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I miss the old fire elemental.
No to foods, yes to everything on gear.
We don't know what happened, but the Infinite Coil and the little base in Brisban both seem stable enough.
Well it was an Inquest reactor.
That's all we know for now.Colin said:
Yeah I say the Abaddon fractal deserves a petition!
Though WP reduction will just straight save me stacks of money. A literal silver lining.
Jest Chillin
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Not sure how it will give us background on the Dragons at all tbh. Unless the Inquest were somehow able to actually trap a Dragon and hook it up to the reactor, which I highly doubt, there really isn't anything to be revealed there. All it would reveal would be more about The Inquest, which is pretty meh to me personally.
I liked the idea of knowing how the defeat of Abbadon went down. The Gods are something that aren't discussed at all in GW2, so learning more about them would be awesome. Meanwhile we know the Dragons are going to continue to be addressed since they're a current problem to Tyria.
I'm gonna build an Abbadon fractal in EQN.
I went to a Champion and he said, "Son"
"I hear you want a 'curser but you ain't gettin none"
I got the blue con blues. Baby it just isn't fair.
I got the blue con blues. Can't even find me a rare.
I went to AC full of courage and hope.
And all I got was a big ol' NOPE!
I got the blue con blues. Baby it just isn't fair.
I got the blue con blues. Can't even find me a rare.
I went to CM with my hat in my hand.
Caudecus said "You'll never understand."
<chorus>
I went to TA to fight me some plant
Boss said "Sorry boy, but I just can't"
<chorus>
I went to SE way down in the mine.
Dredge said "leave or we'll take your spine"
<chorus>
I went to CoF to do a speed run.
Getting nothing but commons wasn't much fun.
<chorus>
I went to HotW where it's chlly and cold.
This lack of drops is really getting old.
<chorus>
I went to CoE to find me some loot.
Inquest said "Man, RNG don't give a hoot"
<chorus>
I went to Arah even though it's so long.
No drops there led me to write this song.
<chorus>
"I hear you want a 'curser but you ain't gettin none"
I got the blue con blues. Baby it just isn't fair.
I got the blue con blues. Can't even find me a rare.
I went to AC full of courage and hope.
And all I got was a big ol' NOPE!
I got the blue con blues. Baby it just isn't fair.
I got the blue con blues. Can't even find me a rare.
I went to CM with my hat in my hand.
Caudecus said "You'll never understand."
<chorus>
I went to TA to fight me some plant
Boss said "Sorry boy, but I just can't"
<chorus>
I went to SE way down in the mine.
Dredge said "leave or we'll take your spine"
<chorus>
I went to CoF to do a speed run.
Getting nothing but commons wasn't much fun.
<chorus>
I went to HotW where it's chlly and cold.
This lack of drops is really getting old.
<chorus>
I went to CoE to find me some loot.
Inquest said "Man, RNG don't give a hoot"
<chorus>
I went to Arah even though it's so long.
No drops there led me to write this song.
<chorus>
Enjoy your 2 weeks of lowered waypoint costs, sir.
fuck yeah. these people are just mad their candidate lost.
patch looks great from the stream. the wallet layout will be awesome for another reason. you can finally see how many of the same dungeon tokens you have.
wonder if those data mined school outfits will go in this month too. we got robbed on the swimsuits.
Man, to sacrifice lore for what will probably be not even 50 gold saved, you must be super strapped for cash.
Dumped around 250 for Evon this morning.
I think the annoyance is stemming from the lack of Lore/Guild Wars related content. Everything is 'new' and feels almost entirely different. Abbadon, as a fractal, held the promise having some of the old lore coming in. While the other is strictly more guild wars 2 stuff. I'm annoyed by that, and I can understand people being pissed at ANet. A rather real problem with the game was dangled about, and then dressed up as something else.
Of course the masses are going to vote for Kiel. She's human. She's got boobs. She's been the "Character" we interact with on the last few living world bits. Her opponent was nearly a a Lex-Luthor Charr that just popped up. Derp. And really, shouldn't maybe the human be more interested in the Human God stuff instead of you know, pissing about with an Asura explosion?
Oh well. Like most, don't really give two shits about the election. Just wanted to see that bit of lore come in.
I think the annoyance is stemming from the lack of Lore/Guild Wars related content. Everything is 'new' and feels almost entirely different. Abbadon, as a fractal, held the promise having some of the old lore coming in. While the other is strictly more guild wars 2 stuff. I'm annoyed by that, and I can understand people being pissed at ANet. A rather real problem with the game was dangled about, and then dressed up as something else.
Of course the masses are going to vote for Kiel. She's human. She's got boobs. She's been the "Character" we interact with on the last few living world bits. Her opponent was nearly a a Lex-Luthor Charr that just popped up. Derp. And really, shouldn't maybe the human be more interested in the Human God stuff instead of you know, pissing about with an Asura explosion?
Oh well. Like most, don't really give two shits about the election. Just wanted to see that bit of lore come in.
exactly. We might see it as a flashback or perhaps some sort of time travel content or something.
Eh, I mean it was clearly just a concept they threw up. I don't know how far along they were on it, but from how it sounded, it was just a concept they threw out there.
I don't see them revisiting it. Plus, they seem loathe to touch on a lot of heavy lore, so I can't see it happening in any meaningful way. The problem is that the way they designed this game is very anti-lore. I don't mean that in a bad way, necessarily, but the current system is just not built to introduce new players to older concepts. Storytelling is incredibly passive due to the lack of quests and emphasis on living story and world events. I think those are great for current events, but for a larger story they just haven't worked.
We'll see what changes they make to the living story, though.
I don't see them revisiting it. Plus, they seem loathe to touch on a lot of heavy lore, so I can't see it happening in any meaningful way. The problem is that the way they designed this game is very anti-lore. I don't mean that in a bad way, necessarily, but the current system is just not built to introduce new players to older concepts. Storytelling is incredibly passive due to the lack of quests and emphasis on living story and world events. I think those are great for current events, but for a larger story they just haven't worked.
We'll see what changes they make to the living story, though.
You can't be serious? I voted for the better character. Their mini-games and fractals will be cute for a bit but this person is probably going to be a large part of the story going forward. Gotta go with the better character.
Edit: Also, the number of shits I give for the first guild wars is 0.
The concept of the Fall of Abaddon sounds really cool, but in reality we don't know what exactly has been sacrificed other than a vague theme for a single fractal, which is in itself a very small thing. How long does it take to do 1 fractal? Not long. We're not talking about a massive amount of content and storyline here.
I think our imaginations have been running wild with "what ifs." I think some players are imagining fighting as the gods against Abaddon, or something equally cool and epic. For all we know, the fractal wouldn't show us that much cool stuff at all, and not at all what we expected. None of us are in the developers' heads. As Wooden Potatoes pointed out (I've quoted him several times in posts about this topic already, but it bears repeating), the execution may not have lived up to players' internal expectations. It may have had annoying mechanics. It might even have gotten boring after a while. How sad, for such an awesome event in the game's history to turn into "Oh god, not this one again."
And that all applies to the Thaumanova concept, so don't think I'm just picking on the one idea. I guess my point is really that we really don't know what's coming or what might have been, so there's no point in getting upset about it.
NoLootBoxDev
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but, what if Kiel dies in a tragic "accident", passing the council membership to Evon, then we realize Kiel didn't die, and she was a remnant of one of the other elder dragons, exposing Evon as one sky pirate trying to protecting Lions Ark, then having a big battle that end with a ship crashing and opening the road to Elona.
How is Kiel a better character? We generally just talk to her once in whatever new location, and then zoom. Those random text blurbs mid mission aren't a lot to go on.
And yeah, not everyone cares about the first game. Nothing wrong with that. But the game is a sequel. it is using the same world, races, history, etc. and for those of us that -were- huge fans, the connection is a bit lacking beyond the superficial stuff. The only real hope now is that whoever it was at ANet was being honest when they said more GW-related stuff was coming.
And yeah, not everyone cares about the first game. Nothing wrong with that. But the game is a sequel. it is using the same world, races, history, etc. and for those of us that -were- huge fans, the connection is a bit lacking beyond the superficial stuff. The only real hope now is that whoever it was at ANet was being honest when they said more GW-related stuff was coming.
Most likely. Still a drop of something is better than nothing.
I came back to guild wars 2 when the sanctum landed so both characters were brand new to me. Kiel is better.
I mean, I can't argue with that. Anet really stacked it against Gnashblade, who was really presented in a negative light the whole time.
Your case is probably extremely similar to most people who voted: Oh, well this character is nice, and this character sucks. Which is true. Others were voting on fractal content, in which case I'm not really sure who wanted Thumanova over Abbadon.
It's weird because I think if people were given a choice of fractals, it's a no-brainer that abbadon would win. But purely voting for characters? I would have been surprised if Gnashblade won, considering how badly he was handled.
Wowza, some peeps cared a lot more about the outcome of this election than I could've guessed!
Well anyway, it's 4 weeks reduced WP costs, not two
Vote for the zone of GAF's first champ hunt! I'll be closing the poll tomorrow.
Well anyway, it's 4 weeks reduced WP costs, not two
Vote for the zone of GAF's first champ hunt! I'll be closing the poll tomorrow.
Better yet, what if we got to Elona and found out that Kiel was the one behind the Molten Alliance because she's been corrupted by the deep sea dragon, Bubbles (and it turns out that's actually his real name, he's a very cute dragon). Your new quest is to defeat Kiel and cleanse her of the corruption from Bubbles.
And guess who has a magic plant sword that can do that!
Better yet, what if we got to Elona and found out that Kiel was the one behind the Molten Alliance because she's been corrupted by the deep sea dragon, Bubbles (and it turns out that's actually his real name, he's a very cute dragon). Your new quest is to defeat Kiel and cleanse her of the corruption from Bubbles.
And guess who has a magic plant sword that can do that!
Hope you guys are ready for the Logan/Trahearne buddy cop arc coming this fall. Here's the kicker, Kormir is the chief of police!
Everyone's favorites!
Welcome to politics.
Because nothing ever happened in Maguuma in Guild Wars 1. Not the Bloodstone, not the Temple of Balthazar, not the White Mantle's last refuge, not the Mursaat (okay, so they were in a 'dense forest', but that certainly sounds like Maguuma to me).
Also, there's no mysterious seeds that produced an entire race of tree people and oh yeah, there's definitely at least one unseen Pale Tree sprouting them
Though the reactor is Inquest in nature,we don't know what were they using to power it, or if the reactor just a front for something else?
Just because the event was recent doesn't mean it was unimportant.
Welcome to politics.
Because nothing ever happened in Maguuma in Guild Wars 1. Not the Bloodstone, not the Temple of Balthazar, not the White Mantle's last refuge, not the Mursaat (okay, so they were in a 'dense forest', but that certainly sounds like Maguuma to me).
Also, there's no mysterious seeds that produced an entire race of tree people and oh yeah, there's definitely at least one unseen Pale Tree sprouting them
Though the reactor is Inquest in nature,we don't know what were they using to power it, or if the reactor just a front for something else?
Just because the event was recent doesn't mean it was unimportant.
For me, it was less lore, and more potential setting. We've been to Thumanova, but where Abbadon would have taken place is something completely new to GW2. Oh well.
Kos Luftar
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You just did not want it hard enough. Should have spent real money then converted it into gold and bought support tokens with all that money. For sure Evon would have won.
Cliffsnotes: Either Queen's Jubilee is the last, or there will be (not necessarily right after) one more "event" which bring with it temporary story/content implications, then all of the returning event/fesitval aspects of the Living Story will be known quantities for 2014. Besides this (or these) all living story releases for the rest of the year will be focused on permanent impact.
Sometimes your humor really does it for me Kos
Complistic
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t4 always has.
Yeah, when it first came out there were only two. Three were supposed to spawn but they didn't. A few days later it was patched to fix this making it much more difficult to solo.
docbon can predict the future confirmed.
How much is the pistol skin now? I was debating on picking another one up for resale but never did, as usual.
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