Fear Not This Night

Hi I'm Moe! He/She/They. 24. Gw2 Blog. NA server, Crystal Desert. MoeLeFay.8643. Personal blog is moelefay.  Sylvari enthusiast, mediocre artist, and occasional comedian.

[eyadawu]

hi, hear me out, because im so shamelessly obsessed with the water dragon:

the new draconic weapon skins are so OBVIOUSLY designed with an aquatic motif it’s PAINFUL:

and some of them, like the mace, and others, are depicted with multiple heads, like some of the concept art:

following me yet? alright, here’s the current game download screen on the ANET website:

the same water dragon concept art from above, featuring concept art of Rhytlock. i’d assume you’d want to put RELEVANT art for the game download screen, right? and the current living world revolves around the charr and norn, RIGHT?

now I understand that currently in the story we’re focused on Jormag and his influence in Tyria. and what colour is the new mastery tree? It’s blue, which could allude to ice… but you know what’s even blue-r than ice? WATER! And then there’s Jormag, the ice dragon - and what does ice melt into? WATER BABEY!!!!

basically, anet is blatantly alluding to the deep sea dragon’s existence, and i can stop wondering and dreaming if we will ever see this water horse for real and im crazy now

[king-nerdlord]

I 1000% expect the big reveal at the end of this saga will be the Water Dragon. A couple of points

Anet said this Saga will have a lot of eldritch themes, and the Water Dragon is said to spawn ‘Tentacled Horrors’ in the bodies of water around it.

Jormag keeps alluding to ‘another threat’ that they can protect us from. I dont believe Jormag will actually protect us, but I believe this other threat, is real.

With Primordus being the way to kill Jormag, and really no connection so far shows it showing up this Saga, I dont think that’s what Jormag is referring to, and having this mysterious other threat being the mysterious Water Dragon just makes so much sense.

[eyadawu]

Yessss thank you for this addition!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels wild about this Lol

Would like to add that the new world boss, Drakkar, also bears resemblance to the new weapon skins. Also, world boss, Draconic, perhaps the DSD’s champion…? 🤔🤔🤔

[woozyintyria]

I love this, but afaik, Drakkar has always been a champion of Jormag even in gw1.

[eyadawu]

‘Drakkar’ sounded familiar so that makes sense!

[duskroots]

Made a really bad meme based on @commanders-sole-braincell‘s post because honestly.

[braham-is-bi]

So according to the Guild Wars 2 Wiki

only male Sylvari have celebratory voice lines for completing dungeons. And this is arguably one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while because all I can image is just

[duskroots]

if i were one of the farmers tending to the field right outside beetletun i’d be so pissed at the commander, like every now and then that absolute asshole just barges in on their huge-ass raptor uninvited, steals all the lettuce me and my pals worked so hard to grow and then just leaves without a single word of thanks. like what can i, a humble farmer, do about that? i tell you. i can do nothing. i’m just a peasant with dirt under my fingernails and a seething rage boiling inside of my probably malnourished body. but i sure as hell would piss on every single vegetable on that field whenever my bladder allows it just to get the sweet satisfaction that the pact commander is out there somewhere, eating my piss lettuce.

[donkyetra-deactivated20220511]

i’m letting you know right now that this post made me laugh so goddamn hard i fucking choked

[duskroots]

Ah yes, my peasant plan is working. One commander down, a billion more to go until our lettuce is finally safe!

[miragecounseling]

im sorry but i just thought

[duskroots]

adsfjasdfajk

[where-is-caithe]

I have a Revenant meme for you guys

[guildwars2]

Here’s a collection of my Guild Wars 2 sculptures that I made, I love the art direction in this game, it’s beautiful!

They are made from Polymer clay, and painted with acrylics.

[Submitted by Jasmine Law]

[paluwu-joko]

hot take

[braham-is-bi]

Did I spend 100g on dyes just to give a character I never use the proper aesthetic?

Absolutely

[commander-blacksea]

Helpful GW2 links

Dawn/Day/Dusk/Night

Environmental Hazard

Languages of Tyria : Asuran / New Krytan / Orrian

Racial Sympathy

Projectiles (skills)

Light Source (weapons)

Feel free to add more!

[commander-blacksea]

Basic emotes:

/beckon

/bow

/cower

/cry

/dance

/facepalm or /upset

/kneel

/no

/point

/ponder

/sad

/salut or /salute

/sit

/sleep

/surprised

/talk

/threaten or /menace

/yes

Emotes doable while standing OR sitting:

/cheer

/crossarms

/laugh

/shrug

/thanks or /ty

/wave

Emotes needing to unlock an achiev/novelty:

/geargrind (unlock How to Dance, Volume 1)

/shuffle (unlock How to Dance, Volume 1)

/step (unlock How to Dance, Volume 1)

/rockout (unlock “/Rockout” Emote Tome)

Customized emotes:

You can create custom emotes by typing /me, /emote, /em, or /e followed by a space and the text to display as an emote.

/me laughs in triumph = [Character Name] laughs in triumph.

Synchronizing emotes:

Appending an asterisk “*” to an emote (e.g. “/dance *”) will put it into a queue which is processed every 5 seconds. This allows for multiple players to do emotes at the exact same time.

Persistent emotes:

The talk, dance, kneel, sit, sleep, cry, facepalm, sad and crossing arms emotes are persistent - meaning they will not stop until you do a physical action. When you use a skill with an activation time, move, perform an action (including entering combat and looting), sheathe / draw a weapon, or press the Esc key, the emote will end.

Trivia:

Back items will disappear during emotes.

Weapons as well but you can show them by using an item skill before starting it and then dropping the item.

Throughout the Shiverpeaks, using /kneel in front of altars or shrines gives boons.

In Charr territory, using /salute on Charr statues gives boons.

Using /threaten on ornery crabs turns them to hermit crabs.

The /emotelist command will display a full list of available emotes in chat.

[skrittposts]

On the Canthan calendar,

2020 will be the

year of the rat skritt

🏮🐴🐁🏮

[where-is-caithe]

Hi guys! so I haven’t seen anyone post about these yet and I’m actually wondering if anyone else has seen them, but I think it’s kind of interesting! I found 4 shrines to the lost spirits of the wild all shrouded in black and blue smoke!

Wolverine (pretty sure because this doesn’t look like a bear) in the aberrant forest

Eagle, in one of the Svanir camps. this ain’t a raven.

And Ox/Dolyak, I’ve actually found 2 of these but only 1 of the other two which I find kind of weird. One of them is in the Southern Mountains and the other is next to a mastery point up north a bit.

anyways! just thought this was interesting. if anyone else finds one not in any of these locations please let me know because I think it’s fascinating 👀

and if anyone finds an Owl shrine I’d love to see it

[khorren]

I love this <3

I can’t wait to find out more about the lesser spirits.

[miragecounseling]

ok NO IDEA how much of this is true bc i’m going off memory but are these the spirits of the wild that died / got lost / whatever happened to them when jormag awakened and forced the norn to fight their corruption? I believe there were some who tried to fight back against jormag so others could escape. Owl died but I don’t think we know for certain (in canon lore) what happened to the others? 

[guildwuff2]

yeh! these three are the missing spirits, and they Also correlate with the three essences (the red/blue/green) you use in the new map! if ya look at the banners for their mastery point pages you’ll see their stylized likenesses

[bambeptin]

feat. White Knight and Plolf

gw2 is the best. I roll up to a strike mission like “henlo I will be your healer for today” with a mace and 394710 spikes taped to my armour

[wrennhaven]

spending the holidays with family be like

[gaycharr]

tfw you meet Trahearne in game for the first time

[gaycharr]

i just want everyone to know I made this post before I Knew 

[gaycharr]

moodboard

[commander-passiflora]

@ people who are good at jumping puzzles on charr:

how?

[commander-aileen]

@ people who are good at jumping puzzles:

how?

[duskroots]

the fact that sylvari have belly buttons is so strange like do they have some umbilical cord-like vine in their pods that somehow connects them to the pale tree as their physical body grows like an unborn baby is connected to their mom? if so, does it come off by itself like when a ripe apple falls from a tree or do the menders in the grove actually have to cut it for each and every sapling that awakens and emerges from their pod? or does it actually have no functionality and is just there cuz the pale tree saw that’s something humans have and thought it was an important detail for the aesthetic? anet i have questions pls

[caithesgirlfriend]

i headcanon that it’s just aesthetic- the dots going down their spines though???? I think it’s a cool idea that those have vines connected to them while the sylvari is in the pod

[clockchimesthirteen]

Fun fact! It’s true! If you look up at the pods just outside of the Grove, in the sylvari starting area, you can see growing sylvari in their pods, and they have vines (or something, at least) attached to their backs. :)

[akalanthis]

Actually there is kind of an answer to that. The belly button is probably not very important, but the primary growth socket, the glowing thing on their back directly opposing the ‘belly button’, is likely where they are attached to the tree. The other glowing dots on their spine are minor growth sockets (and probably pretty important to their physiology too.

Kristen Perry wrote about this on her blog entry on redesigning the sylvari:

It’s here on artstation and if you love sylvari you neeeeed to read it :>

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ngogr

Somwhere one developer once compared a sylvari to an apple. The growth socket is where the stalk of an apple grows (and where it is attached to the tree). The belly button is the opposing side, where the flower once was before the fruit formed.

(Sylvari having some kind of flower on their belly buttons is also cute :’D )

German RPers usually attribute a great significance to the main growth socket. It is the most important center of growth in the sylvari body. If it is heavily damaged, the sylvari dies – some even think it’s worse than head injuries (since we don’t even know if they have some kind of brain there) or chest injuries (since they have no heart).

For me, the main growth socket is in some ways like a heart to sylvari.

(I love this idea of growth sockets. I have my own head canons about it and use them heavily while RPing.)

[commanders-sole-braincell]

Me, clicking on someone’s character to sneakily get a better look

My character: