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  1. > @"Genesis.8572" said:

    > > @"videoboy.4162" said:

    > > > @"zealex.9410" said:

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    Kralk all but confirms that Bubbles is the Original Mother Dragon and has been sabotaging the others with excess magic.

     

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    w8, how? Do you have a specific reference to this? I do recall a line from kralk sounding like he was set up, but i dont remember

     

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    It's while fighting Kralk's Torment. Kralk is talking to Aurene the whole time and starts talking to her about another female dragon. He mentions how she was the first of them and had been betraying her own kind. Bubbles is the only Elder Dragon left that hasn't been established as male. Or at least identifying/being voiced as male. Anet is super weird about that. Then, one of his final lines is "mother." I wish I had thought to take a screen shot of his dialogue when he was discussing it.

     

    > I believe that you misread that fight.

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    The fight depicts a sort of schizophrenia between the personalities of Kraalkatorik and Kraalkatorik's Torment. Kraalkatorik's Torment speaking to Kraalkatorik refers to *Aurene* as the betrayer of her own kind. Which is obvious in the context of Aurene aligned with mortals in fighting Kraalkatorik and opposing the Elder Dragons. It is Aurene who is referred to the first of her kind, with Kraalkatorik even saying elsewhere that Aurene is different in her ability to balance her inner magics.

     

     

    I could see that being the case, if we omitted his final comment. Your interpretation could very well be correct, but where does the final line fit?

  2. > @"zealex.9410" said:

    > > @"videoboy.4162" said:

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    Kralk all but confirms that Bubbles is the Original Mother Dragon and has been sabotaging the others with excess magic.

     

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    w8, how? Do you have a specific reference to this? I do recall a line from kralk sounding like he was set up, but i dont remember

     

     

     

    It's while fighting Kralk's Torment. Kralk is talking to Aurene the whole time and starts talking to her about another female dragon. He mentions how she was the first of them and had been betraying her own kind. Bubbles is the only Elder Dragon left that hasn't been established as male. Or at least identifying/being voiced as male. Anet is super weird about that. Then, one of his final lines is "mother." I wish I had thought to take a screen shot of his dialogue when he was discussing it.

     

  3. I'm wondering if they could put in an automated system that tracked WHERE a player was for an extended amount of time and whether or not they engaged in combat. Then, people that AFK in a certain area but move periodically, could still be punished. Capture points could be an exception to that rule, since some teams prefer to have a member guard their home.

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

    > > @"videoboy.4162" said:

    > > > @"Astralporing.1957" said:

    > > > > @"videoboy.4162" said:

    > > > > I wonder if they could go a different route than expected, and make Guild Wars 3 by moving Guild Wars 2 onto a new engine. After getting that engine ready, they could have all our progress and such from Guild Wars 2, but continue the story as Guild Wars 3.

    > > > That's not a new game. That's an engine upgrade.

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    > > > If you make a new game, you will end up changing a lot more than just "upgrading" the game engine. Remember, that gw1->gw2 was supposed to be just that - an engine change to allow them to do things old engine didn't allow for. It's just that once they started tinkering, they decided that there were a lot of other things they wanted to change as well. The end result was, well, not something a lot of players wanted. I'm pretty sure that there's still a lot of veterans thinking that there were a ton of things that the previous game did better.

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    > > > And of course, once you change things too much, any idea of account continuity between games becomes problematic. It requires a lot of work, for often dubious results. As such, it's generally better to start afresh with a clean slate, with perhaps just a few perks (like HoM bonuses) given to old players.

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    > > > The problem is, of course, that most players do _not_ like ideas of player wipes and starting afresh. Not when they put a lot of time and effort to get to where they were at. As such, you can probably get away with it once. You are unlikely to be able to push it through twice.

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    > > I know. I was just saying to update the engine and call the next expac "Guild Wars 3."

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    > In other words, pull a fast one on people buying what they think is a new game but it turns out to be the old game with an update?

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    Yes and no. It would be more along the lines of how they sell the current expansions, but include the base game free. The GW3 "expansion" would include GW2 on their upgraded engine, so people didn't lose all their stuff. Then the main part would be Guild Wars 3, with the story moving forward in some big way. I guess it'd be more like GW2.5. lol

     

    It just seems like they could do a lot more with a better engine (armors, classes, new races, etc.) I'm not saying I have the best solution, I was just trying to think of something that would be a compromise between keeping the old game and starting a brand new one from scratch.

  5. > @"Astralporing.1957" said:

    > > @"videoboy.4162" said:

    > > I wonder if they could go a different route than expected, and make Guild Wars 3 by moving Guild Wars 2 onto a new engine. After getting that engine ready, they could have all our progress and such from Guild Wars 2, but continue the story as Guild Wars 3.

    > That's not a new game. That's an engine upgrade.

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    > If you make a new game, you will end up changing a lot more than just "upgrading" the game engine. Remember, that gw1->gw2 was supposed to be just that - an engine change to allow them to do things old engine didn't allow for. It's just that once they started tinkering, they decided that there were a lot of other things they wanted to change as well. The end result was, well, not something a lot of players wanted. I'm pretty sure that there's still a lot of veterans thinking that there were a ton of things that the previous game did better.

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    > And of course, once you change things too much, any idea of account continuity between games becomes problematic. It requires a lot of work, for often dubious results. As such, it's generally better to start afresh with a clean slate, with perhaps just a few perks (like HoM bonuses) given to old players.

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    > The problem is, of course, that most players do _not_ like ideas of player wipes and starting afresh. Not when they put a lot of time and effort to get to where they were at. As such, you can probably get away with it once. You are unlikely to be able to push it through twice.

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    I know. I was just saying to update the engine and call the next expac "Guild Wars 3."

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