Guild Wars 2

Randulf.7614:

I don’t agree the Nightfall OST fits he Crystal Desert at all, despite being a great theme. The Crystal Desert and Elona never felt that similar. Elona was grassland savannah, canyons, forts, swamps and poisonous wasteland where desert once would have been. And it had civilisation – earthen and often magnificent in tone

The Crystal Desert was a near uniform desert landscape with very little else beyond an Oasis and rocky outcrops and very little settlements. In contrast to Elona, it’s beauty was in its mystique and serenity.

It is possible as we progress into Elona itself, the Nightfall OST will fit better, but be wary of confusing the Crystal Desert and Elona as the same thing despite the physical bridging.

We still need to consider that the Elon got redirected into the Crystal Desert and the land has drastically changed since GW1. Furthermore, many Sunspears and other Citizens of Elonan Nations fled from Palawa Joko and build the free city of Amnoon, which has architecture that shares similarities with the architecture we saw in Elona (especially Vabbi).

I still hope we’ll get the Nightfall Theme when we go down to Kourna and Istan during LW Season 4 (at least I hope that we’ll go there).

I just wish to hear this in Guild Wars 2… Who knows if this wish will ever come true…

Carighan.6758:

Frankly it’s lame that the game is 5 years old now, and we never got a rework of how clones and phantasms work.

Because yeah, either, clones should do actual damage an in return phantasms are just removed without replacement, or as the quoted guy said, phantasm is a fourth type of illusion which is separate from the shatterable clones.

Clones actually did nice damage during the first beta weekend(s ?) in 2012. They just changed it because they thought it would make Mesmer too strong. I just wish Anet would bring this back into the game.

And the separation between Clone- and Phantasm-Slots was a suggestion that I read before Anet changed the way how Clone generation would overwrite the Phantasms (it overwrote always the oldest Illusion, no matter its type) even if there were other Clones out.

leozar.2649:

I feel that mirage should be a spe based on clone and shatter skills, giving +1 clone with a minor trait and changing all phantasm skill to clone skill will give some synergy with the shatter trait and illusion alive trait. Of course you would need traits for boosting damage and survivability of clones, popping a clone each time you gain mirror cloak and at least 4s ambush windows but right now the spe is kinda underwhelming

Anet could separate Clone- and Phantasm-Slots on Mirage. 3 Slots free for Clones and one slot for an additional Phantasm. The Phantasm wouldn’t shatter but stay behind until it dies or gets overwritten by another Phantasm.

Mastamaker.2957:

Levetty.1279:

I just can’t believe that instead of looking at what Mesmer has and looking at what it needs, they just made a spec around the name Mirage.

Of all the things to be upset about, you chose the name of the elite spec? The name literally does not matter.

The person you quoted said that Anet took the name “Mirage” and gave it skills they thought to be fitting for its theme, ignoring the things that the Mesmer actually needs. They should have made an effort to bring the mesmer new areas to shine instead of giving him things that he already has and what the class can do better without the new elite Specialization.

Anet just took the name “Mirage” and build everything around its name. And the results aren’t convincing enough to give up Chronomancer or Core specs.

Never play the German version, just like many people said before. English text + English audio all the way.

Liewec.2896:

plus i noticed lots of dervish spells are going to the new specs, […] Sight Beyond Sight, […]

SBS was a Skill from Ritualist. I hope we’ll get a real Ritualist Spec when we will get to Cantha.

Thuggernaut.1250:

The Dervishes in GW1 channeled the power of the gods and transformed into avatars of the gods. Because the gods fled the world after GW1, it makes sense that the Dervishes lost their powers and became defunct.

Couldn’t they still use Wind Prayers, Earth Prayers, Scythe Mastery and Skills of Mystery Line that aren’t god avatars? And Balthazar’s back, so he could have Dervishes in his ranks.

I would love to see the dervish return, at least as NPCs. Balthazars followers could have some Dervishes who can use the Avatar of Balthazar Elite-Form. The enemies could hype up the playerbase until they release the Specialization/class during a later Expansion.

And I want the Ritualist to return when we get the Cantha Addon.

Maybe we’ll get Dervish as a specialization with Exp3, when we go to Kourna and/or Istan. I don’t think LW Season 4 will bring us way down to those areas and only expand Vabbi, the Crystal Desert and the Desolation.

The Weapons share a similar design with the Sunspear , a Spear-Skin from GW1 that you got from Nightfall Pre-Release Bonus-Box.

I really like this simplistic design.

The Outfit has some nice Paragon vibes, but I would have preferred the Paragon Elite Sunspear Armor.

Etienne.3049:

It’s because in Europe we tend to have VAT, which is a sort of tax that’s included in the listed price (so if it says €20, it costs €20).
In USA they may or may not have a sales tax that I believe is added onto the listed price (so $20 with a 10% sales tax would cost $22).

The lowest VAT rate in the EU seems to be luxembourg at 17%.
$1 is around €0.85 at the moment.

0.85×1.17=0.9945, so actually $1=€1 for the listed price seems perfectly reasonable at the moment, you’re “overpaying” about half a cent per dollar.

Yes, you may be able to pay less by buying from a state without VAT, it may even be legal to do so without paying import taxes (for instance when it’s cheap enough).
But it’s totally reasonable for a company to convert $1 to €1, they get to keep about the same.

That’s what I wanted to write. The € price is including the VAT while the price for NA doesn’t. It seems to be cheaper but it actually isn’t for most states.

Idk if you could just buy an american Key for PoF because I believe that NA-Keys can’t be used for EU-accounts .

No, this won’t allow you to wear them both. Only infusing would help.

Just make her male. “Kalsson” shouldn’t be a problem ;P.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Are you sure? Not confusing that with Counter Magic?

It could be, I don’t really remember, as it’s been awhile since I did Episode One.

Besides, I’m not sure the OP is concerned with collecting Unbound Magic so much as acquiring the Ancient Mursaat Relic trophy.

I don’t confuse it, when flying through the orbs gave me the message “Unlocked by finishing reaper of magic” or similar.

And the wiki page says so, too: “Only after doing this mission will your character be able to get Unbound Magic from harvesting Bloodstone Crystals and to catch them floating in the sky.”

You weren’t able to gather Unbound Magic from “Purple orbs” until you finished LS3 Episode 1 → ‘Reaper of Magic’.

I attended the event, too. No disconnect. Just hours of wait during the event chain to lure the Ancient Karka into the hive to drop it into the lava.

There was one particular step where the players had to fight never ending hordes of Karka until the Ancient Karka would move on (a bar had to be filled). Because of insane upscaling by the large amounts of players doing this event, the bar went up so slowly… It took nearly an hour and I nearly felt asleep (the event was during evening/night in europe).

Then another event started, felling a tree to let it move on… It was done fast! Plugging geysirs… Fast! Again, hordes of Karka… Sooooo slow. All players on map chat just hoped this event would never repeat. Getting the Karka to the top of the hive, dropping into the lava… Finally done. A nice cutscene… And players shouting their nice fresh precursors from the event reward, while I got nothing (just garbage exos). And I still haven’t got one til today.

Southsun Cove event was fun, but please Anet… Never do something like this again.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Agreed. It’s not a bad idea, but I can see why ANet won’t do it. If you gain an item once, you’d never have to craft or find it again. Not sure they’d like that given how crafting is a huge money sink.

Plus, it makes you less dependant on RNG . . . which we all know is God in Guild Wars 2.

You would still need to craft for other stat combinations or have luck with RNG.

anninke.7469:

So is it basically “give me three for one”? (armor-wise)

It takes away the possibility of swapping stats by using the mystic forge and gives you the comfort of not having to use the bank / shared account slots to move the armor between characters.

Seera.5916:

Then maybe try explaining it better. Because if I don’t get it, there’s a good chance ANet doesn’t either. And if ANet doesn’t get it, they sure won’t implement it anywhere near how you want them to.

You get one ascended beserker helmet. You destroy it and “save” it in the armory. Every character with the same armor class can use it without limitations. You can’t swap stats, because the helmet is destroyed and “saved” as berserker helmet. For further stats, you need to craft armor with this stats and destroy it too. For every new stat combination, you would have to craft another ascended item.

It’s not even close to legendary stat swap. I like this idea.

Mesmers should wear armor like this instead of the common light armor. They are to fabulous to wear the clothes that Necros or Elementalists are wearing.

Nice idea.

I would also like some kind of “Mini Zhaitan/Mordemoth” that works like the Zephyr Sactum model, triggering a “vista-like” cinematic that shows them from different angles.

Fighting and dieing during the Battle of Lion’s Arch would have been incredibly foolish, if they were the last surviving individuals of the Mursaat race.

Why were they fighting in Lion’s Arch instead of hiding and reproducing to bring back their race to former “Glory”? Were they so stupid to think the last few Mursaat would be enough to fight against the hero who already vanquished many of them during the Prophecies Missions and the Shining Blade? Why would they take the risk of becoming extinct if their numbers were already so low?

Were the Mursaat just fools (thinking they were god-like and able to win the War in Kryta) or did they have some kind of plan?

JayMack.8295:

Unless I’ve missed something, nothing points to golden structures needing to be in Maguuma, so it could be literally anywhere, if it even exists.

I don’t think Lazarus is lying about being the last of his kind (as far as he knows). The White Mantle have spent a lot of energy and resources to revive him alone and if more of his kind were around, I expect they would have either helped or exposed themselves to the WM by now.

I’m not sure how Mursaat come into existence…with the lore surrounding the Exalted, it’s possible that they go through a similar process. Maybe they were once humans, which is why they have such a tie to humanity in the first place. Have the origins of Mursaat ever been explained?

One of the core themes of the Mursaat, though, is that they screw over other races to keep their own floating feet alive. I expect one of Lazarus’ core aims may be increasing the numbers of his own race (however that is achieved) in addition to whatever else his ‘virtuous’ goal is.

Maybe the others just don’t care about the Human / WM affairs anymore and just hide like last time, because they are affraid of the elder dragons? Primordus stirred during EotN (although he didn’t awake), some of them could have hidden before the War in Kryta happened. Maybe there was a faction who didn’t work together with the “WM-Mursaat” and hid themselves in another corner of tyria?

Mursaat where in tyria long before humanity appeared. They can’t have been humans because they were around when the elder dragons awoke the last time.

Were there any confirmations about their cities being in the Maguuma Jungle? They could be somewhere up in the Verdant Cascades, too.

And could there be a possibility that Lazarus lied about being the last one because he wants to be the single ruler over the White mantle for his personal revenge against Humans and Asura?

Just get Mushroom Jumping + Gliding to get up there. There are some paths leading up.

“In this world, it’s kill or be killed.”

“On days like these, enemies like you…
Should be burning in hell.”

“To finish, or not to finish, that is the question.”

“Die, die die. Die, die die. Die, die.”

Ananeos.4587:

This thread is a great way to figure out who plays Mesmer and who completely gave up on it.

Maybe some Mesmers casted an illusion to hide their real feelings about this Profession?

I agree about the Warcry being unfitting and awkward, but she also has her own lines, like Shiro. (“It has been too long, allow me to act.” (Quite Common), “Our Moment has finally come” (had it only once in 200+ attempts to get different Lines) and another one (was too surprised to hear something new and didn’t remember it…). Maybe there are still more Lines.)

Nice thread! Great pictures

It closed only because of the Low-Population-Map-closing. This is awful. Seems like a bug…

For all who talked about how the map shouldn’t close once the Mouth is engaged. This is already happening. Reached the Mouth with ~ 30 Minutes left, took extremely long to kill it, still had our 15 Minutes to explore… When the Map finally closed, the new maps had already run for 10 Minutes. So no, as long as you don’t fail the fight against the Mouth, the Map will stay until the last minute of the Exploring Phase.

The last time I was unable to get to the ONE organized Map, I stayed on the map where I was and shortly after, enough people to kill the Mouth (and finish the events leading to it) joined it.

You get it if you don’t decide to defend Jaka Itzel and fight the Mordrem directly.

Hm… I read “spend every single moment of it trying to find buckets” and thought ‘Well okay, so he tried to find them…’. Then I read “and throw down the fire” and thought he was actually putting out fires whenever he found some bucket.

But that’s just me – and I’m not a native speaker. Maybe I misunderstood something.

Yes, I see how you can come to the conclusion you came, Vayne, but everyone comes to their own conclusion about the wordings of the OP.

I love all of the Maps… It’s hard to choose the one I like the least, so I picked DS. Just because I haven’t played much on it. VB, AB, TD… They are really great. I even think DS will be great when I explore it more, but still… I had to make a decision.

And TD is so amazing, so awesome, so ingenious… I totally get lost in it, but I’m having so much fun.

SkullProX.7083:

Tom Gore.4035:

SkullProX.7083:

Its supposed to make your character stronger…

According to… who?

According to its name?? ELITE specialization. ELITE, E L I T E .

This is just bad naming. Like so many others said before, it’s NOT meant to make you stronger than without the Specialization.

And 3 + 1 is ridiculous. Who in their right mind would ever run without it then, if you could choose it along with 3 Core-Specializations? They are completely optional and this is how it’s meant to be by Anet.

Yeah, that change came with the NPE in the late 2014.

I don’t know why it’s to complicated for Newcomers to see the World Completion, but well…

I dunno. Prepurchased the Expansion for 33€ and I think it was worth it. But I don’t think I would have paid much more for it, although its Content is much fun. I still hate how we haven’t heard about the Mursaat, since Anet said they had great Plans for them prior GW2-Launch…

But well, I didn’t play enough of it yet, because I returned to Wildstar in August. RP is so much fun there. :P

vanderwolf.7084:

Around the time also Vizier Khilbron used a forbidden scroll to sink Orr into the ocean to prevent it from being taken by the charr.

Happened shortly after the Searing, when the Charr were trying to wipe out all Humans of the Tyrian Continent.

vanderwolf.7084:

King Adelbern of ascalon used the spell “foefire” to decimate the charr in ascalon which also killed everybody in the city and turned them into ghosts.

Happened after all the Events of GW1, even GW1:Beyond.

Trahearne dies? This is bad… So it didn’t end well… HE KNEW ALL ALONG!

My Main will be pro-Sylvari, but for my other Characters… Time will tell. There will be at least one anti-Sylvari Character.

Dadnir.5038:

Again, I’m in great shape right now to some heavy post!

“You gotta kidding Anet! How could you give these new pets to the ranger! Look at this :
- the Skelk is a better thief than a thief with it’s 10 man 30s CD stealth!
- the Minotaur is a better warrior than a warrior with tons of CC!
- the Ooze can even swap alone it’s attunment and totally outclass any ele!
- how could you gave them Logan as a pet!!? Wanna get rid of all the guardians?
- the wind riders behave like a PU mesmer! Do you really want us to all ragequit?
- even the harpy one shoting at 1500 range outclass his own master!
This is the end of PvP their will be Druids everywhere!”

If you don’t believe me then wait for my post part II and you will see how wrong you are.

That’s one killer move here I can’t stop laughing!

Don’t forget the Smokescale Pets who are Better and deadlier than the Revenants
lol, love this one to!

/Edit: Hey, I saw this coming ;D

My rant (+ Caps Lock & horrible Grammar):

DANM ANET! SRLY?!!?!?!111 WTF WERE U THNIKING?!? UNLIMITED RANGE FOR DRUIDS COZ BEING ONE WITH NATRUE AND FEEL WERE ENEMIES STAND? EVERY S1NGLE CLASS IS OBSLETE NOW; DANM! P2W CONFRMD! EVRY1 WITHOUT HOT IS NOW TOTALLY SCREWD!!!oneeleven NERF IT TO THE GROUND (AND EVEN LOWER), PLOX!!!

/EDIT: Wow, now I see… It only works with Staff. And Staff is a heal-only weapon with a new ressource, which makes you unable to use more than 1 of its 5 Skills (Autoattack /-heal included) every 20 Seconds. Great job, Anet! This is how balancing works!

My greatest fear…

New Update: “News about the Destruction of the whole Continent Cantha reached Tyria – An Elder dragon sneezed while flying over the Jade Sea, causing a large Explosion and flying Jade Fragments killing every single inhabitant of the Continent”

Features:
- You will never see Cantha in GW2
- Buy new Canthan Outfit and pay respect to the Dead
- Canthan Weapon Skins from BL-Tickets
- Afterwards, Palawa Yoko traveled to Cantha and raised the Dead, preparing to invade Tyria
- New Canthan Undead Enemies (from GW1)! Fight Togo the Moldy, Danika the Rotten, Argo the Decayed or even Nika the Unafflicted! Will you recognize them?

It’s simple:

- Increase the limit to 400.
- 50 Stacks of Exotic Essences per 1%, increasing to 100 Stacks after hitting 350% MF
- Make a Recipe to combine a stack of 250 exotic essences to “One Stack of Luck Essences (Exotic)”

Everyone’s happy.

:P

Kirnale.5914:

Give me these two and I’ll be happy for a lifetime.

YES, YES, YEEEESSSS! I want the Ritualist hairstyle for my Revenant! And Gwens hairstyle is nice, too.

Please Anet, make our dreams come true!

Plot twist: After the forgotten left Tyria and the Crystal desert, they searched for the remaining Mursaat to punish them for what they’ve done during the last Rise of the Dragons. They found them and both races fighted relentless against each other. When their magic collided, a big explosion occured, affecting both factions and fusing their individuals into one body, always one Mursaat and one Forgotten. Thats why they are now known as the Exalted and look serpent-like but also have Traits of the Mursaat. :P

Honestly, I hope the are Mursaat and the differences in their appearance is only because GW2 has a different style than GW1. I still remember there were supposed to be “some really cool plans for the Mursaat”.