Jump to content
  • Sign Up

Hesacon.8735

Members
  • Posts

    687
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Hesacon.8735

  1. @Tamias.7059 said:

    @Hesacon.8735 said:I don't get the sense Jormag is manipulating Banger. I read it more as he wants to be equally powerful to The Pact.

    The Pact has an allied Elder Dragon, so Bangor needs an allied Elder Dragon in an arms race. If he can slay Jormag and claim the magic for the Charr, nobody is stronger than the Charr.

    He's acting totally rationally, for what his goals are.

    I don’t think he’s acting rationally - Elder Dragons can’t be tamed or controlled. Don’t you think it’s funny that his objective (to be in a position where he has enough power to rival the Pact and/or Aurene) dovetails nicely with Jormag’s presumed priorities - namely to put the brakes on the dragon-killers that Aurene and the Pact represent? Given that Jormag is the most subtle Elder Dragon, I doubt that that’s a coincidence.

    He's not trying to tame or control Jormag. He saw the Kralk's power can go to Aurene and intends to do what Charr do best and fight a war against Jormag.

    I'm not saying he's smart, he's going to get slapped hard and do a Scarlet style thing where he triggers an Elder Dragon. But he legitimately thinks he can win, and winning wins puts the Charr ahead of the other races.

  2. I don't get the sense Jormag is manipulating Banger. I read it more as he wants to be equally powerful to The Pact.

    The Pact has an allied Elder Dragon, so Bangor needs an allied Elder Dragon in an arms race. If he can slay Jormag and claim the magic for the Charr, nobody is stronger than the Charr.

    He's acting totally rationally, for what his goals are.

  3. For the necro changes with barrier application. I don't mind them so much, but moving the benefit from being on the skill to being supported by traits might be a better way to do it. Look at how druid's astral healing skills got reduced except if you spec'd into healing. The benefit is still there, but not out of the box, it has to be part of the build to work.

  4. Staff with unblockable marks is how you actually hurt enemies in wvw.

    I would also argue in a zerg you want focus or maybe warhorn over torch. Stripping 3 boons and nuking a single target with focus 5 is actually really powerful, especially if you can identify the pin. Some people don't like pin sniping, so I'll leave that to you to decide how you want to play.

    This is what I run, there are tweaks that can be made based on group comp/preference:

    http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSwAYd3lNw2YIsHmJOKXqvSA-zRZYVhnNiB3oAOl2EC1JB6TEEzCQDDA-e

  5. @DeceiverX.8361 said:

    @Hesacon.8735 said:Because of how horizontal progression works in GW2, you can pretty much play it in its launch condition if you want to.

    Unfortunately, you cannot force others into doing so.

    There's absolutely no denying the expansions fundamentally broke this game's PvP formats.

    Yes you can. Find enough people who agree with how you want to do and run a private match.

  6. @Konig Des Todes.2086 said:

    @"Hesacon.8735" said:Balthazar made one slip up and Aurene absorbed a lot of Balthazar's magic, allowing her to become really powerful in a hurry.While this is true, it also made Kralkatorrik much more stronger. The amount of power Aurene got was far smaller than the amount Kralkatorrik got.This is true, but I'm not trying to draw parallels between Aurene and Kralk, I'm trying to do it between Aurene and Vlast. An elder dragon is almost by definition going to be stronger than not-an-elder dragon until it dies.By episode 5 of LW4 when we lost to Kralk, Aurene was far stronger than Vlast.I highly disagree here. Vlast had 250 years to consume magic, and he could easily have gotten a power boost from Zhaitan's death as well as Mordremoth's just as Kralkatorrik did. Though Vlast is never showcased as having additional powers, Aurene doesn't showcase powers from Mordremoth either despite getting a direct hit of magic as an egg.

    We don't really know how powerful Vlast was, so it's impossible to say that Aurene was stronger than Vlast (let alone "far stronger") by the time of All or Nothing. She had additional powers that she got from Balthazar and (somehow, despite consistency) Joko, but the thing is, if Vlast wasn't killed off for the sake of making Aurene "the one", then Vlast would have been in position to get Balthazar's magic instead of Aurene. Which means Vlast would have been even more powerful than Aurene was during Episode 5 - he might not have died and needed resurrection.We know it from context. By episode 5 Aurene had grown strong enough to brand things. If Vlast had this ability, some NPC in Elona would have mentioned it and made uncomfortable comparisons between Vlast and Kralk.

    Branding is not a Joko/Balthazar/Mordremoth/Zhaitan power, it's a bloodline heritage power. This is purely speculation, but one would imagine that this branding power requires a minimum amount of magic/training to pull off.

    You're right that Vlast wasn't killed off for the sake of making Aurene "the one", he was killed off because Balthazar killed him. Not every story thread needs a deeper meaning. In Act I of PoF Vlast is clearly stronger than Aurene. If Vlast absorbed Balthazar and Joko magic he would have been stronger than Aurene. But it's moot because Balthazar killed him.

    It's also not clear the conflict with Joko would have happened had Vlast not been killed. Our adversarial relationship with Joko only occurred after Balthazar killed us to bait Aurene and we told him off and we stole his army. So is Vlast + Balthazar magic stronger than Aurene + Balthazar + Joko magic? We'll never know for sure. It's also possible that with Vlast on our side in the PoF campaign we would have knocked out both Balthazar and Kralk instead of just Balthazar.

  7. Bathazar helps us protect Aurene's (in Lazarus disguise) because he needed a scion of Glint to defealt Kralk. Balthazar knew exactly what he was doing fighting the elder dragons and was hedging his bets on which elder dragons he wanted to kill. Ultimately he settled on Primordus and Jormag at the same time using Omadd's Machine. Then we stepped in and stopped him.

    Stepping in and destroying Omadd's Machine doomed Vlast as it sent Balthazar to the Crystal Desert. Even if Vlast would have made a better candidate than Aurene as Kralk's replacement, he was the better candidate for Balthazar fighting Kralk. For the plot of LW3/PoF to make any sense, Balthazar had to go after Vlast, which he did.

    Then, because Vlast lost, it triggered Balthazar killing us as bait to attract Aurene. Balthazar made one slip up and Aurene absorbed a lot of Balthazar's magic, allowing her to become really powerful in a hurry. By episode 5 of LW4 when we lost to Kralk, Aurene was far stronger than Vlast. Then in the next episode she killed Kralk and became stronger than any other elder dragon. (Which probably means she won't be present to fight Primordus/Jormag in LW5, because the Pact + Aurene would steamroll either of them at this point... unless they work together... So, uh, LW5 will be interesting.)

×
×
  • Create New...