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Bladesworn's gunsaber skill 4 has gotten a new spell effect that yeets blue men at your enemies and I love it. Don't believe me? Here you go! https://i.imgur.com/T3xh4qk.jpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSTa_bJ3UA

Whaaaa? Whisper of Jormag is bugged? That cannot be so! Anet would never release something in such a buggy, incomplete, unplayable state and then not touch it again for months on end! They just wouldn't! Never! Nev- oh....

Anet: Increases damagePlayers: Stack more Health and Toughness Basically just fill your squad with scourges in full Trailblazers. Even with me playing completely like shit and in a pug group the encounter is super chill. On the 2nd attempt with the same group I also got the "Hold onto the Light" achievement. Just use spectral grasp instead of blood is power. Once the boneskinner blows out all the torches it a guaranteed achievement because the wisps won't have any torches to put out.

So I am going to preface this by saying I am not a huge lore buff, so I might recall some details incorrectly. However, this idea popped into my head and I enjoyed the thought so much I thought why not share it. And on the extremely rare chance I am even partially correct, atleast I get bragging rights to say I came with the idea first (atleast I couldn't find any discussions for this inane idea anyways). So with that outta the way, here is my theory.While exploring the new map extension of Bjora I noticed that the devs went into the effort of implementing a Claw of Jormag that flies around the sky and roaring occasionally. You don't seem to be able to interact with it as far as I can tell, but it is a really nice feature to put in the environment. It was then it got me thinking, this map now not only has a Claw of Jormag, but Drakkar throughout the story is repeatable refer to as its "mouthpiece". Interesting phrasing. I guess you could say..... Drakkar is its voice....a "Voice" of Jormag. I think you see what I am getting at. For some reason or other Jormag has both a Voice and a Claw. Similar to that of the Kodan and their belief system with Koda. Isn't it also interesting that there is SUCH an emphasis on the kodan whenever Jormag is involved. It is the kodan who are holding the line in Bitterfrost frontier, it is they who shut themselves out from the rest of the world in Still Waters Speaking to prevent the whispers from spreading father. Now of course an easy explanation is because of course they are the only ones you would interact this far up north-no other race is this far north since the norn fled. And yet, during the meta event on the new map Jormag says it themselves.....they are trying to help the kodan and the norn. Why so specific? Why not just say "I am trying to help you all." Why specifically call out the kodan. It almost as if they have a deeper connection with one another wink wink Another thing I would like to point out, is the tendency for the Voice of Koda to go ....insane during their duties. Recall if you will from vanilla gw2 maps like Frostgourge Sound where you have events like "passifying"(beating the crap out of) the Voice at one of their floating sanctuaries when they go beserk. Hell I think even one of the dungeons, Honor the Waves, even touches on that as a plot point where you attempt to rescue the Voice only to find out later they've been turned by Jormag. So it seems it is pretty common for the Voice of Koda to eventually go insane upon listening to it after awhile. Know who also makes you go insane when you listen to it's whispers? That's right...Jormag. Hell in this patch alone we have not one but TWO examples of this happening. The first we hear about Ushers-In-Spring who was the Voice of Still Waters Speaking who attempted to listen to the whispers and was turned. The second being the norn scholar you follow while doing the achievement "A Hunger for Knowledge" where we find them dead after mistakenly listening to Jormag's voice because they thought it was a friend's. It seems curious how Jormag and Koda seems so alike in how they operate doesn't it. Both how their own Voice and Claw, both whisper knowledge and guidance, and both will eventually make you crazed by their whispers. So I know what you are thinking, no-they cannot be the same, surely the kodan themselves would be able to tell the difference between Koda speaking to them and Jormag right? Once again this patch explains it very well. That norn scholar I mentioned earlier, recall how I said that the reason they died was cause they mistakenly thought the voice they were listening to was their friend's voice. So we know that Jormag can change their voice to sound like basically ....anyone they want. A friend..... a family member... maybe even Koda itself? So my theory is simply that either Jormag is essentially Koda, or at the very least highly connected and intertwined with Koda (maybe Koda is a piece of Jormag like (spoilers the Whisper of Jormag end spoilers). There are just too many similarities between the two for it to just to be a coincidence. Now I am going to leave the post here for now cause I actually have to go to work. XD Hope you enjoy reading my stupid idea.

So a quick update on this. I have been talking with support since making this post to try and resolve the issue. I am not going to go into a huge amount of detail, but the gist of it is we tried a bunch of things and ultimately nothing resolved the problem. (And believe me when I say, we tried A LOT of stuff. Either the results were basically useless or they were ineffective in fixing whatever the issue was.)The reason why I am making this update is because as of early this morning, the spikes in ping that I have been experiencing have disappeared. Yup, the problem at least for me is fixed. I still have 0 idea what caused the issue-my only guess is something wonky was happening in the networking inbetween anet's servers and my computer. And before you ask, yes I ran a pathping and HyperTrace-evidentally the info wasn't useful. I have talked with a friend who was also getting similar issues as I, but according to them they are still seeing pretty high ping (around 900) so it is possible that whatever is causing the problem might still exist for some people.I am sorry there isn't much more I can offer, I wish I could provide a solution to anyone still affected, but in my case it was just a "wait till it fixes itself" deal.

For me, malware would be highly unlikely as I am highly cautious when it comes to my computer. I am the only one who uses this computer, I mostly only use it to look at reddit, youtube, and play my games. If I need to surf the web for something or see an email I wasn't expecting then I normally use my tablet instead. As for the OS configuration, I had the pc custom built for me (mainly to play games on) so I am fairly positive there are no unwanted programs running in the background. It is only recently I've been having these ping issues and I haven't changed any of the settings configuration, so I wouldn't understand why something would suddenly change now in all the years I have had this computer.Merry Xmas to you as well!

Hello fellow New Yorker. Can confirm my ping is spiking as well. Normal ping for me is around 60, but after this week's patch I've been spiking between 300-900 and have hit even 2000 a few times. It fluctuates a lot every few seconds. Router/Modem both restarted, restarted computer (several times), connected directly to modem and nothing. And just I just finished running a client -repair and still getting 200 ping. So good news for you I guess is you are not alone. Not sure about you, but I've noticed the ping seems to be particularly terrible during reset. Seems to fix itself around midnight though. I've wrote a ticket to support a few hours ago, I suggest you do the same if you haven't already.