#gw2 wvw memes

[meowgai]

Literally Augury Rock VS any server!

[vampiricsheep]

[the-omni-dragon-defunct]

i made this as a joke for my wvw guild but i thought  you guys may appreciate it too :P

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

4, 18, 32 for the gw2 ask meme? :D at least i think i meant those ones, my memory is short and bad dbdbdvdv.

Those have all been answered already, so here are three replacement ones!

37. What are the top three tips you would give someone just starting to play?

-ask for help! There are many many helpful people playing that game and you'll almost always get a friendly answer.

-the exit WvW button is on the bottom right of the WvW interface [B] on the top tab. (when I was a new player I was stuck in the mists for three days until I could ask my dad how to get out of there)

-the core personal story is designed to be experienced with more than one character, you're going to miss out on things if you only play though it once. No absolutely necessary to know things, but a whole bunch of who are these people things.

39. Do you stick to one character mostly or are you an altoholic?

these are my five most played charaters, who are also my five oldest characters, (though aerana is actually the newst of the five). As you can see I've spread my play time well among them. I often have specific characters for certain tasks. I do new content with Frigg first, because his is quite resilient and I am trying to have 100% exploration on every map with him anyways. Elirea is for jumping puzzles and taking screens somewhere because stealth. Charrlotte is for fractals and dungeons and helping other people in story missions because she is very tanky.

I have a specific character for every festival too.

Rp times obviously also account for a lot of that, everyone up there except Frigg is a rp character of mine.

40. What bothers you the most about the game if anything?

very flashy mount skins and those skyscale rift things all over tyria. The latter because they are in a bunch of nice screenshot spots now and annoy me and the former because they drop my frames and are so flashy!

[assortedasurathings]

Test-Firing The Classes : Initial Impressions.

Okay so , gonna Make this Brief since this is Normally about Posting Asura stuff  These are my first Impressions as to the 3 new classes.  Forenote : I played a Power Build on All Classes, as those are the ones I’m used to. All Classes were tested in Lvl 80 Areas, and in Solo situations.  Vindicator : It’s What’s on the tin in my other posts about it. It’s a Very Xaana Class. Brutal, Fast Paced, and Without room for mistakes. CC And Condi are Brutal Counters to a Vindicator, as it seems to Lack the ability to cleanse itself of conditions or regen health Through the Shiro line fast enough. The Dodge takes some getting used to , as you’re effectively swapping Your Sword 3 For a Dodge just to have some evasion available. Could Benefit from higher baseline Endurance Regen / A Lower cooldown on the F2 Skill.  Catalyst : Not Exactly the Scrapper-lite anet was selling it as . Strong Area control Through aura generation, but Will absolutely struggle in areas Where a Fight won’t drag a bit. honestly the hammer Feels nice, But the Auto Attacks feel VERY Slow compared to The rest of the Skills. The 3 Skill being All one thing Seems.. Lackluster. It’s a Good idea in premise and theory But the Lack of Duration on the orbs Forces you to rotate Through the other elements too quickly to use any of the Slower attacks.  Brilliant Idea, Execution is a bit sloppy. The Utility skills were Wholly Negligible in most cases.  BladeSworn : This Takes some getting used to . Not as much as the Vindicator But enough that you notice it. Most people Seem to try for the 300k Slash, But I find it’s more Reasonable to Go in with smaller 30-50k Slashes. The [Burst Precision] Trait is Absolutely Necessary to mitigate the damage falloff that charging causes. The Skills seem.. There. Not particularly Overbearing and not particularly negligible. The Elite Seems to be a Must-have . which isn’t bad, Warrior Elites have been .. lacking. Aside from Rampage / Banner in WvW  Valuable, Meme Damage Is Impossible to reach in standard conditions, but the Dragon Slash utilities are pretty nice.  Much Like the Last batch, A Smooth integration of New ideas into Gw2′s Class structures and combat motion. They need some work, as expected of a beta Test, But they Feel Impactful and Entertaining to play. 

[asurashinies]

9, 18 and 34 for the GW2 asks! (:

Hi there! Thank you so much for the asks! Sorry I've take my time, I'm not as active here lately and also I kinda forget because my brain goes splooch sometimes lol

9. Whats your favourite city?

That would be the Black Citadel or Rata Sum, they are both amazingin their own ways. Love the steampunk-ish dark dirty city of the charr and the floating full of artificial gardens and lights and crystals everywhere. I can't decide on any of both, because they bring me so many memories playing this game <3

18. Do you have a favourite character from the lore?

(Tybalt Leftpaw my beloved)

Well, since I'm a player of the original Guild Wars, starting with Factions, I always loved the characters I've met in Cantha. My memory is pretty bullshit, but I have always remembered fondly Master Togo, from the Shing Jea Monastery. Also the dragon Kuunavang, when you have to go and save her from the corruption.

I also remember I always liked the tengu, the warrior trainer, Talon Silverwing

34. Weirdest map chat experience?

Oh god, I was about to tell about a WvW spanish player that kept trolling and calling covid a lie but that was just a troll, report and block

The good one was...

I was in Lion's Arch, back when I was playing alone without a guild. I was just running around doing nothing when I saw on the chat two guys roleplaying in spanish. Keep in mind that, up until then, I had NEVER thought about the idea of RPing in a MMO, it just hadn't crossed my mind

They were roleplaying how one of the chracters was leading the other, with a leash, to bring her into a house, calling her a pet, tying her to a bed and stuff, and I was thinking about "Ok, they are gonna do thenaughties, I should leave INMEDIATELY for my own sanity"

I went there, screamed a couple meme things and run away

The thing is, they actually gave me the idea to search for a RP guild and I found one... the one where they both were. Not only that, but the one leading the leash became the leade of the guild and also my best friend XD

When I was talking this story about those weirdos, he jumped to scream "BICTH THAT WAS ME!!". We were laughing for hours after that

[matureherbs]

soloing wvw like

[condiscum]

Guild: Party in the Mists!

Hello hello, friends! 

Right now, we’re recruiting for our guild and discord server! We’re a group of nerds who enjoy all types of content ranging from gw2 to gw1, casual to intense, in-game to out of game, pve to pvp/wvw, and of course, story story story. We love chatting and memeing, sharing our creative works, and helping each other with all sorts of things! 

The in-game guild is in its baby days and is in the NA region server. However, our discord isn’t restricted by server region, and also includes some LFG for GW1. We’d love to chat with you regardless of where you’re at, or how frequently you’re in game with us! Perhaps if we get enough EU buddies, we can create a guild version over there too!

If you’re interested, please click here and tell us about yourself! [x] Its mostly a formality to filter out bots and trolls that come along with publicly posted discord links, but it also gives us an opportunity to get to know you better!

This might miss the main tags because external links [heavy sigh], so please pass it around. Thanks, guys! I hope to see you all soon!

[thesylvanhound]

2,8, 21, 26 for the GW2 asks?

2. What was your first characters race/class (profession)?

sylvari/thief because i liked sneaky sneaks. sword/pistol dodge supremacy

8. Whats your favourite zone?

oh hmmm, never actually thought about this one.

-visually, rata sum is beautiful, especially at night when you can see the galaxy skybox.

-playstyle-wise, i've really come to enjoy verdant brink with mounts (i might just have stockholm syndrome on this one because i went through HoT story like 14 times to get the auric weps for the luminate's backplate)

-good-feels-wise, wvw alpine borderlands. a lot of good memories with my wvw guildies back in the day, yeeting tarnished coasters and sanctum of rall-ers 🥲

21. Favourite weapon skin?

frostfang axe always

meme-wise, zodiac chicken warhorn

26. Are there any players you look up to?

mr. woodenpotatoes

i had a chance to work with him on the cantha lore vids he was putting out but that series ended prematurely. also now that i look back on it my drawings were cringe and i felt bad that he picked me over some other skilled artists out there

[khorren]

GW2 Meme

Tagged by the every-lovely @pr-gw2​ <3  As for tagging others if you wanna do it, or even parts of it, make it an Ask thing, or do one a day, go nuts. Sharing stuff is fun!

   Favorite living world season? Probably LS 4. Definitely a lot of repeatable content here that I go back to fairly often. Don't really go back to do LS3 stuff. LS5 is shaping up nicely, and curious to see where it goes from here.

   Favorite expansion? I play HoT more, but I prrrrrobably like PoF more. It's more fun to explore, has more life to it.

   Favorite soundtrack? Two favourite tracks from the game will always be "Over the Shiverpeaks" and "Amnoon Oasis". Really hoping for some remastered, remixed, sampled whatever version of the Factions theme tune in EoD as well. That tune slaps. As the kids would say

   First profession you played? In press beta I played  ranger, when the game launched I played ele.

   First race you played?  Press beta, norn! At launch human.

   Favorite Destiny’s Edge character?  Eir. She’s massively flawed, has done some bad things in her life, but I like her a lot.

   Favorite Dragon’s Watch character?  Canach <3

   Favorite Elder Dragon?  Eh, no particular favourite really.

   Best boss fight (story)? Really like the Kralk fight in War Eternal. That whole mission is hella cool.

   Best boss fight (fractal)? Have fond memories of Ensolyss from the Nightmare fractal just from the sheer amount of times I did it with 2 friends back when I used to do daily T4 fractals. Other than that, Frizz, the end boss in Aetherblade fractal, I really like that fight.

   Best boss fight (raid)? Only ever did one raid to open up the mastery track. It was Gors, I got a mini of him out of it :D

   PvE or PvP or RP? Going to be contrary and say WvW! But the majority of my time is open world PvE or achievement hunting or just farming metas for loot and gold. Mmmm. Stuff.

   Favorite canon couple? Logan/Rytlock. That counts. Shush.

   Favorite fanon/self made couple? I only have one self-mead couple and that's my salads Faebrynn and Teaghaann, but I don't really do anything with them. My norn guardian, Aoife, has a little human boyfriend, but he doesn't exist in game. I think they're pretty cute :3

   Favorite quote? "Like being alive more than hate undead. But maybe. Maybe we fight." A skritt says this at the waypoint for Triple Trouble, so I hear it every day. The way the line is delivered is super cute. Other favourite line is again from a Skritt, this time in Brisban that says "Don't fit. Don't need it" as its building a golem type structure that immediately turns on its new skritt owner. Skritt have some of the best lines in this game.

   Most emotional cinematic? Probably the one at the end of Living Season 2 in the shiny cave. It's a sad scene in general and 99% of the time ruined by someone's minipet.

   Favorite VA? Any skritt voice actors. I think they deliver some of the best lines. Sadly I don't know any of their VAs

   Post a fun screenshot!

My old WvW/home guild Strike Force during one of our anniversary guild character screenshots. I had a lot of good times with that guild before it all went tits up. But yeah, doing this was fun.  

Post a landscape screenshot!

   Most used mount(s)? Jackal, Griffon, Skyscale

   Favorite mount skin (for every mount you have)? Raptor: Gallant Lightbearer Springer: Elonian Jackalope Skimmer: Dajkah Lantern Jackal: Twin Sands / Shrine Guardian Beetle: Trailblazer Warclaw: Savage Gladiator Griffon: Spotted Sylph / Starbound Skyscale: Shimmerwing

   Favorite weapon? Juggernaut. Not the most beautiful weapon in the game but one that means the most to me as it was funded by the Jade Quarry WvW community back in 2013 :)

   Favorite gear set? As far as full sets go, the T3 Norn cultural will always be my fave. Heavy -> Medium -> Light in that order.

   Favorite title? Still a big fan of God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals. There really isn't one that encompasses so much done in GW2.

   Something you worked really hard to get? My legendary collection probably? 32 legendaries made. Woo.

   Favorite GW2 Youtuber / GW2 related video?

While not specifically GW2, my favourite guild wars franchise video will always be "Nobody likes you, Kormir"

  Most used miniature? Mini SAB Assassin, Pet Rock, Maraca Choya are the main 3 I have out.

   Most used novelty? The kites from the Casino for the most part, or the Norn lodge chair.

   Number of achievments points? 34,368. Next living story should give me enough stuff to get to 34.5k Hoping to see 35k before EoD but we’ll see. :)

   Something you’d love to see in GW2? Housing! I'd love to see it BDO style where the houses are fixed in the world and any number of people can just go up to the building and pick your name / address from the list. I'd like it tweaked (of course) with more privacy permissions, have it so guildies or mutual friends can interract with fun items inside. Expand the scribe system to have more items and whatnot, I think it can be pretty fun. Housing for everyone, basically. Don't make it a finite resource like FF14/Archeage, cos that sucks. A little indoor/outdoor patch would be nice.

[xaeneron]

On Path of Fire

I haven’t done one of these in a while (or rather I wrote them and then forgot to post them lel), so maybe I’ll actually post this one for the new GW2 expansion after spending the week running around.

Overall, I found the expansion to be pretty solid; the maps are beautiful, the mounts are hilarious and well-implemented, the story was interesting and decently paced, and I’m still experimenting with the new elite specs.  Massive spoilers below the cut!

Questions on anything I wrote, thoughts of your own?  Feel free to boop me; I know I wrote a lot.  

But really, don’t say I didn’t warn you.  There are a LOT of bullet points beneath that cut.  xD

On the maps

Obligatory: they are huge.  It’s fitting since they were designed against HoT’s verticality and more geared towards the use of mounts, so it’s more of an observation, less of a complaint.  There’s a lot of detail and a lot of little things here and there, and it’s incredibly fun to see what you can get away with using mounts to get around the terrain.

That being said I do miss the verticality of HoT maps.  Maybe a combination of both pls? :3

I kind of wish there were more large obvious meta events, but I haven’t gotten to see all of the sort of meta events that go on in the PoF zones. I do think the large metas add replay value, but again a balance is a good thing.

We spur-of-the-moment yolo’ed the Ruptured Heart meta with 11 people.  It was actually pretty fun.  Also so many cannonades ;-;

Hearts feel like they take just a little bit too long.  Some of them are amusing, but when trekking through zones doing map comp (or redoing hearts to get collection items) they drag on a bit.  Guild chatter about hearts was fantastic though:

“These nobles are useless.  What should I do with the chamber pot, throw it off the side or throw it at one of them?”

“I’m throwing flowers at people and making them happy?”

“Matchmaker heart best heart.”

Bounties are hilariously fun?  Sometimes you get unfortunate bullshit combinations of modifiers (anti-stacking fleas + pls stack in the bubble to actually be able to hit the boss mob, I’m looking at you), but overall they’re quite fun.  We spent a good few hours trekking through all five zones murdering things and getting murdered.

These actually look super promising for replayability; our goal/challenge as a group has always been to optimize and work together, so it should be fun to go track down bounties and see what kind of dumb shenanigans we can get up to.

I actually find these really fun in small groups of 5-10.  Zergs sound...unfun.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The caffeinated skritt is...kind of annoying.  Mostly because it doesn’t operate like the treasure mushroom in HoT and you have to be on the class you want the collection item on, and the maps are so large someone could trigger a chest and no one would be the wiser.

A tip though for people wanting to complete multiple collections: you only need to loot the last bag it drops.  If you’re wandering around with friends and they’re nice enough to chill at the bag, you can reload with other characters and grab the bag again for another collection item (until it despawns).  I have no idea if this was intended, but I burned a few TP to friends on this for the lulz.

I had a lot of GW1 feels running through these maps, especially going down to the Desolation and Vabbi.  I appreciate that these places still exist but have changed with the years, and it’s nice to see what happened.  

Although Vabbi is one weird-ass place now.

BUUUUUUT Zomoros’ lair was hilarious.

I haven’t explored for the sake of exploring in a very long time and it was really, really nice.

CHOYA PINATA.

On the elite specializations

I haven’t actually gotten to try all of them yet, but I’m also not super enthused about all of them (Spellbreaker, I’m looking at you).  Also a gentle reminder that my opinions are mainly based on my background as a PvE player and moreso as a raider.  Also they’re just initial opinions.  Opinions change.  

I started with thief (duh), and proceeded to do the entire story with Daredevil.  I’m not particularly a fan of Deadeye; I appreciate the archetype but I don’t really see rifle having a place with a game designed more around active response in combat.  Also as someone who still can’t shake the seaweed salad dance, rifle just feels really static and dull to me.  But we’ll see.  Maybe I’ll have to make the Predator hue. D/D Deadeye also felt strange, so idk.  But we’ll keep fiddling with it.

Mirage still feels kind of odd but I need to get poor Naois the spec since he’s actually specced for condi, unlike Eet.  It seems like an upgrade to condi mesmer, and the triple blink is hilarious.

I really hope Scourge ends up with some sort of place.  Initial benchmarks look hilarious (but then, so did Soulbeast/Weaver/Firebrand ones), but I took out Richter again for Scourge and I’m actually really happy to play him again.  It’s been so long ;-;

My brother told me, “do yourself a favor and put down a sand shade near some enemies, then press F4.”  I tried it.  I laughed pretty hard.

Weaver is so much button-pressing but it’s really fun?  I’m still getting the hang of it but I do like it a lot.  At least it’s more challenging than condi tempest. *grumbles eternally*

Soulbeast looks promising, although I hope it doesn’t lead to another “let’s use condi ranger/thief on absolutely everything” situation again.  The new pets are also...interesting.  

Although when it comes to ranger I’m a druid at heart, so we’ll see.  Not that I’m usually conscripted for DPS roles anyway

Firebrand looks silly.  And broken.  I’m all for alternative sources of quickness (and alacrity in the case of other specs), but I don’t really want to see raid meta go to 2x PS 2x druid 2x chrono 2x firebrand (or something like that) with only 2 flex spots.  That doesn’t sound fun at all.

Also I’m guessing Firebrand will be the first to get the nerfbat.  The damage numbers people are getting are bonkers.

And hey look, they got the nerfbat.  Down to 33-35k.  At least that’s better than 50k? Ugh.

Renegade feels pretty decent.  Revenant has always been in a weird “built around elite specs” class, and that hasn’t changed.  I’m not sure how I feel about condi rev being more of a thing and less of a meme, but ayyy

Holosmith seems like it would be a lot more relevant if the transform wasn’t currently borked.  Scaling damage to a level 76 fine weapon is...sad.  If it’s fixed power Holosmith could be something legit?  Maybe?  Overall though I like the theme and look of it.  Also lol lightsaber.

Spellbreaker I...idk.  Thematically I like it a lot; I was a big fan of mesmer and shut down mechanics in GW1 and I like the idea of Spellbreaker, but from a mostly PvE perspective, it’s just kind of...eh? WvW and PvP I see it being incredibly useful but with limited boons to nom in PvE it doesn’t really look particularly great (especially with condi berserker getting tuned through the roof).

On mounts

I keep dyeing them funny colors.  Yes Quill’s are all some shade of yellow.

I honestly think they were well done.  I was never a supporter of adding them to the game (not against, but not for them either), but now that they’re here, I’m pretty okay with them.  

I like that each mount is useful in some specific capacity - raptor for flat open stretches, springer for verticality, skimmer for no touchy floor, jackal for portals and evasion through high mob density areas, and griffon for the absolute lulz of flying.  

I keep getting the “mount doesn’t render so your character model is riding away sunk in the ground while your camera remains in place” bug (I think it’s attached to trying to mount up before things are completely loaded), and while it’s funny, it’s kind of frustrating.

Mount swapping is a bit awkward, although binding each mount to its own key helps a lot.

I appreciate that the starting mount (the raptor) is still relevant even when you pick up the other three (four), as it’s definitely the fastest mount on flat ground and it’s improved leap is hilariously long.

Also it’s a giant scaly puppy so I have no problems with this.

The springer is hilarious.  And super terrain-breaking.  High cliff?  No problem, bunny hop.  Core and HoT map comp probably just got much, much simpler.  Also JPs that don’t have mount restrictions.

The skimmer is adorable, and riding it around is strangely...calming?  idk.  Also as one of my guildies put it: “maybe this is Anet’s answer to underwater combat: glide right over it.”  rip.

Of the four core mounts I think the jackal (blink doge) is my favorite.  It has a gorgeous design and the blink/portals are super cool.  Although the blink can get a bit titchy if you’re trigger happy with the jump button.

Of course I have the griffon.

IT’S SO FLUFFY.

I think it handles a little strangely (esp when you can’t dismount quickly, although you can divebomb), but it’s pretty solid.  And adorable.

250g was entirely worth it.

Also that Tahlkora cameo hit me right in the feels.

On the story

I’d get here eventually!  Eventually...;-;

All salad-shaped biases aside, the male sylvari VO is still my favorite and no one can convince me otherwise.  There was a good amount of sass, seriousness, and everything inbetween.  Ive is one to take everything with a “hahahaha you’re kidding what am I doing here help,” so overall the voice acting and dialogue fit him fairly well.

I’m a little disappointed by the lack of race-specific dialogue.  Humans don’t seem to have any special dialogue with or concerning Balthazar, and everyone else doesn’t really have a chance to comment as an outsider.  I know it’s more work and I still enjoyed the story as is, but it would have been a nice touch.

Like Ive would literally not give a shit about half of the things brought up.  Not because he doesn’t care about others, but because he has no clue what anyone is talking about.

This was particularly funny with Joko in the Domain of the Lost, because his whole tirade about the PC not knowing who he is could quickly be shut down with “I’m a salad, I have no idea who the fuck you are.”

The “decisions” were interesting, although unsurprisingly they had very little impact on the game as a whole (maybe in the future?  Doubt it).  I did appreciate that depending on the order the “decide on Amnoon’s independence” steps are done in, the dialogue changes.

I admit that I’ve gotten a little less partial to Taimi as she’s edged closer to Deus Ex Machina territory, but her dialogue and conversations (both with the PC and with others like Phlunt later on) are quite funny.

I wish there were more Vlast/Gleam before he died.  It’s sad that he showed up and just...died, but I can understand why they chose that path as well.  

Although some of that was my own fault; the chapter with the Exalted and Vlast’s upbringing I got supremely distracted by the jumping puzzle and spinning around on my new skimmer.

Still.  More Vlast!

RYTLOCK.  RYTLOCK WHY.  Nice job breaking it hero.  Surely you would know better than to accept help in the Mists from a random shackled man who CONVENIENTLY knows how to relight your magic sword.  Sigh.

I thought a lot about the Herald of Balthazar after finding the notes in Night of Fires.  I went back to it after talking to my brother and came to a very similar conclusion as a theorizer on the GW2 subreddit.  If that theory is true, that makes me very sad.

Pls say it’s true I like gut-punch feels.

Speaking of gut-punch feels, The Departing was amazing.  It was super disorienting not having access to the inventory or the minimap, but it was a very well-done instance and I enjoyed it immensely.  I appreciated that they stuck to the “you lost your name and purpose” thing to the point of replacing your character name (including in the hero panel) with Lost Spirit.

Balthazar murdering the PC was pretty neat. 

Also Aurene showing up exactly on time was both cliche and NO BALTHAZAR BAD STAY AWAY FROM BABY DRAGON. 

This, like a few other story missions later on, is super awkward to do as a group.  It’s supposed to be rather personal, and so the not-instance owners are reduced to buffing wisps (like later on in the thrall party instance, not-instance owners are just awakened thralls), and idk I was lucky I was instance owner but that seems rather :|

Ive had a lot of feels hearing everyone’s voices again.  Also the feels of him not exactly remembering everything and having to follow his purpose through his own memories and not quite remembering everything.  Including Trahearne.  

Also tfw the story mission is essentially Full Circle (as a sub-section of Closure) with a bit of bonus Balthazar.

Joko is being very obviously set up as a “you left me in a cage I swear vengeance rahhhhhh” villain.  Or Anet is going to pull a fast one and he will never show up again, which would be hilarious.

Bonus feels for everyone else surviving and Ive being the only one dead (think Eet).

Backtracking slightly, I’ve never liked Kormir.  I still don’t like Kormir.  And the human gods are miserably terrible people.  At this point there’s not much questioning as to whether or not they exist, but with the extent of their influence, their decision to just kind of peace is...rather appropriately god-like, for better or for worse.

Seriously though, gods pls.  I can see some of the logic of “world will be destroyed anyway if god attempts to fight god,” but surely there are other things that need be maintained.  

Also I like how Kormir notes that Balthazar had been stripped of his powers, and yet he still curbstomps the PC (unless it was entirely the imprisonment in the Mists that just locked his powers away, but Kormir’s dialogue suggests otherwise).

I would kill for a library like that.  Seriously.  So jelly.

The “let’s disguise ourselves as the Archon and go and convince Palawa Joko’s army to fight for us” part was so incredibly stupid that of course it worked.  We spent the entire time laughing at how incredulous it was.

The battle at Kodash Bazaar was actually kind of awesome?  There was stuff everywhere and my only inclination for the first part of the instance was “go hit things.”  

It was incredibly weird to just have Sohothin for the entire instance.  Yes I’m aware I could have dropped it.  But it was hilarious in a Caladbolg sort of way.  With less idiotic knockback, and more 300s cooldown skills.  

AURENE.  Balthazar stop hurting my dragon >:(

Also because he just yolo killed her other brother before she had a chance to meet him in person?  rip.

Although now that I think about it, how would that meeting even go?  Talking to the Exalted indicates that Vlast was isolated and not well-acclimated to the world around him, so by the time they realized he should be interacting with other races it was too late for him to form any empathy for anyone.  His dialogue seems to imply that his motivation was simply the fulfillment of a goal; he seemed far more interested in fulfilling his legacy as Glint’s son than the reason why she needed him and Aurene to do anything in particular.  He doesn’t really have a reason for what he’s doing, he just does.

Aurene is implied to have an empathic link with Vlast similar to her connection to the PC, but idk, it just seems like any actual meeting between the two of them would just be incredibly awkward.

I very much enjoyed both the penultimate and ultimate fight against Balthazar.  Also because if you turned around, you could see Kralkatorrik’s massive face just chilling in the sky because oh shit angry elder dragon.  It was...quite something.

I understand the PC’s current caution about killing elder dragons because of magic imbalance, and I also understand the need to stop Balthazar from being a total moron.  I also understand that there’s not much you can do to stop a mad god besides killing him (since those with the means to imprison him decided to float on).  But uh.  I’m not sure what anyone expected would happen if you kill the god who absorbed two dragons’ worth of magic with another dragon just chilling nearby.  Surely Kralkatorrik absorbing everything and flying off into the sunset while extending the Brand wasn’t a surprise.  

Seriously though what did you think was going to happen.

Baby dragon absorb magik and is not quite so baby anymore.  Aurene come back I miss you already ;-;

I commend you if you actually read all of that.  xD

Overall, a solid expansion with quite a bit of content.  We’ll see how replayable it ends up being as time goes on, but I am still quite amused by it and have plenty to do as it stands.  The story was fairly solid (although sometimes strange with questionable logic, as always), and I’m looking forward to where they take it with LWS4.  

[meowgai]

Anthem to all of the unfriendly toxic retards on WvW who dislike Charr RP

[awakenedsylvari]

gw2 ask meme: 1, 2, 3, 17, 18, 20, 28, 39

1. Fave race?

sylvari! i love my weird gay plant children who glow. their culture is so interesting, they’re all gorgeous, and they give me an excuse to use really difficult welsh names.

2. Fave profession?

thief! i have two thieves right now - one who uses dual pistols, and one who uses dagger/pistol and a shortbow. i love the initiative mechanic, i love ‘signet of malice’, and i love being able to go ultra-fast on keelie.

3. Fave weapon?

on thief, it’s pistols all the way. it does depend on class, really - though i do also have a soft spot for greatswords.

17. Your glider?

i just have the plain one for all my characters, nothing special. i think i’d like the classical glider, in all honesty.

18. Your favorite mode? PvE, PvP or WvW?

i tried proper non-festive pvp once, and let me tell you, i’m never doing it again. wvw seems cool and less intimidating, but not much less intimidating - there’s so much stuff you have to know, and so many more people to disappoint.

so, pve is my favourite. i like exploring and discovering on my map completion character, and i also find it really relaxing to 100% the human or sylvari starting areas.

20. Your favorite map?

queensdale, i think. i know it really well, and i think it’s just gorgeous.

28. What is your favorite legendary weapon?

legendary weapons scare me, ngl. astralaria is super pretty though.

39. Your favorite non-playable race?

skritt!!! i love skritt a lot. they’re really quite endearing, and i love the hodge-podge architecture of where they live.

[cryptid-murellow]

questions with numbers ending in 3

meme; gw2 asks

3. Fave weapon?

excluding legendaries, the glittering sword is my favorite purely because of aesthetics. that, or the glittering axe..the whole collection is beautiful tbh.

13. Your main character’s weapon? (Type)

staves! more specifically, the ravenswood branch and warden staff. my character tends to alternate between the two depending on his outfit (he has to match!)

23. Your wvw rank, if you play wvw?

don’t have one since i’ve never played wvw.

33. Your favorite ship?

marjory and kasmeer are my favorite couple as far as canon characters go!

43. How are you using it? If you don’t have one, imagine.

in reference to the commander  tag - i don’t have one, but if i did i guess i’d use it to point people towards events? or if i ever needed help with a boss, or something. that’s what i see them used for anyways.

[meowgai]

КАК ТЕБЕ ТАКОЕ, ИЛОН МАСК?

[meowgai]