Guild Wars 2

It’s kind of like ‘child throwing a fit because mom didn’t do what they wanted.’ Cadyern want to get revenge on the asura for pretty much torturing and experimenting on Malomedies (although to be fair they didn’t realize he was sentient and they did ask for peace after this) but when he asked the Pale Tree what they should do she said to accept peace, to not exact revenge. Cadyern could not see why his mother would tell him to ignore these natural feelings, why hold a tablet written by some centaur none of them even know in such high regard. He saw this as unnatural, and founded the Nightmare Court in hopes to get his mother to accept that these feelings of anger and malice as normal and necessary. They do seem to have attracted quite a bit of fanatics that are just violent psychopaths though.

I think they made the decision to keep some choices very permanent, such as choosing your order, to promote rolling alts, or re-rolling, or whatever. to keep people playing longer.

Agrias.2391:

This isn’t even about getting wealthy, most of the current things you can do, the amount of time you spend on it and the reward you get is way out of whack. You need to do 3 DEs to even cover the cost of teleporting to the zone to begin with let alone begin making profit. You die once and you need to do 1 DE to recover the repair cost for that death, assuming you don’t die on that one also. Some dungeons are just plain broken.

this is to prevent you from having kitten tons of gold within that time span, also waypoints, because they are are kind of expensive, don’t seems like they were mean to be used often or over like three maps of space. I really never pay more than 1s 50c on a way point because i keep my travel in one map. I’d also rather walk three maps to get to the event or whatever i want to do then i can do events along the way, and loot stuff. Idk that’s just me. Also go to the heart of the mists and then port to Lions Arch for a cheap shortcut.

As for dungeons yeah they are hard, and i think they should have a bit better rewards, i would not call them broken, some of them need a bit of tuning yes, but they are doable.

also why are you dying so much? I don’t die in DE’s unless for some reason I’m trying to do a group event by myself, or say with only three people.

I just have to say, if you could be wealthy in no time , you’d be done with this game in two days, and not play it until the next expansion. they don’t want that, they want people to actually be in the game most of the time, you’ll get your shiny eventually, just not in a day.

Sylvari, names tend to be Celtic, Welsh, Irish, and occasionally Arthurian. no last names typically, maybe titles like ‘so-and-so of the whatever.’

Asura are short and sharp, with double consonants being common, though longer names are seen. Bippie seems fine.

Norn tend to have old Nordic, and Scandinavian sounding names. Their last names refer to one of their parents, or kin, such as, so-and-so, Jorasdottir meaning doughter of Jora or so-and-so Stegalkin meaning kin of Stegal though some have a title gained from a great feat they are famous for.

Charr names can be either something like Torch, or Flint, or Ember. something war like. Or they can be nonsensical, guttural sounding names like Murga, or Rankar, or Kallfaz. Their last names are partly the name of their warband, and partly a descriptor of their talents, mundane or otherwise. like Kalla Swordshaodw, she is either of the sword or shadow warband and is wither good with swords or has something to do with shadows. that is largely up to you.

now humans idk so much, European? Italian? Spanish? Asian? something pretty normal.

Lore doesn’t seem to specify afaik, but i would say the latter.

I didn’t mind the end too much, I just didn’t feel like i was in any danger at all while we were pew pewing him since we had cleared all the mobs off of the deck first. I think maybe some of us were supposed to shoot while the rest handled the mobs so it felt a bit more chaotic, but the big bad himself doesn’t actually attack so we just let him sit there while we killed his minions. /shrug

Actually you still will receive the same amount of tokens so you can get your shiny. You just won’t also be rich.

this is not possible, I would like a history mode where i could possibly do these steps again. But i would not want to be able to change my choices, that would make my original choices even less Impact-full.

I would like to clarify that the majority of soundless sylvari like apart from the tree and the dream because their connections to the dream are too strong, they cant bear the ‘cacophony’ of their races emotions constantly. I’m not sure if there are sylvari that become soundless because they don’t like the idea of the tablet, since most of them are sided with the nightmare court, naturally.

oh good to know! I’ve only gotten them from harvesting nodes.

has it ever occurred to you that they have a kitten ton of issues to deal with, the game released three weeks ago and they are doing the best they can. A dev posted in another threat that they’ve been working their butts off around the clock many days with little sleep.

it’s a world drop, you can get them pretty much anywhere you get loot. other than mining and wood nodes i think.

if you think the ‘Balance team’ needt to be replaced, oh game balancing expert, please tell me how you would fix it. I’d love to hear what you have to think. Just a few examples, heck i’d be happy with one.

I just want to say, don’t have a brainurism. you will unlock all your skills before you know it. and racial elites aren’t that great anyway.

technically those would be the ‘underwear’ pieces, those never change color for any race. idk

Corax.7381:

Besides crawlkill nearly having an aneurism while chastising the imperfection of a fantasy universe he paid to be a part of, this thread is interesting. The fact is, Ventari’s Tablet is open to interpretation (because when, exactly, is something done growing? Physically, it’s pretty easy to judge, in most cases. But mentally, it’s always growing, always learning and always experiencing new things). The sylvari emerge into a world threatened by evil, and the attempt at moral goodness put forth by the centaur sage is simply not enough to combat the malevolence this young race is facing. Can you really blame them? Be glad that while the sylvari have some hive-mind aspects, they are diverse enough (partly because of which Cycle they emerge in, partly because of individual development) to avoid appearing like mind-linked robots.

I would just like to point out that they are by no means hive minded. Take for example two sylvari who just emerged from the dream, neither of them have the experience of eating roast moa. Sylvari A eats roast moa for the first time, this does not mean sylvari B now knows what roast moa tastes like. The like they share outside of the dream is faint empathy at best. Very few may look back into the dream. Not a hive mind.

Sorry off topic over.

I agree with everyone here. I immensely enjoy this game, i can’t get enough. Imo you all have done a great job making an mmo that’s different from the rest, and being present when your players have problems, it’s refreshing. Keep up the good work!

Where is this stated Killul? I’m not attacking I’m curious as i haven’t seen or heard this anywhere before.

SillyBlackFox.4872:

Have them troll.

Trolls never come around to your way of thinking.

Much like the nightmare court…

crawlkill.6174:

Saying “you can’t cure Nightmare corruption” is ridiculous. Again…does the real world give up on the ill, mentally or otherwise, after twenty-five years? It’s clear the sylvari DO see Nightmare membership as an illness. Its being irreversible is just some fiat declaration to make it okay to murder them by the M&Mly handful (and you can just bet there’ll be “redeemed Nightmarers” showing up somewhere down the line, since no nerd can resist the temptation to reenact Drizzt).

It’s really kind of ambiguous to me how the relationship between Dreamers and Courtiers has come to be what it is. Courtiers convert Dreamers, but Dreamers just murder Courtiers, and we see frequently that Courtiers recruit through persuasion just as they do through, uh, hands-on methods.

I don’t know. It all just seems pitched at that grade school level. “THEY ARE THE BAD GUYS WE ARE GOOD SEE WE BELIEVE IN CENTAUR MOSES.” Then any act is suddenly excusable, because, well, every eight-year-old knows you have to shoot the bad guys til they fall down.

Who says they gave up? They didn’t just try once and said ‘Oh well lets just kill them!" I believe they said they haven’t found a way yet , implying that the menders are still trying to find a way to reverse this process. However you can’t just sit back and let the nightmare grow while they speculate how to fix it.

As for their methods, the court uses persuasion to raise seeds (no pun intended) of doubt so that the dreamers will join them, and this works. But, the dreamers have more than likely tried to use rational persuasion as well and that has apparently never worked.

And it’s not like they send raiding parties out to nightmare camps to kill them en masse… Usually the court provokes something.

Edit: The nightmare corruption is not the flu. They say it is an illness metaphorically.

Yeah it’s a common thing in most MMOs, but i think they left it out so people wouldn’t be criticized about their equipment choices.

during one of the last missions in Orr Trehearn I believe maybe someone else, say something about how using magic was very common for the orrians, they used it like they would any other tool. Magic today is reserved for when we can't accomplish things otherwise. Someone else also outright states that their magic was inherent, whereas today you must learn it. please correct me if anythings wrong here.

Short of asking them, no. You may click on them to see their race/gender level (only effective lvl?) and profession.

crawlkill.6174:

And the murdering of prisoners? And the writing off people who join the Nightmare Court as somehow “irredeemable?”

That;s just Caithe right? Her lover fell to nightmare so i think she’s allowed to be bitter. I know cheap answer but that’s all I got. Most probably wouldn’t kill a prisoner
without good cause. As for not being able to “cure” the nightmare, it’s not really like a disease. I mean metaphorically it is, but the sylvari have yet to find a way to bring people back from the nightmare. So this is why death is the preferred option for keeping their numbers in check.

As for how this “disease” works, i’m not sure. it probably has something to do with the ever mystical dream. I’m not sure. but for lore purposes it seems irreversable.

Hold on hold on, Mursaat/seers (AKA Largos)? what? The Larogs might act or look similar, but the largos don’t float, are from the deep oceans, aren’t very magical from what i’ve seen, and don’t seems to have any relations to the Mursaat or Seers. sorry off topic but i had to.

It’s not like they just sit at their base chatting a[bout their nightmare. They actively seek to destroy the dreamers way of like. The tenet doesn’t seem to imply that they should turn the other cheek. For example there was a blog post concerning Cadyern, he wanted to destroy some drake eggs or whatever then another sylvari said that all things have aright to grow, so they didn’t kill the drake eggs because they weren’t a threat at the time, and they may not be a threat when they hatch.

You see the Nightmare Court actively seeks to undo the dreamers way of like and to turn their mother to nightmare every day. This is seen as a large threat to the dreamers, that if left unchecked, could be their end.

Sajuuk Khar.1509:

-The Dragons fight against each-other, Zhaitan would not help further the speed of which one of his enemies awakens.

Just some clarification: While the dragon minions -and possibly the .dragons themselves- will fight amongst each other if given the opportunity, I would not go so far as to say they are enemies. They don’t actively seek each other out, and they may not even be aware of each others existence

My mesmer is named Riaghan, Celtic for ‘little king.’ it’s where we get the english Ryan from.

My mesmer, Riaghan. All glitched out lol.

I just would like to add that, a thief is not always bad/evil/malicious. Think like robin hood.

Yes, anyone who comes near the ghosts is attacked. It doesn’t matter what race they are, the ghosts are stuck in that moment in time and still see as the invading charr. So I think since they are a threat to anyone, sympathy or not, the other races see them as a problem that needs to be taken care of.

it could be that they started growing more hair on their heads when they started living on the surface, same reason we have most of our hair on top of our heads, to block sunlight. Idk.

It should be new krytan, it might just be very stylized, I’ll have to check when i log in tonight. As far as i know, the good majority of Tyria (the continent) uses new krytan.

An NPC I ran across (can’t remember where, maybe the Harathi Hinterlands?) Explains how to differentiate centaur tribes, and references how they look like different breeds of horse. So while they may be extinct, people in the current age certainly know a lot about them it seems.

First off, the dream is not something that was created or given to the sylvari by the pale tree, she even says so herself, she does not control the dream she is merely its caretaker and conduit. Secondly, I highly doubt that the pale tree is and elder dragon, I don’t see that fitting into the story very well. What would happen to our playable race later in the story?

I’ve noticed this as well. It may be a bug with how the NPCs detect players withing their range. or Maybe it’s something else, did you file a bug report just in case?

As far as I know there aren’t any events or hearts that require you to form a party. the dungeons are the only thing that require 5 people, though if you want you can do it with less but that’s not advised.

I think this is ok though, as not everyone has a party of players on hand at any given time, this makes it easier to complete content even if you don’t have any friends. I get what you want though, and it’s understandable.

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