Guild Wars 2

jul.7602:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

jul.7602:

Must make sense lorewise without cannon information

Wut?

You cannot use cannon information.

What about mortars?

What bugs me is that the Shadow of the Dragon is supposed to be a dream representation of a dragon (take your pick). That’s why Caithe calls it the shadow of a dragon.

So either

(A) this Shadow has come back to life and got out of the dream, Freddy Kruger style, or

(B) the one in the dream was the shadow of a dragon that just happens to be called – wait for it – the Shadow of the Dragon. They could have at least given it a proper name so we don’t have something as lame as a shadow of a shadow.

It turns out that we weren’t even fighting a shadow of an Elder Dragon, it was just a minion, or a shadow of a minion. Either explanation just makes me want to slap someone.

Is this some long winded way of trying to prove Zhaitan is still alive?

Otherwise I don’t see the point in this argument, since clearly the risen are still shambling around eating brains and such.

The wings are the main difference. It can be hard to see because most of the shots clip the wings, but the new model has more bones and a bit more stuff between them. It looks more like it could fly than the old one.

Where the kitten are the WvW back pieces, that’s what I want to know. And the PVP back pieces. And the (non fractal) dungeon back pieces. Or the map completion back pieces. And JP back pieces.

What’s with the huge bias towards crafting? And now dungeons. And it’s not like fractals didn’t already have half the back pieces in the game already.

I hole the other game modes get some love.

Vikkela.7261:

let’s remove bosses and replace them with normal easy minions instead, no point in having bosses if you just want to autoattack them a few times to death without dodging

That’s basically what you do do in this fight. Dodging is not really required. AA strafing is more efficient.

Erukk.1408:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

This is true.

And those vines are awfully close to the throat… are we sure they’re cuddling in kindness?

It would be hilarious if Mawdrey is Anet’s attempt at the original ending of Little Shop of Horrors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(film)#Original_ending

Shame they didn’t make the backpack actually look like the film version of Audrey, or like one of the Threshers. Even a vine seed plant would have been a better model.

I’m not sure that “touched by” means the same as “corrupted by”. C.f. The Sons of Svanir, and The Flame Legion.

I don’t think that Sylvari immunity to corruption by Jormag, Kral, or Zhaitan needs any other explanation than that Sylvari Icebrood, Branded and (especially) Risen would have looked pretty stupid.

The dragon in the vision is the same as the one that attacks the conference. In particular it had the same wing design, which is quite unique and easily distinguished from other dragon models. (It also differs substantially from the Shadow of the Dragon Mk1 in the Sylvari personal story).

The full set from Ventari’s tablet:

I. Live life well and fully, and waste nothing.
II. Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes stronger roots.
III. The only lasting peace is the peace within your own soul.
IV. All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.
V. Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil or sorrow.
VI. Act with wisdom, but act.
VII. From the smallest blade of grass to the largest mountain, where life goes—so, too, should you.

Many of them resemble the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. Players have speculated that eastern philosophy (such as Confucianism and Buddhism) was a source for Ventari’s tablet.

Like Confucianism the teachings of Ventari seem more concerned with matters of ethics and morality than spirituality, and the Sylvari are more concerned with living life, and less concerned with concepts like an afterlife. Along with Charr, they are one of the major Tyrian races that could be said to lack a true religion.

It is also interesting to compare these values, which are more like suggestions and guidelines to the more prescriptive rules of Western regions.

Jim Hunter.6821:

When traited warhorn can offer near perma swiftness, solid fury uptime and a blast finisher, but its number 4 skill is pretty worthless.

Warhorn 4 is also channeled, and is highly useful against thieves if you time it right.

You can get (successful) attack verse defense numbers from the WvW achievements.

Yaks: 3545 /1838 (1.9:1)
Camps: 3262 / 205 (15.9:1)
Towers: 2040 / 801 (2.5:1)
Keeps: 646 / 590 (1.1:1)
Stonemist: 77 / 183 (0.4:1)

What sort of ratios do you guys have? Extrapolating from my numbers, about half of keep attacks fail, and more than half of attacks on SM (although there will be some bias from getting more than one defense tick for a prolonged attack).

It’s obvious from this thread that the PVE crowd just doesn’t get it.

Whoever at ANet came up with this bright idea doesn’t get it either.

thiagoperne.7340:

So funny to see the majority pointing warrior as the easiest class to play WvW with group/zerg while it’s the hardest of all, unless your only job is hitting #4 and #5 off-hand warhorn.

To play the warrior class as it was meant to be in WvW, you gonna need some serious practice that requires a long time to get used to, from placement on the field for damage to smartness for survivability, not even counting lots and lots of thoughts and tries to make the right build to combine damage/crit and defense.

The right choice for you Victor is Guardian staff/sword+shield or gs.

We are still talking about Guild Wars 2 right?

Virtute.8251:

ConfusedDave.4271:

Making someone pay another 300g just to have a different colour completely negates the ability for people to switch colours to suit the situation and who else is on the map.

The majority of players willing to purchase the alternate colors will be players we don’t want to obey as commanders.

This.

PVE commanders will have rainbows of pretty colors that they can pop at the bank in LA, while WvW commanders will be stuck with blue.

Buying colored tags would be just silly.

What if the two commanders on a map had both bought the same color? It would defeat the whole purpose.

Maybe I’m being too sensible, but you’d think the ability to change colours on the fly would be the way to go. So if there was a red commander and a blue commander already, you could change your tag to green.

They introduced three new factions in LS1, so I don’t think it’s development effort. They could put the same effort into three different dragons in the same season. Not three in the same two weeks, but they could easily alternate.

I know some people hated the new factions, and the way they were all tied ultimately together, but that’s not the point.

Stooperdale.3560:

I was a bit surprised by this fight actually, particularly the floor. You might be able to jump but it isn’t ‘obvious’ by any stretch of the imagination.

The fight with Notchli uses the same mechanic.

I think there are a few things that make this fight go more smoothly:

Knowing the mechanics – they have been used in dry top, so if you spent much time there you would have seen them.

Knowing the Mordrem. They aren’t so hard if you have practiced fighting them.

Having the right build. Some healing and condition removal is essential. You can’t expect to glass cannon this fight, unless you are perfect at dodging and avoiding AOE.

Also, not falling off cliffs helps…

Pheppo.9286:

I died only once, because i dodged from the cliff xD

I did this too! Total facepalm.

Fortunately I was only downed and my pet was able to get me back up.

I found most of the AOE could be avoided without dodging. I just strafed most of the enemies down.

Malkavian.4516:

While not the screenshot of the event itself, this is basically what I wore. I’d like my fanservice sometimes.

Oh hey, the strippers have arrived.

Freeelancer.2860:

Most of the elites are kitten? I’m sorry, are we playing the same game? The only elite (outside of most racial ones) that I can’t find a possible usage for would be the engineer mortar..
Apart from mortar the only niche ones would be warrior rampage and engineer elixir x, both of which are highly situational for any game mode.

That being said, I’d love to see more elites that synergize with utilities/traits more (I’d love to see previously mentioned underwater minion or spirit weapon elite).

Avatar of Melandru is a joke.

Avatar of Grenth is way under powered.

The Asura golem are pretty meh.

Engineer mortar can be useful in WvW sometimes, but otherwise it’s pretty useless.

The Norn ones are useless, except for leopard form in WvW, and only as an escape.

People are defending in EoTM. Sometimes. Pug groups will even divert to defend keeps, or attack an enemy Zerg. Sometimes.

Saying that EoTM is only karma training up-levels that always get wiped by two people on ACs is a generalisation that is only mostly true.

Valdemas.4960:

take sm

/15 chars

Usually this falls foul of the “don’t run them into death traps” advice.

Most attacks (about 2/3) on SM fail.

Just because they exist doesn’t mean they exist everywhere, or have been domesticated everywhere.

The domestication and spread of horses on Earth was a very long process that was by no means uniform across the globe. It may have taken as much as one thousand years for the “technology” to spread across Europe and Asia.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_horse

I don’t see why all three can’t attack at once. What’s holding back Jormag or the DSD?

This isn’t a wrestling match. They don’t need to take turns. Strategically it would make sense for the remaining Dragons, or at least the active ones that aren’t otherwise occupied, to dogpile now.

Even without any other reasons, the fact that the Sylvari are gung-ho on killing Elder Dragons, combined with the fact that Caithe and Traherene have already played a significant part in taking down one Elder Dragon already, does make them a clear and present danger to all of the Elder Dragons, including Mordremoth.

Any Elder Dragon that doesn’t have one eye on the Pale Tree at this point has not being paying attention.

Randulf.7614:

What do people think of the skin itself? Worth the time investment? I have nothing against it, but it seemed nothing spectacular over another skin so decided against making it in the end. I do like the scavenger bit though, so I did hunt down a lot of the pieces.

What are other people’s views on it for the time involved.

Not worth it, IMO. Plus I’m making bank selling plant food.

If the plant food price drops far enough, I might make one one day.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Well, not sure if u guys already know, but the recent LS patch brought a new item that eats bloodstone dust (50x) and gives you a gift containing (1xequipment, 1xcraft mat, 1-3 white trash for sell).

So, I’m happy that I didn’t destroyed my ascended mats and have 7 mules filled with it.
Maybe more things like this hapen in future, so, as long as you have bank tabs/mule character to hold, is always nice

Even with seven mules loaded with bloodstone dust, you’d only be getting a few gold from Mawdrey II.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

There’s no harm in just deleting the excess, it’s not as though there’s someday going to be a Bloodstone Dust crisis in Tyria.

This. If you ever run out you can just hop on the Karma Train and get more. No sense wasting money on stuff you’ll probably never need.

Look at the price. If the price hasn’t jumped, no nerf.

Arzo.8671:

Yeah, lack of trinity is nice because, unless you’re one of those 3, you’re not valued. Frankly, I’m surprised that people like the holy trinity. It’s very limiting.

Only really two of the three are really valued, because DPS is a common as chips. And healers are usually the most sought after, because no one actually wants to be a healer for its own sake.

It’s like the Baseball “World” Series, or the “World” Wrestling Federation.

That doesn’t explain how she lost her title, unless her father sold it to pay debts.

If it’s anything like European nobility you don’t technically need to be rich to have a title.

Eluveitie.1290:

I barely got time to look at that cave with all the ganking, had to get away, but interesting find. Nothing else of interest in Dry Top, only the Inquest further implementation of the Aspect crystals to their weaponry, I guess.

Same here. I took out a couple of the Veterans, then had to retreat. There didn’t seem to be anything else in the cave. Perhaps it will be used later in the LS?

Of possible note: the mobs outside are Mordrem. The Mobs inside are Overgrown. Is there a difference? And are the Mordem keeping things out, or keeping things in?

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

Retcon that made the Shadow of the Dragon our Archnemesis!

If you play a Sylvari and kill Zhaitan it says quite clearly in the personal story journal that your wild hunt is complete.

So it’s either a lie, or a retcon. Either way it’s a kitten-slap to anyone who did the personal story.

Stooperdale.3560:

As a completely fanciful theory, wouldn’t it be interesting if Mordremoth could pull creatures from Nightmare and put them into reality?

Depending who’s speculation you believe, it was Mordremoth who put them in the Dream in the first place, so why would he want to take them out?

That aside, what creatures do you mean? Things like Overgrown Thorn Hounds and Mordrem husks already exist in the real world, so what else would he pull out of The Nightmare?

I started up one jumping part and a bunch of people followed me, even though I had no idea where I was going. So we all just stood around on top of the reactor.

Then someone said something about keys, but no one had any idea what keys, or where to get them, or even what to use them for.

Then a Mesmer ported us all up anyway, but it turned out that the chaos was bugged and half the people couldn’t channel it anyway. At least we got a boss chest out of it, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

For the next scavenger hunt I suggest locating it in the Forsaken Halls, or the Hidden Garden. Having them located in a place that 90 percent of the player base is unaware even exists can only lead to amusement.

The town clothes don’t really look appropriate for that sort of party either.

TYHE.6435:

Yes, I didn’t like it either, but on the other hand asura are very much like it, opressive and looking for weakness. They brutalize inteligent species for experiments, they do not care to much if they see profit and knowledge to gain. So…

Anyone who has done Asura personal stories shouldn’t be surprised at Phlunt’s behaviour. A lot of high ranking Asura are basically kittens.

I was hoping the final product would be something more visually impressive. It looks like ginger root. The ascended version is just a ginger root that glows.

Especially given what its name references. Something that looked more like a thresher, or a vine seed plant would have been appropriate.

Makes me kind-of glad I’m just selling plant food instead of using it myself.

I’m pretty sure that maxing out the suspicion bar was the quickest way to progress. Every time I did it more green stars appeared on the map.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Didn’t read your post.

Shouldn’t you worry about killing Smaug and taking back your mountain, instead of playing video games?

I Lol’d

Maybe I was just feeling tired or something, but I couldn’t be bothered trying to read all those dialog options and just clicked the first option every time as fast as I could until I got to the end.

TL:DR version seemed to be a lady with a gambling problem was spreading rumors and Anise, who wasn’t really there, had already solved everything…

.. did I miss anything?

Am I a bad person for being so impatient?

A theif, no WvW experience?

Not sure if trolling.

Junkpile.7439:

Somebody could start to make youtube videos where guild groups lose against PUGs.

I’ve seen a guild group repeatedly get wiped by k-train pugs in EoTM.

I can only assume it was a PVE guild.

Warrior is tops.

Win.

Players follow commanders that are successful. You need to pick your battles, especially when outnumbered. If you keep getting wiped, you will bleed players. If you treat pugs like redshirts, they will bail on you.

Killing the Grub is like listening to Justin Beiber.

Its not something we should be encouraging.

If they want to promote good WvW they should give traits for refreshing seige, or scouting the garrison water gate.

The flies that attack the lanterns in Caledon forest are clearly Modremoths minions, intent on extinguishing the glow.

Beware, anyone with a glowy legendary: Mordy wants to eat your weapon.

I find the use of the word "regained" interesting.

If it was intentional, it implies that Glint was corrupted, rather than born a minion. Makes me wonder what "species" the draconic champions are from, and if other champions, like the Claw, or Tequatl share similar ancestry.