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Haven't been that hyped for an announcement in quite some time. ^^If nothing too major goes wrong in the meantime, I'll buy it for sure.

Awesome! :DNow I really have to play Factions in the next months ^^

Of course it's possible. Meta builds are usually designed for speedrun groups, so for simply clearing a raid, there is some room for improvisation.As long as you've got the essential mechanics covered and your group does enough DPS to avoid Enrage, you can play around with roles and classes. What works and what doesn't depends on the boss, though.

Gold to gems does not mean less revenue, since those gems have been bought by someone with real money before. However, in EU to this day many people simply can't buy any gems without going through support tickets first. It's like Anet doesn't really want our money. :lol:There's some persistent problem with the transfer service they are still using, idk.

Yes, the prologue by far.Bjora was a huge disappointment and even though the following episodes got better in comparison, they are still... Well...We know Anet can do much better than that.

No, I'm fine with playing as the hero. What's the fun in being a super villain?

Phew, thanks for reverting back the shade mechanic on scourge.

Absolutely. And I am sure it is very intentional.However, considering she also treats her own guild mates like this... And not just in HoT and LS3, but to this day. Don't know about male sylvari, haven't played recent stories with them.

First, I think people are taking Joko's trash talking way too seriously. ;) Still, interesting topic. I believe in this case we should actually not discuss one Commander, but realize that they are actually at least 10 different characters who happen to share most of the dialog lines. The voice acting directions the different Commanders get seem to be vastly different, so this is surely intentional. It's also pretty consistent between different language versions. I have not played the entire story on too many characters yet, unfortunately, so I don't have a complete picture. However, my impression so far is that the Commander in general has been canonically going through some kind of depression for a while. I'd say it started after HoT and lasted at least through PoF and LS4. The human female character seems to have gotten better by the time LS4 ended. The asuras and norn don't seem to be too affected in general, or they are better at hiding it. The one that really stands out to me is the female sylvari, who seriously seems to be out of her depths ever since HoT, constantly angry and frustrated with everything and everyone. I had a bit of hope at the ending of LS4, but oh no, in LS5 she went right back into snapping at her supposed friends. (Honestly, I don't like playing the story on this character anymore because of this.) All in all, right now I don't get the impression the Commanders are unstable or getting worse. Quite the opposite. And also, I think Joko was just doing his usual thing and should not be taken seriously at all.

Well, she was told the rammifications of the knowledge of Sylvari being Mordremoth's minions becoming wide-spread by Wynne. It could have caused the end of the Sylvari if other races found out and decided to exterminate the Dragon Minions. Heck, HoT shows how quickly many people turned on the Sylvari even after so many years of gaining trust to be in positions of respect.True. However, both the Tree and Caithe are clever individuals and they had ~20 years to come up with something. I only had 2 years so far, maybe in about 2040 I'll have found an alternative solution. XD There has to be something they could have done without going to the extremes of either telling the whole world everything and doing absolutely nothing until after many Sylvari turned. As far as Mordremoth's influence on Caithe, she mentions in Bloodstone Fen, during LW3 that she was having a hard time telling apart Morty's influence and the call of her Wyld Hunt. Given that both would have been urging her to do things and presumably they'd both feel very similar (A call from Morty would likely happen from the Dream as that's where his power lies, hence going their to destroy his mind at the end of HoT. While the call of the Wyld Hunt also comes from the Dream)This is what I don't quite get, because it's not any Sylvari we're talking about, but Caithe specifically. Who is the only one who could have been prepared for a situation like that. OTOH, maybe it was really her newly forming Wyld Hunt getting in the way. On the spot I come up with Laranthir, Canach, Faolain and Trahearne who were all far less confused than Caithe was. Laranthir had never had a Wyld Hunt, I don't know about Canach and Faolain but might be the same for them, and Trahearne's and Caithe's original Wyld Hunts had been finished. However, Caithe did get a new Wyld Hunt that must have started sometime around HoT, with the egg. Hm.... @Konig Des Todes.2086 said:Truth be told, the only thing that Caithe or the Pale Tree could have done better was confide in a small, close knit group of trusted individuals who could research Mordremoth's weakness while it slept.Close-knit group... and Caithe... Okay, I do see the problem here. :lol: I guess to me the issue here is really the long time period. If it hadn't been revealed to be a memory from that far back, but all more recent, it would have been more believable, I suppose. Or if Caithe had gotten some kind of magical amnesia in order to keep the secret well-protected, whatever.

A. Faolain tracked down and tortured Wynne without Caithe present, resulting in Faolain and the Nightmare Court knowing they're actually mordrem for a decade before Scarlet would wake Mordremoth. This could result in Mordremoth influencing them sooner and effectively turning all sylvari into mordrem guard before the Pact fights Zhaitan resulting in a loss against Zhaitan because no Trahearne and sylvari forces to perform the cleansing ritual, thus Zhaitan isn't in a weakened state. B. Faolain is killed there, and the Nightmare Court is ran by Cadeyrn instead, nothing else changes except no Faolain killing Eir in HoT and the ramifications of that event.Yes, maybe. However, I think Faolain did not lie in HoT when she talked about the Nightmare Court. They were not very happy about being anyone's minions, be it the Pale Tree or Mordremoth. Actually, Faolain herself seemed to agree more with the Tree than with the Dragon in the end.Maybe C. actually knowing at least part of the truth would have changed the Nightmare Court earlier. Knowing about the "true nature" of the sylvari was their main goal, so there - goal accomplished. From there, they could have decided what they wanted to do with the knowledge. And while I do believe some Courtiers would have sided with Mordremoth, for personal reasons mostly and in order to get / keep power, I think the Court itself as we know it wouldn't have agreed to be its slaves. The Nightmare Court still existed at the end of HoT, but switched sides and helped the Pact. Since then, they've become pretty quiet. Right now I'm replaying LS2. To me, Caithe having known about all that for 20 years or so and never having discussed it with anyone, not even the Pale Tree apparently, really seems like a flaw in the story. Even stranger how she - the only one who knew anything and who could have been at least somewhat prepared mentally - fell for Mordremoth's influence so easily and had so much trouble deciding whom to trust throughout LS2 / HoT. If Wynne had died just recently, okay. But all that happened so long ago. It's really hard to believe that someone as intelligent as Caithe just... kind of ignored all the info and did not do anything with it, except keep it a secret.

There are several things I would change. Aurene being able to resurrect thanks to Joko's magic is definitely one of them, also the entire existence of LS3 Ep6. However, if I had to decide on one, it would still be Trahearne's death. I'd just cut out the nonsense about this backup seed and have the battle end when the battle ended. There was nothing at all in the story following HoT that made Trahearne's death necessary. Everything could have played out the same way. There's nothing Logan did as the Pact Marshal that could not have been done by Trahearne. He also would have been injured, of course, and his position would have had to change to a desk job. Even the Caladbolg quest could still have happened. We could have worked together with Trahearne instead of this newly invented character who pretended to have been there all the time. Would have made more sense, even. And since Trahearne wouldn't have needed a magic sword in the office, we could still have inherited it. No problem. The mentors dying made sense, even Eir's death was important overall. But this one... pure "fan"service and completely unnecessary. And I'm still waiting for a memo to see if he made it through the Realm of the Lost.

Why 18, specifically? We don't know how fast Charr grow up and at what age they are considered adults. Could be 5 years or 30. Or any other random guess.It's really hard to tell, especially with the non-human NPCs. Edit: But since Crecia is the mother of at least Ryland and they kind of broke up when Rytlock got Sohothin, that may give a little bit of a time frame?

I think this is actually the reason Trahearne was invented at all. Notice how he was one of the characters whose concept had only been finished pretty late into develpment. Absolutely zero mention of him in any of the novels, even though his backstory could have tied in here and there. (And his history with the orders alone could have been its own novel.) So yes, I'm rather certain that he was created specifically to fill that role as the Pact Marshall. So if we assume he could have been an adviser, then some other character would have been created from scratch. Would people have liked that one better? Who knows.

I have not finished this current episode yet, but if nothing major changed, then your demand has already been answered.The Player Character resigned from their position in the Pact back in Season 3. The title is just a title now, we are no longer in the Pact hierarchy. Formally, the PC is just a guild leader now. I think GW2 has actually a pretty good balance of acknowledging that the PC deals with a lot of major threats, but still doesn't put us in a position where we'd have to have too much decision power logically.

I also never had issues with him. Yes, the writing could have been better, but his character arc was pretty good. The ending was awful, though.And he was one of our more reliable NPC friends. When I first played the story, I remember being pretty disappointed in DE. Even after the Zhaitan fight and everything we had been through, they still refused to see the bigger picture in LS2 and went back to their smallscale local stuff. Trahearne, OTOH, didn't have us do chores first before agreeing to join the Summit in the Grove. He just sent a letter and then attended, no drama, no issues about his priorities. Good ally. Edit: And since PoF I've been pretty worried about his soul, actually. With that soul-eating monster in the Realm of the Lost... I mean, if our death in PoF counted as traumatic, then his death surely qualified for the Realm of the Lost, too. :(We haven't seen or heard anything from him since then, even though ghosts are pretty much a thing. The ghost army against Kralkatorrik was led by Gwen for some reason. Why would she, if the actual founder of the Pact was around? But maybe he wasn't around. Eir and Snaff visited, which was nice, but... I am worried.

I wouldn't want to have to live in Tyria. Way too much war everywhere for my liking. And you can't even go for a nice walk in Shaemoor or on a vacation without putting your life in serious danger as a normal person. Every town and village can be attacked by something at any time. Plus, there seems to be some major problem with some elder dragons that could possibly just end the world if handled wrong by the people responsible - who apparently don't really know what they are doing. As for my main, specifically: Would hate not having any family and having my close friends die all the time. Also, necromancy... Maybe one of my rangers would be a better choice. ^^ Still the friends and family issue, though.

Thank you for the blog post and the short teaser for the map. :) Looks really awesome, looking forward to next week! I find it amusing how "Bound by Blood" is being referenced so much. Because yes, so far this release has been by far the most outstanding episode of this saga. In the prolog the storytelling quality was one of the best ever in this whole game, especially with how the map was integrated in the story.The following two episodes were quite a letdown, sadly. I do hope that the heavy references to Bound by Blood mean we can expect something on that level now, with the next release. Of course, minus the voice acting, but that's understandable. Over the runtime of the game - and the franchize, actually - the storytelling has changed and evolved quite a bit. I really enjoy the ways the plot is being delivered lately, especially since LS4. Jahai and Dragonfall are amazing maps! And so is Grothmar. Please keep up that quality. :) (And please keep up the servers next week. :lol: Really hoping the best for the new patch. ^^ )

For the record, I'm okay with the current cast. I could live without Caithe and Rytlock (+ Ryland), though, but no major issues with anyone from my side.

Well, whatever.I still don't see how anyone may have lost progress worth 1200 gems in a few hours, but I am going to view this incident as a lottery no one knew was happening and no one knew the rules of. Congrats to the winners. And let's move on to a weekend that will hopefully not be reset.

Without rhyme or reason as far as you know. What information do you have that qualifies you to judge their parenting abilities?Most likely the same info you have, too.So, you two come to different conclusions. What makes you think your conclusion is the valid one? Maybe you're both not wrong, maybe it's just a matter of perspective.Empathy is a great thing. Could be used on all sides...