Raknar.4735

March 11, 2021

Non-glowy stuff. Size depends on the overall theme, so I can‘t give a definite answer there.

I also like when weapons look „unique/different“. Tengu axe, Tengu GS and Desert King GS are examples that don‘t follow the traditional design of their weapon class. (Or the sab maces that look like a flail instead of a mace, but their design is over the top imo)

March 11, 2021

Braham calling himself the „alpha“ in the Fireheart Rise DRM bothers me more than I‘d like to admit. „Alpha“ behaviour in wolves is only something that happens in captivity, not in the wild. From the way Braham acts, he isn‘t the captive here.

March 10, 2021

Capture the flag on Facing Worlds.

March 10, 2021

@Tyson.5160 said:
@radda.8920 said:
@dontlook.1823 said:
@radda.8920 said:I really thought we had hit rock bottom but no arena continues to dig to reach the earth's core
I really had the impression that the guild wars lore was humiliated from the beginning to the end of this chapter, it was really a torture to do ... the worst part is the mission with braham, I don't know if that was an April Fool's Day but primordius has really been slaughtered, it hurts. This poor dragon is controlled by braham ... BRAHAM papillon but there are still scriptwriter at arena or is it an option?The dialogues with the spirits of nature, I think that I have rarely seen such silly dialogues on the game, power ranges level ...Primordius is no longer credible to survive after this chapter, worst villain in the history of guild wars 2, he has absolutely no place on EOD and I hope he will be killed at the same time as Jormag to stop this deceptionand do not even speak of the 3 drm which return to the level of boredom of those of the first chapter: ridiculous bosses, poor mechanics
worst update since living story 1.If an expansion weren't in the process of being produced, I would think it's clearly the end of the game.

Okay, I get what you mean. But just to say, it was Braham's idea of becoming the Champion. The duties of the Champion are to carry out the dragon's orders. They are also like conduits for the Dragon. I just thought that as this unfolds, you find its working at first. But then Primodious takes over or realizes. You are suggesting that he is being easily Manipulated by Braham as his champion. While neither mine nor your story could be true due to the ambiguity of the details involved in the story, I think they alluded to Primordious having some control. Remember when Braham was hard to control? Then, he was finally able to break free? This could make for an interesting dynamic between the two or , as you suggested above, this could just be Braham

clearcut

manipulating the dragon just as Jormag manipulates his enemy. Could these two have more in common than we think?! HIS sworn enemey! Dun Dun Dun!

B)

up to now, primordius has only created minions from rock. For the Stone Summit dwarves, their corruption through ritual has also been made possible as they are composed of stone.when i see the former lieutenant of primordius on gw1:

https://jolstatic.fr/www/captures/537/4/79294.jpg

to have braham as champion of primordius seems so ridiculous to me. I think the change with screenwriters after the massive layoffs at arena 2/3 years ago explains this poor script.And that's not the only thing that made me angry, I had already been angry when I saw that the dwarves of deldrimor were coming back with only 2 lines of dialogue and that we don't even talk about them anymore

I'm starting to be afraid of leaving a jewel like cantha in the hands of the new arena staff

i'll just tell myself that the primordius story was totally completed in gw1 eyes of the north which was much more thrilling and better executed than this horrible saga.i hope they will at least give us the opportunity to kill braham ourselves so that there is at least one positive point to this comedy.

I didn’t really find EOTN overly compelling plot for an expansion. Was it garbage? No, but the story was pretty simple much like GW2, actually most the stories for Gw1 and Gw2 are very comparable. My guess is your remembering the plot with rose covered glasses.

Yeah, most Gw1 stories boil down to „there‘s suddenly a new bad guy“. EOTN was the same with destroyers suddenly appearing, and the story is pretty much just finding allies against the destroyers.

March 9, 2021

Would like housing, don't care about the rest of the list.

March 6, 2021

Power, AoE, cleaving close/mid range weapon.

March 6, 2021

@Danikat.8537 said:
@Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:
@Danikat.8537 said:Icebrood Saga won't even have finished in April and they've done almost no promotion or told us anything about it so I think that's too early. At the earliest I'd expect the promotion and
maybe
pre-purchase to start in April.
July also seems a bit early. I suppose they could do a big announcement as soon as Icebrood Saga ends and a few weeks of promotion then release, but I'll be surprised if it's that early, plus as other people have said summer releases aren't that common. September or October seems more likely to me, especially since that's the time GW2, HoT and PoF were released. (The base game technically came out in August, but right at the end of the month.)

Are we expecting another release after the finale stated to release in April?

According to the roadmap they included in the Champions announcement there's also a release in May:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/the-icebrood-saga-champions/

It does say 'subject to change' but I'm not aware of any changes and if anything I'd expect that to mean things coming out later than planned rather than earlier.

The 4th chapter Judgement was preponed to the end of April.

"The fourth chapter was originally planned for May 2021, but we’re now aiming for a late April release."Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/watch-the-trailer-for-the-icebrood-saga-champions-chapter-2/

March 5, 2021

I'm going to optimistically say August 2021.

March 5, 2021

@"The Greyhawk.9107" said:You people scare me. With the way some of you talk about Braham you'd think he was going around eating babies and/or other similarly henious crimes.

Yeah, never got that, either.Braham is one of the most fleshed out characters, with own goals and convictions. He isn't a simple "Yes"- Man and will be contrarian if something doesn't line up with his opinion. I've seen people call that crying, but it just isn't.

March 4, 2021

I don't think we'll get new stats. New stat combinations, however, are likely.

March 3, 2021

Instanced content + rewards I don't really care about.Couple that with the fact that most of the new weapon skins are being tied to crafting with new overpriced ingedients.

March 2, 2021

@mindcircus.1506 said:
@"vicky.9751" said:This gives a mastery point for icebrood saga. I have a druid with ascended healing armour and meta build, waited more than 30min in lfg and nobody joined in the end.
Something needs to be done about group content in this game.
Why do people need to join a discord, put an api key, and then get pinged endlessly for mostly
experiencd
groups or stuff that fills too fast?
this is not
a healthy way to get people to play these raids. I wish gw2 had a matched finder like other games, at least you would GET a party.The low-effort "open world pve" population in this game actively rebels against any content that has a fail condition. Doesn't even have to be hard. Just needs to have a reasonable chance at failure. People wouldn't touch Octovine if it failed 2 out of 5 times.

That's not "rebelling". It's not that deep, they just ignore content that isn't fun to them, simple as that. Waiting to play content is just the opposite of fun.But sure, keep blaming the open world population for instanced content not being more popular.

March 2, 2021

I'd like housing. Apart from Cantha and the creation of new e-speccs, we don't know what the features of EoD will be. We'll just have to wait and see.

March 2, 2021

@Fueki.4753 said:Primordus has yet to actively corrupt anything living, so I doubt Braham will become its champion.
And no, the Stone Summit don't count.They accidentally did that to themselves, Primordus didn't do that.

The Stone Summit was also converting to stone at the same time. So in the end, Primordus, or rather his power, did just corrupt stone, similiar to how Destroyers are created.

I do wonder if we'll ever see Primordus-corrupted earth elementals.

March 2, 2021

People don‘t like wasting time waiting to play content. Most lobby content in GW2 falls into the wait to play category.Jump in and play is just superior.

February 28, 2021

Currently not playing any other MMORPG besides GW2, neither updates nor patches from other MMORPGs have been able to sound interesting enough for me to revisit them. I don't see that changing for now, since all of the MMORPGs currently in development (AoC, New World, Crowfall, Elyon etc.) don't seem too promising to me.We don't have any info on Riot's MMORPG and it will most likely take years for that one to release (could be promising, depending on which direction it takes).

Aside from GW2 I'm currently playing PSO2 (mostly waiting for NGS), Valheim, LoL (currently less), Genshin Impact and PoE on new league starts. Finished Little Nightmares 2 a few days ago. I've never "only" played one game, I enjoy playing different genres too much to do that.

So you could call GW2 a "side game", but not a "side MMORPG". I don't have "main games".

GW2 did introduce a lot of optional grinds lately, like all of the weapon collections, but I've never really cared about skins I don't like, so they're easily ignored, as that grind isn't needed to progress in any way. So by not doing certain things like the weapon collections or playing certain content I can atleast share my likes by being a datapoint in the metrics for Anet.It is then for them to decide what they think is the best way to develop the game further. If it is more weapon collections, then other players seem to enjoy that more than I do, and i'm fine with that, even though I won't touch that content (This also reflects my behaviour on other types of content I don't care about).

February 27, 2021

Well, any new endgame system they implement shouldn't only be targeted at a small % of the playerbase, or it gets abandoned due to low playercount again.

February 26, 2021

@Sajuuk Khar.1509 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:She wouldn‘t share knowledge that turns out to be flat out wrong.Yes she would, if she honestly didn't know it was wrong why wouldn't she?

Obviously because she's the Goddess of Truth? She doesn't share lies. I don't see Balthazar going against his nature and spreading peace and water instead of war and fire.

February 26, 2021

@Narcemus.1348 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:
@Sajuuk Khar.1509 said:
@"Fueki.4753" said:There may be a reason for that, but it's also established fact that Lyssa left Tyria with the others.Therefore she no longer has anything to do with us, who were left behind.Said reason can be as little as Lyssa disagreeing with the others and refusing to take away his godhood.
Unless Arenanet retcons the fact that Lyssa left, or we chase the gods into the Mists, there is no way for Lyssa to become part of the plot.There is no established "fact" that Lyssa left.

Kormir claims she left, but Kormir isn't all knowing, and Lyssa is the goddess of illusions, and a twin goddess. Lyssa could have magiced her way into making it look like she left, or maybe one of the twins left, and the other didn't.

You should never take anything an NPC says as literal truth. Developers write NPC dialog from the perspective of that NPC, a flawed being with limited understanding of the situation.

Kormir isn‘t a normal „unreliable narrator“ NPC. She‘s the goddess of Truth. If her truth isn‘t an established fact, then everything she stands for as a goddess has no meaning. That would also mean, that the titles of the other gods have no meaning. Therefore Lyssa‘s title as goddess of illusion would just be a title, and not a truth.

To my understanding, Kormir is actually the Goddess of Knowledge. Her title, being Goddess of Truth, has more to do with how she treats the knowledge. She inherited her power from Abaddon who was the God of Secrets, because he took all of the knowledge and hoarded it for himself. Kormir is called the Goddess of Truth because she is more open and sharing of the knowledge that she has, and as a Sunspear stood for justice, which means she prefers to expose knowledge under the light of Truth. This does not mean that she automatically knows everything or automatically knows the truth of every situation. The gods of Guild Wars are not omni-anything, but they do stand quite a few pegs above the power of humans.

She‘s the Goddess of Truth and Knowledge, as seen in Facing the Truth. Her Avatar is the Seer of Truth https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Seer_of_Truth. Of course she‘s not omni-sapient, but she‘s the Goddess of Truth for a reason. She wouldn‘t share knowledge that turns out to be flat out wrong. If she says that all the other gods left before her and even that Lyssa made fun of her for staying behind, then that is most certainly the truth.

February 26, 2021

@Sajuuk Khar.1509 said:
@"Fueki.4753" said:There may be a reason for that, but it's also established fact that Lyssa left Tyria with the others.Therefore she no longer has anything to do with us, who were left behind.Said reason can be as little as Lyssa disagreeing with the others and refusing to take away his godhood.
Unless Arenanet retcons the fact that Lyssa left, or we chase the gods into the Mists, there is no way for Lyssa to become part of the plot.There is no established "fact" that Lyssa left.

Kormir claims she left, but Kormir isn't all knowing, and Lyssa is the goddess of illusions, and a twin goddess. Lyssa could have magiced her way into making it look like she left, or maybe one of the twins left, and the other didn't.

You should never take anything an NPC says as literal truth. Developers write NPC dialog from the perspective of that NPC, a flawed being with limited understanding of the situation.

Kormir isn‘t a normal „unreliable narrator“ NPC. She‘s the goddess of Truth. If her truth isn‘t an established fact, then everything she stands for as a goddess has no meaning. That would also mean, that the titles of the other gods have no meaning. Therefore Lyssa‘s title as goddess of illusion would just be a title, and not a truth.

February 25, 2021

@Lonami.2987 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:
@Lonami.2987 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:
@Lonami.2987 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:More of my candidates:
Nornbear/Svanir for obvious reasons (GS, MH Axe or MH Dagger)
Balthazar (may be too close to "human", and we already have Shiro)
Menzies as "Legendary Nightmare" (same problem as Balthazar, may be too closely tied to human)
Varesh (Margonite, very unlikely as she's too close to human and Mallyx/demon)
Torivos (dual axes, Legendary Envoy, could be a problem since he used to be human in the past)
Out of them Svanir seems to be the most likely. Fits the evil role for balance, is part of a race that isn't represented in the revenants current lineup (Norn) and would fit into a selfish dps role (Glint and Kalla have been more on the supportive side IMO).

The norn legend, if we ever get one, would be

Asgeir Dragonrender

. Svanir was just a random dude who got corrupted and had no power or relevance of his own. His only merit is being the first norn to get corrupted by Jormag.

Legends should represent characters who had a great impact on history, plus a rich background that lets them channel unique powers not available otherwise. Also, they don't have to be GW1 characters, there's centuries of history, before and after GW1, be more original guys.

Also, I don't think characters who were overpowered in lore work well, since they don't provide a realistic and enjoyable interaction. Shiro, Kalla, Ventari... you can have normal conversations with them. Mallyx and Glint are just terrible, they have nothing interesting to say since they're supposed to be god-tier creatures who know all the secrets of the universe.

Asgeir Dragonrender's only merit was fleeing from Jormag after being scared off due to Jormag threatening him. We know that and the Mists know, too. There's no unique power there, unless you want a "Legendary Fugitive" or "Legendary Liar". The Mists don't care what the Norn say about Asgeir, as the Mists know the truth about his actions. What is or what isn't noteworthy to be a Legend is decided on what leaves an imprint in the Mists.

In comparison to that, Svanir is responsible for the creation of a whole cult of followers. The Sons of Svanir that could only exists due to the role Svanir played, warped the whole society of the Norn. His influence can easily be compared to the influence the Tablet of Ventari had over the Sylvari.

We also already know that Svanir was relevant enough to leave imprints in the Mists, as one of his echoes is part of the Forest of Niflhel.So this "random dude" has already been more relevant to the Mists than Asgeir.

Of course Legends don't have to be from GW1. They also don't have to be dead. They just need to have left an imprint in the Mists.It's still easier to guess what left an imprint in the Mists if we have seen the actions first hand. I know what Svanir did and how he influenced the generations of Norn that came after him. Just like how (Brandor and) Kalla's actions influenced the following generations of Charr. But we can't be sure that everything that has been told by unreliable narrators, which most NPC's and mortal characters fall into, is true. Asgeir is the perfect example for this.

Edit: Also, wouldn't Asgeir being powered up by the Spirits of the Wild count as overpowered in lore? He did oneshot Jormag's champion with their power, after all. That wouldn't make the Legend about him, though, but about the Spirits of the Wild (similiar situation to Ventari and the Tablet). So since Mallyx and Glint are unfit to be Legends in your opinion, Asgeir and the SotW would be, too.

Asgeir Dragonrender is the most famous norn hero, and also the founder of Hoelbrak. He literally saved the norn race from extinction; or cursed them into servitude, recent revelations considered (what really happened is not clear enough yet). Asgeir was also a mortal, who used a jotun scroll and the power of the Spirits of the Wild; he wasn't overpowered, since those weren't his powers to begin with. He's also the only known mortal to have injured Jormag.

In the other hand, the only thing Svanir did was get corrupted, then killed. He did nothing useful or worthwhile in life. Svanir didn't create the cult either, he had nothing to do with the Sons of Svanir, those guys decided to pay a homage to him for some reason, long after he got killed.

Exactly, Asgeir is a Norn hero, not a Mist legend. Just a legend in Norn tales, but not reality. He made up a legendary lie to make the Norn move south. He has no unique power and was only able to injure Jormag with the help of the Spirits of the Wild. The only legendary part about his tale is the power of the Spirits of the Wild. He isn‘t fit to be a legend, unless the legend is about his legendary lie to the norn, or his legendary cowardness in front of Jormag.

Ventari and the Tablet of Ventari only gained relevance as part of guiding a new race, long after Ventari‘s death. The same way Svanir, who we already know has echoes in the Mists, is responsible for the Sons of Svanir. It doesn‘t actually matter what your opinion about Svanir is here, since it is already a fact that the Mists made copies of Svanir and therefore gained Legend status in the Mists. We see one in the Forest of Niflhel. That echo is enough for a revenant to be able to learn to channel him. So for someone that „did nothing useful or worthwhile in life“ he‘s already more legendary than Asgeir by Mist standards.

Ventari's teachings have forged an entire race, it's pretty much like Jesus for the sylvari. It works well as a semi-religious deity because he's not an actual god. Actual deities like Balthazar or Owl wouldn't work well as characters you interact with because they lack the "mortal" personality. Ventari does have problems though, since he has no special powers of any kind; fortunately, he has a magical artifact, his tablet, and the legend can focus on that instead. Kalla has a similar problem, but she summons warband members to compensate.

Svanir didn't write anything. Svanir didn't leave anything behind. He's just a rabid dunce, who only talks once in GW1. He got unceremoniously killed, and was never a real threat to anyone at all. Also, he's not regarded as a hero, but a martyr.

If you want a legend based on an icebrood character, there's dozens of far more interesting options out there. For example, the

Dragonspawn

, one of Jormag's champions who got killed shortly before the game's beginning. Unlike Svanir, he was a real threat who haunted the Shiverpeaks for centuries, killing or corrupting thousands of norn. I don't think dragon minions would be good legends, but still.

Also, there's no game indication to define what's a "Mist Legend" or not. I don't think that aspect was ever relevant at all.

The Mists remember what came before, and echoes of those who left an especially powerful imprint on the world of Tyria can still be found there. A revenant calls upon these legendary historical figures, bringing them back into action to enhance the revenant’s own abilities and power.https://guildwars2.com/en/news/hidden-arcana-role-playing-the-revenant/

So yes, being remembered by the Mists is an aspect of who can and can‘t be a legend. That‘s what channeling a legend means, interacting with the echoes left in the Mists.

Svanir left behind a whole cult. A cult that changed Norn society at its core. And he already left an imprint in the Mists that we already know of.The Mists already deem him to be notable enough, that they have created at least one echo, the one we see in the Forests of Nifhlel.It‘s not about what I want to be a legend, but about who are likely candidates. And already having echoes in the Mists makes him a strong candidate, even if you don‘t like it.

The Dragonspawn didn‘t affect the world of Tyria in any major way, aside from killing a multitude of Norn. He wasn‘t responsible for any big change. I doubt he‘d be a likely candidate. IMO he‘s also less interesting than Asgeir, a „Legendary Liar“ would be more interesting than one of Jormag‘s proxies.

February 25, 2021

@Lonami.2987 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:
@Lonami.2987 said:
@Raknar.4735 said:More of my candidates:
Nornbear/Svanir for obvious reasons (GS, MH Axe or MH Dagger)
Balthazar (may be too close to "human", and we already have Shiro)
Menzies as "Legendary Nightmare" (same problem as Balthazar, may be too closely tied to human)
Varesh (Margonite, very unlikely as she's too close to human and Mallyx/demon)
Torivos (dual axes, Legendary Envoy, could be a problem since he used to be human in the past)
Out of them Svanir seems to be the most likely. Fits the evil role for balance, is part of a race that isn't represented in the revenants current lineup (Norn) and would fit into a selfish dps role (Glint and Kalla have been more on the supportive side IMO).