Origolio @origolio - Tumblr Blog

theflameseekerprophecies

savage

voiidstalker

Part 1 Blank template

voiidstalker

Part 2 Blank template

queenqueso

origolio

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is poised to take the story of Guild Wars 2 to a whole new level. Before we venture past the point of no return, we thought it was worth a second look to see just how we got here.

teamparaluna

Gifset of my Caithe cosplay (Guild Wars 2 Living World), from this CMV by Vien Nguyen ♥

pharafax

Gods of Tyria by pharafax

edit: added Lyssa! edit no.2: finished the set!

vigilbutts

when u don’t get into the beta

seeyou-upsidedown-deactivated20

And finally here is a nice quality studio shot of my warrior cosplay to share!

I worked on this cosplay over the span of about 5 months, (of course in between work, college, life stuff) and I’m very proud of the end result. Hope you guys like my second (and likely not my last) GW2 cosplay!

cinemagorgeous

Stunning artwork by Aaron Nakahara.

mariabarring

Guild Wars 2 classes

↳ Mesmer

theravingnecromancer

GW2 just did their live stream showing off Strongholds..

Lets just say, this will be AWESOME!!!

Firstly, lets look at the map. We’ve got two lanes going in opposite directions of each other. They decided on that instead of two lanes running into each other due to lack of player interaction in the middle. The lack of interaction was due to the doors not being damageable by players - which they decided on because if it was, you would have WvW instead of using the mechanics of the map.

Honestly, this makes it more challenging and forces the players to actually think about what to do in Strongholds. It also forces specific builds which I’ll get to in a moment.

There are 4 types of NPC’s in the lanes. Doorbreakers, Archers, Guards and Heros. The Heros and Doorbreakers will ignore everything until they reach the objective. Doorcrashers will only attack doors - never other players or NPC’s but Heros will attack both once they reach their objective. Archers will attack NPC’s and other players, but do less damage to Players and more to Guards. Guards never respawn - essentially they are the same as towers in a MOBA. They have between 15,000 and 16,000 health - which for PvP is a relatively low amount and easily soloable. The key factor for keeping them alive is that they will 1-shot Doorbreakers.

The Lord is at the end of the lanes and killing him wins the match instantly, however matches are 15 minutes long and there is a score you can build up to try and win a match if it hits the limit. They wanted to keep that feature of GW2 in the new game mode instead of having random matches between 10 to 40 minutes long. Almost all the NPC’s will grant points to the score except for archers and doorbreakers. So guards, doors, heros, Lord defenders and players all give points.

You might be wondering how to get more archers, heros and doorcrashers. Supplies will get you more archers and doorcrashers, and mist essence(I think that’s the name) will spawn every 60 seconds allowing for a Hero to be spawn(as shown in the pictures above). You can hold a maximum of two supplies - which doesn’t take your weapons away - and if you kill a player with supplies on them, you can get one more for a grand total of 3 supplies - which could equal 2 archers and 1 door crasher w.e combo you wish.

Certain builds will be very useful here with running the NPC’s. The Perma Stealth Thief is one of them. They can put stealth onto the doorbreakers and since they don’t attack anyone, they can just sneak up to a door and suddenly start attacking it without the other team even knowing. You can do the same to the Hero in the Lord room - which I forgot to mention, does a long-channeling attack that takes 25% damage off every enemy in the lord room and knocks them all down for a few seconds(except for the Lord for the knockdown). You could stealth him and he could potentially get his ultimate attack off without being attacked.

Smart players will counter that with blind or interrupts as all NPC’s are affected by CC - even the Doorbreakers. This SPvP mode is looking better and better everytime I see it. Come launch day, I’ll be streaming this mode and trying to complete some reward tracks! :3