Eekasqueak.7850

> @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > @"lakdav.3694" said:

> > Blish being shut down at the beginning of Long Live the Lich was a harrowing experience for him, and he was shut down like this for what... hours maybe? Now I don't know how much time is going to pass between Episode 4 and 5 (with Caithe's cliffhanger considered), but I have a pretty strong feeling that anything more than a week would be maddening. If at any point we recover the golem body and try to restart the higher functions... we might not get Blish back.

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> I think it is poor story writing. If you power down a machine nothing happens in it anymore, so it cannot have any experiences while being shut down.

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> Also it should have been possible to do constant backups of Blish. That should be easy enough since he was an anorganic machine now (magnitudes easier than turning him into a golem in the first place). If Blish is so smart they should have just build thousands of golems with his neural network data and go for a technological singularity.

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What makes you think it'd be easier to make a sapient consciousness from scratch rather than transfer souls in a setting like this? It's confirmed that Inquest looked into putting people into golems and the reason regular Asurans don't do it is because of how unethical it is. IIRC golems themselves involve binding souls of elementals into them to begin with. Remember it's magi-tech not sci fi.

> @"DragonSlayer.1087" said:

> Jalis - Dwarf

> Mallyx - Demon

> Ventari - Centaur

> Shiro - Human

> Glint - Dragon

> Kalla - Charr

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> Jora - Norn

> Snaff - Asura

> Caderyn - Sylvarri

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For Asura I'd want Zinn or Gadd.

> @"Konig Des Todes.2086" said:

> > @"derd.6413" said:

> > could you give examples of these contradictions (it's been a while since i went to any of those places)

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> > as for the professions thing: it's a spectrum like a color hexagon meaning you could easily combine magics it just means that if you combine magic with the same amount of the exact opposite magic they cancel eachother out (or whatever it was that happened) or you could purposefully collide the magics at a distance if it could cause a violent reaction.

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> Outside of the ones I did?

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> On the "unique weakness" with Jormag v Primordus, we also have Mordremoth v Zhaitan weakness (as seen via Unstable Abomination and strongly hinted at in a dialogue at Siren's Landing), while Taimi still says Mordremoth's weakness was his own mind. This suggests that either a) Team 3 messed up twice, or b) Elder Dragons have two "weaknesses" and one is... explosive. The more likely possibility would be the later, as this would explain why we don't see any destroyers imbued with both death and plant, and we see no branded imbued with both death and plant either; it would also mean that Novans either didn't know this "opposition" thing or didn't include it when talking about "unique weaknesses" (since Taimi mixed this up, the former is more likely in this scenario), and that Primordus and Jormag have a still-undefined weakness. Would also mean exposing Kralkatorrik (and by extension, branded, Aurene, etc.) to the DSD's magic would be explosive, and can hint that maybe Taimi is wrong about "one more ED death makes The All unstable" and it was "using opposite forces to kill two Elder Dragons makes The All unstable".

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> As for calling "magic as we know it" to be the same as "dragon magic": Throughout the core game and Season 1, "dragon energy" and its various other forms of calling (draconic energy, dragon magic, etc.) are the corrupting magics that Elder Dragons use, each one being unique to the respective Elder Dragon, and not some widespread spectrum which "magic as we know it" (e.g., profession magic) can use. That is to say, necromancy != Zhaitan's death magic. This was part of why Jormag's ice has a distinctively blue and black appearance to it, it's even brought up by a norn PC to a sylvari NPC as being unique to Jormag. Some places where it was talked about being the asura C3 PS, Whispers C5 PS, SE and CoE story, and Thaumanova Fractal (and, more specifically, Ellen Kiel's dialogue during Fractured release after doing the Thaumanova Fractal story instance).

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> Divine magic is also distinctively made out to be different than normal magic throughout the core game (Priory C4 story, Orr temples), Season 2 (Divine Torch stuff), and S3 (Livia's redundantly repeated "god magic" repetition of redundancy in the last instance of One Path Ends). So again, it's different from dragon energy, while being within the scope of "magic as we know it".

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> And, as mentioned, the Cosmic Power stuff which paints dragon energy as being distinctively different from both Mists magic and Tyrian magic (for lack of better dubbing).

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> As for your second note: that's what a fire&water/ice elementalist does, though. Mixing two opposite magics at equal portions. One would think they'd cancel out, but they instead blend. Sylvari necromancers would also be canceling each other out.

One thing to note, magic is shown to be able to be filtered to some extent. The dragons seem to be able to eat any source of magic and adapt it to their own unique type with the exception of magic from other ED's. I get the feeling that all magic has a shared core source. Might be what the spectrum comment by Taimi meant.

Might just be an early tie in for the next episode.

I doubt it will be Joko, I think Lazarus would make for a more interesting revenant legend if we're going the villain route. Main hand scepter for weapon since revenant could use more ranged options IMO.

> @"Mirdave.2014" said:

> > @"Eekasqueak.7850" said:

> > He uses revenant sword skills in combat all the time. I don't understand this never uses _renegade_ skills business.

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> Op was talking about the renegade elite, asking if there are some NPC ingame other than Rytlock (wich is a revenant/herald) that are canonically Renegade. And the answer is yes, u can find one “tutor” for every PoF elite’s specialization scattered in different Elona maps.

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Oh I must have misread, yeah Rytlock is a herald.

He uses revenant sword skills in combat all the time. I don't understand this never uses revenant skills business.

> @"Imba.9451" said:

> > @"lakdav.3694" said:

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> > The mursaat refuge where they weathered the last Dragonrise in the Mists

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> Thats mah boi ;D

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> But Anet has to be carefull not to abuse this sitation for cheap solutions. It opens great possibilities for both great and poor writing.

> I just hope they don't add time travel. Time travel ruins everything.

We only see instances of time echoes and not real time travel, so we don't as of yet know if that's even possible.

The nest gift collection gave me the final level of karmic retribution free so I've been using the new map to farm karma, other than that any event where a lot of branded show up- and there are many, gives quite a lot of t5-t6 dust. Not sure how it compares to Istan for other things though.

> @"Sajuuk Khar.1509" said:

> > @"Aeon.4583" said:

> > Rytlock Brimstone: We only handed an Elder Dragon the energy of a god. What could go wrong? ;)

> Yes, because Balthazar was a god, a de-powered one, but still one none the less.

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> The energy we handed over was a mix of Bloodstone, Jormag, and Primordus, not actual "god" magic. But it was still Balthazar's, and he was a god.

He had enough left over to make mist portals though so we can assume he had -some- god magic or mists magic left.

> @"Aaron Ansari.1604" said:

> I suspect Zafirah will have more to do than just representing Elona in our party. I had a similar skepticism about Blish when he was introduced, but his particular combination of knowledge and traits just proved to be central to the plot twice over. If I had to guess, I'd say we're not done with exploring Balthazar's shenanigans, and someone who was actually tied to them is a good pick to help us navigate them.

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> (She is also another major step down whatever character arc the devs have set up for the Commander. She threw several of the same accusations that Joko did, and, at least for male sylvari, the voice acting was openly emotional while we were pleading with her to work with us.)

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> Overall, my initial impression is balanced between enjoying this episode (and being pleasantly surprised by how much there actually was to this one) and wondering if this is going to wind up being the moment where I decide they've jumped the shark. I'll get more into that tomorrow, though; for now, the one thing I am well and truly miffed about, that hasn't been brought up- why didn't Zojja get to be there to see Snaff?

It was pretty emotional with female Asura too. The voice acting for this whole episode was phenomenal. I do have a minor gripe about how damage spongey she was which detracted somewhat from the weight of the clashes with her IMO.

> @"kasoki.5180" said:

> Overall, this LWS has been great, but one thing has bothered me a bit.

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> If Kralk devours the Mists and that in turns disintegrates reality, isn't Kralk essentially committing suicide? Or at least killing other elder dragons? I mean, from Mordremoth we have seen that ED are not just some mindless forces of nature incapable of thinking, so this part leaves me confused

Maybe if he eats the mists then reality just collapses and he becomes reality itself. Just a theory though.

> @"mortrialus.3062" said:

> > @"Eekasqueak.7850" said:

> > > @"Dante.1763" said:

> > > > @"Scar.1793" said:

> > > > Joke weapons such as the unicorn shortbow, gen2 shield are just disgusting and kills immersion. Not even sure why someone would be wasting gold on these but whatever. Not my problem I guess.

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> > > Love my unicorn bow personally, if i had a character that had pistols that i used often id have quip. Its all down to taste, personally ive mixed a very serious theme on my ranger with the unicorn bow so that it evens out. i like the final looks.

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> > Honestly the gen 2 shortbow is silly too, I mean it fires tigers. A bow that shoots tigers is something I'd expect in Dr. McNinja or Axe Cop IE: an over the top setting that's tongue in cheek about how over the top it is.

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> > I don't have any problem with that kind of thing being in Guild Wars 2 though.

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> Chuka and Champawat confers more respect by virtue of the actual model being the coolest "legendary" bow I've seen in any game ever.

It's still over the top.

> @"Dante.1763" said:

> > @"Scar.1793" said:

> > Joke weapons such as the unicorn shortbow, gen2 shield are just disgusting and kills immersion. Not even sure why someone would be wasting gold on these but whatever. Not my problem I guess.

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> Love my unicorn bow personally, if i had a character that had pistols that i used often id have quip. Its all down to taste, personally ive mixed a very serious theme on my ranger with the unicorn bow so that it evens out. i like the final looks.

Honestly the gen 2 shortbow is silly too, I mean it fires tigers. A bow that shoots tigers is something I'd expect in Dr. McNinja or Axe Cop IE: an over the top setting that's tongue in cheek about how over the top it is.

I don't have any problem with that kind of thing being in Guild Wars 2 though.

I crafted Meteorlogicus recently and I still love it. It's one of my favorite legendaries even.

There should be a some of both option, I love the second gen axe and hate the first gen but I also prefer the 1st gen shield over the second gen as an example.

> @"Amaranthe.3578" said:

> > @"Lily.1935" said:

> > Swords were used more frequently as a side arm. Since armored combat the soldiers would prefer a weapon that could crack armor, like a mace or warhammer. So to put it simply, a sword would be more commonly used with unarmored people. Although there are Sword techniques that can be used against armored foes, such as half swording or the murder stroke. But for its expressed purpose of cutting and stabbing the class I feel would fit that tight quarters city fighting would be mesmer. Misdirection and controlling the field in order to prevent death against an Armored foe. At least Mesmer would be my opinion.

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> Maces dont crack armor(maces were used against armored targets to "ignore" the armoe and crack the bones beneath)...all your post is nonsense.

There were some mace adjacent weapons made to puncture or dent armor though like warhammers, it might not start cutting into skin or puncture it etc, especially with some stuff worn underneath but it will still cause blunt force trauma and maybe even restrict the wearers movement depending on where and how severely it gets dented.

> @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > @"Talindra.4958" said:

> > > @"Malediktus.9250" said:

> > > shi-u-ktl

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> > > http://www.native-languages.org/maya_guide.htm

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> > > since it is an obvious mayan name, that should help

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> > i don't think it is mayan :P the creature looks more eastern mythology creatures

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> > update: ah i just did a google search on mayan myth creatures.. maybe it is.. argh.. we need dev to explain & reveal how she/he come up with this lol i am going nuts

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> I do not know if the creature is mayan, but the name is. Same with Tequatl for example

Thought Tequatl was Aztec, also the Mayans died out before the colonization of the Americas so where would you get pronunciation from?

> @"Stinger.4120" said:

> > @"Eekasqueak.7850" said:

> > Please no, she's a blight on the story.

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> She is as crazy tech. doc. - its cool.

She's a cringey villain sue, we have Taimi, Blish and Gorrik for actually good characters who fit that. The inquest is also a thing if you want villain scientists. Scarlet was a mistake.

Please no, she's a blight on the story.

> @"mortrialus.3062" said:

> > @"Pimpology.6234" said:

> > Come on how did no one know this.... of the last 3 weapons left, they are going to go with worst first.

> > You had to know it was going to be scepter>longbow>great sword.

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> > Great Sword (2H)def last unless they drop LB & GS together.

> > Long Bow (2H) 2nd to last - one of the most wanted weapons since launch for many users

> > Scepter (1H) meterologicus is so good, the design can't be beat really. they had to add the mini in order to compete!

> > Personally the player designed scepter (with a different color scheme and more unique tiny details & effects would have made a better legendary then this one, but hey its a necros scepter and you get a mini to boot! lol

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> Meteorlogicus is one of the worst legendary weapons. I rank it at 29 of the 30 currently in game.

You're free to think that but it's one of the top legendaries for me personally. Along with Astralaria and maybe like the gen 1 shield and gen 2 dagger.

Everyone obsessed over longbows and great swords and here I am with those being my least used weapon types along with hammers.

> @"Just a flesh wound.3589" said:

> Hammer is slow but hard hitting so I’ll vote Necro as it fits the theme of that class as slow moving but powerful.

Well Necro hasn't gotten a main hand weapon yet, they got a two handed and off hand.

I picked Elementalist because they haven't gotten a two handed weapon yet and it could be used in some interesting ways.

> @"Gambino.2109" said:

> The scepter people really needed this one.. sorry

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> Look at what they have for a legendary scepter... yeah I don't even know what it is either.

I actually really like the gen1 sceptre.

I use scepters more than longbows personally.