tbh this is what i expected i mean it is a really big city/zone
and what they did do looked really nice
not to mention then new quest type thing with the orphans
Our team’s producers make waffles for the whole studio on release day. Today’s were gingerbread, with optional chocolate chips, pecans, and various creams.
soooooo waffles every release day?
… you dont happen to have a job opening in New Zealand do you? :P
but in reply to konig and co
yea the massive lore dump was awesome and ld love to get more ( maybe some short stories from the travels of characters in both games? i really love hearing about characters and being like “oh so thats what they were up to”
kind of off topic but kinda not
what if for every season or every chapter we “find” or are given or w/e an item or book that has lore in it or attached to it whenever we view it except it lives in our home instance.
kind of like the zepherite sanctum but permanent and it dosnt clog up ur inv
it would also give a really nice asthetic feel to it that makes it your own
you can go in and view all your “trophies of adventure”
i think it would sorta work like a leaching blade so the ability’s would sacrifice health but inflict damage that would have life steal
-snip
how do you think this will end?
to be honest this season restored my faith in a-nets ability to tell a (fun to play) story(at least for me)
im expecting big things
even if i dont get them it will be cool cause its a different ending to season two than i would expect
i like that idea but i do disagree, the way Angel was describing it made it sound like it was almost an entirely sylvari thing and the seeds you are planting are from the pale tree so what if they were a part of her
she is giving you a part of herself for you to see these things
i feel like this is not a normal thing and the fact that times are so dire is the only reason we ever knew these seeds existed, its a last resort type of thing
and besides that blade that opened the portal has lore behind it making it more likely to be linked with the mists (angel said (as far as i can remember)these two dont really interact)
really?
i thought they were considered canon…
leh sigh… another part of the word dies for me
i really loved the short stories that were coming out prior to lauch and through season 1
and i was wondering if we would see anymore in some variation whether it be in game, on the website or even physical copy
id love to get lost in another story from the guild wars universe
what do u guys think?
has he become corrupted and is now evil?(armour looks pretty menicing)
has he met some of the human god?(blindfold)
has he developed a new way to fight?( new profesion)
did he just get transported far into the maguma or somewhere similar?(teaser backgrounds)
did he just wander the mists?(eh maybe)
or something completely different?
Could be that Rytlock somehow managed to wander into the Dream, assuming it’s in the Mists like Realm of Torment. If Mordremoth is waging war against the Pale Tree in the Dream as well as in reality, maybe Rytlock will help fight back from that side?
sadly no iv had from what we have been told by the devs the dream is something special and its not something you can just enter
and that Mr.E guy is actually just modys corruption guiding you to do his evil bidding
you never actualy got any mail it was all in your head.
notice how nobody has ever seen him…..
take the dragon egg and throw it into the leyline hub
its all coming together
mwahahahaha
And besides, if the question was “is there more magic than elemental magic” then… well that seems kind of point blank obvious, doesn’kitten If you’ve looked at all into the game, you’d know about necromancy at the very least. So I’m giving the OP the benefit of the doubt for not being a complete idiot.
yea but what if hes asking if there is only elemental magic and all other magic is just a combination or is more intense or less intense version of one of the original four
like you could say lightning is just an inteasne version of fire or that a mesmer sound ability is just a controlled wind magic
the clones could be some combination of maybe water and air the refration of light through mist in the shape of the caster or could be control of the electric (superheated fire) impulses in the brain
to be honest we really just need him to clarify
I really wouldn’t, as those are more of magic types than elements. Or at least they seem to be by argument of the Tyrian system as far as I can see and tell.
then whats the question?
i mean isnt that what he means by uniqe element that a mage would use?
id understand if he was talking elements of the earth but he is talking elements of magic right?
to be honest they didnt overhype season 1 to me (controversial opinion time)i liked season 1s story alot (ven thought it was a bit vauge) if they had of formatted it like this season as in its repeatable ect i believe it would have done alot better
but they hype that they caused was justified i mean queens jubile (and subsiquent scvarlet atttack seems like a big event then theres the attack on lions arch.
this season has had the attack on pale tree and feels like its still missing some large event
and really we havnt reached a point of no return yet as far as i can see
the closest thing i think would be the dragon egg hatching i mean at this point it could either be destroyed or hatched and either would be a point of no return as its (as far as we know) the last of glints eggs
that dosnt read to me like they are saying this was the hype i feel like its just going over the defining moments of theis half of the season
yea as anoid as i am that i cant get it now
im happy theyre finally releasing cooler looking armour sets in game
just need more now ^^
iv just been thinking about it and im trying to figure out whats gonna happen to end this season
Arena net has been throwing around things like “this season will be a point of no return”
but what does that mean?
with the mordrem becoming a threat at the end of season two up to about the point of last patch i thought that perhaps what was gonna happen was that there would be a sudden attack on all the cities at once by the vines were thousands would be killed. the world leaders would be targeted specifically i thought jennah may die or somehow mesmer away again ( tho if scarlet fed mordy info he may have been testing them(if not a lutienent)(imagine an evil glint but mordy minion instead of kralks))
the imperator would bw killed and rytlock would come back from the mists in next season to take his place as leader out of necesity (blinded in mists)
perhaps norn may be left largly alone as they are high up in snowy areas(jormags domain?)
and sylvari may lose all or most of the first born (pale mother included?and i know shes not a first born :P)
rata sum instead of looking like a floating cube is now held up by a mass of vines making it look like a tree(dont really know how theyd deal with this)
and then the cities would be kinda wrecked zones with vines all through them and stuff (perhaps some move to new places (silver wastes,pilgrimage to a proggresively cleaner (lack of a beter word) orr,rytlock cleanses ascalon charr move in deeper or further into homelands.
however
now i think the point of no return is that the dragon will hatch from the egg and we lear that caith is a little bit evil or corrupt…
i dunno what do you think?
sorry for wall of text
tl:dr
i thought the cities would be destroyed and the races would need to find new homes but now i think that a dragon will hatch and caith is a little evil
little disapointed it isnt the city one but eh fun game
iv just been thinking about it and im trying to figure out whats gonna happen to end this season
Arena net has been throwing around things like “this season will be a point of no return”
but what does that mean?
with the mordrem becoming a threat at the end of season two up to about the point of last patch i thought that perhaps what was gonna happen was that there would be a sudden attack on all the cities at once by the vines were thousands would be killed. the world leaders would be targeted specifically i thought jennah may die or somehow mesmer away again ( tho if scarlet fed mordy info he may have been testing them(if not a lutienent)(imagine an evil glint but mordy minion instead of kralks))
the imperator would bw killed and rytlock would come back from the mists in next season to take his place as leader out of necesity (blinded in mists)
perhaps norn may be left largly alone as they are high up in snowy areas(jormags domain?)
and sylvari may lose all or most of the first born (pale mother included?and i know shes not a first born :P)
rata sum instead of looking like a floating cube is now held up by a mass of vines making it look like a tree(dont really know how theyd deal with this)
and then the cities would be kinda wrecked zones with vines all through them and stuff (perhaps some move to new places (silver wastes,pilgrimage to a proggresively cleaner (lack of a beter word) orr,rytlock cleanses ascalon charr move in deeper or further into homelands.
however
now i think the point of no return is that the dragon will hatch from the egg and we lear that caith is a little bit evil or corrupt…
i dunno what do you think?
sorry for wall of text
tl:dr
i thought the cities would be destroyed and the races would need to find new homes but now i think that a dragon will hatch and caith is a little evil
little disapointed it isnt the city one but eh fun game
I completely understand that, and I won’t speak for everyone(or even myself), just some of those that would like to continue the LS. What I think they’re asking for is the LS2 Ep.8 to be released concurrently with Wintersday. So that they story is contiguous and once they’ve completed it they can go right into Wintersday activities, and not have them be separate releases, but again, I get your stance, it’s consistent with past release schedules.
It would Make the world seem more alive as well by having it concurrent.
while the rest of tyria are trying to celabrate wintersday the brave men and woman are fighting to keep us safe.
could even have events where you have to go around giving out presents to soldiers around tyria
it dosnt have to link with living world to be on at the same time
yea i wasa gonna say what if we walked around at the hight of the cliffs in guild wars one but over 250 years it sank into the giant pit that has become the new jumping puzzle?
oh wow thats really cool
i never actualy saw that stuff in gw1
heh there were to many things to do
The DSD awoke in the deepest part of the seas. Shing Jea is well above sea level. Your idea just doesn’t float.
As for the concept art, do you mean this? Because that is Kralkatorrik.
woa awesome iv never seen that image before and how do we know its kralk?
and yea i know i just thought it would have fit really well (another civilisation that poped up near an ed) but i know it dosnt fit i mean especialy the fact that now shing jea has a perma land bridge
and dsd DID pop up near a civ just not cantha as we know it was… largos/krait? (cant remember witch if not both)
what if shing jea island WAS the deep sea dragon?(or at least part of it)
i mean if it has that name and appears armoured like a molisk or turtle or something
then people started to?
i dunno i just remember some giant turtle island concept art or something
it would be cool but unlikely
I started translating the billboard with reddit users.
Amazeballs!
if only that hadda been written on the board to
if caith is “under the influince”
perhaps its in a similar way to scarlet/searra in that at first it seemed like she had “epsiodes” when she changed to scarlet then it gradually became worse
what if caiths been trying to fight of the mental corruption
we killed zaihtan the dragon that was supposibly made up of ( or to at least look like it is) other dragons
so what if he worked in a sorta add to the biomass kind of way what i zaihtan was on dragon surrounded by many others creating a biomass of undead dragons around him we could control
im just saying there is the potential that one of these dragons split of as the biomass(the big dragon made of little dragons) died and has taken with it the mindset or esscance or something similar of zaihtan with it and is slowly becoming the new zaihtan
just an idea
theres a problem with the levels of magic in the world at the moment, since we defeated zhaitan
theres now all this magic in the world and now where for it to go.
so i think they will use this dragon egg by hatching it and letting it absorb all of the magic zhaitan released when he died (and obviously the want to make the dragon good like glint was)
that or there gonna throw the egg at an elder dragons face in an attempt to publicly humiliate it into submission
@Zaklex I can confirm that those two are the only required foes. A hard right to the stairs and across the southern wall and the others never even knew I was there. Makes replaying not so onerous, although the cutscene still has to be sat through.
lol yea did that first time
the smugness was radiating of me
thank you
thats really all i wanted to say
so much awsome in this patch
i love what you have done with the lore and the world and just sigh
thank you
pretty sure its that dwarf in the priory
if there are other races should we have already seen them in the mists?
heh he had a library in the realm of torment that had the name of every person who he had a hand in killing(even if he told one of his maronites to kill there name would be there aswell) and how that person was killed
pretty sure hes a bad dude
but a counter point to that is that i think he was just trying to prepare the races for the eldar dragons (he was just one of those mean heavy handed teachers that thought death is a good leason)
The Mad King that visits Tyria in Halloween has always been played as comic relief. A figure of fun, totally cooky, sadist-as-humor character.
Having spent a bit of time in the Labyrinth recently, it’s struck me how much the Mad King/Bloody Prince repartee plays violence against women as a joke.
Does this make anyone else uncomfortable?
(I’m kind of hoping that bringing this to anet’s attention will encourage them to actually update the Halloween content/storyline rather than rolling out the same misogynistic stuff year on year…)
The problem I have with your post (and honestly, it’s probably exacerbated by the endless barrage of domestic violence commercials) is that it’s always “violence against women”. There are men who suffer from domestic violence too. How about we end domestic violence period. And yes, I do believe jokes about domestic violence are in bad taste.
Your point is well-taken- domestic violence against men is something no one wants to talk about, yet it happens every day. However, violence against women has been “normalized” in our culture, which makes violence-against-women jokes (like the ones in this game) possible (and people can’t see what’s wrong with that, as evidenced by the above posts). If it had been the opposite, and the joke had been about sexual or domestic violence against men, it would have been highly uncomfortable (because it’s a taboo subject, which, as I’ve stated, is also a huge problem). The only exception I can think of is the trope of the domineering women with the rolling pin beating her submissive husband, which has been the subject of jokes/cartoons, etc (also not funny). But I haven’t seen that trope much in current media, and especially not in video games.
Anyway, I agree with the OP.
Im sorry if you grew up with it.(not saying you did)
However at least in my country it is not “normalized” by any means
and even in this game it has not been “normalized”
I feel like this has been cause by that news piece recently that i would rather not get into a discussion about.
This is perhaps one of the most inclusive games on the market for women,men,the lgbt comunity.
complaining about jokes is really getting annoying
games are about confict? correct?
without conflict you lose the story
without the story the game often becomes meaningless
and if you want to play a meaningless game those exist!
(this isnt directed at you btw its just easier to write in this style)
TL:DR I Disagree. Please stop trying to take conflict away from games.
Steve. DSD’s name is Steve.
Its so totally obvious …
so there are no achievements that are repeatable?
and there will never be another achievment released?
it IS possible to obtain but just not imediatly and it was designed this way for a reason
a game without things to aim for loses players alot faster than a game that has things that are dificult to obtain
i mean i understand u want it now, so do i
but im really keen for that sense of acoplishment when i finally do get it
oh thats definatly gonna happen lol
i mean sombody has to be upset otherwise it wouldnt be living world eh hahaha
i think perhaps they are trying to convey that magic is alive (hence thaumanova crature thing)
and that perhaps the gods and dragons are just entities of that magic and that is why u can never kill dragons because you cant kill magic
this is the last hard to obtain thing in the game that cat be gained by farming
please dont change it
i understand its annoying that u cant get what you want right away but thats the point
the only other hard thing to get is that new pvp armour that can only be won in tournements
anything else can be brought through the trading post
except ascended but even thats not that hard to obtain
please leave something for me to work towards
i love this game but latley iv been running out of things to aim for and this is one of the few things that i can still work towards
now let me just make this clear im not a major achieve junky i dont have about 4k achieve points
but i enjoy having something to work towards and theres really nothing else that i CAN work towards the rest rely on RNG or grinding endlessly to make enough gold to buy something of the trading post
remember that even if these symbols and things have been seen by the priory there is no garuntee that they actualy understand the significance of the symbols and markings themselves
not saying they dont, just saying that they possibly have seen the eternal alchemy markings and eye of janthir markings before and decided to “keep” it in the priory by marking it on the ceiling
i have just had a thought that perhaps we are traveling back in time in the priory itself
what if the priory building had always been there and was used by the 5 other races the last time the dragons awoke and we are seeing maybe the collective memory of the dwarves or something?
yea looks like the statue has taken up residence in the durmand prory
ASURAN MESMERS AS WELL!!!
god kitten
i think this could potentially be my favourite book of all time and i have even read the kitten thing
Oh my gods
thats awesome!
i assume its from that destineys edge book??
kitten it we dont get that book in nz
. Attempts to relate Kralkatorrik to Lyssa are based more on color and the fact that mesmers tried to enter his mind and he shut them out, but that’s beyond iffy when Jormag (and now Mordremoth) enter peoples’ minds.
Mesmers tried to enter his mind?
please ellaborate,
I know nothing about this and i love mesmers
i really do think the gods knew about the dragons because when they “hint” at things it usually means “LOOK OVER HERE AT THIS THING THATS IMPORTANT”
as they have said in interviews, when they hint at something it usually means there is more to that story that will be visited in the future.
personally i think the gods are more part of the world of tyria than we know
just like the dragons i believe that the gods have the same cyclical nature
now dont get me wrong i dont really think the gods are the dragons but they are definitely connected
1 you whack ppl in the head with. one u make fireballs with
I actually don’t see it as an issue.
Guild Wars lore is filled with relevant, female characters, both good and bad, that are far more important than 2 characters playing off dark comedy.
Thorn’s legacy of murder and treachery is what got him killed in the first place and and we celebrate him because if we can put up with his very toned down bad behavior, we get rewarded.
His dark humor is the least he can impose on us.
He could always ask Scarlet to come by and partake in the fun. There would be some interesting new content. Her Majesty, Queen Scarlet Thorn.
Well said
And interesting concept eh
Queen Scarlet Thorn work so well on so many levels
Shes Mad like the king
shes a plant so thorn makes sense
and scarlet thorn describes he phisically as well as her attitude:
A threat that likes to be noticed
but please dont replace the king hes been part of the lore for so long (not the only resaon i want him to stay but a big part)
all i can say is your playing a game where you kill “bad guys” indiscriminately
this game is one of the few that actually takes all groups of people and treats them equally.
It has been neither confirmed nor denied as far as i am aware
chances are it wouldnt have been as well because why the gods left and why the dragons have begun to awake is supposed to be mysterious
chances are though it may be revealed in the next few living world patches.
the last POI said that alot of links to guild wars will be in the upcoming patches as well as the screen shot of what looks like the back of a statue of abaddon
The old races (dwarves, mursaat, seers, forgotten, and the fifth) were around BEFORE the gods came to Tyria. I’m not sure if they had command over magic back then, though.
Jotun (the fifth race) oral tradition (as reliable as that might be) does also seem to indicate that they were a extremely magically gifted people at one point, before the human gods took magic from them.
the gods didnt actually take the magic from them. now this may get long but heres how it goes
you know those 5 races? jotun dwarves seer and mursaat
well they were all around when the last rise of the dragons happened
what they decided to do (seems like it was thier last resort) was gather all the races and all of them together would pour all of there collective magic into a seal that could not be broken by the elder dragons
this was what we have come to know as the blood stone
however 1 races did not participate in the ritual and kept their magic to themselves instead choosing to phase out of tyria and ultimately saving themselves but leaving the other four races to fend for themselves
the dragons arose wreaked havoc and went back to slumber
many years later the 6 brought humans to tyria and began teraforming and locking all evidance of the elder dragons deep in arahs vaults
one of these things was the blood stone
abaddon was the one that originally convinced the gods to free the magic from the stone but it caused great wars and eventually led the first human king dorick to beg the gods to take the power back
so the gods took the magic and once again put it back inside the stone and sealed it with the kings blood (hence bloodstone i think)
where it was then split into five pieces and put inside a volcano in the fire island chain
where the volcano erupted sending the five pieces to scatter across the lands of tyria
aaaaand thats the story(well at least in short form)
(edited by saventis.1485)
The old races (dwarves, mursaat, seers, forgotten, and the fifth) were around BEFORE the gods came to Tyria. I’m not sure if they had command over magic back then, though.
im aware that those races where around before the humans were brought to tyria
and the mursaat did have command of magic. actually the magic they used was so much greater than what we use today because it wasnt split between the bloodstones
no as far as we know the gods brought humans to tyria
there are two ways (that i can think of) the mursaat could have come to worship or at least respect abaddon
1)So we know the gods brought humans to tyria but whos to say that the gods hadnt come and gone before? could they have potentially brought other races to tyria?
meaning perhaps the mursaat knew of abbadon from their beginnings in tyria.
(worshiped)
2)the mursaat have been around a long time now and we know that they have that wierd phase world thing
whos to say that abbadon didnt visit thier phase city or perhaps maybe he was viewed from afar
i mean if you have the power of invisibility what better use than to observe the new race that has come to your world?(respected)