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    Guild Wars 2 Kaineng City (concept)

    Kaineng City (concept)

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 09:06 PM PDT

    Guild Wars 2 The Icebrood Saga: Champions Finale - Judgment

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:00 AM PDT

    I was bored and tried to research some goofy builds but it seems Google definitely knows what's going on

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 04:31 AM PDT

    Icebrood Saga Ep5 Champions Chapter 4 Judgement – GuildWars2.com

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:05 AM PDT

    Thought I was buying 53 salvage kits... didn’t know they were stacks of 25. RIP my inventory space

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 07:23 PM PDT

    Apprehensive about posting but I'm remaking the Canthan Slums in Blender! Can't wait to see this place in the expac.

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 02:10 AM PDT

    Get the Infusion look! So hot right now!

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 08:09 AM PDT

    I wonder how this new worldboss could work...

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:14 AM PDT

    LiveSplit Auto Splitter for SAB speedrunning

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:21 AM PDT

    My engineer Charr Kriz Scraphorns

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 08:50 PM PDT

    Elder Dragons, Icebrood Saga: Champions, and Primordus's True Second Domain (Lore Theory)

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 03:46 PM PDT

    I've been playing this game for a little over a year now, and I have been hooked by the lore. And (as the title would suggest) one of the most interesting parts of Tyria to me are the Elder Dragons and how they're handled. In most fantasy, they're just big, powerful, occasionally smart flying lizards. But in Guild Wars, they're stronger than literal gods. But they aren't omnipotent either, as the Commander has clearly demonstrated. But with the End of Dragons rapidly approaching, and Jormag and Primordus's final battle coming up soon, I feel now's the perfect time to present a theory (honestly more of a headcanon) of mine that actually got in game evidence to possibly being true. Primordus and its true nature.

    For the uninitiated, every Elder Dragon (allegedly) has a primary and a secondary sphere of influence or domain. For example, Mordremoth was obvious Plants primarily, but its secondary domain was the mind, which was most clearly shown with its influence over Sylvari. Jormag is Ice (obviously) but it's also Persuasion/Seduction. Now, that does somewhat conflict with existing lore. It was said in Icebrood Saga that Jormag can't corrupt people without their permission or giving themselves up to it.

    But here's the thing. It quite clearly doesn't. In the base game (which Anet I guess forgot about?) the Durmand Priory's first story mission is about going after something called the Sanguinary Blade, made out of Jormag's blood. Anyone cut with it is said to turn into an Icebrood, and you see this happen a few times. Now, all the people who get cut by it are already Sons of Svanir, so I suppose the argument could be made that they already gave themselves up for corruption (Which is actually backed up more obviously when you get hit by it, you don't lose that character to becoming an icebrood, but hey, game mechanics VS lore be like that) The point is that initially, Jormag didn't seem to need permission.

    So, when I got to thinking about this, I had a realization. What in the Mists is Primordus's Second Domain? Even Zhaitan, the literal rotten hydra, death metal album cover looking nightmare he is, had a secondary one mentioned in Living World Season 2. (It's Shadow, if ya didn't know. And no, I do not blame you because I don't recall that ever coming up in Orr, but whatever.) So I did some looking. And apparently the Second Domain for Primordus is... Conflagration?

    Conflagration. A fancy word for "big, raging inferno." That makes sense, I guess. Or at least it would if its first Domain wasn't ALSO literally just Fire. So Primordus's Domains are, verbatim, "Fire" and "More fire." This entire Icebrood Saga, and even back in Living World Season 3, they've been stressing how Jormag and Primordus are opposites. They're Fire and Ice, of course they're opposites, so of course they'd cancel each other out. But then you realize. Fire VS Ice makes sense. "More fire" VS Persuasion? That doesn't. There's no real intersection between the two, is there.

    Then that got me thinking, well, what would the opposite be? Jormag lies, but that isn't really its end game, so it isn't like Primordus is some weird Truth incarnate thing. Destruction is another term that gets thrown around a lot with Primordus -- it's minions are called Destroyers for crying out loud. You can kind of see there's a vague connection between the two, though. More than "more fire" and Persuasion, at least. You have to be intelligent (in theory at least) to persuade someone of something, but Destruction can be done with just a primitive level of intelligence. And then it hit me.

    Primitive. Feral, wild, even animalistic. Jormag, throughout the Saga has shown they're more than capable of intelligence, strategy, and even giving speeches to Persuade others. Even without their whispers, they've been able to make Aurene herself seemingly doubt her own motives. That takes smarts. But Primordus? Every time Primordus is discussed, it isn't talked about like it's an entity, it's talked about like it's a force of nature. There's no obvious reasoning it gives, there's no apparent personality behind Destroyer attacks, there's just an attack, and you have to either weather it or get, well, destroyed. It's almost like they're just animals moving from place to place, hunting. They clearly show up in groups, so there's possibly some sort of group instinct.

    Now, this is all fun speculation, but I didn't have a lot of solid proof of this theory. Like I said, it was mostly a headcanon until recently. Then Champions hit, in all of its... mixed reception. But what I found interesting was Braham's ability to sense Destroyers. He didn't know how he was doing it, it just happened, and he acted on it out of instinct. And it only grew more apparent that this wasn't just another perk of his "chosen one" status, he specifically says this isn't like the Spirits in Snowden. He can sense Destroyers, but it's on an almost subconscious level, and it (understandably) freaks him the hell out. On a reflexive, almost instinctive level, he's able to connect to these things. And then it hit me again. Instinct. That's it!

    Jormag's forces fall in line behind Ryland, the champion. They listen to him and obey him, and they carry out strategic attacks on areas in order to strengthen their Elder Dragon. Rather than, say, freezing over a countryside and calling it a day, they target people specifically. Now whether they actually believe their line about "preserving them" for once Primordus does its thing is another matter entirely, but they attempt to justify their actions. To Persuade others that they're doing what's best.

    Primordus couldn't care less, if it's even capable of caring. All it knows is that burning everything is making it stronger. And like a pack leader, it sends its minions out to burn everything. To "hunt" for lack of a better word. Like I said before, it's like they're working off of pack instinct. Instinct doesn't care about logic or reasoning. It doesn't get justified, and most creatures running off of pure Instinct like wild animals, or evidently, Destroyers and the Elder Dragon they spawn from, just don't even have a concept of justifying themselves.

    And around when I came to that conclusion, I got a gift dropped right into my lap in the form of Part 3 of Champions. Where Braham, with the Spirits of the Wild's help, becomes Primordus's champion. And then it all clicked. The Spirits tell him to become the Destroyers' Alpha. To lead the pack. Even Rytlock comments that he leads the Destroyers like a pack of wolves when he sees the Champion Braham in action in Fireheart Rise. This all points to what I'd been saying not so subtly throughout this. Primordus isn't just Fire and "More Fire." It's Fire and Instinct. It appeals to a subconscious drive to act and survive, rather than the conscious mind's logic or empathy like Jormag.

    And the part that confirms this, at least for me, is that Primordus has not ONCE contradicted this. There's no magical sword made of Primordus juice that turns whoever wields it into the Alpha of the pack, or transforms anybody. It has always operated in an animalistic manner, and when it seemed to detect that Braham not only didn't want to harm it, but wanted to help it fight the biggest threat to its existence, it bonded to him and made him its champion. There wasn't any Persuasion. If anything, Primordus was the one that needed persuading in that instance, like when a vet is persuading a scared animal to co-operate.

    In short, Icebrood Saga's finale isn't just Fire and "More Fire" against Ice and "Capable of Strategy", it's Instinct against Reason. And I, for one, am looking forward to seeing that. And I hope that this longwinded first post of mine was able to enhance Icebrood Saga's... peculiar final portions for you, or at the very least make you give the story going on a second look.

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    GW2 has such Responsive Customer Service that I'm Half Concerned for the GM Team

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 04:10 PM PDT

    SAB World 2/2 speedrun 4:36

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:36 AM PDT

    The Miracle Path - Trib Mode World 1- Only Check 1 Required - Guild Wars 2

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 02:09 AM PDT

    Are there any guilds that regularly run the Living Story 3 meta events?

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:09 AM PDT

    I need some of the achievements/masteries and I really like doing metas. It'd be great to find people who do it.

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    Beetle Racing World cup Round 5 - [RACE] Guild hall

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 12:19 PM PDT

    DRMs require your entire party to be in the same instance of EotN. I hope to god ANet you thought this through and made these 50man private versions of the finale not have the same requirement

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 08:45 AM PDT

    I justifiably have doubts though.

    Also don't let the 'DRM section of lfg is only for squads when it's parties' but in reverse happen again.

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    After 8-10 attempts i finally did the gold race thing!

    Posted: 19 Apr 2021 02:51 PM PDT

    MassivelyOP article - IBS E5C4 Judgement

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 08:41 AM PDT

    SAB Tribulation without checkpoints?

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:48 AM PDT

    Is it possible? People are selling it, and they claim they can carry you through all zones. Now I don't wanna buy it, I just wanna learn the skips. Anyone know if this is legit?

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    How about a "build a guildhall Beetle racetrack" competition where the winner's track gets immortalized in an open world version of that track in the next expansion?

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 03:24 AM PDT

    We have all seen how awesome those Guild Hall Beetle racetracks can be. How about a community challenge where people get to post their incredible tracks and we get to vote on which of those tracks gets an official open world version of that track in the next expansion where everybody can compete to win in-game loot?

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    Trailer looks so empty

    Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:52 AM PDT

    Am i the only one the find the trailer soo empty while it is the end of the season ? Everyone seems so excited but it looks to have nothing to show or to keep a big big surprise

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