SirRocket.3516 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) All we know about this ambiguous part of the game is that it's taken on the same ideas as Skiffs and Fishing. Will they be items you unlock like the portal waystation? New abilities? New Areas within other parts of the world? It's anyone's guess, but I'm curious to see what people are thinking on this one. Edited August 9, 2021 by SirRocket.3516 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Do you mean the 2 unknown masteries? Absolutely no idea. I don't know what we even need at this point. (pls don't say new races. I'm tired of this discussion.) But it can't be story related as Anet doesn't seem to spoil anything about the story this time and showing it later would still be a spoiler. I also don't see a reason to hide a second new mount. Also don't think it's related to "factions" as in luxon vs kurzick, where we go Alliance VS horde style. That would be Wvw anyway. I think the 2 masteries were not planned to come with EoD but with the delay, they have time to add them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirRocket.3516 Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 23 minutes ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said: Do you mean the 2 unknown masteries? One would assume it's related to the masteries so yeah 🙂 Just anything you might think it might be. Place your bets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) The two unnamed masteries might simply be tied to local species, like the Itzel Lore, Nuhoch Lore and Exalted Lore masteries in HoT. Or maybe one of them is related to the new Strike Missions and their Challenge Modes, similar to the Raids masteries in HoT. Edited August 9, 2021 by Fueki.4753 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) Well, we know it's some kind of technology (as stated by the Devs). Also, that it will be game-wide. I, too, am guessing it will have be one of the 2 unknown (as yet) Masteries. I think the 'green' weapons on the Siege Turtles are Dragonjade technology, as well. Edited August 9, 2021 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I doubt it's going to be a unique system like siege turtles or fishing because I think Anet would have either told us what it is or not mentioned it at all until they were ready to tell us about it. The info on the EoD page says "The Jade Wind petrified everything it touched, devestating the southeastern coastal regions. A stone sea holds no food - but it's absorbed centuries of magic. Canthan innovators have long sought practical applications for the material now known as "dragonjade". achieving solutions undreamed of elsewhere in the world." So it sounds like dragon jade is the same as the jade in GW1 (which was used as a crafting material and by NPCs for it's magical properties) but the Canthans have found more ways to use it. I noticed a while ago the boats don't seem to have sails or anything resembling a motor, but they do have a glowing green crystal near the rudder, so I'm guessing that's a power source and since it's green and from Cantha probably jade. There's also a scene in the trailer with lots of green glowing tubes and green magic flowing between them and I assume that's also supposed to be jade. (In real life not all jade is green and not all green minerals are jade, but in fiction the two usually go together.) There might be a mastery related to it, but my guess is this is going to be more of a story theme. If it is the same jade as in GW1 I'm curious about why they're now calling it dragon jade. Cantha was called the Empire of the Dragon in GW1 so maybe it's simply a dramatic way to distinguish the magical jade from the normal mineral (which I assume also exists in Tyria, in order for them to recognise what the Jade Sea had been turned into) while also claiming possession over it. But maybe it will turn out there actually is a connection to the dragons (or one dragon in particular) and then it could be a continuation (or culmination) of the on-going theme of people in Tyria trying to use dragon magic themselves and the problems that can cause. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Most likely thing right now is that it will be the currency item used in EoD ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirRocket.3516 Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, Danikat.8537 said: which was used as a crafting material and by NPCs for it's magical properties That's interesting to think. So maybe it'll be crafting and gathering related? The consensus I got from it, is that it'll be a reason to explore all of Tyria, so maybe new nodes will show up throughout different maps. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenriswolfman.5486 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 azerite, i mean jade equipment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyncale.1629 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) I was looking for a thread like this. Since it's a technology, I think it will be a new crafting path, that will be tied to Housing. That last part is just dreaming. 🙂 As a poster above me said that the skiffs seem to be powered by something using Jade, I can see bigger boats in our future, boats we can live in. Though I do not see a feature where the world is littered with humongous houseboats. I dunno, I am keeping my hopes up that the last two masteries will be something real and good, and not something horrible like 70% of the IBS masteries are. You know, a Mastery that you can only use in a small part of the world, and of which the effect is barely measurable, and completely negligible. Edited August 10, 2021 by Tyncale.1629 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flapjackson.1596 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 My guess is it'll be the primary power source for Cantha and they won't be thrilled about the idea of killing off all the dragons and turning their power source into a finite thing. Also a mastery associated with it. What would be really cool is if the waypoints there are powered by it and have a different appearance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vavume.8065 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Cybernectic jade implants GW2077 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungozen.2379 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 If we have a mastery that is tied to dragon jade/new tech/new magic then what would the tiers offer? - being able to travel using dragon jade tech (portals, transporters, the like) or perhaps augmenting existing mounts (like IBS invisible) - being able to craft with dragon jade (augmenting existing crafting) - being able to harness the power of dragon jade with new temporary or powered up skills (like the IBS orbs) These seem like the most logical touch points for a new mastery given the little we know. I also have the feeling that the last two masteries are going to offer something unexpected as a second wave of hype reveals. Perhaps another flying mount? But I temper that thought by considering they didn’t reveal the last two mastery as they tie into the story directly and would be more spoiler if revealed early. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadrine.4352 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 I think dragonjade is going to be masteries that are functional in cantha. Like the leyline gliding in hot and the vig and valor in IBS. Things we will need to use to traverse and battle in cantha. Or it could be some whole new type of added gameplay maybe the masteries will give us another level of combat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninutra.7926 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Seeing this Jade-ish technology in trailers (with a power plant of sorts?) I would imagine it's an energy source plain and simple, so this could directly tie into our skills or give us new ones. Double jumps, maybe? Walking on water? Oh that would be cool. Surfing on foot. Or maybe a skill that allows you to freeze time? See-through-walls jade sight(tm)? Build-a-Jade where you can make your own op companion? I am making stuff up, but frankly, this will probably be expansion-specific stuff instead. HoT and PoF each had threir "universal" masteries that worked in all maps, gliders and mounts respectively. I assume EoD's univeral would be the skiffs (and fishing), and that's it. Rest would be focused on expanding EoD's maps' functionality. Though so far, they have surprised me, so maybe they will surprise me again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyncale.1629 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 (edited) I think the posters above me are probably right, in that the last two masteries are tied specifically to Cantha in some way. That is why I am not keeping my hopes up on anything interesting, having seen the IBS and other LW Masteries that are tied to a specific Map. How lame would it be that we have to finish a Mastery line, just so we are able to use Waypoints in Cantha (that use Dragonjade tech). That is like having to finish a Mastery so that you can loot the full content of a Chest in a certain map. Oh wait. Edited August 14, 2021 by Tyncale.1629 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 46 minutes ago, Tyncale.1629 said: I think the posters above me are probably right, in that the last two masteries are tied specifically to Cantha in some way. That is why I am not keeping my hopes up on anything interesting, having seen the IBS and other LW Masteries that are tied to a specific Map. How lame would it be that we have to finish a Mastery line, just so we are able to use Waypoints in Cantha (that use Dragonjade tech). That is like having to finish a Mastery so that you can loot the full content of a Chest in a certain map. Oh wait. or having to finish off a mastery just to unlock the ability to loot certain drops from an event >.> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pifil.5193 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 2 minutes ago, Dante.1763 said: or having to finish off a mastery just to unlock the ability to loot certain drops from an event >.> Or "learning" how to mine 2 then 3 then 5 of a type of ore from a home instance node... 🙄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1763 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 21 minutes ago, Pifil.5193 said: Or "learning" how to mine 2 then 3 then 5 of a type of ore from a home instance node... 🙄 I may have missed that one, which? o-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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