One of the high end dungeons in Warhammer where the Bloodlord set is
found. You can go through the instance on the most bottom right corner
of Chaos Wastes or you can run up from Praag. The coordinates for the
entrance is 64487, runescape gold buy
63406 on the Chaos Wastes map. Before you can actually do any of the
bosses here you must have enough influence points from the Public Quests
in side the instance. guild wars 2 gold
If you’ve done Gunbad then you should be familiar with it. There are
three portals you can take and it will vary in difficulty of the mobs
and bosses. All three portals three public quests buy runescape gold in them.
Left Portal:Trail of Carnage
Level: 33+
Boss: Thar’lgnan 1 bar influence
Loot: Bloodlord Boots
Public Quests:
1.Rise of Carnage
2.Bloodherd Labyrinth
3.Trail of Carnage
Right Portal: buy swtor credits Path of Fury
Level: 35+
Boss: Lord Slaurith 2 bar influence
Loot: Bloodlord Shoulders
Public Quests:
1.Fury’s Ascent
2.Halls of Rage
3.Path of Fury
Middle: Steps of Ruin
Level: 37+
Boss: Kaarn the Vanquisher Full influence
Loot: runescape money Bloodlord Helm
Public Quests:
1.Step of Anger
2.Step of Hatred
3.The Brass Legion
For the fourth place, the Rift of Rage is after Steps of Ruin, this is
where Skull Lord Var’Ithrok is and he drops chest and gloves. To get gw2 gold into the portal you need to be attuned and the quest you need are:
1.1: Blood on the Steps
2.2: Leashing the Bull
3.3: Infinite Patience
4.4: Vanquishing the Skull Lord
This shouldn’t be hard to find a group since a lot of players are still
in their mid 30’s and some are 40’s that are still doing this. I say
when you are about level 35 or so you should start running the first
portal and start getting your influence up because most groups won’t run
with you if you don’t have either 1 bar or 2 bars of influence filled
up.
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2012年8月24日星期五
2012年8月1日星期三
Play Asura and Sylvari in the July 20-22 Beta Weekend Event! 8
For our final Beta Weekend Event (July 20-22), we’re making the asura
and sylvari races available to beta players for the first time. Players
will be able to create characters from any of the five main races of
Tyria—human, norn, charr, diablo 3 gold fast delivery asura, and sylvari—and begin their Guild Wars 2 experience in any of the five radically different home regions.
For asura players, this means beginning your tale in buy cheap diablo 3 gold Metrica Province, a vivid, exotic jungle area full of high-tech laboratories, quirky golems, and competing krewes of mad scientists. Nearby, the massive monoliths of the asuran capital Rata Sum d3 gold hum with technomagical power. These diminutive geniuses may seem cute at first glance, but never underestimate an asura…
Sylvari players begin their story in the Grove, a luminous living city nestled in the shade of the Pale Tree, the “mother” gw2 gold of every member of this young race of plant humanoids. The sylvari are an enigmatic race of chivalrous explorers who are driven by an insatiable curiosity and guided by a collective Dream.
If you’ve played in previous beta events, you know that guild wars 2 power leveling each playable race has its own distinct regions, signature city, and personal storyline options. But above all, each race in Guild Wars 2 has its own identity, and the asura and sylvari perfectly illustrate this.
We can’t wait to see players drinking in the mystical atmosphere of the Grove or stopping alchemagical experiments running amok in Metrica Province during our last Beta Weekend Event before launch. If you want to reserve a spot in the beta, pre-purchase your copy of Guild Wars 2 today.
We’ll see you in-game on July 20-22! Excelsior!
For asura players, this means beginning your tale in buy cheap diablo 3 gold Metrica Province, a vivid, exotic jungle area full of high-tech laboratories, quirky golems, and competing krewes of mad scientists. Nearby, the massive monoliths of the asuran capital Rata Sum d3 gold hum with technomagical power. These diminutive geniuses may seem cute at first glance, but never underestimate an asura…
Sylvari players begin their story in the Grove, a luminous living city nestled in the shade of the Pale Tree, the “mother” gw2 gold of every member of this young race of plant humanoids. The sylvari are an enigmatic race of chivalrous explorers who are driven by an insatiable curiosity and guided by a collective Dream.
If you’ve played in previous beta events, you know that guild wars 2 power leveling each playable race has its own distinct regions, signature city, and personal storyline options. But above all, each race in Guild Wars 2 has its own identity, and the asura and sylvari perfectly illustrate this.
We can’t wait to see players drinking in the mystical atmosphere of the Grove or stopping alchemagical experiments running amok in Metrica Province during our last Beta Weekend Event before launch. If you want to reserve a spot in the beta, pre-purchase your copy of Guild Wars 2 today.
We’ll see you in-game on July 20-22! Excelsior!
2012年7月30日星期一
Party with ArenaNet at New York City Comic Con
We love New York, so we’re packing our bags and flying out to the New
York City Comic Con, which runs from October 8-10 at the Javits Center.
We’ve planned buy d3 gold some interesting panel discussions at NYCC and a Friday night fan party that will include the East Coast d3 gold for sale premiere of the Guild Wars 2 demo!
Come party with us on Friday night, October 8, at the NCsoft Meet and Greet! Hang out with diablo 3 gold ArenaNet and NCsoft devs and get your hands on the Guild Wars 2 demo. Yes, we’ll have a few demo stations at the party, so you’ll definitely want guild wars 2 gold to attend! We’ll have more details about our NYCC party soon, so stay tuned for more information.
On Saturday, October 9 at 1:30PM, lead ArenaNet designers Eric buy guild wars 2 gold Flannum and Colin Johanson will present a panel discussion, Guild Wars 2: Building a Better MMO, which goes behind the scenes of our game design process. At 5:15PM we’ll be participating in MMORPG.com’s panel discussion, The Future of Online Gaming. Both of these events take place in Panel Room 6, so be sure to pick up a NYCC pass if you’d like to attend.
See you in New York!
Come party with us on Friday night, October 8, at the NCsoft Meet and Greet! Hang out with diablo 3 gold ArenaNet and NCsoft devs and get your hands on the Guild Wars 2 demo. Yes, we’ll have a few demo stations at the party, so you’ll definitely want guild wars 2 gold to attend! We’ll have more details about our NYCC party soon, so stay tuned for more information.
On Saturday, October 9 at 1:30PM, lead ArenaNet designers Eric buy guild wars 2 gold Flannum and Colin Johanson will present a panel discussion, Guild Wars 2: Building a Better MMO, which goes behind the scenes of our game design process. At 5:15PM we’ll be participating in MMORPG.com’s panel discussion, The Future of Online Gaming. Both of these events take place in Panel Room 6, so be sure to pick up a NYCC pass if you’d like to attend.
See you in New York!
2012年7月26日星期四
Three Legions, One Nation 3
Three Legions, One Nation
Their remarkable achievements didn’t come easy, however.
The first obstacle the legions had to overcome was their rivalry with each other. Iron, Ash, and Blood each laid claim to the throne of the Khan-Ur (supreme commander) of the charr nation. However, without the Claw of the Khan-Ur (a powerful totem signifying the right to rule), no single legion has the support required to take the throne. The Iron Legion is in the best position to seize control, having retaken Ascalon and rebuilt a citadel on the ruins of Rin. However, their imperator, Smodur the Unflinching, has yet to turn these victories into d3 guide a serious challenge for the throne of the Khan-Ur.
Within Ascalon, troops from each legion support Smodur’s cause to reclaim these southern charr lands from their human enemy. Blood and Ash legion troops work in tandem with Smodur’s forces of Iron, with each legion playing to its strengths: Blood musters the fiercest warriors and dominates on the battlefield through sheer ferocity and strength of numbers; Ash practices subtlety and stealth, choosing its targets carefully and then eliminating them with deadly precision; Iron provides the ordnance and the strong leadership d3 strategy guide required to keep this potentially explosive alliance from tearing itself to pieces. The Khan-Ur’s throne remains empty, but the charr in Ascalon stand largely united under the Iron Legion’s rule, functioning as a mighty machine of conquest.
Three Legions, One Nation
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Military Mindset
Make no mistake: the charr may not be at humanity’s throat like they once were, but they are still essentially a massive, well-armed and well-trained military unit. All charr serve, if not as soldiers, then as logistical support for soldiers, providing food, weaponry, transport, d3 game guide and whatever else the legions need. There are still charr merchants, explorers, and even charr scholars, but whatever their vocation, all charr are soldiers at heart, and they tackle life’s challenges with a soldier’s discipline and focus. That is not to say the charr don’t enjoy life’s simple pleasures, or the occasional luxury—meat, whiskey, a finely made blade—but like all well disciplined soldiers, they never lose sight of the larger mission.
Military Mindset
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Boot Camp for Cubs
The root of this military organization lies in the fahrar, a kind of boot camp that game guide young charr report to as soon as they can walk and wield a blade. Training can be brutal, and a charr bonds for life with the other cubs in the fahrar. When this initial training is over, fahrar graduates form a warband that becomes an adult charr’s second family; sometimes they even adopt similar surnames to mark themselves as members of the same unit. Adult charr have very little contact with their natural parents or their natural offspring, but parents and children sometimes keep tabs on each other to stay informed of any victories or defeats that could reflect back on the family’s reputation.
Boot Camp for Cubs
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Living for the City
The current charr capital is the Black Citadel, built by the Iron Legion on the ruins of Rin to serve as their central headquarters. It is a monument to their victory over Ascalon and a symbol of Iron Legion dominance.
All three legions coexist in the Black Citadel, along with a handful of norn, sylvari, asura, and even a few humans. By Smodur’s command, the Iron Legion allows just about anyone to visit and even settle there, so long as the visitors don’t cause trouble, but the leadership never lets anyone forget whose city it is, or the fact that everyone else is just a guest in their house. The residents items guide of the Black Citadel live their lives and conduct their business under the strict eye of the Iron Legion’s Adamant Guard, and they enrich the base of operations from which the legions carry the battle to their enemies.
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Old Foes
Currently, the most pressing of these enemies are two stubborn relics of the past that refuse to die: the Flame Legion and the restless ghosts of Ascalonian humans who still haunt the ruins of their former kingdom. The Flame Legion has been broken, but it still exists, and it still seeks to reclaim the power it once had, through guile, subterfuge, and magic. In the past, the Flame Legion worshipped nightmarishly powerful entities like the titans in exchange for magical might. These days, the other legions keep a close eye on the Flame Legion to prevent them from unleashing any more otherworldly terrors in their lust for power—but that doesn’t stop the Flame Legion from trying.
The Flame Legion is so reviled that the average charr distrusts magic-users as a whole, and expresses open hostility to the concept of worshipping any beings called “gods.” To the modern charr, beings such as Grenth, Lyssa, and Melandru are merely powerful entities, not gods. Charr respect the forces such beings command, but would never kneel before them as if they were divine.
Old Foes
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Their remarkable achievements didn’t come easy, however.
The first obstacle the legions had to overcome was their rivalry with each other. Iron, Ash, and Blood each laid claim to the throne of the Khan-Ur (supreme commander) of the charr nation. However, without the Claw of the Khan-Ur (a powerful totem signifying the right to rule), no single legion has the support required to take the throne. The Iron Legion is in the best position to seize control, having retaken Ascalon and rebuilt a citadel on the ruins of Rin. However, their imperator, Smodur the Unflinching, has yet to turn these victories into d3 guide a serious challenge for the throne of the Khan-Ur.
Within Ascalon, troops from each legion support Smodur’s cause to reclaim these southern charr lands from their human enemy. Blood and Ash legion troops work in tandem with Smodur’s forces of Iron, with each legion playing to its strengths: Blood musters the fiercest warriors and dominates on the battlefield through sheer ferocity and strength of numbers; Ash practices subtlety and stealth, choosing its targets carefully and then eliminating them with deadly precision; Iron provides the ordnance and the strong leadership d3 strategy guide required to keep this potentially explosive alliance from tearing itself to pieces. The Khan-Ur’s throne remains empty, but the charr in Ascalon stand largely united under the Iron Legion’s rule, functioning as a mighty machine of conquest.
Three Legions, One Nation
PlayVolume0:00 / 0:00
Military Mindset
Make no mistake: the charr may not be at humanity’s throat like they once were, but they are still essentially a massive, well-armed and well-trained military unit. All charr serve, if not as soldiers, then as logistical support for soldiers, providing food, weaponry, transport, d3 game guide and whatever else the legions need. There are still charr merchants, explorers, and even charr scholars, but whatever their vocation, all charr are soldiers at heart, and they tackle life’s challenges with a soldier’s discipline and focus. That is not to say the charr don’t enjoy life’s simple pleasures, or the occasional luxury—meat, whiskey, a finely made blade—but like all well disciplined soldiers, they never lose sight of the larger mission.
Military Mindset
PlayVolume0:00 / 0:00
Boot Camp for Cubs
The root of this military organization lies in the fahrar, a kind of boot camp that game guide young charr report to as soon as they can walk and wield a blade. Training can be brutal, and a charr bonds for life with the other cubs in the fahrar. When this initial training is over, fahrar graduates form a warband that becomes an adult charr’s second family; sometimes they even adopt similar surnames to mark themselves as members of the same unit. Adult charr have very little contact with their natural parents or their natural offspring, but parents and children sometimes keep tabs on each other to stay informed of any victories or defeats that could reflect back on the family’s reputation.
Boot Camp for Cubs
PlayVolume0:00 armory guide / 0:00
Living for the City
The current charr capital is the Black Citadel, built by the Iron Legion on the ruins of Rin to serve as their central headquarters. It is a monument to their victory over Ascalon and a symbol of Iron Legion dominance.
All three legions coexist in the Black Citadel, along with a handful of norn, sylvari, asura, and even a few humans. By Smodur’s command, the Iron Legion allows just about anyone to visit and even settle there, so long as the visitors don’t cause trouble, but the leadership never lets anyone forget whose city it is, or the fact that everyone else is just a guest in their house. The residents items guide of the Black Citadel live their lives and conduct their business under the strict eye of the Iron Legion’s Adamant Guard, and they enrich the base of operations from which the legions carry the battle to their enemies.
Living for the City
PlayVolume0:00 / 0:00
Old Foes
Currently, the most pressing of these enemies are two stubborn relics of the past that refuse to die: the Flame Legion and the restless ghosts of Ascalonian humans who still haunt the ruins of their former kingdom. The Flame Legion has been broken, but it still exists, and it still seeks to reclaim the power it once had, through guile, subterfuge, and magic. In the past, the Flame Legion worshipped nightmarishly powerful entities like the titans in exchange for magical might. These days, the other legions keep a close eye on the Flame Legion to prevent them from unleashing any more otherworldly terrors in their lust for power—but that doesn’t stop the Flame Legion from trying.
The Flame Legion is so reviled that the average charr distrusts magic-users as a whole, and expresses open hostility to the concept of worshipping any beings called “gods.” To the modern charr, beings such as Grenth, Lyssa, and Melandru are merely powerful entities, not gods. Charr respect the forces such beings command, but would never kneel before them as if they were divine.
Old Foes
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2012年7月25日星期三
Biology &The Nightmare Court
Biology
Sylvari biology is very different from any other race. They do not have internal organs, but instead are formed of growing plant matter, sap for blood, leaves and bark for skin. A jaw, for example, can be formed by leaves, vines, or even shards of bark that grow and press together to form the silhouette, but if you look closely you can still see the fibers and holes of the structure. Instead of bones, an arm is a mass of tightly-woven stems and leaves that work together to do the work of such a limb.
Many scholars hypothesize as to why the sylvari look human-like at all instead of having a monstrous form, such as other “vegetable” races possess. Some suggest that the Pale Tree saw mostly humans during her youth. Individuals such as Ronan, who planted the seed, and others around the Pale Tree may have been physical role models for her eventual children. A popular asura theory is that the Pale Tree was planted on the graves of Ronan’s daughter and his ruined village, d3 gold and their ”discorporate mass” was absorbed into the ground. The Pale Tree took nourishment from that soil, and therefore, the sylvari are predisposed to be shaped in a humanoid manner.
Sylvari do sleep, and they can eat both meat and vegetables. They drink, as other races do, and they get tipsy on alcoholic beverages. They gain enjoyment from sitting in the sunlight—and it invigorates them—but can’t live on it as plants do. Their blood is a sticky sap, and though they can bleed, they do not have blood pressure or a pulse.
No one knows how long the sylvari live. The oldest of their race are the firstborn, all of whom awakened twenty-five years ago. Sylvari show little signs of growing old, and none have yet died of advanced age. Physically, sylvari are male or female, and the relevant external biology is accurate on both, but they cannot sexually reproduce as the other races do; they have no internal organs capable of diablo 3 gold creating children. Whether they have their own methods of reproduction outside of the Pale Tree has yet to be seen.
Sylvari grow their armor and much of their clothing. Their bodies create petal-like coverings, vines, and leaves that they shape into pleasing garments. When they wish to remove the garments, they simply shed their petal clothing as a human might cut their hair. Some sylvari wear armor made by other races or weave clothing in a more traditional manner, just out of preference. As an adopted custom, they cover themselves as humans do, concealing certain portions of their anatomy where it seems culturally appropriate.
Cadeyrn stood high on a limb in the center of the Grove, listening to the stillness of night. Crickets chirruped here and there, and night birds uttered lonesome cries, each calling to their own, even as he called to something greater than himself.
“Mother,” Cadeyrn murmured, raising his hands in gentle supplication. buy d3 gold “I need you.”
The wind soothed the leaves at the top of the Pale Tree, and Cadeyrn felt her presence. Softly, the Mother murmured, “Son of my bough, what do you seek?”
“Wisdom.” Tears touched his eyes, and he rubbed them roughly with the back of his hand. “I see the evil in the world; I am told to fight it, but the lessons of the tablet shackle me. They prevent me from doing what is right. We put down our weapons when we should go to the slaughter. We turn away from vengeance when we are wronged, even though our spirits cry out for it. We do not take what we desire, or kill whatever we wish, or use our strength to force the world to hear us! These things are within us when we awaken. Why do we turn away from those impulses? Why do we do not follow our instincts? Always, we justify our actions with this tablet. Why do we not do whatever we want?”
The Pale Tree rustled softly. “The most effective path is not always the best one, sapling. gw2 gold As the firstborn have done, you must strive to be good.”
The words stung. “Who defines ‘good?’ You? Ventari? Some dead human?” Cadeyrn retorted. “The firstborn are not perfect.”
The Pale Tree paused, and for a while, Cadeyrn thought she might not reply. Mist had risen upon the nearby brook before she spoke again.
“Would you do evil in my name?” The Pale Tree sighed. “Would you cause devastation, as the charr do? Or justify wickedness in the name of knowledge, as the asura do? No, Cadeyrn. We come into this world to destroy the dragons. We must not lose ourselves in that challenge.”
“Have we not already lost ourselves, Mother? We are not centaurs or humans. Let me destroy the tablet, and we will see what it truly means to be sylvari.” There was no answer. As dawn rose and bathed the clearing in gold, Cadeyrn realized that the tree would say no more.
“She will not hear you.” The quiet voice was feminine, but it was not the tree who spoke. Spinning, Cadeyrn guild wars 2 gold readied himself for battle but froze when he saw Caithe, cold and still, standing in the last shadows of night. “She will not hear you,” Caithe repeated.
“I am the first of my generation—” he began, raising his voice in argument.
Caithe shrugged and interrupted, “Why should she care? She has thousands of children now, Cadeyrn. You are either firstborn…or you are simply sylvari.”
A storm gathered upon his features. “I will never be one among many, Caithe. Not even to the Pale Tree,” he vowed, storming away. “I will make you hear me, Mother, like it or not. When I am finished and you are free at last, then I will be first in your heart!”
Caithe lingered in silence and watched him go.
The Nightmare Court
“A true sylvari should have two hearts: one soft and pliable as hot wax, and the other as hard and impenetrable as an icy diamond. The first, he should show to his companions, the second, to his enemy. Woe to the one for whom the two are the same.”—Dagonet
The Nightmare Court buy wow gold are sylvari who embrace the darkest parts of their nature, relishing a terrifying nightmare that contains as much horror as the Dream holds inspiration. Their dark vigils are things of legend, filled with depravity, twisted courtliness, and sadistic tournaments that pervert sylvari chivalry. Their greatest ambition: to turn the Pale Tree to nightmare.
These sylvari reject the teachings of Ventari’s tablet and claim that the influence of outside races perverted the true nature of the Pale Tree and the sylvari. They seek the shadow within the Dream, turn away from what they deem false morality, and explore the darker side of their personality. Cold, cruel, and without mercy, they see themselves as true sylvari, untainted by the influence of Ronan, Ventari, and the lessons of the tablet. They consider it to be their noble purpose to bring others of their race away from that forced behavior and into darkness.
With each act of cruelty and evil, they add more nightmares to the tree and hope, one day, to change the balance, turning the Mother to their side. Certainly, as the tree gathers emotions and memories, she draws from the Nightmare Court as well as their kinder brethren, and her pool of memories swells with both dark and light thoughts. The Nightmare Court believe that, if they can propagate more dark emotions, the pool will become more and more touched by nightmare, and new sylvari will tend away from the ethics that were forced upon them by Ventari and his followers.
In order to achieve this goal, the Nightmare Court commit acts of evil both upon sylvari and non-sylvari alike. When their own emotions become too jaded to be likely gathered into the tree, they rely on harming and tormenting other sylvari and giving them memories, horrible emotions, and other traumas in the hope that those memories will be sharp enough to be gathered. The more awful their crimes, the more likely it is that the Pale Tree will carry the memory into her well of emotions, passing those inclinations on to her next generation.
Sylvari biology is very different from any other race. They do not have internal organs, but instead are formed of growing plant matter, sap for blood, leaves and bark for skin. A jaw, for example, can be formed by leaves, vines, or even shards of bark that grow and press together to form the silhouette, but if you look closely you can still see the fibers and holes of the structure. Instead of bones, an arm is a mass of tightly-woven stems and leaves that work together to do the work of such a limb.
Many scholars hypothesize as to why the sylvari look human-like at all instead of having a monstrous form, such as other “vegetable” races possess. Some suggest that the Pale Tree saw mostly humans during her youth. Individuals such as Ronan, who planted the seed, and others around the Pale Tree may have been physical role models for her eventual children. A popular asura theory is that the Pale Tree was planted on the graves of Ronan’s daughter and his ruined village, d3 gold and their ”discorporate mass” was absorbed into the ground. The Pale Tree took nourishment from that soil, and therefore, the sylvari are predisposed to be shaped in a humanoid manner.
Sylvari do sleep, and they can eat both meat and vegetables. They drink, as other races do, and they get tipsy on alcoholic beverages. They gain enjoyment from sitting in the sunlight—and it invigorates them—but can’t live on it as plants do. Their blood is a sticky sap, and though they can bleed, they do not have blood pressure or a pulse.
No one knows how long the sylvari live. The oldest of their race are the firstborn, all of whom awakened twenty-five years ago. Sylvari show little signs of growing old, and none have yet died of advanced age. Physically, sylvari are male or female, and the relevant external biology is accurate on both, but they cannot sexually reproduce as the other races do; they have no internal organs capable of diablo 3 gold creating children. Whether they have their own methods of reproduction outside of the Pale Tree has yet to be seen.
Sylvari grow their armor and much of their clothing. Their bodies create petal-like coverings, vines, and leaves that they shape into pleasing garments. When they wish to remove the garments, they simply shed their petal clothing as a human might cut their hair. Some sylvari wear armor made by other races or weave clothing in a more traditional manner, just out of preference. As an adopted custom, they cover themselves as humans do, concealing certain portions of their anatomy where it seems culturally appropriate.
Cadeyrn stood high on a limb in the center of the Grove, listening to the stillness of night. Crickets chirruped here and there, and night birds uttered lonesome cries, each calling to their own, even as he called to something greater than himself.
“Mother,” Cadeyrn murmured, raising his hands in gentle supplication. buy d3 gold “I need you.”
The wind soothed the leaves at the top of the Pale Tree, and Cadeyrn felt her presence. Softly, the Mother murmured, “Son of my bough, what do you seek?”
“Wisdom.” Tears touched his eyes, and he rubbed them roughly with the back of his hand. “I see the evil in the world; I am told to fight it, but the lessons of the tablet shackle me. They prevent me from doing what is right. We put down our weapons when we should go to the slaughter. We turn away from vengeance when we are wronged, even though our spirits cry out for it. We do not take what we desire, or kill whatever we wish, or use our strength to force the world to hear us! These things are within us when we awaken. Why do we turn away from those impulses? Why do we do not follow our instincts? Always, we justify our actions with this tablet. Why do we not do whatever we want?”
The Pale Tree rustled softly. “The most effective path is not always the best one, sapling. gw2 gold As the firstborn have done, you must strive to be good.”
The words stung. “Who defines ‘good?’ You? Ventari? Some dead human?” Cadeyrn retorted. “The firstborn are not perfect.”
The Pale Tree paused, and for a while, Cadeyrn thought she might not reply. Mist had risen upon the nearby brook before she spoke again.
“Would you do evil in my name?” The Pale Tree sighed. “Would you cause devastation, as the charr do? Or justify wickedness in the name of knowledge, as the asura do? No, Cadeyrn. We come into this world to destroy the dragons. We must not lose ourselves in that challenge.”
“Have we not already lost ourselves, Mother? We are not centaurs or humans. Let me destroy the tablet, and we will see what it truly means to be sylvari.” There was no answer. As dawn rose and bathed the clearing in gold, Cadeyrn realized that the tree would say no more.
“She will not hear you.” The quiet voice was feminine, but it was not the tree who spoke. Spinning, Cadeyrn guild wars 2 gold readied himself for battle but froze when he saw Caithe, cold and still, standing in the last shadows of night. “She will not hear you,” Caithe repeated.
“I am the first of my generation—” he began, raising his voice in argument.
Caithe shrugged and interrupted, “Why should she care? She has thousands of children now, Cadeyrn. You are either firstborn…or you are simply sylvari.”
A storm gathered upon his features. “I will never be one among many, Caithe. Not even to the Pale Tree,” he vowed, storming away. “I will make you hear me, Mother, like it or not. When I am finished and you are free at last, then I will be first in your heart!”
Caithe lingered in silence and watched him go.
The Nightmare Court
“A true sylvari should have two hearts: one soft and pliable as hot wax, and the other as hard and impenetrable as an icy diamond. The first, he should show to his companions, the second, to his enemy. Woe to the one for whom the two are the same.”—Dagonet
The Nightmare Court buy wow gold are sylvari who embrace the darkest parts of their nature, relishing a terrifying nightmare that contains as much horror as the Dream holds inspiration. Their dark vigils are things of legend, filled with depravity, twisted courtliness, and sadistic tournaments that pervert sylvari chivalry. Their greatest ambition: to turn the Pale Tree to nightmare.
These sylvari reject the teachings of Ventari’s tablet and claim that the influence of outside races perverted the true nature of the Pale Tree and the sylvari. They seek the shadow within the Dream, turn away from what they deem false morality, and explore the darker side of their personality. Cold, cruel, and without mercy, they see themselves as true sylvari, untainted by the influence of Ronan, Ventari, and the lessons of the tablet. They consider it to be their noble purpose to bring others of their race away from that forced behavior and into darkness.
With each act of cruelty and evil, they add more nightmares to the tree and hope, one day, to change the balance, turning the Mother to their side. Certainly, as the tree gathers emotions and memories, she draws from the Nightmare Court as well as their kinder brethren, and her pool of memories swells with both dark and light thoughts. The Nightmare Court believe that, if they can propagate more dark emotions, the pool will become more and more touched by nightmare, and new sylvari will tend away from the ethics that were forced upon them by Ventari and his followers.
In order to achieve this goal, the Nightmare Court commit acts of evil both upon sylvari and non-sylvari alike. When their own emotions become too jaded to be likely gathered into the tree, they rely on harming and tormenting other sylvari and giving them memories, horrible emotions, and other traumas in the hope that those memories will be sharp enough to be gathered. The more awful their crimes, the more likely it is that the Pale Tree will carry the memory into her well of emotions, passing those inclinations on to her next generation.
2012年7月24日星期二
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!
Today is Lunar New Year’s Day, and according to the Asian zodiac system, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. It’s an auspicious omen for all of us at ArenaNet, as we get ready to make this our own Year of the Dragon.
According d3 gold to tradition, the dragon embodies passion, independence, and ambition. We think it’s a perfect analogy for what we’re trying to accomplish with Guild Wars 2. We’re a company full of MMO and RPG fans, and we’ve diablo 3 gold set out to fundamentally rethink how you deliver an RPG experience online. So this year, the Year of the Dragon, let’s usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher buy d3 gold in the new.
Guild Wars 2 has captured the imagination of gamers and media all over the world with its action-oriented combat, its living world full of dynamic events, its highly personalized role-playing experience, and the handcrafted artistry gw2 gold that suffuses every element of the game. Last year, thousands of you joined us at shows and events all over the world to try Guild Wars 2 for yourself. This year, you’ll finally be able to immerse yourself in the vast, diverse world of Tyria.
We recently guild wars 2 gold finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have buy wow gold a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.
So stay tuned to our official Guild Wars 2 website, our Facebook page, and this blog for more information about how to participate in an upcoming beta event.
It’s been an incredible adventure over the past five years, working with our community and our team of dedicated artists, designers, and programmers to realize this vision. This year, the seeds of that work come to fruition. We can’t wait to play the game with you.
So welcome to the Year of the Dragon – the year of Guild Wars 2.
Today is Lunar New Year’s Day, and according to the Asian zodiac system, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. It’s an auspicious omen for all of us at ArenaNet, as we get ready to make this our own Year of the Dragon.
According d3 gold to tradition, the dragon embodies passion, independence, and ambition. We think it’s a perfect analogy for what we’re trying to accomplish with Guild Wars 2. We’re a company full of MMO and RPG fans, and we’ve diablo 3 gold set out to fundamentally rethink how you deliver an RPG experience online. So this year, the Year of the Dragon, let’s usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher buy d3 gold in the new.
Guild Wars 2 has captured the imagination of gamers and media all over the world with its action-oriented combat, its living world full of dynamic events, its highly personalized role-playing experience, and the handcrafted artistry gw2 gold that suffuses every element of the game. Last year, thousands of you joined us at shows and events all over the world to try Guild Wars 2 for yourself. This year, you’ll finally be able to immerse yourself in the vast, diverse world of Tyria.
We recently guild wars 2 gold finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have buy wow gold a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.
So stay tuned to our official Guild Wars 2 website, our Facebook page, and this blog for more information about how to participate in an upcoming beta event.
It’s been an incredible adventure over the past five years, working with our community and our team of dedicated artists, designers, and programmers to realize this vision. This year, the seeds of that work come to fruition. We can’t wait to play the game with you.
So welcome to the Year of the Dragon – the year of Guild Wars 2.
2012年7月23日星期一
Sylvari – The Elves of Guild Wars 2!
The sylvari, together with the asura, are the races we haven’t yet
gotten to play either in the closed beta or during the first beta
weekend event. They both were playable during some gaming conventions
(like GamesCom 2011), so we know they exist in a playable state, at
least! But of course, not having been able to play them myself, I am
very curious about them. I know I will love asura. There’s just no doubt
about that. But what about the sylvari?
For me, they come close to what elves represent in other fantasy games. Think of your standard fantasy settings and now think of how many games diablo 3 gold paypal include some kind of elves: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Everquest, Rift,… the list goes on. Elves are usually the fragile, elegant, gracious, wise and oooooold race. The sylvari are all of that with one exception; They are a very young race with the oldest sylvari being 25 years old. I’d assume that sylvari will most likely be the race to play when you’re usually an elf-lover because of their looks. But from their personality and their background, they’re rather diablo 3 items unique.
They are a tree’s interpretation of humans. (Kristen Perry in Talk Tyria’s lore interview)
Let’s take a look at the sylvari: They can have elf-like ears (pointed, that is, in case you didn’t know). You can find a video showing the early sylvari character customization here (it starts at around 3:30). Their ears are pointed because they’re leaf-shaped. Which, oddly enough, is what Tolkien had in mind for his elves (see Wiki entry above). But it’s not that easy. Sylvari aren’t simply “the elves”. You have to look a bit closer to see the differences between gw2 gold elves (or humans) and sylvari. They are, in fact, plants that were built after humans because the Pale Tree, out of which they were “born”, knows what humans look like and modelled the sylvari after them. ArenaNet had published a blog post about Kristen Perry’s redesign of the sylvari (they did actually look very much like regular elves before).
“You’re five years old. How do you know so much?” (Riona to Killeen in “Ghosts of Ascalon”)
Sylvari have a basic understanding of the world that the Pale Tree gave them. But the Pale Tree only knows what it has seen and what was left written on cheap gw2 gold a tablet in front of it. So of course, sylvari don’t know everything and especially not the finer nuances of relationships, conversations, humour and so on. Some concepts don’t exist for them. Something like “normal” is a foreign word if you haven’t established yet what the “norm” actually is. There are things they don’t know about themselves like ‘how old do they get?’. Will they age or whither?
At first, they didn’t understand humor too well, but over the years, the race has begun to show a sense of fun. (Ree Soesbee in Talk Tyria’s lore interview)
So all in all, we have a race here that is still buy guild wars 2 gold developing and exploring – not just the world around them but their own existence and personalities. Sylvari are trying to find their place in the world. And they’re curious and eager to learn.
What piques my interest in this race is, apart from the gorgeous and unique looks, the opportunity to play a race that is exploring and discovering the world while I, as a player, am doing exactly the same. I can already see myself walking through the world, through the cities and up to the highest mountains (I always do that in every MMO where I can climb on mountains) and I, as well as my character, will get to see all of this for the very first time. I will figure out who I am in this game just as my sylvari character (most likely a necromancer, thanks to Killeen) will find out more about herself and the world around her. At this point, I also assume that the personal story will reflect that but I haven’t heard anything about their story yet.
I’m going to end this post with a gallery of sylvari. Those screenshots were all taken in Lion’s Arch and you can see that they’re all wearing their race’s clothes with the exception of one sylvari who’s a guard on a tower. Click on the pictures to see them in their full size. The thumbnails don’t always show the actual sylvari.
For me, they come close to what elves represent in other fantasy games. Think of your standard fantasy settings and now think of how many games diablo 3 gold paypal include some kind of elves: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Everquest, Rift,… the list goes on. Elves are usually the fragile, elegant, gracious, wise and oooooold race. The sylvari are all of that with one exception; They are a very young race with the oldest sylvari being 25 years old. I’d assume that sylvari will most likely be the race to play when you’re usually an elf-lover because of their looks. But from their personality and their background, they’re rather diablo 3 items unique.
They are a tree’s interpretation of humans. (Kristen Perry in Talk Tyria’s lore interview)
Let’s take a look at the sylvari: They can have elf-like ears (pointed, that is, in case you didn’t know). You can find a video showing the early sylvari character customization here (it starts at around 3:30). Their ears are pointed because they’re leaf-shaped. Which, oddly enough, is what Tolkien had in mind for his elves (see Wiki entry above). But it’s not that easy. Sylvari aren’t simply “the elves”. You have to look a bit closer to see the differences between gw2 gold elves (or humans) and sylvari. They are, in fact, plants that were built after humans because the Pale Tree, out of which they were “born”, knows what humans look like and modelled the sylvari after them. ArenaNet had published a blog post about Kristen Perry’s redesign of the sylvari (they did actually look very much like regular elves before).
“You’re five years old. How do you know so much?” (Riona to Killeen in “Ghosts of Ascalon”)
Sylvari have a basic understanding of the world that the Pale Tree gave them. But the Pale Tree only knows what it has seen and what was left written on cheap gw2 gold a tablet in front of it. So of course, sylvari don’t know everything and especially not the finer nuances of relationships, conversations, humour and so on. Some concepts don’t exist for them. Something like “normal” is a foreign word if you haven’t established yet what the “norm” actually is. There are things they don’t know about themselves like ‘how old do they get?’. Will they age or whither?
At first, they didn’t understand humor too well, but over the years, the race has begun to show a sense of fun. (Ree Soesbee in Talk Tyria’s lore interview)
So all in all, we have a race here that is still buy guild wars 2 gold developing and exploring – not just the world around them but their own existence and personalities. Sylvari are trying to find their place in the world. And they’re curious and eager to learn.
What piques my interest in this race is, apart from the gorgeous and unique looks, the opportunity to play a race that is exploring and discovering the world while I, as a player, am doing exactly the same. I can already see myself walking through the world, through the cities and up to the highest mountains (I always do that in every MMO where I can climb on mountains) and I, as well as my character, will get to see all of this for the very first time. I will figure out who I am in this game just as my sylvari character (most likely a necromancer, thanks to Killeen) will find out more about herself and the world around her. At this point, I also assume that the personal story will reflect that but I haven’t heard anything about their story yet.
I’m going to end this post with a gallery of sylvari. Those screenshots were all taken in Lion’s Arch and you can see that they’re all wearing their race’s clothes with the exception of one sylvari who’s a guard on a tower. Click on the pictures to see them in their full size. The thumbnails don’t always show the actual sylvari.
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