#gw2 dragonstorm

[littlefoxgw2]

my favourite part of dragonstorm is the 'look ma i'm on tv' that at least one person puts up in the cutscene

[lady-quen]

No Right Choices WIP

Been scribbling away at this for the past two hours and 1) his armor can go right to hell (says the person who equipped it on him) and 2) I'm slowly wrapping up Icebrood Saga and the Raven Sanctum was intriguing. Despite not being a norn, Raven's teachings certainly resonate with Mael.

Unfortunately, the poor bastard thinks he alone should bear the burden of the most dire decisions, so things get fun later on...

[autistic-girl-academic]

so in the gw2 universe instead of the cain instinct is it the jormag instinct

[orrianreaper]

Do Public Dragonstorm at Midnight

Somehow only get four people (one leaves at second champion phase)

???

Profit?

[mistfallengw2]

The real Icebrood Saga ending (feat. @diesvitae's Saga) [old doodle from shortly after Dragonstorm was released]

[tyriantics]

Some of the people who are flying around above the battlefield when the dragons clash during Dragonstorm need to post some pics of what it looks like from up there!

[bigsnaff]

So did we ever figure out exactly why the writers decided to start calling icebrood "the frozen" during the latter half of the icebrood saga?

[mordrem-moth]

I have regrets and sprockets. But mostly sprockets.

[girlbob-boypants]

Man...IBS really wasted one of the best voice actors this game has ever had huh

[meeeeeeese]

I feel like talking about the ending to IBS so here we go (spoilers below obviously)

So I think we can all agree that the IBS ending was... pretty lackluster all things considered. It felt like they just went "our research has now suddenly shown we can now solve this problem" and then we solved it. Now the proposed solution makes sense in principal, being that dragons are creatures driven by their hunger for magic, and if cut off from all other possible sources they'll be forced to feed on each other.

However, they didn't really do enough to set this up. They didn't show that Jormag, despite their protestations, hungers for magic just as much as their brother (and one angry rant does not a magic hungry creature make). Nor did they adequately explain how the dragons were going to be cut off from magic beyond Aurene vaguely waving her claws and going "PRISMS BABY!" I need more than that arenanet!

And that not even going into the final fight being mostly the dragons staring at each other and firing off the occasional blast. I get that they don't want to fight but could nothing else have been done?

Won't talk much about after the fight because that was pretty good, no comments there.

So with all that said, how would I change it? Going to try and keep changes in the same scope because I otherwise I could just say 'restore the original scope of the story lel'.

So the main thing to ask is 'how do we get the dragons, who don't want to fight, to kill each other?' The way I'd explain it would be by exploiting their connections to their champions. They could have Aurene go

"you know being disconnected from your champion is a pretty brutal thing, the sudden absence of a connection kind of sends you into a berzerk state. I know it did when Balthazar killed you! We could use that to put the dragons in the right mindset to kill each other."

and then any prisms bs is for disconnecting the champions non-lethally since we like Braham and, i dunno, want Ryland to suffer more?

And the good thing about this alternate solution is dragonstorm can pretty much remain intact. The dragons are sitting there watching because they still don't want to fight and we're mostly fighting champions because that's our goal.

However this solution doesn't account for bringing the dragons together in the first place, which was solved in the original story by Aurene 'tugging on the ley-lines'. My solution would be to have Aurene get one up on Jormag, deceive the deceiver by pretending to submit to Jormag by offering to kill Primordus but only if they meet face to face first. At which point Aurene sucker punches Jormag through a mists portal straight onto wherever Primordus is hanging out (because, you know, she is an elder dragon and should be able to fight on equal footing with Jormag). At which point Dragonstorm things happen.

I honestly think this is better because it plays off of Jormag's sense of superiority in thinking that they always had control of the situation. I think they underestimated Aurene through the entire story. Like in dragonstorm Ryland says

and considering at the start of IBS Ryland was aboard Bangars 'Aurene is a terrible threat and needs to be opposed' train so thats gotta be something Jormag put in Rylands head.

Hell if the didn't want to make an extra story step they could have Aurene and Jormags meeting be off-screen and we only hear dialog through our champion connection while we wait for Jormag to come falling out of a mists portal. Though that would be a big shame.

TL:DR champions is bad and kinda makes no sense, how do we make it make a bit more sense?

[funfettiheart]

I love doing DS cos theres a 50/50 chance i'll be stuck staring at this wall during the final cutscene

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

Just a little thing I haven’t seen people talk about here: there’s been a rather interesting bug with soulbeasts ever since the day all the world bosses broke...

Launch pads and bouncing mushrooms now cause merged soulbeasts to swap pets mid-flight, and can sometimes temporarily bug out the UI (hiding your pet attack skills) until you mount and unmount. The pet swap part is wild though because:

1: you don’t have to have the swappable pets trait activated.

2: it effectively has no cooldown, unless you count the air time.

[restlessreveries]

Haven’t logged on to Guild Wars 2 for about a week now (aside from weekly raid squad) and tbh I feel absolutely fantastic.

That burnout got very fucking real.

[vulpixelates]

i will say that gw2 dragons have ruined me a bit for da dragons. the scale and design of them... DRAGONSTORM? unmatched. da could never even tho I desperately want them to given that it's in the damn name ahjdjska

[spiribia]

dragon’s stand -> dragonfall -> dragon’s end

[scribesofcalamity]

Clash of the Titans