Guild Wars 2

the mechanic could be divide
when ever you get hit you divide losing half of your health but creates another jellyfish that copies you (uses the same ability’s you do)
if the opponent kills that jelly you go back up to 3/4 health
but if they hit u you divide again losing half of your health again but creating ANOTHER jelly

you could end up with a swarm of particularly easy to kill jellys but all doing decant damage makes them scary!

kitten i actually like this idea… please make an enamy that does this or something itd be awesome

the song jellyliciouse comes to mind

" i dont think your ready for this jelly
i dont think your ready for this
nobody’s so jellyliciouse baybeh!"

…. i think thats how it goes

Behellagh.1468:

saventis.1485:

did my post just get deleted?

Look at your post history. Thread has gotten big.

didnt know that existed till now,
thank you very much!

turns out it was in another topic lol my bad

did my post just get deleted?

basically part of what i believe is that we are consumers.
we bought the game (some of us spent $270 on it(cause i had faith arenanet would provide))
we wanna know what we are paying for( we were paying for more than just, eh lets face it, not the greatest personal story)
and then again when we purchase stuff from the gem store.
i want to know what projects the money is going toward.
I still have alot of faith in arena net, and can see things are improving.
however it is slow going and there is not alot of transparency as to whether its going in a direction i want to pay for.

Svetli.4276:

3 acc bound blue items and mini queen jenah

woa ur way to hopefull
they will be soul-bound whites that u cant salvage
and they actually take away 1 of the queen jenahs you got from last year as payment

Konoha.4613:

“A lot of the questions I’ve seen posted this week are as simple as this: does ArenaNet have an agenda to never do something? That’s almost never the case”

Do you intend to address the fact that skyhammer needs to go from solo que? Most of us are rather sick of this map. And there if plenty of evidence out there that its not just 1 or 2 people. This is hurting pvp.

so u want less content for pvp?

do u know how annoying it is living at the start of the time zones lol
its the 22nd for me right now and im like yay two more days
and then get depressed when i realise i have to wait another day lol
(not complaining about the format of the date just fyi)
3 days
just keep telling myself be patient
i think something awesome may be announced…(fingers crossed)

“ill trade u 5 queen jennas for that great sword”
“ohhhh, i dunno id say its worth at least 8”
lol bartering with jennas

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Thanks everyone for giving us some feedback on this system we’ll meet internally and discuss this system some more as I think there are a lot of valid points being brought up here.

thank you for showing us you are reading these

even small comments show us you care ^^

Thanks for the post.
We just want to know whether we should bother waiting for this “big thing” you are working on.
i mean i imagine the idea is to carry on the living world, but at the moment there just isnt enough content to keep me going besides grinding for gold or drops so i can get a legendary or alternatively skins, which gets a bit naff after a while.
i know these are just my opinions but i see them echoed in alot of places

we still cant see the direction you are going with your game
we have no idea what aspects u are focusing on and because of that i feel like you neglect my part of the game i enjoy
while others would have the same feeling about the parts they enjoy

i know you say your listening and that’s great but we need communication (i didnt quite understand what you meant by the last bit of your post (about consolidating and such))

the reason so many people are still complaing is that we have nothing we are eager for that has been anounced.

u say u dont wanna say when your working on stuff cause it may not happen?
well im sure you could give us a vauge idea of the things u are trying to achieve

“we are working on this for this area”

surely you could at least do that?

Shademehr.1397:

This is actually pretty effing ridiculous. They’ll fix a bug that benefits player’s piggy banks like it’s the most important thing on earth, BUT I’M STILL GETTING STUCK ON SIEGE IN WVW AFTER ALMOST 2 YEARS OF THE SAME BUG.

:(

different team works on that kitten mate

Falicia Day…
Hahahaha
she cant even voice zoja anymore
(feel sorry for u guys that shes so flakey)

there not gonna give u a precursor ever lol
you will have to earn it with rng

No problem ^^
if there is ever anything else do not hesitate to ask heh

Polymock
they are finally opening the portal to polymock

so yeah^
pokemon

its totes gonna be a mini trahern.
everybody loves trahern

kasoki.5180:

Good thread, nice to have someone involved

My first question is not so much about lore per se, but related to it

Q1: Is there any NPC in GW2 that can retell me events of LS1. In details, like who are Braham and Rox, history of Scarlet etc etc… (I’ve missed out on LS1, and now LS2 is a bit confusing)

Q2: What is Queen Jennah’s last name?

Those are great questions heh

Q2: As far as i know we dont actually know her last name. As of right now her lineage is actually something of an on going mystery.
What we do know is that she is descended from king Doric and that’s about it.

Here is a family tree showing the known descendants of king Doric

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_royalty_family_tree

There are a few popular theories at the moment regarding the queen

- She is not actualy of royal blood
This was mainly caused by the fact that in the living story season 2, we hear about a locket that is enchanted to always have an up to date image of the current royal … person ( sorry cant think of the word)

-She is actually an illusion conjured by countess Anise.
this one can get a bit crazy because there are lots of theories as to why she would do this. The theory i subscribe to is that countess Anise is actually a very powerful necromancer from guild wars 1 named Livia.

- Shes being controlled by countess Anise.
Countess Anise is supposedly a very powerful Mesmer, Mesmer’s have ability’s in the lore that they keep secret from most regular folk. One of these powers that is mentioned is the ability to create a clone that only one person can see.
This leads alot of people to believe that altering someones mind would be doable for a very powerful Mesmer.

As for Q1 its gonna take me a little bit of time to check a couple of places but i think there are bits and pieces in game. I believe there are some books in the Durmond priory and i think there may also be a bit of info in Scarlet’s 2 Bases/houses.
1 of them in dry top and the other is hidden in a cave behind a holographic wall in a cave near the priory(not actually alot in there)

A fair amount of info was learnt about these characters actually outside the game.
from short storys written by the devs.

Here is the first short story (this one is about Braham the Norn)
Links to the rest can be found at the bottom of that page in a purple box
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Braham%27s_Story

However not all of these focus on the actual living world they more provide background to the characters.

If you enjoy reading there is alot of information on the GW2 wiki.
And if you enjoy videos i would suggest checking out wooden potatoes on youtube
he has alot of good lore videos as well as usually doing a round up of current living story events ( so at the time it would have been the season 1 releases)

TL:DR
Q1: Not really but, little bits yes.

Q2: We currently are unsure

If you have any more questions or if i havnt explained well enough feel free to leave a reply with what you want and ill be more than happy to try to help. ^^

Boneheart.3561:

saventis.1485:

So i want to compile a list of questions the community has about the lore of guild wars 1 and guild wars 2.

I will attempt to answer as many of these as possible, and will go and look through the games to find the answers

Obviously i wont be able to answer questions like whats gonna happen next(don’t let it stop you from asking though, speculation is fun), but any questions regarding the current release or anything prior, i will take a stab at finding it out.

What a misleading title.
Maybe Josh Foreman has a fanmail address.

Well i think there is already a consolidated questions topic, so i didnt wanna make another.

I wanted to help people just getting into lore or people who may have had questions about stuff they found confusing.

my name is Josh… if that helps lol

traps mean you have to play the game rather than just run around on auto pilot

oh okay thanks i will

So i want to compile a list of questions the community has about the lore of guild wars 1 and guild wars 2.

I will attempt to answer as many of these as possible, and will go and look through the games and various other sources to find the answers

Obviously i wont be able to answer questions like whats gonna happen next(don’t let it stop you from asking though, speculation is fun), but any questions regarding the current release or anything prior, i will take a stab at finding it out.

well it think they can cause there is a similar process used when a Mesmer uses a sword skill that jumps to target(leaving a clone) and then can teleport back to that target by tapping it again

perhaps my hopes for the vertical plain may be a bit high but surely theres a way to do with that can utalise a transform tonic ( perhaps complete invisibility) and then use the mechanic that the Mesmer uses with the clone.
except all this is put into the toys actions.

heck id love to be able to use my character and stuff still but that dosnt seem doable

also im pretty sure that was sarcasm if it wasn’t im sorry lol

just wanting to see what people would thing about a asuran tech themed camera “toy”
that you cant use in combat ( as soon as ur hit u go back to your character)

but while u have this camera out you can separate your view from your character and float around as a free cam within a certain radius of your character.

allows people to have a first person mode( sorta) as well as giving different angles for screen shots and potential machinima ( i wanna make videos in guild wars)

this will help the people that are crying out for this feature and appease the ones that dont… i think

can i get some opinions and feed back?

was just playing ps for human at minister wiis party
some of the gust say shes a huge history buff, particularly with ancient kryta…
hmmmm

(sorry if this has already been said, i just saw the post on the forum so id thought id chuck this in)

wait till 2 year aniversary
theyv been working on something secret for a while now
(may or may not be an expansion)
but it will definatly be content worth waiting for….. i hope

i just wp out…
u fall in it once.
now i know where it is ill be more cautious getting that crystal.
and it is possible to miss stuff i mean they are people occasionally this stuff happens.
no reason to get so upset over it.
maybe just submit a ticket or bug report or something(spose theres this)

(not sure if it was intended, but u seem outraged, constructive criticizem is more useful than rage)

well after that interview… lol

yea but that said, arena net says that alot of things are happening soon and its been about two years for some of those things…

OOOOOOOh interesting theory
hmmmm
i cant wait to see if its true

You can press ctrl shift h to toggle hud which severly limits game playability
You can do this (as far as I know) in all game types
Kinda renders the first person camera argument moot
point
A similar option for first person should be phesable and I dont see how it would effect people who knew how to get into the mode in the first place

Lol I dont look at chat
Iv probly kittened so many of these guys off without even realising

nexxe.7081:

You want to know how out of touch they really are?

GuildMag: Similarly, some people are wondering what your stance is about adding a first-person view?

Matt Wuerffel: I think it falls into the realm of, you know, that is not something that we would rule out, we do play around a lot with different camera views and controls and I think even in the betas you’ve seen… like, some people found out ‘oh man, there is like, kind of an eagle view, a top-down camera view’. It is something that we explore and we think about how would this work in the game and what would it make the game feel like, and what does it add for players? But, off the record, there is nothing we can say at this time.

Devon Carver: Yeah, the one thing I would say is… the first person mode which we’ve had, we used to kind of toggle in and out of it on our dev client before, the biggest reason to stay away of it is that the sense of direction in combat is really important in our game, as well as positioning – positioning is really important. So, when you go into that first-person mode, you really completely lose the understanding of anything that is going on behind you, which can make our combat really difficult to understand and just difficult to play. There is some PvE scenarios where probably it wouldn’t be a big deal, but certainly in PvP or World versus World, it becomes very difficult to actually understand what is going on in combat. Which means that it really handicaps you as a player at that point; it makes it difficult to know what is going on and for that reason it is something we probably won’t be doing much work with, because we have really done a lot of work and continue to do a lot of work to make combat as readable and understandable as possible, and, like I said, direction and positionality is really important in our game, so not being able to say all that playable space is really valuable.

The community never wanted it for combat. They wanted it for screenshots and immersion.

Im gonna assume the guy that was talking about all the pvp and wvw stuff is the wvw guy
Which makes sense as to why he was only talking about it from a combat view point

Hes kinda only reallh able to comment on why it wasnt implamented in the content he was working on

Yes heh it is possible and alot of ppl do it

chemiclord.3978:

Labjax.2465:

Well right. That’s my point. The whole interview screams, “We are way out of our comfort zone here. Halp.”

And don’t you think that’s a little unfair then? That’d be like cornering the Chairman of Commerce and then causing a minor riot when he wouldn’t give you the answers you wanted about Water Quality Control.

I mean, I get the initial surge of disbelief. It was a VERY bad, awkward interview, and it featured a lot of really disjointed answers, highlighting one massively huge weakness at Arena.net (PR and communication). But at the end of the day, it was one bad interview with a guy that was out of the element he was being asked about.

The sky ISN’T falling. It’s okay… at least on this score.

I was under the impression that they had an actual comunity/pr team dedicated to answering questions and stuff

Could be wring but I swear I remember seeing them In some earlier interviews and forum posts

Why not send these people?

Or perhaps request the questions beforehand… but I suppose hindsight is 20/20

chemiclord.3978:

I do apologize, because the shot was misdirected and it was not appropriate.

It just gets… tiring (that’s the word I’m looking for), that every time Arena.net says ANYTHING, be it in an interview or feature pack post, or stream, or whatever… players come out of the woodwork screaming like Chicken Little that Arena.net doesn’t care, they’re lazy, they don’t listen, they hate their fans, it’s the end of the world, the game is going to die tomorrow if they don’t change their mind, etc… etc…

I get it, you’re not getting what you want and you don’t like the reason given. But for crying out loud, they’re not doing it to spite you. Their reason is given, and frankly, I’m more willing to buy the reasons given of the people with the code right in front of them and the limitations they have than the legion of armchair developers who have decided “NO! YOU’RE WRONG!”

Then in two months time, the rage froths over, just in time for another statement to stir up all the dander all over again. It’s like people on this forum (and the Internet as a whole, I suppose) WANT to be angry, and will seek out reasons to rage like a hatred-seeking missile.

It’s just tiring. And I’m sorry for lashing out.

I think its more just that fact that they arnt showing us they are listening.
iv noticed a real lack of comments by devs on the forums of late. sure they are busy but isnt that what community representatives are for?(they hire people to talk to us)

Then when they do it feels like they give us little to no information
im frustrated cause i dont know where the game is going.
we get the points of intrest and the round up, those are… okay
(i mainly play pve so more interested in the points of interest episodes)
but thats just based on the current living story episode ( what we are told is only a very small team is working on)

what are the rest of arena net working on then?

“sorry your not part of our inner circle, begone pesent, also go buy some black lion keys”

^ while i know this isnt really what they are saying, its the feeling they are giving me when ever i try to show intrest in the game

even

( to be continued when i can logg on again)

promise it has a nicer ending

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It was. By both name and the sylvari-only dialogue. The sylvari PC, Trahearne, and Pale Tree all say it was the dragon from the Dream (aka Tutorial).

Anyways, I looked at an HD video of the vision and compared it to this image of the Shadow of the Dragon pulled out of the dat, and their wings look identical to me. Both have 4 main branches with 2 bushes of trees on each wing.

OH i see!
you are absolutly right.
i dont know why i couldnt see it before but now its just so glaringly obvious

theory still woks tho wooo lol

now its just mordy looking for what i assume is the egg ( perhaps not and egg, perhaps it is an artifact granted to the zepheryts by (glint/baby glint or something glint related heh maybe the dwarves)
and this artifact is what they use to charge there aspect crystals
(which of late seem to all be broken)
and i think the master of peace is rushing to the cave where they collect there crystals from( any one else notice all those colorless (and useless as far as i know) crystals in drytop
and this all kinda fits with how we see all the crystals in the cut scene… i actually think im on the right track with this
(someone else may have said it before but not as far as iv read, if so sorry for the repeat)

Hi
Im making a lore video based on everything Asuran.
Now while i have most of the well known points about the asuran, i was hoping maybe the comunity might have some info that dosnt normaly get to see the light of day

(maybe a developer replied to your post or maybe something you just noticed while your running around)

I will continue to dive into the archives but any information you can give will be usefull.

(Dont want you to do my work for me, i just dont want to miss anything)

oh i was under the impression the dragon we fought was the shadow of the dragon

by free cam i mean like a camera where you can shift the focus away from your character

Hi
iv been playing for a while and iv always really wanted to make lore videos (and even make some machinima)
i have everything i need (in game items ect)
except for a free cam

the other day i was told there was a way to go into a free cam mode and i was wondering what is the best way to go about this?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Erukk.1408:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

This is true.

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

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

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

ahem

saventis.1485:

now in the cut scene we see what looks like kralkatoric or one of his minnions (could be glints baby which would destroy this theory)
and the egg.

That dragon seen is the Shadow of the Dragon. It has the trees on its back and everything.

sorry i was referring to the dragon in the vision ( was a little tired when i wrote that so yea sorry it wasnt really clear)

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

2 years of pure pve development it was fine for pvers , 1 update for pvp . Whining,rolling on the floor with tears in eyes it is just pathetic . YES you wont be able to obtain every armor for just standing on world boss spaming 111111 it is so sad . Anet pls give pvpers options to show off :unique armor,visible ranks outside pvp(www).

tbh tho the pvpers qq just as hard when they dont get there one patch.
just sayin

i think this theory is quite solid actually
so i raise you this.

in the recent cut-scene were shown kralky and such, we also see one of mordys dragons attack the pale tree
now if mordy is attacking the pale tree(assuming shes a lutenent or something like glint) perhaps hes taking his (power,magic, energy) back

now in the cut scene we see what looks like kralkatoric or one of his minnions (could be glints baby which would destroy this theory)
and the egg.
to me it looks like its looking for it we see it descend into what looks like some caverns to hide away.then we see the vines approach.

could kralky being trying to get back his (energy ,magic,power)
and if the vines are approaching does this mean mordy is trying to kill it?
or perhaps the eldar dragons can steal magic from each other by destroying the higher ups of there armies?

maybe mordy devised a plan( i assume theres almost a hive mind like connection between the weaker sylvari that a seperated from the tree and mordy while the stronger ones can resist better) where he knew he could guide a powerful dragon artifact into his teritory ( why hes expanding over the part of tyrai we are on so fast- to claim territory)

did mordy notice a powerful artifact last time the zephyrs where around?
and then again the second time…
but this time he had some control over some usefull beings that could hep guide this artifact radiating magical energy back to him

also your theory makes me think perhaps the first born arnt as resistant to mordys corruption as a result of being the first “batch”

I wanna take you to a gay bar

… what?
…. not my fault jory and kas hang out in a bar.

the back peice comes alive and burrows into your spine and then vines explode through your chest causing an instant defeat

only way to complete the instance is without the back peice

are the gods simply regular creatures who have defeated another elder dragon and were forced to take its place?(assuming that there can be more elder dragons, cause really? only 6? all of which seem to be in the same continent. i dont think so)

ohhhh we better all hush up about the content we are able to access in game without actually doing anything but use in game mechanics

maybe the devs just really dont want u to get in there yet

i know right!
wouldn’t that be so cool