User:Gordon Ecker

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[edit] Characters and unlocks

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Galatea Hisui Boreas Hayate Morrigan Kusanagi Nephythys Scelesci Idun Brauer Selene Amaunet Jadoku Kumo Tiamat Shadowbinder Freija Tempesta Kharybdis Ardens

Campaign C P F N E Heroes Heroes   Upgrade Components Runes     Insignias     Prefix Upgrades     Suffix Upgrades     Inscriptions

Campaign C P F N E Skills Warrior Ranger Monk Necromancer Mesmer Elementalist Assassin     Ritualist     Paragon       Dervish

[edit] Bad elites

Skill	Fatal flaw
Amity	PBAOE, long recharge, ends on each foe when damage is taken.
Archer's Signet	It's in Expertise, which already reduces the cost of bow attacks.
Balthazar's Pendulum	Inferior to Aura of Stability.
Boon Signet	Weak healing and weak energy management.
Expert's Dexterity	The 150% skill cost increase cancels out the improved spiking and pressure ability that reduced skill recharge would normally give.
Extend Conditions	Mesmers are bad at inflicting conditions.
Healer's Covenant	Upkeep.
Mark of Protection	Disables all other Protection Prayers skills for 5 seconds, high recharge to duration ratio.
Lacerate	Inferior to Toxicity.
Peace and Harmony	Inferior to most non-elite energy managament skills.
Preservation	Small radius.
Recurring Insecurity	Low, easily strippable degen with a long recharge.
Ritual Lord	All rituals worth spamming are too expensive.
Scribe's Insight	Signet-heavy builds don't need energy.
Seeping Wound	Moderate conditional single target degen which takes up an elite slot.
Shadow Form	Severely overpowered if it's sustainable, suicidal if it isn't.
Shroud of Silence	Inferior elite version of Blackout.
Signet of Spirits	Generally inferior to Offering of Spirit.
Symbols of Inspiration	Signet-heavy builds don't need energy.
Unyielding Aura	It's a strippable elite res with an upkeep cost.
Ursan Blessing	Too much damage.
Wastrel's Collapse	Unreliable.

[edit] Predictions

• Dhuum is undead or a ghost.
• The Great Dwarf is the sockpuppets of another, more well-known god.
• The Great Destroyer is either an ancient god (possibly the previous god of fire, possibly a god who was not overthrown and replaced by a member of the current pantheon) or a sockpuppet of Dhuum or Menzies.

Eye of the North

• Bahltek is dropping hints about campaign 4.
• Lord Odran will factor into the backstory, and Arcanist will be one of the new professions.
• An engineer and / or crossbow user profession is also likely.
• Like Nightfall, campaign 4 will involve travel to somewhere outside of Tyria.
• Likely regional / cultural themes: the Americas, India, Scandinavia. (partially correct)
• The "150 skills" rumor is false.
• The "Eye of the North" rumor is plausible. (correct)
• The Great Destroyer is connected to the Great Giants.
• Altrumm was likely built by the Asura, and may have been built by the Dwarves.
• Most or all of the new PvE only skills will be title-based with no profession restriction. (correct)
• The port for Eye of the North will be either Janthir or the half-sunken ruins of Arah.
• The spiked ridge in the waterdragon.jpg image from the fansite kit is part of the Great Destroyer.
• The thing killed in A Time for Heroes was not the Great Destroyer, just a Destroyer queen.
• The "Water Dragon", "Drakkar" and "Greater Destroyer" are hibernating Great Giants.
• Whether by design or by retcon, Turai Ossa and Palawa Joko are Norn, or at lesat some type of half-giants.

Guild Wars 2

• The 2009 beta and the 2009-2010 release window are plausible. Plausible != correct. (I was right to be suspicious, they were a year off)
• The rumor about Charr as a playable race is probably true. (correct)
• The rumor about Norns, Asurians and Sylvanians as playable races is mostly or entirely false.
• If the Norns aren't completely made up, the Seer is probably one of them.
• If the Sylvanians aren't completely made up, they are likely either the descendants of Ewan's tribe, Wardens who have regained their sanity after the death of Urgoz, a Druid offshoot or Kurzicks who have split from humanity.
• Guild Wars 2 will have fewer professions with broader concepts and more attributes / skill lines / specialisation options. The Paragon concept will be largely absorbed by the Warrior and / or Mesmer counterparts, although spears may go to the Ranger counterpart rather than the Warrior counterpart. Ritualists will probably be merged with Necromancers.
• Palawa Joko will return in <insert James Bond movie title joke here>. (correct)