers really reached a point where they are now arguing semantics? “Yeah we’re getting five new zones, new race, new class and new skills for each profession, but it’s just an update. It’s not an expansion!”

I consider an “expansion” something paid for to access extra parts of the game on top of the base game(akin to GW1 expansions/WoW expansions), but an update something part of the base game, that will change the game as a whole potentially for free/an optional cost

Ok. You can do that. But that doesn’t make it a universal definition.

There should be an achievement for being killed by your own moa / killing the mesmer who moa’d you (while being a moa).

Now if only skullcracker was still un-nerfed.

rapthorne.7345:

It may simply be a renaming of the game, much like other games do when they release substantial updates (IE, RIFT: Nightmare Tide/Storm Legion, AION: Ascension/Steel Cavalry, etc)

A substantial update is pretty much what an expansion is, by definition.

Have the naysayers really reached a point where they are now arguing semantics? “Yeah we’re getting five new zones, new race, new class and new skills for each profession, but it’s just an update. It’s not an expansion!”

Lol that’s just golden

Vukorep.3081:

how did they buy the game in the first place if they dont have access to credit cards….?

currently 100gems is around 14-17 gold (depending on the hour) i can hardly believe making 100 gems be around 30 gold a win for everyone.

Again, im well aware of the conviniences that having such item in the gem store can be, but it wont be without a massive influence on gold->gem conversion rates which will never go back to “normal”, and can only go higher

Would be a win for those who don’t want to farm gold, but just buy some gems and swap them for gold. I would love to get ~200-250 gold for ten bucks.

Crise.9401:

Let’s face it lot of the negativity about Sylvari related stories is due to Trahearne, but even then I wouldn’t call the personal story a sylvari story arch the only reason Trahearne is a sylvari in my eyes has to do with the convenient fact that he is/was immune to dragon corruption (and now we know why).

…coughSCARletcough…

Nick.6972:

Hopefully this is the last plant people story arc we’re getting, I doubt I’m the only one who’s rather tired of seeing sylvari in everything.

Well I would assume each dragon expansion (or whatever we call them) will be concentrating on a certain race/theme. Jormag is strongly tied with the Norn, Primordus with the Asura, and Kralkatorrik is currently harrassing the Charr most of all.

BlueOcean.5380:

An expansion would not be called a new framework.

It would if it was distributed and/or launched in an unconventional way, such as being purchased with Gems (or Gold-to-Gems if you prefer) or even released free of charge and monetized through other Gem paid unlocks, such as new class/race (and the character slot unlocks they undoubtedly generate).

Sure it could be just an iPad card game like Hearthstone, but by reserving 90 minutes on the main stage for just that would cause a kittenstorm of epic proportions. Hopefully Anet is smarter than that.

I also thought it was supposed to be practice, but when I see two dragon ranks playing 4 rounds in a row, stacking to one side against noobs I start to wonder what kind of practice they hope to gain from that.