Tyson.5160

> @"Castigator.3470" said:

> Does this allow us to conclude that Palawa Ignaciuous Joko was indeed an elonian noble, son to a diplomat, but ultimately a courtier?

> Still he's the one to commission love letters to himself, since nobody else would. It also indicates that he was a contemporary of Oswald Thorn, so he most likely did not witness the time of the Gods or even seen an Elder Dragon in the flesh. Still, he was a very keen necromancer, his expertise in raising the undead allowed him to rule a Kingdom and crush all opposition.

> Unfortunately for him, the commander is not someone who's looking for rivals, but a Human/Sylvari/Asura/Charr/Norn on a mission to save the world. He'll have to spend his time in the Mists with his childhood rivals. I'm sure he'll fit right in.

He actually talks about here that he made up the birth of the gods bit as shown here.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Scourge_of_Vabbi%27s_To-Do_List

He also had a teacher in the necromatic arts. There is still no explanation on the “lichness” perhaps it’s a secret ability his teacher knew.

So you can read some of the books following the new Halloween collection. Has done interesting details of Jokos past.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thorn%27s_Trophy_Shelf

> @"Gop.8713" said:

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > I still firmly believe ANET won't try to fix something they do not think is broken and serving the purpose it was intended for.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry for not understanding the purpose of this change. Can you detail please?

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> > > > > > > > > > > High item prices force Gem purchases to convert them to gold. Simple as that. Not everyone has 200-300g available on the getgo, but they might have their credit card ;)

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> > > > > > > > > > That’s just speculation that people make whenever something has a higher price than they’d prefer.

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> > > > > > > > > Lol.. speculation. Are you trying to say this isn't... last time I checked ANET were a business not a charity, therefore

> > > > > > > > > Everything in game has some kind of revenue opportunity attached to it, but this is more aggressive and without a fixed price for the collection it has made it stupidly unfair across the playerbase.. I am of the mind this is just one of the reasons that actual completion is slow, players are not impressed with the lack of opportunity to reliably source their own supply of sigils and rather than pay a manipulated price they are simply leaving it to chance in game or lost interest in even trying. ANET on the other hand may of thought if the completion could be slowed sufficiently long enough, players wouldchoose to give in and buy gems to convert, which of course may still happen but that is the risk this kind of power steer brings and personally I hope it ends up biting them hard enough to make them reconsider future game design in the future.

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> > > > > > > > It’s speculation to assume that they intentional make in-game items have a certain price to drive gem->gold sales.

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> > > > > > > It would be without evidence, but given the facts at hand it's a rational conclusion to draw. Lots of rational conclusions are incorrect ofc, but it's as viable an explanation as any that has been presented . . .

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> > > > > > True that it is a rational conclusion. Have we seen any cases where this turned out to be true?

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> > > > > Ofc. The griffon collection motivated gem sales, and impressively so . . .

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> > > > Source?

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> > > Observation . . .

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> > Not a source. I’m also curious how you were able to observe every gem->gold transaction bought with money for the sole purpose of acquiring the griffin mount?

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> > Otherwise there is about as much credibility of that be true as any of the other accusations about such and such are at a price to fuel gem sales.

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> > When I asked if there were any cases that turned out to be true, I was referring to something backed behind facts and not just more speculation.

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> Observation is not only a source but it is actually our primary source for all information. I'm curious as to why you would believe that access to every gem to gold transaction would be necessary to draw a conclusion about what was motivating gem sales . . .

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> When I gave you the example that you asked for, I thought you were looking for information not just an excuse to argue . . .

It’s much like a witness or police statement in court, it counts as evidence.

> @"Konig Des Todes.2086" said:

> > @"Tyson.5160" said:

> > I always figured the Pale Tree and possibly the last king of Orr would replace Mordremoth and Zhaitan. One of the reasons I thought this was how Sadizi in the Way Forward described the replacements as entities rather then dragons.

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> But ghosts go mad when exposed to a lot of magical energy. The Pale Tree will likely be fine, but Reza would suffer the same fate as the bounties.

Leaves a bit of a pickle on who could replace Zhaitan.

I always figured the Pale Tree and possibly the last king of Orr would replace Mordremoth and Zhaitan. One of the reasons I thought this was how Sadizi in the Way Forward described the replacements as entities rather then dragons.

> @"deatine.2498" said:

> It only rubbed my the wrong way that _I_ called him Kralk. Or even Kralky, idk, I refuse to remember. I would never do that. PC should keep more neutral expressions.

> Am I the only one who has no problem remembering and pronouncing the name? Then again I'm German, we love long words with hard letters.

Nah, seems simple enough to me, given how many times it’s spoken during the game.

> @"Grogba.6204" said:

> I wouldn't mind mag shards if they are shared between modes. If you plan to grab the legendary armor you swim in them before long anyway and the skins are expensive enough that you'd still have to play four weeks for one of them. At least they allow you to buy ascended gear without much hassle.

You could also lock the weapon skins to normal mode too and just have the minis available.

> @"Ana.2415" said:

> I don't mind if they add a easy mode to raids, but they shouldn't give any achivement, KP, li's or reward. It wouldn't be fair to get similar rewards and li's than the people doing normal/hard mode. The rewards of the current raids are already "low".

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> I have the feeling that most of the people that are asking for "easy" mode wouldn't even do them if there is no rewards or if u can't get the legendary insights doing that.

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> edit: if they get magnetite shards, you should only get 50 per week max. if you do them on easy mode.

I think an easy mode deserves some rewards, but the main Legendary Armor collection should be reserved for normal etc. I’m fine with even supplying a finite amount of mag shards per week.

> @"norbes.3620" said:

> > @"Tyson.5160" said:

> > I’m also wondering if Kralkatorrik could have branded the awakened before absorbing Zhaitan’s death sphere or if just another ability of the death magic, since the awakened are technically dead. Would be interesting to see if Kralkatorrik makes more use of the mind sphere he consumed from Mordremoth.

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> it's already mentioned that the branded achieved some more advanced Kind of hivemind compared to pre mordremoths death

> (somewhere during an Event/ Story while raiding the dice with the olmakhan)

Yeah, no I realized that, hence why I said more use of the mind sphere. We see Kralk using Death Magic a lot in Season 4.

Seems that when Kralk raises a minion from the dead they become a death branded minion. Can kinda see this with the Shatterer, death branded centaur and Hierarch Chikere (who got killed, again). We don’t seem to see the regular awakened that are branded as death branded.

> @"Lord Trejgon.2809" said:

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> > > > > Balthazar we were being assisted by both an Elder Dragon and the granddaughter of an Elder Dragon after losing a "1v1 me bro" fight. We also hijacked Joko's army to fight Balthazar's.

> > > > Kralkatorrik did not assist you during the Balthazar fight and Aurene was still a whelp, presumably much weaker than her older brother who was one-shot by Balthazar.

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> > > Actually you can see Kralkatorrik fighting during the fight against balthazar.

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> > He is during the Warbeast battle, not in the actual 1 vs 1 fight.

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> you mean the one where commander dies?

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> or the one after warbeast is destroyed? (from what I recall kralk keeps bombarding that platform even after warbeast itself is wrecked)

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> btw as for vlast being oneshotted by balthazar - it is not true - before we even arrive on scene vlast was involved in combat against the god of war. at least as long as it takes you to defeat the herald. and the killing blow happens only because vlast decides to sacrifice himself to safe commander.

During Beast of War, Kralkatorrik fights back. During to kill a god, he doesn’t.

> @"Lavith.8930" said:

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> > > Balthazar we were being assisted by both an Elder Dragon and the granddaughter of an Elder Dragon after losing a "1v1 me bro" fight. We also hijacked Joko's army to fight Balthazar's.

> > Kralkatorrik did not assist you during the Balthazar fight and Aurene was still a whelp, presumably much weaker than her older brother who was one-shot by Balthazar.

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> Actually you can see Kralkatorrik fighting during the fight against balthazar.

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He is during the Warbeast battle, not in the actual 1 vs 1 fight.

I’m also wondering if Kralkatorrik could have branded the awakened before absorbing Zhaitan’s death sphere or if just another ability of the death magic, since the awakened are technically dead. Would be interesting to see if Kralkatorrik makes more use of the mind sphere he consumed from Mordremoth.

I mean, if you have cash to burn, just buy gems, zero effort involved.

> @"Arden.7480" said:

> > @"Aaron Ansari.1604" said:

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> > > Which are the colors in the crucible?

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> > Red for Primordus, white for Jormag, black for Zhaitan, violet for Kralkatorrik, green for Mordremoth, and blue for Selbbub. If you want to call PoF 'the Kralkatorrik expansion', that's a 66.7% correspondence between the logo and the related ED so far... but that's only going to work for so long as an ED has a prominent role to play in a given expansion. We could, for instance, get a white logo because Cantha changed their national colors to reflect the influence of the Ministry of Purity, and get a whole expansion based off that without so much as a single icebrood.

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> Kralkatorrik had not a big part in PoF, although the Season/s following after the expansions extend the lore of the expansions. The expansions end one plot, but they also give the aftermath that are happening during the Seasons. (PoF and Season 4 colors are purple).

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> So PoF's logo should present Balthazar in the number 2 because of Balthazar that was absolutely the main character in this expansion, but he wasn't because the dragons will always be in GW2's logos, because the Dragons were, are and will be the main focus. We went to fight Balthazar, right? But we knew how _purple_ those territories are.

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> I mean that Expansion 3, 4 and so forth will have a dragon in the logo, even if we will go to Cantha and don't really touch the story of any of the Dragon.

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I suspect there will be some dragon involvement should we go to Cantha. What form or shape will that take is hard to say.

I know the devs didn’t want to fall into a pattern of major releases and expansions of build up an army, fight and kill a dragon, which is pretty much the formula for the original release and Heart of Thorns. Path of Fire differs because we are getting information and details on Kralkatorrik, but we are not building an army up to fight him, we are hijacking one to save an Elder Dragon, which I think was a nice twist. Plus it introduces us to the physical form of Kralkatorrik. If we manage to kill Kralkatorrik at the end of a season, that is still in a different formula because we are doing this in a living world season, rather then an expansion, which is pretty exciting.

He always had tendrils, except the fight was bugged on release and was patched approximately a month or two later. The original fight Zhaitan sat there and did nothing while you blasted him with cannons. Now a days he has poison spray fields and knock downs as well as the Bone and Zhaitan Tendrils to deal with. They are really neat looking. Spawn after Zhaitan reaches approximately 50% health. Bone tendrils also spawn too. Fight is actually a bit better when you have to clear those suckers before jumping back on the cannons.

Given the dialogue from shattered nation:

Braham Eirsson: Seems like it took a lot out of her, though. Collapsed right there in the summit room.

Character name: Collapsed? Do you think it's because of...?

Braham Eirsson: Eating Joko would give anybody indigestion, but... Maybe she's just trying to do too much.

Looks like eating Joko just gave her an upset tummy and that’s about it.

Was is kinda neat is that potentially, Aurene will be housing the magic of all three villains of PoF.

> @"Pirindolo.9427" said:

> > @"Tyson.5160" said:

> > Let’s see what this Tuesday brings.

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> Another tuesday, you mean?

It’s the only hope I cling to.

> @"Tails.9372" said:

If it's "prestige" you're after you should ask A-Net for some high difficulty solo content.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Liadri_the_Concealing_Dark

I thought this was well done.

Problems vary from person to person. A problem to one person means absolutely nothing to another. There are solutions that have been suggested even on the main forum thread regarding this particular area.

Perhaps once we have a good chunk of Raids complete perhaps 10 or so, they could go back and make adjustments. Eventually the fractals team will be finished building new fractals and it could be a potential project for them.

Drooburt to the rescue.

> @"Gop.8713" said:

> I feel like if they were going to fix it it would have been last Tuesday. Once Halloween comes ppl will forget about this and move on to the next thing . . .

Maybe it’s more complex then we realize.

I think people get turned off by the time investment sometimes too. I know I personally sank a butt load of time into some of these raids, and at the end of day, I only had a few things to show for it.

Let’s see what this Tuesday brings.

> @"Kitarpa.8143" said:

> Honestly I feel like a lot of the gen 1 legendaries are much better compared to the later released ones in the expansions. Aside from maybe like Nevermore because its effects/theme is so unique as is imo, but with that being said I'd still go with bifrost. I feel like the effects on some of the new weapons are more toned down compared to gen 1.

Nevermore is a beautiful Legendary, what’s a bit of a downside is the footfalls are so short! You can barely tell they are there. It’s very similar for the first 4 Gen 2 Legendaries they made and seem to have gotten better starting from Eureka on, though Eureka’s footfalks are a tad on the shorter side too.

> @"Dante.1763" said:

> > @"Tyson.5160" said:

> > Yeah Minstrel, got a draw effect, footfalls and an arm aura added, all at one time. I think Frostfang is mainly missing a draw effect, which would do wonders.

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> Forgive me im wrong, but Kudzu, Frostfang, Howler, the UW weapons and...the pistol, dont have a full set of effects do they? I forget if the greatswords do or not, the hammer i believe does and I know Zap, Incinerator, Minstrel, Predator, FS Prophecy's have a full set of effects.

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> edit: forgot the the torch(rodgorts) and the Mace(Moot) i never see them so i have no clue if they do or not.

Kudzu has everything. Draw effect, footfalls arm aura. Howler has a full body effect and footfalls. I think Quip has everything except instead of an arm aura , however instead you get a full body purple aura. Rodgort doesn’t have a draw effect so it’s similar to Frostfang. The GS don’t have an arm aura, but have a full body aura. Oh and Moot doesn’t have an arm aura.

The UW are a bit weird too, I think there is a draw effect and then different aura.