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Kinda surprised no one has said "Logan stayed to fight Kraalkatorik" as one of the big "what if" moments. Would Queen Jennah have survived? Would Glint? What then of Aurene and Vlast? How would that have affected the current balance of power with the dragons?

The orcs have been in Azeroth for less than 35 years. How many hundreds of years did the charr have for their "change" versus the orcs?

Ryland will eventually replace Rytlock in our forced group of "friends" in Dragon's Watch becoming Braham 2.0.

Probably because Jormag wants an organized Legion that knows how to fight a prolonged war as opposed to simple icebrood minions.

I will say that one of the most disappointing things about the story in this episode is that (if you are a charr) you find out that one of your own warband has betrayed you to join Bangar. In the same episode that stresses the importance of loyalty to one's warband, a charr character will inevitably find out that one of their own has betrayed their warband.

Kinda surprised that they didn't ask Logan for military advice. One of the repeated stated problems in the episode is that Ryland has been out-thinking other charr leaders because he knows how charr think and work militarily. So why not ask a human, particularly one with some experience in fighting charr in Ebonhawke about how to fight charr who out-thinks other charr at being charr?

Spirit Ranger or Spirit Druid seem like a nice way to play a "shaman." You summon water, burning, frost, earth, electricity, and life/plant spirits. This is probably one of the closest things we have to the old Ritualist apart from the Renegade and Turret Engineer.

Yeah, so given how people like to talk of humans as "a dying race" and the unrivaled charr might, can we start talking about the charr as a "dying race" with the same flimsy excuses that people speak of humans as a "dying race"? I bet that Ebonhawke is also feeling pretty good at this point. Treaty with charr achieved. Aurene cleaning the Brand. And now the charr are fracturing further and going on a crusade in the far north, turning themselves into both Jormag and Player Character fodder.

I'm not a fan of how Smodur is acting either, since it feels like a reversal to how he was depicted before: the progressive modernizer and the reasonable face for the playable charr, which focuses on Ascalonian charr. But I like the theory that Smodur is hearing whispers from Jormag as well. Jormag may be manipulating things to ensure that Ryland and as many charr as possible that he brings would be converted into Frost Legion.

A charr supremacist has a victimization complex about a foreign culture? Okay.

Sea Turtle because Sea Turtle.

That'd kill what makes hammer unique, and would need additional modifications to boot. Having the symbol on autoattack makes it useful in a lot of situations.>The problem with having the symbol on AA is that it encourages a lot of AA camping instead of utilizing more dynamic skill synergies, which makes skills 2-5 of the hammer fairly underutilized and an overall boring playstyle.

I do not want the mount "now," but if I am working towards the skyscale, I would like to think that ArenaNet respects my valuable playtime. Going through a timegate is not "earning" the mount. Not being able to do other portions of the collection during that time due to the next collections being locked and hidden is also frustrating. Also I dislike having things like this requiring jumping puzzle content, since I have several friends who can't do jumping puzzles well and so avoid the content. Sure, a mesmer could portal them up, but that will not be a guarantee with future content when the skyscale collection stops being fresh. The griffon, in contrast, requires you to visit roosts throughout the Crystal Desert. This was good. Some jumps are tricky but they are not jumping puzzles. There could have both other content that ArenaNet could have explored utilizing for the collection other than jumping puzzles. Yes, these things can be potentially skipped, but using a timegated material. I would prefer if the Skyscale acquisition was more solidly integrated into the PoF experience. I am not suggesting that the mount be acquired "now." But I think that the method of earning it does not feel entirely satisfying or thought-out, particularly from any psychological perspective. The Beetle and Griffon are both mounts earned via collections, quests, and such. These mounts are less problematic to acquire apart from the 250g gold sink for the griffon. There is a story attached to the Griffon involving the gathering of the Sunspears, Kormir, and the griffons of the Crystal Desert. You are doing particular events to help out the Sunspears. It's neat. I liked the idea that every stage of the collection would confer an additional reward other than "wait for tomorrow until you can begin the next step." Someone earlier had suggested a baby skyscale backpack. That's a good idea for a reward for finishing "Raising Skycales" that I would love to raise up. I'm sure that there are other good rewards that ArenaNet could think up for incentivizing the completion of each stage of the Skyscale collection.

I would say that contributing aspect of the frustration was that this future requirement was unknown but remained hidden behind the timegate. And people likely would have used their time during that timegate more efficiently had they known about this upcoming requirement.

Farm gold and then buy the skyscale food and/or grow lamp.

Given the environmental and global warming subtext of the Elder Dragons metaplot, should we perhaps think of the torment that drives the Elder Dragons evil/crazy/tormented to possibly being akin to magical pollution and misuse? Mortals cause the magical imbalance, and the Elder Dragons are a manifestation of both the environmental response and the pollution itself? In many respects, this makes the Elder Dragons somewhat comparable to the atomic bomb metatext of Godzilla.