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So. I've had this idea reserved for some time, now I finally have the drive and time to pull it off.
Y'know how the GW2 world/public RP scene is kinda well, barely existent? I have an idea that may resurrect it in some way.
This will be for US servers!
HERE WE ARE! This is my WORLD RP RESURRECTION PROJECT!
The idea is to basically make whole cities or areas the " RP event" for quite a few hours, so it's a faux event with no set premise and is only really there to drag people to the area.
World sharding kinda broke random walk up RP for the most part, buuut what if there was some type of anchor point for a single shard?
I plan on being that anchor point, I'm going to select two days of the week and for about 5 hours a night/afternoon set up a squad for people to jump in and jump out of if they want, but at least everyone will be in the same shard. I will probably rotate through cities, meaning a different one each day, people can set up their own events or businesses for these days to make these places feel a lot more lived in, I would appreciate anyone reaching out to me if they are interested in doing such, a lot of coordination is going to help this kind of project in the long run. This will of course be headed by the efforts of a fairly small guild, any help will be extremely appreciated. We are currently deciding on what days this whole thing will be, might make a poll for it if people like this idea enough. My contact information on discord is: clang Or if you want to find me on GW2 it's: CLANG.2715 Likewise with the poll, I might post a more detailed plan of everything soon.
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#reblogs#so interestingly i think it depends on whether we're talking Regrowth or Flourish since Pirkko is a LOT different#in Regrowth (main) she'd be Natural hands down. despite her Engineer (holosmith) status she's still deeply connected to nature#and Vass's background of saving plants and animals from the Elder Dragon risings resonates with her a lot I think.#as bonuses since they're a Trio: in Regrowth Saoirse would be Strength and Ceara/Scarlet would be Knowledge#since Saoirse really is just Unstoppable Force in sylvari form... she just bulldozes everything in the way wheeZE#but Scarlet/Ceara is pretty self-explanatory: she's all about wanting to Know all the things always (even when she shouldn't)#meanwhile in Flourish it all gets flipped around wildly lol#there? Pirkko would be Strength. Ceara would be Obscure. and Saoirse would be Celestial. I think that shows the shift a Lot#Flourish Pirkko is a much more direct and fiery individual... all about that overwhelming force and just Going and Going#she'll inspire with a roar of ferocity and a path of flames. an intense blaze of Bladesworn rage to Regrowth's shining beacon#whereas Saoirse the Flame gets a much more spiritual shift and leans a lot more into her magic and introspection#she's still an unyielding force but the flames she leaves behind will lift up her allies as well; Firebrand and Willbender mix#and then Ceara the Defiant is just a sneaky individual all across the boaRD... she's a Thief Deadeye for a lot of reasons!#so yeah. interesting thought exercise with this one very fun
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Not going to lie, the Nightmare Court made an interesting point here. The sad thing is they talk about teaching a truth they , in this step of the story, know nothing about but they were on to something.
#reblogs#the Nightmare Court is so fascinating to me#like they aren't entirely wrong but they're not right either#so you get this weird complicated deal where they only are glimpsing a mere fragment of the truth and moreover#that truth IS something that the Pale Tree has been lying to them about! like they're not wrong that there's a deception#they just have NO clue what that deception is or what it would actually mean for them and the result is just another lie#there's something kinda messed up about the Nightmare Court arguably being much closer to the sylvari's true origins#considering the Mordrem are NOT friendly to ANYTHING and just kill and conquer and consume whatever is in the way#and it gets so much more interesting when considering how much damage keeping that secret actually DID in the end#since like. literally all of Living World 1 could've been avoided. Ceara's fall into madness was absolutely 100% avoidable.#she just had no idea that there was a dormant bond to an Elder Dragon in there and therefore no preparation for it#then... look at the Court when they find out what Mordremoth is like. surprise! you got the truth! it absolutely sucks!#they were chasing a car and then they caught it and went 'uh oh' and switched sides because they didn't want That either#so really. if the Court had known... would there even BE a Court??? or would they have chilled the heck out from the start#like obviously there'd always be sylvari that were mean little vipers that murder like any other race but like you Get me right#it would've made their numbers so much harder to grow if there WAS no secret hidden truth for them to rally around#but the major risk involved is that the sylvari likely never would've been able to gain their footing with the other races#so like. would they have even survived that secret being out from the start? like seeing HoT it DOES make sense.#i think so much about this conundrum ok. SO much...
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Pspspsps tell me about your rangers. Or about your characters who love animals or have a neat connection w them. Or anythign. Really.
#reblogs#so i technically have 2 rangers but i still need to give one of them a backstory so you get info on the weirdest ranger ever made#the one that DOES have a backstory is wildly enough my Regrowth AU Scarlet/Ceara HDHJDHDH THERE'S A REASON THO#as part of the terms of her truce with the Commander she's no longer allowed any form of explosives or gunpowder etc#so. she switched professions. to a freaking 'ranger'#i put this in quotes because most of her 'pets' are actually mechanical! they're disguised steam creatures.#not ALL of them though! see one of the bits i need to write out in Regrowth is Scarlet's background with nature and animals#because you don't just spend your entire life studying the natural flow of the world without appreciating what you're studying#(there's even a line in the 'What Scarlet Saw' story where she calls it beautiful and i think that gets swept over a lot)#what Anet really needs to give us is a minotaur pet because i think those are her favorite animal. they were her first creature!#anyway! one of her non-mechanical minions-- i MEAN PETS-- is actually a disguised Mordrem! Lil' Twisty is a terrible beastie#but the kicker is that it's actually a 'part' of her in a sense; it's the separated aspect of her Mordrem side as a Creature#and the result is a tiny vicious plant snake that spits acid and hates everyone but doesn't have any of her intelligence#so it's very stupid and rude but also nobody can understand it other than Ceara which is definitely played for comedy#it'll be threatening you with the most MA-rated horrifying dismemberment and just sounds like it's squeaking cutely#they can bind back together temporarily (soulbeast merge) but Ceara usually doesn't like to do that for obvious reasons#that said! she does have a few Actual animals that she's charmed over the years and most are very silly#she has a sand lion! and she consistently tries to get people to pet it (do not pet it. it bites and is also very gritty)#she brought a shark home one day too and it swims in a tank in her hideout. she insists it is smooth (it is not smooth)#it was actually originally a toxic shark from Kessex Hills that she cured; she wanted to test whether it worked and it did!#she's also got a toxic salamander that was charmed for the same reason but it still keeps eating spores... (partial success)#her latest is a sky-chak that she snagged after bullying enough Wizards to get into the Tower (nobody was happy with this)#the chak helps her a LOT in the lab with temporary glue and using electrical ley currents to test and force-start tech#anyway i think i've gone on long enough! hands you this and scurries away once more into the shadows
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ALSO HI NEW POLL FOR Y'ALL
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I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.
#reblogs#GRIPS THIS POST UNTIL MY KNUCKLES GO WHITE#this is literally the relationship between the Trio in Regrowth vs Flourish. parallel timeline butterfly effects go brrrr#in Flourish they start off ready to bite each other but have that all sorted by the time of Zhaitan so it works itself out#in Regrowth? lol. lmao. rofl even. mortal enemies to awkward truce to enemies (again) to rivals to allies to friends(???)#to FINALLY actually friends (who only occasionally threaten to shoot or stab each other but it's fine they won't probably)#like full stop my favorite thing about this Trio is that oh they DO interact and are extremely important to each other in every iteration#but for DRAMATICALLY different reasons! they could have been the strongest unified front that Tyria has ever seen#but in Regrowth they're arch-enemies for all the reasons that would have made them such strong allies#the very ability to see each others' blindspots is exactly what allows them to absolutely demolish each other tactically#with each of them having been engineered by the Dream to have special abilities that together would be unstoppable#Ceara the Defiant represents Mind; a quick thinker and a ruthless tactician. she doesn't fight harder she fights smarter.#Dragonheart Pirkko represents Heart. She's the lifeblood of revolution. a shining beacon of hope and inner strength.#and finally there's Saoirse the Flame. representation of Soul. her inner light never goes out. Unyielding and unbreakable.#Together they would light the way to Tyria's Future.#but separated they would nearly bring about its end.#god i need to actually WRITE about them. EXPLODES
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the fifth expac teaser being back in what looks like central tyria has me thinking about the commander coming back from their wizard shenanigans/Nayos, back to their old companions --- and for the commander, it feels like not much has changed all in all (sure, they're a little more tired and have a few more scars but what else is new), so they try and slot themself back into their old routine
except to their friends, it's very much not the same commander. They walk different, talk different, have a wild look in their eye. There's yet another strange power that emanates off of them, and this is not the familiarity of dragon magic or ley energy.
The commander that disappeared into the unknown is not the commander that came back
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alright GW2 folks, be smarter than me. I know the coin looks VERY tempting but...
DON'T GET THIS ONE!! IT'S A TRAP!
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get THIS one instead because guess what...
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this pack has the coin, too + even more stuff for the exact same price.
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it's too late for me, but... may you all learn from my mistakes...
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okay they seriously outdid themselves with the new SAB weapon set this year. just LOOK at these things!! my hands are going to die a noble death collecting them... but it will be worth it.
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GW2 people - Pitch me YOUR idea for an Expansion!
What's the theme, where are we going, what lore threads are we picking up on, what's the story premise, what mechanics do you think it could have.
I love spitballing ideas when I'm talking with friends so I'm posing the question To Everyone because I know everyone has some pet concepts floating around. As self-indulgent as you'd like, as unrealistic as you like, just throw ideas around, I wanna hear them!
The One I think I have the most rounded ideas for would be an Underwater Expansion. Picking up on the threat of whatever is terrorising the deep oceans, having some exploration of the Largos and bringing back in the Quaggan and the Krait maybe!
I love the sort of depths we get in maps like Frostgorge sound, and underwater combat has badly needed a rework and a tune up - there's loads of skills which straight up don't work and break entire builds underwater, and this would be a perfect excuse to try bring it up to speed. Maybe even make the underwater weapon sets function on land, to satisfy those who're after more weapons. You could make the maps a mix of true underwater and perhaps giant air bubble caves so you still had some land exploration even in maps otherwise set deep under the ocean. A map meta split with land phases and water phases. Additionally as personal bias wish, I'd love map event/meta design more like HoT. A map-wide Story with a few chains with specifically Build into the actual true Meta. I also simply love the idea of having a bunch of enemy designs based of the ocean and the abyss, there's so much incredible inspiration and interesting marine life. and biomes too! Give me a hydrothermal vent section in one of the maps, hell underwater 'water' in the form of brine pool 'quicksand'.
The Turtle might get some more use out of it's underwater, and skimmer would absolutely get spotlight as a skyscale isn't going to get you too far here - hell maybe even some speedy new underwater mount could be a fun addition to the roster.
I can see a plot being around trying to work with the Largos, The 'Terror of the Deep' being a danger and learning from them about how to survive the hostile environment and also convince them work with you to Hunt the 'Terror'. Maybe you come to the area of the ocean with the Quaggans and it's convincing the Largos to take them seriously as allies against whatever you're fighting? A quaggan companion character would be really fun, and you could easily bring back Sayeh al' Rajihd from the personal story given Largos involvement. I think not only would it be something very different in terms of the maps, which granted quite a few people might not like (thalassophobia reasons, or general Dislike of Water Gameplay reasons), but I think a rework of the underwater mechanics would benefit a bunch of places and it's something that really doesn't get touched outside of base game and maybe like, the Leviathans in EoD. There's so much neat creature design inspiriation swimming around out there, and I know so many people love the largos and even if not playable getting to see more of them could be neat! Also - it'd finally make all those legendary full people happy. A Legendary Aquabreather :P.
And a new suite of legendary underwater weapons since the G1 set. (and not themed pretty please make them all Unique.)
#reblogs#oh this is SUCH a fun question and funnily enough the thing i've brainstormed most was a hypothetical underwater expansion too#particularly since it could REALLY use a tune-up not just in combat but navigation. like the way I think about it is#'what would I miss most?' and the answer is the mounts. the mounts are like the Big Thing that sets GW2 apart#so the question I asked myself was 'how could you do both at once?' since it'd need to be 1 thing for the expansion#and the concept I came up with was a diving suit. but not a slow bumbling one no no. this thing should have hydraulics#basically give it each of the different main mount abilities but tailored to underwater. it sinks but it doesn't Need to swim.#so it gives you the feel of land movement and allows you to use your land skills underwater. smth like that could be wild#like it could have a pressure tank of sorts kinda like the skyscale height meter for the jets; those give you bursts of speed OR some lift#so you get dashes like the raptor or jackal + an upward leap like the springer but with more precision like the skyscale#and while drifting down hold the jump to open a set of fins so you can 'glide!' the jets refill slightly while drifting too#like okay just. just imagine the cool underwater stuff you could do. like. a full underwater jumping puzzle at heated volcanic vents#the suit's main purpose would be to protect you from the pressure though; if we're going really deep that'd make sense#the skimmer could be used with the suit but only for a limited time so that you can't use it to boundary break and stuff#from there build up the bosses and underwater sections accordingly; like the mental images of it just Get me#having a giant coral reef maze map like Tangled Depths would be both horrifying and extremely cool at the same time tbh#now as far as an entirely self-indulgent expansion goes: something REALLY leaning into insane Mists lore could be SO cool#like go full mindscrew with it. something REALLY reality-bending that turns everything we know on its head#I remember having this insanely cool GW2 dream once where one of the maps had 3 'layers' of reality that you could flip between#so it was like 3 versions of the same map but there'd be a few things different in each one and they had different events#so like one map would get its bridge blown up so you'd flip to a different one where the bridge still exists#and it'd keep you in the same corresponding 'place' and you used that trick to safely navigate an insanely unstable anomaly#and the place looked SO cool. it was like Edge of the Mists but with astral vibes like that sequence in LW4 or Mistlock#anyway I also think it would be cool if in that universe there were characters that died in ours. for better and for worse!#anyway basically just do what we all thought they were gonna do with the Fractal Islands. actually go all in this time though#and pull some absolutely WILD twists with it!! stop playing safe with the script make me GASP when smth happens on-screen#i wanna feel the way I did in EoD when Mai summoned Scarlet's apparition into battle or Aurene's impalement faded into focus#kick me in the freakin' TEETH Anet. make me feel something about these characters!! that's my only really big wish#(and can we also go 1 expansion without killing off characters that still have way too much potential. can we do that too)#anyway i think i have rambled enough. scurries away
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Meet Vinca, a sylvari revenant, who chose Scarlet as his legend. What could possibly go wrong?
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actually on that topic
what would be you guys' dream guild halls?
Personally I'd love a big fancy luxury airship, since my main trio of OCs live in one. It would be a static model with a background animated so it looks like it's flying, like the end of LW4. It'd have a bunch of different rooms, like a war room, a kitchen with places to cook, and all the other crafting stations in fitting places. And of course plenty of living quarters and rooms to be decorated and made cozy.
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Another gw2 poll for y'all bc I like making these
#reblogs#oh this is a messy one with Pirkko tbh#because... yes and no. she was always driven by her Dream#and she doesn't regret following it! she knows someone had to do it and that person might as well be her since she was prepared#but with each dragon slain and no clear future. she feels like she's floating without a tether. she still believes in it#but at the same time feels like she's been kinda... dropped. now that her purpose is fulfilled... what next?#she devoted herself to the cause so fully that she never thought about what she would do after that cause was Done#and she's not the sort of person that likes sitting still. she wants to Do things but has no clear direction for the first time#which is a big factor in how she gets pulled into stuff in SotO so significantly: she went from having a clearly defined path ahead#to having absolutely nothing and nowhere that her skills are needed. she has NO idea what the heck to do with herself#and i think there's a part of her that resents that. that she was basically just a tool for a particular purpose and now it's done.#and it can just... set her aside and forget her. she doesn't blame DW for moving on but what about the Dream?#the Dream was always supposed to be there. and now it's not.#on top of that she has a complex history with not one but TWO soundless with their own beef against the Dream: Saoirse and Ceara#she knows what became of them; neither had a place within the Dream's neat tapestry and both got left to the wayside.#she's starting to understand exactly what they were talking about and she doesn't like that she understands. it stings.#... all she can do is hope that she's making the right choices.#she wants to build a better world. and if the Dream won't tell her how... she'll just have to figure that out for herself this time.#tbh SotO increases that divide even more too since Saoirse accompanies her for the expansion and they work together a lot#which means she comes to understand a lot more about who Saoirse really is and how she's forged her own path for better and worse#in short: there's a LOT going on with her and it's not all good!
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letting my Scarlet out of containment for April Fool's was a mistake.
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I know everyone's got their easy builds or their high DPS/alac/quickness builds or whatever but what are some builds that are just fun? Still viable of course but genuinely fun and fluid to play with
#reblogs#oh i've got a lot of off-meta favorites lmao#i wish sword/pistol thieves were useful for more things because teleporting all over the place with skill 2 is SO fun#just slap and run away and repeat until it's dead HFHDG#and you can literally stunlock enemies spamming pistol 4#it's such a cheeky borderline troll build but it's so much fun on the rare occasion that you can actually use it to the fullest#(which means of course that's what i needed for Ceara the Defiant because of course that's how she fights. sorry)#some of my other favorites include shortbow condi soulbeast#and power rifle engineer. which is still pretty decent for CC#my FAVORITE favorite is still power Vindicator tho. camp greatsword and go absolutely feral and crazy. it scares me#the damage it does is absolutely STUPID if you stack it right#i have seen this thing deal 138k in one hit on Tequatl.#i am not joking. i have frigging screens of this insanity.#i have way too much fun just vaporizing mobs by stomping on them ok it's genuinely just an absolute blast#that's TECHNICALLY on-meta kinda but i don't do the full rotation because it genuinely doesn't need it imo#like by the time you'd need the rest of the rotation everything's frigging dead anyway HDUDGHDJDH#(also if you stand in an AoE while using greatsword 4's block you can get several hits quick and reflect for 50k+ wHEEZE)#also i know willbender was designed to be sword/sword but it's off-meta so it also counts as an unpopular but fun fav#zip zip zip zip dead. yes. good. i love mobile builds ok
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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.
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