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List Top 3 Things You Want Anet to Focus On

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locoman.1974

1. Condition damage in PvE, specially in larger zerging events.
2. A way to save/recall multiple builds/gear loadout for our character. To keep balance make it so that it can only be done in cities (maybe talking to a trainer and ask to change to your secondary build) and to help support the game, make it so we have limited slots for builds on each character, and have more unlocked with gem store.
3. Underwater combat revamp. I’d start with at least allowing us to have separate builds for land combar and underwater combat. It’s annoying, to say the least, when half of my flamethrower engineer’s traits become useless when underwater because I can’t equip the FT kit there.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Cut Scene On Log In

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Has anyone uploaded it to youtube? I assume it’s just the Breachmaker falling over.

I didn’t get to see it either, but I’m assuming it’s this one:

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Light looking Heavy armor?

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You can also check this site:

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?lang=en&color=10&sex=0&race=3&w=3

Norn cultural looks light-ish, specially tiers 1 and 2.
Sylvari cultural tiers 1 and 2 also looks a bit light, IMHO.
There are the pit fighter, battler and gladiator skins (PvP names):
http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?color=10&sex=0&race=3&w=3&skinID=piratehi&lang=en
http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?color=10&sex=0&race=3&w=3&skinID=gladi&lang=en
http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?color=10&sex=0&race=3&w=3&skinID=barbarici&lang=en

If you’re willing to go gemstore, Braham armor also looks lightish (actually, just looking at it I’d have guessed it to be medium armor).

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Please help save our server

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I heard Peter also went to Deso.

He was trying to, but kept getting lost in the way and popping up in other servers…

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Are gemstore prices aceptable?

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How do you define their worth?

They’re digital assets made by artists, so there’s no real way to measure how much they should be worth based on simple cost + profit analisis. As with any piece of art, whether it’s worth or not is entirely up to whoever is interested on buying it, which is why we have things some people buying rare comic books for millions (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/us-superman-comic-idUSTRE7B00YN20111201) while other not considering them being worth near as much money.

As they say, things are worth as much as you’re willing to pay for them… and considering how many people I see around everyday with gem store bough weapon and armor pieces, I’d say there’s plenty of people that do think they’re fairly priced. And note that I do include gold purchased gems in that, since the way the market works, each gem purchased with gold means that someone felt it to be a good “investment” for their gameplay to purchase gems and sell them for gold.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

OK I seriously don't buy this

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locoman.1974

Well to be fair.
For a world which supposedly fights against magic, dragons and otherworldly beasts on a regular basis it is really a lackluster display of competence the writers put in this

Yes there is suspension of disbelief, but if we belief this is the world the people of Tyria live in, then their reactiontime to Scarlet was very suboptimal.
Even considering time differences there was enough time to crack Scarlets defences at least three months ago, heck even after the queens jubilee…

However that is beside the point.

If we only speak of LA, then there were very luckluster defences on display in general.
It was a costal city and since there are dragons and dragon minions around, then there should be some aerial defences at least somwhere on the outskirts.

Ignoring the timeline of before and after Zaithan then there should still be some defences around the city to hold off attacks from the sea and the land, since these are the primary attackroutes enemies could take.

Heck, the city was build by pirates in a makeshift way. There should have been dozens of traps and hidden passageways around.

Now Scarlet used “miasma”… well we have seen that before and there are enough mages around who can cast containment fields or use asura tech to do so.

The problem is basicly. This was a great attack on a city which at any time should have have defences ready to fight off different kind of attacks.
There should be specialists there to hold of against unforseen circumstances.

According to the Seas of Sorrow novel, the way Lion’s Arch was build was mostly to make it impervious to attacks, by land because it’s surrounded by mountains and by sea because there’s only one entrance, which is guarded by the heavily armored Claw Island. Airships are a relatively new technology to tyria, which is probably why they weren’t really prepared for it. Also, IMHO, the council proved to be the weakest link in the city. According to the seas of sorrow novel, IIRC all council members had to agree on how to spend the city funds, we do know that Kiel had been pushing for defenses to be brought up against a possible Scarlet attack, most likely Magnus was as well, so that’s 2 out of 8 captains needed to actually do anything… and as anyone with some management experience knows, trying to get several people in power to agree on anything they weren’t agreeing in the first place can take a looooong time. For all we know, probably Claw Island does have some antiair defenses, but Scarlet didn’t need to go over it, she could portal ships right on top of LA.

As for the probes, well, all we know is that they suddenly started popping up everywhere, and that they were protected by an invincible energy field. We don’t know how their deployment was, for all we know a portal might open in the middle of the night, a probe comes down and turns on, only a few seconds needed.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

RE: Braham's interruption

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locoman.1974

I think Braham did the right thing. When I got to her I was like “Come here, you dirty little kitten! YOU DIE NOW!”


it felt so goooood, it is actually wrong of me
After all that chaos she caused, stupid laughing and close escapes, I could finally end it once and for all.

Agree… also from Braham’s point of view, they had two goals there… one was to kill scarlet, the second one was to stop that giant drill before it hit whatever it was going to hit… Scarlet was blocking the entrance to the control room, it was obvious her explaining line was just to buy some time until the drill finished its job.

Of course, her dead didn’t change anything as far as the drill was concerned, she had designed it so it couldn’t be stopped in the first place, but they had no way to know that at the time.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

What species would you truly play?

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locoman.1974

Kodan would be my first choice.

Tengu my second one, and most realistic one since they already have space for their home city close to low level zones (Kodan would need a new city and low level areas to play in)

Lastly largos… but not because I like the race (I like it as NPCs, but not as playable), but because I’d like to see one wearing this colored in hot pink..

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?color=10&sex=0&race=2&w=1&skinID=featheri&lang=en

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Magicfind % are Meaningless (2nd try)

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10% of the original chance, BTW. Let’s say a particular item has a 1% chance of dropping, having 100% magic find means that your chance to get that item is increased by 100% of the original chace, in this case, 1%, meaning the chance of getting that item is now 2%.

Since lots of items have very low chance as it is (way less than 1%), having even 150% magic find won’t be noticeable unless you actually track your drops from before and then after you got it for a while, much less considering that your got it gradually (if you went from 0 to 150% suddenly, you’d probably notice it), and there’s no way to see what drops you’d get without it since it’s account bound (unlike what hapened before where you could go from one char with high magic find to another with none).

That said, I do agree that the MF from guild banners could use a boost, the numbers made sense when magic find wasn’t as prevalent as today, and you had to use specific armor and boosts to increase it, while today even the most casual players that have been playing since the new MF system was introduced are probably at least closing in to 100%.

BTW, I’d remove the references to previous deleted post, one of the forum rules says that you’re not supposed to “post about locked, deleted, or otherwise moderated threads or posts” ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/rules ), might result in this one being locked and/or deleted because of it.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

So what did Scarlet see that mad her mad?

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It was indeed the dragon that wasn’t awake yet (Mordremoth).

The fact that a dragon is dormant doesn’t mean it’s inactive. In guild wars 1, for example, Primordius was already creating and directing his minions (the destroyers) years before he awoke (of course, would have been much ealier if a bunch of heroes hadn’t defeated the great destroyer). Also in GW1 the norn Svanir became corrupted by Jormag (who whispered him promising great power), which in turn started the sons of svanir cult, almost 100 years before his awakening. Actually, it was the power he gained from all the norn he corrupted that hastened his awakening in the first place.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

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Any servers still managing knights?

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Yak’s Bend seems to be downing them regularly at least as of last night during the times I play (after 9 pm, venezuelan time)

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Is our feedback getting through?

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locoman.1974

Personally I do see this patch as proof that the feedback is getting trough.

People complained that there was too much loot and no loot at the same time, which were both true, knights gave too much loot but there were people participating that got no loot at all, they changed it to a bonus chest, so now everyone gets loot.

There were complains of the blue knight healing too much from a group of nearby menders (bug?), they were removed

People complained that the knights fights were too zergy (this one I saw both in forums and in game), they changed it to put a limit on each knight, then people complained that change made them too hard, so they reduced the HP of each knight to make it easier to kill.

People complained about others AFKing during the scarlet fight to get the achievement, it was changed it so that the lasers attack the spot they were AFKing in.

There were complains about having to do zergy events (the marionette, for example) before being able to continue the story, so they added a way to bypass the zergy events and go straight to the story.

Also note that they do have more than one way to get feedback. For example, people complain a LOT in forums about new weapons and armor being added to the gem store… yet if they see that the armor sets sell like hot cakes (and judging by the amount of zodiac armor I’ve seen in game, and even the flame one considering it’s just a reskin, they do sell a LOT), then they can only conclude that there’s a large player base that does like new armor and weapons in the gem store. Same in the game, people complain about the knights fight, yet everytime I try to do it (on Yak’s Bend) I get sent to overflow unless I’ve been on the map for a while when they start.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

The beautiful toons

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Sup..…..

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It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

''ArenaNet need to inform the players''

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Well, a korean invesment company with reliable sources announced that Guild Wars 2 is gonna have an exapnsion during 2015 which sounds really realistic. If it is actually true we gonna see the hype strating with an Anet announcement.

Titanfall and ESO appear to be really weak in performence and therefore I don’t even think Anet cares that much as the quality of these games doesn’t live up to the hype that they have had.

However, a release in 2015 means compitition with some big titles lead by EverquestN which I think Anet is a company that will literally go and do it like they did via release. Tera, TSW and SWTOR were huge titles afterall.

I wouldn’t hold my breath. That same investment company predicted that anet would release an expansion in the second half of 2013

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Using the Spinal Blades portal

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Basically the way things go are (SPOILERIFIC AHEAD)

1.- Defeat the three knights in regular map, gain their attunements and use the portals.
2.- Fight scarlet in a big battle (well, 3, you’re divided into 3 maps, only difference is the NPCs you get helping res, in one is braham and rox, other is kasmeer and marjorie, 3rs is kiel and heal-o-tron, and whether other maps win or lose doesn’t affect yours), which ends with scarlet badly wounded but escaping to the control room, you pursue to go to..
3.- Solo instance where you meet Braham, Rox, Kasmeer and Marjorie to go face Scarlet who is downed.

Using the spinal blades portals sends you straight to 3, but doesn’t mean you can’t go ahead and do it the regular way later. Also you don’t miss much story either (other than we defeated knights, teleported up, fought scarlet and wounded her), most of the story bit is in the solo instance in the first place.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Too kitten confusing

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locoman.1974

On the knights, basically the way it works (or is supposed to, haven’t played since latest patch) is that you need to go to the colored circles before being able to damage them. From time to time a colored circle of the same color of the night (look at the icon under its name when you target it or the one on mini map), run over that circle, and you get a buff allowing you to damage it. After last patch there’s a limit to 50 people that can get the buff of each color, if you find yourself unable to get the buff maybe there are just too many people fighting that particular knight, go help with any of the other ones (note that the map limit is supposed to be 150, so you’ll never find yourself in a position where you won’t be able to fight any of the knights because there’s too many people on all three).

Everytime a knight is killed, a colored circle appears next to each of the transporters, if all 3 knights are killed, you just have to run over the three circles to be able to transport to the scarlet encounter.

Once in the encounter, there are 3 or 4 phases you have to go trough.

First phase: there’s a big hologram in the middle that you have to kill, it pops up colored circles (red, green, blue), to be able to damage it you need to run over the three circles. When you run over one circle, you see a colored symbol appear over your character, when you run over all three it’s replaced with a white symbol, so basically during this phase you run hunting circles, avoiding damage and helping where you can (ressing, healing, buffing and so on) and DPS when you have all three circles. Scarlet will pop up from time to time, but it’s really only a distraction, ignore her. If you attack the hologram without the white symbol you get a stacking debuff that will periodically damage you and knock you down.

2nd phase: There are three holograms this time, blue, green and red, and again circles, you can only damage the holograms if you have the buff of their respective colors, and each does a different attack. Note that if you kill all three at roughly the same time (kinda like wurm phase 2 or the ogre and pets guild mission) you’ll skip 3rd phase and go straight to the 4th, which is good considering it’s timed… but usually people won’t listen when you tell them to stop DPSing and wait for others to catch up to them, so don’t count too much on it.

3rd phase: each of the hologram splits into 6 smaller holograms when killed (if you didn’t kill them at the same time), 18 in total, 6 of each color. Basically the same than before, grab colored buff, kill hologram of that color.

4th phase: Again like phase 1, you need the three colored circles to be able to damage the big hologram in the center, the difference is that from time to time there will be adds summoned that attack in a single line and need to be avoided and killed, if you don’t kill them before they charge up their attack, they’ll do big AoE damage. So basically it’s running around looking for circles, avoiding attacks, attack big hologram if you have the white buff, kill ads if you don’t and they’re up.

After that Scarlet pops up wounder and tries to run away, you’re meant to run into the gate she escaped from before the timer runs out, but don’t forget to loot the big chest first, it’s easy to miss since if you’re following scarlet, it’ll spawn behind you. The next step after that gate is a solo instance and it’s rather easy.

BTW, if you just want to get the achievement (and mask skin) or just watch the cinematic at the end, you can go straight to the solo instance by having one of the spinal blade packs (even the basic blue one will work) and going trough the portal on the west side of the map.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Daylight Savings

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So, will everything be earlier or later now?

A bit confusing since my country (Venezuela) doesn’t do the time shuffle for summer/winter.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Scarlet had good (selfish) intention?

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She was a bit “prophet of destruction” after exiting Omadd’s machine:

Scarlet’s voice rose as she went on. “I have a great deal of work ahead of me. I don’t know what the world will be when I’m through, but I will very much enjoy finding out. Empires will fall, continents will burn, and when the conflagration is over, I’ll be there to put my stamp on whatever new world this one becomes.”

The system I see she wants destroyed is the influence of the pale tree (the dream of dreams) and the nightmare court (“I reject the notion that that I must choose the Dream or be lost to Nightmare.”), and sees Mordremoth (of course, influenced by him) as the third option, the outside force strong enough to destroy all that.

IMHO she feels that tyria does need her… but note that her idea of Tyria might or might not include the other races living there. Were mordremoth succeed and corrupt the whole of tyria would basically mean an entire world living in peace (under its rule), plus it would be the kind of world a sylvari (not a pale tree one, mind you) would want to live in considering it would be a forest world, just like a destroyer would find itself just at home in a world consumed by lava and fire, or a dragonspawn of jormag in a frozen world.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Anet- Is this Official? Is this you?

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Personally I think there’s definitively someone in the know running at least some of the twitter accounts, whether it’s from a fanzine, press site, someone inside Anet running them on their own, or someone hired by either Anet or NCSoft to do some extra viral marketing on the side, mainly because of Scarlet’s picture that was tweeted before the living story release, and the fact that Lord Vanquish’s one was the first one to hint of SAB returning, IIRC just a few days before it was announced.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Scarlet's last stand.

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There’s also Logan summoning a permanent super protection bubble in the end of CoF story…. my guardian would like that too pls..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Not doing the Scarlet event

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Making the regular (blue) one cost about 5g assuming you don’t have any of the materials and buy everything on the TP (except the 25 blade shards, that is)… equip it on any of your characters (including your level 54 alt, it can be used by levels 20+), enter into scarlet’s instance.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Report player who report me for "botting"

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locoman.1974

A couple of things.

As already mentioned, you can’t see who reported you or even if you’ve been reported in the first place.

Also, being reported doesn’t mean you will be banned or infracted, it just means that the incident will be flagged to be reviewed by someone, who will check the logs and see what really happened. If you were falsely reported then the account that did it will be flagged, and they have mentioned before that if someone constantly do false reports it can be infracted.

And is someone is threatening to report you, well, as already mentioned, screenshot it and make a ticket yourself for harrasment/griefing.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Modremoth, the Twitterer

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locoman.1974

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Modremoth, the Twitterer

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locoman.1974

Which no one should use in the first place. You’re just as much to blame for this.

I guess the point is, with how much people use social media, ANet would be criticized if they don’t use it actively.

So yeah, it’s probably here to stay, unless Twitter and Facebook both die in a fire soon.

And yet here we are criticizing them FOR using it. If you’re kitten ed if you do and kitten ed if you don’t it’s easier to just not do the thing. Expend less energy.

So… don’t do it, avoid some criticism, gain nothing…
Do it, get some criticism, but also gain publicity for their game… I’m seeing lots of people twittering mordemoth (and modremoth answering them), plus that twitter has been here, on reddit and several other sites. Do it seems like it’s not the easier but also seems to be a definitive win for them.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Braham: "No"

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I’d have done the same thing than Braham.

They had two goals there, first one was to take scarlet (dead or alive), the other was to stop the drill before it reached whatever it was drilling for… letting scarlet talk monologue about her evil plans would have bought her time to let the drill finish its work, and she was blocking the way to the control room… not to mention that anytime she was faced, she was allowed to do her little monologue and ended up with her teleporting away. Plus, Marjorie did want to arrest her, but was injured by Scarlet’s attack, which sent Kasmeer into a murdering rage.

Of course, it would have made no difference, since there was no way to stop the drill anyway, Scarlet designed it that way, but the heroes didn’t know that at the time… and they still wouldn’t unless there was an engineer playing at the time.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

The End. Answers? I really didn't find any.

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locoman.1974

That came out longer than I expected… part 2:

-How was she able to ‘bully’ the Aetherblades into fighting for her?
I think it’s a mix of bullying and mutual interest. The first time we see the aetherblade was when they were attacking and pillaging LA and then stealing some loot during the bazaar. I’m guessing at first she recruited them with the promise of new technology that would allow them to attack on land and not only at sea (portals, airships, teleportation…) allowing them to get more and better loot. The first time we see her bullying them is during the invasions, by then Scarlet has the watchworks, 100% loyal to her alone, so probably the deal changed from “work for me and get better loot” to “keep working for me, get the good loot, or face me and my watchworks”.

-Why the pointless invasions?
She needed to keep her aetherblade busy pillaging and plundering… plus it gave her some extra funding (and most likely also to keep guards busy elsewhere while she worked)

-Who was Mister E?
It’s a mistery..

-Why so little involvement from the Orders and other factions?
The orders were very busy with the little thing in Orr. Other than that, well, the priory did kep busy researching her (marjorie is a priory member, and all the stuff in her office did show that the priory was involved in researching her for quite a while). The order of whispers was also on it, I’m guessing, and probably helped with the priory research but not directly. The vigil is more of a reactionary force, since they didn’t know where they could attack scarlet directly, it was on a defensive duty. We did see vigil representatives fighting the marionette, for example.

-Why a multiracial Inquest faction? How did this help the composition?
It was an alliance, pirates (which are multiracial) + inquest. Personally I believe that all the aetherblade we fight were pirates (there are asura pirates), with the inquest involvement being behind the curtains, with the construction of airships, weapons and other technology.

-How did Queen Jennah amass such an army of Watchnights?
We don’t know for how long she had been building there, for all we know she might have started it years ago. Also, maybe not all of scarlet’s corrupted watchworks were originally Jenna’s… she does have the technology to create new ones, we see it all the time with the menders fixing downed watchworks, and the bigger ones “giving birth” to other watchworks.

-What were the details regarding Zojja and Taimi given the relationship?
So far we know she was her mentor in the college, nothing more.

-What did the Inquest know about the ley lines prior to Thermanova? How did they discover it? Why did they discover it?
The way the fractal goes, I’m guessing they didn’t. I guess they did find an anomalous high concentration of what they called chaos energy (which Scarlet called “dragon energy”) so they built the reactor on top of it. According to what scarlet said, it was the fact that it was a ley lines intersection that caused the meltdown, but that thanks to it they found out about the ley lines in the first place.

-What was the point of the Marionette in the grand scheme of things?
From what I can see, missdirection. We all though the big weapon she was testing was the marionette and fought to destroy it while she was still testing it… but turns out the real weapon she was building and testing was the huge drilling floating ship on top of it. Once her tests were done and the intersection she was looking for was found, she just discarded the marionette (you can see the remains in Lornar’s pass).

-Why did Scarlet free Mai?
A wizard told her to..

-What did the EOTM have to do with Scarlet and her plans with Mai?
It’s where the best omnomberries grow… she likes omnomberries… hey, an evil genius can also sometimes do something just to get some good omnomberries, can’t she?..

-Why did our ‘Heroes’ dismiss any opportunity to learn ANYTHING when presented with it? Especially when it mattered most.
Braham did… and he’s not exactly the kind of wanting to learn something when there’s punching involved….. BTW, it was the smart thing to do at the time… one of the goals was to shut down the drill before it reaches whatever it was drilling for, letting Scarlet monologue about her evil plans and how it would all have worked out if it wasn’t for those blasted kids and that devourer would have stalled them enough to let the drill finish drilling. Of course, it was for nothing because Scarlet had set everythig so that the drill couldn’t be stopped even with her dead, but they didn’t know about that.

BTW, Marjorie did intend to arrest Scarlet, but then was seriously injured, making Kasmeer (and yourself) to go in full kill mode..

There’s one thing I do want an answer to, though….. what was all that with cooking Lord Faren while wearing a speedo???..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

The End. Answers? I really didn't find any.

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locoman.1974

Most of the answers will probably be left in the air for the player to fill in themselves, some will be answered in next patch. Here’s the way I see them so far:

-Was Taimi connected to Scarlet deeper than her technologic fascination?
Doubt it. She’s a preteen (IIRC someone said that she was the asura equivalent of 13 years old), I think it’s mostly just idol worship and rebelling against authority by openly admiring someone that is seen as bad

-Why did the Nightmare Court aid Scarlet? There was no mention of motivation or gain compared to the others.
IIRC it was said during the nightmare tower events that it was just a faction of the nightmare court, not the court itself that was helping her. In any way, the whole motivation behind the nightmare court is to spread as much evil and suffering as they could, in the hopes that enough of it contaminates the dream of dreams in the form of nightmares, freeing future sylvari from the ventari tablet’s influence. Scarlet gave them just that.

-What was Caithe’s secret? How does Caithe Know Scarlet?
shhh.. it’s a secret..

-Why did her alliances continue to fight for her after each one was foiled miserably?
IIRC (I think it was mentioned after flame and frost, don’t remember) most of the dredge and flame legion that followed her disbanded, but there were still some that remained. I’m guessing that they let them know just enough about the ley lines (without mentioning the awakening of a dragon) to tempt them into still following her because of the great magical power she was after. The nightmare court, the previous answer still holds, the kraitt, well, I have a theory about the spores being secretly altered by Scarlet to include a bit that mind controls the kraitt to be loyal to her. After all, since the tower of nightmare was destroyed, we don’t see any regular kraitt follow her anymore, only the corrupted toxic ones.

-Did Scarlet have anything to do with Southsun?
AFAIK, don’t think so.

-How did she manage to get a Thumper in LA unnoticed?
Portalled it in in the middle of the night maybe… she does have access to very advanced portal technology.

-Why all the attacks and invasion when the goal could have been accomplished much more easily discreetly?
Well, my theory about the invasions was mostly to keep their followers busy. The aetherblade, for example, are pirates following her, if you don’t keep pirates busy, and above all, getting a profit, chances are you’ll have a mutiny in your hands. We did fight aetherblade during the invasions, but there might have been more pillaging and plundering the towns and outposts in the area, for example.

-How was Scarlet so accepted by the other races so easily to master their finest methods? Not to mention this went wildly unnoticed for something so strange.
Well, about why she was accepted, she did promise them things they might wanted. Flame legion and dredge, the power to conquer their respective enemies (the other charr legions and the moletariat) by combining their technology and magic together. The giant drill with its dead laser seems to be the result of that, maybe she offer them to give it to them once she had finished using it. Nightmare court, the chance to spread evil and suffering, kraitt, the posibility of getting a new prophet. BTW, she does have lots of control over holographic technology, she might not have presented herself as she is until they had alreaddy commited to her plans.

-Where did she get all the resources to pull off all these elaborate plans?
Dredge mining for resources, aetherblade pillaging (it’s normal for pirate fleets to give a percentage of all their loot to their captain), and I still have a theory that the consortium might have been involved, even if they didn’t know it at the time.

-Why did Omadd help her and inevitably break her mind?
He wasn’t really helping her… he was experimenting with an isolation chamber he had built but needed a test subject. Since he couldn’t really record the experience (as it’s a purely psychical one), he needed someone smart enough to at least try to make some sense of the results from a scientific point of view, yet at the same time expendable. Note that one big difference between the inquest and other asura is that they’re not above using sentient beings as test subjects, but so far it does seem they prefer not to use other asura for that.

-If Scarlet had been successful, what would she have done then? What about the voices?
She talks about a new master, so I think her ultimate goal was to awake mordremoth, which was the voice guiding her. We already know from GW1 that even if the dragons are dormant, it doesn’t mean they’re inactive. Svanir was corrupted by Jormag and turned into his champion (the nornbear) almost 100 years before he awoke.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

*Spoiler* Braham ruined it for me...

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It is annoying but it’s also completely in character for Braham. He’s a simple guy.

Bad guy causes problems>kill bad guy>problems solved

He doesn’t listen because he doesn’t care. Scarlet is about to die and that’s that.

Also you can inspect her terminals after she dies. It basically says you’d need to bring in the team of experts to figure it out.

Besides, would anybody want to risk her using some voice control to kill you? or teleport away again? Nah, she’s here, she’s wounded, let’s finish this.

Actually it doesn’t say you need to bring a team of experts, just says that you need someone with engineering knowledge.

However, if you’re playing an engineer, instead of that it says that the device is fueled by magic and that there’s no evident way to turn it off, if you look closer it actually says that Scarlet made it so that there’s no way to turn it off on purpose, in case she was captured or killed.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

**Spoiler** What did scarlet do?

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…Scarlet has banded together representatives from most of the elements…
Earth: Dredge
Air: Aetherblades
Fire: Molten Alliance
Water: Krait
Ether: Nightmare Court

If it is Mordremoth, it would seem to me that she simply wouldn’t need that many elemental influences to defeat him, if indeed that was what she was doing…

I don’t think she meant to defeat it, but to awake him. The way I see it the different alliances were a means to an end, posibly to get discarded once her real goal (waking up Mordremoth) was done.

First she learns of the ley lines on the thaumanova reactor, she finds out they’re underground so she’ll need the equipment to get to them, that’s where the molten alliance comes from. A giant drilling machine (dredge technology) powered by magic (flame legion). She probably convinced them that she could help them regain their lands/people by fusing their technology and magic together, something she could do as she had studied both (note that not all the flame legion nor all the dredge joined her, she just needed to convince a fraction of each to work with her).

Then she needs an air force that would let her reach anywhere the big ley lines conjunction was. The fact that she tried to get someone into the council makes me think that she suspected it was under Lion’s Arch, but needed the probes to really confirm it, and we already know that LA was created to resist attacks by sea, so she created the aetherblade pirates. Probably she recruited the pirates with the promise of allowing them to do more pillage and plundering on land and not only on the sea if they followed here (the invasions, for example), and got the inquest (again, not all of them, just some was enough) on board with the promise of letting them access to stolen pact technology and her own portal tech.

Watchworks, well, they’re 100% loyal foot soldiers, something she would need in order to attack wherever she needed, and also probably to keep in line the other alliances in case they wanted back on their word.

And she needed a way to make sure there was no counterattack when she used the drill, at least not in time to stop her, which is why she got the toxic alliance together (again, a faction of the kraitt and some of the nightmare court, not all of each) to create the toxin she eventually converted into the miasma. The deeply religious kraitt though they were getting a new prophet in exchange (the hybrid) while the nightmare courtiers were spreading large amounts of suffering, which is the nightmare court goal. Note one thing, when the kraitt still though they were going to get a new prophet out of the deal, you saw regular kraitt alongside with infected toxic ones, after the events on the tower, you only see the toxic ones as part of the toxic alliance… my theory is that Scarlet added a bit of mind control into the toxins that affected the kraitt directly, so they would still work for her even if it was clear their plans to get a new prophet failed.

They most likely didn’t know her ultimate goal when they all attacked LA, the molten alliance were probably after the huge magic power she had found under LA, the aetherblade couldn’t resist the idea of pillaging one of the biggest cities in the world, while the nightmare courtiers were in for the suffering and evil they were spreading (I already have the theory of the toxic krait being mind controlled or at least altered to obey scarlet).

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Do I have to upgrade my spinal back pack?

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locoman.1974

Any backpack will do to allow you to go into the instance bypassing the big fight, even if you only have it in your inventory, but needs to be soulbound.

The main confusion comes from the “Build your own backbone” achievement, which you get by equipping the exotic or higher version, but it’s unrelated to the actual teleport.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Diversify Rifle Animations?

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(pedantic mode on) Well, technically, legendaries doesn’t exist in the english language either, as the word “legendary” is an adjective and can’t be pluralized (which is why it’s flagged as misspelled), the correct plural form would be “Legendary Weapons”… but of course since this is the internet we tend to sustantivize everything.. (pedantic mode off)

Back on topic, it would be interesting (and probably not as time consuming) just to recolor the blast and maybe give it a little glow for some rifles. For example, when using the asura T3 cultural rifle (energy weapon with purple glows), when the same spark-smoke model would be used when shooting, but recolored purple with a slight glow applied to it. Of course, we don’t really have any idea how easy or hard would it be, for all we know the firing animation is tied to the characters and not the weapon, but the fact that it does change for legendary weapons ( ) makes me think there’s already a system for it.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Show me the money...

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And where are you going to carry it?.. each of those coins is bigger than your head..

Also, I have a theory that the heat of the blast that destroyed the vault actually fused them all together… that, or they’re actually a big lump of iron modeled after a pile of coins, painted golden and kept there for appearances..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Biggest, Bulkiest mace in the game?

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Shiverstone and braham mace are rather big as others mentioned.

Other big maces in the game:

Dark Asura mace (CoE): http://argos-soft.net/GW2/WeaponGallery/index.php?weapon=7&skinID=100fc13&lang=en
Ghastly mace (AC): http://argos-soft.net/GW2/WeaponGallery/index.php?weapon=7&skinID=100fff0&lang=en
Priory mace (bought with gold if you joined the priory): http://argos-soft.net/GW2/WeaponGallery/index.php?weapon=7&skinID=1010245&lang=en
Glyphic mace (common drop): http://argos-soft.net/GW2/WeaponGallery/index.php?weapon=7&skinID=1010c1b&lang=en

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

battle for lion arch scarlet final words

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locoman.1974

“One last thing to say….. I created free precursors for everyone, they’re in dies

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

The Gas Mask Thread.

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Here’s mine. I’m not really a RPer, but I always like to create a small background for my characters, in this case is the result of an accident trying to mix magic with engineers flamethrowers which left him basically unable to survive without that full body suit (originally was meant to be scarred by using one of the engineer googles, but changed it when he got the gas mask)..

Attachments:

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

(edited by locoman.1974)

$12.50 Charge for Convenience of Lions Arch

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I have to disagree with LA being the most convenient place.

Except for the mystic forge, Rata Sum, The Grove, and specially Ebonhawke (my personal favorite crafting place) all offer the same services than Lion’s Arch but much better organized and closer together. For example, heavily using the bank, guild bank and TP in Lion’s Arch meant moving back and forth between places on opposite ends of a rather large plaza and an extra street… or just having all three right next to each other in ebonhawke. Add the crafting stations that are on the opposite end in LA… or down the same street than the TP and banks in ebonhawke.

The portals are still working, and personally I don’t really know anyone that used them heavily once they got the waypoints needed to other cities in new characters.

BTW, you’re welcome to do your crafting in the grove, it’s much more beautiful and relaxing (IMHO, of course) than LA ever was..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

When leaving the game?

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Refund gems, nope, you can’t. Most you could do is to convert them to gold and give it to someone if you want to. About the ascended gear, no way to transfer them to a different account. You can use the transmute to white gear – use transmute splitter trick to transfer to another character, but always on the same account.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Those jerks...

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Or maybe it’s just a trap and they have hidden pressure sensors connected to arrow carts on top of the wall, anything that walks around (stealthed or not) activates them automatically and gets the 1000 arrows greeting… then they just have to reload them as they fire..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Have Black Lion Tickets replaced skin drops?

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There are the jade weapons that have the dragon’s jade claim tickets, which come from the dragon coffers. Currently the only way to get them is to participate in a Lion’s Arch under attack map that reaches 1500 citizens saved. All other weapons are with the claim tickets.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Two week long siege?

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Lorewise it only happens once, in the refugee camp in the vigil keep there are several things that reference things that happen inside Lion’s Arch as something in the past, for example, Lawson Marriner has to be escorted out of LA, and he is in the refugee camp thanking you for your help, also Evon is there taking his dolyaks with merchandise to the working asura gate (and shutting it down behind him leaving a member of the council and several civilians stranded), and he is on the refugee camp selling wares with his dolyaks behind him, just to name a few.

It’s kinda like with scarlet’s funhouse during the watchwork chaos, you could repeat the funhouse as many times as you wanted, but that didn’t mean that lorewise scarlet kept coming back after going away at the end and capturing Lord Faren over and over to torture him and his speedos..

The chronological order (at least the way I see it) is first the attack (cutscene), then we enter into LA with all the other living story characters to help get the people out until the miasma builds up, then everything that happens on the refugee camps. At this point the miasma is probably too thick to go back into LA.

My guess is that the next step will be the creation of some device, kinda like the air filtration devices during the tower of nightmare, that will allow us to get back in.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

(edited by locoman.1974)

Tengu at the Vigil camp?

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Here’s the information on him:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kae_Mayumi

Basically, his family emigrated to Kryta from Cantha when emperor Usoku started his crusade against non humans (about 190 years ago in the game lore), and by now none of them speak canthan (or whichever language the dominion of the winds tengu speak), so they won’t let him pass either.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Tengu are heartless.

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locoman.1974

Of course, there’s the fact that about 250 years ago people coming from Lion’s Arch used to indiscriminately hunt and kill caromi tengu for their feathers in the lands that are now the dominion of the winds, they might still have a bit of a grudge over that.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_feather_farming

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

(edited by locoman.1974)

What is end of this?

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It’s a guild bounty, there’s usually 1 or 2 on most maps. Basically the way it works is that your guild starts a bounty (after it unlocks it), then you get 2 random names from all the bounties, and you have 15 minutes to find them and capture them.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Those jerks...

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locoman.1974

If the tengu could release those arrows all over Scarlet’s minions, this whole fiasco would be done already. We could start rebuilding our fair city.

Who says they haven’t?… for all we know they’re just hitting everything that comes near the gate, whatever side they’re on

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

I got a few questions of vital importance

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Some other questions…

About the mega-laser… who says Tequatl is dead?… we know ONE tequatl is dead, but we don’t know if it works like the Claw of Jormag or The Shatterer, as in the name being a title that is given to another dragon (or another is created) when the current one dies. After all, IIRC Tequatl isn’t really his actual name (if he has one), but it’s how the Hylek refer to him, meaning “the one in darkness” (IIRC) in their language.

About pact technology, AFAIK most of their technology was custom made to fight Zaithan and undead, like the charr artillery that destroys undead and the asuran cannons that suck magic… none would be useful at all to fight Scarlet’s minions or technology.

Besides, maybe they are planning on doing something but they haven’t had the time. Once we go into Lion’s Arch we have to escort Evon’s dolyaks out of Lion’s Arch, when when we go out in the refugee camp in the vigil keep we see him there selling his wares with the dolyaks around, so chronologically the order of how it happens is the attack to Lion’s Arch (our characters weren’t there when it happened), then we rush in to save what we can, then everything else that happens in the refugee camps (Evon being conscripted, having to supply with weapons and stuff for free, things like that), maybe in the next episode we will have a big effort by the pact and all other forces to try to reclaim Lion’s Arch.

And about the coins…. well, appearances are everything… maybe those aren’t really coins but iron cast in the shape of piles of coins and painted golden..

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

(edited by locoman.1974)

council leave in an aetherblade airship

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makes more sense now. the scene must of been meant for the end after the poison got too high. must of been in a bug overflow. cant see why she couldn’t save some ppl herself with that airship thou I still don’t trust her as a loyal supporter of Evon.

Well, at least she did carry some people (even if it was just the council) to safety… if you do the yak escort event in Lion’s Arch, and go to the gate as it ends there’s a bunch of refugees using it to flee the city… and this is what happens:

Evon: Out of my way, runt. I gotta get merchandise through that gate.
Captain Shud: Hurry it up, Evon. I have citizens here who need this gate.
Captain Shud: Evon, move your dolyaks. I need to get these people out of the city and shut down the gate.
Evon: What? That’s your problem? Don’t worry, Shud. I got you covered.
(evon steps into the gate after the dolyaks, gate shuts down)
Captain Shud: That greedy…! How did he shut down the gate?
Captain Shud: Never mind. Get to the city exits!

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

afk, report but still Q with me !

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Reporting isn’t automatic (if it was, I can imagine how large guilds or groups of people could use them for griefing), it just flags them for a support employee to review them when it’s its turn and take apropiate action.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

council leave in an aetherblade airship

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The whole reason why Kiel was eligible to become part of the captain’s council was that after the events in dragon bash they managed to capture an intact aetherblade airship, Magnus assigned a crew to it and named Kiel as the captain.

According to the Seas of Sorrow book there are three requisites to become part of the captains council, first one is to actually be a captain of a ship (an airship qualifies) with a permanent crew, second is to pay a (large) fee, that goes towards the city’s budget and the third one is to be aproved by the majority of the council in a vote.

Yomm (an asura that was the owner of the first shop in Lion’s Arch) became part of the captain’s council after purchasing an old boat to become a captain and hiring two norn to be his crew, even if he never used it. Same thing happened with Kiel, and I’m guessing that is the ship you see carrying the council to safety.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

(edited by locoman.1974)

More variety in medium armor (esp male)

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I dunno man. I prefer medium armor to all other armor classes. Heavy is all just plate/mail for the most part. Medium is mostly coats. Light is mostly robes. That’s how it goes.

Plus medium armor gets what in my opinion is the best armor in the game. Thanks scarlet! (for once this is serious.)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magitech_Medium_Armor_Skin

Here’s some pictures of me with that coat, human t2 pants, and some pieces from the toxic update and TA update. You can get pretty creative with medium if you try.

Except light gets robe-less non racial outfits and heavy gets several non-armored outfits~ both of which get skirtless options for both genders.
Medium gets 0 as a male character. Absolutely 0. Not 1, not 0.5~ pure 0.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Falconer%27s_armor
Armored, instead of leather.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sorrow%27s_Embrace_armor
metal, also non-leather

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scout%27s_armor
No long coat at all, pants.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Viper%27s_Medium-Armor_Skin
No long coat, similar to light armor.

Definitely not 0.

You are right ofc, but these are not exactly majestic looks. Just look at the new flame kissed light armor, it’s amazing, leaps better than anything we medium users got in my very subjective opinion.

I guess it depends on each person’s opinion, personally the medium one (flamewalker) is my favorite of the three flame sets, and that includes back when the flamekissed had the T3 model, and much more now (not a big fan of the featheres set look).

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?color=10&sex=0&race=2&w=2&skinID=wardencaabi&lang=en

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

Ascended Armor Grind

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Posted by: locoman.1974

locoman.1974

Same answer I’ve used since those threads started.

At least as far as I remember since I started reading about the game, in most interviews and stuff they never promised (that I can remember at least) that there would be no grind, the promise was that there would be no required grind (IIRC the word were more like "you won’t have to grind to get to the fun stuff), and even I did remember reading in some interviews and articles, they said that there would be grind if you wanted to, but wouldn’t be for actually needed items.

For example, back when I was playing WoW, during the burning crusade at least (that’s when I got into raiding for a little bit). When I reached the level cap, I had to start grinding dungeons to gear up my character. Once I got enough gear from regular dungeons, I could start doing heroic dungeons to get better gear from them (as boss drops and from tokens), once I was geared enough from heroics, I could start thinking about the first raid in the game (karazhan, back then), and farm it until I got good enough starter raid gear to progress to the next raid tier, repeat on and on. Had I skipped a step, go into the raid directly after hitting 80 without gearing up first, chances are I might have been able to kill the first couple of bosses if the group was good enough to carry my, but I chances are I wouldn’t get past that.

That’s the promise GW2 made, and IMHO they’ve mostly kept it. I can hit 80 and get full exotic gear from gold and karma right away, save from high level fractals that’s more than enough to do any content in the game right now. Of course, there’s ascended gear, that’s a HUGE grind, there’s legendary weapons, another huge grind, dungeon gear skins, cultural armor, less so but still big grind and so on… but there’s nothing in the game right now (except maybe high level fractals, again) that I can’t do if I skip all that grind.

BTW, personally I’m taking my time, setting the ascended gear as a VERY long term goal… I started leveling weaponsmith since ascended weapons came out, got my first ascended weapon (hammer) about a month ago, and I have to say I’m enjoying the journey so far.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.